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 )

If you follow my Twitter you'll know that my reaction to the newest Merlin was basically: Merlin, why you gotta act so stupid? Seriously, 9/13 of Merlin episodes go "Merlin does something stupid; Merlin lies to Gaius; Arthur catches Merlin doing something awkward; stupid thing Merlin did bites him in the ass; Merlin gets sad." It's those other 4 that are really amazing. But whatever, it's enjoyable. This week's actually made me sad, in addition to making me thing about the manpain flowchart. Luckily I had White Collar to cheer me up.

And it did! I want to share three things above the cut. First, Willie Garson continues to delight me in everything he does. I loved Stanford Blatch (SATC), I loved Martin Lloyd (SG-1), and I think Mozzie is a tremendous, adorable character. Every time he shows up I am delighted.

Second, the actress who plays Kate, Alexandra Daddario, is exactly three years older than me. We share the same birthday! So I have all kinds of thoughts, now, about Kate and Neal and how long they've been running together-- Bomer is 32, so Neal's gotta also be early-thirties, although I guess he could be late-20s, he's pretty enough. There is no way Alexandra can pass for anything older than 25, though. Do we have a canonical age for Neal? And if he was caught four years ago, yeesh.

Third, it strikes me in every episode how RIDICULOUSLY attractive Matthew Bomer is. He just has AMAZING bone structure. Whenever there's a profile shot I think he is a bust in a museum come to life. Last week I had a thing for his eyes; this week it's his nose. WHAT A RIDICULOUSLY BEAUTIFUL NOSE. Next week, the mouth?

( Anyway, like plot and stuff. )

Incidentally, on Fringe, do we have a canonical age for Peter? (JJ is a year younger than Bomer.) This crossover is percolating... I don't know if it will happen, but if it does it's ignipes' fault.

(There are basically three kinds of TV I watch: police procedurals with as little actual procedure as possible and civilians interfering and lots of ridiculously pretty people, and sci-fi/fantasy with lots of ridiculously pretty people, and what happens when the two combine. SG-1/SGA are a perfect storm of TV for me: pretty people dealing with space and aliens and explosions and things, which is theoretically run by the military, but with lots of civilians running around doing silly things and mucking up all the procedure. Kind of ditto for Fringe, only the FBI instead of the military. And it explains why I can't stop watching FlashForward despite Shakespeare and his eyebrow-shoulder acting.)

So here is the thing about Glee: it's very faily in a lot of ways-- with disabilities, especially, but with minorities of all kinds, and with monodimensional characters, and to a lesser extent with the incredible autotuning of Cory Monteith (which wouldn't be necessary if they would just let him sing in his actual range). In some aspects it bears very little resemblance to reality (i.e. anything actually pertaining to anything that happens in a high school, especially a public one) and requires an incredible suspension of disbelief. And I can understand how one or more of those things could be dealbreakers.

But I think at its heart, it's a show about caring, and dealing with the ugly realities of relationships. And it makes me cry just about every single episode. I'm literally sitting on the couch BAWLING at the last song from this week's episode, "Ballad." That's basically how it goes-- I watch an episode, and I'm noting all of the fail, and it's just about hitting my awkwardness threshold --and then halfway through the final song, tears just start streaming down my face.

Part of it is that normally I cry at the drop of a hat, and when my mental illness is behaving acutely I cry at the mention of the drop of a hat. But part of it is that, if you can get past the fail, though it is copious, it's a genuinely touching show.

And, you know, hopefully they will actually look at some of the critical reactions they get in the blogosphere and say "maybe we should be better about [x]."

(Aside: DAMN can Kevin McHale sing. I mean, we got a taste of it last week, but this was-- wow.)

exsequar has seen this already, buuut:

http://www.fightforwomenshealth.com

That's a petition, sponsored by Sen. Barbara Boxer. to remove the Stupak Amendment. It's REALLY EASY to sign. Passing a bill containing the Stupak Amendment will lead to countless women's deaths due to botched back-alley abortions. How could supporting that be called pro-life in any way?

Edited to remove a misplaced modifier. Coherence FAIL. Now back to writing my lab report... that bodes SO WELL.

So I watched this week's Merlin, and it was kind of meh. And then I saw the coming attractions, and I was all, "Didn't I read a fic like that once?" But of course now I have no idea which it was or who wrote it, so if anyone knows, let me know? And I'll actually be looking forward to next week's for something other than the pretty, for once! And in my search for the aforementioned fic, which I have not found, I did find a couple of others that I read awhile ago and reread them and remembered how awesome they were, and that was nice.

THEN I WATCHED WHITE COLLAR AND IT WAS SO GOOD I HAD NOTHING TO SAY. ( OKAY MAYBE A FEW THINGS. ) HOW SO GOOD, SHOW!?

I'm also watching Fringe and FlashForward and Heroes and HIMYM this season, which I never seem to talk about. This week's Fringe was epically science!faily in that it was specifically chemistry fail (or rather, chemistry terminology fail, with a side of WTF TINKERTOYS) and I facepalmed repeatedly. ( So much facepalm! )

So perhaps the V pilot was a poor life choice in the Department of TV To Watch Immediately Before Going to Bed... oops.

