a conspiracy of cartographers

Having now done my August-apartment-searching duty for the day, and having now confirmed that I am officially moved into my summer sublet (THROWING A QUIET PARTY HERE OH MY GOD) I can pretend I've been a grown-up, and I can rebel with internet!

Let me tell you something, internet. I am terrible at being polyfannish. I get hugely overinvested in my fandoms, you see. When I fall in love with something, I need to read all the meta, and all the fic, and make sure I know all the character histories and stupid things the creators have said, &c &c. Doctor Who cured me of this somewhat, because being in Doctor Who fandom is a bit like being polyfannish already; being a fan of One is not like being a fan of Seven is not like being a fan of Ten, and there is no canon. But wow does it make my brain feel confused to be deeply invested in more than one universe at a time. And I don't think that "Write a fic in which Fraser, who happens to be Immortal, hangs out with Methos in 2258 on Babylon 5, where they have a run-in with the Doctor" is actually the solution, as weirdly coherent as that fusion would be. Actually, I think the real solution is to just remind myself that I can't give 110% of my fannish enthusiasm to each of these fandoms, because I don't have whatever 110x4% is to give.

I do, however, have a polyfannish post to offer. Thanks to a combination of listening to lots of music on bus rides + a recent post by sophia_sol, I have realized that I have a hell of a lot of unmade fanvids in my head. Will they ever be made? I hope not; if I ever learn to vid I will need a time-turner for real. But I want to have this list, just in case.

( 15 hypothetical vids, sorted by fandom. )

I am apparently pants at getting anything done today, but that's okay, because there is a new Love Meme! My thread is here, but you should link yours too, because I am feeling fuzzy and am all for spreading the love.

Possibly there should be more content here than just a love meme, so a few things in no particular order:

+ NEW HUGH DILLON ALBUM TODAY. Will iTunes let me buy it? Unlikely.
+ The new Doctor Who logo? Yeah, I think it's adorable and fills my soul with weird irrational nostalgia for Seven. How baller would it be if Eleven was like Seven? Come to think of it, I would be all for Amy Pond being like Ace.
+ schiarire tells me that the play I am currently composing for my theatre class would make a really excellent webcomic. I figure that the hijinks of two twenty-something lesbians living in an apartment that is haunted by a ghost only one of them can see does indeed have the makings of an awesome webcomic, but it remains that I cannot actually draw stuff, and also I have no time.
+ I am having an early-life crisis re: whether I actually want to apply to grad school right away. Rather than actually working on any applications, I am just going to the gym a lot. I'm not any closer to deciding what I want to do with my life, but my pants are starting to fit again, so I am still probably one point up on the universe.

Arriving safely home, I decided it was high time to finish mainlining Flashpoint. What I love about it is that I finally get the appeal of all those ridiculously popular rote procedural shows that I never watch -- the closest I've ever come to getting it is Bones, because I am fond everyone on that show in much the same way; even that, though, I watch in a kind of vague with-friends when-I-have-time way -- but wow, I love this one. I love it in the way where I want there to be more episodes! right now! I love it in the way where I am overinvested in Ed and Greg's buckets of angst and Spike and Lew's hilarious bromance and everything Wordy and Jules do ever. (And I imagine that playing Canadian Actor Bingo makes it more fun too.) In conclusion I am confused that something with so many guns and tense situations is apparently my new comfort telly, but y'know what? I finished the last episode with my hands pressed to my mouth in sheer joy and I haven't stopped grinning yet, so I am really, really not complaining.

Anyway, having now seen all of it, I think I want:

1. Jules/Donna fic. No, really. They're onscreen together for about five seconds total in order to awkwardly shake hands, but I desperately want long plotty shipfic. I want fic where Jules spends her downtime in her newly-painted apartment, staring at the walls and feeling antsy and vaguely guilty about Sam, and eventually she goes out and runs into Donna at some café/bar where they get to talking. They talk about Team 1 and about being women in the SRU, and eventually they start talking about Donna's time undercover and about what they like to do for fun (do we know what they like to do for fun? I think we only really know anything about Wordy's personal life) and they become friends. And neither of them really expect it, but eventually they figure out that when they're hanging out, now at each other's apartments or out on the town, they're basically dating. They really like one another, so rather than freaking out they talk it through like reasonable adults. (I figure this is a universe where Jules is comfortably bi and Donna is an awesome lesbian who is maybe occasionally bi re: undercover.) They decide to stay together, because their relationship isn't interfering with their professional lives since they're on different teams, only of course then the plot kicks in when both Team 1 and Team 3 are called in for the same hot call, and there is lots of ~dramatic tension~ and possibly also Sam in the background being TOTALLY BEWILDERED, Jules, what is this shit?? And I don't know what happens after that, but obviously I don't want this recced to me, I want to write it.

