bending_sickle | Entries tagged with tv: torchwood

Hello, dolls! I'm back, although Ye Great Retelling of my vacation will have to wait until I go through the hundreds of photos and all that fun stuff. Short version is I went to Vienna, Prague and Budapest and it was glorious \o/

As a result of all that, though, I'm now a bit swamped in all my projects and behind on all things fandom, although as you can tell from the LotD, I'm trying to catch up.

At work today I came across two articles which were upsetting for a number of reasons. Background information for the amnesiacs and newcomers: I spent four months tracking lions in Amboseli, namely five radio-and-GPS-collared ones, which means that for four months I saw them nearly every day and learned about their lives and prides and then analyzed the shit out of everything. ( Read more... )

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* "Old Mary", The Dead Weather
** I can only hope someone's thought to use my ID database, which is a whole new can of upset worms.

Current Mood: sick

I'm still in my "watch all the Mark Sheppard things!" mode. I've followed Mark into some amazing new shows - Leverage and White Collar and Battlestar Galactica - and into some watchable ones - Warehouse 13 and Chuck, for example. Then there's Bionic Woman and Middle Man, which I plowed through out of sheer devotion to Mark's minor character. Oh, Mark...

Right now, I'm watching 24 and I almost wish I were watching Middle Man. At least that one was amusing. For one, it doesn't help that this is totally not my style of show. There's no fantasy and no science, so that's me clutching at staws to find something I can invest in. I'm shit out of luck doing that with Mark's character because the first episode he's in, he's hunkered down in a crowd, head in his hands. The second one, he's got tiny scenes of sitting in a car. (Sitting well and lovely, but still.) Right now I'm hanging onto Grey's Anatomy's Teddy and The Lord of the Rings Sam to get me through. That and the awesome character Chloe O'Brian.

But I can handle that, no problem. What I cannot handle is how the male characters are responding to and treating two female characters. ( Read more... )

GIF Meme: ( Read more... )

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* Ellery Queen

Current Mood: annoyed

GIF Meme: ( Read more... )

Meme: 30-Day Original Story Development Challenge ( Day 15 )

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* Douglas Adams

Current Mood: itchy

Meme: 30-Day Original Story Development Challenge ( Day 10 )

Quote of the Day: Joss Whedon

Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.

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* Jane Wagner

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Music: The Evenstar - Lord of the Rings Soundtrack

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... )

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* Meme

Current Mood: crushed

So, fandoms are colliding. Case in point:

Bones having Angel's Angel and Hamilton together in a scene.

Medium having Firefly's Badger and Niska together in a scene.

I just...thought I'd point that out? Because I kinda want to do art about it but not now?

Speaking of Medium, I watched the third episode with Mark Sheppard (although really, the first one is a lie, because it has Mark saying two lines and then it's nothing but sitting there staring at the screen, consumed by lust, waiting for his character to show up again and he never does, at least not Mark-shaped). It made me rant at the screen.

So I'm going to rant at the screen again, in typed form. Because GRR ARGH. ( In which a woman is in labour and I do not agree with solution - and sentiments. )

GIF Meme: ( Read more... )

Meme: 30-Day Original Story Development Challenge ( Day 8 )

Links of the Day:
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Superwho: Supernatural and Doctor Who ( Read more... )
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* Thomas Fuller

Current Mood: angry

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... )

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* Harry Potter

Current Mood: excited

Sickle's Summary of Random Things:

I'm still on my Bufy the Vampire Slayer rewatch kick and keep discovering things. Like I was watching I Robot, You Jane (1x08, IMDB) and who should I see, all wee and mullet-less, but Chad Lindberg! By which I mean, Supernatural's Ash! And he's still a computer geek genius! \o/

I'm slowly getting the hang of socializing-through-coffee. Last week I had coffee with my supervisor's peer - the hierarchy details, they fail me - which was nice, and today I had coffee with someone I'd sent my CV a while back and we talked about other organizations that might be interesting, which was also nice.

