there will be a fish

Okay, so I apparently haven't posted to LJ in so long that I'm completely weirded out by the new posting form. Yikes, it's been since October! Well, I'm back to do a five-questions meme from ignipes. I'm not sure doing this right now, when I've just had my wisdom teeth out and am currently loopy on some substantial painkillers with half my face swollen like a chipmunk, is really the best idea, but oh well. *jazz hands*

-Comment with "Winter is Coming" your current favorite catch-phrase/quote from a show/movie, because I have no emotional attachment to Game of Thrones (yet), sorry.
-I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can get to know you better.
-Update your journal with the answers to the questions.
-Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions. (If you want. Totally optional.)

My questions and answers:

( 1. What would your ideal doesn't-exist-but-totally should TV show be about? )

( 2. What is the ONE movie you think everybody should see? ONLY ONE. NO CHEATING. )

( 3. What's your favorite comfort food? )

( 4. What superpower do you want to have? )

( 5. What's the best advice you've ever received? Or the worst, if that's more entertaining? )

Well, that was fun! I need to start posting more. I got a new job, so my life and free time are no longer being swallowed up by work like they were, which is awesome. I have weekends! And free evenings! It's amazing. :)

- So I just realized that I never posted the results for the unguessed pairings in the quotations ship meme a couple of weeks ago. I've now updated the post with the answers -- no one guessed Miss Parker/Jarod (The Pretender), Josh Lyman/Donna Moss (The West Wing), Olivia Dunham/Peter Bishop (Fringe), Napoleon Solo/Illya Kuryakin (The Man From U.N.C.L.E.), or Steve McGarrett/Danny Williams (Hawaii Five-0). For shame on the last one, people. The rest I kind of expected -- serves me right for being ridiculously multifannish. The pairings that were guessed were Brad Colbert/Nate Fick (Generation Kill), Bertie Wooster/Reginald Jeeves (Jeeves & Wooster), John Watson/Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes books), Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane (Lord Peter Wimsey series), and Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski (Due South).

- I have started compulsively watching QI again. Why is Stephen Fry so awesome, seriously? I just want to be his friend, give him a hug, and sit around drinking tea and/or madeira while talking about obscure trivia. (SIGH why am I not Emma Thompson)

- Question: does anyone know where I might *ahem* look for video editing programs, with, say, an eye patch on, if you know what I mean? I've been really wanting to make some vids, but fuck if I'm going to do it with Windows Movie Maker again.

- In other, unrelated news, I can't stop listening to Janelle Monáe's song "Cold War". I'm not sure why. It's awesome. :)

This is what happens when I start catching up on Hawaii Five-0, Castle, and Lie To Me all at the same time, and start thinking about how endearing all their prominent father-daughter relationships are.

( the qualifications )

[Poll #1677238]

lordessrenegade gave me icons for this meme:

1. Reply to this post, and I will pick six of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon squee.




( answers! )

Meme yoinked from this lovely Middleman fic:

The iPod Challenge: Put your MP3 player on shuffle and write a flashfic (I refuse to call these drabbles; I am a term purist!) about each of the first ten songs to come up. The catch? You only have the duration of the song to write it in.

I haven't really looked at these since I wrote them at 5am, so hopefully they're not terrible. I also cheated on the rules for a few of them (you will likely be able to tell which, because they are significantly longer).

Also, I have no idea where the serial killer one came from. I kept trying to figure out who the character was, but I don't think she's anybody I've met before. Whoops, accidental original!fic?

1. ( Fringe )

2. ( Generation Kill )

3. ( not sure; any female lead + serial killer, I suppose )

4. ( Supernatural )

5. ( The Pretender )

6. ( Sherlock Holmes )

7. ( Primeval )

8. ( Sports Night )

9. ( Middleman )

10. ( Magnificent Seven )

So I was wandering around the internet, as you do, when I passed by a picture of Claudette Colbert (classic Hollywood film actress of leg-baring It Happened One Night fame). I thought, "Huh. She's reminding me of someone.... NO WAY!" because I realized that the eerie resemblance I recognized was between her and Jasika Nicole (who plays Astrid on Fringe). Which is very unexpected.

