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During the brief moments when I haven't been working or lying in bed cursing a cold, I've been watching television. Have some comments on that, because apart from writing some Time drabbles (and there's some Chip/Icarus there for you, seschat), I've got nothing new.

Supernatural, "Slash Fiction" (7x06): ( Read more... )

Once Upon a Time, 1x01: ( Read more... )

Friends With Benefits, 1x01-02: ( Read more... )

Castle, "Demons" (4x06): ( Read more... )

Drew Carey's Improv-a-ganza: ( Read more... )

White Collar - 2x01-2x07: ( Read more... )

Meme: 30-Day Original Story Development Challenge ( Day 19 and Day 20 and Day 21 )

Video of the Day: The Daily Show, "Weathering Fights - Science: What's It Up To?" ( *weeps at the politician's appallingly bad logic* )

Quotes of the Day: Crowleyismyco-pilot's friend, on her outlook on life, here, ( Read more... )

Joss Whedon, Firefly, "Serenity" (1x01), here ( Badger! Why couldn't we have had this? )

Links of the Day:
Supernatural: ( Read more... )

Doctor Who: ( Read more... )

Good Omens: ( Read more... )

Other Fandom: ( Read more... )

Random: ( Read more... )

* Castle, "Demons"

Sickle's Random Points of Random: ( Read more... )

Meme: The 28th GIF in your folder is our new president. How screwed are we? ( Read more... )

Meme: Cross off the things you've done: ( Read more... )

Meme: Bold What's True: ( Read more... )

Meme: Ask some invasive questions: ( Read more... )

Quote of the Day: Wikipedia, "Loneliness", here

A person who feels lonely regardless of if she is at a family gathering, with friends, or alone is experiencing chronic loneliness. It does not matter what goes on in the surrounding environment, the experience of loneliness is always there.

Links of the Day:
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Sherlock: ( Read more... )

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Random: ( Read more... )

* Marshall McLuhan

It's been ages since I last wrote a proper post. Weeks, even. Hoenstly, there's not been all that much going on, and what has is either work-related or stuff I'd rather not remember. ( Read more... )

I read this post by Tumblr's crowleyismyco-pilot (who is awesome) on the why behind her love and adoration for all things Mark Sheppard (except possibly it wasn't this post but one like it or maybe I just can't remmeber things anymore), and has finally pushed me into writing about something I've been meaning to write about for a while. (Except, of course, I realize now that I've already written about it all here). ( Read more... )

In other, fannish, news:
- Ringer wins all the things, including my heart.
- Torchwood: Miracle Day was an excercise of meh-ness concluding in one final burst of "oh no you di'n't" (with a little bit of "Care Bear Stare saves the day, again" facepalming).
- Doctor Who's "The Girl Who Waited" broke my heart into a million little pieces.
- I'll be missing Supernatural's 7x01 next week, which means that a) I get to wait two more weeks until Ye Great Emotional Car Crash, b) I'll get to watch 7x01 and 7x02 back-to-back, and c) I'll be gone when the internet implodes. None of this is actually good.

Quote of the Day: greygirlbeast, here

My head is all fire and fucking molten nails this morning. I am the Good Ship Righteous Fucking Indignation. My threshold for douchebags will stand at zero for the foreseeable future. We're talking hellfire-and-brimstone Old Testament shit. Today, I am the nastiest pirate ship that ever plowed the Seven, and we're out for blood, and there will be rape and pillaging and cities will burn, just because.

Links of the Day:
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Sherlock: ( Read more... )

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Random: ( Read more... )

* "Have You Heard" Thea Gilmore

Sickle's Social Squee (and the Not So Squee): ( Read more... )

In other news, I've watched all of the guest-starring-Mark-Sheppard episodes of BSG and am still a bit on the fence over whether I like the show or not. I can see that it's good, but it hasn't quite gripped me. Still, I've been reading Television Without Pity's recaps of the episodes I watched, and apart from being astonishingly well-written in the analytical and poetic sense of it all, they make me want to watch the show in full, if only to get a sense of these vast sweeping themes. So BSG is still on the List of TV Shows to Watch.

However, that's not what I want to share today. What I want to share is reason 2349 why Romo Lampkin is awesome.


He's handcuffed and has a big bad soldier with an even bigger, badder gun aimed at his *squints eyes* well, ass, really. And you know what? He kills that solder dead. With a pen. A stolen pen.

Did I mention he's a lawyer?

GIF Meme: ( Read more... )

Video of the Day: BBC's Choosing to Die (2010), with Terry Pratchett ( On the right to assisted dying. )

Meme: 30-Day Original Story Development Challenge ( Day 14 )

Links of the Day:
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Sherlock: ( Read more... )

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Random: ( Read more... )

* Battlestar Galactica

Sickle's Random Tid-Bits:

• I finally watched an episode of Battlestar Galactica, which I've been meaning to watch in full for ages. Obviously it was a Mark Sheppard episode - 3x18, "The Son Also Rises" - and he was basically the reason I watched it. And, it turns out, the only reason I liked it.
  
