Imaginary Gardens

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

Life of the Sickle: ( In summary: blahness. )

Fandom Rambles

1) I've read meta saying how people keep forgetting that Dean is Michael's sword first and foremost, not Michael's Vessel, not Micahel-in-potentia. The meta - amonitrate's Daddy's Blunt Little Instrument (And Other Thoughts) - then went on about how Dean has always been - or seen himself as - a tool, a weapon. And now he's heaven's weapon.

The dialogue that made me go, "Duh! Facepalm!" about that:

ZACHARIAH: Michael's not gonna kill me!
DEAN: Maybe not, but I am!

And then Dean stabs him with the angel sword. Dean, Michael's Sword, kills Zachariah. This is a bit like, "Guns don't kill people, people do!" except where the gun is the sword is Dean and the people is Michael.

2) All that Meta on the use of red and blue (and now green) in Supernatural by zimshan (here) got me thinking about this moment with the firecrackers. Dean's face is lit red when he's looking to the sky - heavenward - and then is lit green when he looks at Sam whose face is now red and looking up to the sky. Up to heaven is red for both Winchesters, down to Sam from Dean is green. What does this mean?!?

3) In the Sookie Stackhouse novels (see also: True Blood), there's a bartender called Sam ( and there are spoilers and talk of Supernatural )

4) Continuing my love affair with Grey's Anatomy, I'm shocked and disappointed to a) read about the dismissals and the drama and b) see that Sandra Oh has been nomintated five years in a row for an Emmy. Five. And no win? Come on already, people! She's brilliant! Just give it to her already!


Meme - Questions via toastandtea ( Read more... )


Links of the Day:

Supernatural: ( Read more... )
Lost: ( Read more... )
Doctor Who: ( Read more... )
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Multifandom: ( Read more... )
Other: ( Read more... )


* Natalie Tran (Communitychannel), Neglected Keystrokes

Today's been pretty quiet: woke up late, groceries, lunch-lunch (as opposed to my weekly fare of snackified-lunch), internetting... I also spent four hours going through and chucking out two boxes of stuff, dragged out from underneath the bed. Ye gods, did I have random and useless papers stowed away. (I may be keeping a few of these papers, because I am, at heart, a pack-rat.) I also had coffee, which made me feel energetic for a while, but then the magic devolved into nausea and stomach pain. It's still going strong. Bleh.

I finished Kung Fu Dunk yesterday (YouTube is awesome!). I really liked the movie, although it's not anything amazing, story-wise. Aw hell, I loved the movie. What's not to love? It's funny, has all sorts of martial arts ass-kicking ranging from the hilarious to the gorgeous, an adorable leading man, and, while being partly about basketball, doesn't fall into a sports-movie slot.

I watched Supernatural 5x01 yesterday, and I swear, I have never giggled, sporfled, laughed and paused-and-ranted so much whilst watching one. ( A few spoilery comments. )

I've got Carrie as this weekend's horror movie. A bit excited about it because it's got all this hype and I'm finally watching it, but I'm not expecting anything spectacular.

There's an international student party at a disco in Leiden tonight - starting in half an hour - but I don't have anyone to go with, still feel like I'm going to hurl on my shoes and, most importantly, don't feel like going at all.


Links of the Day:

( SPN 5x01 Reactions )
( SPN Fanvids )
( Random Fandom - Icons )
( Random Fandom - General )
( Random Livejournal )
( Random Webdom )


* Supernatural, 5x01

For those of you who've already downloaded the mix I Love You, I've edited Track 7, removing the second song clip at the end. Separate download on mix page.

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* "Mr Brightside", The Killers

I was going to post about the awesomness that was finishing my SBB course and the drinks we had afterwards, and also about my being such a geek that I went to a symposium on a Saturday morning.

However, I've been html-ing LotD for the past 2 hours (and I still have oodleplexes to do), so y'all are going to have to wait a bit more. On the other hand, links! \o/

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Batman: ( Read more... )
Lost: ( Read more... )
Firefly: ( Read more... )
Heroes: ( Read more... )
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aelora: ( Read more... )
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phatmgreeneyes: ( Read more... )


* Jensen Ackles

Torchwood Reactions

1x05 - Small Worlds ( Read more... )

1x06 – Countrycide ( Read more... )

1x07 – Greeks Bearing Gifts ( Read more... )


I've wikied Taiwanese singer Jay Chou and zomg, I had no idea he was so famous. ( The zomg. )


Links of the Day:
Webcomic: Lackadaisy
Webcomic: Zebra Girl
Fansite: Jay Chou Studio has song translations and piano score music.
torchwoodquotes


* Jack, Torchwood 1x07

Today seemed to be an exercise in masochistic tourism. I did go to Noordwijk - whci takes ages, what with the walking to the train, the actual train, and a 40-plus minute bus ride.

