Let's never do that again.*

[bending_sickle]

It's Saturday. I've cleaned the house, been to the market and had the requisite kibbeling and stroopwaffel lunch, asked questions galore at the knitting store and hung out at the computer lab trying to work and, eventually, working. Until, that is, I got kicked out (they were closing).

So here I am, feeling utterly exhausted and guilty over work and eyeing the laundry like it might just decide to wash itself if I pout hard enough. (No luck so far.) So instead of anything else, I'm going to cuddle under my comforter - btw, I miss my old apartment's couch liek woah - and have lemon flavoured tea, chocolate-covered cookies, and Batman Begins (about 2 weeks behind schedule).

In other news, and before the imminent zoning-out, I was reading The Editing Room's Abridged Screenplay of TDK earlier, and ran head-first against a wall against the funny. As you all may've figured out, I'm just now processing Heath Ledger and shaking my fist at the whims of the universe. Last night I'd watched a YouTube guy talking about Heath shortly after his death. I remember being somewhat appalled at how the guy mourned him first for the loss this meant to the industry, and then gave his condolences to the family and friends. (I'd rather Heath be alive, herding sheep and giving the film industry the finger than dead.) But he went on in particular about TDK, echoing what I've heard before, that the Joker was the likeliest candidate to reappear in a sequel (threequel?). And, well, yeah, he had a point, and I gave it to him. But it wasn't until I read the Abridged Screenplay and had a precise example of just what the Heath-shaped void looks like, that I got a tad teary-eyed. (Well, more than a tad.)

BAT-BALE
I had to save you! You need to be in the next movie!

HEATH LEDGER
Yeah... about that...

Reading that one line and all those little elipses bloody hurts.


So, to end on a happier and more hopeful note, here's another quote:

snowgrouse: In the end, fandom will triumph. (source)

What I'm Currently Reading/Watching:
Victory, Praxis, Cladogenesis, Metroland


Links of the Day: Warning: MASSIVE

Doctor Who Fandom:
uncledarks's Towards a New Usage of Canon in Doctor Who Fandom
omphalos's Inside Scoop on Upcoming Doctor Who Specials
crafty_tardis's Doctor and Master Puppets - The most adorable things ever!
Billie Piper Undecided on Who Return
electrictoes's Doctor Who Episode Survey Thingy - Nine questions to discuss.

TDK Fandom:
alip99's Batman Doodles
batman_lulz's loving the Joker's watch (or wallet) chain, Joker/Crane art, Motivational Posters FTW, Wanna see a total mindfuck?, Sexy suspenders, Oogling chelseagrin.com's art
Chelseagrin.com's Art Site
batman_lulz Meme Images
Sexy suspenders of win
The "best" Fandom Secret Ever
Wolfmother's "The Joker and the Thief", possibly perfect as a fanvid song.
We've found the Bat Cave
Fanvid: Smack That
Fanmix: Cirque Diabolique
The Editing Room's Abridged The Dark Knight's Screenplay
Whilst reporting on the breaking news of Heath Ledger's death, one woman defends his memory.

TDK Fanfic:
sarrens_fic's Five Times Jim Gordon Found Out Bruce Wayne Is Batman and One Time Everyone Did
poliskipiwo's Clarity by
lonlonrancher's Go Fuck Yourself
quakewithfear's Cruelty of the Coin
morlockiness's Dude Looks Like a Lady
XxNadsxX's Dark Humor
lilac28's The Interruption
teithiwr's Much Madness Is
anoushka's Strange Bedfellows
seriousfic's Starving to Death But For Bullets to Feast On
irisbleufic's All Talk
lisechen, floweringjudas and faelhach's I Wish I Could Go Back To College
amaroqwolf_inc's A Study of Human Nature
mia6363's Pretty Damn Close

Other Fandoms:
trollprincess's Fiction and moview review link compilation - Fiction and movie review link compilation
simm_daily's Cantebury Tales picspam
coldprey's Lost's Desmond and Penny picspam
Fanvid: Brokeback to the Future
Fanvid: Brokeback Island: They Must Press the Button Every 108 Minutes or Their Forbidden Love Dies

Other Fanfic:
lenina20's Lost Fanfic: Hold Your Breath and Count to Five (Or Four Times Kate Ran and the One She Took Sawyer With Her)
shinyopals and goldy_dollar's Doctor Who Fanfic: Five Things That Were Different About the Parallel Universe...And One Thing That Wasn't
qthebadwolf's Life on Mars Fanfic: One in a Lullaby
grittyfic's Life on Mars Fanfic: Tale as Old

Art and Other Wacky Stuff:
Dr. Horrible My Little Ponies
The 20 Worst Toy Makeovers
My Little Cthulhu
The Particle Physics Rap
Ask A Ninja's Book, audio version soon freely available.
They Didn't Study
Photos of China
The Pineapple Express (2008) Film

News, Articles and Entertainment:
Time May Not Exist - Warning: Do not attempt without physics.
Obama's Campaign Add of Win
trollprincess's John Stewart is Love
It's a panda! It's a dog! It's a pandadog!
Cracked.Com's Hollywood's 5 Saddest Attempts at Feminism (Absolute Zero (in Kelvins) points for quoting that psychotic anti-Firefly, "Go, go feminism!" post as if it were anything but that.), 6 Most Depressing Happy Endings in Movie History, * Kids Movies That Lied to Us, 5 Scientific Experiments Most Likely to End the World, Disturbing Origins to 5 Nursery Rhymes, Important News Stories as Depicted by 5-year-olds ("Not daddy" ftw!), 15 Images You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped
MSNBC.MSN.Com's Unhappily Married? Blame His Genes, Fast Forward; The Future of Evolution
10 Square Mile Ice Sheet in North Pole Go Bye-Bye
Crappy Movies Are Destroying Your Brain, Say Scientists
Jane Austen's "Mr Darcy" Unveiled
Three Best Bits of Relationship Advice I've Ever Been Given
Animals With Superpowers (Fear the octopus!)
wtf_nature's Esref Armaga, a Turk painter born without eyes, has mad skillz and a firm grasp of perspective,
Wim Hoff runs half-marathon above North Pole in nothing but shorts (homepage)

Really Random Stuff:
Neverwhere by NGaiman available online or as a .pdf free for a limited time
No Heroics Trailer - Four off-duty superheroes in a town of superheroes. (Bwahahaha!)
cleolinda's On Guilt
How to Confuse and Idiot
Wiki: Humpty Dumpty:"References in Popular Music - Lookit! I added stuff!
YouTube: Electric Six, "Danger, High Voltage Music Video


* Common phrase.