2. Ed/Greg fic. I actually feel mad guilty about this one, mostly because Ed's wife Sophia is made of pure 100% grade-A awesome. But I do not want handwavey fic, I want fic where Ed does not listen to Greg's warnings about continuing on as he is, and eventually Sophia gently files for divorce and takes their son and moves to a different city, because she understands but she's tired of waiting and she doesn't think it's fair to any of them. Ed takes it all extremely reasonably, and is, y'know, totally fine, and keeps doing his job, and Greg hovers worriedly in the background trying to anticipate the meltdown without actually assuming it'll happen. Because Ed's there to pick all of them up, but who's there for Ed, right? Of course in this case the answer is "Greg" but he is not aware of it yet. And, um, *handwaves* then there is plot and they have sex. I don't know! If this fic already exists I want it recced, but if it doesn't I might damn well write it too. Because, unsurprisingly, I am so there for however-many pages of emotional inarticulation and Team and cops in love. /o\

3. Spike/Lew fic! I confess that I mostly want Spike/Lew fic to sort of combat my other two desires, because Happy Fic is sometimes necessary. Obviously Spike and Lew go out and pretend to chase tail and have a grand old time, and then they go back to their place (they can share a place, right? I totally assume that they share a place, see: that one episode where everyone was calling their families to say they'd be working late, and Spike and Lew called each other because they're dooorks and also living together, obviously) and have enthusiastic nerdsex. This fic probably has, like, ice cream and puppies, and also the two of them going in early to the gym and having lots of hilarious banter with Wordy, because I kind of suspect that hilarious banter with Wordy is my favourite thing about Flashpoint. This one I absolutely don't need to write, but since I'm under the vague impression that fandom has lots of Spike/Lew fic, I think I should be fine.

4. SOME MONSTER EPIC WITH ALL OF THESE THINGS. It could be called "How Ed and Jules Took A Leaf From Spike and Lew's Book, & Learned How to Stop Worrying and Love Their Teammates, Nudge Nudge Wink Wink, PS Wordy is Awesome and No One Likes Sam." It would be the BEST FIC EVER.

Sorry, guys, I'm punchy from travel. Recs? Recs not specific to the things I listed but which will still get me to the places with good Flashpoint fic? Any takers for reading that fic I want to write? You've never heard of Flashpoint and have no idea what I'm talking about? Perhaps I should shut up and finish the F/K/V before the polybigbang deadline looms? Let's hear it. :D

Durham County: like someone beat the fuck out of Desperate Housewives and shoved it out naked into the cold. Where it made angry friends with Hugh Dillon.

Okay, to be fair, the only way it is really like Desperate Housewives is that Traci Prager is totally an escapee from that show, and also Suburbia Is Creepy. Really my brain breaks a little at the notion of landing Mike Sweeney in the middle of Wisteria Lane. But this is only the first episode and maybe it will be relentlessly not-suburban-USA enough that I will stop having deeply weird double-vision moments.

I wish I could watch Durham County with someone, though. I mean, even BSG I had a bit of trouble with if I didn't have someone there to hold my hand. So after that first episode I decided it really called for some comfort telly. Due South is exactly that, although I'm starting to run out of Kowalski episodes I haven't seen too many times. Happily I also find Vecchio comforting, so I finally watched The Edge, ie the only episode of due South I hadn't yet seen all the way through (besides Invitation to Romance, which I am not actually sure I will ever be able to watch).

( The Edge: in which Fraser has anxiety dreams and goes tracking; probably a slightly higher ratio of squee to coherence than the organized recapping I did in June. )