This week I have mostly been playing Oblivion (The Elder Scrolls IV: Game Of The Year Edition) and looking at pictures of Marisa Miller on the internet. I'll send Sylar (or maybe just Ando) after anyone who tells Paris about this though - she hates me playing Oblivion when she's not around to be my backseat driver *g*

Doctor Who: Shining Darkness by Mark Michalowski 7/10
This one started out a little hard to get into. I would have liked a little more feel/history of the world the Doctor and Donna were on before one of them gets abruptly whisked from it. However, once the story gets going it gets to be quite good fun in places. I enjoyed the Jaftee and their attitudes towards religion. I loved the interplay between Crusher and Chuck on the interplanetary scrapyard. Mrs Django and I had a great time wondering how the characters would get out of this scrape or that and there's a nice but explosive twist at the end. Special shout out to the character of Mother. Hornier readers might be a bit disappointed that the supermodel robots barely feature and aren't real characters, but maybe Tricia Helfer demanded too much of a fee *g* All in all, it was good fun.

Anyone who hasn't seen the first two episodes of Heroes season three should stop reading now. No, not just because you'll get SPOILED but because you're clearly an inferior species to me :P

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Other notable appearances on The Equalizer season one so far include: Burt Young (Paulie from the Rocky movies), Lori Cardille (from George Romero's Day Of The Dead, here getting a sexy death scene that I remembered from the original airing), Alberta Watson from 24 looking like Sean Young when she was younger and Christine Baranski from Cybill looking a bit like Maiwenn Le Besco. Loved the bit where Edward Woodward hated getting called "Pop" by his son during a besieged weekend in the woods.

Doctor Who: The War Machines - This is a pretty fab 'n' groovy story. The war machines aren't quite as big as I imagined but they do get their fair share of the action (although never en mass). It's no wonder that Polly would later get crabs after her in the series after talking to Ben the sailor in a nightclub, lol! I've never seen a story with Dodo in it before but in this one I couldn't see what all the fuss was about against her. She's only in about half the story though and then conveniently taken away (at least the Doctor was going to wait on her though and didn't kick her out like he later would with Mel). This was an enjoyable story all round and William Hartnell did very well in it. Nice to see Scaraman from The Pyramids Of Mars in an earlier appearance on the show (and still getting taken over by outside forces!). I imagine that this story would have been a lot shorter though, had Zoe been around to get annoyed with the computer (or even if Number Six was around to ask it "why?") *g*

I forgot how scary The Nightmare Man could be in Heroes season two. Here is a man that could make Paris think that I've gotten married to Angelina Jolie instead so that she'll marry someone else too! Or he could make me think that Paris has gone on TV and told the world that she thinks I'm a creep and she wants to remove me from her MySpace friends! Such a scary power. He must be stopped! Elle's still my favourite thing about season two (besides how HRG dealt with his boss at Copy Kingdom - that always has me punching the air and with a reasonable shout out to Cheerleader Debbie who's cute when she's drunk). David Anders is good as Samurai Sark of course and Sylar rocks (even if he did kill off another one of my girls from the show when the original actress left)!

And now some gorgeous Paris pic spam:

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Poll #2006
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

Who Do You Like Better?

Good news of the week of course, is that a near complete print of Metropolis has finally been found (never been seen since the Berlin premiere from what I recall). Supposedly all that's missing is one cathedral sequence which there is supposedly also a lead on. Fritz Lang once responded to someone's gushing about Metropolis by asking "Why are you talking about a film that doesn't exist?". Well finally after all this time, it looks like just might well exist in the form he intended after all. I love the restoration (with the music originally written for the film and performed on it's premiere) done a few years back and chances were that that was as complete as the film was ever likely to get (with almost 25 minutes of footage missing). I look forward to the newly recovered footage being available on DVD. Metropolis is the greatest sci-fi movie of all time in my opinion, bar none (and one of my all time favourite movies). Amazing isn't quite the word for it's spectacle.