Socializing-through-lunch seems to be a big thing, too. Last week I was pretty awesome at having lunch with people, and it's how I met a guy who thinks techno is the highest form of music ever made by man, which, okay, and how I learned that the cute I like talking to is nineteen which, um, ah. *backs away slowly*

I also had lunch with my supervisor, which was less of a socializing thing and more of an info-dump accompanied with my panicked internal monologue going, "I have no idea what you're talking about. You want me to do what? Do you want me to do that? Wait, what, that too? But the other thing, that is being done by someone else? But I'm going to do- WHAT IS GOING ON?!?" so that was intimidating.

Sickle's "Oh hai I made another Firefly/Supernatural graphic" ( Read more... )

Meme: 30-Day Original Story Development Challenge ( Read more... )

Meme: Television: via

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Quote of the Day:

beandelphiki, here & Anonymous, here ( Introverts vs extroverts )

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* Proverb

Current Mood: busy

Just a quick note to say that a) I ain't dead (yet) although b) I'm mentally exhausted, what with i) workworkwork, ii) socializing zomg, iii) multiple language use. Seriously, on Monday? I got home and just collapsed on the floor for a few hours in a mental coma.

So far, so good, though. Sure, I'm not into the complicated work part of it yet - mainly reading - but at least the mind-numbing fear is gone. Monstly.

Here, have some links I haven't had time to look through beyond the vague, "gee, I wish I had the time and energy to read this".

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* Anon.

Current Mood: tired

fictionalillusion, here

Supernatural Finale: Fandom Meta and Analysis Compilation (Selected from Tumblr): ( Read more... )

Sickle's (Ridiculous) Supernatural Fanart: ( Read more... )

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* Edward G. Robinson

Current Mood: sick

Most of what I would like to say about the season finale of Supernatural - or rather, the Epic Breakup of Cas'n'Dean and How Castiel Went Batshit - but most of that's been said better in the quotes below. There are two points I want to add, however, and I'll direct these to Dean - fictional character that he is regardless - directly. ( Dear Dean )

Quotes of the Day: euclase & dream7790, here, lovemedoj2, here, Friedrich Nietzsche ( Supernatural Season Finale SPOILERS )

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* Bobby, Supernatural

Current Mood: worried

On Thursday, I dressed up according to casual Vatican protocol (a black knee-length skirt and black jacket) and went with my parents to the Vatican. We'd been invited to a concert offered by the Italian President of the Republic, Giorgio Napolitano, to the Pope, on the occasion of the sixth anniversary of the current Pontificate. ( Read more... )

Sickle's ~~Brief~~ Review of Supernatural's "The Man Who Would Be King" 6x20: ( Read more... )

Quote of the Day: "I'll Take Famous Murderers for 500" by Watchout! There's Ghosts

You said you never would, but a scar's a proven fact.

Links of the Day:
Supernatural: ( SPOILERS for 6x20 in small text )
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* Crowley, 6x20

Current Mood: sleepy

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 :(

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* "Walking Far From Home", Iron and Wine

Current Mood: exhausted

Meme: 30-Day Fandom vs. Personal Meme:

Day 8: Character that is technically attractive, but you just can’t bring yourself to be attracted to them. ( Read more... )

Day 9: Which character would you set upon your worst enemy? ( Read more... )

Day 10: From any mixture of fandoms, pick your favourite overall character, your favourite villain, and a character you wish would have stayed longer. Now, fuck, marry or kill them. ( Read more... )

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* Natalie Tran (YouTube's communitychannel)

Current Mood: bored

Today at the internship I returned to the translations, which is sort of a relief on account of the lack of interminable scanning, and on the other hand, it's me, back where I started. I need this oompf to get me a little bit further now.

There was another metro&bus strike this morning, which meant I got to go to the office's neighbourhood a full hour before work actually started and, plus, I got to freeze my bum off sitting and walking around the sad, empty little streets.

Mom's off to Spain starting this morning, so it's just my Dad and me until Wednesday. I trust we won't starve, although to hear my mother speak and see her stock the freezer, you'd think we didn't know how to feed ourselves. Mind you, I think I'm having McD's tomorrow.

Tomorrow, speaking of, I'm going to head over to the far reaches of the city and try and get my fiscal number. It will undoubtably involve a lot of waiting and hopefully not too much paperwork. Beurocracy for the not at all win.

