I believe there are a few Tolkien fans in my flist (well, I know there's at least one), so I thought I'd post this here. A family tree of the royal houses of the Noldor -- that's Fëanor, Galadriel, and that crowd --  from the 'Silmarillion', using chibi art. (courtesy of here.)

I was actually inspired to do this by getting confused over the hair colour of the different Elves, believe it or not ("Wait, which one of them is blond again?"), so this is a kind of recognition chart. Like they issued in the Second World War for enemy aircraft, except this one is for Eldar. See if you can work out the other identifying features I gave each Elf... (Explanation is under the cut)

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So, Joss Whedon just posted an 'Ask Me Anything' on Reddit, where he answered a couple of dozen fan questions about, well, anything. Though I did notice he also carefully avoided a few of the questions, like "What did you think of the recent Buffy movie revival project"? Unfortunately, the format of the Q&A was kind of hard to understand... I ended up cutting and pasting together a few of the more interesting questions and his answers, and thought I'd share.

So, go on. Guess who's Joss's favourite character to write...


( Go on, guess. )

This is another 'Mass Effect' fic, I'm afraid. I've now finished ME3, and wasn't nearly as outraged by the endings as I expected to be given the internet rage they've generated. Honestly, I'm a Joss Whedon fan: ME3 didn't have nearly enough deaths of beloved characters or dei ex machina plot twists to bother me. Even so, I felt the need for a fill-in-the-blank fic to handwave away some of the more obvious dodgy bits in the plotting.

The fic is in the same continuity as the one I wrote a couple of weeks ago, for those keeping track. (On which note, can I just say yay for AO3? 'The Lower Reaches' got something like 11 views in total here on LJ, but on AO3 it's the most popular thing I've ever written, with hundreds and hundreds of views in just two weeks. \o/

Title: Memory
Fandom: Mass Effect (spoilers for the ending of ME3)
Character: Liara T'soni
Playthrough: Paragon Adept female Shepard who romanced Liara in all three games, and chose the Destruction ending.
Wordcount: 2,174
Rating: 15
Warnings: Death, birth, tragedy, post traumatic stress disorder, and the ME3 canon endings.

Liara survived the last battle on Earth. This is what she can remember.

Just a quick note:

• The 'writers summit' at which Joss Whedon, Andrew Chambliss, and the other 'Buffy' writers worked out the plot of Season 9 took place in February 2011.
• The Doctor Who episode 'The Almost People' that revealed certain things about Amy Pond was broadcast in May 2011.

Well, I certainly wasn't expecting that. It raises lots of questions, (like, WHEN DID THAT HAPPEN??), but also explains a few things we've been seeing lately. Also, this gives me a chance to break out the T:SCC icons again, for a 'Buffy' review. :)

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And this is today's actual review, of the latest issue of Angel & Faith. Which I enjoyed very much: not all of it was great (the flashbacks seemed a bit predictable, not telling us anything we didn't already know) but there was some very illuminating conversation between Angel and Drusilla on the nature of vampires, and souled vampires in particular.



( Review of A&F 1.07 'Daddy Issues' 2 )