  Sure, I was jumping smack in the middle of the third season with only a basic knowledge of the whole series' storyline, but I didn't enjoy it because I got lost. And it wasn't because I didn't feel for the characters, because I did, for some, even without knowing their life history. I don't know, I think it was just all the politics and intrigue and all that type of happenings that made me not like it, because I've figured out that that is just not my genre. Thrillers and spies and politics - even if they are in space! - just isn't my thing.
  
  But that said, it really is a good show. Good pacing, good look, excellent writing. And by that I mean I absolutely adored all of Romo Lampkin [Mark Sheppard]'s speeches. His character had a slight Irish lilt to it, which was charming once I actually figured out what accent it was I was hearing - because previous to that I was just all ears going, "What? What accent is that? Where is that from? Is that, what?"
  
  I actually had to extract some of his speeches and made them into MP3s (wanna listen?) because I just loved them so much. Mark, damnit, do audiobooks.
  
  So in sum, I'll be watching more BSG, but only the kind with Mark Sheppard in it, until and if I get hooked on it and want to watch the whole thing.
  
  Oh, and on a completely different not, the president? Couldn't keep her apart from Doctor Who's Sarah Jane Smith in my head. I'm okay with that.


• The newspaper did an article on prostitution zones in Rome, and so I learned that there are two zones in my neighbourhood. There's seven women right around our place - which doesn't surprise me, as I knew of five and actually walk by their hang-out place which is a little park every day to and from work - and some twenty-one a bit farther away - coincidently, where one night my mother and I were walking and were called at from a car and we knew they'd mistaken us for prostitutes. So that makes almost thirty prostitutes right in my area. Huh.


• One of my co-workers, who's camping out at a friend's place until he can find one of his own, got robbed. In his apartment. At night. While he was sleeping. Someone ninjaed in through an open second-story window and took his friend's TV, his iPhone and wallet. Apart from being freaked the fuck out over someone being in his house while he's sleeping, he didn't have a dime on him. He went to his folk's for the weekend, to recover a bit until he could move in to his new place. The worst thing? This is totally not an unheard of or even uncommon thing in Rome.


• I just realized today that it's going to be ten years since I graduated from highschool and started university, and I've got a friend who's at that stage right now. (The best thing? We're both like, "What age difference?") Ah, squishy ♥ And since it's that season, there's a few Tumblr things about starting university which mean a lot because I can remeber it all happening, and because I'm seeing it happening to my squishy. So this.

Supernatural Season 7 Promo-Spoilers: ( One tiny little screencap of squee )

GIF Meme: You're stuck in an elevator...: ( Read more... )

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.

Links of the Day:
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Firefly: ( Read more... )

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* Terry Pratchett

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:
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Doctor Who: ( Read more... )

Sherlock: ( Read more... )

True Blood: ( Read more... )

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Random: ( Read more... )

* Jane Wagner

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:
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True Blood: ( Read more... )

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Random: ( Read more... )

* Meme

Sickle's Reactions to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2: ( Read more... )

Sickle's Weekend Trips, with Photos!: ( Read more... )

GIF Meme: ( Read more... )

Meme: X Men: First Class ( Read more... )

Links of the Day:
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Doctor Who: ( Read more... )

Sherlock: ( Read more... )

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Random: ( Read more... )

* Harry Potter

That long post I keep meaning to write, with the photographs, the drabble for that meme, and those fanart things, and all that other stuff? Yeah, not this one. Not enough time in the day, and I needs mah sleep. Stupid impending Monday...

I will say, though, that after seschat and my's nitpicking of the latest X Men for its feminism fail, I've been looking into a few things, as you'll see from the links. Also? The following wording is making me go GRR ARGH. Improve my ass. What does gender have to do with the Sorting Hat?!

Optional Questions: Answer these to improve this test's stats:

What's your gender?

Meme: The Sorting Hat Test: ( Read more... )

Video of the Day: Neil Gaiman, Adam Savage, and Gollum: "I Will Survive" ( WATCH THIS! )

Links of the Day:
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Doctor Who: ( Read more... )

True Blood: ( Read more... )

Firefly: ( Read more... )

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Random: ( Read more... )

* The Beach

I got a Tumblr account because apparently this way if anyone changes their URLs again then they won't be lost to me. Bastards.

In other news, and as evidence that I only got Tumblr for the Dashboard, have some Supernatural and True Blood fanart, both with just a hint of Firefly, because why finish projects when I can just make new ones? *sigh* (Also? Note to self: less contrast is better.) ( SOILERS - True Blood 4x02 )

Quote of the Day: aelora, here

I swear I spend every waking moment on Tumblr anymore. It's like watching CNN, except for fandom. You get the updates AS THINGS HAPPEN. And with pictures and video. It's INSANE. And ADDICTIVE.

Links of the Day:
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* Eric, 2x01