freya_morrigan

If you're keen on genderbending, art nouveau stained glass and decrepit buildings built in the 1920s, then you'll love this story. Be sure to comment if you are so inclined--Original works need love too!

Chapters one to four of 314 Crescent Manor are now up. For those who love art nouveau and creepy run down apartment complexes with parallel universe issues, this story is for you!

314 Crescent Manor--Where the rent is cheap and your neighbours are dead to the world

We verified 80 issues (and created some new ones, and sent some back to Assigned because they didn't work, so that count is actually low) in the past four or so days.

Ready to go collapse now and never look at AO3 again. You know, until tomorrow.

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So recently I've been re-watching Blood Ties, which I don't think I've done since it aired (I bought the R2 DVDs when they became available, since at the time R1 wasn't looking likely, and I'm glad I did--it's all in one set, rather than splitting the season up into two like the R1 release, but I do wish it had subtitles, or extras, or somethign--but I never really watched them besides the two episodes that IIRC never aired in the US). And yes, the effects are kinda bad and there are some pacing problems, and yes, it never belonged on Lifetime, but I'd nearly forgotten how good it was. Way better than other vampire shows of around the same time, like, say, Moonlight. And the acting's definitely significantly better than Buffy or Angel (for example, no graduates of the David Boreanaz School of Acting, which helps tremendously). Plus, Vicki's just cool. As feminist characters in vampire TV shows go, she's what Joss Whedon seems to think Buffy was.

I'm looking forward to this year's batch of Yuletide BT fics. Also for the Smoke books, which is how I got started re-watching BT, actually: re-read the Smoke books (in reverse order, which seems to be how I re-read series I like, for some reason) to help decide whether I wanted to try asking for Tony/Lee again or replace it with a new request, remembered that I'd avoided reading them initially because I hadn't liked Tony in the Blood books, wondered why I hadn't liked him, decided to re-read the Blood books for the first time. Didn't get through all of them, but I did finally finish Blood Debt, which I hadn't managed before. I think I prefer the Smoke books, actually. And I'm pretty sure I like TV!Vicki better than book!Vicki (I know I like TV!Mike more than book!Mike, because I never liked book!Mike at all). Which is why I ended up getting out the DVDs...and is more than anyone ever wanted to know.