So, True Blood. I was all excited for it since we didn't get an ep last week, and... blah. I am so bored with this stupid Marianne character and how her SUPER EVIL POWERS make everyone in town have wild hot sex with each other in public and eat dirt. I mean... COME ON. CAN WE PLEASE GET A MOVE ON WITH THIS STORY? If there even is one, jeez. I used to love Tara, I used to love Sam, I used to love Sam/Tara, I used to love the townspeople, and... now I just want them all off my screen. Ugh. Even Jason was more interesting this week than the town, and Jason's storyline is pretty effing boring (except, of course, when he gets naked). Lafayette was awesome as always, and he freaking cracked me up like crazy in his last scene. Eric is the epitome of awesome and every freaking scene should contain this man because good lord does he make everything 10 times more interesting than they would be without him. Seriously, the show should just entirely be him and Bill arguing with each other and insinuating gay vampiric love happenings while Lafayette dances around them and Jason streaks by every now and then with his lovely body on display, and Jessica can come in and pester Bill about something and then stomp out saying that he's so unfair, and then Sookie can come in and have crazy hot love vibes with Eric while Bill fumes and pushes her out of the room while she's all like, "BILL! I can decide for myself when to leave a room, thank you very much," and Jessica would be off dazzling some poor schlub while Bill is busy fuming over Sookie, and Eric will just watch it all with a smirk on his face (while he pines for his lost love Godric. Seriously, there's something going on there, and Bill knows it). THIS would be a winning show. Or, you know, kill Marianne and make the townspeople charming again. Anyway, I am still so, so in love with Jessica. She is the greatest thing to ever happen to this show. And Eric and Sookie's amusement over how she frustrates Bill is the GREATEST.

In Plain Sight. It made me cry. It made me laugh. It made me roll my eyes. All good stuff. Seriously cannot wait to see Marshall's reaction to the development that came out of this episode. Something stupid that I did: I went to the USA boards just to see what the chatter was, and, ugh, everyone is still so anti-Mary/Marshall that it kills me. Like, they are actually saying stuff like, "I don't see it. Marshall doesn't have feelings for Mary, that's a load of crap. I don't care what the actor said. Marshall doesn't like her like that." UM, YES HE DOES, YOU MORON. THIS IS CANON, FOR PETE'S SAKE! Jeez, apparently the show has to have him actually say the words to get it across to these stubborn douches instead of just Marshall not-so-subtly-but-apparently-too-subtly-for-these-morons dropping hints. Like, say, Marshall's only reason for wanting leave his position with the Marshal service being that it's too hard for him to be around Mary because he loves her and she doesn't love him. And that was in episode 1x04. I forget what he actually said, but I thought it was pretty obviously implied that he was saying, "I love you, but you're not ready to hear that, and you probably never will be, and it's too hard for me to be around you and want you so badly when you'll never want me in the same way or even appreciate all that I do for you, so I'm leaving." But then all she did was tell him that she didn't want him to leave, so he stayed. It was as simple as that. He's at her mercy, and it kills him inside, but it's also the most glorious feeling in the world for him. He knows it's not healthy, he knows it's torture, but being around her is a sweet torture that he can't get enough of. THIS WAS ALL LAID OUT FROM THE BEGINNING, YOU DOUCHES. And then there was episode 1x09 where the guy figured out that Marshall had a thing for Mary, and he says that line about male/female partners usually end up screwing each other or killing each other, or both. HELLO, NOT-SO-SUBTLE SUBTEXT. And then, in season 2, (A Frond in Need, I think?), we get Marshall's little speech about how he knows what it's like to want a relationship with someone so bad that you end up pushing them away because you try too hard, and it's obvious he was talking about Mary, especially when he said the thing about his dog running away and just trusting it to come back to him when it was ready, and that's basically his philosophy with Mary (which... yeah, Mary would so shoot him for comparing her to a dog, but it's how he deals with his feelings for her). So, yes, he is very much in love with Mary and has been from the beginning (I am so not loony for seeing it before almost anyone else did). Add to that, in every single interview Fred Weller talks about Marshall pining for Mary. Add to that, Marshall's original character bio said that he was hoping to be more than partners and friends some day. IT IS CANON. DEAL WITH IT, USA MESSAGEBOARD POSTERS. Good god, why do people have such an aversion to best friends falling in love ON A TV SHOW? THAT IS ENTIRELY FOCUSED AROUND THEIR RELATIONSHIP? If it's not filled to the brim with manufactured sexual tension then people automatically go, "Oh, they should just stay friends. I don't see anything there." And I say that about the relationships that are entirely based on sexual attraction. I don't watch TV relationships for the sex, I want emotional development, I want a slow-burn romance that takes years to build so that the pay-off is extra delicious. I want substance. I want characters knowing each other so completely that they don't even need to say anything to understand each other. I don't want a crappy, pointless marriage between Mary and Raph, especially when all signs point to, "GOOD LORD, THESE PEOPLE ARE SO WRONG FOR EACH OTHER." I just can't believe all the people on that messageboard talking about how good Mary and Raph are together. ARE THEY EVEN WATCHING THE SAME SHOW? RAPH IS AN AFTER-THOUGHT FOR MARY. SOMETIMES AN AFTER-AFTER-AFTER-THOUGHT. And Raph almost slept with her sister. Yeah, that's the makings of a super stable marriage right there. Mmmhmm. *huff* Anyway, the show has made it pretty clear that Raph is a short-term thing. If they make him anything else then the writers have seriously lost their minds. Especially since Raph is only sporadically in the show, and when he is, Mary is usually ignoring him. Psh. If Mary/Marshall turns into Daniel/Betty 2.0, I will be so very shattered.

