Huh

Am I the only one who didn't know that Tanya Huff's books had been turned into a series? "Blood Ties" is, of course, going to be airing Sundays at 10 which means it's in competition with BSG...not smart. However there's only one BSG episode left for this season so I can switch over to watching BT instead for a bit. Of course it is airing on Lifetime so I'm already afraid on the path. I'll give it as much of a chance as I did Dresden Files and if it has been butchered I can just chalk it up to dumb execs and let it go.

I mean I loved the books but I wasn't in love with them, you know?

Hard core pimpin', yo

Some fics you should not miss.

First from the world of Avatar: The Last Airbender-

pikabot has started posting an incredible story focusing on one of my favorite characters, the evil spirit Koh. It's called Great Spirit of the Dark and is not only a fantastic read right off the bat, but fleshes out a coherent and lush cosmology for the series:

Back and forth the argument went, and as it did the other siblings began to take sides. Tui immediately rushed to La's aid, as she always did. Ilza fell in with Gan, perhaps less out of agreement with Gan than out of disagreement with Tui. Basha, who found land far too restrictive, agreed with La, while Ashin supported Gan, fearing for the fate of his own area of dominion, should the world be covered in water.

Tysha, whose domain was being co-opted as figureheads by both sides of the argument, declared the whole issue silly and said she wanted nothing to do with it.

Wan Shi Tong said nothing, and recorded everything.

And there are two drabbles from moonlightnrain on today's rec's that shouldn't be missed-

Sokka Adrift (Sokka missing Yue)
and
Bitterness
(Uncle Iroh tries to teach his nephew an important lesson via his favorite medium, tea)

Switching over to XFiles fandom I highly, highly recommend the following stories-

PARABIOSIS
by Penumbra

He stole a look at her as she pressed open her book and touched a passage with her finger. Lately there was a little curl at the tips of her hair that was driving him quietly mad. After their time apart her Hibernian features pierced him anew. And among her many glints of sagacity, she could now read Ancient Navajo.

and Contact High (a follow up to the episode "Field Trip"

Scully tries to pinpoint the biggest thrill of her life. A veteran of great dry spells of sexual somnambulism, she is periodically plunged into a vortex of erotic preoccupation by seemingly random strangers. Ed. Padgett. But, ultimately, it is Mulder who has cornered the market on stroking her libido to a jagged edge, who prompts cardiac gyrations, breathlessness, and impromptu daydreams; and it is Mulder who holds the record for the longest starring run in her late-night fantasy theater, playing a secret agent man
with all the right moves. Typecasting, she suspects.


And a story that reached out and grabbed me from the start was Things that Lie Outside by jetfic (a follow up to the episode "Paper Hearts")-

Went down into the pine, into the thick and green. Sharp needled and sandy, swollen with mud and moss,slicked with ice, sweating under beams of sun fallen like swords. Went down the warped stairs, over the smoothed skipping stones, rock with devil horns and a
rise of razor teeth, streams that rushed, late, late, over the incline. Went down into the wiry feathers, the nests of brush and thorn, the pockets of rancid rats, acorn, eggs, crisp hollow cicada. Weeds threaded through, worms came with small mouths, leaves floated and warped and froze.

Huh

I could've sworn I'd heard that Emma wasn't signing on for the last two HP flicks, but apparently I am on the good crack. Straight from WB:

BURBANK, CA, March 23, 2007 – Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson will reprise the roles they have made their own: teen wizards Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, respectively, in Warner Bros. Pictures’ “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” and “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” the final two motion picture adaptations of J.K. Rowling’s best-selling book series. The announcement was made today by Jeff Robinov, President of Production, Warner Bros. Pictures.
[...]
Both “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” and “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” are being produced by David Heyman, who has produced all of the Harry Potter films to date and was instrumental in bringing the franchise to the screen, beginning with the first blockbuster, “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.” David Barron, who served as an executive producer on “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” and “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” and is a producer on the upcoming “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,” will also be producing the final two installments of the franchise.
[...]
Warner Bros. Pictures’ fifth film in the series, “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,” is slated for release in the U.S. on July 13, 2007.

"This is Cake Town!"

Holy god this is funny, "The 300, for Kids":

300 For Kids