bending_sickle: (Mark is made of awesome)
Sickle's Random Points:
  • Yesterday I saw the most hilarious sight. I almost wished I'd had my camera, but then I doubt I would've been allowed to take one, or would've had the guts to do so. On my way to and from work, I pass by a mysterious corner with a permanent jeep and two soldiers in camouflage with bullet-proof vests and rifles. They're always there and they won't say why. Yesterday, waiting to cross the street at that very corner, was a pudgy man with black glasses and a camouflage shir. Oh, the ironic contrast!

  • I've watched more guest-starring-Mark-Sheppard Battlestar Galactica episodes and okay, I'll admit I like the show. Not all the time, but I really like Lee Adama and Patchy - sorry, Saul Tigh - as well as Cylon Six and Gaius. I particularly enjoyed the courtroom episodes that ended season 3.

  • That last may have something to do with the fact that I love it when Mark Sheppard's characters shout. So far as I can remember, they all have, and man, he roars and it's adorable. And awesome. He'll hunker down and his face'll just do a perfect angry-O-with-scrunchy-eyebrows. Oh, the squee.

  • But most of all I love Romo Lampkin. This is not just because of who his face is. The writing, the character's history and psychology, I just... The tiny little detail about him taking care of his ex-wife's cat, which he claims he hates but loses his shit over when it dies, and the story of how he lost his wife, whom just a few episodes before he'd given this whole gorgeous speech about how much he hurt without her... I love this character and all his lying, theiving flaws. He's a person.

  • It is hot. It is very hot. It is over 37 degrees hot. It is does-not-go-below-thirty-in-my-room-at-night hot. It is oh-gods-this-headache-is-kililng-me hot. It is I-will-rub-this-wet-rag-over-me-forever hot. *melts*


Meme: 30-Day Original Story Development Challenge Day 13 )

Quote of the Day: Sneebs
It's better to belong where you don't belong than not to belong where you used to belong, remembering when you used to belong there -Sneebs


Links of the Day:
Supernatural: Read more... )
Doctor Who: Read more... )
Sherlock: Read more... )
True Blood: Read more... )
Other Fandom: Read more... )
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* Tom Snyder
bending_sickle: (Obsessive)
Meme: 30-Day Original Story Development Challenge Day 10 )

Quote of the Day: Joss Whedon
Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.


Links of the Day:
Supernatural: Read more... )
Doctor Who: Read more... )
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Other Fandom: Read more... )
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* Jane Wagner
bending_sickle: (Obsessive)
Okay, there's this thing and even though it says "click through for the zip" I seem to have gone blind because I can't see any through to click and thus no zip and then my face goes all :( Help?

While we're on the "Sickle's useless at figuring out not-really-so-complicated things on Tumblr", how to I put in a user icon? I don't even know what the things are called on Tumblr... Oh, I feel so internet-illiterate.

In other news, not much is going on and there's too much stuff on the internet.


Links of the Day:
Supernatural: Read more... )
Doctor Who: Read more... )
Sherlock: Read more... )
True Blood: Read more... )
Firefly: Read more... )
Other Fandom: Read more... )
Multifandom: Read more... )
Random: Read more... )


* Lawrence Grossman
bending_sickle: (But I won't like it)
I'm currently watching Leverage (or rather, Mark Sheppard's episodes of) and the fandoms are bleeding together again. For one, Mark, who's in everything, so that's expected. Well, his suprise Mandarin wasn't, and oh it made me so happy to hear him speak in Mandarin. (Oh, Badger!). Then there's Angel's Lindsay (whose long hair has to go) and Supernatural's Jake (my favourite, by far). Speaking of Lindsay and Jake (and no, I don't know their Leverage names), they're my bro-OTP for the show. Seriously, they're like Ryan and Esposito! D'aw!

Alright, so I was going to flail about Misha's stint on Ghostfacers which was hilarious and unfilicious but my flailing is now of a different kind because all the links are gone. GIF reaction )

In other news, this fanart crossover of mine has 177 notes. *flails* Ahem. *more flailing* See, I love this about Tumblr. I don't need to pimp out my stuff - just tag it - and people like and reblog, whereas on Livejournal I'd have to pimp out on a number of communities - feeling like I'm spamming everywhere - and gods only know when the last time I got a pingback was... So yays Tumblr!

