So, uh, House!
...hurry up and be next week.
I DON'T WANT TO BE TRAUMATIZED
(I also don't want to be confronted with ships I don't ship, but I probably can't avoid it at this point.)
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And now, off I go to watch more 'The Face of Evil', because OMG FOUR and OMG LEELA and OMG FOUR AND LEELA and I pretty much can't stop flailing about them. She killed three people in a rather nasty way in the first part of her first episode! HOW CAN YOU NOT LOVE HER.
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You know, the reason I waited to make this post was because I wanted to make an icon for it first. It's true. Shut up.
House tonight, and the weather forecast is reading MOAR GAY. Oh dear. JUST LET ME STICK WITH SOMETHING, I SWEAR TO GOD. *flails at the fandom gods*
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| 2008-04-04 22:41 |
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It gets easier.
Well--sort of. There's a reason I find it hard to read Buffy or Angel stories; even if they're happy, they make me think about things, and maybe it's been months since I saw their respective finales but I still don't want to think about those things. I downloaded an Angel vid, an absolutely brilliant one that summed up the whole series, that made me cry my eyes out, and I kept it on my hard drive but I don't think I'll be watching it again any time soon. And I can't really think of Firefly the same way after I saw Serenity. Joss, honey, you're brilliant, but you frequently make me want to curl up in a corner. Thankfully, you're probably one of a kind. I sure as hell hope so.
I've told you all my story about the two hours between hearing about the second season finale of Heroes and seeing the second season finale of Heroes, and it's actually quite a good story, but unfortunately it does not really apply in this case, because, y'know, the reason it's a good story is because I explained some very good reasons as to why the Heroes writing staff could not possibly be that stupid. Which is great and all if you're talking about Heroes, but I'm not actually talking about Heroes, and, unfortunately, the show that induced me to talk about this...well, it doesn't have that great a track record of "not being stupid". Alas.
It is a well-documented fact that it is a peril to watch a currently-running TV show if the show is prone to large amounts of drama. Again, see Heroes. And Lost, and Battlestar Galactica, and anything by HBO or Joss Whedon. (He's got a new show in development, did you hear? I'm already afraid.) At least with shows that have already ended, well, you know, or you have some idea; you don't live quite on the same edge of your seat. Although I did mention the Buffy and Angel thing. Okay, so it's kind of crap whether or not the show is still running; my point is, you love drama, you have to be prepared to get burned, because drama does not love you. Drama likes to watch you suffer. Sometimes, of course, it makes you ecstatically happy, and sometimes it's so jaw-droppingly brilliant that you know you could never stop watching, but one must always be aware that loving a dramatic TV show is akin to an abusive relationship. And you can't distance yourself from it to numb the pain, either; if you do, you've missed the entire point of a drama. Drama should affect you. If it doesn't, why watch? And if it does, why can't you stop?
Then, of course, there is the quiet joy of watching a show you know will not break your heart; casting shake-ups aside, nobody's ever going to die on House, and while Pushing Daisies may be entirely about death, it's never actually going to kill anyone we care about. In Chuck, the only actual hey-this-character-is-intriguing death, well, he's feeling better, he thinks he'll go for a walk...the Winchester brothers are proven to be immune from permanently kicking it, soul-selling aside (and what, you think that's actually going to do the trick?). I'm not even going to mention the Stargate universe. How high's the count on Daniel again? Seven? Eight? One of the best things about watching Due South is that, well, it's been over for over a decade, I already know how it ends, and I already know it's basically the happiest, slashiest ending ever. Although Due South actually does have its moments of drama and did kill a character and kick two other characters out, but I didn't really care about the dead guy, both of the absentees got appropriate send-offs, and one of the absentees actually came back, so basically I'm just rambling at this point.
And since I'm rambling, I'd like to point out that Doctor Who is starting up again this week, and that is possibly the show most notorious for ripping your heart out without actually killing anyone, which is surprising given the sheer amount of NPC deaths it manages to rack up every episode. Stupid Whoniverse. At least the Sarah Jane Adventures isn't ever going to go dramatic, right? Right? Oh god please tell me I'm right, I don't think I could handle it if I'm not. They're kids, for Christ's sake! Keep your melodramatic claws off them, Russell T Davies!
