...And now I'm sad again that they're canceling Eastwick. ( 1x09: kind of fabulous, actually. )
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When I said I wasn't bringing any TV on vacation with me, I lied.
I think s3 may in fact be far and away my favourite. How much I love something is directly proportional to how much I write about it, and this is the first season that I need to stick behind a cut.
( SGA s3, or: the one with TEAM!! episodes and Jeannie Miller and awesome Wraith and near-ascensions and gkds I can't even. )
I think s3 may in fact be far and away my favourite. How much I love something is directly proportional to how much I write about it, and this is the first season that I need to stick behind a cut.
( SGA s3, or: the one with TEAM!! episodes and Jeannie Miller and awesome Wraith and near-ascensions and gkds I can't even. )
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Well, after the joy of the last two episodes I was expecting Eastwick to get it wrong somehow. But still. ( 1x08: I am not breaking up with the show, but I am breaking up with Joanna. )
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S2 feels to me like that's when SGA hit its stride, although that might be my brief fandom flirtation circa 2006 talking. Or alternately I just have a huge crush on Ronon. I also had plenty of respect for David Hewlett's acting the first time through, but after watching Jamie Ray Newman on Eastwick for a couple of months, Duet kind of blows me away. 80% of that episode consisted of me going, "Look, Rodney's doing another Kat mannerism!" Crazy.
Like unto due South (wherein I have an OTP but also an OT3), I have found, SGA gives me an OTP but also an OT4. (The only permutation that I can't figure out: Ronon/Rodney. And to a lesser extent Rodney/Teyla. But I have three more seasons to work out the logistics.) Basically I can't stop shipping Ronon/Teyla and John/everyone?
Relatedly, though, I'm enjoying SGA in much the same way that I enjoy due South, and I can't figure out quite why. Where in the Venn diagram of Stuff I Like From Shows do they overlap? With both genre and general tone I got nothing. I'd say maybe it's the fandom overlap but there has to be a reason for the fandom overlap in the first place. While I half-suspect that the answer is "Pretty boys to slash!" or even specifically "An intelligent snippy Canadian with spotty social skills and an American with funny hair and emotional issues and a gun, who frequently save each other, to slash!" which is ... pretty damn specific, actually, it still seems like an easy and shallow answer? Maybe it's just that they're both fun, in the way that you know you're not watching for the plot, you're watching for the character interactions, and unless you're compulsive about your TV like I am, you might as well just read a fandom primer and then all the fabulous fic instead of bothering with the show at all. Maybe that's it.
Or maybe we just enjoy watching characters we love almost die in wildly bizarre ways. :D?
Like unto due South (wherein I have an OTP but also an OT3), I have found, SGA gives me an OTP but also an OT4. (The only permutation that I can't figure out: Ronon/Rodney. And to a lesser extent Rodney/Teyla. But I have three more seasons to work out the logistics.) Basically I can't stop shipping Ronon/Teyla and John/everyone?
Relatedly, though, I'm enjoying SGA in much the same way that I enjoy due South, and I can't figure out quite why. Where in the Venn diagram of Stuff I Like From Shows do they overlap? With both genre and general tone I got nothing. I'd say maybe it's the fandom overlap but there has to be a reason for the fandom overlap in the first place. While I half-suspect that the answer is "Pretty boys to slash!" or even specifically "An intelligent snippy Canadian with spotty social skills and an American with funny hair and emotional issues and a gun, who frequently save each other, to slash!" which is ... pretty damn specific, actually, it still seems like an easy and shallow answer? Maybe it's just that they're both fun, in the way that you know you're not watching for the plot, you're watching for the character interactions, and unless you're compulsive about your TV like I am, you might as well just read a fandom primer and then all the fabulous fic instead of bothering with the show at all. Maybe that's it.
Or maybe we just enjoy watching characters we love almost die in wildly bizarre ways. :D?