GIF Meme: Read more... )

Links of the Day:
Supernatural: Read more... )
Doctor Who: Read more... )
Sherlock: Read more... )
True Blood: Read more... )
Other Fandom: Read more... )
Multifandom: Read more... )
Random: Read more... )


* Meme
bending_sickle: (Fuck this shit)
I'm a bit better today, but the past few days have been pretty shitty in the emotional department, all Social Isolation Monkey and Random Crying and Anxiety and Extreme Boredom. Seriously, I've been going crazy.

I've been sunbathing, watching Firefly, and editing old unfinished stories for the anthology I'm working on for my ex-supervisor. Not much else happening apart from the, y'know, mental meltdown.

Oh, and I've petted some cats. That was nice.

Links of the Day:
Supernatural: Read more... )
Doctor Who: Read more... )
True Blood: Read more... )
Sherlock: Read more... )
Jurassic Park: Read more... )
Other Fandom: Read more... )
Multifandom: Read more... )
Random: Read more... )


* Mal, "Our Mrs Reynolds", Firefly
bending_sickle: (Invisible?)
Wow. I haven't posted in a week. What that primarily means is that the Links of the Day is going to scare the bejeezus out of you, but it also means there's some catching up to do on events in Sickleland.

This past week I finished Grave Sight and Grave Surprise, the first two books in Charlaine Harris's (she of the Sookie Stackhouse books) series revolving around Harper Connelly, who can sense corpses and see their last living moments. Read more... )

I've also gone a lot to the cinema because there's a Spanish film festival going on. Read more... )

On Friday mom and I were supposed to go to a concert in a church, and in fact we were sitting in the pews with the concert just minutes away froms tarting, when her heart started acting up. Read more... )

I've been madly focused on a fanvid which I never even meant to make. I just couldn't get Iron and Wine's Walking Far From Home out of my head. Read more... )

I recently got an email from Person in Organization, following up on his, "your CV is right up my project's alley, let me see if we have place for you to do an internship" promise. I have an interview - "a short discussion" - with him tomorrow, and I'm really keen on this opportunity because it's all about what I studied in my Masters. \o/

I'm also on holiday until Wednesday \o/

I'm past two weeks in Sniffles and Sneezes of Doom :(


Links of the Day:
Supernatural: Read more... )
Doctor Who: Read more... )
True Blood: Read more... )
Sherlock: Read more... )
Misfits: Read more... )
Other Fandom: Read more... )
Multifandom: Read more... )
Random: Read more... )


* "Walking Far From Home", Iron and Wine
bending_sickle: (Obsessive)
When Google Fails Me: I'm setting up a pdf of a selection of my stories for my supervisor, and working through author's notes, adding links and so on. In one chapter of a story, I reference a [livejournal.com profile] metaquotes - or possibly a comment on a [livejournal.com profile] metaquotes, which, yay.
[livejournal.com profile] ultra_lilac: People should never be baked into pies, you monster! The pastry overpowers the delicate bouquet of flavours in human flesh!

Goddamnit, I can't find it on the internet to put in the url. This is driving me crazy! (Yes, I am that nitpicky.) I figured out that the quote has to be older than December 2005, but any googles give me only my own post about it. So after having skimmed through half of 2005, I'm going to start at the begininng (2002) and head on from there. I will find it even if it kills me. Grr.

