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I have decided to populate this page with my posts from around the forums that deserve to be seen, while minimising the need for updates (who, me lazy?) So below are

Bruce Wayne/Selina Kyle, aka Batman/Catwoman.
Yes, really.

I liked the first two films better than the third one as films, but Bruce’s broken-hero character arc, cool-babe Selina, and Hans Zimmer’s exquisite music in the third one were good enough to make it well worth watching - and to give me my latest obsession. I am linking these here for the record while I go back to lurking and sporadically reading other people’s fic.

Catching Up

On to the next location, wonderful Sydney. Once again, I have series of similar pics at my favourite angles/moments rather than bring more variety at the cost of lower quality. These are the highlights, though by no means an exhaustive collection of them. I have no pics of the most exciting bit, the BridgeClimb, as participants are not allowed to carry cameras (dropping one would be a serious risk to the traffic and to any pedestrians below).

This is a public service announcement that some of you may hopefully find useful :)

You know I never update my journal, but due to the fact that yours truly is stuck at a tiny railway station in the middle of... not much, save for some Greek temples she has already seen before missing her train and settling down for a 2+ hour wait, I figured I'd share my today's findings off the Guardian page. As a caveat, this relates to novel-length stuff and outlines a *possible* approach, but by no means *the* approach - I know at least two brilliant people among you who do just the opposite with great results. For my part, I was pleasantly surprised at how much of what I had arrived at on my own was validated here, though at times it seems, even to me, a bit too structured and didactically prescriptive. Still, there are certainly pearls of wisdom in it. The 30 days refer to just the outline, not the finished thing.

The framework intro is here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/oct/20/writing-your-novel-30-days-method

The brainstorming bit is here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/oct/20/brainstorming-book-ideas

and the series main page with the rest broken down into days (parts 1 and 4 have further day-by-day breakdowns) http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/series/how-to-write-a-book-in-30-days

This epic drama of medieval cell phones, redemption, and complete absurdity started its life as a capslock discussion that eventually became a snippet called The Perils of Medieval Drunk Dialling… and then inquiring minds needed to know what happened next. Here is your chance to find out. 

We know that Robin Hood filmed in Hungary. Where exactly, and what else is known about the setting? I am something of a location geek, and having been to a few locations for films I like (which eventually led to a transatlantic move ;) ), kept wondering if any parts of the Nottingham set could be pinpointed (and, if possible, visited). Part of the inspiration was again provided by Aceofhadeon, who acquainted me with another interesting historical series – more on that below. 

Thanks to another tip from Aceofhadeon, I have spent a very enjoyable afternoon playing with Demotivator posters, and am including the results below. The text is blurry in the pix below - click on them to see properly sized versions. Screencaps courtesy of RichardArmitageOnline and RichardArmitageNet.

 

ETA: I have the SOPA-wielding fuckers to thank for the tragic death of Megaupload and the fact that the links below do not work. Should there be any improvement, I'll happily delete this notice.

Links to everything I compiled and uploaded on the subject, for the patient, curious, and bandwidth-unchallenged among you:

- a long 'movie' of Guy & Marian using most of their s1-2 scenes, with a tweaked happy ending

- a full clip of Guy and Meg scenes

- a simple musical clip, again of Guy and Meg (Kiss from a Rose)

- and a season 3 fake movie about Guy and... every other guy ;) that I just had to call Farewell My Concubine

Be warned, these suckers are big.

Disclaimer: I do not own any part of the show or the characters, I only borrowed it so I could drool over Sir Guy.

The Darkest Hour is my big AU Guy and Meg story.
Fate and Fortune is the central part of it that happens between Chapters 11 and 12 (author's note at the beginning explains the reason for posting it separately).
For related video, see ‘Guy and Meg, the beginning’ and ‘Kiss from a Rose’ under ‘video links’

The two short bits are basically extra Darkest Hour chapters I wrote later, though the second one mentions a living Marian (reason explained in the post)

Second Thoughts is a shorter s3 AU story that throws in the question of what happens if Guy lets Marian go in 212.

Ransom is my take on a Guy/Marian plot set in (mostly) historically accurate 1194-1195. In this twist on events, she *runs away* in 212, with interesting results.

Back from the Dead is a short and shameless bit of Guy wish fulfillment fluff that corrects the injustice of the series finale

Rules of Engagement is one-shot smut!crack proposing an impossible threesome
 

Am a big time hoarder and keep copies of the films I like ‘just in case’ (which has led to a 350-DVD album and a monstrous 200+ VHS collection from my younger years that I still have not ditched despite two transatlantic moves and the Milan-Rome transfer). After a discussion with an LJ friend (thanx Ace!), I went through said treasures to make a favourites list. So here goes, in my best attempt at chronological order story-wise for history films and an attempt at a thematic listing for the rest (some belong in more than one category, so I picked one arbitrarily).