Selenay's Ramblings

The Fandom Newsletter Index has been updated with 3 shiny new newsletters for Sarah Jane Smith (Doctor Who), Harry Potter and Stargate Atlantis. Take a look if you're interested in any of those fandoms.

And for SJS fans, don't forget to set up your videos for the Sarah Jane Adventures tomorrow afternoon. Curse the BBC for not going a grown-up friendly repeat on Sunday tea-times :-( Still, it should be fun!

ETA: Make that 4 new newsletters - spotted a Transformers newsletter when browsing through referrers to my site!

I've had these sitting around for a few weeks now, so I apologise. However, tonight I have got off my butt and several new reviews have gone live on Haven Reviews:

Doctor Who: 6
House: 1
Torchwood, Vorkosigan Universe (cross-over): 1

As always, feel free to pimp and cross-post this announcement to anywhere that you think would be interested. I'm also always eager to get reviews from guest reviewers, particularly those who frequent fandoms that I haven't invaded found yet.

The Fandom Newsletter Index has been updated with a newsletter for the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic fandom.

Feel free to pimp this information wherever you think it would do some good :-) As always, if you have a newsletter that you'd like to add, either leave me a comment or pop over to my site and drop me an email - I'm always more than pleased to hear about more newsletters. It's turning into rather a comprehensive list!

Inspired by my previous post, I have dug out a Chalet School newsletter and added it to the Newsletter Index.

As always, if you have a newsletter that you'd like added to the Index (and I know that the Index is now fairly widely-read and linked to, making it a great place to advertise) please drop me a line though comments or emails and feel free to pass the link around to wherever you think would appreciate it.

It's been far too long since I updated The Haven, but I've finally got around to adding the two newsletters I've been sent to the Newsletter Index. This time, we have a Criminal Minds newsletter and a letter dedicated to the women of Stargate Atlantis.

As always, if anyone has spotted newsletters I haven't found or wants to list a shiny new newsletter, comment here or drop me an email using my feedback form and it will get added. Feel free to circulate the post and the link where ever you think may appreciate it.

And out of curiosity - anyone know of an L-Word newsletter?

That's right, I've finished my first fic for ten months and it's a short Teyla/Weir thing. Not connected to any series I've been writing and written to push myself out of the writer's block I've been having on fanfic.

Title: A Very Athosian Courtship
Rating: PG
Pairing: Teyla/Weir
Summary: "I thought you might be uncertain about my preferences and you did not wish to offend me," Teyla said. "I'm not offended."

A Very Athosian Courtship

The Newsletter Index has a new weekly Sports Night site listed for fans of the show.

Haven Reviews has also been updated with 11 new reviews:

Doctor Who 3
Torchwood 3
Doctor Who, Torchwood (cross-over) 1
Firefly, Discworld (cross-over) 1
Malory Towers, Chalet School (cross-over) 1
Stargate, Stargate Atlantis (cross-over) 1
The Avengers 1

Quite a mixed bag, I think you'll agree!

This update takes Haven Reviews over the 400 fics reviewed mark for the first time. If I could work out how to use glittery text, this post would be very sparkly. Instead I just need to give a big woo! to all the reviewers who have contributed and the users who visit the site and read fics there - the site would be entirely pointless without you all.

The fix to make sure that Haven Reviews will work in all versions of Firefox (and Opera, IE6 etc.) has now been put in place. Sorry again for not spotting this little problem.

If anyone experiences any problems over the next couple of days, please let me know (page location would be useful) so that I can check it out. I've tried to bug test it as thoroughly as possible, but it's impossible to predict what users might do to produce unexpected results!

While I was doing this fix, I also added a couple of tweaks. The main one was to discourage bots from spamming the review form and it doesn't seem to have caused any problems that I can spot.

The other one was a little addition for registered reviewers: when you click for a list of all your previous reviews it will now tell you if each review has been validated. If it has then you can read the review. If it hasn't then, instead of the blank review you used to get, you can now email me to query the review - useful if I haven't had time to validate things for a couple of weeks and you want to know when your review is going up. Hopefully that will be a useful little tweak :-)

I am now working on the update to the Newsletter Index. Busy day!

I know that there are a few Sentinel fans on my flist, so you may be interested to know that I now have a weekly Sentinel newsletter listed in the Newsletter Index.

Feel free to pass on the link anywhere that might be interested. I have absolutely no idea how many newsletters the index now contains :-) Must count them at some stage...

I can promise that there will be at least 9 Doctor Who and Torchwood fanfic reviews going up on the site next week, just in time for people to do a bit of reading over the holidays. That will take the archive close to the 400 reviews mark and also put Doctor Who very close to the magic 25 reviews that will get the fandom its own section on the front page.

The Newsletter Index has been updated with five newsletters. Possibly of most significance to many on my f-list is the fact that there is now an active (updated every day) newsletter for the Torchwood fandom!

As always, feel free to pimp this around anywhere that might find it interesting and if anyone knows of newsletters that I haven't included, drop me a line with the LJ user name and I'll get it added.