I'm still in awe how much Original Series music kept creeping in.

Also, episode 18? "Numian's 3rd Sonata" or whatever? Is from the original series. It's the music they'd play whenever the Cylons would appear. Very grand, very operatic. Made me burst out laughing the second I realized what it was.

I still haven't seen (finished downloading) last week's BSG. I dunno how long it will be until I can get my hands on tonight's.

I give until Tuesday (assuming I haven't seen it by then) before some asshole "accidentally" spoils it.



Also in my to-download queueueueue: L&O:UK. (And Dollhouse. WAY behind on Dollhouse.)


Lastly: Netflix++ for three more NCIS Season 1 disks. 2 more and I'm done with S1. Then... S2! :-)

As if I don't have 1001 unfinished fics ...

Someone, somewhere (maybe even one of you) posted a "which of these fictional people would you have sex with" meme and when SGA's Lorne was mentioned, they sort of did a "mine! mine! mine!" -- to which i can completely relate.

But that got me thinking --- Everyone thinks he's such a good little soldier. In canon he screws up now and again, but he's generally considered the reliable 2nd. In fanon he's Sheppard's go-to boy, always mopping up after him, whether it's a mission gone wrong or, well, whatever.

So I started thinking... What if he's got this really nasty streak that rarely pops out? But when it does, hoo boy, watch out.

I started pondering the "Gets drunk, acts like asshole" thing, but that's so typical and cliche (and, hey, that's most of the people I've dated (-: ). I'm now trying to figure out what his Nasty Streak is and where it can crop up and make people just go, "Whoa. Didn't see THAT coming."

- I'm not job hunting as hard as I should be. [I've been unemployed since the end of January.]

- I'm not keeping up with LJ well enough. I am a sucky LJ friend.

- I'm not writing much either. There's a couple of something-fests I really want to write for, including lgbtfest and, especially, the team_sga AU 2009 fest (in which I put a few whacked out prompts, of which at least one has been grabbed, of which one I may just have to do myself anyway, maybe, and where there are some other awesome prompts that just yell, "Write me! Write me!") but I just don't seem to be able to get the ideas out from the head through the fingers.

I need to get back into the programs. All of them. I need to work on brain_asplode, too.

Think I'll go do that now.

No spoiler review of SGA's 2nd to last episode, Vegas: WTF. They had the chance to do something fresh and original, and instead it was cliche, overdone, rehash of existing crap. Shame on them.

Also, I wrote (and got fic!) for fandom_stocking; I'll link to what was made for me as well as reposting what I wrote (yes, I *wrote*, woot) shortly.


And now for a moment of sheep-ness:
( Icons Meme )

I've read twelve too many reviews of the latest Stargate: Atlantis episode, Quarantine, written by people who are die-hard McSheppers.

( Minor spoilers for Quarantine )

Gah. Please, someone shoot me before I get out the chainsaw.

This icon has never been more perfectly used.

I got fired on Wednesday. After nearly 20 years getting a University paycheck, after over 12 yrs at the one job, I've been thrown out like trash.

I've been fired before, so I should know the drill. But you know, after so long being told you're garbage, you start to believe it.

I started writing a year ago as stress relief. The stress is now so high I can't even write. I have only one fic-a-thon writing due, plus two "dvd commentaries". Hopefully I'll be able to hit the deadlines. I'm so glad I didn't sign up for more.

Things had, of course, gotten worse, which is why there's been so few updates here lately. We'll see what the future brings.

I should be working on my now-overdue sequel to "Guest" but two other fics are eating my brain.


- I've got a Lorne fic that's an AU mess from "Road Not Taken" but the two folks I've asked to help me with it haven't yet seen the damned episode! Anyone interested in giving me a hand? I need some real "bang my head against the wall" help here, some things just aren't working right, yet I know they should.

- When that's not eating my brain, the 3rd x-over with "The Stand" is. It's coming along slowly but nicely. It helps that I've known the major plot points from the start, and they haven't much changed.

Dear LJ friends who offer me up to join Twitter,

I am sorry that I cannot join you.

As I've mentioned before, I'm pretty rigid about keeping my RL and "fan" LJ's separate. Infinimato has it's own email address (which can't easily be tied to my RL self), and some other accounts (including YouTube, PhotoBucket and I forget what else). I don't have the energy to create another Twitter account. I have one for the "real me". (Keeping up with two sets of LJ friends? Hooo boy! Bad enough.)