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Today I have done all my work (except for the art that is due tomorrow morning; way to go, self), revisited some source material for my Yuletide fic, and ... uh, watched first season SGA. Not all of it, not by a long shot (more Genii, fewer Iratus bugs!) but ... I did finish all of the ones that I wanted to watch, possibly so that when I'm done with my art homework I can, um, watch Duet, specifically for Jamie Ray Newman. I will take my Canadian Actor Bingo where I can find it, okay! In the meantime, a few random notes about first season:
+ KOLYAAAAAAAA. That is all.
+ Despite being all about the Sheppard/McKay, partly by most-fleshed-out-characters process of elimination and partly because they gradually get the whole Partners thing that I am very easy for, I ... really don't ship them first season, probably in large part because they have Elizabeth and/or Teyla as buffers in most scenes. Dr. Gall the redshirt scientist from The Defiant One, however, does ship them. A lot. "You've changed, Dr. McKay! Now go out there and ~rescue the Major~." Ahaha. <3
+ I really am embarrassingly fond of Sanctuary. Is it because Rodney's jealousy reads weirdly like he's jealous of Chaya? Is it because I, like John, am weirdly easy for Ancients? Is it the metacommentary on Kirk? Is it that Chaya's "sharing" is the best thing since sliced bread? Probably all of the above! I bet I am completely alone here.
+ Letters from Pegasus breaks my heart about ten different ways. Rodney's awkward ramblings and Weir's list of the dead were awful enough the first time, but knowing what happens to everyone is just -- augh.
In conclusion: I am really enjoying myself! I am also increasingly terrified that I will cave and look for fic, which -- that way madness lies. Exams & fic exchanges (&, let's be honest, probably the current ds_flashfiction challenge, because I'm incapable of not doing those) first; then unhealthy amounts of SGA fannishness.
+ KOLYAAAAAAAA. That is all.
+ Despite being all about the Sheppard/McKay, partly by most-fleshed-out-characters process of elimination and partly because they gradually get the whole Partners thing that I am very easy for, I ... really don't ship them first season, probably in large part because they have Elizabeth and/or Teyla as buffers in most scenes. Dr. Gall the redshirt scientist from The Defiant One, however, does ship them. A lot. "You've changed, Dr. McKay! Now go out there and ~rescue the Major~." Ahaha. <3
+ I really am embarrassingly fond of Sanctuary. Is it because Rodney's jealousy reads weirdly like he's jealous of Chaya? Is it because I, like John, am weirdly easy for Ancients? Is it the metacommentary on Kirk? Is it that Chaya's "sharing" is the best thing since sliced bread? Probably all of the above! I bet I am completely alone here.
+ Letters from Pegasus breaks my heart about ten different ways. Rodney's awkward ramblings and Weir's list of the dead were awful enough the first time, but knowing what happens to everyone is just -- augh.
In conclusion: I am really enjoying myself! I am also increasingly terrified that I will cave and look for fic, which -- that way madness lies. Exams & fic exchanges (&, let's be honest, probably the current ds_flashfiction challenge, because I'm incapable of not doing those) first; then unhealthy amounts of SGA fannishness.
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Jfc I totally just watched the Stargate Atlantis pilot and it was a HUGE MISTAKE because I am full of due South levels of happyglow.
Really, though. John Sheppard is my boyfriend! I friendship him and Teyla so hard, and I leadership him and Weir more than I thought I would, and I am preemptively brokenhearted about both Weir and Ford, augh. (But then there is Ronon! Am I planning to skip like half of s1 in order to get to Ronon faster & have lots of TEAM? Why yes probably!) I am almost helpless to not watch the second episode right now because that's the one with the personal shield and John throwing Rodney off balconies and things! John's speshul speshul Ancient gene and the way the city wants to date him make me so happy. Wraith and their wacky organic hiveships make me so happy. (I want Wraith hiveships and Cylon basestars to hang out.) In conclusion I am screwed, not least because I was (am!) resolutely not taking any TV with me over Thanksgiving break.
I really am completely incoherent about this. When it is a more reasonable hour I'm sure my priorities will be saner and not include things like "Make a list of all the episodes that are not actually skippable." Even when it is a more reasonable hour, though, I'm pretty sure my priorities will still include "Write lots of Sheppard/Kowalski puddlejumper sex," but I think that's okay.
