the night has a thousand saxaphones

There is a new, awesome exchange going on. It is much less structured and less scary than other exchanges. Simply post your wishlist of up to ten things- ANYTHING your little heart desires, any fandom, fic or vid or graphics or anything. Then trawl through the posted wishlists and find something you can fulfill! No hard deadlines, no scary commitment, no modly matching, just get somebody something they want. I am on page 5, here.



Confidential to princessofg: I did not mean to be a jerk. I apologize.

( I love my sister so much )

A list of randomness, after my near-week of absence:

-Between lazy_daze's Wincest(SPN NC-17 Sam/Dean, obviously), princessofg's remix of paian's Come What May (SG1 Jack/Daniel), and thenyxie's homework verse (CWRPS Jensen/Jared, very good, very NC-17 D/s- she just posted a time-stamp with rope bondage, but what you REALLY want to read is part three, with the orgasm control. HOT LIKE BURNING), this has been a very good few days for porn.

-OMG SO MUCH OLYMPICS *dead of athletic prowess*

-I am SO BUSY all of a sudden. Between the real-estate stuff for family(involving SO MUCH TIME, even if nothing terribly difficult), and tutoring, which is now sitting at seven lessons a week (but will soon be nine, which is a 36 hour a week time commitment, more or less), plus my course (which I am slacking on), plus really wanting to get back in shape... gah.

-But, that means that I will break even this month. For the first month since MARCH, so my savings are looking pretty anemic. But I will be even for August and in the black for September and October. I do not know about November and December, though.

-And that, in turn, means that I will probably be able to go to a con this fall. So... Wincon or Bascon? winchestercon is kicking back up and I think I need to make a definite decision on that one way or the other if I'm to find a roommate, so... *wibbles frantically* I am going to Wincon!. Anybody who has space in their room, tell me? I will be asking those of you who I know will be there.

-I have not written all week. In 11 days, actually, now that I check. I lost momentum while C was here, and now I've... hit a wall. I have SO MANY bunnies and WIPpets and "I-wanna"s, but I am just... stuck. I psych myself out because I want to write well. I'm so fucking proud of Five First Kisses, but I just can't do stuff I'm proud of on command and I hate beating away at something that isn't good. But there is a deadline of September 4th for the spn_nostalgia, so maybe I will just force myself to buckle down on that project, and hell if it's pedestrian and formulaic? Gah.

Anybody who was annoyed by Dr. Horrible should read this (via metafandom).

Oh GOD. I am, in ten minutes, officially OFF to Comic-Con and I'm so excited I could throw up. Seriously, this is going to be epic. Even if it completely fails to live up to my expectations, even if it is far more hectic and crowded and unmanageable and chaotic than I've been led to be believe, it will still be one of my most awesome vacations. The only thing that could go wrong is a major introvert-panic attack from me, and I'm pretty sure I can hold that off till Sunday afternoon.

Oh GOD. *dances*

So this week I've been doing a ton of boring paperwork and housecleaning. You know, the sort of thing that takes just enough mental energy that you can't concentrate on a book or serious TV show, but is just too boring to endure without entertainment? So I've rewatched an entire season of Mythbusters.

Oh God, I FORGOT how much I love that show. It's just complete fun. No emo, no angst, no drama, no artificial conflict, no ridiculous arbitrary rules, just pure, distilled, concentrated fun. You could BOTTLE that fun and make a mint. It's that rare show where it's impossible not to just love every single person involved. I have a crush on every single one of them. Kari is so sexy! And Tory is so entertaining! And Grant is so sweet-geeky-cute! And then, of course, Jamie and Adam (because no matter how much I love the build team, the original boys really have my heart).

They are both so attractive. Honestly. This is one of those rare instances when looks completely don't matter- they are both so, incredibly, blazingly hot. They're intelligent, fantastically skilled with their hands, supremely self-confident without a trace of arrogance, adventurous, good-natured and fun-loving, interested in the world around them, widely experienced... you could not DESIGN two more attractive men.

