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b5_revisited is a new community for a Babylon 5 rewatch, starting with The Gathering on Sunday, January 18th. If it's been too long since you've watched what is still the best arc show ever, or if you've been procrastinating whether or not to start watching, here's you're incentive. Come join the third age of mankind though the aliens are all more fun!
Fanfic recs, while I'm still struggling with my block and trying to catch up with my email correspondance:
Marvelverse:
Deck the Halls: this is actually part of a series, but can be read as a standalone, as the original Avengers minus Thor - i.e. Tony Stark/Iron Man, Hank Pym, Steve Rogers/Captain America and Jan/The Wasp trade Christmas stories. It's a great mixture of lighthearted fluff and angst, offers good cameos of other Marvel stalwarts (say, young Harry Osborn and his hyperactive friend from school), good dialogue, and subtext. What more do you want?
Doctor Who:
Memory Lane, Aydrdoon Valley : a plotty, beautifully written crossover with Torchwood that goes AU after the season 4 episode Midnight and has Donna, the Doctor, Jack and Ianto (post-Exit Wounds) as its main participants. Not only does this reunite Donna with her "husband" from the library planet in a plausible fashion but it explores an alien culture - and Jack's background, together with his future as we know it from Last of the Time Lords - in a thoughtful, fascinating way. Ideal if you're in the mood for both intelligent sci fi and character interaction.
Dreams: hands down one of the best stories focusing on the Doctor/Master relationship I've read - and it's gen! Moreover, I have a soft spot for stories that focus on dreams (what with Restless as my favourite BTVS episode) and use them as character exploration while transmitting their surreality, and this story does just that. And it features many of the personae the Doctor and the Master go through - Three and Delgado, Five and Ainsley (with a little dash of Seven and Ainsley as well), Eight and Roberts (and behold, the writer manages to make Roberts!Master a plausible character), Nine and Jacobi, Ten and Simm - with the voices recognizable each time. I'm in awe. So will you be, if you read it.
And lastly, since we're on the subject, I might have linked this before, but just in case I haven't, some kind soul has put together the best Three and Delgado!Master scenes. If you're a New Who only watcher, you owe it to yourself to see this, because really, subtext wasn't invented in 2005. If you're Old School, just enjoy the rewatch.
b5_revisited is a new community for a Babylon 5 rewatch, starting with The Gathering on Sunday, January 18th. If it's been too long since you've watched what is still the best arc show ever, or if you've been procrastinating whether or not to start watching, here's you're incentive. Come join the third age of mankind Fanfic recs, while I'm still struggling with my block and trying to catch up with my email correspondance:
Marvelverse:
Deck the Halls: this is actually part of a series, but can be read as a standalone, as the original Avengers minus Thor - i.e. Tony Stark/Iron Man, Hank Pym, Steve Rogers/Captain America and Jan/The Wasp trade Christmas stories. It's a great mixture of lighthearted fluff and angst, offers good cameos of other Marvel stalwarts (say, young Harry Osborn and his hyperactive friend from school), good dialogue, and subtext. What more do you want?
Doctor Who:
Memory Lane, Aydrdoon Valley : a plotty, beautifully written crossover with Torchwood that goes AU after the season 4 episode Midnight and has Donna, the Doctor, Jack and Ianto (post-Exit Wounds) as its main participants. Not only does this reunite Donna with her "husband" from the library planet in a plausible fashion but it explores an alien culture - and Jack's background, together with his future as we know it from Last of the Time Lords - in a thoughtful, fascinating way. Ideal if you're in the mood for both intelligent sci fi and character interaction.
Dreams: hands down one of the best stories focusing on the Doctor/Master relationship I've read - and it's gen! Moreover, I have a soft spot for stories that focus on dreams (what with Restless as my favourite BTVS episode) and use them as character exploration while transmitting their surreality, and this story does just that. And it features many of the personae the Doctor and the Master go through - Three and Delgado, Five and Ainsley (with a little dash of Seven and Ainsley as well), Eight and Roberts (and behold, the writer manages to make Roberts!Master a plausible character), Nine and Jacobi, Ten and Simm - with the voices recognizable each time. I'm in awe. So will you be, if you read it.
And lastly, since we're on the subject, I might have linked this before, but just in case I haven't, some kind soul has put together the best Three and Delgado!Master scenes. If you're a New Who only watcher, you owe it to yourself to see this, because really, subtext wasn't invented in 2005. If you're Old School, just enjoy the rewatch.
