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Albertus Magnus, thirteenth century occultist - mystic, alchemist, philosopher - who wrote a Book of Secrets about the magical properties of stones, herbs, and beasts...

One wonders about the degree of relationship with a certain Helen Magnus...

At the least it could be said that Gregory and Helen came by it honestly! :)

Finally! An episode that didn't make me want to stab something!

( in which it's all about the girls, with a dose of Nikola's stupendous ego )

So, final run for Sanctuary S3: Normandy, which I've heard is good; Carentan, which I think people thought was good; and the final two episodes, which most people seem to really like, but the spoilers I've read indicate I'm going to be 'meh' about: Helen&Will episodes don't hit my buttons at all.

That'll be Friday's viewing while quilting. Today is the Sydney Craft And Quilt Show fair.

( ...for FBI agents, they're pretty stupid. I'm just sayin'... )

And then we have Sanctuary 3.14 ( spoiler )

So, I got a remix story and it is awesome! Let there be joy!

Making a Sanctuary a Home (Finding Home remix): a remix of my story of the same name, only from Kate's POV and with lots of wonderful interaction with Team Sanctuary!

I think I know who the writer was, too. And I generally suck at guessing authors.

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A few recs while browsing this morning:

Court Etiquette
Justice League, Hippolyta, Flash, Alfred, Batman, Wonderwoman, Batman/Wonder Woman.
Funny and serious and a little angsty by turns, a great little piece for the humour and characterisation, with a nice little 'turning the tables' moment at the end.

Ripples In A Pond (The More Things Change Remix)
Stargate Atlantis, Teyla, John, Ronon, Rodney, team.
This is basically "d'awww!" fic. Squishy and team-y and adorable then and now.

Eight Takes on Cameron Mitchell, Air Force Officer in Exile
SG1, Cameron, John, Sam, Daniel, assorted original characters.
Set in the Continuum AU, assorted people's thoughts on Cam Mitchell and his developing relationship with John.

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For Remix this year, I did one Assignment, one Pinch-hit, and one Madness. I have half of a second Madness...only to follow it to its logical conclusion is going to get messy.

Oh, waitaminnit! *lightbulb goes on*

Now the question: can I do it before the Madness deadline?

It's sort of interesting working through Fringe and seeing how it's a more standard telling of the 'man walks into the Underworld' storyline - also Sanctuary's premise.

Fringe is more standard than Sanctuary, because the focus is the everyman character - Olivia - while Sanctuary is focused on the mentor-of-the-everyman - Helen. It's less standard than the usual telling of the 'man walks into the Underworld' storyline because the person walking into the Underworld of Fringe is actually a woman.

Anyway, this ramble was brought to you by a post on DW: newredshoes' explanation of why you should watch Fringe.

I agree with all of it and direct you there if you've ever considered watching Fringe and wondered why you should.

I have worked out how to play .avis on my new TV!

So now I may 'watch' episodes while quilting. And this afternoon, I finished sewing all the blocks for my postage stamp quilt and watched 'Trail Of Blood', 'Animus', and 'Breach'.

( So, Tesla's growing on me )

Let's see what we can do with this.

( well, this should be interesting )

I'm a little worried that "Margaret Thatcher" is misspelled, though.

In which Kate has the Magical Healing Powerz Of DisContinuity, Helen bluffs twice, and Will is whumped...again.

( oh, and some guy played by Michael Shanks turns up... )

Anyway, too much telling, not enough showing.

My big beef this month is people telling me what happens rather than showing me what happens. I'm tired of it. DO NOT WANT.

Intriguing.

( so, um, what just happened? )

*sigh* Kate-centric fic will be forthcoming. At the least, there'll be some for halfamoon. At the least.

( I think I mis-named the previous Sanctuary review post - Eulogy was 2.03, wasn't it? )

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In other news, I've just created sanctuary_news - a daily/weekly newsletter for Sanctuary which will hopefully be going live as of the 1st January, 2011.

I'm just sayin'...

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And tomorrow I'm going shopping for DVD sets! (Once I find my Christmas money stash.)

Things To Buy:
- A:TLA series, book 1
- Blood Ties Season 1 (I watched the promo after reading the shorts in Blood Bank for a YT fic and being reminded of just how much I love the Henry-Vicki-Mike triangle in the novel.)

...and I just realised I don't even have to buy S2 Sanctuary because the stepfather has it! Woohoo!