I, um, don't really have anything coherent to say, so I'll just cut this here to save you all from vigorous glee (and abject sadness) and potential spoilers.

( I'm sorry you had to see me like that )

FUCK AVATAR

I really should be happy about District 9's nomination for best picture, but all I see is the absolute lack of love for Moon (what? I got my hopes up when I shouldn't have, ok?). I wish those movies hadn't come out so close to each other so I could love them separately but equally. (Moon was so much better.)

Goddamnit, I haven't seen a lot of these films, I need to get on that.

Comment and I'll pick three of your fandoms and you'll post the answers to your journal and so on and so forth.

softly_me gave me Lost, The Office, and West Wing

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I feel like I should have some clever way to say hi to all the new friends from the fandomsecrets friending meme. But I don't. Feel free to stop by with a comment, a recommendation, a pic or gif, or a hilarious story. Or, we'll get to know each other later.

The basic bio:
Born and raised in DC, currently in school in Ohio. My fannish origins can be traced back to the fact that puberty and reading Lord of the Rings (and discovery shortly thereafter that there was a movie being released) coincided. I'm superficially in a bunch of fandoms at once because of my extremely obsessive nature. (See the fact that I just finished the 1st season of Leverage, started getting my hands on the second--which I'm still doing--before deciding to watch some Mad Men and deciding I loved that within two episodes. Also someone pointed out that I'd love Dead Like Me, so I'm procuring that as well. This all happened today. I don't know when I'm planning on getting school work done.) Because of this scatter-brained obsession my favorite thing is when my fandoms cross over, see the appearance of Mark Sheppard in Leverage.

I love to squee, don't write fic as much as I wish I did, and generally enjoy life proportionately to how nerdy it allows me to be.

Community was not only hilarious cuz I was tipsy. And I'm still loving it, (Jack Black's guest spot was made of more win than I can say.) but there wasn't a new one this week and so I will watch more Leverage and convince myself that this shouldn't feel like cheating in some weird way.

(Also, I'm embarrassed to admit how much more enjoyable Spanish 102 is because Shirley and Pierece and everyone are taking it right now too. I may have already found Abed and Troy's counterparts in my class.)

Leverage just went from being something that I watch casually to eating my brain. I don't know how it happened. It may have been the Doctor Who reference in 'The Mile High Job', it may be the fact that I have a slash ship, and a femslash ship, and a het ship. (How did that even happen? I don't know. I blame Parker.)

Also, I just finished watching 'The Juror #6 Job' and was very pleased at the appearance of Brent Spiner. And then, Armin Shimerman popped up, and not quite believing it was him I scrounged around on Wikipedia to double check, at which point I discovered that Jonathan Frakes directed that episode. Erm, what? How did this happen and why is it so awesome?

Someday I will be a monogamous fangirl, and have one fandom that I love truly and deeply for months, or even years at a time, but until then I will continue hopping back and forth madly, delighting in all the little crossovers.

I am not a videogame person. The only videogame I've ever played all the way through is Bioshock, (and that was on the super easy mode). This does not mean I wouldn't like to be a videogame person, but I see them sort of in the same light as I see cars. I would love to know the ins and outs of how they work, and be expert at them, but I'm too lazy to put the actual work in so I use them in the most casual of senses.

That said, one of my housemates introduced me to Fallout III the other day (because what could be more fun than running around a post-apocalyptic version of your home town and being killed--multiple times--but mutated naked mole rats). Um, it is amazing. I am still terrible at it, because me and joy sticks (especially when they're plural) are not on the friendliest of terms. But I love the characters, and the free-wheeling plot, and the attention to detail.

Also, Liam Neeson voicing the father figure did things to my emotions that I don't even want to talk about. (Who knew I gave a crap about father figures) He's disappeared and all I wanna do is go find him so he'll speak all soothingly and lovingly at me again.

So, now that it's so late as to be almost inconsequential I figured I'd do a yuletide recap post, mainly for my own edification I suppose.

I wrote Emotional Gunk, a Futurama fic I enjoyed writing quite a bit more than I thought I would. After a few false starts in which I attempted to work in ALL of the pairings my recipient fancied I decided to focus on one and things went well from there.

I received Fix the Sky a Little, a Moon fic that managed my request for slash in the most understated and canon-appropriate way while using 2nd person so deftly I am still a little bit awed. This fic captures the spirit of the film so elegantly, and draws such a wonderful portrait of Sam Bell and his emotions. I love it.

( Which leads me to my recs (Calvin and Hobbes, Community, Ex Machina, Kavalier & Clay, Moon) )

This yuletide was amazing. I can't believe I've never partaken before. Is it time for the next one yet?

Well, first off HAPPY NEW YEAR! I hope it is filled with delightful things for all of you. (I haven't gotten to watch End of Time pt.2 yet--clearly this is the most important thing about this new year--but hopefully I will in the next hour or two. Judging from the vague spoilers I haven't managed to avoid it sounds like I'll be pretty thoroughly crushed.)

