Words, Words, Words

Okay seriously, as if my urge to get a new boy-ferret weren't driving me nuts as it is.
Mom would probably love the Indigo Girls as they kind of shade towards pop-country fusion.
I'm not so afraid of *Ianto* per se, but what CoE did to the fandom. And my absolute lack of interest in the show.
I'd totally take a tarot class.
And I'd love to see Catherfina again, it's been quite a while... so if vidding would do it, I'd totally be there. :)

... hate (in no particular order):
1. Rodney McKay. Yeah, I know blasphemy. Bite me. He's obnoxious and not cute enough to make up for it. In fact not even remotely.
2. Tim McGee (okay, *hate* may be a little strong, be he's getting there.) Okay, writers we get it. He doesn't need to be treated like a Probie any more. He's all grown up. But he's an ASS when he tries to prove it. He's just plain mean. "I've learned not to date the daughters of international arms smugglers"? That was so far out of line!
3. Gwen Cooper. Sanctamonious, cheating, bitch. Was that too on the nose?
4. Travis Mayweather. Most boring human being ever to set foot on film.
5. Kate Todd. Also a bitch. And for a profiler, she really, really, really should have seen that all the crap Tony pulled on her was to get attention. If she *really* wanted it to stop, she should have stopped playing into his hand. Seriously, this is psychology I use on 10 year olds... she should have nailed this one.


... love:
1. G Callen. Yes, he is a 13 year old girl's Mary Sue OC in canon. 37 foster homes? Really? He doesn't even know his own given name? Seriously? But I love the angsty ones. He gives me so much to work with when I feel like writing the woobie.
2. Kensi Blye. The most unappologetic KICK ASS girl I've ever seen on 'real world' t.v. (As opposed to say, Teyla, who's not even from Earth.)
3. Neal Caffrey. Being amazingly gorgeous doesn't hurt him at all. Dark hair and blue eyes? Sign me up. Twice. Also, he's a total con artist - literally - but he's... mostly harmless. And so adorable in personality.
4. Dan Rydell. See most of what I wrote about Callen. Canon woobie. Absusive father, dead brother, documented mental health issues...
5. Tony DiNozzo. Yes he has more than a few moments of immaturity (and yes, he is devolving almost as fast as Abby did in the second season), but he's honorable and harmless (to the good guys) and clever and smart. And loyal as hell.

Okay, if you're a Sports Night fan, you know the scene where Danny asks Natalie what she does with her extra money? That's me right now.

For those of you who don't know the show, it basically goes like this: Danny is a well-paid sports anchor on t.v. Natalie is a junior producer on the show and not paid nearly as well. At one point Danny asks Natalie what she does with her extra money. She basically tells him that all her money is tied up in rent and food and stuff and there *is* no extra money. For the rest of the show Danny runs around trying to decide how to pick a charitable fund to support. His problem isn't that he can't find a good one; his problem is they're *all* good and how do you pick from all the good ones and not pick the others.

This would be me right now. I mean for 10 years I was on Natalie's side going, "Gee, that has to suck for you, having all that extra money and needing to decide between a thousand good places to send it."

Well, now I'm Danny. Seriously. Every one of you who asked for my computer - for yourself or someone else who could use it - made a very compelling case. Only, I don't *have* 17 computers to give out. And right now I wish I did.

Anyway, after spending a day going, "This person... no wait, that one..., but what about...?" I finally just gave into the one case where things would be a bit easier on me. There's someone local who can get it *from* me. And yeah, that makes it easier, but it also ensures that it won't become a box of beaten up parts (this is, after all, the computer that took a header off my bed and already had to have the power reply replaced because of it) that won't do anyone any good.

I've contacted that person to set up a pick up.

I'm so sorry I can't give everyone a computer, dammit! I had no idea so many people needed them. And seriously, this is in my head now. I think the portable DVD player I replaced last year... yeah, I'm just gonna give the old one to the kids from that family at work that I've kind of informally adopted. It'll save me the stress!

Sheesh, we haven't even had the author-reveal yet, and I'm having Yuletide withdrawal.  Not that there isn't a ton to read, but I'm in, "OMG! Must write to a prompt!" mode.  And lo, there are no prompts...

So I turn to you, dear f'list... Let's do an alphabet prompt list.

Give me a word that starts with a given letter and any two of the following fandoms (I'm not doing crossovers, but I want a back-up fandom in case a given muse goes scurrying for cover.)


Fandoms:
Enterprise
Hercules: the Legendary Journeys
Hornblower
Merlin
NCIS
NCIS: LA
SG-1
SGA
Sherlock Holmes (which will probably look a lot like something from the current movie, if I'm brave enough to tackle it at all.)
Sports Night
Torchwood
Velvet Goldmine
White Collar

And um... probably some I've forgotten.  If you think I write in it, and I didn't list it, feel free to try me.