Anyway, to get back to the very original point of this post: it gets easier. Well--sort of. Rambling helps, actually. Why else did you think I was doing this? To entertain you lot? Yeah, right. I wanted to do that, I'd get back to writing lots of Heroes fic again. Or writing at all again. No, it's my journal, its contents are subject to my whims. So I don't actually need to have a point to all this, because it's late and I'm not sure I've entirely processed some stuff yet and I'd like to get back to my Canadian happy place. So goodnight, y'all, and if you still have no idea what I'm talking about, consider yourself lucky, you bastard. ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) futuresoon out.
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| 2008-03-29 21:19 |
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Speaking in a purely theoretical manner, mind you, were there to be some sort of ridiculously large picture featuring all the major slash pairings I can think of, 1) would femslash be included, because really I can only think of Buffy/Faith and they'd be very lonely if they were the only ones, and 2) would Captain Jack Harkness have to be there with Ianto, or could he just be there on his own? I mean, I wouldn't really say Jack/Ianto is one of the largest pairings out there, but it would be unforgivable to not include Jack.
(This is about 80% theoretical, mind. I'm not nearly comfortable enough with my art abilities to do it yet, and also I've kind of never drawn, oh, almost all of them. Still, I've actually got quite a good list so far: Kirk/Spock, Starsky/Hutch (let it never be said that I cannot go old-school), Jim/Blair, Fraser/RayK, Mulder/Krycek, Angel/Spike, Jack/Daniel, John/Rodney, Doctor/Master, Clark/Lex, Sam/Gene, Sam/Dean, Nathan/Peter, House/Wilson, and wasn't there some Highlander pairing or another? I would prefer not to leave things out just because I'm utterly unfamiliar with them. It must be comprehensive. So, if there's anything I've missed, feel free to chime in.)
Oh, and: no, I haven't forgotten about the latest episodes of Torchwood; I've been a bit incredibly busy, so I haven't bothered to write anything up about them, but I shall make a post combining all of them probably sometime in the following week. Let me just say that I loved 'A Day in the Death', was pleasantly surprised by 'Something Borrowed', thought 'Out of the Rain' had so much more potential than what they gave it, don't actually have very much to say about 'Adrift' at all, and am torn between quite liking some parts of 'Fragments' and narrowing my eyes at others. Don't you fucking do that to UNIT, Chris Chibnall. I barely know them and I'm still defensive of them.
Right. Off to go read more porn about a character I haven't met yet. Ta!
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| 2008-03-14 09:56 |
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And now, the obligatory Revealing of the Meme.
1) Sam Tyler - guessed by swingerzetta and cosmicavatar
2) Dean Winchester - guessed by 47_trek_47, cosmicavatar, and shizuka_blooms
3) Shawn Spencer - guessed by bats_eye and shizuka_blooms
4) The Almighty and Long-suffering Impala - guessed by cosmicavatar and shizuka_blooms
5) Angela Petrelli - guessed by cosmicavatar and shizuka_blooms
6) Juliet O' Hara - guessed by nobody, but then, I suppose she doesn't actually stand out much if you're not actively thinking of her, and she's new to my list
7) Ianto Jones, also guessed by nobody, possibly because he doesn't go much for being showy and distinctive.
8) Monica Dawson - guessed by harena, cosmicavatar, angiepenguin, and shizuka_blooms
9) Cut-Throat Bitch, also known as Amber Volakis - guessed by cosmicavatar and shizuka_blooms
10) Test Card Girl, also known as WTF CREEPY CLOWN DOLL GIRL - guessed by swingerzetta and cosmicavatar
Yeah, so, maybe a few of mine were a bit obscure. But I was running out of Heroes characters. (Someone suggested 3 might be Bela, which--ahahahaha, would be a so very interesting meeting. Poor Shawn. )
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| 2008-02-15 17:20 |
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A summary of my day, in six-word segments:
Vid won't save. Restart. No go.
Vid won't save. Try new method?
Life on Mars, the song: earwormy.
Preacher, the comic: Garth Ennis? Awesome.
Can't find friends' house. Memories: fail.
Fairy-tale musical: surprisingly dirty, oh my.
Ordering pizza: why so complicated? Mysterious.
Found: $31. Origins: gremlins? Bought soda.
Vid won't save. New method: questionable.
David Bowie's Jean Genie: female? Huh.
Vid won't save. Suspecting infernal interference.
Want Torchwood. Cannot has Torchwood. Alas.
Ballroom Blitz: not Misfits; Sweet, apparently.
Want draw? No. Want write? No.