I may have spent a substantial portion of yesterday evening being introduced to Community by friends. Um, this show is awesome. It is hilarious and the characters are exceedingly vibrant. Which is what drove me to this post in fact. I would like you all to meet Troy and Abed. They are friends in the mis-matched manner of all those buddy cop movies and Abed currently owns my heart. He breaks the fourth wall all the time because he views life as a TV show and is basically my Junior Project in a character.

I was gonna share my favorite ending credit gag of theirs with you but then I couldn't pick one so instead there are three under a cut. If you would like to share in my squeeing feel free to click.

( Troy and Abed are too adorable for words )

What?

Ok, so maybe I ship them.

It's not like I don't ship enough slash couples already.

Fear in the Night arrived from Netflix yesterday. This is B movie from 1947 that no one has taken the time to restore properly because there is nothing really interesting or different about it. Except (and this might be the only reason it even made it on to DVD) it stars DeForest Kelley. It stars DeForest Kelly 19 years before Star Trek aired.

( Couple pictures and more squeeing under the cut )

In other news, after struggling with a yuletide draft for at least a week I finally gave up and ran with a different idea. I banged out a story in three hours--I'm scared to look it over cuz it's probably terrible, but I'll do it soon, I swear.

So, rampant_chaos8 and I are sticking together a Moon community and as one of the mods (I've never been the mod of anything before, what do I think I'm doing?) I think it's my duty to inform you all that it's up and running (mostly) and you should join us/check it out/see the amazing film.

lunarindustries

(Also, if anyone knows a good place to pimp this, I'm all ears.)

I really wasn't excited about Avatar. It looked silly, and cliche, and dumb. (Not because of the effects, I'm all for CG and 3D and other high-tech things when used in story-advancing ways.)

So why did Simon Pegg's awe-inspired tweet make me want to see this movie? Goddamnit, I knew there was a reason I didn't want to get involved with twitter.

(Sorry for the spamming.)

Err, I have a shiny new Bones mood theme! I've never actually had a complete mood theme before and am more excited about this than I should be. I feel more accomplished about figuring out how to upload it etc. than is entirely reasonable, seeing as I just followed directions and still got it wrong twice. Yeah... I just wanted to squee about it.

(Eventually I'll revamp the user info and layout too--I recently learned comic sans is not a widely appreciated font, gotta do something about that.)

So I just watched Friday's Child for the third time that I can recollect seeing it, and I'm still confused about the relationship between Bones and the kid he delivers. When the mother says the child is Leonard's I feel like it could just be a cultural misinterpretation thing, but something about the undertones makes it seem a whole lot more skeevy than that. I want to believe it's just a cultural misinterpretation--otherwise why wouldn't she let him touch her from the beginning of the episode? Uh, do any of you have ideas on this front? I am totally not over-analyzing this. It is important to know ALL about Leonard McCoy's sexual history.

On another note I have decided it would be better idea to introduce my housemate to TNG via a crash course as opposed to watching every single episode (cuz let's admit, there're some terrible episodes). Does anyone have any opinions to which episodes are vital to an understanding and appreciation of the series? I'm taking any suggestions.

Dear Yuletide Writer,

( Rambling, potentially incoherent, letter under the cut )

Fandom: The Tick/Watchmen
Characters: Arthur, Mothman
Title: Wings
Rating: PG
Word Count: 2600
Summary: Crossover between The Tick and Watchmen, Arthur finds out Mothman is institutionalized only a couple of hours away and goes to visit him.
A/N:So, I finally finished it. Once again my attempt at writing crack has been derailed into something way more serious than it has any right to be. I've probably messed up the continuity of one or both of these fandoms in an attempt to get this to work, apologies in advance. Feedback and concrit are always appreciated.

( They're both moths )

I'm doing Yuletide this year. There are so many things I desperately want fic for, and I thought it would be a good way to stretch writing muscles I haven't worked in a really long time. I am terrified, but I've signed up and hopefully not completely botched the form. Next post in here will be my Dear Yuletide Writer letter, which the internet has informed me I should write, although I'm still shaky about what to put into it. Did I mention I'm ridiculously nervous?

Also, I continue to watch my way through TOS and it continues to be awesome. I'm still compiling evidence that Spock/McCoy is just as legitimate a ship as Kirk/Spock. Just finished Season 1 last night, and Operation Annihilate has a wonderful little scene at the end that my slasher heart chooses to interpret in delicious ways. Behold:



I watched Casanova, and was a little disappointed. I choose to blame RTD for this--cuz that's the fashionable thing to do these days, right?

The house I'm living in at college this year, is putting together a D&D game. I am more excited than words can say. I've always wanted to play in a real, ongoing D&D campaign that grows and expands, with characters you get to know over the weeks. Up until now my D&D adventures have never lasted more than a couple days. I rolled up a character yesterday (a Gnome Rogue) and already it's hard not to talk about her all the time. I fear for the already tenuous grasp I have on reality.

