...so I've been catching up on Supernatural. I'm about halfway through 5x10 at the moment, and the ep started with the boys trying to retreive the Colt from a demon.

A demon named CROWLEY.

Seriously, I'm still wondering what the hell happened to Aziraphale. Really, I am.


And also, incidentally, said demon is played by Mark Sheppard, who just keeps showing up in stuff that I watch. (So far, Firefly, BSG, Leverage, Dollhouse, NCIS, Supernatural, and - randomly, the one episode of Medium that I've watched in my entire life just had to have him in it. It's like one of us is stalking the other or something.)

(regarding 5x10 and the whole Raising Death thing: Death had BETTER, had BETTER show up looking like a perky Goth chick. Otherwise I am hunting down the writers and letting them know how unhappy I am.)

PS. I probably should have noticed earlier, but on the credits two of the crew/producer/writer types are Jeremy Carver and Ben Edlund. Hm. Not obvious where they got that name AT ALL.

Stolen from scripps

Rules:
1. Pick a character, pairing, or fandom you like.
2. Put iTunes or equivalent media player on random.
3. For each song that plays, write something related to the theme you picked inspired by the song. You have only the time frame of the song: no planning beforehand: you start when it starts, and no lingering afterward; once the song is over, you stop writing. (No fair skipping songs either; you have to take what comes by chance!)
4. Do 5 of these, then post.

Fandom: The History Boys
Pairing: Dakin/Scripps
Rating: PG-13 to be safe

( Well, musically speaking, that could have been a lot worse... )

Well. New Moon is, surprisingly, actually kind of a good movie.

I know. Surprising, huh?

Admittedly, the reasons I enjoyed it were, in no particular order:

- the sheer cheesiness that descended any time anything resembling a Cullen was onscreen
- the Quileutes. Specifically, the really buff werewolf Quileutes.
- Charlie Swan, who actually is just awesome.
- Edward's planned Suicide By Public Sparkling.
- the Volturi being... well, mostly just plain freaky.

Other things I should mention:

- the Ghost!Edwards that Bella kept seeing whenever she did anything reckless. I mean, SERIOUSLY?
- Alice. We-ell... the Ferrari was cool.
- Jasper looked considerably less constipated than in the last movie. And for a moment, I think he actually SMILED.
- ...okay, so maybe I saw a teeny, teeny bit of Bella/Carlisle there. Just a teeny bit...
- I had a "wait, is that..." moment with the Volturi. 'Cause, you know Marcus? Yeah, that's the guy who was Alistair v2.0 on Supernatural. And TWO characters on Sanctuary.
- I mentioned the totally hot werewolf guys already, right?

That's... about it, really. Oh, except for the OMGCLIFFHANGER ending, which was (IMO) the crappiest and least romantic proposal of marriage ever. He could at LEAST have gone down on one knee. It was, however, mildly hilarious that the kids at the front of the cinema where I saw the movie went AWWWWWW when the film just cut to black and then, oops, CREDITS. Still, I imagine they won't have to wait too long. Eclipse will probably be out... next year sometime, going by the current schedule.


(Oh, and while I was walking home from the cinema, I was working out how to write a Twilight/True Blood fusion fic without handwaving the obvious differences between the realTB vamps and the Cullens. I think I figured out something, too...)

So, I was randomly watching this episode of Xena earlier.

It was an episode with (young, very hot) Karl Urban in, so, YAY, bonus. Right up until that part of my brain that works entirely in terms of TVTropes pointed out that the episode was essentially one big confrontation between D'Anna Biers and Dr McCoy. Which is certainly something to think about.

Damn Actor Rule...

Stolen from drabblewriter

1. Write down the names of 10 characters.
2. Write a fic of fifteen words or less for every prompt, using the characters determined by the numbers. Do NOT read the prompts before you do step 1.

Fandom is Heroes.