I've spent the afternoon revelling in having the house to myself and working on almost a week's worth of Links of the Day (oh, compulsive organization!) On Sunday Dad and I are going to see a Swan lake ballet showing - we managed to nab free tickets from our landlady for some reason. I think I might force myself to go jogging sometimes in the weekend too, and I have to write a comment in a Goethe forum for my German homework (how wack is that?).

In other news, I'm dying to finish The Pillars of the Earth and hey, new Supernatural this week again! \o/ I'm really looking forward to seeing more of Puppy!Sam. Ah, it's almost like seeing Season 1 Sam all over again! (Except he doesn't have the adorable bangs of adorableness.)

Meme: Good Things:

Day 5: CV! In Italian!
Day 6: Chat iwth girl from German class!
Day 7: House to myself!

Video of the Day: Sia's "Soon We'll Be Found" - So pretty! ( Read more... )

Quote of the Day:

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shoemoney2night: After being tickled by the names of 17th century Puritans [...] I did some reading and discovered some more brilliant Puritan names. A Sussex jury roll from 1650 list includes the names Accepted Trevor, Redeemed Compton, Kill-Sin Pimple, Fly-Fornication Richardson, Search-The-Scriptures Moreton [...].

17catherines: Am I the only one who wondered why the puritans were interested in fornicating flies?

shaysdays: I think it's more, "Fly away, oh foul temptation of our mortal bodies!" not "Screeeeew meeeeeee!"

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* Small Expression

Current Mood: working

So there I am, scanning through Time We Saw a Miracle, looking for quotes to slip into the fanmix because I'm obsessive yes I know when I see a formatting error. A formatting error. After fighting with the damn thing for ages and churning out dozens of PDFs and reuploading the manuscript to CreateSpace and checking and rechecking and there's a bloody formatting error. It's just a few spaces missing, two empty lines that should separate a passage in italics from a passage in normal text, so it's not like Godzilla took a hatchet to it, but still, there's a formatting error being all ugly in my proof book.

One day, when I have money and patience (ha!) I will reupload these little bastards and damn the cost and get new proofs and all will be well with the world.

I was going to write more - talk about the day or post photos or show signs of life in general - but frankly writing this much is more than I can at the moment. Or today.

...fucking formatting error.

Word of the Day:

katzenjammer: the discomfort and illness experienced as the aftereffects of excessive drinking; hangover.

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* Annie Proulx

Current Mood: annoyed

Sickle's Brief Review of Supernatural 6x07, "Family Matters" ( Read more... )

Nanowrimo progresses, although I'm displeased with some of the style being too - I don't know. I've even quoted poetry by this stage, so I'm facepalming all over it. Anyway, we're a step away from Demon Death then Infected Ahoy then Kezef. I am very excited for Kezef.

( Excerpt )

13376 / 50000 words. 27% done!

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* "Family Matters", Supernatural**
** OMG Sam is Jaws! No fish bowl can hold him!

Current Mood: sleepy

I has a new profile! With lists of stuff!

TfSB Timeline Questions: This is mainly to remind myself to scour through Nanowrimo 2009 to answer a few questions, but I wouldn't say no to help because ye gods, do I not want to flip through that mess of typos and embarassingly missing words and suchlike. and to think it's been printed and bound like that, and what's worse! downloaded like that! And what's even worse, professionally published like that. *facepalm* Proof read and edit, Sickle, even if you don't want to read the work for a few months; it's embarrassing. ( Read more... )

30 Days of Doctor Who: Day 25 – Favorite Who Actor ( Read more... )

30 Days of Supernatural Meme: Day 25 - Something that you wish happened but didn't ( Read more... )

40 Days of Supernatural Meme: Day 25 - Favorite kiss/love/sex scene? ( Read more... )

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* Philip Fry
** Strictly and buddhistically speaking he's not a god so much as the ultimate teacher.

Current Mood: geeky

I've done NOTHING today so y'all get memes. Congratulations, winners.

