Don't forget Mansquito

Who could ever forget Mansquito?

I didn't even see it, and yet I lived through the viewing process vicariously via your good selves, and now it's burned into my consciousness.

I have been pondering the purchase of Dr Who DVDs, but I think they're jolly expensive in the shops. May do the Amazon thing, though. I don't think I can really be going to return to Egypt without them. I grew up on the damned show, after all. Plus, you've just told me about Captain Jack snogging both Rose and the Doctor. Which really MUST galvanise me into parting with my cash.

The magic of that moment is how well it was led up to. Over multiple eps, IIRC.

eta: The extra magic. It's very pretty even out of context.

Now I'm reminded of "Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death," done for Comic Relief, in which the Doctor (Rowan Atkinson) is scheduled to marry his companion (Julia Sawalha), but after burning through a bunch of his lives in the space of a few minutes (Hugh Grant, Jim Broadbent, and Richard E. Grant), he then becomes a she (Joanna Lumley) who still wants to marry the companion. Very fun stuff!

Over on LJ, sam_storyteller is posting a fabulous post-HP6 fic (Title: Cartographer's Craft). It's a WIP, but it's being updated every few days or so.

There's a plot element in it that would scream "fixit" to most people, but it ends up being a wonderful plot complication rather than a way to make things better.

Well, this is just...

Help me out. I need some words here.

Chutzpah? OMGWTH?

So, has this hit fandom_wank yet?

Help me out. I need some words here.

Hey, if it works, I can crank out a "Waah, I'm too poor to write for you people who don't contribute to my lifestyle" letter too.

So, has this hit fandom_wank yet?

Dunno. I picked it up from a few bemused posts on LJ.

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Wow. So much for fanfiction being 'not for profit', eh?

I don't know why I'm taken aback. It's not like I haven't seen this before. It's just...some people out there manage to struggle through just fine without blackmailing their readers, I guess. I know there are people out there who are incredible writers, and whose financial situations are less than optimal, and they do what they have to do without resorting to cheap tactics like this.