Ugh, I should be doing reading for class tomorrow. Unfortunately, this means either a) reading dense film criticism or b) reading James Joyce. So instead I am fucking around on the internet and watching Psych and moaning in pain from my pilates class earlier. Owwwwwww. (please don't tell me that senioritis is setting in already...)
A List of Random Things That Have Crossed My Mind Recently:
- I saw a guy with a "Consent is Sexy" shirt the other day. I really think this would make an interesting fic challenge. *waves magic wand*
- There really should be more Southland fic in the world to tide me over until the premiere in October. But I've been made happy by two pieces recently: the first
We Are The Same, a fusion with
Homicide: Life on the Street, which is pretty cool. But what really made me clap my hands and twirl around like
River Tam a crazy person?
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copperbadge wrote a Southland fic! He is one of my favorite fandom writers, and has that annoying ability to walk into a fandom and nail it perfectly first time out. I'm not going to complain, though, because
Protective Custody gives some amazingly good Cooper POV, along with being a damn nice partnership piece. Maybe I'll go read it again now...
- I saw a bit of
this Elizabeth Bishop poem tacked up on some cheesy bulletin board on campus, but I loved the line "have we room / for one more folded sunset, still quite warm?" so I looked up the full thing. It's much more biting than that image led me to expect.
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This video of a group of people pulling off a con (the "Good Samaritan") makes me want to write Leverage fic. Or at least finish that post I'm working on about David Maurer's
The Big Con and Leverage and con men throughout the ages.
- I finally watched the Middleman lost episode table read from ComicCon. OMG I'd forgotten how much I love them.
- In the course of my weird project last weekend (don't ask), I may have kinda developed a tiny crush on
this YouTube channel host. She's this adorable Asian girl with an Australian accent, and she occasionally makes entire videos about winking. Or maybe I was sleep-deprived, who knows.
- I was super-excited about Tim Burton's upcoming
Alice In Wonderland live-action movie just on the basis of Tim Burton being the perfect heir to Lewis Carroll's particular brand of weirdness, but -- dude, I didn't realize he'd cast
Mia Wasikowska as Alice! The casting of Alice can make or break this particular story, and having seen Miss Wasikowska (gosh, her name is fun to say) knock the role of Sophie on In Treatment out of the park, well, color me thrilled. She's gonna ROCK. Plus, there's Johnny Depp, Alan Rickman, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway, Christopher Lee, Crispin Glover, Michael Sheen, and Stephen Fry as the Cheshire Cat (OMG perfect). Their casting director must've had an orgasm from the sheer cinematic serendipity of that lineup.
- Speaking of Stephen Fry, he tweeted
this gorgeous link the other day. I think I have to agree with him that #11 is my favorite.
- In the pursuit of
happiness procrastination an old LJ exchange I had regarding Sam and Dean dressed in that leg-baring armor the Greeks wore (which is all the fault of
this story, which is not really a good AU, but still manages to be a fun story -- the characters are OOC and oddly changed to Roman names. But they're not necessarily badly characterized. Which means it's basically a historical Roman gay romance with two main characters pre-cast as Jensen Ackles and Misha Collins, featuring Jensen Ackles wearing Thracian armor and fighting as a gladiator and the both of them arguing classical philosophy and pining, so I'm not complaining). Anyway, it got me poking around my old journal entries, which is loads of fun. For instance, I found the
previously mentioned exchange, which happened to include a rather prescient discussion of Sam and Dean's relationship with their father in light of something my Classical Myth prof said;
the time I got to see the total solar eclipse in Turkey because I was up at 5am; an alarmingly thinky
response to Pirates of the Caribbean 3;
the definition of petrichor, which is the smell of rain falling on dry ground (there are scientific reasons for it!);
that post I made trying to figure out Benton Fraser's birthday which is also alarmingly in-depth but was terribly fun; one of
copperbadge's
old House fics, which made me want to start watching again (worth it, y/n?); and aww,
my first impressions of SPN, all the way back when Sarah Shahi was still "Will's girlfriend Jenny from Alias" instead of "completely awesome Det. Dani Reese from Life." :D I have to say, the latter did make me start missing the more grounded elements of S1; they've lost more than a bit of Sam and Dean's connection to the people they're saving. The "saving people" part of Dean's oft-repeated "saving people, hunting things" has become awfully abstract.
Probably should cut-tag, but waaaaay too lazy. :(
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