30 Days of Doctor Who: Day 07 – Your Favourite Piece of Music ( Read more... )

30 Days of Supernatural Meme: Day 7 - Your favorite Dean crying scene ( Read more... )

40 Days of Supernatural Meme: Day 7 - Which guest actor would you most like to see appear on SPN? (who hasn't been on the show already) And what kind of role would you like to see them play? ( Read more... )

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* The Mountain Goats, "Riches and Wonders"

Current Mood: useless

I went to the beach yesterday, and we all went to the beach today. Still have those damned tan-lines, but I think they're fading. And yesterday I wrote a good bit for the Doctor Who meets Stonehenge Apocalypse crack story, although I apparently tend towards serious and long-winded crack. *sigh*

I'm currently playing Echo Bazaar (Wikidot entry) which is a role playing game that you can only do in short little bursts (i.e. ten actions to a total of 50 per day). It's awesome, though, and this is coming from someone who's most recent experience in role playing games is Pick Your Own Adeventure...back in her wee years. But it takes place in Fallen London, so it's a bit HP Lovecraft and quirky. It's twitter-based (i.e. you log in via your twitter account). The Escapist's review describes it as:

Set in the world of Fallen London, it combines elements of tabletop gaming, Victorian England, RPGs, and social networking. Sporting a cheeky sense of humor and a Lovecraftian vibe, the game combines the addictiveness of grinding with an unusual and compelling story elements. While its browser-based gameplay is certainly quite entertaining, Echo Bazaar's real appeal lies in its robust mythology and surprisingly deep backstory, which you discover bit by tiny bit as you play. The world of Fallen London is a joy to explore, a weird and wonderful playground where clay men wrestle in pubs and you pay for your lodgings with cryptic secrets.

Come on, join up! I'll invite you over for tea or on a bank heist or whatever it is I can invite you to. Or don't, whatever, I'm just sharing the fun.

Did I mention I have a weasel? Yes I do :D

And again with the meme-as-content. Because the other option is to tell you how I opened a coconut using only a hammer and a mini-flathead screwdriver in twenty minutes [ETA: By which I mean, I totally made that ~~cococunt~~ coconut where did that typo come from, Frued?!? my prison bitch, and had it cracked open and completely gutted in twenty minutes) or how I'm currently re-translating everything at Internship into Spanish, which results in boredom and brief escapades into wikipedia where I learn about sky burials and The Thing and The Invisible Pink Unicorn.

Also, is 20 songs too long for a fanmix?

Meme - 30 Days - Day 30 → Whatever tickles your fancy: ...from space! ( Read more... )

30 Days of Doctor Who: Day 01 - Your Favourite Quote: Multiple ( Read more... )

30 Days of Supernatural Meme: Day 1 - Your favorite character ( Read more... )

40 Days of Supernatural Meme: Day 1 - What character would you like to see return from the dead?( Read more... )

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* Richard Dawkins

Current Mood: okay

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Your heart stops within you*
...the kind of glance women use when no knife is handy.*
If we see you smoking we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action.*
See, the human mind is kind of like... a piñata.*
This is why we can't have nice things*
Birth is the beginning of death*
You can't give a Dementor the old one-two!
There are two sides to every coin*
The difference between try and triumph is a little umph.*
I didn't play at collecting*
We're dealing with a Superman who's gone darkside
A lot of "thank you sire, can I have another hot poker up the jacksy?"*
The names were not burned along the wall*
Ineptitude!*
I've got to stop doing this*
If you can't fix it, you have to stand it.*
Putting Jaws in a fish bowl?*
It's just like the story of the grasshopper and the octopus.*
We hold on as hard as we can (our knuckles are white)*
God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value*

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Entries tagged with tv: torchwood

Your heart stops within you*

...the kind of glance women use when no knife is handy.*

If we see you smoking we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action.*

See, the human mind is kind of like... a piñata.*

This is why we can't have nice things*

Birth is the beginning of death*

You can't give a Dementor the old one-two!

There are two sides to every coin*

The difference between try and triumph is a little umph.*

I didn't play at collecting*

We're dealing with a Superman who's gone darkside

A lot of "thank you sire, can I have another hot poker up the jacksy?"*

The names were not burned along the wall*

Ineptitude!*

I've got to stop doing this*

If you can't fix it, you have to stand it.*

Putting Jaws in a fish bowl?*

It's just like the story of the grasshopper and the octopus.*

We hold on as hard as we can (our knuckles are white)*

God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value*