All of the fic I've posted in this journal, organized by fandom, in the order in which they were posted.




( Doctor Who )

( Firefly )

( Heroes )

( Supernatural )

( The 4400 )

( The Black Donnellys )

( The O.C. )

( Crossovers )

( The Lakeverse )

( epic spoilers )

I mean SERIOUSLY!?

So I know I've now posted more today than I have in the past month or two, but. NEW TORCHWOOD IS BRINGING THE AWESOME. ( brief spoilers for days 1&2 )

1. I miss Misha Collins' twittering. (Tweeting?)

2. So, I guess Torchwood is happening...? Maybe I should get on that. I HAVEN'T SEEN IT YET. I must confess, I kind of lost my TW mojo during season 2. It was all very "WTF"-y.

3. I'm in lab, and I'm running gels all day. For the laypeople among you, that means I get up and do things for fifteen minutes, and then I sit and do nothing for half an hour. Can I have a fic rec or something?

I haven't posted in like a week and a half. Mostly this is because nothing is happening either in my life or in fandom. Every day I get up and I go to the lab, and I slave in the lab for awhile doing exciting science, and then I go home to my apartment and eat food, and then I watch TV on my computer (lately, Star Trek: TOS on YouTube, and/or Stargate SG-1 on DVD) and knit. And then on the weekends I go home and do laundry and hang out with my parents.

Normally I am freakishly busy in the lab, but we're out of an enzyme that I need for all of my next steps on the projects I'm working on, so I'm basically sitting here online instead. I read ladycat777's fabulous new fic, and you should too.

I miss having new canon... in basically any fandom. When's the next Doctor Who special?

If there is one person or more on your friends list who makes your world a better place just because they exist and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the internet, then post this same sentence in your journal.

It is time for a shameful confession: I have not read a novel since last summer, when I read Emma by Jane Austen. I have tons of unread books at home, including The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, but most of them (like K&C) are kind of dauntingly long, or books that I started and, despite numerous recommendations, was unable to 'get into' (also like K&C). I've been thinking about picking up another book by Ian McEwan to get my novel-reading confidence back. I'd also really appreciate recommendations.

Name me your favorite book, or a book that made you laugh, or a book that was so good you couldn't put it down and finished it in a week, or a book that made no sense that you loved anyway.

( My recommendations. )

I just watched the Glee pilot and I loved it. I can't watch it again-- somebody (Mel, maybe?) described it as "too full of contact embarrassment," which is utterly true. But I think I'll be watching in the fall. (Also both of the actresses playing Emma and Terry played secondary characters with moderately detailed arcs towards the end of season 1 of Heroes, which caused me some pretty major cognitive dissonance.)

This might be a spoiler but somebody please tell me there is a ripped copy of their version of "Don't Stop Believin'" somewhere that I can have? WANT.

ETA: I get that I'm late to the Asylum party, but my God, does Jensen have a MULLET? This reminds me of his Dawson's Creek days. I tried to show my friend Anne an episode once. "Turn it off, turn it off!" she cried. "He looks like Jon Stewart!" This is what I am reminded of.

My computer died during finals week. It's back now, as is most of my music-- expect requests in the next couple of days.

Dollhouse's finale was fantastic, Fringe's finale was amazing, Castle's finale was delightful, NCIS's finale is tomorrow, and I'm hearing that Dollhouse and Castle have both been renewed. Any word on Fringe?

Speaking of JJ Abrams, Star Trek fucking delivered... to the point that I want to go back and start watching TOS and whatever. If someone knows a good guide to Star Trek for people who weren't Trekkies until they saw the movie but now want to become Trekkies, I'd appreciate a link. Otherwise I will probably hit Wikipedia tomorrow. I'm a little confused about ( this spoiler, which then turned into meta musings re: AUs in general. ) And this is where my meta runs out of steam, because I drove for like five hours today and I am BEAT. Maybe someone else will run with this.