As to my life, well I'm often too tired or don't have enough time to really bother with the internet or anything else, much less update about it, during the week. I could rant here about a certain bloody woman at the Scottish Training Foundation and all her faults and crimes against humanity, but why bother at the weekend when I'm trying to enjoy my temporary respite! I could mention the waste of time it was, getting prepared and dressed for a potential job interview that instead turned out to be a mere placement with the chance of a lowly paying job at the end that probably wouldn't cover my travel and prescription expenses if I were to survive the placement period and take it. I could also talk about some of the silly rules they have at this meat for the grinder placement. But *meh*

So how was the Doctor Who series four finale then? Well, I'm still trying to sort out my mixed feelings about it *g* I think I enjoyed it and may even come to love it in the future. But there are plenty of criticisms that could be levelled at it, and at the moment I could certainly be at the very least sympathetic to many of them. I think I liked it though (certainly didn't leave me with any desire to never see it again or anything) and I already know I liked it better than the worst episodes of the revived series so far *cough*Voyage Of The Damned*cough* Nice to have a trailer for the Paris-mas Special at the end. Already knew some of the reports about the plot, but it was good to see it confirmed.

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Don't get much time to watch stuff during the week, but I've been making up for lost time over the weekend:

DVDs:

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Well first off, here's a fact about tonight's Doctor Who 4.12 "The Stolen Earth" that isn't a spoiler but a pretty reasonable prediction: The forums are going to go into meltdown! It could even last days!

The rest are big dripping blood redSPOILERS so be warned and don't cry afterwards (and if you haven't seen it yet - DO!):

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Argh! How can you just sit there and stand it like that?

The build up and the constant waiting is like a beating drum in my head.

Only a few hours to go until tonight's Doctor Who and the long awaited return of Davros (and hopefully the Daleks done much more properly than their last outing "Invasion Of The Clap-Traps" hee hee).

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It's all building up to be quite dramatic, tense and sinister (the way I like it). I almost feared that RTD would have Davros spinning in his chair to some song with disco lights flashing, but it really seems that he's reined that sort of thing in for this iconic villain at least.

And in other news: The Doctor Who Forum finally has a club for lovers of Lynda with a Y :D :D :D And of course I joined :D :D :D And was accepted :D :D :D Such a shame that Jo Joyner who was brilliant in the nurses show No Angels has sold her soul to being stuck on bloody Eastenders when she should have been going on to more great things and acting opportunities instead.

Anyway... "Exterminate... Exterminate... Exterminate... Exterminate... Exterminate..."

I finally got round to finishing the extras for Lost season one yesterday and some of the deleted scenes got me to thinking about what I'd have added to the scene. So, with that in mind I've decided that I want to become a script editor and executive producer for the show, sometime before it finishes. I've even started a petition to that effect:



If you want to add your name then just comment with it and be part of history *g*

In other news, me and Shareen had such a larf today. Now I know that nothing will ever be a better thread title than "Will we do see Rose again?", but also from the Doctor Who Forum I give you: "We've had the Doctor's Daughter - now what the misses?" *guffaw* Anyway, last night we all got bored and watched the Doctor Who serial "The Daleks", 'cept I'd got the time mixed up when the season one finale of Dexter was on and had to stop the serial with one episode still to watch. And then we had to wait while a lot of boring people on telly talked about football as if it was something important and could probably have gotten the last episode watched anyway *fume* Anyway, the last episode of the Ice Truck Killer storyline on Dexter was good and gripping and I liked the connection between Dexter and the killer. After that, though getting quite bleary eyed and being ready to nod off, we finished watching the Doctor Who serial and then Shareen went home (and probably got hell from her family for being out so late hee hee!). I was disappointed at one point in "The Daleks" when Susan tripped while wearing the long cloak that the Thals gave her and just laughed it off - I wanted her to start doing her "OW! Grandfather, I've twisted my ankle!" bit *g*

Name That Tune

See if you can guess this famous new wave song from it's memorable intro:

"Dil dil dil dil DUH DUH DUM! Dil dil dil dil DUH DUH DUM!"

Went out to Saltcoats today with me mate Shareen, as I had to visit the jobcentre to see my New Deal advisor (who proceeded to get me to apply for every job in the place!). On the way back home on the bus, a few things happened.

First we got to talking about our favourite Doctor Who stories since the show returned on 2005.

