Flogging a dead horse?

Well, I've got over the point at which I was stalled in "It's Got to be Perfect", and I'm writing again, but I'm only half-way through the chapter so the next update won't be until tomorrow at the very earliest.

So, for now, I'll carry on with my probably doomed mission to persuade people to read my Roxyverse fics set in an AU BtVS Season 7 in which there are more than two Slayers.

In the Roxyverse Faith temporarily flatlined in her coma, activating Kat in Cleveland. Later, a failed suicide atttempt by Kat activated Roxanne "Roxy" Quinn in Whitby, England. The stories mainly follow Roxy and the oddball "Roxettes", her equivalent of the Scoobies. They visit Sunnydale at one stage, and a few of the Roxyverse stories are centred on the original Scooby Gang.

During the course of the stories the Roxettes discover that the Slayer line fractured in 1988, when Sally Phantom was killed - but it didn't stick. I'm posting as a teaser a little ficlet about Sally and the deadly secret she hides. Be warned; this is disturbing stuff. I'm sometimes accused of being too much of a fluff writer, and there are some fluff stories in the Roxyverse, but this is not fluffy at all. Be afraid. Be very afraid.


( Mirror in the Bathroom )

Flogging a dead horse?

Well, I've got over the point at which I was stalled in "It's Got to be Perfect", and I'm writing again, but I'm only half-way through the chapter so the next update won't be until tomorrow at the very earliest.

So, for now, I'll carry on with my probably doomed mission to persuade people to read my Roxyverse fics set in an AU BtVS Season 7 in which there are more than two Slayers.

In the Roxyverse Faith temporarily flatlined in her coma, activating Kat in Cleveland. Later, a failed suicide atttempt by Kat activated Roxanne "Roxy" Quinn in Whitby, England. The stories mainly follow Roxy and the oddball "Roxettes", her equivalent of the Scoobies. They visit Sunnydale at one stage, and a few of the Roxyverse stories are centred on the original Scooby Gang.

During the course of the stories the Roxettes discover that the Slayer line fractured in 1988, when Sally Phantom was killed - but it didn't stick. I'm posting as a teaser a little ficlet about Sally and the deadly secret she hides. Be warned; this is disturbing stuff. I'm sometimes accused of being too much of a fluff writer, and there are some fluff stories in the Roxyverse, but this is not fluffy at all. Be afraid. Be very afraid.


( Mirror in the Bathroom )

Okay, I'm a day late, but ...

So yesterday was the day to post a movie you like but which not a lot of people will have seen. But I already had my posting topic for yesterday, so I hung back until today.

"King Boxer" (1971), retitled "5 Fingers of Death" when released in the USA in 1973. Lo Lieh (almost entirely devoid of charisma) stars as a young Kung Fu fighter who is learning the feared Iron Fist Technique. His teacher's rival sets out to destroy his school, cripples the Lo Lieh character to halt his progress, and imports Japanese mercenaries to wipe out all opposition.

The synopsis sounds crap, but it's magic. What really makes it is a secondary character, the street-fighter Chen Lung (played by Gam Hei Chu), whose hairstyle and charisma are both riveting. His rivalry with the hero, his employment by the villain, and his final redemption in the film's secondary plot arc, is what turns a run-of-the-mill Kung Fu film into a classic.

Well, that and the fact that it was the first Hong Kong Kung Fu film to be released in the West, and it created the market for Bruce Lee.

Okay, I'm a day late, but ...

So yesterday was the day to post a movie you like but which not a lot of people will have seen. But I already had my posting topic for yesterday, so I hung back until today.

"King Boxer" (1971), retitled "5 Fingers of Death" when released in the USA in 1973. Lo Lieh (almost entirely devoid of charisma) stars as a young Kung Fu fighter who is learning the feared Iron Fist Technique. His teacher's rival sets out to destroy his school, cripples the Lo Lieh character to halt his progress, and imports Japanese mercenaries to wipe out all opposition.

The synopsis sounds crap, but it's magic. What really makes it is a secondary character, the street-fighter Chen Lung (played by Gam Hei Chu), whose hairstyle and charisma are both riveting. His rivalry with the hero, his employment by the villain, and his final redemption in the film's secondary plot arc, is what turns a run-of-the-mill Kung Fu film into a classic.

Well, that and the fact that it was the first Hong Kong Kung Fu film to be released in the West, and it created the market for Bruce Lee.