Characters are:

1. Emma Coolidge
2. Samuel Sullivan
3. Tracy Strauss
4. Peter Petrelli
5. Claire Bennet
6. Gabriel “Sylar” Gray
7. Elle Bishop
8. Matt Parkman
9. Elle Bishop
10. Mohinder Suresh

( That was fun! )

OK, so. As you may have gathered from last night's (technically THIS MORNING'S) post, I have finished Season 2.

The finale kinda knocked me for six, slightly (read: massively). So much so that it made me use a sports metaphor just there and I don't usually do that.

ANYWAY. I have now seen the first one-and-a-half episodes of SEASON THREE (re: the half... blame streaming sites and the fact that I don't live in the US). So far, it is glorious, except for *grits teeth* Carter Baizen, who can go DIAF.

ANYWAY. Georgina's back. And at NYU. With Dan and Vanessa and (tee hee) Blair. And she's being... well, Georgina. Not Jesus Camp Georgina, though, that was scary. Just the regular evil-manipulative-Georgina. And I have this problem, because a while back I had this random, slightly cracky idea that at [some unspecified time in their post-college lives] Dan and Georgina meet, by accident, in Vegas and get drunk!married in one of those chapel places with an Elvis impersonator performing the ceremony.

(No, I don't know where that came from either. Yes, it worries me too.)

My problem is that now, every time I see them on screen together, all I can think is "yep, drunk!married in Vegas". THIS IS NOT GOOD, PEOPLE.

(It gets even worse... in the crazy post-college world I've apparently invented for them, they have a KID. Carolina Sparks-Humphrey. She takes after Dan, thankfully.)

Oh, and Scott AKA The Lost Humphrey Brother... I'm quite impressed that the casting people found someone who a) looks enough like Penn Badgeley to conceivably be related and b) looks so much like he could be Matthew Settle's kid.


PS. If I could also get Lady Gaga OUT of my head, that would be good. But I'm not expecting miracles.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

Yeah, I just watched the last five episodes of Season Two.


AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH is about the only response I have right now.

RANDOM STUFF

1. Jesus!Camp!Georgina is, if anything, EVEN SCARIER than the usual G.

2. Um. I love Dan. This is all.

3. NAAAAAATE! YAY, he was awesome and rebelled against Don Corleonehis grandfather! Woo!

4. For one horrible moment, I thought Jonathan was GG. It was weird. He wasn't even a candidate.

5. Errr... what exactly DID G do to Poppy? Or do I really not want to know? I don't think I want to know, somehow...

6. WOO! RUFUS PROPOSED. FINALLY. (3.05, 3.05, 3.05)

7. 80s!Lily was cool. But I wanted to know what happened with Owen...

8. whoa, whoa, whoa, WTF... Coffee Shop Guy, Scott, the one who was talking to Dan. He's... OMG, he's not the Lost Humphrey-van der Woodsen Baby, is he? I think he is. In which case, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!

9. *EPIC FLAIL* CHUCK SAID 'I LOVE YOU'. ACTUALLY TO BLAIR THIS TIME. *FLAIL*

(Chuck did have so, so many moments of AWESOMENESS in these eps, too. Honestly, if he and Blair weren't soulmates, I'd marry him myself. I would. Really.)

10. Penelope, etc., can go DIAF. On that note, GO JENNY!

And now, because it's now just after 1am, I'm going to bed. Tomorrow: SEASON THREE. *squee*

See, I've been watching this new show White Collar. It's good. (Not quite hitting Leverage standards, but perfectly acceptable)

I'm also reading my local library's copy of the original text of On the Road.

These are not two things that would ordinarily connect themselves. But then something clicked in my head and I realised that the name 'Neal Caffrey' (main character of White Collar) is vaguely similar to 'Neal Cassady' (vitally important to On the Road, what with the fact that he basically was Dean Moriarty).

I have no idea if this has any significance to anything, or what that significance might be. But sometimes, I really, really hate the fact that I have a very good memory for useless information, and the fact that I make these insanely random connections on a fairly frequent basis.

(One time, I think it must have been after browsing TVTropes, I came to the realisation that Schindler's List is effectively Voldemort vs. Qui-Gon Jinn.... actually, stuff like that happens a lot... damn you, Actor Rule and TVTropes in general!)

