Or, How I Pissed Off My Entire FList (Except One And I Know Who You Are)

Yeah, so ... I saw The Avengers. Um. It was ... okay, mostly?

(This is not a joke. This is not a test. Sorry everyone. I didn't want to bring the Debbie Downer to the squee party, she just sat there on my shoulder the whole time and made really good points that I couldn't dismiss. So, I'ma write some down and try to get to grips with the whole thing. But you don't have to read it! Avert your eyes! Run – run while you still can so that you'll still like me! SAVE YOURSELVES!!!)

There will be spoilers for the movie below. Obviously.


First up, I will say the good: it wasn't bad. It was shiny and kaboomy and, uh, shiny, and it got the job done, picked us up at A and delivered us firmly to B. There were moments, genuine moments of oh hey, that worked amidst the flow of so, hey, that happened.


( disclaimers )


( some more about the good )


( personal nitpicks )


( my substantive objections )


Okay, well, I'm going to take my cranky, demanding self off to bed now. :/

Overdue memeses owed to tahirire. Yay!

Fandom Meme!
Tell me you want to play and I'll pick up to three of your fandoms. Then update your journal and answer the following questions:

1. What got you into this fandom in the first place?
2. Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
3. Favorite episodes/books/movies, etc?
4. Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
5. Do you think more people should get into this fandom?

tahirire picked:

• KE$HA!!!
• Leverage
• Supernatural

( fandom meme! )

Icon Meme!

1. Reply to this post with "I LOVE EVERYONE IN THIS MORALLY DEPRAVED BAR" and I will pick five (or maybe ten!) of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon glee.

tahirire picked:




( icon meme! )


And that's it for now. I am going to be away from computers and interent access for about two weeks, so please do comment anyway and I'll play with you when I get back, I promise!

Apparently, I'm not done with Sherlock thoughts just yet. Mostly because I've actually been reading through some of the theories and reactions and stuff on the tv tropes entry and its subpages, and it's stirred up thoughts I forgot to mention. (It's weird, the "fridge brilliance" entries are almost entirely intriguing and/or enriching; the "fridge horror" entries, below them, nearly all annoying for having missed the point in some way or another.) Quick thoughts, mostly, although raising more questions than the last, now that I've read what people (on that site, at least, who in this case appear to be obsessively thorough) have noted or not (and am wondering if I'm the only one who thinks it). Flistie reassurance that I'm not insane is appreciated, but not demanded.

Spoilers, still, naturally, since most of this has to do with events of the second season.



( so ... just me, then? )



Okay, that's it. Again.

For now.

Returning to my native soil (oh, I'm "home", by the way, whatever that even means), I discovered Sherlock S2 is availble from the region's iTunes (I think I may have suspected this, but put the matter aside due to reasons that don't entirely make sense to me any more), promptly download it, and took an entire week to watch the three of them. – WHICH MEANS that not only have I missed the huge wave of fandom enthusiasm/wank/fury/heartbreak of the initial airing, BUT ALSO the secondary wave when it's properly available in America. I have, in fact, managed to land myself in the nadir of fandom interest in the thing. YAY MY TIMING.

But whatever, I watched them and I loved them. And I have a bunch of unkempt thoughts about them, clogging up my fandom brain, and since the rest of my processing brainspace is taken up with actual RL things, I need to clear them out somewhere so I can deal with catching up on SamnDean do other fannish things.

Prepare for major thought-dump and probable semi-coherent fangirling. Also spoilers for all six episodes.


( mostly John-centric and his relationship with Sherlock )



( (rant) )



( scandal in belgravia )



( reichenbach fall )


I think ... that's enough for now. It's cleared a lot of the main pondering out, at any rate. Time for sleep. Later, memes!

I am kind of going insane. Well, not *insane* insane. But I'm flying home tomorrow for a good while, and the sorting and packing is ... gah. *flail*

My head's been in transition mode (uncertain transition mode, at that) for at least a month. And when that happens, words tend to shut down somewhat. I've had a lot of movies and shows playing in the background, though, which has led to iconning, because things are pretty and it became a way to briefly unplug and do something creative and meaningless while the hindbrain processes I know not what. (I just know it needs to do it.)

And now, I'm frustrated and there are people coming for dinner and I still haven't packed the storage stuff, which means I may as well post some of these icons because why not. (Some of my mood may be apparent in the relative snarkiness of the selection.) If you see anything you like, help yourself. Feedback (or requests) will not be met with snark, regardless of mood. :)


( randomy things )

( pirates of the carribean )

( various movies )

( much ado about nothing )


And now ... back to the putting of my life's detritus into boxes and baggage. wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

You know what's fun about not having internet?

( Answer: )

Explanation and part one.


( part two )

Okay, so, this fic may will take some explaining. (Especially since I have not previously shown enough interest in BSG to write an 8000+ fic about it.)


( for those who are vaguely interested, and need some kind of explaining )



Title: First Principles
Ficverse: workerbee73's BSG Spypilots AU fic; prequel to her Dangerous Games (index).
Series: Spyparents
Rating: Gen, Het, PG13 (a few bad words)
Length: 4,000 of 8,100 ish
Characters: Bill Adama/Laura Roslin
Teaser: It was just a reasonable conclusion that if any Adama was going to slip up, it would be him. But more than that, she just ... knew. William was the key to the Adamas.
Notes and shoutouts: In addition to writing such a kick-ass fic that it spawned this prequel, workerbee73 has been the absolute best in bouncing ideas, backstory, theories, and beta-ing this story, as well as cheerleading for it's follow-up (coming, um, sometime).
Warnings/Spoiler: It's completely AU, so nothing for the show. Nothing for Dangerous Games, either.
Disclaimer: They aren't mine. They belong to others, like Ron Moore and whoever, and the setting belongs to Bee. Oh, and the initial exchange between them directly parallels of the scene in Heat. Oh! and there's a line from Casino Royale in there somewhere too.
Feedback: let's hear it. The good, the bad, the ugly....



( part one )



part two

(it isn't)

However, it was just after a conversation about red and white lighting symbolism in Show that I happened on this. Which is a) not much more blatant, really, and b) gorgeous.

(If she looks familiar, Kimbra is the female artist on Gotye's Somebody That I Used To Know, which unsurprisingly came in #1 in the Hottest 100; this song came in at #52, which is how I stumbled over it.)

Okay, so, probably no one is that interested in this but me, but today (in Australia) is not only Australia Day (party!), but triple j's Hottest 100 countdown for 2011. It's epic, it's streaming (there's a button at the top of that page), it starts in less than an hour, and it will last all day (down there). I'll be up listening to it until #1 is rung in, just like last year. (Helpful that I have a buttload of work to get done tonight.)

So, anyway. I love triple j, it's nation-wide, it's commercial-free, it's censor-free, and it does stuff like this, and this. I don't love all the music played on it, but I love that they play it. I love that they love music. And I love that for 8+ hours tonight, I'll be listening to Australian accents, and smelling summer air and ocean and barbeques in my sense memory. Summer. Summer. *curls in the corner sobbing for a minute*

Anyway. If you're even vaguely interested in what kind of music would be voted to be the hottest tracks of 2011 by the nation of Australia, or are just interested in a cultural phenomenon, check it out.