Imaginary Gardens

*feeble wave* So, not dead yet. Sick with a cold and sunburnt all to hell, making clothes an instrument of torture, but alive. The Cliffnotes of my life are:

1. the phone interview went terribly and I sucked and it was aweful


2. consequently I've been unable to do any more jobhunting, meaning I fail at everything


3. everything is The Avengers and Loki and everything hurts, but it's a better thing than points one and two so yays


4. speaking of which, I wrote fanfic drabble thingies for The Avengers because I had questions and feelings


5. I also finally finished a Supernatural fanvid I started sometime in 2009 \o/


6. I'm also working on putting seschat and my Sherlock headcanon to sickle_stories. Part 1 of 18 is up.


7. so it kinda looks like I'm being productive.

So have some thingies:

Fanfic and Meta: Seschat and Sickle's Holmes Bros Headcanon, Part 1 of 18

Fanfic: In the Mountains There is the Promise
Fandom: The Avengers
Word Count: 1,223
Summary: What happened between Loki's defeat and his and Thor's departure? (i.e. I had a lot of questions)

Fanvid Title: More Than This
Music: "Push" by Moist
Fandom: Supernatural
Summary: You have become your father's gun. A study (of sorts) of John Winchester's effect on the boys and the hunter's life. "Is this what you want / what you need / what you wanted me to be?"


Quote of the Day: greygirlbeast, here

If I have to be someone other than who and what they would have me believe their god made of me (or made me weak enough I might become), if it's all that sick and twisted and sadistic, why would I want to dwell in the house of that lord? Maybe the truest mark of human intellectual evolution is giving our "gods" the middle finger.

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* "Under the Bright Lights", Empire

The status quo continues to drag, but at least I've finally made a to-do list and actually managed to cross off a few items! Sure, they're items I shouldn't be wasting time on anyway, but hey, at least something got done.

I finally - after some two months - emailed Kevin and Ursula Eat Cheap. The thing is that in Naples I visited the Naples Archaeological Museum, which has a Secret Cabinet, and all I could think of was ursulav's Phalloi art (Adult and NSFW, even if adorable). So I just had to send in some photographs.

Another thing I did was a fanmix:


Back Cover, Track List, and Link

And, as always, fanart:






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* ursulav, KUEC (Ep. 11)

I apparently now suck at posting and keeping up with Livejournal (Ye Grand Catching-Up during the weekends, oy), so have some Supernatural fanart I made and posted to my Tumblr instead. ( Read more... )

GIF Meme: ( Read more... )


Meme: 50 Question Non-Romantic Tumblr Questions: ( Read more... )

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* The Knights Who Say "Ni", Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Whilst googling for correct phrases for Translation Internship, I came across If Nature Had Rights: What would people need to give up? and a quick skim made me go all, "Grr, argh!" ( Read more... )


30 Days of Doctor Who: Day 24 – Whatever Tickles Your Fancy( Read more... )

30 Days of Supernatural Meme: Day 24 - An episode you wish never happened ( Read more... )

40 Days of Supernatural Meme: Day 24 - Character from another show you'd most like to see guest on SPN ( Read more... )


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* Scarygoround

Today's been a total waste of day (Grey's Anatomy marathon FTW), but yesterday I a) sold my bike for 35 measley euros (boo!) b) went to Amsterdam and wandered c) watched Case 39 (eep!) and d) had tea with Nahry (whoot!)

In other news, my mother may or may not be flying in tomorrow. Stupid volcano.

Supernatural's "The Rapture" Meta: Just been rewatching Jimmy Novak clips and holy angelcakes, Batman, does Jimmy's speech here scream Show Meta. I mean, if I didn't know any better I'd say the dialogue was Sam's or Dean's.

JIMMY: I'm done, okay, with demons, angels all of it. I just wanna go home. [...] I've been shot and stabbed and healed and my body's been dragged all over the earth. By some miracle I'm out and I am done. I've given enough, okay?