Really, though. John Sheppard is my boyfriend! I friendship him and Teyla so hard, and I leadership him and Weir more than I thought I would, and I am preemptively brokenhearted about both Weir and Ford, augh. (But then there is Ronon! Am I planning to skip like half of s1 in order to get to Ronon faster & have lots of TEAM? Why yes probably!) I am almost helpless to not watch the second episode right now because that's the one with the personal shield and John throwing Rodney off balconies and things! John's speshul speshul Ancient gene and the way the city wants to date him make me so happy. Wraith and their wacky organic hiveships make me so happy. (I want Wraith hiveships and Cylon basestars to hang out.) In conclusion I am screwed, not least because I was (am!) resolutely not taking any TV with me over Thanksgiving break.
I really am completely incoherent about this. When it is a more reasonable hour I'm sure my priorities will be saner and not include things like "Make a list of all the episodes that are not actually skippable." Even when it is a more reasonable hour, though, I'm pretty sure my priorities will still include "Write lots of Sheppard/Kowalski puddlejumper sex," but I think that's okay.
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i. I saw New Moon yesterday! I even paid money for it, sigh. And I enjoyed the hell out of it, not least because much like Twilight it could not decide whether it wanted to be a slow-moving indy movie full of strumming guitar soundtrack and mostly concerned about an awkward quiet girl's relationship with her quiet father and awkward friends, or if it wanted to be an action-packed fast-paced supernatural thriller with lots of CGI. Unfortunately somewhere in those things lurked Meyer's awful plot and creepy subtext about how if a boy is afraid that he's going to hurt a girl, the girl should forgive him out of love and because he'd never mean to hurt her. On the other hand, they also got in the fantastic (unintentional by Meyer, I am sure) subtext of "Are you sure you can't just ...?" "Not be a werewolf? It's not a lifestyle choice! I was born like this!" A++ would like Eclipse to laugh at now.
ii. Children In Need featured the first three minutes of the Doctor Who Christmas Special, although I imagine that most everyone who's interested has probably watched it repeatedly already. ( Spoiler cut is excited for Christmas! ) The desire to write Doctor/Master fic right now is overwhelming. But I have three gift-fic exchanges I really need to do first.
iii. This is probably interesting to ... me ... but I finally got my hands on Paul Gross's Call of the Wild commentary, and even though I have already heard most of these stories (like the one about TURNBULL & CHEESE) it was still vastly entertaining and, let's be honest, I'd listen to Paul Gross read the phonebook. ( Commentary on the commentary! )
ii. Children In Need featured the first three minutes of the Doctor Who Christmas Special, although I imagine that most everyone who's interested has probably watched it repeatedly already. ( Spoiler cut is excited for Christmas! ) The desire to write Doctor/Master fic right now is overwhelming. But I have three gift-fic exchanges I really need to do first.
iii. This is probably interesting to ... me ... but I finally got my hands on Paul Gross's Call of the Wild commentary, and even though I have already heard most of these stories (like the one about TURNBULL & CHEESE) it was still vastly entertaining and, let's be honest, I'd listen to Paul Gross read the phonebook. ( Commentary on the commentary! )
I decided it was worth skipping through all the self-congratulatory bits and the parts where they talk about robots and monsters and explosions in order to find discussion of the last fifteen minutes in Doctor Who Confidential. ( Spoilery talk from RTD and Tennant under the cut, partly for my own fic-writing reference but also with speculation about the finale. )
It also occurs to me that I have so much I want to write that eventually my head is going to explode. This will not do, so I decided that instead of writing the billion WIPs I had, I would mash them all together into a tiny ficlet, RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW.
It also occurs to me that I have so much I want to write that eventually my head is going to explode. This will not do, so I decided that instead of writing the billion WIPs I had, I would mash them all together into a tiny ficlet, RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW.
One day the Doctor took the TARDIS to Eastwick, where he had tea with Darryl. Darryl persuaded the Doctor that it was perfectly justifiable and right to use his Time Lord powers absolutely, whereupon the Master turned up and Darryl watched in satisfaction while the Doctor and the Master proceeded to take over the universe. Of course at the last moment Fraser turned up and used his powers of Goodness and Reason to get the Doctor to see the light, thereby saving the universe. Meanwhile Ray Kowalski thought the entire thing was ridiculous, so he joined the Stargate program and had lots of puddlejumper sex with John Sheppard.