My Best:
1. Utopia 2. Dalek 3. The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances 4. The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit 5. Bad Wolf/The Parting Of The Ways

My Worst:
1. Voyage Of The Damned 2. Gridlock 3. Daleks In Manhattan/Evolution Of The Daleks 4. 42 5. Fear Her

That's my opinion and anyone who disagrees is just stoooo-pid ;)

Shareen's daft on David Tennant, even to the point of not liking Blink much 'cause he's not in it enough. She likes all the Paris-mas episodes best. I'm glad she likes The Runaway Bride better than Voyage Of The Damned though or I'd have so flattened her.

After that I was confusing people on the bus by asking "Will we do see Rose again?" which was good for a laugh and confused them all (obviously they haven't been to the Doctor Who Forum, which surprises me as there's always so many people online when I visit). Then there was this girl, right? And she starts on about how perfect a companion Martha is, and how she should be in more episodes, Donna's rubbish and there's no reason to bring Rose back! Of course, I had to hit her though, didn't I? And then she got her daft mates to us and we got thrown off the bus and had to walk home 'cause of all the moppets :( Still ain't bovvered though and I reckon me and Shareen could have taken them all on if we had Paris with us (but she wanted to be in Moscow instead). Still, it completely undermines someone's arguing abilities when the only way they can "win" is by getting their opponnents thrown off the bus. Sod it all anyway - me an' Shareen definitely rule!

This week's Doctor Who certainly had a lot of expectation, anticipation, doubts and fears riding on it. I mean it was called "The Doctor's Daughter" for flip's sake! Ultimately I found it very enjoyable and solid enough episode. Series Four is definitely shaking up to be a classic season if it keeps this up - not a truly duff episode in the season yet (I was desparing of quite a few episodes by this time last year!).

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Oh and I think it's official - Donna Noble is the best companion ever!

Yes, this post it's not just the ambassador who's doing the spoiling. So if you haven't seen any of these episodes, then look away NOW!

Battlestar Galactica 4.3
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Doctor Who 4.3 "Planet Of The Ood"
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Started reading the latest splendiferous (I hope noone's learning English as a foriegn language from me *g*) special issue of Doctor Who Magazine yesterday - In Their Own Words Volume Four: 1982 - 86. LOL at the continuing stories of Matthew (Adric) Waterhouse trying to give acting advice to older people with much more experience. But grrr, how dare the little squirt insult Wendy Padbury as Zoe and calling her acting pantomine! I didn't pay for the sixties getting insulted (also how many times did she face the Cybermen compared to him? Hasn't it gone quiet all of a sudden :P). LOL at Kinda scripter Christopher Bailey not being sure who Kate Bush was - now there's someone who needs to get out more. Beryl Reid - I love her for her dottiness and being in that Moon Cat programme when I was a kid!

I also loved this little anecdote from Janet (Tegan) Fielding - The director said, "There'll be one of those... you know, those dome things," and I said, "A cave?" The director turned to look at me, and went, "You know, you're surprisingly bright for a girl, aren't you?" And I thought, "You...!" ROTFLMAO! That just makes me imagine that maybe someday I could be a director. Also found this little parting shot from Matthew Waterhouse amusing - "Well, Time-Flight was about a week later," points out Matthew, apropos his cameo as a phantom in the following serial. "Peter went a bit pale when he saw that he hadn't got rid of me that easily!"

Latest episode of BBC's Robin Hood was another good 'un, which is nothing surprising about this second series. There was a nice exchange between Much and Robin, which might have coincided with the wind blowing some dust in people's eyes (I still prefer Robin's "there are no lesser men" speech from last series though *g*). Their talk of the so called "holy land" reminded me that there had been a scene in the very first episode of the series with Much crying in a tub, that showed that his experiences had affected him more than he let on. Loved that Gisburne was about to chop off Robin's head! Gisburne meanwhile believes that there might be some connection between him and Marian. I'm sure he's right - she probably comes in to borrow some eye mascara off him, lol! We're getting treated to some pretty decent sword fights nowadays, rather than the semi-A Team hi-jinks before the show properly found it's feet. I loved snarling ready to fight and torture Marian of course and her scene with Little John was adorable. Most memorable for me of course was when Robin tied Marian up *weg*