More importantly: I know that femmenerd and dogeared have both recently written delightful little ficlets based on the movie, and that anon kink meme has some real gems, but if anyone else has any recs please let me know! (Both of those are Spock/Uhura, because my flist is full of smart people and Spock/Uhura is basically smart people porn, but I would love to read some Kirk/Uhura/Spock or Kirk/random-OC-because-he's-a-man-slut. My pairing policy is basically that if it's two canon characters, I need to see some kind of justification for it before I'll buy it, and there are some pairings I've seen floating around that I think must be primarily based on the original series because I didn't really see any justification for it in the movie... which is another interesting fannish phenomenon. Why am I such a fannish sociologist tonight?) I'm so excited to have this New Fandom Energy circulating on my flist again... I personally have been kind of drifting fannishly since SGA ended, since that was the common thread running through my flist for the most part.

Also Chris Pine is SOOOO hot.

Also I went to see the movie with my friend Tim, and we kept live-long-and-prosper!fiving throughout it.

Guess who just finished watching "Briar Rose."

MIND. BLOWN. Total agreement with exsequar about that last image, too.

On a thinkier note, I watched the first few episodes of Dollhouse essentially putting faith in Joss that it would get better, that it needed a few episodes to get rolling-- and it really has delivered. For the first few episodes, they really did need to establish "this is the Dollhouse and what it does, and this is the cute and kind of pathetically determined FBI agent trying to investigate it." And then shit got CRAZY. And then "Briar Rose" happened. I may watch it again later. I kept having to stop to process the SHEER AWESOME. I think it's safe to say I've definitely been converted to full fannishness.*

Watching Alan Tudyk in this role was great because I've really only seen him in Firefly/Serenity and A Knight's Tale, and those two roles are relatively similar-- he's essentially the comic relief. I don't think it's too spoilery to say that his role in last night's episode of Dollhouse was vastly different and vastly enjoyable.

*One interesting thing is that I know a lot of people on my flist are watching it, yet there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of fic cropping up-- usually even if people aren't writing it themselves, there are recs and things. I think it has to do with the nature of the show-- when the main characters essentially change every week and there's this much mindfuckery going on, it makes it exceedingly difficult, because so much of the emotion is in the action. I would happily take icon recs though.

I'm allweare at Dreamwidth. (I figured it was time for a change in terms of username, since hebrew_hernia is kind of weird. Ha.) Tomorrow is my last day of classes, I have a week of finals and then I'll be home, after which I expect I'll start trying to actually figure out how to use it, as well as, you know, participating in fandom again. From what I can tell, I like the whole subscription vs. access dealie--I think that's going to be extra super convenient. I'm still trying to figure out how much to import because my tagging system is kind of a mess and I really like the option of starting over.

Anyway. LJ is my home base for now; I expect I'll start migrating around the time my friends and their fic do, and for a long while I'll be straddling both. (I wasn't around for any of the Great Fandom Migrations, where large groups of fandoms migrated, but I do have enough experience with changing platforms (fanfiction.net to ezboard message boards to LJ) that I'm not too freaked out. I go where the fandom takes me.)

Well, that was a plot twist I didn't see coming!

Er, NOT.

Also, as visually striking as it is every time they have an action scene and Olivia's long blond hair is streaming out behind her, I hope someone at Fox realizes that that is beyond impractical and into ridiculous. I've never wielded a gun but I'd imagine it's difficult if you can't see because your hair is blowing in your face. JUST SAYIN'.

Amazon Rank, bitches.

So I watched it last night, and then this morning I was like "OH. That's NIMUEH."

( haha. spoilers. )

1. Reply to this post, and I will pick six of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon glee.

exsequar picked for me:



( below the cut! )

Sooooo... some of the dialogue is kind of cheesy. Or completely cheesy. I was kind of expecting not to love it, and I kind of don't-- hopefully the characters will stop being caricatures and become three-dimensional at some point, like next week-- but there was some snappy dialogue, and Castle's daughter is precious. If I watch the show for an hour and I come away not knowing the characters' names, that's not a great sign, but if I come away smiling, that is. I think it evened out, and I will be watching Castle next week. NATHAN FILLION HOW SO PRECIOUS.