The end.
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oliviacirce: I AM BASICALLY CONVINCED THAT DOCTOR/MASTER IS CANON, ARIAaria: I ROUTINELY FORGET THAT THEY ARE NOTaria: I mean, not to the extent that I am expecting angry onscreen makeouts anytime everaria: butaria: -- of course you know what other fic would be fun?aria: fic where the master turns up and sees that the doctor is losing it and finds this pretty much the biggest turn-on everaria: because he does have this thing where he routinely asks the doctor to rule the universe with himoliviacirce: I WOULD READ THAT TOOaria: I WOULD WRITE THAToliviacirce: DO ITaria: WHAT IF I SPEND MY WEEK WRITING THATaria: AND CRAZY FRASERoliviacirce: ahahahaholiviacirce: if you do I will write you doctor/masterAnd so begins my slow descent into madness. By which I mean, the prospect of writing crazy Ten is so much less intimidating than the prospect of writing crazy Fraser. And by which I also mean, ahh, no, I have a million WIPs already and I feel kind of weird about going back to my old boyfriend Doctor Who fandom.
I will sleep on it! And probably wake up with a plot fully formed, because that is my way.
Could my life be any more fantastic. Okay. Apparently we have bats in the house (again) and for the past week I've had a bug the size of Kafka living in my window screen, preventing me from opening the window when it routinely gets stifling inside, but right now these things are laughably ridiculous.
Meanwhile I am a fucking ninja and ahead in all of my work, and in addition to that I found the time yesterday to start uploading allll my fic to the Archive. (Done so far: all the BSG, Doctor Who, and due South. Except not the DW season projects because I want to mess with the formatting & I haven't actually figured out how to post works with multiple chapters, although only because I haven't tried yet.) The sheer wealth of tags to choose from is making me gibber a little, and I think I'm going to be returning to retag things for ages; right now I just kind of adore it, though, because there is a GHOSTS tag. GHOSTS!
Really, though, I am seriously giddy because DOCTOR WHO. I won't have time to watch it until sometime tonight, but that's okay: yesterday I was thoroughly unenthused about it, but I have been reading every spoiler on my flist and it looks as though this episode is [a] your usual rubbishy hamfisted self-congratulatory stuff that Who is wont to do and [b] EVERY KINK BUTTON I HAVE REGARDING TEN. I have not felt this it will be awful/I will loooove it!! feeling since, like ... Last of the Time Lords. I am probably overexciting myself, but -- but my old fandom has called me up for a night of wild passion! I think I kind of missed it.
Meanwhile I am a fucking ninja and ahead in all of my work, and in addition to that I found the time yesterday to start uploading allll my fic to the Archive. (Done so far: all the BSG, Doctor Who, and due South. Except not the DW season projects because I want to mess with the formatting & I haven't actually figured out how to post works with multiple chapters, although only because I haven't tried yet.) The sheer wealth of tags to choose from is making me gibber a little, and I think I'm going to be returning to retag things for ages; right now I just kind of adore it, though, because there is a GHOSTS tag. GHOSTS!
Really, though, I am seriously giddy because DOCTOR WHO. I won't have time to watch it until sometime tonight, but that's okay: yesterday I was thoroughly unenthused about it, but I have been reading every spoiler on my flist and it looks as though this episode is [a] your usual rubbishy hamfisted self-congratulatory stuff that Who is wont to do and [b] EVERY KINK BUTTON I HAVE REGARDING TEN. I have not felt this it will be awful/I will loooove it!! feeling since, like ... Last of the Time Lords. I am probably overexciting myself, but -- but my old fandom has called me up for a night of wild passion! I think I kind of missed it.
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You know, when I woke up this morning (...yesterday morning?) I was not intending to write fic. When I arrived home after dinner I was not planning to write fic. When I went out to see a play, I was not planning to write fic. But I got home from the play, I wrote fic.