My fifteen year old self would HATE me right now. Tegan & Sara dropped their new album, like, two weeks ago and I just found out about it now. (From Matt Nathanson's blog, because he evidently has a Twitter, which makes my life eleventy billion times better.) I can't even believe these things have escaped my knowledge. I used to have so much more awareness. And now the only things I'm aware of are my homework and graduate school and legally prescribed psychoactive medications and all of the horrible tragedies being perpetrated against women in the world on a daily basis. Which are great things to be aware of, but I used to be so passionate about music.

I still am, in some ways, but I don't make that effort anymore to seek out new music, or even to keep up with what my favorite bands are doing. I lost a huge chunk of my music collection when my hard drive crashed in the spring, and I... haven't missed it. I keep saying I'm going to redownload a bunch of it from my brother, and I'm going to reconnect to my school's highly illegal peer-to-peer filesharing network, and I'm going to get the new Regina Spektor album from Cloie, but I don't.

I guess part of it is the scene-- I was never really scene enough in high school, I don't quite fit in with the hipster crowd at school. But looking back-- two years ago, I was just a completely different person. There are parts of that girl I miss.

ETA: AND Jack's Mannequin released a new EP last week!? If my fifteen year old self met me now, she would cry many giant tears. But they finally recorded "Katie" (now entitled "There, There Katie") and there's a new version of "Swim" which is sure to make my current self cry many giant tears.

Tonight's HIMYM = A-! ( thoughts which soon turned thinky, alas! ) So I guess I give it an A- with the understanding that in comparison to other shows, it's never actually going to do better than a C+.

THOUGHTCRIMES/WHITE COLLAR CROSSOVER.

YES OR YES?

Just watched Thoughtcrimes with Cloie, in case you hadn't guessed. My life needs MOAR BRENDAN DEAN. Off to reread all of the fic I have bookmarked. There's not much, which makes me sad.

I just got accidentally spoiled for Castle (on Facebook of all places) and I don't even care, because it is THE BEST SPOILER EVER. If it's not true, I will cry giant disgusting Dawson Leery tears. ( under the cut )

In other news, they misspelled "benzene" on Abby's magic GC/MS screen on Tuesday's NCIS. I posted it in my Facebook status and got five "likes" (probably more for the fact that I was watching NCIS than for science fail, but anyway). Although actually, I Googled the spelling they used (benzine) and it's a real thing (more commonly known as petroleum ether), but it's actually a name for a group of compounds that I expect should have showed up as specific peaks. So probably they used the wrong one. */nerd*

( not really spoilers? )

I love my shooooow.

Is there really no Dollhouse or Merlin this weekend? Or am I just unable to find them?

So I've been pretty mum about TV this season, but ( Dollhouse 2.03 )

I don't even know. I do know that Tahmoh Penikett is RIDICULOUSLY hot in his low-slung dress pants and his vaguely shiny dress shirts.

I think I'm going to watch last night's Psych now.

I just watched the House sixth season premiere, "Broken." It was difficult for me to watch, but despite its myriad issues, which I am shortly to enumerate, I liked it overall. ( [Warning: This post is potentially triggering for depression and eating disorder issues.] )

It was long, and full of semi-sloppy writing and Rich White Abled Straight Cis Dude Errors. But at its heart, it was about a man who realized he was unhappy, probably clinically, and decided he'd like to change that, and got help. And that is something that I would not at all mind seeing more of.

Fiiiinally rewatched the Peacekeeper Wars tonight... all other Farscape I've seen at least twice but this was only my second viewing. I never had time to sit down for 3 hours (!) after I rewatched the rest of the series last fall. Farscape as a whole is just so visually and ideologically stunning and PKW is no exception. ( spoiler cut because I am determined not to spoil Mara! )

And when John says "Crichtons don't cry" and then immediately self-corrects with "Often. Or for very long" I have endless lulz forever in the way that is part-lulz and part OMG JOHN CRICHTON HOW SO ADORABLE.

Is it spoilers if the show aired over ten years ago?

( Spoilers for Farscape 1.19  )

FARSCAAAAPE. SHOW OF MY HEART.

( how is this show so GOOD!? )

In conclusion: I need an icon. Recs!?

In Texas, a likely innocent man was executed in 2004.

Seriously, please read that article. [Belated warning for repeated description of small children dying.]

I wish my suitcase was a TARDIS.

ALL OF MY PROBLEMS WOULD BE SOLVED.

(Why did I wait until the DAY BEFORE I LEAVE to pack ALL OF MY BELONGINGS for college!? I have already done this twice. I SHOULD KNOW BETTER.)

So, this one time, I watched all of NCIS. And then I was talkin' to kashmir1, and I was like "Where is all the good fic?" And she was like "I dunno! Tell me if you find some!"

I kind of have.

Homosexual Freak Out, or Lack Thereof by angstschrei. Cute, believable first-time DiNozzo/McGee with a Tony voice that I really dug. NC-17, but definitely not as dirty as some of the stuff unamaga and kashmir1 have written.

Semi-related: how does linking to dreamwidth work? Is there some way to link directly to dreamwidth users?

Entirely unrelated: who has seen The Time Traveler's Wife already? I want to know if they included ( spoiler ) and if they set it to "Apple Candy" by Ben Lee, because if they didn't, they are wrong. Read the lyrics! It is about ( spoiler? ) I am seriously convinced that Ben Lee read The Time Traveler's Wife and said "I am going to write a song about that!" And "Apple Candy" is what happened.