Also watched the extended director's cut of King Arthur again last night. I always loved the way this movie isn't afraid to show a bit of christian hypocrisy and show the christian characters in an unsympathetic and critical light. Particularly refreshing considering it's an American movie, where evolution isn't exactly popular if you go by presidential candidates (not that I'd ever do the people the disservice of judging them by their presidents of course). I'd forgotten how bloody some of the action is too, including an arm chop that was possibly a homage to Spartacus. Back then of course they had the annoying habit of releasing more kid version friendly cuts to cinemas to maximise profits and you had to wait on DVD sometimes to see a film the way it was intended (although at least the directors and theatrical version came out at the same time - much preferable to a extended or uncut version coming out a year after you've already bought the theatrical version). I used to find this practice annoying and I don't know if it still happens, but it doesn't bother me so since I never go to the cinema anymore anyway (obviously I'll be tempted for Repo: The Genetic Opera, but then again I said that about Casino Royale and found other means instead).

I seem to be in the habit of watching weird ass movies nowadays, simply because of particular actresses. Last week it was Naomi Watts in 21 Grams (not the sole reason I watched it, just the main one and the sole reason I stuck with the movie when I wasn't really in the required arty frame of mind). Last night it was Mischa Barton in Octane, which was some weird kind of... road movie weird vampire cult abducion tale ("ah yes, one of those!" - readers). No point trying to make any sense of it, as it was obviously following it's own dream logic and unconcerned with making sense or telling a logical story in any kind of real world pretence. I found it amusing when poor Mischa was concerned about her mother getting her killed on the road - no, it really wouldn't do to get stuck in that kind of typecasting *g* The rest of the cast included Madeline Stowe, Norman Reedus and Jonathan Rhys Myers. There was some annoying hippie chick hitchhiker that would rather have religious icons in cars than air fresheners (despite air fresheners being clearly more useful and actually having a purpose). I punched the air when the mother told some presumptious bible bashing git to fuck off :D It was very weird like I said, but atmospheric enough in it's own way. Reminded me in little ways of various other movies in parts - Vamp, Near Dark, Switchblade Romance (aka Haute Tension), The Vanishing, the weirder parts of the Blade movies, The Hitcher, House Of Wax, Wolf Creek, Razorback, maybe Lost Highway, Road Games, etc (probably Liquid Dreams if I'd actually seen it) but I certainly wouldn't mean to make it sound more coherent than it was. Still, Mischa did get to wear a nice dress towards the end.

As to where this habit of watching weird movies for the actresses might end... Well I did have a dream that I was watching some weird movie simply because Paris was in it, so clearly my dream mind understands me all too well.

If you lived in my brain, not only would you be home now but you'd probably have been listening to these over the week:

The Rolling Stones - Goats Head Soup
Hooverphonic - No More Sweet Music (CD1)
Avril Lavigne - Under My Skin
Men Without Hats - Rhythm Of Youth
Shakespear's Sister - Sacred Heart
Megadeth - United Abominations
Paris Hilton - Paris
Iggy Pop - Lust For Life
The Boomtown Rats - The Fine Art Of Surfacing
The Buzzcocks - Spiral Scratch (EP)
The Buzzcocks - Another Music In A Different Kitchen
The Smashing Pumpkins - Zeitgeist
Transvision Vamp - Little Magnets Versus The Bubble Of Babble

After some attempts to watch some movies fell into loading limbo and broken connections, I decided just to have myself a Tom Baker day instead via that ever delightful friend of the proles - YouTube (ever delightful as long as you don't read too many comments). Needless to say I don't have to tell you how great Tom Baker is, because the very definition of "homo sapien" means that you automatically know already (or else you're an alien and can sod off and find your own water you nasty lizards!). I began by watching the Doctor Who story The Keeper Of Traken and then followed it up with it's direct sequel Logopolis. In the case of both stories - repeat after me readers - I hadn't seen them since childhood.

