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On Saturday I will officially be a quarter of a century old. How did that happen? I'm not okay with this.
My parents and the little brother will be coming up to see me for my birthday, so that's nice. We're planning to do a day trip to Busch Gardens since none of them have had a chance to hit the park this summer and I have comp tickets for them. Hopefully I'll be able to divorce my brain from "this is where I work" and have fun. Hit up some rides, wooo. It'll be good to spend time with my family.
Quick fandom updates:
- This week's Alphas was AMAZING. Eventually I might get sick of gushing about this show but right now I'm riding the new-fandom buzz. I want Bill and Gary to be awkward and terrible partners for ALWAYS. I'm less enthused about the Nina/Cameron hookup, but it has potential to not be mind-numbingly dull.
I want Alphas icons. :(
- I finally got hold of the new Dresden Files and am 18 chapters in. And seriously WHAT ON EARTH. Everything's gone to hell and I feel like Harry, floundering around trying to figure out what's going on. MOLLY, WHAT THE HELL? most of all. Although ( small spoiler ). Anyway, there's still a good chunk of book left so maybe things will start ... making sense. Or not. I don't know!
- I am now 14 episodes into The Pretender! And getting more and more addicted. Jarod is strangely lovable. I do feel like the writers don't actually know what's going on with the Center and Jarod's past, but whatever, I was an X-Files fan and a Lost fan; I can cope with writers making up mythology as they go along.
- My Swamp Thing reading is still ongoing, by the way. I'm buried in Vol. 2. I am now being slowed down largely by the fact that I am increasingly creeped out by the whole Alec/Abby romance. I realize this makes no sense as I happily shipped Matt/Abby which is creepy as hell, but arrrgh. I think it's made worse by the fact that none of the writers seem to realize how creepy it is that they're writing Abby as increasingly dependent on and even (literally?) addicted to Alec. And the hallucinogenic aspect of the relationship doesn't help. Although I kind of lol'd over the fact that in Abby's fantasy of a perfect future with Alec, Matt showed up all healthy and happy and "I signed the divorce papers! You clearly belong with him, not me! Let's be BFF! :D" Oh, Abby. Go seek therapy.
Oh, hey, other real life news: I will be moving to a proper apartment in the middle of September, for the rest of the duration of my job contract. YAY for no longer living in a cheap hotel room. *counts down days*
My parents and the little brother will be coming up to see me for my birthday, so that's nice. We're planning to do a day trip to Busch Gardens since none of them have had a chance to hit the park this summer and I have comp tickets for them. Hopefully I'll be able to divorce my brain from "this is where I work" and have fun. Hit up some rides, wooo. It'll be good to spend time with my family.
Quick fandom updates:
- This week's Alphas was AMAZING. Eventually I might get sick of gushing about this show but right now I'm riding the new-fandom buzz. I want Bill and Gary to be awkward and terrible partners for ALWAYS. I'm less enthused about the Nina/Cameron hookup, but it has potential to not be mind-numbingly dull.
I want Alphas icons. :(
- I finally got hold of the new Dresden Files and am 18 chapters in. And seriously WHAT ON EARTH. Everything's gone to hell and I feel like Harry, floundering around trying to figure out what's going on. MOLLY, WHAT THE HELL? most of all. Although ( small spoiler ). Anyway, there's still a good chunk of book left so maybe things will start ... making sense. Or not. I don't know!
- I am now 14 episodes into The Pretender! And getting more and more addicted. Jarod is strangely lovable. I do feel like the writers don't actually know what's going on with the Center and Jarod's past, but whatever, I was an X-Files fan and a Lost fan; I can cope with writers making up mythology as they go along.
- My Swamp Thing reading is still ongoing, by the way. I'm buried in Vol. 2. I am now being slowed down largely by the fact that I am increasingly creeped out by the whole Alec/Abby romance. I realize this makes no sense as I happily shipped Matt/Abby which is creepy as hell, but arrrgh. I think it's made worse by the fact that none of the writers seem to realize how creepy it is that they're writing Abby as increasingly dependent on and even (literally?) addicted to Alec. And the hallucinogenic aspect of the relationship doesn't help. Although I kind of lol'd over the fact that in Abby's fantasy of a perfect future with Alec, Matt showed up all healthy and happy and "I signed the divorce papers! You clearly belong with him, not me! Let's be BFF! :D" Oh, Abby. Go seek therapy.