Well. Waters of Mars MESSED ME UP, guys. And seeing as I'm anticipating that The End of Time (grrr, I hate that name) is going to mess me up even more, I've decided that between now and Christmas (5-6 weeks I think) is going to be spent watching (...and rewatching, and re-re-watching) Star Trek (2009) on DVD.

I figure that if I concentrate on ST to the point where I can recite every line, that ought to get me back to a point of not being terrified of the Doctor any more.

(I might also break it up a bit with Heroes, Gossip Girl and FlashForward, just for the variety.)

Uhhhhh... ok, the episode finished literally sixteen minutes ago (from time of writing), so everything still a little raw. But what the hell, I'll try and post something coherent anyway.

( SPOILERS. DO NOT READ IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO BE SPOILED )

IN CONCLUSION:

Well, thanks, guys, I think you maybe just broke my heart a bit.

On the other hand... RTD, that was actually good and did not suck at all. You're now slightly less on notice than you were before.

(Hey, you didn't think I was going to forgive him for Children of Earth THAT easily, did you? There are still 2x specials to go, you know....)

It's November. I have just under 40000 words to go on my NaNovel. I also have a Fringe/Torchwood fusion fanfic that started out as a comment_fic prompt and has become just the tiniest bit longer than comment-sized, and I've only just hit the halfway mark.

Nonetheless, the urge to Procrastinate is strong, and I just spent the last hour and a half on:

- syncing Lady Gaga's album to my iPod
- desyncing some tracks I haven't listened to in ages.
- tagging fanfics that I need/want to read on Delicious.
- wandering around Abney Park's website.
- reading the blogs of various AP members.
- reading the blogs of Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman.
- checking film times at the local cinema online.

...all of which could easily have been put off until later. Now, the library calls, and I do need to actually leave the house today.

I read the new Batman graphic novel today (Neil Gaiman's "Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?").

It's not very long, but it's quite beautiful, really. It feels like the "last" Batman story (and Gaiman said in the introduction that it will be HIS last Batman story as a writer), even though I think, and hope, that there will be more. It feels like... skipping to the end of a novel to read the ending, without reading the middle bits first.

And it's made me think about the whole Batman mythology. See, generally, people think that "Batman" is just Bruce Wayne in a costume. But that doesn't feel right to me. To me, I don't think it matters that when Batman takes off his mask, he turns back into Bruce Wayne. It's a little bit like V for Vendetta, in a way (GN, not movie) - with V, it doesn't MATTER who's underneath the mask, because whoever wears it is V, for as long as they can/have to be. V for Vendetta ends with Evey taking up the mantle (and mask). And I think that, when Bruce Wayne (not Batman, this is an important distinction) dies, there will be someone else, another Evey, to pick up the baton, to wear the mask and the cape and to stand between the darkness and the light.

I don't know who it'll be, or even if the guys at DC will take this route one day. But I think it would be the right thing to do, because Batman is more than just one man, he's a symbol, an idea.

And, to use my favourite V quote, ideas are bulletproof.







(On a much, much shallower and less philosophical note, it occurred to me that a *certain couple* from one of my favourite TV shows reminds me quite a lot of Batman/Catwoman. The couple in question is Chuck Bass/Blair Waldorf, and I feel like I ought to be apologising to someone for having that thought... I just wish I knew who.)

This is totally silly, and completely irrelevant, but I was watching my comfort-show (Criminal Minds... yeah, that's my comfort show...), and it transpires that Reid, who knows... lots of stuff and has three PhDs and an eidetic memory and can read really, really fast...

HAS NEVER HEARD OF TWILIGHT.

This makes me irrationally happy...


(My second favourite Totally Irrelevant Thing We Know About The Team Now is that, apparently, Hotch's favourite album is the Beatles' White Album. Which is good, because yay, he has good taste in music.)





[Disclaimer: Yes, I'm crazy. I know.]

We have a new addition to my (already HUGE) somewhat insane family... my cousin L just had a baby boy (7 pounds 10, everything seems healthy)!