Want vid? THAT WOULD BE NICE.
Read fic; Ianto = Time Lord. Interesting.
Catch up on TV? Not today.
Read six-word stories. End results: guess.
Bored, so, six words six fandoms:
Car accident, then timeshift; bad day.
Time travel: always better with two.
Some family: not just the flying.
Cardiff: alien sex capital of world.
"Physician, heal thyself"; load of crap.
Ancient alien races are always idiots.
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To reiterate, House: oh my god. That's got to be some kind of slash revolution, right there. Has that ever happened before? On any show? Praise be to the Lord for Doris Egan; she is as unto a deity herself. I am sure that something must be said for Leonard Dick, her co-writer, but Doris Egan is the one whom I know has spoken openly and approvingly of slash and fanfiction in general, and I was once at a panel of hers where she said that, during her time on Smallville, one of the producers once asked her if she knew if the "gay sex people" liked the show; there is no limit to the amount of props that can be given to this lady.
...also, if Amber is a metaphor for House, and Kutner asked her out, well. Well, I pay too much attention to these things. But I would not be surprised if Doris Egan's going for the Everyone Is Bi theory, given that one other comment in the episode. Which reminds me that I'm two episodes behind on Torchwood, but it's not my fault, I watch it with my parents and we haven't had a properly free evening yet. Perhaps this weekend.
On a related subject: I have discovered that I possess a certain kind of laugh which I have decided to term the Slasher's Cackle; it comes when one sees a direct reference to the gay in a TV show. Needless to say, it is a constant when one is watching Torchwood. A constant. As with the last episode of House, of course. In any case, it is a much clearer and sharper laugh than I usually have, perhaps because it is a much more joyous laugh than I usually have.
OH AND. SGA 4x15, 'Outcast'? Yes yes, John backstory, the simultaneous refutation and confirmation of fanon, that lovely bit with Rodney in the beginning, where the hell did Teyla go, all that jazz, but did John really show Ronon Blades of Glory? Why that movie, out of all the movies he could have chosen, did he pick the gaytastic ice skating movie? See the aforementioned Slasher's Cackle. And now, to bed.
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Dammit, I want porn. Okay, maybe not really smutty and overly-detailed porn, but I feel like I haven't read a decent sex scene in forever, and this is very strange to me, because I am not really a porn person. I tend to skip past it when it shows up--I have a very specific set of parameters when it comes to sex scenes, and it is hard to find stuff that falls under all of them. It goes: no adjectives or descriptions (some adjectives are okay, but I suspect you can probably guess what I am talking about when it comes to descriptions), nothing particularly kinky (psychological kink, now, that I can get behind, so to speak), must have some kind of plausible build-up and emotional resonance (not as hard to find as the others, but still, not everything has enough of it), and must make some part of me go all wibbly (the hardest to categorize, naturally); needless to say, I'm picky as hell and this makes me kind of sad, because when I really want to find some porn, I can't find any I like. So. I'm lazy. Rec me something. To give you a vague idea of what I do like, well, these are my two stand-bys: entangled_now's Paper and Ink and Unique Sins, which, while both needing visits from the Comma Fairy and both being PG-13, never fail to get me. It may be the unrequited thing. I really, really like the unrequited thing. And see, for me, those are hot, even though neither of them contain much in the way of actual sex; they've got the right level of emotions and characterization with just a little bit of sex, and that makes for a very happy futuresoon. I'm just weird that way.
Of course, none of these rules apply to fics for Live Free or Die Hard, for some reason, so don't rec me anything from there (if any of you even know the fandom); I've already read them all. Seriously. It's a small fandom and once I realized the rules didn't apply, I devoured everything it had and continue to do so. I should probably see the movie at some point. Anyway. If you think you know anything that might fit, send it my way, or even if you think it might sort of fit; I'm really craving Nathan/Peter at the moment, but I suspect some decent Mylar or Plaude would not go amiss, or unrequited!Adam/Hiro, or Bryce/Chuck, or any other pairing you think I'd like. Or House/Kutner. But there isn't any. I checked. There is none. The world doesn't know a good thing when it sees it, I swear.
(Interestingly enough, the anti-LFODH for me is SGA; I pretty much reject porn of any kind from there, regardless of whether it fits into my categories or not. I have not, as of yet, figured out why this is. It may have something to do with not really considering McKay all that attractive, but given how fervently I support the pairing in general--hah, it says something about the SGA fandom that I don't even have to specify what "the pairing" is--I really don't know.)