Oh, hey, other real life news: I will be moving to a proper apartment in the middle of September, for the rest of the duration of my job contract. YAY for no longer living in a cheap hotel room. *counts down days*
May. 14th, 2011 04:50 pm
I just wanted to say... hello.
( Doctor Who 6x04 The Doctor's Wife )
THEY ARE WRITING IT FOR ME!
...I want icons. AND FIC. AND EVERYTHING ELSE EVERRRR.
I'm going to go watch it again.
THEY ARE WRITING IT FOR ME!
...I want icons. AND FIC. AND EVERYTHING ELSE EVERRRR.
I'm going to go watch it again.
So my The Swamp Thing read has finally brought Matt and Abby back into the storyline. Cheers! They're starting to get properly dysfunctional, too. And I still ship them. I don't know why that is.
I kind of want to read fic about everything that happened to Matt and Abby in between them disappearing from the storyline in volume 1 and reappearing in volume 2. Sadly, no one writes Swamp Thing comicverse fic. (I don't know if they write fic for other incarnations of Swamp Thing, but much searching has turned up no comicverse stuff.)
The endless recapping and footnoting is still driving me crazy, though.
13. From the musical you loved from hearing the first note.
"I'm Not That Guy", Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. ...basically I started listening to this show and immediately went "OMFG how have I lived so long without you and Benjamin Walker's sexypants, show?"
And then not all that long after that, I read the closing announcement. Because Broadway hates me and everything I love.
( the full list )
I kind of want to read fic about everything that happened to Matt and Abby in between them disappearing from the storyline in volume 1 and reappearing in volume 2. Sadly, no one writes Swamp Thing comicverse fic. (I don't know if they write fic for other incarnations of Swamp Thing, but much searching has turned up no comicverse stuff.)
The endless recapping and footnoting is still driving me crazy, though.
13. From the musical you loved from hearing the first note.
"I'm Not That Guy", Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. ...basically I started listening to this show and immediately went "OMFG how have I lived so long without you and Benjamin Walker's sexypants, show?"
And then not all that long after that, I read the closing announcement. Because Broadway hates me and everything I love.
( the full list )
Mar. 26th, 2011 10:58 pm
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I have been working my way very slowly through The Swamp Thing, and I do mean slowly; I'm only up to issue 14 now. It's just really difficult for me to motivate myself through it. I've been informed that the plot picks up in Vol. 2 when Moore takes over, but my completist streak will not let me skip ahead.
I am enjoying following Matt's character arc so far, though. And weirdly finding myself shipping Matt/Abby even though I already know exactly how badly that's going to turn out.
I am enjoying following Matt's character arc so far, though. And weirdly finding myself shipping Matt/Abby even though I already know exactly how badly that's going to turn out.
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Eventually I will post something that is not a meme.
That day is not today.
( lengthy countdown meme goin' around )
That day is not today.
( lengthy countdown meme goin' around )
You know, LJ, this whole extremely-delayed-notifs thing is a pain in the ass. Fix it, pls and thank you.
30 Days Of TV:
Day 28 ♥ First TV show obsession
The X-Files.
There were other shows, before The X-Files, that I enjoyed, that I made a point of watching, whatever. Ghostwriter, for example, probably has a decent claim to being my first TV obsession. But if we're being honest here, it's The X-Files. This started in...middle school? Probably? and continued until the last season, at which point I quit watching because it was so far away from the show I loved.
TXF was the first to get me seriously into online fandom and fic and everything else that goes with it. The XF RPT remains one of my favorite memories of fandom. This is the point at which I picked up my username, a username that has persisted to this day despite occasional thoughts that I should change it to something less specific-fandom related; I always wind up concluding that I've just got too much history invested in this name to change it.
Mulder and Scully were my heroes back in the day, yo. And I desperately wanted to be one of The Lone Gunmen.
( the rest )
30 Days Of Who:
Day 21 ♥ Your Doctor Who OTP
Strictly speaking, I don't have a Who OTP. There is no couple I love together enough not to ship them with other people as well.
