BBC's Torchwood and Doctor Who

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rachael yamagata's second studio album, "elephants... teeth sinking into heart" is released in the united states today.

if you have not heard of her before, youtube her. google her. just listen to a couple of songs and by god, you will fall in love.

the album is out today. if you can, please purchase it.

:)

The dw_femslash fic is done barring the edits which I am just about to do. Yay me.

The cats have discovered the joys of my bathroom and, thankfully, worked out how to get out of the bath as well as in. I had visions of needing to rescue stranded kitties regularly.

Annie wants to catch my cursor. Obviously, that is not helpful when trying to edit fic, apply for jobs and sort out driving lessons. Silly kitten.

We're having my aunt over tonight for a movie night. She's hiding from her housemate because the housemate's ex is going back to Ontario tomorrow and there will be much weeping at 5AM. Life in my household is much more civilized.

Annie has now decided to take an early nap in my lap. That bathroom exploration was exhausting.

Want to read ficathon entries, but must finish my entry before goofing off.

Right, cause no one saw this coming:

EXCLUSIVE: Terminator gets, yes, terminated.

I was actually kind of surprised when it got renewed. The only reason it got ratings last time around is because it was THE ONLY THING ON.

It is the fate of sci-fi shows honestly, ANY show on network TV. If it doesn't have at least 15 million viewers, its worthless to them.
At least they gave it a chance, which is more than I can say for several shows that I enjoyed the first, I dunno, four episodes of...never to be heard from again.

Fingers crossed that they give Dollhouse two seasons of 13 before they can it. :)

PS, when are they going to start paying attention to Itunes/Hulu/(insertnetworkletters).com numbers?

This episode turned my thoughts on this show from "cracky fun!" to "OMG I LOVE IT". Thus, a picspam.



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Aw, man, I'm looking back at and tagging my Andromeda-related entries, and man, I miss feeling capital-F Fannish for that show. I loved Harper so much, dude.

I wish I felt that click, that zing for a character more often. There are a bunch of shows I watch and adore right now, but that... that ka-POW, the hard button-push, that's really rare for me. I have favorites that sort of get within that circle but don't quite tip over into OMG-obsession for me -- Stark, Marc, Lorne, Roger, I'm sure I'm forgetting a whole bunch of others -- and I have pairings that hit a certain button for me.

But the "OMG, I like the whole cast but I will happily fast-forward through all of them to get to my favorite," that feeling like you need a fix, that button-push, that doesn't happen that often for me, and I wish it did, because I'm a lot happier in fandom when I have that.

I had it briefly for Edgeworth, but I'm not able to get my hands on the games (or something to play them on) at the moment, so without a fresh influx of canon, it's kind of faded out for now.

I envy my dear buddy ponceflower, to be honest -- she just zips through these things, she always has a new shiny she's starry-eyed over... most people in fandom seem to grab onto a new Capital-F Fandom pretty regularly, but for me, there are these long, long dry spells. Back in the early 2000s, when I was having this long dry spell, I filled it by getting heavy into meta. But that's not working for me now like it did, partly because I've been in fandom longer and have now seen us have these arguments over, and over, and over, and over. I still like analyzing, still like the academic stuff, still really like the thinky discussions, but it really depends on the topic -- it's hard for me to get excited by The Warning Debate: Take 1,000 at this point.

And so I've been finding myself getting really nasty and cynical about fandom lately, I think because I don't have Capital-F Fannish Squee to balance out my thing for wank and negativity. And I generally keep my fannish negativity out of my LJ because I don't want to look like a douchewad, even though I actually am a douchewad, or at least am sometimes a douchewad. And then I feel like a fake for not letting my douchewaddery shine, even though doing that won't actually help anything. I guess I could let off steam by doing one of those Unpopular Fannish Opinion memes, but I'm never able to just let my Freak Bitch Flag fly, because I'm too scared, and I actually don't want to stomp on people's feelings. Argh. (And, when it comes down to it, it's not actually that unpopular to say, "Fandom, stop hating on characters that get in the way of your boy-OTPs, 'cause it just makes you look like you hate vaginas. Even though I know you'd do this to a male interlopers as well. See: QAF. Just stop. Just stop." ...hey, that felt kinda good. Yay, now I'm rambling.)

(Are there any Xena fans that can tell me if the same thing happened in reverse with X/G shippers hating on Joxer? Because I feel like that happened. I feel like I remember seeing the equivalent of "Joxer fan, no apologies" buttons on sites. I mean, I know there we're getting into a sort of different dynamic -- the difference between a fanfic that writes a canonically-hetero character as gay vs. a canonically gay character as hetero... at the same time, Joxer so wasn't a threat to the almighty X/G ship, which was essentially canon. I only bring that up to see if it supports my thesis, which is basically: Woe be the fan of the interloper, regardless of his or her genitalia. Which doesn't mean fandom doesn't have fucked up misogyny issues. 'Cause boy howdy, it does. I'm just bringing up XWP to pre-empt the possible response of, "And this is why femslash = 100% more progressive! Boyslash: 100% more lame!" thing that I see once in a blue moon, which is a viewpoint I'm not a fan of. Even though I get that femslash gets marginalized a fuckton, which is what contributes to that thing. And it is only, like, once in a blue moon, so really I should STFU about it. Oh, God, it really is turning into that meme. I'm stopping. Stopping, now.)

Anyway, the moral of this story: I need a character to zing me, stat.

I'm going to be so happy when the rest of those Swampy DVDs come out. There's an episode where Arcane pretends to inject Graham with swamp-AIDS. I'M NOT KIDDING. Then he's all, "I'm sorry I hurt your feelings, Graham. Let's get drunk in my bedroom." I'M NOT MAKING THIS UP.

From a Pumpkin Muffin recipe, with substitutions and changes, because I had fresh champagne apples that my Mom brought me all the way from Dixon's Orchard!

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They were AWESOME. The apples were all soft and gooey and the walnuts were perfect and they were delicious. I love fall baking!!

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I've noticed I tend to refer to the boys in a specific order, and I'm curious if anyone else does the same.

Did I tell you about the raise in lithium the psych prescribed. From 600 mg to 1000 mg.
I was just at the pharmacist's and asked if they could tell me what the highest dose of lithium was I've ever taken; it was 1600mg.

I feel toxic.

This time, it's a trailer for John Barrowman's new TV show, Animals at Work. As a lover of snakes, I love the sequence with the snake - and the one with the Jack Russell terrier. The pigs, not so much.

And while we're watching Barrowman with cute animals... no sense leaving this one out.

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( Heroes - 303 - I am become death )

( Sarah Jane Adventures - 203 - The Day of the Clown part 1 )

( other tv stuff (Ghost Whisperer, Numb3rs) )

Happy birthday, liadnan!

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Normally I wouldn't squee in the middle of an episode, but OMG Sylar!!!! How cute is he in 3x04!

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OMG HEROES.

I don't really have anything intelligent to say about it.

I enjoyed John Barrowman's new music vid of his single What About Us? for a lot of reasons. Including the obvious.