Sickle's Rant: How to Feel Underappreciated with Just Two Brief Emails: Read more... )

Sickle's Review of Charlaine Harris' Grave Sight (Audiobook), Chapters 1-4 Read more... )

Sickle's Review of The Land of Painted Caves, Chapter 1: Read more... )

Sickle's Review of Grey's Anatomy, "Song Beneath the Song" (7x18): Read more... )

Sickle's Review of Paranormal Activity 2: Read more... )

Meme: 30-Day Fandom vs. Personal Meme:

Day 17: Character you would never put your close friend in a room with, unless they had done something to make you really hate them. Read more... )

Day 18: Character you most think would make a great parent (father if you are female, mother if you are male). Read more... )

Day 19: Listen to the last ballad you remember hearing. Which character does it most remind you of? Read more... )

Day 20: Pick three favourite characters, each of them apearing currently in a different fandom. One of them has to be killed off from the current fandom you like them in, one of them has to become the star of their fandom, and the other has to be written out completely to never have appeared at all. You decide. Read more... )

Day 21: Character you'd most like to be for a day. Read more... )

Quote of the Day: [livejournal.com profile] kambriel, here
Let the things you've suffered, endured, survived show.

Links of the Day:
Supernatural: Read more... )
Doctor Who: Read more... )
Human Target: Read more... )
Misfits: Read more... )
Other Fandom: Read more... )
Multifandom: Read more... )
Random: Read more... )


* Charlaine Harris, From Dead to Worse
bending_sickle: (But I won't like it)
Yesterday's meet-and-greet at Organization went well, even if my brain flatlined a few times and I found myself unable to string words together without stumbling over them. Apparently talking to someone I don't know makes me forget grammar and vocabulary in any language now. The person I spoke with gave me some suggestions - basically just to email people directly involved in projects I'd be interested in, saying, "hi! I'm here! if you ever need anyone! hi!" - and will circulate my CV around.

Today there was a nation-wide transportation strike, which meant I woke up an hour early to catch the last metro and waiting outside in the cold until I could get in the office. I started writing an SPN fic while I was at it, because apparently I can't finish fics. *sigh* Then, to get home, I decided to walk the hour back instead of wait around for four hours for the metro to start up again for a brief shining moment, or try and squeeze into any available bus and take three hours to get home like last time.

The rest of the day I spent working on a variety of fannish projects and watching Dharma and Greg. I was going to watch Paranormal Activity 2 tonight, but I figure it's a touch too late for that now.

In other news, my right eyelid's been twitching on and off for the whole day now, and it's really annoying. The Internet says I probably need more sleep, less caffeine, or less stress, to which I say, fat chance.


Picspam: Misfits' Iwan Rheon guest starring in Grandma's House, and Simon Amstell crushing on him adorably: Read more... )


Meme: 30-Day Fandom vs. Personal Meme:

Day 13: Form of transportation from a fandom that you wish you had yourself. Read more... )

Day 14: Fandom home you wish you lived in yourself. Read more... )

Day 15: Fandom location you’d most like to visit, even though you couldn’t meet the characters. Read more... )

Day 16: Character you’d most like to steal underwear from. Read more... )


Quote of the Day: Unnamed Professor of Pharmacology, here
In the early 1900s, Bayer, the same company that makes your aspirin, advertised diacetylmorphine as the first non-addictive form of morphine. Today, we call it heroin.

Links of the Day:
Supernatural: Read more... )
Lost: Read more... )
Doctor Who: Read more... )
Sherlock: Read more... )
Misfits: Read more... )
Other Fandom: Read more... )
Multifandom: Read more... )
Random: Read more... )


* Common expression
bending_sickle: (Invisible?)
Being kept very busy co-touristing Rome. Yesterday we went to the Pope's Urbi et Orbi, today we went to Subiaco, tomorrow's Castel Gandolfo, so it's been pretty busy. Christmas came and went in food and good times are still being had. I'm not doing even half of the things I said I would when I had a little free time - such as writing Louisiana Hoodoo or working on That Fanvid I've Been Working On For More Than A Year ye Gods - but at least I'm working on the Time We Saw A Miracle fanmixes, so \o/


Meme via [livejournal.com profile] aelora: The Year, in Favorites Read more... )

Links of the Day:
Supernatural: Read more... )
Lost: Read more... )
Doctor Who: Read more... )
True Blood: Read more... )
Human Target: Read more... )
Sherlock: Read more... )
The Walking Dead: Read more... )
Other Fandom: Read more... )
Multifandom: Read more... )
Random: Read more... )