It's nothing personal against YOU folks, it's just that I feel very strongly about keeping things separate for a variety of reasons, including that my current job & I are having... difficulties, to put it politely, and I'm trying to find a new job, and also do some consulting on the side.

It's not that I want to hide, per se, my fan side, but I also don't want to go screaming out to the universe.

Maybe some day my life will settle and I can "come out of the closet," (well, this closet :-P). For now, please understand that sometimes Infinimato just can't come play in all the raindeer games.

I OFFER UP SMOOCHES

I read this article: http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_5837894

And when someone says, "This was not a terrorist event," my brain said, "No of course not, it was Ba'al."




[& i should stop posting stupid shit and get back to work on all the fics i have due and/or half done...]

Someone, somewhere, recently posted about "things in the fandom that squick you or cause your horrified/embarrassed/whatever alert to go off."

(it might have been locked, and i've forgotten who posted it. Sorry.)

They were talking about actual episodes of shows, like, you know, the Star Trek TOS episode with the mime-chick who "heals" people's pain by taking it on herself? And let me tell you, I'd rather watch, "Spock's Brain" than that episode. Ever.

Anyway, geez. Apparently David Hewlett did some kind of rap, on video, to respond to someone who did one at him, or some such. I tried watching it, and I got about 15 seconds in and I was scrabbling for the "JANE! STOP THIS CRAZY THING!!!!" button. Because, sheesh.

FUCKING. ACTORS. DO NOT FEED THE FREAKS.

Even if you are one yourself.

Sheesh.

Someone was looking for my x-overs with The Stand on sgastoryfinders.

This makes me feel strangely giddy.

"It's begun: Superbug strain claims first life in Japan. All survivors are reminded to head to Boulder if they're good, or Las Vegas if they're evil."




I should really work on that 3rd fic....

Let's see.

- I have two more SGA/SG1/The Stand fic in the works. (one about Jack & Vala & someone from sga [i'm not telling who yet] making their way to Boulder, and one after that, which ties up all three fics plus, to be called "Power Vacuum."

- I should do at least one fic for brain_asplode

- I have the followup to "Guest"

- I never finished the fic for sg-fortunecookie, dammit. (everything I wrote just didn't read right.)

And then:

I did put up 3 prompts for slashfest. None were the silliness I suggested I might, though I was tempted. (Claims for taking prompts runs 4/6 through 4/10.)

This week there crops up:

- medie's Kissing comment-fic-athon (although most of the prompts don't appeal to me -- cripes, most of the Lorne prompts are with WEIR. Ptui. (running through 4/6)

- Signups for the apocalyptothon, which, you know. (signups by 4/16)

- svmadelyn is doing another Kink & Cliche Challenge, which, YOU KNOW. (signups by 4/9)

- Also signups for the auficathon (signups by 4/18)

PLUS
- the BSG Bondage Ficathon (Need to submit a fic by 4/4. Crossovers allowed as long as they fit the requirements.)

and Kellifer's Schmoopathon which, since all of my het requires extra doses of insulin anyway, I should consider playing with. (fics due by 4/30 but prompt must be claimed first.)

And I'm sure I'm forgetting things ... like the Old-Skool-BSG Meets New-BSG. And if shusu mentions the Martins I will hunt her down and BITE her.


Now, how do I kick-start my brain in gear? I am totally dry here, folks!


ETA:
= I signed up for the Cliche & Kink Ficathon and was assigned "bondage" (can you say "sequel to 'Guest'?")
= I think I have an idea for the BSG kink fest (though can I write it in 2ish days?)
= It turns out the person running apocalyptothon is the same one who used to run (and quietly abandoned) ithurtsmybrain. This makes me a bit wary of participating.

slashfest, for whom (which?) I have written two fics to few comments, is now in it's phase of accepting new requests. Any one person can submit up to three requests that then someone else might take and write.

I'm tempted, OH so sorely sorely tempted to suggest things like:


Stargate: Atlantis - McKay/Sheppard - John is the Worst! Lover! Ever! After he chases Rodney for weeks and finally gets him into bed, the sex is just horrible. John blames it all on Rodney, and then to make matters worse, promptly dumps him for the first bimbo (or himbo) that comes along. Please include as many bad-sex disasters (ie. flying condoms, insufficient lubrication, drooling kisses, hits into delicate areas, etc.) as you can without going completely overboard.

or

Stargate: Atlantis - Ronon/Radek - Ronon has a very, very small dick and is completely *horrified* by how huge all the Lantean men are. Radek, king of the giant penises, tries to teach Ronon that size doesn't matter, until it does.