A                                                              N
B  - Blowtorch (NCIS or NCIS:LA)               O
C  - Candle (Merlin or Enterprise)              P
D                                                              Q
E                                                               R
F                                                               S
G                                                              T
H                                                              U
I                                                               V
J                                                               W - wound (NCIS: LA or Hornblower)
K                                                              X
L                                                               Y
M                                                              Z

(btw, this is up at LJ and DW, so if I get ideas for the same letter from two different places, I'll just add them both and either pick one, or if they both rock, I'll do them both. :)

OMG!!!!

Okay, so I've been importing batches of 10 stories at a time into A03. This morning I imported story #100. It was the last thing I ever posted for SGA. OMG! 100 STORIES AND I'M JUST GETTING TO SGA!

A few older odds and ends have cropped up - some of my Enterprise and West Wing and one of the Sports Night fics that apparently ended up just getting to LJ last year.

But there's a bajillion bits of SGA and then I still have to do a bunch of SG-1, the larger chunk of West Wing, Phantom Menace... (did my tPM stuff even get onto LJ?), my Age of Sail stuff - that I still haven't done. I may or may not have done all my BSG... I can't remember how much I wrote there.

Jimminy Peets I have a lot of fic! Why hasn't someone ever told me to step away from the keyboard???

So I'm a bit of a hoarder.  Not as bad as those folks on t.v. who keep their old pudding cups and stuff... but I have way too much crap in way too small a space.  So one of my New Years resolutions is going to be to GET RID OF STUFF I DON'T NEED.

Now some of it, I can comfortably freecycle locally, but other things I'd rather put into fannish hands.


Case in point:  My iMac G4.  This is an oldish, but very serviceable laptop.  It's a tad heavy compared to my new one (it's also got a bigger screen, which explains part of that), it has a CD/DVD burner and a reasonably new power cord (because it's the old school pin type, not the magnet ones, and I did break the first one.)

ANYWAY... I'm willing to box this up and put it into a flat rate USPS box to anywhere in the U.S. if there's someone fannish who could use it.  It is WiFi and all that... like I said, old, but serviceable.

Unless it goes to someone I know very well, I'm going to refomat the bejeezes out of it, so it won't have much software on it. 

So, if you've killed your laptop and can't replace it right now; if you've got a seven year old who wants her/his own computer and you can't afford to give them a brand new one... whatever...  Leave a comment below (all comments are screened) and let me know who it's for/what it'll be used for.  I just want to be sure it goes to someone who needs it.  I'll get back to someone on Thursday to ask for an address so I can take it to the post office on Friday.

Feel free to signal boost this if you can think of anyone who might be interested.

Okay, this is going around, so what the hell... :)

If you want to take a shot a guessing what I wrote for Yuletide, and you are correct, I'll write a drabble for you in any fandom that I write in.

I'll give you this hint: I wrote 4 stories - 3 full size Yuletides and one Madness story.

You need to guess the story by title. It doesn't count if you cast a net over a whole fandom. :) You get four guesses since I wrote four stories. If you hit on any of them, you win. :)


Comments are screened. Winners will be revealed after the Yuletide reveal.

Go see this film if...

• you're a slash fan
• you're a Sherlock/Holmes fan
• you're a House/Wilson fan

Seriously, I sat through the film going, "Oh, this is where Wilson... er, Watson, will walk in."  And while I'm sure RDJ and JL did due diligence and studied the original source, I think they also secretly watched House, M.D. and studied the House/Wilson interaction and used that as part of their background for characterization. There was that same level of... I don't know how to put it. But that level of, "I love you dearly... but I'm going to KILL you if I get the chance," is exactly the same.

But OMG the slash is strong!!!

A.) PLEASE DO NOT SPOIL ME!

B.) I have a choice of theaters to see this apparently slashtastic masterpiece.
One is a small, local, old-time theater that I find adorable. And close. Which I highly approve of. BUT the screens are quite small compared to what we see in multi-plexes today. The other(s), obviously, are the elventy billion multiplexes with their not-quite-Navy-Pier's-IMAX screen, but still much bigger than the Davis. Is there a serious upside to seeing it on a big screen?

A billion inches of snow was a good reason to stay home and read fic from Yuletide. Especially as the archive was playing very well with others this afternoon. :)

Many new fandoms...

One more NCIS: LA rec: Have Gun Will Travel...  A really nice look into G's mind as he meets his team.  And it gave me the funniest mental image.  When you get to the part about Kensi going undercover?  Yeah, think about her having to walk through OSP in that outfit.  And the tormenting her team would subject her to.  And how very, very HARD she would kick their asses.  In that outfit. :)

For pure crack, check out LOLCat fic.  You can haz it heer.

Then there's Familiar Exchange - a Royal Pains fic that nicely summarizes the way Evan and Hank have always been there for each other when the rest of the family wasn't.