* "White Wine in the Sun", Tim Minchin
bending_sickle: (Badass of the Lord)
Nanowrimo: Writing so much easier now! Wrapping up things! Sort of. I mean, there's still Icarus to worry about, but that's mainly behind the scenes and a lot of "and they looked for him and didn't find him until aha!" Wow, it certainly feels like we're drawing on the final leg. \o/


Random Supernatural Comments and Revelations: Read more... )


Videos of the Day: Supernatural "Bumper Promo #2", featuring one hot-ass angel" and ZOMGItsCriss' "Slut! Tramp! Whore!" on slutshamingEmbed )


Excerpt )


38386 / 50000 words. 77% done!


Links of the Day:
Supernatural: Read more... )
Human Target: Read more... )
Sherlock: Read more... )
Other Fandom: Read more... )
Multifandom: Read more... )
Random: Read more... )


* "Stanislaus", Sea Wolf
bending_sickle: (Now time for the weather)
I watched the pilot of The Walking Dead, whose poster I'd been seeing everywhere on the metro and thought was a zombie movie but is instead a zombie tv show which means zombies every week which is FTW. I liked it so far - it helps that the lead a) wears a sheriff uniform, b) was the "to me, you are perfect" character from Love, Actually and c) has an adorable accent of adorableness. I also like that it's quiet - some shots just go on and on showing you the world and you can't hear a thing. One thing I loved? Spoilers )

I've also got a meeting or interview tomorrow with Person from Organization (not to be confused with Person from the same Organization) about possibly doing something with them in something related to the environment. This is all I know about the interview - which I learnt about today - because this is more of a meet-and-greet, "hey, I know that person who knows you" thing thank anything. I should be squeeful or fearful but I'm feeling a bit like Sam at the moment, in that I'm not feeling very much at all.


Nanowrimo: Feeling rather burnt out from writing, feeling like nothing's happening despite a lot of things happening, and that I'm just fudging it. Chip even had a panic attack which did nothing to advance the plot, and the Agatha showed off some mad skillz, yo, which at most will be a detail. But I think what's up next is a quick night patrol, a snuggle, then zoom zoom skip to the next evening.

Excerpt )


16941 / 50000 words. 34% done!


40 Days of Supernatural Meme: Day 36 - Favorite con? Read more... )


Links of the Day:
Supernatural: Read more... )
Doctor Who: Read more... )
Sherlock: Read more... )
Other Fandom: Read more... )
Multifandom: Read more... )
Random: Read more... )


* John Dykstra
bending_sickle: (Dean lays salt)
1) I have a coin collection (which does not necessarily mean I'm a numismatic - I just hoard the pretty shiny things and am therefore a casual collector). We're going to Switzerland next week, passing through other countries. What does my mom do, then, pray ask? Read more... )


2) My mother has incredibly unrealistic expectations and notions regarding the job market. Read more... )


Question: What is the term for the red domed thing at the entrance in this photo?


40 Days of Supernatural Meme: Day 31 - Your ideal SPN ending? Read more... )

Quote of the Day: Overheard in Chicago, Under the Red Line at Argyle
Guy: "Hey, is that chick crying?"

Girl: (crying) "YES! AND IT'S PROBABLY YOUR FAULT ANYWAY!"

Links of the Day:
Supernatural: Read more... )
Lost: Read more... )
True Blood: Read more... )
Sherlock: Read more... )
Other Fandom: Read more... )
Multifandom: Read more... )
Random: Read more... )
Psychology: Read more... )


* Bladerunner
** This is a person, however, who not only opened and read my preteen diary, but corrected the spelling and put massive question marks in the border. And hid behind my bed in my room, then giggled when I walked in and talked to myself thinking I was alone in my room. Honestly, what the fuck?
bending_sickle: (Default)
Today was nothing to write home about, except for that bit in the afternoon with the maternal strife argument. Yesterday was even worse, what with the three-hour-long torturous cramp session of pain and agony, preceded by the morning- and the evening-cramps sessions of great discomfort.