That said, the closest I have to a Who OTP has to be Barbara/Ian.
(Because, you see, with Barbara and Ian I can totally ship them with other people, but at the end of the day I have to believe that they wind up together.Possibly in an open relationship, but together.)
Also, if you need proof that they were totes ~doing it~, just watch "The Romans". For serious.
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30 Days Of TV:
Day 28 ♥ First TV show obsession
The X-Files.
There were other shows, before The X-Files, that I enjoyed, that I made a point of watching, whatever. Ghostwriter, for example, probably has a decent claim to being my first TV obsession. But if we're being honest here, it's The X-Files. This started in...middle school? Probably? and continued until the last season, at which point I quit watching because it was so far away from the show I loved.
TXF was the first to get me seriously into online fandom and fic and everything else that goes with it. The XF RPT remains one of my favorite memories of fandom. This is the point at which I picked up my username, a username that has persisted to this day despite occasional thoughts that I should change it to something less specific-fandom related; I always wind up concluding that I've just got too much history invested in this name to change it.
Mulder and Scully were my heroes back in the day, yo. And I desperately wanted to be one of The Lone Gunmen.
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30 Days Of Who:
Day 21 ♥ Your Doctor Who OTP
Strictly speaking, I don't have a Who OTP. There is no couple I love together enough not to ship them with other people as well.
That said, the closest I have to a Who OTP has to be Barbara/Ian.
(Because, you see, with Barbara and Ian I can totally ship them with other people, but at the end of the day I have to believe that they wind up together.
Also, if you need proof that they were totes ~doing it~, just watch "The Romans". For serious.
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Feb. 22nd, 2010 03:47 pm
a lost shipspam
Because my LJ can't contain 24/7 emo, okay?
In which I gush about my favorite canon LOST ships. With pictures!
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Share your shippy thoughts!
In which I gush about my favorite canon LOST ships. With pictures!
( image heavy )
Share your shippy thoughts!
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Nov. 30th, 2009 06:02 pm
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There's still the Doctor. From what little I understand of him, Time doesn't hold him. He's beyond its reach. The Doctor will always be there. And Peri. I'll always have Peri.
...okay, I ship them. A LOT.
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That meme that's going around:
In a nutshell: I list 15 of my pairings and you all tell me if you see reoccurring trends/similarities/parallels/cliches in any of them.
1. Charlie/Claire - LOST
2. Harper/Beka - Andromeda
3. Ian/Barbara - Doctor Who
4. Kyle/Tess - Roswell
5. Jack/Tosh - Torchwood
6. Jimmy/Joanie - The Black Donnellys
7. Rembrandt/Wade - Sliders
8. Jack/Joseph - Kings
9. Olive/Alfredo - Pushing Daisies
10. Tobias/Rachel - Animorphs
11. Carlos/Molly - The Dresden Files
12. Kit/Dairine - Young Wizards
13. Spot/Racetrack - Newsies
14. Walter/Molokov - Chess
15. Roger/Collins - RENT
It's ridiculously hard to narrow down my pairings to fifteen, let me tell you.
Spent the last two days with my Niki. ♥ I LOVE YOU NIKI I MISS YOU ALREADY. We need to live closer to one another. Or she needs to come get me more often. Whichever.
Problems with Sally continue. In negotiations with Genesis to get her fixed. Cannot survive without my laptop, guys, but don't want problems to continue and/or get worse.
In a nutshell: I list 15 of my pairings and you all tell me if you see reoccurring trends/similarities/parallels/cliches in any of them.
1. Charlie/Claire - LOST
2. Harper/Beka - Andromeda
3. Ian/Barbara - Doctor Who
4. Kyle/Tess - Roswell
5. Jack/Tosh - Torchwood
6. Jimmy/Joanie - The Black Donnellys
7. Rembrandt/Wade - Sliders
8. Jack/Joseph - Kings
9. Olive/Alfredo - Pushing Daisies
10. Tobias/Rachel - Animorphs
11. Carlos/Molly - The Dresden Files
12. Kit/Dairine - Young Wizards
13. Spot/Racetrack - Newsies
14. Walter/Molokov - Chess
15. Roger/Collins - RENT
It's ridiculously hard to narrow down my pairings to fifteen, let me tell you.
