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I got finished and posted just in the nick of time - now the next challenge is up and I'm trying to sort out the related post for the

ffw_social I'm the sole Mod there at the moment because sage has had to drop out for the time being. Need to go on a co-mod hunt, but I'm managing alone so far.

I have literally hundreds of books I want to read. I do like trilogies, but I'm tending to get bored if they go on too long these days. I'm still inching my way through Vol. 3 of His dark Materials, which swear I've been on for at least 2 years and I'm not a third of the way through yet. I breezed through the first two, but I seem to be bogged down with this one and I've read a bunch of other books in between, going back to it every so often to read a bit more before I want a change again. I think fanfic has spoiled me. So much bite-sized fic and endless variety, I've lost the drive to read long, involved stories. Too busy writing to read much anyway.

Seems some screenwriters are constantly thumbing their noses at fans, going 'I'm giving you what I think you need to see, not what you want to see, because I know better than you." Well, they don't. So we rewrite it ourselves to make it the way we want and just ignore their narrow-minded ideas. We have better imaginations anyway!

Here's a link to reel_torchwood - there are links to the various 'screenings' (rounds) in the sidebar which should lead you to the wide variety of fics that have been written. I haven't read them all yet, but I've loved the ones I have read!

http://reel-torchwood.livejournal.com/

There, that'll give you something to browse when you have time!