Daibhid's Journal

So,apparently, this is what happens if I work on the TV Tropes page You Mean Xmas and listen to Mitch Benn's Christmas album within close succession...

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I saw two films in the last week, and enjoyed one of them a lot more than the other. MASSIVE SPOILERS for both.

( Batman vs Superman Dawn of Justice )

( Zootropolis )

I had a great idea for a fic.

Well, okay, I had a great gimmick for a fic. An homage to those classic comic book fake crossovers, where Team 1 at Publisher A fights thinly disguised pastiches of Team 2 at Publisher B, while Team 2 is also fighting a thinly disguised Team 1 in their own book. (Justice League v Heroes of Angor/Avengers v Squadron Supreme; Freedom Fighters v Crusaders/Invaders v Crusaders; New Teen Titans v RECOMbatants/DNAgents v Project Youngblood). I was particularly inspired by the Titans/Agents thing where both books actually told the same story, the only difference being which team died at the end.

And I wrote it, or them, and I went to upload them to fanfiction.net. Luckily, it made me check the rules of submission before I did. Because there on the list of Actions Not Allowed was "2. Rewriting names of characters/locations of one story in order to upload to multiple categories."

Which is precisely the underlying joke of my stories. I could just post one of them, but it wouldn't be the same. (If I was just posting one, what I'd probably do is rewrite it into an actual crossover. And rewrite it quite thouroughly, since at the moment it mostly hangs on the gimmick.) Ah, well. Somewhere else, assuming there is somewhere else that doesn't have that rule...

Yes, I’ve done some more. I was really struggling with Police/Firefighters for some reason, so this time I’ve gone for Mirror Universe instead.

Feel free to throw more characters at me.

Supergirl (TV)
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The Doctor and River Song
(I know, I initially specified Eleventh, but then I had the idea I had for Another Gender.)
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Jemma Simmons and Leo Fitz
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Memed from lost_spook

Well, it's better than last year's...
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In which we learn why these stalwarts have been assembled, your humble author desecrates another children's classic, and there's at least one entirely unnecessary cameo.

Oh and I don't want to say too much about the cliffhanger, but I'm quite pleased with the cliffhanger.

The story continues to be here. Final two chapters (and I've just realised I'm not sure why I'm releasing it in two-chapter chunks) coming soon.

I saw this yesterday, it was really good.
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So, on a bit of a fanfic high after uploading "The All-Consuming Fir" to Teaspoon, I opened chapter three of "Discworld's Finest" to poke about at it for a bit, as I've been doing on and off, mostly off, since 2003.

And after I'd poked at it for a bit, I thought "You know, this kind of looks like it might possibly be ... finished?" The idea took me so much by surprise that I almost panicked about it.

So, after a few days of double checking it really is finished, polishing up the epilogues I wrote ages ago, and reminding myself how Fanfiction.net actually works, "Discworld's Finest" is finally completed. And here it is.

So it just goes to show, sometimes the Things From The Depths Of The Hard Drive do actually get completed. Maybe there's even hope for that Storytime! (You know, the one I said I was going to publish once I'd got halfway but that might be "some time after Matt Smith regenerates", and that was meant to be a joke, because "The Eleventh Hour" hadn't even been broadcast yet...)

Does anyone know of any online comic shops (preferably in the UK) that separate the comics by month? My local comic shop recently closed down after six months where Diamond couldn't be bothered to send them anything, and so I've been thinking about buying my comics online. But when I go to a site and "latest issues" means "the most recently published issue, even if it was cancelled over a year ago" and back issues are just long lists of titles and numbers (and synopses, but comic synopses range from "That could be any issue in the current story" to "That conveys no information whatsoever"), I get hopelessly confused as to what I got on my October trip to Plan 9 in Aberdeen, and what's actually a new - or at least recent - issue.

Is there a simpler way? Because regular trips to Aberdeen aren't ... well, they are an option, because I've done it before, but I'd prefer not to.

Memed from lost_spook: Write a list of 12 characters from any fandom. Then answer the questions under the cut. (Don't look at the questions before you make your list!)

1. Captain Angua von Uberwald (Discworld)
2. Clara Oswald (Doctor Who)
3. Hank McCoy/Beast (X-Men)
4. Captain Jack Harkness (Doctor Who)
5. Solomon Cohen (Dodger)
6. Inspector Nightingale (Rivers of London)
7. Susan Sto Helit (Discworld)
8. Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stuart (Doctor Who: The New Adventures)
9. Father Jack Hackett (Father Ted)
10.Arnold J Rimmer (Red Dwarf)
11.Ted Kord/Blue Beetle (Justice League International)
12.Lu Tze (Discworld)

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