Because I'm going to see the movie sometime soon (probably tomorrow), I went through some of the Sherlock Holmes stuff.  Men Like Us was very well done.  I totally didn't see *that* arrest coming.  And I loved Holmes frantic energy and Watson's calm acceptance of whatever Holmes decides they need to do.  Very nice. :)

There's a LOVELY first-kiss fic for Sports Night called The Offside Rule.  The writer totally understands the banter the way the show did it.  And also, the extreme self-esteem issues Danny has.  (And yeah, I have a weakness for Screwed Up!Danny.)

And to round out this group, a very, very sweet Future!Fic for Sports Night.  Breaking Down is Hard to Do is all kinds of sweet and nails Danny's screwed up psyche brilliantly.  Yes, more screwed up Danny.  Lucky me. :)

I'm watching "Peter Burke" on NCIS right now. He's the cheating senator who has his aide kill his mistress and then he kills the aide.

I need a White Collar icon..

My brother just texted me this picture:

SQUEEEEE!!!!!!!!!  Yuletide is live.  (Yuletide madness is not yet.  Yay! More new stuff later today!  I'm totally down with spreading it out.  I've barely made a dent in what *has* been released.)


Recs:

First off, I got the most *amazing* Hornblower story.  The Thousandth Man is a 5 times series about Horatio and Archie taking care of each other.  The hurt and the comfort are not one-sided as they are in many fics.  The period language is done *amazingly* well and the characters are spot on.  It's *freakishly* like a draft I've been poking at for years that deals with Horatio and Archie reuniting in Cadiz and goes through Archie learning he was made Acting Lieutenant on the Indy.  Only this story is WAY better than mine because a.) it's done and polished and b.) it has amazing execution! I have no idea how many Hornblower people are still on my f'list, but if you've dabbled in the fandom, go read this; it's awesome.

(As an aside, one thing that always scares me about Yuletide is that I try to live by 'if you don't have anything nice to say about a story - or at least something constructive - don't say anything at all.  So I live in fear that I'll get something that's... less than well-done and I'll have to blow smoke up someone's ass.  I am so THRILLED to be able to review and rec honestly and sincerely and with much SQUEE!)


Of course, you all know that after I read my story I ran straight to the NCIS: LA department.  I am thrilled to announce that even after a few hours of reading, I haven't gotten through them all yet. :)  I shouldn't know these stats - I feel like an archive stalker - but Yuletide nearly tripled the number of stories in the archive.  There were 8 before Yuletide and now there's 21.  A few of which won't be released until they do Madness... but YAY!  More fic!

A few I did read and enjoyed:

Thursday's Child is an interesting look at G's history.  Covers every little scrap of information that was ever thrown at us.  That he entered foster care at 5 (and makes a good argument for why he was never adopted), who the special cop was, why he entered the Army, and why he left it, how he got into federal law enforcement...

If Thursday's Child explains why G keeps himself apart from everyone, Will It Go Round in Circles shows how everyone tries to draw him in despite his reluctance.  It's a group of loosely connected snapshots of how everyone at OSP has adopted G whether he's willing to admit it or not.  It has Sam and G in a relationship, which is nicely depicted as a little fragile, but getting stronger.  The writer has a great way of showing a Sam who wants to make sure G knows that he's loved and wanted but is also afraid of coming on too strong and scaring him off.  My favorite scene has to be the one where G decides he and Sam are a bad idea - mostly because he's becoming attached and that scares the crap out of him - and Sam just *teases* him into submission and keeps him from running away again.  Read it.  It's brilliant.  So awesomely in character.

I got the link to my Yuletide gift and the short description...

And then when I click the link it says, "This is part of a collection and will be revealed soon."

EVIL!!!!



ETA: I think we just killed AO3... we're getting some nasty little, "Cannot load page" messages now. Oh dear.

I just finished "Treat" #2. But seeing as I over-shot the 1000 word mark by... a lot, it's actually a bonus Yuletide story now. But it's a new fandom for me, which is kind of cool. And it has sex in it, which I'm typically all for but rarely actually *write*.

I'm not saying I won't get anything else done tonight, but those two may be all I have in me and I'm not going to force myself to write crap just to write more.

I can haz Yuletide nao?


No?


How about nao?

Okay, unless I make up time somewhere, 10 fandoms in 10 hours is going to be pushing it. I just spent 2 hours on fandom one. (And now I just want to sit and watch the rest of the canon, because OMG I forgot how much I love this show!)

Okay, getting another DVD and starting fandom number two...

A little less than 11 hours and counting...


BTW, anyone else trying to tackle a treat or two? How are you doing?

So the Yuletide Treats Insanity has begun.

I'm debating tossing on an .avi DVD of different Yuletide sources and seeing if I can get out at least a drabble for 10 different fandoms.  Preferably ones I haven't written before.  Just so no one will guess it's me.

But I haven't had coffee yet, so I haven't really fleshed out this plan.  Or even really decided if it's a good idea and will be fun, or will just be an exercise in making myself nuts.  Opinions?  (Other than "Waldo, you've been nuts for years."  I know that. :)

Anyone going to be around for quick betas?