Spent the last two days with my Niki. ♥ I LOVE YOU NIKI I MISS YOU ALREADY. We need to live closer to one another. Or she needs to come get me more often. Whichever.
Problems with Sally continue. In negotiations with Genesis to get her fixed. Cannot survive without my laptop, guys, but don't want problems to continue and/or get worse.
May. 18th, 2009 05:29 pm
those who don't try never look foolish
Today is my daddy's birthday. Er...yes.
In slightly less irrelevant news, AND DOWN THE HATCH WE GO
AKA THE LOST CRACK!/RARE!SHIP FIC MEME is AWESOME PERSONIFIED. LOST is a show that should have way more crack!shipping and rare!shipping than it does.
I'm trying to write a Michael/Shannon AU ficlet for it. I don't know if it'll work out, but we'll see.
In slightly less irrelevant news, AND DOWN THE HATCH WE GO
AKA THE LOST CRACK!/RARE!SHIP FIC MEME is AWESOME PERSONIFIED. LOST is a show that should have way more crack!shipping and rare!shipping than it does.
I'm trying to write a Michael/Shannon AU ficlet for it. I don't know if it'll work out, but we'll see.
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Jan. 23rd, 2009 05:40 pm
he could be that boy...i'm not that girl
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melengro:
Pick up to 12 OTPs.
Describe them in less than 12 words.
Have your flist guess the OTP.
...er. For a given value of OTP meaning "pairing I really like" and not "pairing I can't bear to see with anyone else". Although there's a couple of those in there, too.
1.Addiction and abandonment wrapped up in an adorable love of peanut butter. [Okay, this one's kind of obvious.] Charlie/Claire, LOST, guessed by rommies_voice and invisiblecake
2.From classrooms to battlefields, they still have each other. Barbara/Ian, Doctor Who, guessed by morgeil
3.A love that rivals Odysseus' in scope and determination. Desmond/Penny, LOST, guessed by turquiosetumult
4. Turn-of-the-century snark, and they're so pretty.
5.Best friends, boss and employee, and sarcastic blond soul mates. Harper/Beka, Andromeda, guessed by daluci
6. She's the first and only person to love him. [paraphrased from source material]
7. He takes her for granted, but she loves the way he plays.
8. A shared love of comic books could turn into something else.
9.They both love the one who doesn't see them that way. Olive/Alfredo, Pushing Daisies, guessed by turquoisetumult and morgeil
10. A too-short but passionate weekend of music and love and identity.
11. Mutual self-destruction and drug abuse gives way to something more.
12.Saving the world in a van. In Paris. Mickey/Jake, Doctor Who, guessed by rommies_voice
melengro:Pick up to 12 OTPs.
Describe them in less than 12 words.
Have your flist guess the OTP.
...er. For a given value of OTP meaning "pairing I really like" and not "pairing I can't bear to see with anyone else". Although there's a couple of those in there, too.
1.
rommies_voice and invisiblecake2.
morgeil3.
turquiosetumult4. Turn-of-the-century snark, and they're so pretty.
5.
daluci6. She's the first and only person to love him. [paraphrased from source material]
7. He takes her for granted, but she loves the way he plays.
8. A shared love of comic books could turn into something else.
9.
turquoisetumult and morgeil10. A too-short but passionate weekend of music and love and identity.
11. Mutual self-destruction and drug abuse gives way to something more.
12.
rommies_voice
Jan. 23rd, 2009 05:40 pm
he could be that boy...i'm not that girl
From melengro:
Pick up to 12 OTPs.
Describe them in less than 12 words.
Have your flist guess the OTP.
...er. For a given value of OTP meaning "pairing I really like" and not "pairing I can't bear to see with anyone else". Although there's a couple of those in there, too.
