Dolorous Ett's Bestiary

I loved the book, but it's been a bad year for my fanfic.

Last time I at least guessed the identity of the Half-Blood Prince correctly (even if I meant it as a joke and deliberately chose the silliest person I could find). This year it looks like they were reenacting the Final Battle on my author-page - carnage galore, and a lot of my personal favourites were hardest hit. 

(ETA: hem hem! Since LJ won't let me put all this on the LJ cut, if you click on the cut below you will not only be SPOILED on "Deathy Hallows", you will see SPOILERS to my stories too. You have been warned. IN A VERY CAPSLOCK WAY!

So, how has your work been faring? Did you predict something amazing and it came true? Will you be rejigging your stories to make them canon-compliant? Enquiring minds want to know!

In a rather hopeless effort to prove that I am not always a terminally grumpy old sourpuss who angsts about everything, I've stolen the Character Love Meme from lyras.

Name a character from one of my fandoms, and I will write no more than 100 words on why I love them.

So - name your characters! Fandoms: Harry Potter, A Song of Ice and Fire, Star Trek: Next Generation, Star Trek: Enterprise, Robin Hobb's Farseer and Golden Fool series, Alastair Reynolds's Revelation Space quartet, (a lot of, but not all) Terry Pratchett, Lord of the Rings, Mina de Malfois.

No reasonable (or unreasonable) offer refused...

Well, I've finally nerved myself to watch the last episode of Enterprise. Oh dear oh dear oh dear.

The premature axing of a TV series is never an occasion for self-congratulation, but was it really necessary to make the last episode ever so rubbish just to justify that decision? 
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Of course, the characters still exist in our heads. And in the Mirror Universe of my mind, the series is going from strength to strength. Highlights of Series 5-7 include:

Here's a commentary of "The Hall of Heroes", as requested by saralinda and aerama.

[Bad username or unknown identity: The original text of "The Hall of Heroes" can be found here.]

( Cut for length - every bit as bad as the last, if not worse )

I was peripherally involved in discussions about who should get a job today. It was absolutely fascinating - about the people, about my subject and where my place in it is, about how interviews work and about the profoundly misleading nature of first impressions.

Obviously it's all exactly the sort of thing I could never post on LJ - all that confidenitality and what not - a sacking offence if ever I saw one. So I will just have to brood to myself a little longer.

For the same reason, I've not been posting for the last ten days because everyone round here's tired and under stress, and the only things I wanted to write were the sort of things you just don't say about other people in any kind of public domain. I actually got as far as posting one rant - I'm just so relieved that I had the sense to delete it seconds later.

Anyway, to take my mind of the residual work of the term - of which there is much - I've seen the nice Commentary Meme doing the rounds, and really enjoyed reading what I found there, even if I have not replied to every single one. They have inspired me to try a Commentary or two of my own.

Here's a list of my fics so far:

And just in case those links aren't working, (ETA of course they weren't working), here's a link to my FA homepage.

I won't be doing anything about it today, but I should have something for early next week if there are any takers.