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And for some reason I felt obligated to finish it tonight, so now I'm up way too late again and I'm already all thrown off for this week and have missed stuff, this is just bad karma. I was doing so well. D: After this I'm done. I promise. I'll get back on track.

Ahem. The answers to the shipping meme, all 7 pages in Word of them. I talk a lot.

( I do wish Word could copy and paste into Rich Text posting so I wouldn't have to format this by hand. Bloody Vista. )


Ugh. SLEEPS. Needs it now. *collapses* Memes are so stressful sometimes.

First off, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, silly_cleo!!! I hope the coming year is wonderful.

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You remember that writing meme I did a while earlier, with the fics written in the time it takes for one song to play? As a way of warming up for more serious/extensive writing, I did a few rounds of those on vacation. There are fourteen in total; I figured I'd post them up here.

The rules, in case you needed a reminder:

 1. Spent pretty much all day unpacking (which I still haven't done, naturally) and writing up another ficlet for whoniverse1000. This most recent one's Nine/Adric, since I'm trying to fulfill a few requests before I start cluttering up the meme with my own pairings and anyway I'm pretty sure no one's going to steal Harry/Vira while I'm not looking.

Point of Mild Annoyance: I think I'm losing my Nine voice. I had to keep correcting Nine in this ficlet so that he didn't sound like Ten or Four. I haven't written Nine very much, admittedly, and when I did it was usually Dark!Angry!PTSD!Nine, so writing any other flavor of Nine feels...wierd. Obviously, an epic New Who Season 1 Rewatch is in order; I'd hate to lose my grasp on dear Nine. :D

Also I threw completely unnecessary Shakespeare quotes in there. Not sure why I did that.

2. Speaking of unpacking, I've got many more of my summer clothes unpacked, but there's still a whole box of stuff I've yet to even open. I'm a little intimidated, actually. I feel like I'm never going to get all this cleared away. 

3. "The Memory Always Lies" has an almost complete plot outline now, although I may tweak the later chapters, since they're a bit too dramatic and involve shootings and Brave Confrontations and reversals of fortune and such. But they allow for lots and lots of Benton! That has to be a good sign. Chapter 2 also proceeds apace. 

Question: kayliemalinza, would you still be able to beta Memory even if I can't give you a print copy? I mean, obviously I wouldn't send you the chapter until after you were finished with your papers and such, but I don't know how you feel about betaing via e-mail. I suppose we could ship the printout back and forth, but that involves, you know...postage and things. 

4. May have acquired yet another new show, if not exactly a new fandom: Reaper, the first episode of which I just watched with my mom and dad, is pretty damn awesome. It's funny, I love the premise, and is something I want to keep watching. Also, it's got the kind of buddyish man-love that makes slash goggles entirely unnecessary, including mentions of a mancrush. Excellent. Did it get renewed this season? Someone tell me it did, please. 

5. Caught the finales of CSI: Miami and SVU. Both of them sent me into a fangirl hissyfit. Am already contemplating fix-it fic for the former, because TPTB saw fit to nix YET ANOTHER of my slash OTPs. I HATE IT WHEN YOU DO THAT, writers. 

Season 6 has made it really hard to write Miami fic, actually. Most of my fic centers around Horatio, and his character's gotten so lost this season that there's no way to reconcile the way I write him (which is based on Seasons 1-4, back when he was still a character at least) with how he's been acting this season. At least, not without making him a psychopath. Not that I'd entirely mind the chance to write him as such, but it doesn't really work with my growing-up genfic, H/M fluff, and twisty complicated H/Y angst. Bah. I blame the writers and retreat to Season 1, in hopes that it will bring back the writerly mojo that I miss so badly. 

The finale of SVU, unfortunately, cemented my decision not to watch next season. It's a sad day when the writers will cheerfully toss out the characters' credibility for the sake of drama, which is what happened to Fin, Lake, and Casey on a massive scale here. Much like Miami, I retreat in a huff to Seasons 1 and 2 to make myself feel better. At least then I wouldn't have to call it a miracle when Munch was actually onscreen.

How much you want to bet I'll be right back in front of the TV next year?

Still can't bring myself to watch the CSI finale. Am not ready for that. 