So, I got my hands on a copy of Blackpool and it has now been consuming my brain for almost a week. I had no idea I missed David Tennant so much until I started watching this Saturday night. I don't care that all his mannerisms seem to be exactly the same in this and Doctor Who, in fact, I think I prefer it that way.

This happens! This exists in the world and I've watched it more times than I can keep track of. How I didn't discover this until now I have no idea.


I also got my paws on Casanova. I'm looking forward to that immensely, but I'm not sure it can top Blackpool. We'll have to see.

Also, it was pointed out to me today that Pia Guerra, one of the illustrators of Y: The Last Man worked on the Doctor Who comic, The Forgotten and now I really wanna read it, plus it has all ten incarnations of the Doctor in it. Have any of you read it? Is it any good? Should I buy the trade?

Uh, speaking of rediscovering how much I enjoy David Tennant. I want a fic where the Doctor (any incarnation really) uses the Sonic Screw Driver as a sex toy. Don't ask me why this thought titillates me so, but I'm sure someone out there has written it, right? Surely my knowledgeable flist knows?

Speaking of desiring fics, I'm thinking about participating in Yuletide this year because surely I can convince someone to write Moon or The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay fic if I write them something decent in return. Right? That's how yuletide works? Once again, I was wondering if said flist had any sage advice for me before I partake in this daunting adventure.

Fuck homework. There was a Moon secret on fandomsecrets yesterday. I'm writing Moon fanfiction in my email at work. That is totally a legit thing to do.

So, I'm doing my junior project on The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. You may recall me ranting joyfully about it before. Anyway, since I'm doing my project on it I decided it was perfectly legitimate to buy the collected issues of The Escapist comic books (that's how cool this book is, the fictional comic book superhero created for it has now transcended the bounds of the book and wandered out into real comic books. Some of which claim to be written by Kavalier and Clay. My geek heart swells with joy.)

Anyway, buying these collections led to me discovering that none other than Brian K. Vaughan has written a spin-off of sorts, an expansion of Michael Chabon's world. The Escapists. This is beyond amazing. I fell madly, deeply in love with Kavalier and Clay and everything that existed in their world, and now, it turns out one of my favorite writers has expanded on that world. The comic is as amazing as is to be expected, I'm about halfway through and don't even know what to do with all the happiness it creates. The introduction is written by Chabon. It's Sammy Clay, at a convention in 1988 in Cleveland (oh, right, the story takes place in Cleveland! The city I already had an irrational love of) meeting a ten-year-old Vaughan and turning him onto comics. Vaughan rescues Sammy from a supply closet! (It's a long story.) I don't even know what to do with myself.

Now, if I could actually write something intelligent about all of this for my Junior project I'd be set.

Here, have a meme-type-thing. Fill it out if you want, cuz I'd love to learn more about any of you. Snagged from serentyveritas

1. Name:
2. Birthday:
3. Where do you live:
4: What are you studying/What are you working as:
5. What makes you happy:
6. What are you listening to now/have listened to last:
7. What is particularly good/bad about my LJ:
8. An interesting fact about you:
9. Are you in love/have a crush at the moment:
10. Favorite place to be:
11. Favorite lyric:
12. Best time of the year:
13. Weirdest food you like:

RECOMMEND
1. A film:
2. A book:
3. A song:
4: A band:

FANDOM
1. Favorite Fandom:
2. OTP/OT3:
3. Icon/Fic Journal (so I can join):

PLUS
1. One thing you like about me:
2. Two things you like about yourself:
3. Put this in your lj so I can tell you what I think of you?

Wearing my Leonardo Reapers hat, my RST Video shirt, chewing a stick of gum and looking out at the world with a sense of superior condescension. I do work with the library's VHS collection after all.

This is the most secret nerdy costume I've ever worn.

So, uh, I watched White Noise 2 the other day. Two seconds with the cast list should tell you why. Mal and Starbuck in the same movie? How could I could pass this up? Also, surprise SG-1 cast member for the win. I believe more of my fandoms existed simultaneously in this than in anything else ever.

The movie itself was terrible, but I expected that. Was almost pleased by it honestly. If it had been any good I might have been distressed.

There is even a scene where (after Nathan Fillion's started seeing that people are gonna die soon) his snarky black friend (every bad horror movie's gotta have one of those, right?) asks him if he thinks he's some kind of super hero. Which Nathan Fillion quickly denied. I took it upon myself to explain to my computer screen that he was, in fact, a super hero, and his name was Captain Hammer. Seconds later, mere seconds! Snarky friend, continuing with the super hero theme, suggests he thinks he's some kind of Captain Tightpants. I laughed out loud. This line made the whole hour and a half worth while. As did, you know, the fact that Mal and Starbuck were flirting with each other awkwardly.