How much epic crossover fic is there going to be when a missing-person case leads Castle to the Dollhouse? SO MUCH. (Speaking of which, I have not seen yet seen Friday's.)

In other news, USA airs three episodes of NCIS daily, and Sleuth airs one, and I DVR them all and generally watch them the same day. It's kind of sick, really. I would watch fewer episodes if the actors were less attractive. Probably. But Mark Harmon is average-guy hot, and McGee is geek-hot, and Michael Weatherly is frat-douchebag-hot. And Pauley Perrette is motherfucking delightful. I'm not watching in any kind of order, because I'm watching two different syndication runs and USA's doesn't seem to be particularly ordered to begin with. But it's mostly episodic, so it's not hard to follow, and I love it.

torn between being v. intrigued by mytharc and kind of horrified at joss' apparent obsession with manipulating beautiful women (see: premise of btvs (wasn't she essentially drafted?), river tam). i can easily see the dollhouse becoming blue sun. the handler being a poc kind of irks me also. i will probably be watching next week's as well, because i know better than to judge a show based on its pilot. after that, i am not really sure.

I just burst out laughing because I don't know which icon to use for this post because JACK'S MANNEQUIN AND MATT NATHANSON ARE TOURING TOGETHER. They are going to be in Cleveland the Saturday before Cloie's birthday and we are SO TOTALLY THERE. I will fail ALL OF MY CLASSES if I have to but we are going to DO THIS BITCH RIGHT. April 18th BABY!!!! DID I MENTION THAT JACK'S MANNEQUIN AND MATT NATHANSON ARE TOURING TOGETHER AKLDJ;FADFLAJDSFLKAJSDFL KSADJFLASJDFLJADSLF;AJSDLFJ ASDL;FJ AL;SDFJ;LASDFJLKSADJFLKSADJFL;AJSF;ASDJL;ADSJFLA;JSDF.

And now I will continue to freak out in the shower because I just got back from the gym and I am sweaty and smelly and disgustingtastic.

More like "A Clear and Present FAILURE." I don't know if it's just me, but I did not get this week's episode. And, as usual, everything Sylar-related was rife with sexism. ( I would love... )

Heroes in general has a really nasty history of depicting women as either (a) entirely helpless, clueless, and dependent (Maya, Mama Bennett, Heidi lol) or (b) passive-aggressive and otherwise manipulative (Claire, Angela, Daphne). And then when they're no longer necessary as plot devices, they simply cease to exist with little to no explanation (Heidi, Maya, who I think had some explanation but not much, Mama Bennett? Where did she go?).

( I would also love... )

I did like Claire being a total badass, though. Even if her lipstick was terrible in that first scene. (Trufax: I visited Hamilton, but decided there were too many yellow houses that served as academic buildings. I'm pretty anti-yellow. Also I am 99% sure you cannot even buy your way into a school that good with just a GED, unless you actually explain that the reason you did not graduate was you were busy being a superhero.)

So, this week's Fringe. ( I call bullshit. ) It's almost as bad as FREEZE LIGHTENING. I'm only about half an hour in and I don't even know if I can watch the rest of this episode. Like, there's science fiction and then there's PATENTLY RIDICULOUS.

( On the bright side. )Is there any Fringe fic out there on the internet? Recs? Bueller? (My advanced organic lab prof actually did that the other day. It was pretty delightful.)

Things what would be epic: a Walter icon captioned "he blinded me with science." I would find that delightful.

In other news, someone I knew in real life first is hanging around now! peridium likes bandom and things. P.S. peridium, do not look at my entries all the way down to the bottom of the page if you haven't seen the end of the fourth series of New Who, or you will be spoiled for the greatest shippiest moment of all time.)