Ahh the summer TV hiatus! How we loathe it despise it need fic to fill it! Do a good deed for your fellow fen and keep the fandom filled with episode replacements until we get fresh Eppes & company in the fall. We know you're busy with graduations, beach parties and vacations, but surely there's time for Numb3rs between all those weddings! The Monthly Theme for June is Marriage. Yes, yes, we...

Friday I showed my mother Slings & Arrows and then Due South -- they were, of course, hits; I'm a great pimper of shows. Getting her to put down her language textbooks long enough was difficult, but I was rewarded with trivia such as: "Incidentally, the Chinese word for 'compass', zhinanji , means 'point-south machine'." She also gave the best summary ever of the second half of the pilot movie...

I remember reading a Torchwood/Jeeves crossover set in the thirties, in which Jack is hanging out at Bertie's and meets Jeeves' protege, Ianto Jones.  Ianto ends up coming into the future with Jack.  I've done a bit of searching -- I've googled, LJ searched, and tried tags at crossover_news  and a couple of Jeeves & Wooster sites, but have had no luck.  (It was read within the last two months...

1. I have officially left a 5k word count in my dust. I have no words for this. /lame unintended pun, or something 2. crossover_news Yes to this, so much yes. I don't know how many of you are going to agree here, but I say the internet is for crossovers. 3. Half Moon Investigations , by Eion Colfer. You may recognize the name because he is the writer of the Artemis Fowl series, which is...

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So I have a Google Alert set for my username.  Vanity's part of the reason, sure, but so is curiosity.  If you're the slightest bit concerned about protecting your fanish identity, it's a good way to keep an eye on yourself, as it were.  The things you can learn are worth it, as far as I'm concerned. I would never have known there was such a thing as crossover_news  if I hadn't got a Google...

Dark Angel was a futurist/sc-fi/action-adventure show created by Terminator/Titanic famed director James Cameron and Charles H Eglee. The show initially aired in the United States and Canada for two seasons on Fox, from Oct 3, 2000 to May 3, 2002, before it was cancelled. The overall premise—Season 1: A shadowy corner of the government, an institution known as Manticore, is working to create/breed...