And the winner is...

[fajrdrako]

Doctor Who won the National Television Awards again.

I'm not sure how signicant this is - I'm a little suspicious of popularist awards in general, becuase the stuff I like usually doesn't win. Looks as if this is an exception.

And doesn't everyone look nice in the picture?

Comments

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

there are a lot of 'friendship' stories in this world, they aren't hard to find, while good slash is hard to find.

The reverse these days, I'd say, especially in fanfic (and I'm taking about straight fic, here, too): people's imaginations seem to be hyper-sexualised. Nothing is allowed to be innocent.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I don't read or write gen fic or het fic - no, wait, I can't say that, two of my most recent stories have been her - ! But (ahem) it hasn't traditionally been my thing; I tend to turn to fanfic for the sex and romance that is generally left out of television and movies.

With published books the field is a little wider but all romance (as far as I can see) is written to rigid formula and most gay novels aren't to my taste at all - either geared to men, or too sentimental, or badly written, or pretentiously artsy - I find fanfic often much more expressive and creative. But then, I like the slash genre to start with.

This is said with perfect awareness that there is a lot of really, really bad fanfic out there, which I do my best to avoid.

The good news is that there's some very good writing, too.

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

I'm more interested in fic for back-story, giving depth to underwritten characters, and alternate plotlines to save characters I like.

There's usually more than enough sex and romance in most mainstream fiction/ or film these days!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

See? It's all in the perspective.

I like fic as back-story, too, and would like to see more of it.

(Somewhere my mind is speculating about writing a fic on how Jack hired Owen... or Tosh... or any of them. But we know so little about the initial set-up of Jack's Torchwood.)

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

Somewhere my mind is speculating about writing a fic on how Jack hired Owen... or Tosh... or any of them. But we know so little about the initial set-up of Jack's Torchwood.

We may find out more later in the series, I suspect!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Probably. I hope so.