It was 4 degrees C and extremely windy. Like, "pushing you backwards" windy. Walking in this weather was wonderfully exhilerating - even though I looked like a crazy woman - and I really did enjoy it. Until I had to turn back and it began to rain. Freezing cold raind pelted at you at high speeds whilst you struggle agaisnt the wind is a different kind of exhilerating.

Also? The beach was closed (wtf?!) as was the awesome pancake house I'd been aiming for. The result was me, wet and cold, wandering around a near-empty town, having a disapointing pancake in another place, and then waiting half an hour in the pouring rain and wind and wee degrees for the bus back to Leiden.

I took all my entertainment books too (notebook, diary and novel), but since there's no place to just sit - and the beach was closed, did I mention? - I only managed to scribble down "Pancakes!" in my diary and giggle as the mispeling vyrus took hold of Thursday's world.

Suckety suck suck.

Tomorrow's February, so I'm officially starting my internship - though I really don't want to 'cause it's Friday an' all and my superviser hasn't emailed regarding the forms. I might get my ass down to a cinema here in Den Haag, now that I've finally discovered one. I'd like to watch Lust Caution, but my Mandarin isn't up to par (unless the entire movie dialogue is a string of imaginative insults) and I frown on reading Dutch subtitles.

I might try to track down The Princess Bride Diaries... That's that funny one, with the narrator-commentary book one, yeah?


Links of the Day:
phdcomic's latest, "Why? Why??" is something I think we can all relate to ;)
Bioshock sounds bloody awesome. (Review at Zero Punctuation. The player takes the role of Jack, who aims to fight his way through Rapture, using weapons and plasmids that give him special powers such as telekinesis or the ability to electrify foes.
nowhack's Fanvid: Mary (Sylar, slight Mylar) features a fantastic song by Scissor Sisters


* Roger Miller

Due to incredible boredom at work today, I've been reading proverbs, which proved to be inspiring, fanfic-wise. Unfortunately, this only confirms my problem with writing: shadowey ideas aplenty, but no plot.

The current mess of ideas, then, is a series for OUaTiM** using proverbs as chapter-titles. Probably due to the few OUaTiM fics I've been reading, I'm getting a hazy image of betrayal in the CIA and Sands having to stand up for himself. Not that that's a stretch of the imagination, if his options are taken logically. Besides, he was seriously left out to dry. Seems to me there may be a few grudges all around.

( The titles, and vague ideas, are... )


Links of the day:
Chinese character converter and Pinyin mark converter.
High-heels going way too freakin' far.


* Chinese proverb, shui4 néng zài zhōu, yì néng fù zhōu
** Sorry for the mono-thematicness.

Have just watched the latter half of the documentary Someday My Prince Will Come about a teen girl in the working-class town of Siddick and her Liebeskummer* with Ben and other of the kids at school. Very sweet.

Forgot to say that yesterday watched Lisistrata which had an interesting concept and wasn't half as bad as the review at IMDB says.

Also watched some show jumping, the FEI, this afternoon, and thrilled to see the Netherlander Schroder on Eurocommerce Berlin do a clear round after the two before him knocked off the same jump. He wasn't top, though.

Needless to say, I was envious. Last time I rode was mid-2001.

And every time I remember that my school kept my CAS diary where I wrote, in great detail, what I did every riding class...

Grr.

Dad sent me an email. Right as I was hovering the mouse over it, I thought, "You don't want to read this, do you? It'll piss you of royaly, won't it? What was that about not upsetting yourself if you could help it--" *click* *read* "So, yeah, arg." *curse*

Double grr.

PS: There is such a word as grandam**. So cute.

PPS: THought Crimes is on. I'm sensing a certain disruption in my sleeping habits.

PPPS: Chinese Proverbs
* "love-worries"
** A horses grandmother, or dam.

Just what the title says: a partial transcription of a Chinese conversation guide for tourists. Written as: “pinyin (pronunciation) – translation.” ( Chapter 1: Social Relations )