Torchwood. My flist exploded with all kinds of reactions to the mini-series, and... I must say, you all tempted me into giving this show another try. I rewatched the pilot and I actually enjoyed it this time around. I remember abhorring it the first time I watched it (which... was probably 2 or 3 years ago), so I never gave the show another glance. But then series 2 happened and everyone kept saying that it was so much better than the first series, and I had vowed to give it another try eventually, but... I just never did. And now, after having developed a taste for crack-filled shows, I found the first two eps of season 1 of Torchwood to be absolutely delightful and I have NO IDEA why I was so turned off by it the first time. I remember thinking that the acting was horrible, the effects were ridiculous, and the plot was weak. And... yeah, that's all true for the most part, but now I like it. I blame True Blood and Robin Hood for this phenomenon. And Merlin, though I think the acting and overall plot of Merlin are pretty damn good (but there are quite a few moments where I laugh inappropriately). So, I'm probably going to be eating up Torchwood like crazy this week, and hopefully I'll be caught up for when the mini-series premieres on BBC America (although, that's my vacation week, so not sure if I'll manage to catch it or not). Shipping-wise, it's too early to tell what will grab my heart, but, if I'm not mistaken, the two main shipping factions are Jack/Gwen and Jack/Ianto, right? Since Jack/Gwen have that mentor/student thing happening, I'm fairly certain I'll end up shipping them, but uh, after episode 2, I'm kind of fond of Gwen/Owen...

In other news, I still look like somebody punched me in the eye. Now I'm wondering if it's actually a stye or something else entirely, because my last stye stopped being this puffy after one day of washing it with Head and Shoulders. I've been washing this puppy for three days and it just keeps getting worse, and it itches like the devil. Perhaps it was a mosquito bite after all. But it sure looks like a stye. I don't know.

Later I will probably post a meme round-up. Just thought I'd warn you beforehand. Because obviously memes are serious business.

Huh. My habits from epic! are making writing Panic Divorce fic interesting, because I want to make it all accurate and everything, but not only do I not know enough and not want to be stalking these guys' twitters or whatever, it's also happening right now. I can't... I don't know, write a day behind real life, or whatever, but then I go a few days in the future and then a few days later in real life, it's like, "No, that's completely wrong." No matter what I do, it's going to get Jossed.

I know that in the end it's all fictional, but I just want to make this as true as I can feel.

So, I've only seen the first five minutes of Drop Dead Diva, the new Lifetime TV show, and I already know two things:

1) I sincerely doubt I'll ever be watching it, not because it doesn't seem like a good show (it actually seems kind of bubbly and fun) but because I'm far too terrified of what kind of embarrassing hijinks they might get up to.

2) I really want to bang Ben Feldman's character. Here, see the preview: he's the guy in white telling her her name is Jane. Yeah. He plays an angel type dude, and I've never seen him before this, but his character Fred was funny and just a little bit snarky and I really want to make out with him, wow.

Anyway.

In other news, I think it's become completely impossible for me to ship Mike Carden with anyone other than Kevin Jonas.

Muy feliz cumpleaños a: danly    ^_^




Qué tengas un día súper lindo, con pastel y regalos. =D

¡Abrazooooos!

JSYK ontd_startrek party posts rule. I had so much fun tonight. You have no idea.

I am bored today. And am already procrastinating on homework. It's only week one. FML.

1. Think of the first word that comes to mind when you think of me.
2. Go to Google Images and search for that word.
3. Reply to this post with one of the pictures on the first page of results (don't tell me the word).
4. Put this in your own note so that I can do the same.

So Warehouse 13, the new Sci Fi (or SyFy now, whatever) channel show? Gets my stamp of approval, now. Granted, the set-up in the pilot is incredibly cliched — come on, secret organization? Federal agents who have no idea what they're getting themselves into? Feisty sexual tension between the male and female leads? Mysterious leaders of the organization? Strange artifacts? Geeks who provide a lot of the comedy? Please, it's not like a little originality would kill you — but the production values are pretty good, the writing is actually pretty snappy, and the actors are actually decent.