Another rec in general, because I was re-reading this while I realized I was really craving some porn: thebratqueen's A Tiny Platform, which was written after the first episode of the second season of Heroes but before the second episode of the second season, and thus has been Jossed to a truly spectacular degree, and is pretty much insanely awesome on every conceivable level, and is technically NC-17 but only because of approximately 200 words, exactly two of which could be considered dirty (not counting the swear words), and is the kind of thing that just makes a fan of (temporarily)unrequited!emotionallyresonant!characterization!notparticularlydetailed!sex go wild. My point being: look, I just gave you stuff, now you give me stuff. It's only fair.
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| 2008-02-03 14:22 |
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The results of the last meme, for your viewing pleasure:
1) Olive Snook - Guessed by wee_warrior and shizuka_blooms
2) John Casey - Guessed by angiepenguin , wee_warrior , and shizuka_blooms
3) Peter Petrelli - Guessed by shizuka_blooms and wee_warrior
4) Gregory House - Guessed by wee_warrior and shizuka_blooms
5) Sarah Jane Smith - Guessed by wee_warrior
6) Martha Jones - Guessed by wee_warrior
7) The Master - Guessed by wee_warrior
8) Owen Harper - Guessed by wee_warrior
9) Adam Monroe - Guessed by shizuka_blooms
10) Jim Profit - Guessed by wee_warrior
I think that I shall call this one the Whoniverse edition. Or perhaps the Bastard edition. And now, the questions and answers, modified with names and pronouns.
(Side note for clarity--Profit is played by Adrian Pasdar, so logically Peter and Adam would have some interesting reactions to seeing him.)
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And now, since all the numbers have been guessed, the answers to the character meme:
1) Guessed by wee_warrior and shizuka_blooms: Chuck Bartowski
2) Guessed by eryslash, wee_warrior, shizuka_blooms, and harena: Heidi Petrelli
3) Guessed by shizuka_blooms: Dr. Whatsisface Kutner
4) Guessed by shizuka_blooms: Dr. James Wilson
5) Guessed by shizuka_blooms: Ned
6) Guessed by wee_warrior, harena, and shizuka_blooms: Nathan Petrelli
7) Guessed by wee_warrior, eryslash, and (eventually) shizuka_blooms: Mr. Motherfucking Muggles
8) Guessed by wee_warrior and shizuka_blooms: Bryce Larkin
9) Guessed by wee_warrior: John Winchester
10) Guessed by shizuka_blooms: Ari Gold
( And all the questions asked, with the names filled in, for the sake of amusement... )
God, that was way too much fun. If time-consuming. I think I planned on getting stuff done in the past four hours, but evidently not...
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WHY IS TV BACK. DAMMIT, I WAS JUST GETTING USED TO HAVING FREE TIME. There's even a Supernatural, which--gah, I know I won't be able to watch it live, and I know I'll put off watching it because I want to do other things (like vid, dammit), and I still need to watch the third SCC (and I bet there's another one coming up real fast), and Torchwood just won't stop coming....
...*takes a look at what she just wrote*
UH ANYWAY. HOUSE.
And I may be late to the party, but by god, I'm going to talk about the cheese dip anyway:
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Sweet holy fuck, the Heroes Slash Awards are up again and there is no way in hell I am going to be able to read all those. It is times like this that I realize just how freakishly popular Mylar and Matt/Mohinder are--I'd say they easily comprise 70% of the noms. But I shall persevere. (And skip most of them.) I definitely encourage you to go out there and at least read and vote for some of them; there's a lot of great stuff out there, and I find it to be awesome that selenak's Dreaming made it to the list of Best Molly Characterization, because that's an awesome, awesome story and she deserves the ego boost. (Can you guess which one I'm voting for in that category? I'm sure it's a total mystery.) I got a few noms myself--Best Overall for El Laberinto del Destino, which surprised the hell out of me, Best Crossover for the House crossover, which did not really surprise me at all, Best Epic for the BDPS, and, er, well, in Best Nathan/Peter (G-PG13), I appear to be going up against myself--twice, with Develop; It's Sort of Like Voyeurism, In That It's Exactly Like Voyeurism; and Five Crimes the Petrelli Brothers Said They Didn't Commit (And One They Really Didn't). Also the BDPS for Best Nathan/Peter (R-NC-17). Er. Wow. Pretty good birthday present, this.