A State of Being (In Five Steps, With Flowchart): Ray always did things backwards with Fraser. Out of order, upside-down, hanging off rooftops, putting the sled before the Dief, all that good stuff. Ray Kowalski's guide to romantic relationships. Yeah, I made a flowchart.
A State of Being (In Five Steps, With Flowchart): Ray always did things backwards with Fraser. Out of order, upside-down, hanging off rooftops, putting the sled before the Dief, all that good stuff. Ray Kowalski's guide to romantic relationships. Yeah, I made a flowchart.
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Although by some miracle I have trained myself out of reaching November and going into full-on procrastination mode, it is still November and this means that I am being mostly responsible but still flirting with the idea of procrastination.
In the spirit of this, I should be using my hour-before-bed free time to, say, work on fic or perhaps catch up on Merlin and SJA and maybe Flashpoint. Instead I find myself rereading all the due South fic I have bookmarked, listening to a lot more Barenaked Ladies than is perhaps healthy, and steadily losing my internal battle to not rewatch Stargate Atlantis. This is how it goes in my head:
PROS
+ He's an emotionally inarticulate guy with a failed marriage, funny hair, and mad skills with a gun! He's a snippy Canadian scientist with a genius IQ and very few people skills! Together, they fight Wraith!!
+ RONON. Enough said.
+ The first time I watched it, it was literally one of the first TV shows I'd sat down to watch in a remotely fannish way, and although I certainly enjoyed it I was mostly watching it as Something To Do With Friends and it didn't particularly speak to me. Now I think of it and the idea of writing John Sheppard makes me go weak in the knees, okay.
+ I can probably find all the good fic and meta in about 0.5 seconds: go after the old due South stuff and work forwards!
CONS
+ I can probably find all the good fic and meta in about 0.5 seconds. My life would disappear!
+ It's not -- uh, it's really not that good? Obviously I would be in it for the fandom, and I am starting to get spoiled and like shows where I can just watch the show without getting a headache. (First Michael plotline, end of s2: I WANT TO BEAT EVERYONE WITH CLUEBATS. For example.)
+ Did I mention that the idea of writing John Sheppard makes me go weak in the knees? I think the only real question here is, how many fic projects do I need? (I understand that this may be only my own personal con.)
The fact that I am even mentioning any of this means I am tipping dangerously close to just caving and doing a (possibly selective, Best Of, Watch Rodney Do Awesome Things) rewatch, and I am about 80% sure that this is a thinly veiled ploy to get someone to talk me into it. On the other hand, this should probably be a project for the new year.
On the mutant third hand I really desperately want to write improbable Fraser/Ray/John/Rodney fic, but shhh.
In the spirit of this, I should be using my hour-before-bed free time to, say, work on fic or perhaps catch up on Merlin and SJA and maybe Flashpoint. Instead I find myself rereading all the due South fic I have bookmarked, listening to a lot more Barenaked Ladies than is perhaps healthy, and steadily losing my internal battle to not rewatch Stargate Atlantis. This is how it goes in my head:
PROS
+ He's an emotionally inarticulate guy with a failed marriage, funny hair, and mad skills with a gun! He's a snippy Canadian scientist with a genius IQ and very few people skills! Together, they fight Wraith!!
+ RONON. Enough said.
+ The first time I watched it, it was literally one of the first TV shows I'd sat down to watch in a remotely fannish way, and although I certainly enjoyed it I was mostly watching it as Something To Do With Friends and it didn't particularly speak to me. Now I think of it and the idea of writing John Sheppard makes me go weak in the knees, okay.
+ I can probably find all the good fic and meta in about 0.5 seconds: go after the old due South stuff and work forwards!
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+ I can probably find all the good fic and meta in about 0.5 seconds. My life would disappear!
+ It's not -- uh, it's really not that good? Obviously I would be in it for the fandom, and I am starting to get spoiled and like shows where I can just watch the show without getting a headache. (First Michael plotline, end of s2: I WANT TO BEAT EVERYONE WITH CLUEBATS. For example.)