They talk mostly like real people, which is pretty neat. Like Pete, who half the time doesn't actually finish his sentences. He's also "in tune", which apparently means that his intuition is kickass (but not always flawless), whereas Myka, his partner, is anal-retentive (it's helpful) and really, really observant.

Plus, while watching the "this season on Warehouse 13", I caught glimpses of both the actress who plays Jo on Eureka (speaking of which, season premiere? Awesome!) and Joe Motherfuckin' Flanigan. (Which is awesome, because I had just been thinking about how this show is like a much, much better version of Manmade, which he was in the never-picked-up pilot of. Really, much, much better, although that's not JFlan's fault.) So, you know, I may have to watch the rest of the season, see how it goes, all that jazz. *coughs*

Post an anonymous comment with:

1. One secret.
2. One compliment.
3. One non-compliment.
4. One love note, but it does not have to be for me.
5. Lyrics to a song.
6. How old you are.
7. How long we've been friends.
8. And a hint to who you are.
9. After you do it for me, put it in your LJ and see who does it for you.

...Okay. You know that your subconscious has decided to just fuck it and say, "To hell with history," when you write a tavern scene in a pirate story and you have the waitress (whom you're calling a waitress, and not a wench) not only bust one of your underage characters for attempting to order alcohol, and then have said character sulkily order a virgin pina colada.

This isn't even handwave-y history, okay, this is just flat-out... I don't know how to describe it. "Bullshit history" is pretty apt, but lacks any sort of panache. Who Cares History? Unabashedly Anachronistic?

"Last updated 13 weeks ago"

Holy crap, that's a while.

And because I'm basically a jerk, this one isn't going to be a proper update either (le gaspe) just a quick one to lay down some details of some upcoming social engagements which will likely go on Facebook, but just wanted to make sure I covered all my bases to make sure nobody was left out (read; I'm terrified of having another birthday that nobody turns up to)

So, Manchester!

24th-27th of July I'll be heading on over Manc way.  The Friday night (24th, aka Birthday eve) is an ArA night and it would seem only right that this be attended for the first time in a shamefully long time.  So, would anybody be up for a night of GOTHING and DRINKING and ARA LOVE?  or do the cool kids not goth there anymore?  I am so out of touch ;___; if ARA isn't too popular an option, there is probably a good chance that drinking will occur in Retro, Fab, the Salisbury or all of the above.

Saturday daytime is up for grabs so if anybody is in Manchester over the weekend, I would love to see you <3

Saturday is a Housewarming party for some very lovely people, however, because I am a beast, I am contemplating moseying over to Poptastic between 10 and 11 as I haven't been out anywhere gay for far too long, and what better way to celebrate the day I turn 23 than by surrounding myself with hundreds of hot, sweaty, unattainable women?  So would anybody be up for Popping or am I going to go and be a depressed gay all by myself?

Sunday is pretty much the same as Saturday, I shall be recovering from the previous two nights of excess and generally chilling.  Might be a nice day for lunch or some such?

Monday I go back to the Sheff so probably won't be around Manc much later than 3-ish

THE FOLLOWING WEEKEND-London, Baby!

Arriving on the afternoon of the 31st (Friday) I'm basically open to suggestion for the whole damn weekend as as a kind of belated birthday/catching up with the southerners endeavour.  (Not saturday afternoon though.  That's my quality-time-with-Mags.)  Aiming for a quietish drinking session Friday night, a longer and louder on on Friday night, and a relatively civilised (lol) Sunday.  My inner child wants to go to the zoo.  My inner child will probably go wanting.  Once again, not heading home until the Monday afternoon.

Any suggestions on places to do, things to see, where to drink would be much appreciated, as I'd love to discover more of the fair city beyond theatreland...

For those of you who haven't cottoned on yet, I am also on the Twitter, which is probably the best way after text and email to ensure a message gets to me at twitter.com/MiaVee

Soooo yeah, hopefully the upcoming few weeks will provide a long-overdue catchup with some of you....

/end of self absorbed "PLAY WITH ME" post.

Do you draw? If so, do you use a tablet? What size and brand?

I'm mostly concerned with what's a good size, really. But I'm curious.

Ya van dos veces que intento comprar gashapons de Tieria (el bishie de mi icono), y nada más no se me hace. T__T

Bueno, lo he intentando más veces y siempre me los ganan, pero  los dos casos en específico que menciono son aún más trágicos porque estaba como en el fútbol: ¡¡¡era mío, lo tenía, se me fueeeeeee!!!!!  TAT 

La primera vez la vendedora no encontró la figura entre sus cosas, se desapareció misteriosamente. La segunda vez, el gato de la chava tiró a Tieria desde el librero donde estaba y lo rompió.  -___-

¿Así o más salada?