While babbling with triple7lies I thought I should also do some more unique/uncommon fandom, like,maybe, Space:1999. She suggested MST3K, to which I responded, "Joel/Crow"?


HELP!!!

If you didn't catch it, the nominations are open for the sgdiverse_award awards for any femmeslash, boyslash or 3some+ stories
- EXCEPT McShep
and ONLY crossovers allowed are with SG1.

Go forth and nominate something. Only available until 4/15.

This is technically a "spoiler image" from an upcoming episode (for those of you who have been 'waiting for broadcast')

BUT!!!

It is JUST Sheppard, and a gun, and nobody else to give anythign away, so I encourage you to look anyway.

THE FACE!!!

(really, it's just the image. no links to anything else about the episode, or any other spoilers. i swear it on my own grave.)

triple7lies and Josh and I all agree that calls for a caption having to do with constipation. My first thought, seeing it, was, "I NEED TO POO."

I need more Lorne.

I've got "The Stand" firmly wedged in my head and I have to write a Lorne fic for the latest Slashfest ("Lorne/Male: Lorne is struggling with the transition from Earth's stict 'Don't ask, don't tell' policy to the freer Atlantean establishment. Particularly when he falls almost immediately in love with someone there.")

Wait, I'm bitching that I have to think about Lorne? Have I gone completely insane?

(well, yes.)

Hrm. It says "male" not "original male", do you think that means I get to pick whether I use an original or someone existing? Hrm..... (not fond of originals. You know who I'd hook him up with.)

OK, so far I've gotten at least one vote from someone who isn't even on my flist, so I'm assuming word of mouth is eeking out here.

So what I've done is unlocked my original post of "Gee, what if I made a new comm that was based on the ithurtsmybrain comm that seems sadly to have died."

Then I'll nudge you to then be able to make a more educamated guess on what the comm should be named.

Note that I'm still messing with the ideas of the "rules" of the comm. Any ideas & thoughts are welcome.


p.s. see my pretty new icon, triple7lies made it for me 'cause she loves me. yay!

So, I've come up with a few ideas of what to name the comm for "pick two out of a hat" pairings. Actually, I came up with a LOT more, but the names are already taken by comms or users. Help me pick what it should be.

Poll #927353 What should the new comm be named?
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 10

What should the whacky-pairing comm be named?

PLEASE if you suggest something OTHER than what I've picked, make sure it's not already in use. There are others I'd LOVE to use but if it's already IN use .... :/.

For narco, who asked, sorta:

The new BSG series is called a "reimagining" of the old series. A lot of the basics are the same: There's a big-ass ship, called a Battlestar, there are smaller ships, called Vipers. There's bad guys, called Cylons, and the bad guys destroy the twelve colonies that humanity lives on, sending a pile of ships off into space, trying to find a new home, if not Earth.

From there, well...


( this goes on and on and on )

ETA: I somehow forgot to put Jane Seymour's name in there. Duh! fixed.

.... because between my friend Josh and pentapus's drawings and shusu's crack smoking and havocthecat's prompt from the Porn Battle... this is a group effort whether people want it to be or not.

TO REVIEW:

First we had the little piece that I wrote about Mulder & Scully showing up on Atlantis, to talk about Vampires.

Then, 'cause it was for a thingy of hers, pentapus drew this bit of gorgeous taking the plot somewhere I hadn't thought of.

Then came the Porn Battle, for which I wound up smoking crack offered up by havocthecat, which called for Mulder & Hermiod getting it on.

I should be ashamed, but, to be honest, I just can't stop giggling.

Then that nutjob shusu posted something of McSheppy incest (really, just. jeez. owies.) and I jokingly asked if she were trying to "out-whacko-porn" me. I suggested that to "beat" this I'd have to write Hermiod having Mulder's ass babies.

To which she said:

ONLY if Hermiod files suit for CUSTODY. Because no way is Mulder a fit
father by any galactic standard. It will be a bitter battle, no-pants vs.
leaky waterbed, disdain for all humanity vs. eats cheetos in the nude.

AND THEN ABDUCTION.

I countered with:

And of course it's a baby girl, named Samantha after his sister, but then when Hermiod abducts the baby Mulder can't get anyone to believe that IT HAS HAPPENED AGAIN, they think he's still bugfuck from his sister's "abduction", and the SGC suddenly won't talk to him anymore, and Scully wonders if she should have him committed or go back to the Pegasus Galaxy and re-hookup with the Wraith queen (yeah i haven't written that part of the crack yet) and ...