+ Did I mention that the idea of writing John Sheppard makes me go weak in the knees? I think the only real question here is, how many fic projects do I need? (I understand that this may be only my own personal con.)
The fact that I am even mentioning any of this means I am tipping dangerously close to just caving and doing a (possibly selective, Best Of, Watch Rodney Do Awesome Things) rewatch, and I am about 80% sure that this is a thinly veiled ploy to get someone to talk me into it. On the other hand, this should probably be a project for the new year.
On the mutant third hand I really desperately want to write improbable Fraser/Ray/John/Rodney fic, but shhh.
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( Re: Eastwick being canceled; cut for space. )
Anyway, this is all by way of long-windedly saying that I am annoyed, and of late I channel my annoyance via being fannish specifically about due South. (I know, this is shocking.) One thing this means is that if I ever end up writing that dS/Eastwick crossover I keep mulling over, it'll still have Fraser and Darryl quoting Paradise Lost at each other or something hilarious and awesome like that, but it'll probably end up being about, say, Stella & Frannie & Meg.
The other thing this means is that I spend a hell of a lot of time going on about how much I love Fraser and Rays, and having this niggling feeling that the women on due South are problematic for reasons that are tangled and messy and thus keep on not being explored at this juncture. Maybe some day I will, but in the meantime I don't actually want to deconstruct, because I don't think that will help the annoyance; instead, I want to take a short break from Fraser and Rays, and talk about how even if the women on due South are problematic, they are also often awesome.
( Francesca Vecchio, Elaine Besbriss, Mackenzie King, Stephanie Cabot, Suzanne Chapin, Victoria Metcalf, Irene Zuko, Meg Thatcher, Stella Kowalski, Denny Scarpa, & Maggie Mackenzie, or: a non-comprehensive picspam & commentary on the awesome women in due South. )
Anyway, this is all by way of long-windedly saying that I am annoyed, and of late I channel my annoyance via being fannish specifically about due South. (I know, this is shocking.) One thing this means is that if I ever end up writing that dS/Eastwick crossover I keep mulling over, it'll still have Fraser and Darryl quoting Paradise Lost at each other or something hilarious and awesome like that, but it'll probably end up being about, say, Stella & Frannie & Meg.
The other thing this means is that I spend a hell of a lot of time going on about how much I love Fraser and Rays, and having this niggling feeling that the women on due South are problematic for reasons that are tangled and messy and thus keep on not being explored at this juncture. Maybe some day I will, but in the meantime I don't actually want to deconstruct, because I don't think that will help the annoyance; instead, I want to take a short break from Fraser and Rays, and talk about how even if the women on due South are problematic, they are also often awesome.
( Francesca Vecchio, Elaine Besbriss, Mackenzie King, Stephanie Cabot, Suzanne Chapin, Victoria Metcalf, Irene Zuko, Meg Thatcher, Stella Kowalski, Denny Scarpa, & Maggie Mackenzie, or: a non-comprehensive picspam & commentary on the awesome women in due South. )
+ I am signed up for Yuletide! I offered ten fandoms, and apparently both previous years I have only offered five. Either I am gaining fannish confidence or it's just that all of Canadian fandom is kind of obscure. (I am guessing the latter.) I see a few people have already put up their letters, but it is still perfectly kosher to wait until assignments go out, right?
- I am breaking up with Flash Forward. And no, it's not because CKR was only there for five minutes and also evil blah blah I am very tired of that, although it didn't help. It's more how they've had sexuality fail and racefail now, and when I discover that Eastwick is a lot better for my blood pressure than any other show airing on a US tv channel right now, I think it's time to step away from the television.
+/- Bits of my flist are starting to talk about Bitching Party. I am full of so much yearning jealousy! I am hesitant to tell myself "there is always next year" because, while I won't be in school, I'll still be halfway across the country and hopefully gainfully employed. But that's what requesting time off ahead of time is for, right? Ahhh entering the stage of my life where I can conceivably be fannish in a mobile way! Anyway. There's always next year. And I am going to WisCon, so that's all right.
+ SO MUCH TO WRITE. Those of you who have foolishly volunteered to look at the F/K/V AU? I'm probably going to stop dithering and send the first part out tonight. Whee writing.