I loved the Melkur in Keeper (the better of the two stories for me, with some fun scenes at least). Loved Kassia's fiery red hair too, even if it was a wig (she was the female character I felt most attracted to as a kid in the story too, some things never change), and she was one of the richer characters across either story. Neither story was either particularly bad or good, just average for the season. Logopolis in particular tended to get flooded (heh :P) by abstract technobabble. Moreso, the very fabric of the plot thrived on it but it pretty much went over my head. Of course these stories are significant for bringing back The Master, but while I've never disliked Anthony Ainley as such, his Master was never something to get me excited either. Someone on YouTube reckoned that that the music gets a bit "porn music" in the last episode of Logopolis... but I'm sure I wouldn't know! Also some new companions get introduced, but I don't really rate companions of the JNT era until Peri comes along. So both stories were good to see again but I'm largely indifferent to them storywise (Logopolis in particular as an indicator of how overly techno-babbly, pseudo-science-y and generally fun-less the JNT era often appears to me, best stories aside, compared with the golden age of the 60s and 70s). However there's no escaping the weight of history of an era coming to an end with these stories, whether they were quite up to the task or not. And the end of Logopolis should definitely get people hugging their teddy bears (a thought which curiously seems to stop me from thinking about anything else too much).

As I've mentioned before, I have given some thought to relaunching my Doctor Django series, without the baggage of previous continuities (and probably re-doing some of the old stories). In the meantime, in this edition of It's Your Fanfic, I'd like to take a look at what happens when Lost meets Doctor Who in one of my earlier tales. We all know of course (do "we all"? Yes, I have decided and you will kneel down and obey!) that the Doctor has a knack for attracting trouble to himself and just about everyone he meets. So it is here (originally from my posts in a friend's mailing list RPG) when Sayid and Shannon decide to go looking for the mysterious (or just pretentious) Doctor at a circus and encounter all manner of metallic monstrosities.....

One thing that the rousties seemed to have failed to have noticed that evening, was the presence of two vistors, one sitting and the other standing beside the Doctor's TARDIS.

"Are you sure that you want to just sit here all night?" the muscular long haired Iraqi named Sayid asked, his voice betraying some exasperation at how his girlfriend was choosing to spend her night.

Scantily clad blonde Shannon unconcernedly stuck her hand into her tub of popcorn, pausing only to scratch at her belly, home of her latest gun injury. "Of course. I'm telling you that the Doctor is here. Remember him from that island? I just know that he can help us find Walt. Besides, I saw his performance earlier. This police box thingy is like supposed to be able to go anywhere in time and space. And Doctor Django would do anything for me." Shannon let out a contented, smug sigh.

"Really, Shannon!" long suffering Sayid shook his head amused. "Those were just stories that your crazy Doctor used to tell. And this is a circus! It was *all* just another story - an illusion - to entertain you. This Doctor can't travel in time."

Sayid could remember the individual known as Doctor Django from their time stranded on an island. He had always been telling tall tales and Sayid had suspected that it was really just a way of getting out of any proper work. And of course, in that regard, he had become something of a hero to young Shannon (not that that had stopped her wrapping the Doctor round her finger at every opportunity though). "And for the last time, there *is* no Walt! He's dead."

"Don't ever say that!" Shannon looked up annoyed. "And how do you know the Doctor was lying? You weren't even there for his performance. Probably too busy torturing one of the vendors or something. Oh, and did you get my Diet Coke?" Wordlessly, Sayid handed down the can of Diet Coke, his eyes always surveying for danger. He was poised like a jungle cat to take down anyone who would threaten his Shannon. "I'm telling you that the Doctor is some kind of Time Magician or something. That's why he disappeared off of the island."

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While I'm waiting on the pilot episode of the new Flash Gordon magically appearing in a puff of smoke, I'll seize on yet another way for me to make a nuisance of myself :P As InsaneJournal seems to attract a lot of interest in fanfics, I'll give a history of my own history of fanfics.

Earliest examples of what could be called fanfics for me, were in school. We'd be given time each day to write what was called "news" about our lives, but my friends and I would usually prefer to make up our own stories, complete with comic strip and cliffhanger chapterplay conventions of continuing storylines which tended to stop at an exciting place (we usually acted our stories out as actual cliffhangers too at play time, lol!). Some were straightforward new Star Wars stories or something of course, but more usual was for us to take something like Nyoka & The Tiger Men or Sinbad & The Eye Of The Tiger and do our version, starring ourselves against the villains.

More conventional fanfic (before I knew such a thing existed and was widespread) was in the late 90s. For a Blondie/Deborah Harry fanzine, I created a serialised action parody called The Debbie Squad. The first serial dealt with alien invasion and brought Deborah Harry together with some of the characters she played in movies (Hairspray and Heavy, with cameos from her Videodrome and Tales From The Darkside: The Movie characters) to combat the alien menace. The editor was initially enthused about the idea and ran the first five or six of seven episodes. I ended up writing three serials, but for complicated reasons involving the fanzine going semi-official and relaunching, audiences never did get to see the aliens eventually defeated in the first adventure.