Lost Special: Totally Lost, Part 1 and 6: Read more... )

30 Days of Doctor Who: Day 17 – A Piece of Who-Related FanArt Read more... )

30 Days of Supernatural Meme: Day 17 - Your favorite SPN friendship Read more... )

40 Days of Supernatural Meme: Day 17 - Bravest minor character? Read more... )

Links of the Day:
Supernatural: Read more... )
Lost: Read more... )
Doctor Who: Read more... )
True Blood: Read more... )
Other Fandom: Read more... )
Multifandom: Read more... )
Random: Read more... )


* Ben Braeden, "The Kids Are Alright", Supernatural
bending_sickle: (Not my life)
But you don't have to believe that, and nor does that bright mauve elephant that just cycled past.*


Still not dead, although melting in European Heatwave From Hell.

Went to Bomarzo's Park of Monsters. May even eventually post photos. Wish to note, however, that "Door to Hell" sculpture is actually called "Orco" (i.e. Ogre), which diminishes it somewhat, and that the lobsided house is really really disorienting to be inside.

Got reply to application from French Company No, there's no good news. ) Also got rejection letter in the post from an Environmental Research Place. Helping the environment: you're doing it wrong.

Sorry for the lack of grammar. Heat is hot, laptop is hothothot, translation breaks brains, Sickle is generally worried (sometimes upset), so this results in lack of postage and verbage.

Also, no progress on Story application or the writting of the Crack. Fail and woe! On the plus side, I've gotten three fanmixes almost completely done and I'm working on another one (Globo Sapiens, see tag). Finally.


Translation: Read more... )

Links of the Day:
Supernatural: Read more... )
Doctor Who: Read more... )
True Blood: Read more... )
Avatar: The Last Airbender: Read more... )
Other Fandom: Read more... )
Multifandom: Read more... )
Random:Read more... )


* The Last Continent, TPratchett
bending_sickle: (Invisible?)
Today I applied for another internship, ate by mself, watched a bit of Going Postal (Poirot!) then joined mom downtown for yet another (unsuccessful) search for sandals and summer clothes.

A brand name caught my eye and gave me instant plot-bunnyitis, which is something I've been trying to get out of my system for the past couple of hours. Almost 600 words later and I'm still just setting up the story, have yet to get to the actual beginning of the reveal, but I'm loving it. I seem to have a thing for fallen angels and apocalypses. Yay for the oomf behind creativity!

There seems to be a lot of that running around lately, if the completed fanmix and (tiny little bit of) work on the fanvid are anything to go by. Speaking of, I'm glad I've discovered that Mediafire tells you how many times something's been downloaded. I mean, I'd be freaking out over no one giving a shit because there's only the one comment, but hey! Downloads are happening! Yay! (Still, comments are always nice. Not that I often do so with fanmixes, either, but hey.)

Also, I caught the last fifteen minutes of an episode of Lie to Me which has Tim Roth so I went :) and he was bloody, on the ground and at gun-point and I was like :D and then I saw that the gun-totin' villain was Cromartie aka John Henry so I was all \o/


Quote of the Day: Word of the Day, Friday, June 18, 2010
hegira: \he-JAY-ruh\, noun;
1. A journey to a more desirable or congenial place.
2. The flight of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina to escape persecution a.d. 622: regarded as the beginning of the Muslim Era.

Links of the Day:

Supernatural: Read more... )
Lost: Read more... )
Doctor Who: Read more... )
True Blood: Read more... )
Watchmen: Read more... )
Other Fandom: Read more... )
Multifandom: Read more... )
On Fandom: Read more... )
Random: Read more... )


* TPratchett, Going Postal
bending_sickle: (Dude It's Wednesday.)
...Today Is the First Day of the Rest of Your Life.*


After much freaking out and "I cannae do this, Captain!" I managed to call the guy from FAO about volunteerships and internships. I stuttered a bit, shook a bit more, and finally managed to speak. He, on the other hand, sounded like the most wonderful person ever. He basically told me to go the usual route with the forms and stuff, but he told me about two other agencies that do similar work and also provided his email so I could forward him my application. So \o/ on that.

