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Sleep: OMG, better!!!! Though I have a sneaking suspicion that it will rear back up and if it does then that means that it's perimenopause and not "no caffeine after 6pm when you aren't overstressed and sleep deprived thank you very much". trying to stay on schedule, and keep my workouts to morning or well before 8pm to help too. My procrastination with work ain't helping with this.

Workout: back in groove, though i didn't let myself get too far out of shape (I was really my trainer's only winter client since no one else had indoor setup or were nervous having her in). With the oculus 2 and the supernatural app i'm also reliably doing a few days a week on my own and the improved cardio is definitely showing in my strength sessions with my trainer. Honestly will likely go and cancel my gym membership after first vaccine kicks in. have enough stuff now at home to address it, and the only thing i'd possibly get with the other is access to pool and theoretically basketball courts (in practice they were always taken/reserved when i was there anyway).

Work: Burnout brain slowly coming back online, but the flesh is weak and not really interested in desk sitting. i may need to head into the office potentially, but my body is going to make that more difficult. But otherwise most things seem to be going okay.

Body: Overall good thanks to workout. Only hiccup is this damn tailbone pain.( Read more... )

Fandom: any cuts contain spoilers
Watched Bone and Shadow in one sitting. Overall nice enough and I went in with zero understanding of the plot, so it kept me engaged. Not sure how I'd be with the actual book itself though as it definitely didn't catch me that great.

TFAWS - loved it like everyone else. I'm very patiently awaiting for Cherry to tell me she's watched it so i can deluge her in tik toks. Siiigh. ( Read more... )

Speaking of, Agents of Shield. I finally finished the last 3 or so seasons I hadn't watched. Thanks Enver Gjokaj for the incentive to do so. It was very fun and interesting. ( Read more... )

After finishing Elementary, i've been a bit in a rewatch phase. Started Terminator:TSCC which is always interesting (though i still loathe the voiceover). Was playing a bit with Mentalist when I was trying to sleep and ehh. I still love the characters but i get so bored of the actual case and dues ex machina of it all. So i went back to The Closer for whatever reason and am enjoying that a bit more.

Which is probably a long way of saying I should just rewatch 1-2 things and actually try to write something to see if I can spark more joy instead of just passing time.

House: Good if expensive. nothing required, more just an update that ended up being more expensive that i think i talked on more before. Now i'm watching my yard - turns out every corner of my house has a different color azalea bush. Bought a grill for the summer after the one muggy 79 degree day that the house turned into a sauna (to be fair, i left the door/window open too long then took forever to get upstairs to cool down).

Video games: The hunt for a magical, mythical PS5 continues. Ugh. Been tempted to do some of the "verified" resellers on twitter that are offering for actual market price but the insistence on cash app and questions on if i still have a warranty then have me nervous.
But as of friday, Mass Effect Legendary Edition comes out!! Excited to see how much they manage to erase off the stupid elevator rides of forever!!.

So between work and light posting and bitching about work, I haven't done much, if any, posting about fandom lately, have I? Bad me.

Writing: Ugh. After brief spurt of inspiration early this year, I have still failed to complete much of anything writing wise thanks to 60 hour work weeks and insane travel. I'm surprised that lithiumdoll doesn't try to have me taken to a secondary location and forced to work on the bunny i shared with her when the muse was actually awake.

reading: Other than fanfic, i've been bad at reading this year. Like really bad. Did read the new October Daye novel which is always lovely, but otherwise either never purchased a book that seemed interesting, or knew that if I did so, there would be the rabbit hole of procrastination paid for.

Fanfic wise, I've mostly been sticking to either my tried-and-true followed authors, or key fandoms (sentinel crossover, avengers with certain topics, teen wolf especially AU and crossover), with the addition of Michael Burnham/Christopher Pike added in.

Rec wise,
mhalachai Child of the Wolf series is EXCELLENT and you should go read now. The first story is complete. The second story in WIP but with lovely lengthy updates almost weekly. It's very plotty Teen Wolf/Avenger crossover that is easily one of mhalachai's best crossovers to date, which is SAYING A LOT. (seriously, i want to send my muse to hang out with her muse because clearly the frog could learn something about follow through from hers).

Next, the always wonderful KouriArashi has added to several of their ongoing series, including a new episode? season? of Adult Wolf, an AU where instead of Scott being bitten by Peter, Sheriff Stilinski is bitten

Off the beaten path is my occassional foray into Jane Austen Fanfic. A Hunsford Tale is a AU of Pride and Prejudice, where instead of being from the viewpoint of our normal contigent, we have a time traveling Jane-Austen-fan adjacent character. It's not a rewriting of several very good films of the same, but a novel take that really gets you set in the time frame. There are some weakenesses, but overall, its a really relaxing read. It is a WIP, but there's a good 170K of words there currently so.... :) It is updated semiregularly.