To which shusu came back with, first, Wraith Queen dialogue:

"This one does not have kneepads. What is wrong with it? Is it defective?"
and then:

Meanwhile -- "He named it after you, Colonel. Don't you think that proves he's a creepy stalker?"

Which NO NO NO I am not also going for an SG1 xover too.

So then Josh comes up with:
If you make Scully wear a clown costume, you'll have ASS LABOR and CLOWN PORN in the same story. Just sayin'.

To which I realized:
And I could tie that in with Sheppard's fear of clowns

but then he countered:
Or maybe Novak can be in the big floopy shoes.... :)

which, really. my head... my head...

which is already reeling because... dude, how does an Asgard have ASS LABOR WITHOUT AN ASS????

And who delivers?

And this morning I couldn't stop laughing at the idea of Hermoid having to explain to Caldwell why he's gotten so ... round....

People keep mixing up three of the main people behind the Stargate shows and it's driving me (further) insane.

Warning: A few graphics (3-4) and some links within.

( Peter, Martin and Martin: Don't Mix Them Up )

Links to this are posted to sg1 and atlantis.

Yep. This is me trying to write smut.

1) This one hit me at 3 am, like all "good" thoughts -- "Evan" is John. It's the Welsh form of John.

So the CO of Atlantis is John, and his XO is... John.

I am amused.


2) I've heard rumours of a late S3 episode called "Sunday," which is supposed to be a "slice-of-life" episode where people are told to take a day off from work.

My 3 am thought for this was, "How Christian-centric, that *Sunday* would be the day off. I wonder what miss_porcupine's Yoni would have to say about that!"

Probably a lot. :-)

I've passed 1000 bookmarks on my del.icio.us site.

1000 is Eight Crazy Pilots Serenity Didn't Keep, which is a Firefly (obviously (-: ) crossover with SGA, SG1, Star Wars and BSG.

From an online chat with, mostly, a bunch of students:

PersonA: SUMMON: people taking (a senior-level CS class)

PersonA: ... slash the answer to 1.c


PersonB: It's really sad that I read that and thought PersonA was telling
everyone to write slash fiction about their homework

ME: THANK GOD IT'S NOT JUST ME

Me (privately, to PersonB): of course the fact that I've been writing TOO MUCH OF THE STUFF lately isn't helping.

PersonB (to me, privately): Really? Write anything good?
Wait... you're writing CS homework slash?
I just ... I ....
No words.



At this point I laughed so hard I nearly fell out of my chair.

CS HOMEWORK SLASH.

It's even worse than RPS!!!

Is it bad that I'm thinking, after it becomes official [I wanna hear it with my own 1.3 ears before I believe it :-)] that I then want to go back and "correct" my fics to have the "right" name?

I want to whitewash my own work?!? Who am I, Lucas?

:-)

This post assumes you have read the story Other Side. If you haven't read it, you will be surprised, because all that's here is the alternate ending to that story.

( Original Ending - and a bit of angst about it - Found Here )

Will someone PLEASE get TPTB to stop combing Carson's hair so he looks like a Scottish Troll Doll?!?!?!?

Cripes. The guy has the most gorgeous eyes and I can barely stand to look at him with that HAIR.

HAIR!!!!!!

Today I am 42.

Whooptidoo.

I am sick, and exhausted, and not getting any work done, and that includes finishing the bsg/ff fic that's "due" today.


So far my presents have included a little stuffed lion [currently draped on top of my monitor] and a string of cheap beads.


Would someone please send me a Ba'al clone or something? Thanks.

The problem with having two LJs is that I get behind on one friend's list, then I get behind on the other, and back and forth.....

There just isn't enough time in the world for all I need to do.

OK, that's a lie. There's plenty of time, I just spend too much of it sleeping :/.

Anyway. Brief comments on Friday's episodes:

200: I watched it with some friends (usually I download via torrents) via Tivo. It took us nearly 90 minutes to watch 200 because we had to keep stopping. We laughed ourselves purple.

Real World: I don't like Weir much, so that didn't help. But even with that I thought the story was weak and cheesy and probably the worst thing they've ever done. The "Spock's Brain" of SGA, as it were :).

The special: I can't wait to get my hands on it. SO MUCH MARTIN WOOD.

I will not drool on my keyboard.
I will not drool on my keyboard.
I will notiueaksla akeyebordksaj.

Crap.