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[chicafrom3]

A list of unrelated awesome things:

♦ Being Human has been picked up for a fourth series! I don't know what's going to happen but I am so excited I can't even you guys. I can't even. Also, curse you Peter Jackson and your casting decisions. CURSE YOU.

♦ I have a new mouse! This is probably not exciting to other people, but my old mouse was driving me crazy; it would double-click when I wanted to single-click, or sometimes it wouldn't single-click at all, and I gave up successfully drag-and-dropping some time ago because it just wouldn't. But my new mouse does all that on the first try and it's so nice to have a working mouse again! Also it is wireless. I've never had a wireless mouse before. It's nifty.

♦ Today's mail brought me a shipment of two Sandman volumes (specifically, A Game Of You and Fables And Reflections). OMG YAY. My dead-tree Sandman collection is coming along nicely. ;) Amazon gift cards were the best invention ever.

♦ Speaking of Sandman (I know, I said it was a list of unrelated things), BUT ANYWAY, Sandman crossovers started eating my brain awhile ago, and in my various quests to actually write one of them I have stumbled upon a Sandman/Andromeda crossover that actually seems to be working. OMG YAY. I miss finishing fic. ...of course, now that I've said that, I won't be able to finish it. Or I'll finish it and discover it sucks and vow never to let anyone else see it. But right now I'm quite liking it.

♦ Animorphs: The Radio Drama (Uncensored!) has gotten their site back up (and redesigned!) and added a couple old shows. Old to them, new to me, I mean. ILU, ARDU guys! You make me smile. :D

♦ Miss nikiness has returned to LiveJournal fandom! Admittedly it's Supernatural fandom which I am not in, but I'm just bouncy and glad that she's returning to LJ at all. YAY. :D

♦ I'm looking in to renting a local hotel room for a night. If I can manage it, that would be ~24 hours I could have totally to myself and omg it would be so welcome. The problem is finances, as the problem so frequently is, but I'm hopeful that I'll be able to manage it.

♦ Kagerou, which everyone should be reading if they are not already, has just started a new plot arc that looks like it's going to be, frankly, AMAZING. And game-changing. And awesome.

♦ I switched the e-mail associated with this account to my GMail address, so now I'm getting my LJ notifs again. I hate not getting notifications in a timely manner.

What little, probably-insignificant-to-most-everyone-else stuff going on in your life do you think is awesome? SHARE THE AWESOME.

Comments

[revyrie.livejournal.com]

Oooh!! A hotel! Good idea for solitude!

I have the awesomeness of an open door right now. I got to sit outside and read for a few minutes before getting chilled. Yay spring and fresh air!

[chicafrom3.livejournal.com]

It would be the perfect solution!

That is awesome! Yay fresh air! :D

[nikiness.livejournal.com]

hmmm, what is this being human? my usual fandoms (aside from spn) are dead as a doornail right now & for the foreseeable future.

[chicafrom3.livejournal.com]

Being Human is amazing. The UK version. Not the US one.

The basic concept was originally something like "A vampire, a ghost, and a werewolf share a flat in Bristol. Hilarity ensues." And then it very quickly gets very dark. Season three, the season that just ended, broke my heart into about a million pieces.

Reasons you should watch:
- All the ANGST. With capital letters and everything.
- Mitchell, the hot Irish vampire. With lots of angst. And a persecution complex.
- The series mythology basically treats vampirism as a drug addiction, and does really really interesting things with that.
- Fascinating explorations of what it means to be human and what it means to be a monster and what it means to not be sure what you are.
- Annie, the ghost, who is fantastically lovely and screwed up and broken and brave.
- A hugely complicated and interesting mythology built around what death is and what death means.
- In the third season: ZOMBIES.
- George, the neurotic Jewish werewolf, who is tougher than he thinks he is and has a lot of crises of faith and identity and at one point faces down a lot of very angry vampires with a chair.
- The werewolf transformations are terrifying.
- ANGST.

Watch it!

But not the US remake. I watched three episodes of that and then pretty much forgot it existed. :| It's just not very good, whereas the original is AMAZING. With capital letters. And lots of emphasis.

♥

[nikiness.livejournal.com]

can i pick that up on tvwhore?

[chicafrom3.livejournal.com]

The first two seasons, at least. (Note: the pilot is optional and of debatable canonicity. I like it, but I wouldn't call it required viewing for the series.)

It looks like they've only got the first episode of the third season up there, but it's a start, at least?