And of course, Jimmy can never go home. Just like Sam can never go home - or well, back to Stanford life. Just like neither can Dean, who's never had one. And just like the first ever Monster of the Week in Pilot. Oh, Show ♥

Meme - 30 Days - Day 24 → Whatever tickles your fancy: My view on religion, in crack metaphor form. ( Read more... )


Quote of the Day: Anon. or uncredited

Leadership has to do with direction. Management has to do with the speed, coordination and logistics in going in that direction. The WORKERS are chopping their way through the jungle. The MANAGERS are coordinating, making sure the tools are sharp, etc. The LEADERS climb a tree and shout, "Wrong jungle!" The MANAGERS shout back, "Be quiet! We're making progress!"

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* Bette Davis

Let me tell you a little something about dark characters. Hurm.*


Graduation: Maarten sent in the photos of my signing the wall in the Zweetkamer (Sweating Room) alongside all other graduate signatures. ( Weeee! )

Human Target 1x03 "Embassy Row" Review: I was watching 1x03 last night, snarking and squeeing this new show, and figured I ought to write a review of some sort. I've already ranted over the show's blurb. ( Blurb and trailer )

- SIMON MOTHERFUCKING TAM IN THE HOUSE! There was squee. Lots of squee.

- The extended fight-scenes are still much too long, allowing me to go from "Omg! Noo00ooo!" to "Adrenaline rush!" to "The choreography's interesting..." to "And it goes on...and on..." to "This is just filler, isn't it?"

- Quite a number of plot points were predictable - maybe not from very far off, but it did have me sitting there going, "He's totally going to do X, isn't he?" and "Saw that one coming..." and, in one memorable scene, cursing at the screen, "Not a hooker! Not a- Think you idiot!"

- Still don't really give a rat's ass about Chance, which isn't good, seeing as he's the main lead and does most of his scenes away from the two supporting leads. *sigh*

- I want more Winston and Guerrero scenes. Like, loads more. For one, I give (much, much) more than a rat's ass about them. Two, they're interesting. Three, they work so well together, it's hilarious.

- Guerrero says "dude" a lot. I find this amusing. (And for some reason, I want him to chat away with Hugo Hurley from Lost.) Can he have more scenes, please? He does manipulative mind games and other awesome things.

Have some Jackie Earle Haley chats about his character: ( Read more... )


Meme - 30 Days - Day 05 - Your favorite quote: ( Read more... )

Quote of the Day: jaune_chat, here - Sickle whips around to chase after Bones liek woah.

...Booth ended up having sex with Temperance, as half the fanbase had been clamoring for for years [...].

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* Jackie Earle Haley, Comic Con

Life: I has lion maps! Now I just need to calculate the distances the furballs covered, do some graphs, bang my head against Access some more for new maps and then mellow out in the glory of a job well done. For about two seconds, after which I edit, prepare the databases and work on the presentation.

I called Ma today (missed call from last night) and it was Not Good but then it was Okay. I'd say more but it's already 2 am and I'm a fucking moron for staying up this late. Maybe tomorrow, when I need to vent.

Also, it's very, very windy and the universe picks right the fuck now for something in the neighbour's balcony to start pouding away loudly. Argh. I want to sleep without random annoying noises! Woe.

Nano: Still 249 words shy of today's minimum. *sigh* Icarus is finally saying he's an angel, though, so that's a plus.

( Excerpt )

39759 / 50000 words. 80% done!

Meme Of the Day: Quiz: Which Supernatural Angel Are You? ( Read more... )

Music of the Day "Shatner of the Mount", Fall on Your Sword - "Captain Kirk is climbing a mountain. Why is he climbing a mountain?" Remix of win. ( Embedded )

Quote of the Day: Douglas Coupland, Eleanor Rigby, here

The thing about meat with me, though, is how it speaks to me about the human body. All of us are stuck inside our meaty bodies. I've always imagined that regular people are happy to be inside their bodies, whereas lonely people yearn to ditch their carcasses. I suspect lonely people wish they could forget the whole meat-and-bone issue altogether. We're the people most likely to believe in reincarnation simply because we can't believe we were shackled into our meat in the first place. Lonely people want to be dead, yet we're still not quite ready to go - we don't want to miss the action; we want to see who wins next year's Academy Awards. More to the point, the lonely, like all humans, yearn to meet that somebody who'll make us feel better about being trapped inside our species' meat-and-bone soul containment system. Oh God, I sound like a prison warden.

Links of the Day:

thedailyshow's Not Funny: Reporter detained in Iran for ties to the Daily Show
Critics Fear 'Twilight' Books Send Disturbing Message To Girls - Wow, the crude summary for the series is rather shocking.