- I am breaking up with Flash Forward. And no, it's not because CKR was only there for five minutes and also evil blah blah I am very tired of that, although it didn't help. It's more how they've had sexuality fail and racefail now, and when I discover that Eastwick is a lot better for my blood pressure than any other show airing on a US tv channel right now, I think it's time to step away from the television.
+/- Bits of my flist are starting to talk about Bitching Party. I am full of so much yearning jealousy! I am hesitant to tell myself "there is always next year" because, while I won't be in school, I'll still be halfway across the country and hopefully gainfully employed. But that's what requesting time off ahead of time is for, right? Ahhh entering the stage of my life where I can conceivably be fannish in a mobile way! Anyway. There's always next year. And I am going to WisCon, so that's all right.
+ SO MUCH TO WRITE. Those of you who have foolishly volunteered to look at the F/K/V AU? I'm probably going to stop dithering and send the first part out tonight. Whee writing.
+ Yuletide signups are open! I am probably not going to sit down and properly sign up until this weekend, because there are so many delicious shiny fandoms to choose from and I want to do a thorough job. (And not actually think about how I'll be signed up for this, and due South Seekrit Santa, and Eyai Yuletide.)
+ A Wizard of Mars has a release date & awesome cover art! I think I have already resigned myself to never actually writing the Adventures of Dairine & the Tenth Doctor, so I am content to be delighted with a definite release date. Perhaps I will reread my Young Wizards books over winter break?
+ Things I did not expect when I started watching Eastwick: that Joanna would kind of end up being my little black dress. ( Eastwick 1x07; I may be losing my ability to actually be critical of this show, because I really unironically like it. ) The preview for next episode makes me nervous, but the previews for tomorrow's Flash Forward are distracting me from worrying. PG and CKR are legit almost on my screen at the same time, guys! This is funnier than it should be. Perhaps Paul can finally join the I'm Evil And Then Die Club?
Yeah, I should sleep.
+ A Wizard of Mars has a release date & awesome cover art! I think I have already resigned myself to never actually writing the Adventures of Dairine & the Tenth Doctor, so I am content to be delighted with a definite release date. Perhaps I will reread my Young Wizards books over winter break?
+ Things I did not expect when I started watching Eastwick: that Joanna would kind of end up being my little black dress. ( Eastwick 1x07; I may be losing my ability to actually be critical of this show, because I really unironically like it. ) The preview for next episode makes me nervous, but the previews for tomorrow's Flash Forward are distracting me from worrying. PG and CKR are legit almost on my screen at the same time, guys! This is funnier than it should be. Perhaps Paul can finally join the I'm Evil And Then Die Club?
Yeah, I should sleep.
Today in art class we were drawing faces from a model. She was redheaded and quite pretty, and I spent the first hour and the first drawing going quietly nuts because there was something odd in my picture. Then she moved to her second pose, which put her in profile to me, and perhaps five minutes into that drawing I twigged to what was going on: aside from the red hair, she looked freakishly like Victoria Metcalf.
Once I'd figured this out, the drawing came out quite well. Well enough, in fact, that despite the fact that it's newsprint and that I have no scanner, I brought it home, stuck it on my door, and took a picture. Here it is; feel free to tell me whether the Victoria resemblance is only a figment of my fevered brain.
Really, though, my brain is not fevered. My brain is quite good at the moment, and plans to rewrite my play about lesbians and ghosts, and then do yoga on the awesome new mat I bought the other day.
Once I'd figured this out, the drawing came out quite well. Well enough, in fact, that despite the fact that it's newsprint and that I have no scanner, I brought it home, stuck it on my door, and took a picture. Here it is; feel free to tell me whether the Victoria resemblance is only a figment of my fevered brain.
Really, though, my brain is not fevered. My brain is quite good at the moment, and plans to rewrite my play about lesbians and ghosts, and then do yoga on the awesome new mat I bought the other day.
I am not doing NaNoWriMo this year, as much as I secretly and desperately crave to do so one of these days. (My laughable assumption that I'll be able to do it next year, let me show you it.) Nor am I doing WriSoMiFu, as much as the name makes me laugh, and as many original ideas as are actually percolating in my brain, because I do write at ten minutes a day every day whether I want to or not.