And just now? Just now, in some totally random myth to do with guns and steam, Adam made an ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny joke. Just out of the blue, apropos of nothing. At random. Off the top of his head (look, I know it's quasi-scripted, but I am dead certain that he wrote the joke off the top of his head completely at random, even if they then set up the shot for it).

For a show that does SO MUCH dumbing down (and does it actually astonishingly well), I LOVE those glimpses of just HOW smart and HOW well-read and HOW interested in the world those boys are. *loves forever*

Random by-the-way: When is the next porn battle? I thought it was supposed to start on the 21st, but I haven't heard any prompt collection or scuttlebutt at all. Am I not getting my fannish memos?

Random ETA: Yes, my love of Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog KNOWS NO BOUNDS. I am all a-squee. Where the hell is my "these are not the hammer" icon? Because that is, like, the fannish line of the year as far as I'm concerned.

livelongnmarry, the fandom auction to support gay rights organizations, is open for bidding! Get my leet beta services here.

jya_bd_cp_ttgb is collecting reminisces of Don S. Davis (the actor who played General Hammond, recently deceased).

Oh, David Bowie, your sexual self-presentation amuses me so greatly (Yes, somebody has been having fun on YouTube).

( TMI )

Apparently I only like weddings when they are socially subversive.

Except that is completely and totally the wrong word since the entire point is to become NOT subversive anymore, but I am wiped today and incapable of phrasing myself correctly.

( Overlong political ranting )

That embarrassing outburst of emotion was at least half caused by PMS, plus the frustration of living in Texas surrounded by trucks with McCain bumper stickers. Or at least, the overuse of italics was. Pay me no mind, I'll be calm and rational again in two days.

Other random awesomeness, related to fandom: I googled for that SGA story, "take clothes off as directed," and stumbled on this: I'm In Ur Bookmarks, Stealin' Ur Tags!: Closed Communities and Their Influence On Consistent Vocabularies In User Developed Folksonomies. (pdf warning, html here) Which is really totally awesome, in a "fandom is so sociologically fascinating" kind of way, even I could have *told* her all those things about consistent community vocabularies.

Pimpage: The Sharpest Lives, because the only thing better than Winchesters are knife-throwing circus performer Winchesters.

( You know I'd babble about SGA eventually, right? )

I think, that in a temporary bout of insanity, I may have just officially signed up to audition for a swing dance troupe. I have wanted to do this for YEARS. I am scared out of my mind.

So, let's talk A LOT about SGA.

( On Atlantis as a character in her own right. )

( How Maj. John Sheppard became a stunningly sexy badass )

( On characters I love )

( On their Big-Bad-Escalation problem. )

Quick note: Thank you so much, everybody. That whole "outpouring of sympathy" thing really does work wonders.

( SPN 3x13 )

I just spent four straight hours flirting with the handyman putting up the ceiling fans. Seriously. 34 years old, 6 foot, slim and muscled, Texas accent and Texas charm, perfect tan- the whole nine yards. I swear to god, he was trying to kill me. By the time he was done, I had told him that those jeans made his ass look great (they did) and that he had fantastic hands (he DID. REALLY).

*facepalm* Think I need a cold shower.


( Stargate watching log )


I signed up to rec Chronicles of Narnia for crack_van. I am so insanely nervous about this. I pulled up every Narnia fic I've EVER READ in tabs (about 45), eliminated all the ones that sucked (down to 30), then eliminated all the ones already reccd on crack_van (down to 20, losing many of my very favorites). Now I'm rereading them all and sorting them by category and writing notes and EEK I want to do a good job of this cause crack_van is like, a fannish institution, yk? SO NERVOUS!

First rec here


( Stuff about vids and the best community on the whole of lj )

( And if you like Donnie Darko, you'll spit coffee all over your keyboard at this: )

I have already laughed more at the time of this writing (10:00 am) than I have in possibly the last three months put together. What would I do without fandom?