I'm not going to tell you to vote for me, although you certainly can if you want to, because I'm up against some serious competition* (even if some of that competition is myself); so again, I encourage you to go read the other stuff and make the best judgment you can. And that's all for now. Go. Read.
*I'm up against Lethe's Shore! In two different categories! Oh god, I'm so dead.
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| 2008-01-15 21:30 |
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Having just seen the first episode of Psych: yeah, so, I'm doomed. At least this one has comparatively short seasons. Also, hey, it's Cutthroat Bitch! She's pretty. Her partner is not so pretty. Shawn is very pretty, even if he has a big nose. Actually he kind of looks like angsty Wesley, only without the angst. And the accent. And pretty much everything else that made Wesley Wesley, except for the tendency to know stuff that comes in handy for saving the day. I have decided, for entirely understandable and possibly prescient reasons, that Psych is the anti-Dead Zone; instead of a psychic who lives in Maine and works with the police and his black best friend, all of whom trust him absolutely, we have a guy who pretends to be a psychic and lives in California where he works with the police and his black best friend, none of whom trust him at all. Also so far Shawn has very few vendettas against political candidates destined to destroy the country, and he seems pretty happy. Also: no illegitimate children. These are very important things, I am sure.
In addition to kind-of-accidentally watching the first episode of Psych (I put the first season on our Netflix queue a long time ago, because I couldn't find a torrent for it, but I forgot about it, until the first disc came in the mail today and I decided what the hell), I've been getting rather heavily into the Sarah Jane Adventures, because it is like Doctor Who only with less dying and more middle-aged ladies kicking ass. (It helps that the episodes are only 26 minutes long and there are only ten of them.) It is nice to see a show in which one does not have to place a great deal of emotional involvement; I can just sit back, relax, and enjoy the cheesy kids-show dialogue. Plus the middle-aged lady kicking ass. And the occasional references to UNIT. I hear tell that UNIT will be involved in the fourth season of Doctor Who, and Sarah Jane actually mentions calling the Brig, so: I need to watch more classic!Who episodes featuring that particular gang, which is of course why I have started acquiring episodes from well before that; I've got The Very First Episode of Doctor Who Ever, and another one from One, and I think one from Two. My education: impending.
I've also got the pilot of Sarah Connor Chronicles waiting for me, and I am hearing vaguely good things about it, even though this is the show that yanked Zach away from Heroes (damn you, Fox, and your dislike of the gay), so I am sure I will get into that. Plus the latest episode of SGA, and Lost is going to start up soon, and there's a couple more episodes of House lurking on the horizon, and at least one or two more episodes of Chuck, plus the rest of SGA, and the return of Torchwood and Doctor Who, and...well, let it suffice to say that the writers' strike is not actually helping to curb my wild and crazy lifestyle.
(I should probably finish the rest of Entourage at some point, too.)
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My Christmas/New Year's gift to all of you: Peter Petrelli getting the crap kicked out of him by a number of things, including his own body.
This Is Getting To Be A Habit, or Why It Isn't A Good Idea To Get Stabbed In The Head (a very special House crossover), part one
Pairing: Implied Nathan/Peter
Rating: PG-13
Wordcount: 13,055
Spoilers: Absolutely zero spoilers for House; surprisingly, the only Heroes spoilers are for 1x18, Parasite. And the boys' second-season haircuts.
Notes: Takes place some time between the second season finale of Heroes and the third season finale of House; presumably, somewhere in April or May 2007. I'd like to thank shizuka_blooms and thorog for providing medical knowledge, and I'd like to blame shizuka_blooms, eryslash, and, though he doesn't know it, my own father, for all of this in general.
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This Is Getting To Be A Habit, or Why It Isn't A Good Idea To Get Stabbed In The Head (a very special House crossover), part two
Pairing: Implied Nathan/Peter
Rating: PG-13
Wordcount: 13,055
Spoilers: Absolutely zero spoilers for House; surprisingly, the only Heroes spoilers are for 1x18, Parasite. And the boys' second-season haircuts.
Notes: Takes place some time between the second season finale of Heroes and the third season finale of House; presumably, somewhere in April or May 2007. I'd like to thank shizuka_blooms and thorog for providing medical knowledge, and I'd like to blame shizuka_blooms, eryslash, and, though he doesn't know it, my own father, for all of this in general.
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