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[castalia]

First, some Hewlett news. Nothing is going to be released on DVD in Canada and the US! You can pre-order it at DVDImport.com for $18.77. The release date is Dec. 7, so just in time for Christmas. This is really a must have for DH fans, or just fans of wacky yet brilliant Canadian movies in general.

Anyone, Hornblower fan or not, should go over to ship_manifesto (have I mentioned how much I love this community?) right now and read tanacawyr's Horatio/Archie essay. I knew she would more than do them justice, and I wasn't disappointed.

*realizes she has little more than a month to write her own Beckett/McKay essay, panics a bit*

Have I pimped cimmerianwillow lately? Even if I have, I'm going to do it again, b/c she should be pimped and often. I don't think I'm showing too much bias when I say she's the most talented fan artist on the web these days. Hornblower, Starsky and Hutch, Xena, Oz, Barney Miller, LOTR - there's a bit of everything, so go check it out. Plenty of fic as well - my all-time favorite Horatio/Archie stories, Bush/Cotard (a marvelous minor HH pairing she has taken and made her own), and utterly wonderful Harris/Dietrich Barney Miller slash. Go, read.

Some vid recs, with thanks to permetaform for pointing them out:

Prayer for the Dying by f1renze - An Angels in America vid that really blew me away, despite knowing absolutely nothing about the source. So very impressive, and now I have another must-own DVD set on my list.

SOS by sisabet - Tis the season for all things Farscape, and this is the best FS vid to hit the web lately. The fact that it's by sisabet should be all the info you need. John/Aeryn, massively het, painful, and glorious. Fabulous work.

Comments

[cimmerianwillow.livejournal.com]

That essay was like some pimping magnum opus lolol

*licks you because you are wonderfully biased eheh and I love you for it* I think my Necrophiliac!Horry fic has scared everyone lolol

[castalianspring.livejournal.com]

Hee. Expect more traffic on your art pages soon, thanks to that essay ;)

*is biased, hee* Has it? I signed up for the Naughty, but haven't been approved by the mod yet. How's the reaction been?

[cimmerianwillow.livejournal.com]

lol!

Not a peep over there (except Kittie lol), although a couple of comments on LJ :P I hope people don't think that is actually a *serious* fic haha Jan is busy with the election these days, I guess, I'm sure she'll approve you soon. :)

[cimmerianwillow.livejournal.com]

I'm home today, btw, because I did indeed wake up last night in the death throws and subsequently slept until this afternoon. *sighs* So whenever you get up, drop me a line? :)

[permetaform]

=) ::blows kisses::

[castalianspring.livejournal.com]

*covets them*

Thanks so much for pointing the way to so many great new vids. This total vid whore is very grateful.

[wishfulaces.livejournal.com]

Harris and Dietrich! *crows for a while*

Sad to see the I-Man fic's apparently not up, though.

[castalianspring.livejournal.com]

Yay! Someone else who likes Barney Miller! It's such a rare pairing, so we don't find many other like-minded slashers :)

Aw, darn. I forgot those were offline. I'll poke her and see if she'll put them back up.

[wishfulaces.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I've ever actually read any slash for it. Granted, I haven't gone out looking, but Dietrich's always been my favorite of the lot, and his relationship with Harris is just...heh. Heheheheheh.

Oooh, I hope she does. *craves I-Man fic like nobody's business*

[tanacawyr.livejournal.com]

ship_manifesto is taking more essays. There's two more "Hornblower" essays lined up (HH/EP and HH/WB), and we'd have a clean sweep if someone would write Bush/Cotard and Archie/Bush as well.

[castalianspring.livejournal.com]

I'll have to keep poking Willow to take Bush/Cotard. I'm already signed up to write one essay, and the idea of doing any others daunts me.

[tanacawyr.livejournal.com]

It would be lovely if someone were to write Bush/Cotard, especially since it seems like such a strange little statistical outlier -- paying mind to two characters that a lot of the fandom isn't going to really pair up that way. ALL of the other pairings that have been written are Hornblower/Somebody. And Archie/Bush is still concentrating on a very popular character.

But Bush/Cotard takes things in a very unique direction. It strikes me as one of the few pairings that can stand without the presence of Kennedy exerting such a strong force. It's sort of baggage-free, for me at least, and I think for a lot of the rest of the fandom.

[deborak]

Just wanted to say that I appreciate the periodic 'rec' posts you put up. Our interests don't intersect that often, but I enjoy the chance to look at fandoms I normally wouldn't.

[castalianspring.livejournal.com]

Aw, cool :) Thanks, Mania. I try to rec enough eccletic stuff that at least some of it will pique people's interests.

[castalianspring.livejournal.com]

and that's eclectic...damnable typos