...yay, another second cousin for me. Like I don't have enough of those already...

...

I made a Dreamwidth account.

Username is trillianastra, same as here.

THE ANONYMOUS WRITING FEEDBACK MEME


Rules for the meme:

1. If you’re a writer, comment to this post with your username.
2. Commenters, no drama please. Play like adults. And writers, be prepared for any comment.
3. Pimp the meme out by posting the above code into your journal.
4. Be honest.

Title: The Boys Watch The Girls Watch The Boys Watch The… Boys?
Fandom: Leverage
Characters/Pairings: Nate/Maggie/Eliot, Sophie, Hardison and Parker mentioned.
Spoilers: None.
Prompt: Nate watches Maggie as she watches Eliot who watches Nate, for pesha at comment_fic

A/N: I think this comes somewhere at the end of Season One. Or maybe it’s the beginning of an AU Season Two, where Maggie’s joined the team. I’m really not sure…

The title is a deliberate misquote of the lyrics to "Music to Watch Girls By", by Andy Williams.

( the boys watch the girls watch the boys watch the... boys? )

...I just wrote 6080 words in four hours.

On the plus side, total word count is now 10164, so at least I've passed the 20% mark.


(ohhh, god, why do I do this to myself....)

Seen: from "chuck in real life" (ep 7) to "gone with the will" (ep 15)

There were so, so many moments that made me go OMGWTFWAIT...

The Big Things, though, are:

1. I do NOT like Uncle Jack. He makes me want to stab things.

2. Presently, I would very much like to rescue Chuck, give him a really big hug, and spirit him away somewhere and look after him.

3. My conviction that Chuck and Blair are soulmates is even stronger than it was before. I think it was the point where the dates they picked for each other for the Snowflake Ball were beta versions of themselves... and the point where the Betas hooked up. Evidently, the universe is dead-set on this relationship happening.

4. And then there's Rufus and Lily. Where to start... well, the Lost Humphrey-van der Woodsen Baby was a surprise, certainly. Then there was the Dan-finding-out part, which got a whole lot more complicated via the addition of GG to the mix... I'm pretty sure having the news published on a website frequented by most of the UES wasn't how Lily wanted her kids to find out (or Rufus, obvs, but he only just found out anyway). Damn you, Nelly Yuki, for being so sneaky and stealing Dan's phone.

(Also not terribly happy with the Adoptive Parents, who totally just told Rufus and Lily that their son was DEAD, just to make them stop trying to make contact. That's harsh, APs.)

5. I am much, much more excited about the new Humphrey-van der Woodsen alliance than I was about the Vanderbass alliance. As I have said before, Rufus and Lily are soulmates. No one - not even Bart - was going to stand in the way of their relationship for long.

Now... onwards, to what I suspect is going to be Blair getting extremely anxious about Yale/college in general...

PS. Dorota is awesome. Nate is still heartstoppingly gorgeous. Jenny... is getting more awesome. Eric is fantastic. Dan is still... wonderful.

(this happens every year, you know. NaNoWriMo starts and suddenly, ALL the plotbunnies go into freaking hyperdrive).

ANYWAY.

The one that showed up today is... and bear with me on this... The Wizard of Oz, Gossip Girl style, and set... well, at the moment either Queens or Staten Island will be standing in for Oz. (Manhattan/Brooklyn is Kansas, obviously)

I narrowed down the Wizard of Oz cast, too, so we have...

Dorothy......................Jenny (she's the youngest and most innocent-looking... it was her or Eric, which would be... ironic, actually)
The Scarecrow................Nate (pretty but not so good with the smarts)
The Cowardly Lion............Dan (think about it...)
The Tin Man Girl......Blair (it makes sense if you think about it)
The Wizard...................Chuck. (like I'd cast anyone else...)

The Wicked Witch Of The West..... Georgina, duh.

(I'm also considering Serena for the Witch of the East, but then I'd have to metaphorically drop a house on her.... then again, maybe the Duchess would be better...)