a conspiracy of cartographers

I think I have contracted some sort of disease of polyfannishness. I mean, I'm not actually complaining, but ... my usual fandom mode is total immersion. I am currently writing a ridiculously epic Highlander fic, simmering some due South, White Collar, Doctor Who, Dark is Rising, and possibly Avatar fics on the backburner, still meaning to go through that Babylon 5 rewatch because I love that show like mad, and, at the moment, tearing joyfully through Star Trek TOS. And this is leaving aside how I have to clean all the things, remember to feed myself, act like someone capable of normal human interaction with real live other people, and do the reading for my job. There is no way I can do total immersion in all the fandoms I actually want to. Maybe I could give up sleep?

I'm sure I'll figure it out. (I can stop watching TOS anytime I want to!!) In the meantime, I was seized with the sudden urge to make Post Secrets for characters, possibly because I am awful at having any fandom secrets myself. So I broke out Paint and Googleimages, and I made twelve secrets! I thought it might be fun to guess what character made any given secret; I think some of these are painfully obvious and some of them are weirdly unobvious, but I figure enough of you know how my brain works anyway.

( Behind the cut: characters from Babylon 5, Doctor Who, due South, Highlander, Star Trek, and White Collar have secrets! They are probably things you already know, but don't tell them that. Last secret is perhaps mildly NSFW. )

I haven't talked about White Collar in a while! So I think it is time for some talk of that.

( 2x04-06: In which Aria loves Mozzie, Sara, and Peter Burke's FACE. )

In other news, THERE IS A JUMPING SPIDER FROLICKING ON MY BED. IT IS HUGE AND AWFUL. I am therefore now going to escape the house, get brunch, and hope like hell that the huge jumping spider has frolicked off somewhere NOT MY ROOM by the time I return.

I have had a crazy week, full of accomplishment and CLEANING ALL THE THINGS. Details forthcoming; at the moment it is very important that I do the bullet-points version of reaction posts to the many and varied things I have seen between my bouts of doing things.

i. Inception! My non-spoilery thoughts are that it did basically everything that I expect a Christopher Nolan film to do (in both the positive ways, ie the effects, oh my heart the effects and also the Hans Zimmer score, and the negative ways, ie someone really needs to sit Mr. Nolan down and talk to him kindly about his women) -- so, because I knew what I was in for when I went in, I was free to just wildly enjoy myself. Apparently there is already a huge post of Inception resources for those of us who are fannishly inclined; I have not had time to take a look, but I am delighted with the sudden explosion of fanworks. And I don't know about the rest of you guys, but I already have a blank doc open entitled 'Ariadne in the Labyrinth,' which hopefully will soon be less blank and full of my Thoughts on Ariadne. (Spoilers: most of them are "dfkldsfjkfdfsd I LOVE HER.")

ii. Sherlock! SHERLOCK. ( Spoilers are a sociopath, not a psychopath. Get it right. )

Additionally, I've noticed that the vague suggestion that Benedict Cumberbatch (IS THAT NOT THE COOLEST NAME EVER BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH) should perhaps play the Twelfth Doctor. I ignored this suggestion because I am too busy loving Eleven to go around casting Twelve. However, someone on my flist -- I am sorry that I do not remember who you were! because your idea is fucking brilliant -- proposed that perhaps Cumberbatch should, instead, play Eleven's Master. And now I am completely weak in the knees, because I couldn't think of a single good candidate before, and I think he'd be perfect. He can do the weird young/old thing that Matt Smith does; he can do that calm, worrying sort of crazy; and he's just as odd-looking and of a comparable enough age to do a fantastic foil. If this doesn't happen now I will be a wee bit crushed.

iii. White Collar! This week's was charming without being memorable; it had a fun A-plot, but not even a fraction enough kinky subtext to get me jumping up and down and clapping like a seal, the way I often do. I'll be glad when show-time catches up with the end of Tiffani Thiessen's pregnancy, because I suspect that everything would be greatly improved by Moar Elizabeth.

Incidentally, USA filmed White Collar's panel at ComicCon. From it I have learned that Marsha Thomason (...and perhaps the whole cast, IDK) ships the OT3, that I am possibly a bit in love with Marsha Thomason and Tim DeKay, and that hopefully after episode six there should be Moar El. Also, the cast is adorable. <3

I haven't pinpointed exactly what it was about this episode, because it certainly wasn't as shippy as it's sometimes been, but goddamn, tonight's White Collar was great. ( Happyflail and spoilers follow. )

I LOVE THIS SHOW.

i. I believe that in order to be properly fannish about due South, on this day the eleventh of March we're supposed to post Sgt. Frobisher's butchering of the St. Crispin's Day speech. But I don't like butchering Shakespeare even in the name of comedy, so: happy Fraser & Kowalski sledding into the sunset day!

ii. Spring break has officially started for me! I'm not hopping a plane until Saturday, though, so I fully intend to spend my next day or so of freedom writing (finishing??) my End of Time fic. And then I can spend spring break making sure I do not have to default on my due South big bang! in between making life plans. YAY.

iii. Assuming I get everything else done in a timely manner, I am strongly considering writing White Collar fic during the bleak gap before second season. In the spirit of this, a question, namely: what do you think are the classics (as in, "Kate always did love the classics"), ie those secret messages/heist strategies/&c that are fun and trope-y? So far my list is write secret messages using lemon juice and no one's dead until you've found the body, but that is a set of bullet points, not a list. Ideas?

(If you answer this question by linking to TV Tropes, I will sic the Cthulhu in my icon at you. I'm so serious.)

There's my show! :DDD

( White Collar 1x13: made of awesome again. This post actually got quite long. )

I am made of happy, not least because there is SNOW tonight. Mostly, though, skdsjkds WHITE COLLAR. ( 1x10! Spoilers: IT JUST KEEPS GETTING MORE LIKE FIC. )

White Collar is back as of tonight! I am probably not capable of having deep articulate thoughts about it, but I love it to little bitty stylish pieces. ( Spoilers are wearing an ominous ring. & also capslock a lot. )

I said I needed to be off the grid until Friday, barring Eastwick later tonight, but, uh, WHITE COLLAR, OH MY GOD. By which I mean I am all caught up, and I was completely on board, a little more each episode, but that last one -- I may have just sat, staring at the ceiling, stunned, for a solid minute.

Non-spoilery thoughts: I am so in love with Elizabeth, and I OT3 them so hard. (Meanwhile, Kate looks like a younger and less attractive version of Elizabeth. Why? Was the makeup department feeling lazy? Is this supposed to say weird psychological things about Neal and Peter? Do I just imagine that Kate looks like Elizabeth? I have no idea!) Much more importantly, in the last, hm, two or so episodes, I kept on thinking Neal and Peter were about to kiss and having a moment of total cognitive dissonance when they didn't. That's ridiculousawesome.

Spoilery thoughts: ( fsdsf;lfsjhfsd ZOMG. )

...So yeah! I'm invested. TALK TO ME. :D