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Our Godawful Lazy Remake Culture
That Last Man on Earth fanfic. Ha, I did it! And mostly without crying!
Title: Our Godawful Lazy Remake Culture
Rating: God knows. PG-13? It gets kinda gross in its descriptions every now and then. Also, well, you’ve seen the show
Fandom: The Last Man on Earth (TV)
Notes: The opening line is from Fredric Brown’s famous story “Knock.”
Characters/ships: Mike, Erica, Mike/Erica (well, sort of)
Summary: Mike forbade his brother to watch him die, but he didn’t forbid Erica.
Find it on AO3, or-
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1. Mike
The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
Actually, most of that statement is inaccurate. Mike wasn’t the last man on Earth, although it would have been easier if it had been, and it wasn’t a knock, it was more like a pounding. He was in a room though. Hey, it’s a good opener, just go with it.
“Phil?” Mike asked. It came out as a sort of croak. It wouldn’t be Phil, he had promised. Maybe it was Death. Maybe it was the Terry Pratchett version of Death, which Mike had always hoped to be the real one. That would be pretty cool.
“Mike?” a voice called from downstairs. Whoever it was had opened the front door. Also, it was a woman. It was Erica. “Mike, it’s me.” A moment of silence. “Are you dead?”
“No,” Mike called back. It took most of his remaining strength to say that. Erica raced upstairs, taking the steps two at a time, and flung the door open.
“Christ!” she exclaimed on seeing him. “Oh, christ.”
“Sorry,” said Mike. He thought about making some joke about he wasn’t used to having that effect on a woman, but the words just didn’t come.
“Oh god, you do have it,” Erica said. She was wearing a hazmat suit; somehow Mike had missed this. “Oh god, I was hoping – I was hoping everyone was wrong. I had to come, I had to see-”
“Sorry,” said Mike again.
Erica was crying. “Oh god – you just look so terrible -”
“Thanks.”
“I gotta go.” And she ran out of the room.
“Thanks,” Mike said again. He actually meant it.
10 cloverfield lane fanfic
Man I ADORED Michelle. I hope she later gets held up as as good a sci-fi heroine as Furiosa or Rey, because she really is that good.
Here’s my take on what happened to her after the end of the movie. I have no idea what to title this: suggestions are welcome
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By the time Michelle reached Houston, she had forgotten the sound of her own voice. It had been a journey fraught with fear and danger – on more than one occasion she had buried herself deep down under the car seats and held her breath and heard her heart. Being unable to make a noise, being unable to sob or scream, had been an advantage then.
that’s what I’ll be – a danny pink fanmix
hero of war – rise against* / some nights – fun / no bravery – james blunt / love will tear us apart – joy division / demons – brian mcfadden / hold back the river – james bay / casualties of war – gossip / gimme shelter – rolling stones / love is blindness – jack white / best i can – art of dying / winterborn – the cruxshadows / anthem – leonard cohen / war – poets of the fall
*this is not a Danny song, really, but I still think of him whenever I hear it.
The First Casualty
Title: The First Casualty
Fandom: Star Wars
Characters: Rey, Kylo Ren, Luke Skywalker
Rating: PG13
Summary: The first casualty in any war is truth, as Rey is about to painfully learn.
Luke Skywalker spoke to her like a father at first. He took the lightsaber from Rey’s outstretched hand and put it carefully away, he praised her for having come so far, he expressed sorrow for all that she had seen, and he sat her down in his hovel and brought her some tea. Then he started talking to her like a fellow adult.
“Rey,” said Luke, “you have been lied to.”
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Some of my favourite musical moments in movies. (Excluding musicals, or we’d be here all day.)