If you do like Sentinel crossover, like I like sentinel crossovers, my desire for them drove me out of my normal fandoms to a Sentinel/Starsky&Hutch crossover. (S&H was a bit before my time and no one in my family watched it. I know a bit through fannish osmosis, but can't critique that portion of it overall). Still, A Continuing Education builds on the Sentinel framework and has great character building. It's after the end of the series. Still a WIP, but updated semiregularly

And then one of my newer author obsessions, PrarieDawn has a lovely, fantastic Mash/Star Trek crossover series in progress. I know I know, crazy, but it WORKS soooo well. Welcome to 1951 Trust me, try it, you won't regret it. And then you'll do like i did when I first read one of her stories, and have a ton of LOVELY fics to read by here.

Movies wise...I've watched some on demand - usual suspects of fandom and all that. Some were really good (Captain Marvel), some were to pass time on a plane (Stuber, Endgame), and some were a lark that paid off. In that latter category, Code8 is on amazon right now (on demand, not prime). It has Stephen and Robbie Amell, though not playing sibling. (I don't know either). It is fun, it is thinky, and its a pretty good sci fi plot. If you liked Push or the Tomorrow People, you'll like Code8 (but with fewer really good ships, at least in my first viewing.) Sadly, there are only 2 fanfics on Archive of Our Own but the movie has only been out a short time, so hopefully that will change.

Television
Beginning of this year, I binged all of Flash and Legends of Tomorrow to date. I like what Flash does story wise, and its deeper than I expected. Legends of Tomorrow is Pure crack with all the best character actors and I love love love it. (seriously, didn't care for first season much, but once John Constantine joined, well I watched it in reverse order). Other DC shows are still a little too much -- either too dark (Arrow) or too syrupy (Supergirl). Black Lightning I watch from time to time, but its not hooked me too much.

Surprises:
In the Dark on CW. Tried on a random weekend and got hooked. Novel mystery series with the lead being a blind woman who is not here to be your inspo porn at ALL.

Legacies-- Let's be clear. Vampire Diaries was great to good much of the time, The Originals, eh, if all you wanted was a lot of man pain and most of the female characters sidelined. But Legacies is a step up. Really good characters. Lots of women. More PoC than much of its parent fic. And some interesting story telling/film risks taken. And Alaric clean shave, Alaric bearded, and Alaric. Yeah. Oh, and the main male character is the Disney Princess always needing saving.

Nancy Drew - binged this this past week. I'm really not that big on mysteries, but kept watching and finally drawn in. It starts out like you'd expect for a CW mystery series borrowing a lot from Veronica Mars, and then suddenly its DNA is crossed with early S1 Supernatural. Also, all the actors are strong and pull off what should at times be overly hokey.

Non-CW shows, I watch them too. Emergence keeps pulling me back in and is really original. Sadly, probably too original. The Rookie remains strong despite the season hiatus drama.

Recently binged the first 2 seasons of Hell on Wheels, and am now conflicted as to which version of Anson Mount is more thirsty. (spoiler: any version it seems). Taking a break from the bleakness though.

The Witcher - I was very meh on this and took a little bit to get around to, but wow! While I would have liked a little bit of a heads up of the differing time periods each character was moving through it eventually because clear in last 3 episodes. Very nice, but now how long till more???

Van Helsing!! I try to get people into this, but my pimping skills seem lacking. Anyone here into it? Just binged the last season and wow, i wasn't spoiled for once. Kept waiting for one character to show but they didn't. Still, i like the slight reboot and all the other characters were wonderful. 10/10.

I think that's most things. Star Trek Discovery continues to be lovely, and I await with baited breath until I can convince fleshlycherry to go ahead and watch it already. I swear at this rate, i'm going to have to tie up her other half and force him to watch it with us a la clockwork orange. :(

So, today is the 20th anniversary of farscape, and Amazon has started streaming the entire series on prime.

and that has resulted in lots of fun on twitter
https://twitter.com/hashtag/Farscape20thAnniversary?src=hash

And Mo Ryan wrote several IGN articles about the show including a primer for anyone new looking to start or recommendations if you want to successfully pimp.

I also posted my history with the show and the fandom


As SDwolfpup said, it's highly reminiscent of the LJ farscape puppy piles of old...

So in celebration, let's discuss our favorite episodes, shall we????

Okay, the frog muse is waking up if I have to boil him in water.



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In lieu of focusing on current events, when I'm not at work, I'm focusing on fact that fall TV is back.

Boreanz's new show -- SEal team i think -- is so very clearly trying to be hurt locker + seal team 6 (history channel) but omg it fails on so many plotting and pacing levels in first episode. And dudes, Mamet already did 1000x better with The Unit.

so on to NBC's The Brave which I have to admit I had NO EXPECTATIONS for based on hokey over patriotic promos I saw. However, I am pleasantly surprised. Pilot was tight and not 1000percent predictable. the various team chemistry are great. Second episode was better than the first.

Bonus: they have a female sniper on the team -- unclear if this is meant to be delta force or seal team -- but it definitely works without seeming like a ploy, while they also acknowledge fact. Also, second episode focused on rescuing female CIA agent who also did a very good amount of self rescue.

So kudos to the Brave writing teams and NBC, because this show has quickly become my only new must see TV for me.

Will try out SWAT primarily due to Shawn Ryan attachment.