( But I have pictorial evidence! )

Am I right, or what? It's mostly around the eyes and the shape of the face, but it's definitely there.

So, tonight's Fringe ( made me very happy )

Not the most scintillating or intellectual analysis, was that. I think my brain may have finally had enough of this whole "thinking" nonsense. Which is unfortunate, considering finals are like, now. *sigh*

Ha, my latest text post made absolutely no sense outside of my head, did it? I blame J.J. Abrams, his obsession with the number 47, and my recent marathoning of Fringe. *sigh*

Anyway, that's not what this post is about. Behold, the original definition of "hipster":



It cracks me up that the Wikipedia article on hipsters has a "critical reception" subheading. *snickers*

I was totally going to bed early tonight. I ate dinner, I did reading for school, I drank some wine (free from my job today!), I took a hot bath, I called my sisters.

And then I was whammied by an amazingly awful headache that just stopped, hours later.

Conveniently, I was also suffering from one of those meandering moods that are the internet equivalent of walking into a room, knowing you went there for a reason, and utterly forgetting what it was. So you walk around for a bit with the nagging knowledge that you want to do something, but you haven't the faintest clue what that might be. Only it's regarding stories/shows instead of needing to find your favorite bookmark.

Anyway, I eventually scratched the itch, and I thought I'd rec the stories that distracted me from the awful pain in my head and kept me from wandering around the internet looking for my keys even longer than I did:

One Minute, Counting (Pushing Daisies; gen)
Yuletide fic! I have a deep and serious love for Emerson Cod. Warnings for character death. Only, not really. Well, technically... oh, hell, just go read the damn thing. It's not at all spoilery. "Oh hell no," Emerson said, which wasn't part of the speech he'd prepared in case this ever happened, but he'd allowed himself a certain latitude. :)

Prism (Fallen Feather Extended Jam) and Beside Still Waters (SPN/FF; both gen)
Oooh, very cool. Supernatural/Firefly crossover; Castiel is sent to contact Mal Reynolds. Who is, if possible, even more difficult a sell than Dean was. :) My favorite part of this are all the times that Cas keeps visiting Dean in Heaven to get advice. And River is awesome (but I feel that should go without saying). I'm having trouble describing the tone, but it's lovely.

Brothers (SPN; gen)
Already been jossed by events of the show, and perhaps not the best thing I've ever read (although I do like the way nwhepcat writes Castiel), but I harbor a great fondness of stories that explore Dean and Castiel's growing friendship, and not in the schmoopy romanticized way you often see. I like them as a 'ship, but honestly? The gen side of things is really great. Dean's never had a friend before (Sam and Bobby and even Ellen are family, which is a whole 'nother kettle of equally tasty but decidedly different fish), and Castiel is pretty equally matched in terms of not knowing how this "friends" thing works (or how this "human" thing works :D). I do so like watching them figure it out. <3

A Very Short Sermon (Sense & Sensibility)
And now for something completely different! This is a lovely bit of writing -- captures that Austen feel, the dynamic between Elinor and Marianne, the feeling of family, and the love in both marriages. Just, very nice.

The Wind Cries PECOTA (SN; gen/het-ish)
Jeremy is totally awesome in this. How have I never read it before? (Maybe because it has a brief mention of Casey/OFC, i.e. he's not living in happily domestic partnership ever after with Dan, which, I get, but it's a stupid reason to miss out on this fic.) It has that great quality Sorkin hits, where his characters are clever and bantery and entertaining, but still manage to have philosophical discussions that make you think and feel on an entirely unironic level. I know many a sports-stats nerd, and this was a lovely way to address that aspect of sports fans in the SN world. Also, coercion about blogging. You know you wanna read that. :)

I also re-read A Meeting of the Neuroses (SN, Dan/Casey), which is still fan-fucking-tastic. You know what's weird? Re-reading comments you forgot you left. Mine mentioned that there really isn't a lot (or really any) fic where Casey finds out about Dan's panic attacks/social anxiety. Why is that?

In a total departure from any of the previous topics, I just realized that John Noble's Walter Bishop in many ways reminds me of Sean Connery's Professor Henry Jones (aka Indiana Jones's dad). Discuss! :)