6. Going to go see Iron Man tomorrow YAY. Pixxi, call me when you wake up so I can figure out what we're doing.

...when did it get this late? I'm going to bed.

It's just that I've been in a writing mood and there's little to report in my real life at the moment.

New layout, yo. I was getting sick of perenially having to color my text white, and the white-on-black thing was causing me much eyestrain. Plus, now it's way easier to disguise spoilery text.

Speaking of spoilery text...


Anyway, here, have a big empty white space to seperate the spoiler cut from the fic-related blather to follow. 




In other news, who_otpis having another round of Rare-Ship Drabble Tag, and I highly encourage you to go check it out even if you don't want to write anything for it. Go! Read! After all, we've got Liz/Martha and Ancelyn/Bambera and Ten/Donna and Ten/Charlie Eppes (requested by me and written brilliantly in response) and Ben/Polly and Leela/Romana! You know you're tempted!

I bid you all good night.

 I meant to post this yesterday, but I ran out of time, so here it is.


 

Wow, I've managed to make reviewing TV shows like work. How about that.

Anyway, didn't manage to get them all done, but here are a few, tossed out for your amusement. Also, I've decided I'm not going to do long reviews of Chuck, as no one else I know watches it.

 


I nap now.

 Posted here as I complete them.

Monday:

Chuck


CSI: Miami



Tuesday:

House


Law and Order: SVU



Wednesday: 

CSI: New York



Thursday:

CSI  


...I'm thinking this'll be the last time for a while that I pull out the page-and-a-half reviews, seeing as these took FOREVER. 

Maybe now I can do some actual work.

I just realized that tonight was homecoming. Completely forgot about it until I started wondering where everyone was and realized that everyone's out at the fraternities and having parties because it's homecoming. And meanwhile, I'm sitting up here in the hidey-hole, eating cereal and watching TV and ficcing. And not doing any homework at all except for maybe a little bit of Calc.

I fail. 

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In other news, 

rainbowsteviedeserves love and internet cookies for nominating Mind on the Job and She Sees Through Shadows for the CSI Fanfic Awards. Many, many thanks to you. I'm still somewhat baffled, however, by the fact that as of this writing I'm the only nominee in the Character Studies - Alexx category. Where's the Medical Examiner love, fandom?

(Also, can anyone enlighten me as to how I get the nominee banner in my userinfo?)

Speaking (sort of) of Alexx, I finally got around to watching the B side of the second disc of SVU season 2, and guess who's on it in "Paranoia"? S'right. Khandi Alexander plays Olivia Benson's mentor, and I have to admit after only seeing her as Alexx, it was a little weird switching gears and watching her as the increasingly defensive cop. She sold it, though.

 

I'm slightly ashamed to admit that one of my favorite parts of watching any Law and Order show is picking out guest stars I recognize and identifying what else they were in. It's a game: as soon as the guest credits start to roll, I start shouting out where I know the guest stars from. Thus far these past few days I've found Kate Walsh, Patti LuPone, Holt McCallany (I can't believe I didn't recognize him in Monk), Michael Emerson, Chris Cooper (who was ever so handsome back in Season 5), Khandi Alexander, Eric Roberts, Eddie Cahill, Julia Roberts, and Felicity Huffman, and that's just on SVU and TOS alone. 

I may have few useful talents, but one of my many useless ones is that I run a kickass game of Six Degrees of Seperation.  

I've finally talked Muse down from her PWP ledge, though she remains ready to leap back at the slightest provocation and the fact that there are no PWP Het nominees for CSI: NY and only one for Miami is not helping my efforts. For the moment, her energies have been redirected back into the strange land of vaguelysexy!fluff (from whence Mind on the Job sprang, incidentally), and frankly I've got no idea how we got here.

Expect a pinned post soon tracking my progress on ficathons, challenges, obligations, and random bunnies so I can get them all in by their respective deadlines. 

But for now, I'm going to work on my Creative Writing assignment a bit more. And then I'm going to bed. 

'Night internets.

I figure, now that the trailers for my fall shows are starting to hit the web, I should at least make the effort to take a look-see.

The following commentaries may contain spoilers for SVU Season 9 and CSI: NY Season 4.