Later, once I was more immersed in the world of the internet, I wrote my first proper fanfic for a annual competition at Buffy The Vampire Slayer message board, The Bronze Beta. I wrote a Spike and Drusilla story, also featuring the group Rasputina. After being unsure if I would be able to come up with anything, I was surprised by how quickly I knocked the story together, much of it written during an afternoon in my local pub.

That first Buffy fanfic later led to the creation of my own shamelessly Mary Sue offbeat tongue in cheek series: Django & Drusilla. The title characters got romantically involved in the first story When Django Met Drusilla: A Tale Of Two Loonies and went through the usual relationship ups and downs (Django drinking too much and gettin hangovers and worse, Django feeling jealous of his vampire girlfriend's demon friends etc - we've all been there *g*). Later stories, starting with Django & Dru: Reloaded kept the tongue in cheek humour and romance, but followed far more action orientated storylines, including the characters being hunted around the world by demon hunters and even ending up running a hotel in Haiti. Additional character appearances occasionally included other Buffy characters, including Drusilla's former lover Spike in flashbacks, as well as pisstake versions of my real life offline friends (one of whom roared with laughter on reading it at how familiar and accurate it all was) and a demon hunter rival for Django called Mary Sue (oooh the postmodern irony!). This even led to an epic storyline known as Vampire Wars where each episode seemed to get even more Russian novel length in the last. The action moved from demon run slave factories, all over France to Seattle and would have ended in a worldwide battle against the demon forces of an old enemy of Drusilla's. I fell away from the project however, about halfway through the last instalment and the more time passed made returning to that story universe unlikely.

My next attempt at fanfics grew out of my involvement with a friend's mailing list multiverse RPG. Doctor Django was the twelfth Doctor Who (following in the footsteps of Paris Hilton as eleventh after David Tennant), who tended to be a bit scatterbrained and all over the place, as the result of too many mad adventures. Initially Doctor Django was without his TARDIS, after it had been stolen from him. Instead he met a nice sweet girl called Lynda with a Y (nicked from two episodes of the real Doctor Who series, although not the exact same person continuity wise) and even joined a circus for a while. Doctor Django's first story adventure pit him against Highlander's Kurgan, before another immortal entered the storyline. This was followed by The Saturday Invasion, in which a dastardly voodoo witchdoctor called Baron Saturday was trying to take over the world via Amsterdam, with the use of giant snakes, zombies, devil dolls and his own particular brand of marijuana. In the RPG, Doctor Django eventually got his TARDIS back and in a time travelling escapade which ripped off Fifth Doctor adventure The Visitation, inadvertently kicked off The Great Fire Of London. Doctor Django and Lynda created their own K-9 and were joined by Lost characters Shannon and Sayid, plus two original female Time Agents called Lady Desire and Donni Matrix. Meanwhile in my journal, I created my own retelling of First Doctor adventure The Chase, using my own regular cast.

More recently, in LiveJournal and GreatestJournal, I hit on the bold and perhaps crazed idea of mixing together normal journal posts (movie and TV reviews, celebrity gossip etc) with fictional third person adventures that mixed together the styles of Raymond Chandler/Jame Ellroy hardboiled crime fiction with comedy reality show The Simple Life. And voila, The Noir Life was created. Cynical private dick Django would pepper his discussions and arguments with bar patrons and the District Attorney with reviews of the lastest movies his writer had been watching, or else sorting the truth from the media lies of the latest Paris Hilton gossip. Although not set in the same universe as Doctor Django, quite a few of the same characters ended up making appearances. That's Hardboiled!

My fanfics tend to be very tongue in cheek, shamelessly Mary Sue and filled with injokes, references and steals from everything that interests me and takes my fancy. I've had some positive feedback and picked up the occasional fan on the way, but mostly they always seemed too strange for most or maybe they just didn't give the stories a try in the first place (some people do take fanfiction writing/reading way too seriously at times and probably don't appreciate the more fun approach). And eventually I end up burning my creativity out and leave stories forever half finished. Fangs for the memories *g*