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Welcome to Starlight Tales, an archive for my fics across the fandoms. Feel free to browse and enjoy. I hope you like what you find here. If you'd like to ask me something, check the About Me and/or Contact Me page first, to see if your questions are answered there. Enjoy your visit.

In case you're confused about my name, my name is Sarah, but due to my stupidity while signing up for a new email addy I ended up having my name shown as Star. Which I like lots. So lots of people know me as Star, but the people who knew me before I got that addy know me as Sarah, so hence Sarah aka Star. Just thought I should explain!

If you're looking for the small individual sites that used to be on this domain (Buffy, Nightmare on Elm Street), then I have to say that they're long gone. I have only retained the fanfiction. However, most of the sites have their own domains and are still up:

LostCave.net - The Lost Cave, a Lost Boys website with fanfic, screen caps, info, rumours on the (now-canned) sequel, and loads of other stuff.

Queertet.net - A Mighty Ducks site, mostly fanfic-based, but there are screen caps, music vids, and so forth.

InTheMoonlight.net - My general site, housing Screen Caps and general graphics - I'm in the process of moving things over.

Fan-List.net - My fanlisting collective.

Fanvids.co.uk - a domain I purchased to host the Buffy Music Vid Database, which here's luck and bonibaru passed on to myself and Laura (fractal_bat), which can be found at Buffy.Fanvids.co.uk

iPlaylist - an updated version
7th June 2009, 4:16pm
I've made another small script to generate a random playlist in the style of an iPod Classic - it's an update of my previous script, found here. You can see it in action on my main page or here - the second link shows it side by side against the old version.It's fairly simple and the readme file in the zip should answer any questions, if not, post them here and I'll answer.

Simply put, it's just cleaner, a bit sexier and smoother. Hope you like.

[Download | Downloads so far]

busy feeling: busy

listening to: Love Hurts by Nazereth

category: Downloads

New Look!
22nd March 2008, 6:18pm
I've done a small new update on the layout of the site. Have tested it in IE and Firefox, and it looks better than the old version did in IE... why, why, why would you use IE when Firefox is on offer? I still don't get it.

busy feeling: busy

listening to: Friends on DVD

category: Updates

Vid: [The Mighty Boosh] Holding Out for a Hero - REMASTERED
28th October 2007, 9:21pm
Vid Title: Holding Out For a Hero

Artist: Bonnie Tyler

Fandom: The Mighty Boosh

Summary: Vince/Howard, even though I started it as a general vid rather than a shippy one. The first verse is Howard's point of view, second is Vince's.

Rated: U, same as the show

File Size: 16.6 MB

Feedback: Oh, by the way, feedback does not suck, so... yeah. Leave some bitches. Uh... nice bitches. (Here's where I offend people before they get the reference).

Notes: Same vid as before, only with better quality, larger source, and a few stray frames have been removed. Two new teeny-tiny clips that are more interesting than the ones that were originally there. Preeeeety souce! Enjoy.

[Download | Downloads so far]

The YouTube link has been removed because I got a note from YouTube saying they'd had a C&D from BabyCow productions. *le sigh*

You can still download the old version here:
[Download | Downloads so far]

accomplished feeling: accomplished

listening to: Holding Out for a Hero by Bonnie Tyler

category: Music Videos

Vid: [The Mighty Ducks] November Rain - REMASTERED
8th July 2007, 6:18pm
This vid has been remastered, using higher quality clips and editing the bits that I was never particularly happy with. Things have changed a little, and it is now one vid instead of two. See below for download details.

Vid Title: November Rain

Artist: Guns N' Roses

Fandom: The Mighty Ducks

Clips from: D1, D2, D3 and Don't Cry and November Rain by Guns N' Roses

Summary: This is an AU vid, in which Casey and Bombay were married and Charlie is their son. This vid (or vids) deals with their break-up and Bombay's self-destruction that follows it, not to mention Charlie's reaction. See the Notes for more details.

File Size: See below (by the download links)

Format: Real and Windows Media

Notes: I can't exactly remember what my thought process was, but I eventually challenged myself to make a video based on Without You by Del James (bear with me on this), using only footage from The Mighty Ducks, and the Without You music videos by Guns N' Roses (for the non-rabid GN'R fans, that's Don't Cry, November Rain and Estranged).

The story of Without You is ultimately about the self-destruction of a man who appears to have everything, but still manages to screw it up. Theoretically Gordon could be that man, he's rich, he's well educated, he's loved, and he could screw it up easily and lose everything. This vid tried to explore that. I have had to use footage from Don't Cry and November Rain by Guns N' Roses because, obviously, Casey and Gordon never got married in the Ducks fandom (but did in my mind, I love that pairing), and so forth. Any questions, hop over to the forums and ask there. I'll answer in great detail, I assure you.

If the vid didn't make sense, try reading the commentary.

Feedback: Always welcome. If you liked it, tell me. If it didn't make sense, let me know, your opinion will not break me. I have never actually had any feedback on this vid, despite there being over 300 downloads. Was it really that bad?


New Version:
Watch at YouTube
[Download Real (49.7MB) | Downloads so far]
[Download Windows Media (14.1MB) | Downloads so far]


Old Version:
Vidding Commentary
[Part 1 (8.13MB) | Downloads so far, 343 at the time of publishing the remastered version]
[Part 2 (12.9MB) | Downloads so far, 279 at the time of publishing the remastered version]

accomplished feeling: accomplished

listening to: November Rain by Guns N' Roses

category: Music Videos

Pinkness!
28th May 2007, 3:15pm
I have once more given this site an overhaul. It kinda looks like a raspberry exploded here, but I like it all the same. Now I have a pretty Denise Richards banner, and the layout works with all sizes of browser from 1024x768 upwards. It probably still looks alright in 800x600, but since few people use that setting any more, I haven't knocked myself out making it work.

I've also moved all of my fanfic over to my automated archive, which cuts down on coding hassle when I fall in love with another fandom, or even write something new for a fandom I'm already a part of... it might happen.

Inevitably some people will hate the layout. Don't care. It's my site, not yours. I have learnt by experience that asking for input actually unleashes hell, you get demands from little fuckwits who believe that because they enjoy using someone's site, that the owner of the site actually owes them - and if the user hates something, the webmistress should change it. Don't care. I love pink, I love Denise Richards, am generally happy with the new look, so all is good.

Edited to Add: This site looks much better in Firefox. It's useable with Internet Explorer, but gorgeous in Firefox, so bear that in mind. Also, why on earth would anyone stick with the ugly that is IE when they could have FF at no cost?

busy feeling: busy

listening to: As I Lay Me Down by Sophie B. Hawkins

category: Updates

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