The Beginning: The Force Theme (Star Wars) | Spider-Man Main Titles (Spider-Man) | Misty Mountains (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey) | Concerning Hobbits (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring) | I Hate My Life (Jupiter Ascending) | Enterprising Young Men (Star Trek)
The Call to Adventure: Flik Leaves (A Bug’s Life) | The Rocky Road To Dublin (Sherlock Holmes) | The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games) | Jurassic Park Main Theme (Jurassic Park) | Pacific Rim Main Theme (Pacific Rim) | First Flight (Big Hero 6) | Age of Ultron Main Theme (Avengers: Age of Ultron) | The Lonely Shepherd (Kill Bill Vol 1) | He’s A Pirate (Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl)
The First Fall:
The Intersection (War of the Worlds) | Amon Hen (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring) | Young Bruce Falls (Batman Begins) | Duel of the Fates (Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace) | Not in Blood, But In Bond (Sherlock Holmes) | Pruit Igoe and Prophecies (Watchmen) | Birth of Sandman (Spider-Man 3)
Considering the Journey: Sixth Stop (Spirited Away) | Hymn to the Sea (Titanic) | Uncle Ben (Spider-Man 2) | Power to Believe (Planes, Trains and Automobiles) | Padme’s Ruminations (Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith) | A Window to the Past (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban) | In the Case (Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them)
Trials and True Loves: Rose’s Theme (Titanic) | True Love’s First Kiss (Shrek) | Logan and Rogue (X-Men) | Stranded in the Desert (Holes) | Hoist the Colours (Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End) | Horn of Plenty (The Hunger Games) | Lullaby (Pan’s Labyrinth) | The Winter Soldier (Captain America: The Winter Soldier) | In the House, In a Heartbeat (28 Days Later) | The Letter That Never Came (A Series of Unfortunate Events)
Final Battles: The Hanging Tree (The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1) | Battle of the Heroes (Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith) | Wonder Woman’s Wrath (Wonder Woman) | The Steward of Gondor (The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King) | Battle of Times Square (Ghostbusters) | What Shall We Die For (Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End) | The End of All Things (The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King) | The Final Duel (Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi)
Remembrance: Now We Are Free (Gladiator) | Death of a Friend (Spider-Man 3) | They’ll Remember You (Valkyrie) | To The Stars (Dragonheart) | Dad (Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2) | Elegy for Dunkirk (Atonement)
Victory: Rain (Holes) | Let Them Up (Mad Max: Fury Road) | The Portrait is Revealed (Belle) | PM’s Love Theme (Love Actually) | Victory Celebration (Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi) | Apollo 13 End Titles (Apollo 13)
updated August 2017 to include new tracks: will most likely be updated on at least a yearly basis!
6 things I made that I’m most proud of
@taiey tagged me in this not long ago, and I assumed it was a 6 things I made this year meme so I waited a week or so to do it, and then I realised it was actually just (’just’) a 6 things I made anytime that I’m most proud of meme. Oooh. Ooooooh….
(I’ll just stick to fanfiction/fandom stuff)
1. I’m still very fond of Things They Talked About In The Playground. (Was that really almost four years ago? Jesus.) I don’t know how it happened, but god it’s important to me. Still chills me, too.
2. I kinda like my article about female Star Wars fandom, the Prequels and what it’s like to Like Boy Stuff when you’re A Girl
3. The Doctor Who Bechdel Test blog and related infographics etc wasn’t remotely all me, but I think it kinda counts. Also I love making infographics now
4. Humanity In The Abstract is a deeply personal story about life, death, love and madness, as told with the assistance of an apocalypse, a blue guy, a demon child and an anthropomorphic personification of mortality who sometimes speaks in emoji. It’s sad, and weird, and flawed, but it gives me courage sometimes.
5. The Storyteller is a Spider-Man fanfic set in the universe presented by the Raimi movies, in which everything had…sort of more realism, I thought, than the average superhero movie. This is the tale of a good, decent woman who was just on the periphery of Peter Parker’s story but deserved her own.
6. A late entry! A week ago, inspired by The Force Awakens, I wrote A Snow Song. Which is Star Wars meets A Christmas Carol, because…well, those are two works of fiction so deeply embedded into the public consciousness that they ought to meet at some point? I like the whole thing, but mostly I like it for this one line I think: “Do you think there is anything so evil or so powerful in the galaxy, Luke, that could permanently part a parent from its child?“ I love that line. It sums up Star Wars for me.