What I am doing, however, is using the Magical Writing-Intensive Month of November to make a concerted effort to write a ton of the due South s2 AU, which may or may not now be tentatively titled Neutral Zone just because I want to say something that is less of a mouthful than "due South s2 F/K/V AU." It is, among other things, my pet project since this last spring, and also what I have resolved to do for the dS Big Bang, which luckily is not due until well into next year. Still, I want to get as much of it done as I can, as soon as possible.
In the spirit of this, I would love to know if anyone would like to be involved in it, in a betaing/cheerleading/what-have-you capacity. I already have the world's best beta, at whom I wail at all hours and who puts up with a lot from me, but I feel like dumping this whole project on her and her alone is madness waiting to happen. In this vein, before you raise your hand and tell me you'd love to beta/cheerlead/whatever, understand that this goddamn fic is six parts long, only one of which is written, that said part is ~17500 words, and that if I don't burn out and run away crying to a secret base in the Caribbean or something, the whole thing will probably end up somewhere in the realm of 90,000.
That said, it's a potential 90,000 words of Fraser and both Rays having wacky adventures and emotional mixups and solving crime! Any takers?
What I am doing, however, is using the Magical Writing-Intensive Month of November to make a concerted effort to write a ton of the due South s2 AU, which may or may not now be tentatively titled Neutral Zone just because I want to say something that is less of a mouthful than "due South s2 F/K/V AU." It is, among other things, my pet project since this last spring, and also what I have resolved to do for the dS Big Bang, which luckily is not due until well into next year. Still, I want to get as much of it done as I can, as soon as possible.
In the spirit of this, I would love to know if anyone would like to be involved in it, in a betaing/cheerleading/what-have-you capacity. I already have the world's best beta, at whom I wail at all hours and who puts up with a lot from me, but I feel like dumping this whole project on her and her alone is madness waiting to happen. In this vein, before you raise your hand and tell me you'd love to beta/cheerlead/whatever, understand that this goddamn fic is six parts long, only one of which is written, that said part is ~17500 words, and that if I don't burn out and run away crying to a secret base in the Caribbean or something, the whole thing will probably end up somewhere in the realm of 90,000.
That said, it's a potential 90,000 words of Fraser and both Rays having wacky adventures and emotional mixups and solving crime! Any takers?
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My watching of Flash Forward, in brief:
CHARACTERS: *make bad life decisions*
ME: Meh.
LESBIAN FAIL: *is not as bad as I feared*
ME: ...Well ...
NAI: Are you going to break up with this show?
ME: I'm not sure! Evil Dom Monaghan is making me reconsider.
NEXT WEEK'S PREVIEW: *has unexpected Callum*
ME: sdflkfdsdk *falls off couch and hides under coffee table*
No, I actually hid under the coffee table and wailed dramatically because I can't actually break up with the stupid thing until, y'know, Callum comes through and is probably evil and then dead, as he does. Damn it.
Mumble Eastwick's still better.
CHARACTERS: *make bad life decisions*
ME: Meh.
LESBIAN FAIL: *is not as bad as I feared*
ME: ...Well ...
NAI: Are you going to break up with this show?
ME: I'm not sure! Evil Dom Monaghan is making me reconsider.
NEXT WEEK'S PREVIEW: *has unexpected Callum*
ME: sdflkfdsdk *falls off couch and hides under coffee table*
No, I actually hid under the coffee table and wailed dramatically because I can't actually break up with the stupid thing until, y'know, Callum comes through and is probably evil and then dead, as he does. Damn it.
Mumble Eastwick's still better.
Every time Eastwick is rubbish I am resignedly unsurprised, and every time it is good I am deeply confused. Mind you, by "good" I mean "I want to fall over with joy because I want to ship all the women on this show," but that is a rare enough pleasure that I am sticking to it. ( 1x06: shippiness, evil men, agency, and my startlement that I have articulate thoughts and none of them are about how Paul Gross's porn voice amuses me. )
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