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I've reached the waiting-for-feedback stage of my work, which means: there be fan art. If the drawing goes reasonably well, I may have page 8 of the Angel/Fray comic out soon. Though I haven't even started with it and so far have only the vaguest idea for a page layout.
***Question to my British f-listers... is "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" (MSNBC) showing anywhere on BSkyB? The only NBC channel I seem to get is CNBC, but maybe the show is syndicated on one of the British news channels as well?
***I don't know what to make of 'Torchwood' yet... the show confuses me. I'm oddly fascinated by it; lovely cinematography, ditto for the soundtrack. The dialog is way on the theatralic side which bugs me because I can't discern any irony in the delivery. But mostly I just wish our heroes were not quite so... incompetent.

Episode three was excellent though, so mostly I watch it in the hope of seeing more of that.
***by way of

yhlee, seen a couple days ago: Officials: Students can use 'text speak' on tests... O RLY?
***A very handy 'Guide to Writing Fanfiction':
Part One of Two: Character, Part Two of Two: Mechanics
Part two is particularly interesting imho; I wish this was at least recommended reading over at fanfiction.net.
Though, hey, you might've noticed I'm not calling it 'The Pit of Voles' any more. ;) Actually these past months I've found some darned good fic over there. Just, sometimes the commaphobia and head-hopping in a lot of the stories is driving me batty.
***Speaking of darned good fic, Servare Vitas is nearing a close; with the final chapter posted today, all that's missing is the epilogue. (

makd, I'll make sure to let you know soon as it's complete). What story will then eat my brain?
***Speaking of fic some more, I recently browsed through the Better Buffy Fiction Archive and noticed that a lot of the outside links don't work any longer - entropy at work. Some maintenance is in order. If you notice any defunct links, please drop me a note? If you happen to know of a new, working link, even better. I'm going to add a note on the main page as well, asking readers to complain about broken links. I won't work on updating the archive any longer myself but I want the collection we have to stay running and up-to-date.

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I have followed Torchwood from the start. But I am not sure that I am going download the next episodes. Like you, I find them baffling incompetent, but at least is the incompotent level low in all the episodes, so you could say, that in that part do they at least keep a consistent canon.

I think I will limit myself to Battlestar Galactica, which is nicely dark with many interesting and flawed characters(incompotent does not seems to be one of the flaws). And Heroes which I find I light and engaging, with a fast moving serial story.

but at least is the incompotent level low in all the episodes, so you could say, that in that part do they at least keep a consistent canon.

*smirk* Good point.

That show has potential, but if this was fic would say those writers are in need of a merciless beta.

Thank you! ::hugs::

ITA - lots of broken links EVERYWHERE, Astrid. I went back to earlier fic recs to recapture lost bookmarks, and learned, to my chagrin, that about 1/3 of them are gone.... Websites removed, fic gone, gone, gone. Such a loss to the fandom.

Just a reminder, I'm expecting you to do some ex post facto beta un terms of a typo hunt on those earlier no-bet chapters :)

Absolutely. I'm already rolling up my sleeves and donning my typo-spotting goggles. :)

When do you wanna do it, soon as the epilogue is posted?

One-frikking-third? Ugh, that doesn't fill me with optimism regarding our archive. Fortunately only about a hundred stories are outside links - I knew why I practically begged authors to let us archive onsite. But there's still all the contact info with authors' sites and emails...