He conseguido una figurita chibi de Regene, el hermano de Tieria (que es igual de moe que él), y me da gusto porque hay menos juguetes de Regene que de Tieria, pero de todos modos, ¡quiero a Tieria! 0__0  ¡No descansaré hasta que caiga en mis garras! *___*

Since I'm bastardizing my prior break-up fic to make it concurrent with the real thing, I figured I might as well post some parts of the original that won't make it into the new version, but which I liked, regardless. I wanted to save it for posterity.

Is there anything you need to know about this one? Hmm. I don't think so — it's set two or three albums in the future, and the boys decided hazily to break up, not realising that none of them actually wanted to. I planned for them to spend most of the fic being awkward about the UST and waiting for Brendon, whom they all assumed would take it the hardest, to snap and ask them to get back together. However, Brendon... doesn't. And then they all admit that they want to get back together and have lots of sex and everyone is happy, blah blah blah.


( And I got the chance to create an OFC in the form of Spencer's new girlfriend, which was fun. )

Title: 5 Reasons Why Morgana (Begrudgingly) Loves Uther
Fandom: Merlin
Pairing: Uther/Morgana (Gen)
Rating: PG
Words: 560
Summary: The title pretty much says it all, really.
Author's Note: Written for the merlin_rarepair 5 Things challenge. Or, well, I should say rebooted for the challenge, since this was originally written for a meme (but it was all rough dafty, so I've tried to shape it into an actual fic and completely replaced #5). And, dudes, I can't believe that I kept it completely GEN. Not a trace of romance unless you really, really squint. That's just... craziness.

( Such a gentle gesture shared between them never failed to surprise her, and yet nothing in the world ever felt more right to her. )

For some reason I'm having this very intense urge to write a Frank/Mikey AU, but I have no idea what the plot would be. Weirdly enough, the original idea that I had was a sex slave AU (Gerard and Mikey are secretly anti-slave, but as nobles they have to have one slave so that the other nobles won't suspect them! The tattoos work into that — Frank is Gerard and Mikey's slave, and Brian is Ray and Bob's slave) but I dismissed that one, since you have to be really, really good to pull off slavefic, and I don't think I have it in me. So, you know, I'll just have to figure out some other AU that I could write Frank/Mikey into.

And, since I feel weird making a post without mentioning Panic:

One of the things that makes the break-up so distressing is that my version of their friendship is my ideal. Now it's like... hmm. Like the couple who you saw as the definition of true love are suddenly getting divorced. I feel like someone stood my world upside-down, in a way.

And you know, you can mourn something fictional. Mourning as a whole is subjective; it's all about the mourner and what the mournee meant to him/her. (This is all another way of saying that I was talking to someone about it and I almost started crying again. *sighs*)

I should not be watching this show - Monsters Inside Me. I have a slight case of paranoia on a good day. This show is making me afraid to drink water. And somehow I can't stop watching.

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Kyaaaaaa!! ¡Ya tengo mis boletos para el concierto de Placebo!  =DD



A las 11 que empezaba la preventa ya estaba yo en un Mixup lista para comprar mis boletos. Pensé que iba a haber más gente, pero no, estaba solito el centro de Ticketmaster. Aún así, ya estaban vendidos muchos boletos de la sección B. Elegí esa parte porque es la más cercana al escenario (después de pista, pero ni loca me meto ahí porque me apachurran), y así de caros me salieron. U_U! Se pasan los de TM, aparte cobran una comisión por operación. ¬_¬  Ahí se fueron mis ahorros veraniegos, no compraré nada en La Mole.

Pero bueno, es un lujo que vale la pena. =) Quiero disfrutar mucho este primer concierto. Ojalá que tenga chance de ver a Placebo otra vez, pero entonces me iré más atrás a las secciones baratas. =P

I got taken off my antidepressant yesterday, and I was not put on another medication. The doctor wants me to have a proper psychiatric evaluation, because he said some of my symptoms (mostly the jerking awake at night) might be a mild form of mania, and we have bipolar disorder in the family, so... no risks, at least, but I don't think I'm bipolar.

Although from today, I could see how someone would think that! I went into work pretty happy, but very quickly I found that I'm doomed to work the opening night of Harry Potter, even though I'd been told I wouldn't have to (since I've already paid — admittedly not much, but still — to get friends in) and I got angry. Not very angry, but, you know, angry. About an hour later I felt like I could barely stand and like I might burst into tears at any moment. I worked for a while, but I had to ask to go home, even though it meant taking a taxi.

Uuugh.

I've been having some odd and interesting dreams, but I'll post about those later.