1.Addiction and abandonment wrapped up in an adorable love of peanut butter. [Okay, this one's kind of obvious.] Charlie/Claire, LOST, guessed by rommies_voice and invisiblecake
2.From classrooms to battlefields, they still have each other. Barbara/Ian, Doctor Who, guessed by morgeil
3.A love that rivals Odysseus' in scope and determination. Desmond/Penny, LOST, guessed by turquiosetumult
4. Turn-of-the-century snark, and they're so pretty.
5.Best friends, boss and employee, and sarcastic blond soul mates. Harper/Beka, Andromeda, guessed by daluci
6. She's the first and only person to love him. [paraphrased from source material]
7. He takes her for granted, but she loves the way he plays.
8. A shared love of comic books could turn into something else.
9.They both love the one who doesn't see them that way. Olive/Alfredo, Pushing Daisies, guessed by turquoisetumult and morgeil
10. A too-short but passionate weekend of music and love and identity.
11. Mutual self-destruction and drug abuse gives way to something more.
12.Saving the world in a van. In Paris. Mickey/Jake, Doctor Who, guessed by rommies_voice
melengro:Pick up to 12 OTPs.
Describe them in less than 12 words.
Have your flist guess the OTP.
...er. For a given value of OTP meaning "pairing I really like" and not "pairing I can't bear to see with anyone else". Although there's a couple of those in there, too.
1.
rommies_voice and invisiblecake2.
morgeil3.
turquiosetumult4. Turn-of-the-century snark, and they're so pretty.
5.
daluci6. She's the first and only person to love him. [paraphrased from source material]
7. He takes her for granted, but she loves the way he plays.
8. A shared love of comic books could turn into something else.
9.
turquoisetumult and morgeil10. A too-short but passionate weekend of music and love and identity.
11. Mutual self-destruction and drug abuse gives way to something more.
12.
rommies_voiceI need an SJA icon or three. Why are they so hard for me to find??
( SPOILERZ for Sarah Jane Adventures 2x01 and 2x02 The Last Sontaran, minor upcoming-stuff spoilerz )
To sum up: geeky!awesome!Clyde, lessawkward!stillfab!Luke, Sarah Jane being wonderful, OMGMARIAAAAAA. Awesome episode, looking forward to the rest of the season!!
( SPOILERZ for Sarah Jane Adventures 2x01 and 2x02 The Last Sontaran, minor upcoming-stuff spoilerz )
To sum up: geeky!awesome!Clyde, lessawkward!stillfab!Luke, Sarah Jane being wonderful, OMGMARIAAAAAA. Awesome episode, looking forward to the rest of the season!!
I need an SJA icon or three. Why are they so hard for me to find??
( SPOILERZ for Sarah Jane Adventures 2x01 and 2x02 The Last Sontaran, minor upcoming-stuff spoilerz )
To sum up: geeky!awesome!Clyde, lessawkward!stillfab!Luke, Sarah Jane being wonderful, OMGMARIAAAAAA. Awesome episode, looking forward to the rest of the season!!
( SPOILERZ for Sarah Jane Adventures 2x01 and 2x02 The Last Sontaran, minor upcoming-stuff spoilerz )
To sum up: geeky!awesome!Clyde, lessawkward!stillfab!Luke, Sarah Jane being wonderful, OMGMARIAAAAAA. Awesome episode, looking forward to the rest of the season!!
( spoilers for Lost 4x05 The Constant )
ZOMGILOVETHISSHOW*bawls*
In somewhat related news, watching the rerun of last week's episode has reminded me of my season-one desire that Kate's crime would turn out to be ecoterrorism. Clearly that didn't pan out, but wouldn't it have been awesome?
ZOMGILOVETHISSHOW*bawls*
In somewhat related news, watching the rerun of last week's episode has reminded me of my season-one desire that Kate's crime would turn out to be ecoterrorism. Clearly that didn't pan out, but wouldn't it have been awesome?
( spoilers for Lost 4x05 The Constant )
ZOMGILOVETHISSHOW*bawls*
In somewhat related news, watching the rerun of last week's episode has reminded me of my season-one desire that Kate's crime would turn out to be ecoterrorism. Clearly that didn't pan out, but wouldn't it have been awesome?
ZOMGILOVETHISSHOW*bawls*
In somewhat related news, watching the rerun of last week's episode has reminded me of my season-one desire that Kate's crime would turn out to be ecoterrorism. Clearly that didn't pan out, but wouldn't it have been awesome?