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* "The Icarus Wind", Thea Gilmore

...this was Icarus drowning.*


Nano: Still working with a word buffer. Angel is given the alias of Icarus, because obvious symbolism is obvious, and Very Blue Eyes. He's doing poorly on the consciousness front, though. Chip's not being so damn paranoic, which is nice.

I'm still on the fence on whether this is Castiel and we're in the Supernatural apocalyptic future of The End ( Discussion! Your input, I wants it. )

( Excerpt (actually from yesterday's writing because today's is all Sick Bad and Wounds Ugly) )

11451 / 50000 words. 23% done!


Links of the Day:
lienne's David Usher Icons
dramaa_princess' Supernatural Chicago Con 2008 Picspam and Quotes - ♥! The adorableness! ; Picspam Masterlist
YouTube's The Mighty Boosh Playlist
Smart Pop Books' The Psychology of Joss Whedon: An Unauthorized Exploration of Buffy, Angel, and Firefly - "Psychology Bad" by Ed Connor
Music: Matt and Kim - "Lessons Learned"


* "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus", WCWilliams

Just rewatched Reservoir Dogs. Man do I love that movie. Tim Roth gets me every time with his ( is it still a spoiler? ) Aaaand I now slash Mr Orange and Mr White. Oh dears. Before I saw it as mentor and student, or father-figure and son, that sort of deal. Now I might need to google for fic...

The rest of my day need not bear mentioning. (It sucked.)


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* Reservoir Dogs

I've been wanting to embed this video on the right date for ages. Go on, find out the true meaning of Spring. Happy First of May!



In other news, this poem-excerpt off girlgreybeast's post makes me think of the Master (but then, what doesn't?): ( Read more... )

Ok, packing now.

ETA: Famished like my head's going to melt right off. Most of my stuff's packed now, though I fear I won't be able to physically carry it. Wish I had folk here to help me move. But it's a holiday and a post-holiday, and it all sucketh mightily. Ok, off to cart a trolley + bag + backpack to another city. Oh and did I mention? It's fucking pouring. (On and off, but still. Bad moving day.)

ETA 2:30 Lunch first, 'cause hellooo rain. Also, 2:30 seems like a good time to eat. Especially since the exodos will take near 2 hours. Feh.

ETA 5:40 Am so tired, tried opening door with bank card. Hands feel and look like have been boxing a cheese grater and only managed to escape by swinging through monkey-bar planet. Shoulder hurts like billy-o, as does elbow. Would like nothing more than to sleep now. Instead, needs unpack a bag to redistribute the omgsoheavy weight into 3 bags. May be looking to another trip to Leiden - especially considering how unwielding miror and fern are - before coming back for the key and deposit change of hands (which is at bloody 9 pm). *weeps quietly* Maybe if I called and asked for help from friendish-friends, that'd be ok?

ETA 6:58 Asked for help from friends and got a "no" and a "you should've told me earlier". Now, it might just be that I'm all stressed out and exhausted and can't think too straight, but I didn't ask earlier 'cause I thought I'd be ok. And maybe it's incredibly selfish of me, but I'd sort of hoped a friend would actually make the connection of my moving and my maybe needing help all on their own. Y'know, just maybe cross their minds, wonder how I'm doing. Excuse me while I weep in exhaustion and then try and continue packing shit.

ETA 7:31 There is absolutely no humane way a single person can carry all that I have left in my room. It's just impossible. And I'm so mother-lovin' tired. The one time I honestly and desperately need a friend and their favour and they rat out on me. (I iz upset. I not hate friend. I understand. But still, I iz upset.)

ETA 9:37 I'm 390E richer, have some luggage stowed at Central Station, and am all set to skedaddle. There will be no unpacking tonight. (I think my bed sheets are at Elisa's anyway. Suckety.)


Links of the Day:
Nightmare Playgrounds Around the World
Morse Code Converter
Othello with Ewan McGregor and Chiwetel Ejiofor among drama spring highlights on Radio 3 - Available for sreaming on BBC site for 7 days, beginning May 4
versaphile compiles the Master's plots through the ages, with a scorecard!


* Jonathan Coulton, ibid song