Other than that, I'm primarily back with Lucifer, Lethal Weapon, Chicago Fire as eye candy, and then waiting on final season of Major Crime (boooo).

After many years, I've also finally started watching the Orange is the New Black -- oh thank god it's not as "office-y" as I'd thought. Though I am sick of the male fiance story line. Also mainlined the first 3 seasons of Wentworth in a full week a bit back. Not as depressing as Oz, but wow. Though i am now really tired of psycho warden in all her incarnations, thank you very much, and so taking a break from it.

Australia Rush 2008 series went off hulu finally :(:(:(:(:(:( I hadn't gotten up to doing a full second rewatch yet so i may have dropped too much money on buying the dvds. need to hook up my international dvd player that I got when same thing happened to sea patrol and make sure it works.

Except I realized this AM I actually have 2 projects for work I have to finish today:P:P

5-6 inches of snow here so far. 1st round of shoveling done - about an hour with no breaks, and I don't feel like dying. Nice to know all my training sessions haven't been wasted $$$

Now hopefully my wrist and shoulder joints won't stage a rebellion later tonight. Especially as I know I have 1 more shoveling session at least to go since it started snowing harder right after I came inside

Fandom wise --
Wow, Wednesday nights on TV are a plethora of good shows. Wow. Thankfully peak tv is occuring in an era of on demand viewing, because DVRs really can't keep up with this. Expanse and Legion are on my dvr waiting.

LETHAL WEAPON!!!!!! Seriously, did not expect to love this as much as I do. Really went into it with very mild hopes. But the entire season has been great. ( last night!! Maureen!! ) LOVE!!

Okay, time to go start my stew and then get to work.

The Expanse S2 premieres in the US tonight on SyFy!!!!

If you didn't catch S1, you should totally watch it. I'd say try S2 and see if you can jump in, but if it doesn't make sense or doesn't catch you, go back and watch S1.

It is awesome. Has awesome actors. Is a bit of a rework, but relatively faithful to the books. They've created their own language from scratch for it.

I really can't say enough about the show.

And now I need to track down some Expanse icons.

4 – Do you have a "muse" character, that speaks to you more than others, or that tries to push their way in, even when the fic isn't about them? Who are they, and why did that character became your muse

Well, it was River and/or YoSaffBridge at first. They would just show up with a scene of dialogue, drop it in my lap, and then exit stage right. It was rather maddening. Especially because YoSaffBridge wouldn’t always come back to finish the gorram story.

But really, it’s a little embarrassing because at first I hated to write him. I mean I could do it, but it was always just to move the story along you know? But then after I rewrote Serenity from the POV of Jayne (and how is this not in my fic listings? I have to go and dig it up), he just kept showing up more and more. To the point of dragging crossovers to him. And future fic starring him. I mean, it may not seem like it, but the number of WIP I have with that stupid man ape on my hard drive is ridiculous.

11 years ago today, and 6 years +4 days I joined LJ and DW respectively. Granted, I'd been a fandom lurker (and involved in firefly actively through the main fanfiction archive there for a year or so before that). But still. Wow.

Every day I'm thankful for the friends I've made along the way -- several of you had important contributions to me maintaining my sanity through grad school, hell biotech, and everything else. I may be quieter since my muse doesn't come out to play as much, but I still read my flist almost every day and am cheering you all on in my own way.

It never ceases to amaze / depress me in a way that I know what's happening with all of you so much better than I do with my college friends who are all busy though I recognize a lot of that is on me too.

Still, thanks for the past decade plus, and here's to a lot more.

May 5, 2004. Probably more like 10. Granted ive read fanfic since age of 16 when I got Internet access in a big way at the nerd high school. I wrote a lot of maRy sues that didn't ever make it to the Internet thank god. But then firefly came along and in combo with serious depression from hell lab I found fandom in a big way. I still haven't popped my con cherry, but I've had closer friendships for longer with some of you than with anyone I've known in real life. And ire ever fondly my foray I to fanfic awards moderation (blue sun awards. Also known as when Stacey had to finally read slash fanfic when some judges bailed), my trip down meta lane combined with the premature death of the she The Inside (also known as the Aston I didn't watch SYTYCD for 3 seasons), my entry to Farscape fandom, my first stalled mega wip that I still try to encourage my bunny to finish, and the various lj crises, and me finally acquiring slash goggles thanks to the avengers.

Along the way I've been lucky enough to meet several of you in person - Cassie, sabaceanbabe, PT, azuremonkey, fleshlycherry, inlovewithnight, and a couple of others. Some of you have married, had kids, had kids graduate, graduated yourself, and generally enriched my life either directly or vicariously through lertting me have experiences that I couldn't. And of course, gotten me used to responding to my best friends name or jp.

A decade is a long time. New Internet platforms come and go. I'm getting old enough that I find some of these new fangked things harder (twitter? Really? Nothing worth saying can be said in 120 characters. And I still don't know how to reply to tumblr posts). Through it all fandom is still here. And I still feel like my float is the greatest thing I've found on the Internet.

Especially since pt always manages to remind me when max martini is going to show up on my tv screen. Also gifts of Jeremy Renner never Hirt anyone and may be a means of achieving works peace.