I then went and had lunch with Willy, and there was much squee and joy. It was pretty hilarious how I was high on caffeine and sociality and saying how I was miserable with the biggest grin on my face. Oh brain, you so weird!

And continuing our nightly tradition of anxiety dreams, or nightmares, I had another one! About having two buckets full of water and trying to move fish out of one, realizing that the big fish were eating the small ones so panicking even more about taking the fish out, then realizing that the big bucket I was holding the two buckets in has a mother-lovin' baby crocodile in it and then the bucket I'm holding is practically churning with little crocodiles and there's a tortoise over on the side.

I'm going to recover from today's madness - yes, it's 4 pm and the day can be over now, thanks - and watch Lost. Then I have to pull myself together enought write a few emails expressing my condolences because holy shit, y'all, violence in Nairobi to people I know. Willy just told me what happened and it's really, really bad.


Links of the Day:

Lost: Read more... )
Supernatural: Read more... )
Watchmen: Read more... )
Dollhouse: Read more... )
Random: Read more... )


* Management slogan, Ridcully-style (Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent)
bending_sickle: (For fuck's sake)
Current Life in Sickledom: Sucktastic. Still not finding anything in my field, or anything I'd be qualified for. No panic today, but then also less work done. Trying to put shoulder to the wheel, but am lacking in carrot-onna-stick to help me do so. In sum: argh.

Video of the Day: Opening for the (fake) Watchmen Saturday morning cartoon series. - Oh my gods, it's hilariously aweful. Although Eddie/Laurie DO NOT WANT. See? I do have an incest squick. It just..has low walls. Embedded )


Links of the Day:

Life on Mars / Ashes to Ashes: Read more... )
Watchmen: Read more... )
Doctor Who: Read more... )
Firefly Read more... )
Supernatural: Read more... )
Random Fandom: Lost, Hercules, House, La Femme Nikita, Pirates of the Caribbean, Disney )
Random: Read more... )


* Mort, TPratchett
bending_sickle: (Obsessive)
An iconal post here, guys, because . No, wait, , that’s all. . Why icons? Because . Read more... )


Links of the Day:

Watchmen: Read more... )
Doctor Who: Read more... )
Lost: Read more... )
Supernatural: Read more... )
Random Fandom: Read more... )
Random: Read more... )


* Napoleon Hill
bending_sickle: (Default)
Masterlist of Sickle's "Omg, I'm So Obsessed" Crushes:

This is a list of actors, writers and fictional characters whom my brain's latched onto at some point or other. This isn't a list of people I find hot (that list is way longer and does, of course, include some of those listed here). Rather, it's the people I've developed an unhealthy obsession for at some point in my life, who've fascinated me for some reason, who's work I've tracked down like a bloodhound or took over my POV-analysis lobe. In other words, uber-crushes without, necessarily, the sexin'. I'm undoubtably forgetting some.

Below, then, is the list with photos and a brief reason as to the why of the obsession and the person's main features.

WARNING: Will eat your dial-up alive.

Early Youth: Read more... )

The Early Teen Years Read more... )

The Late Teen Years Read more... )

The Early Twenties Read more... )

The Late Twenties Read more... )


Is there a pattern? A type? Read more... )


Video of the Day Merlin Children in Need Special - Bwuahahaha! Embedded )

Links of the Day:

Supernatural: Read more... )
Misha Collins: Read more... )


* Mae West
bending_sickle: (Default)
Sickle's "I've compiled a massive Links of the Day list and have an episode of Castle to watch" non-post:

- I thought I was through with the manual, until I realized I'd only printed 45 pages out of 86. Oy vey. Back to work!

- My supervisor actually wrote "Wow" next to one of my graphs. Results for the win!

- Supervisor ushered in another prospective researcher so I got to talk loads about my stint in Amboseli. It was nice and social :)


Links of the Day:

Fandom: Read more... )

Random: Kitten icons, news, Cracked.com, puppies, comedians, actors speaking German, humerous videos on the German language )

Music: Read more... )


* Azrepheal, "All the German You'll Ever Need"

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