Heading out to case the promise land

Dan Harmon coming back to Community has made me so very, very happy. musesfool did briefly scare me with tales of his awfulness, but dickishness and self-loathing are a small price to pay if it means getting Abed back. And even if this final season never reaches the awesome heights of seasons 1 and 2, it's Harmon's show, in a way that The West Wing was Sorkin's, and I'm glad he's going to get to finish it off. No outrageously out of character security leaks this time!

I forget what the other thing I was going to say was, but it was obviously extremely important. Josh Ritter tickets will soon be mine! That could have been it, but I don't think it was.

I am extremely tired, which I suppose is what comes of getting up at 6 and going to bed after midnight all week. Possibly, I will read some and aim for sleeping at a more reasonable hour. Sleep is probably the most important thing to talk about, so let's assume that was actually the other thing.

What is this? A post! Shocking, I know.

Here are some things I meant to post about and then didn't, for no good reason other than laziness/forgetfulness/pretending to have a life offline.
1. I went to Barcelona and spent all the money ever and will probably have to sell a vital organ or two. Totally worth it.

2. I went on a motorbike and it was OMG awesome! I am so over this car business.

3. It is possible there is a new scary grownup job in my immediate future. Though it has been a saga, and I will not believe in it until I sign something. Also, see the scary part. I might just be in denial.

4. I am in an abusive relationship with Aaron Sorkin. I hate him! And I hate his show! Except for sometimes, when I don't. Sexist bastard.

5. Not unrelated to 5: I, like Dan Rydell, am having a New York renaissance. Though perhaps unlike Dan Rydell, it is not so much a New York Renaissance as a Sports Night renaissance. Dan Rydell is totally my TV boyfriend. I am also having a SGA renaissance. Or...proper discovery really. John Sheppard is totally my favourite! <3 <3 <3

6. The Avengers was fabulous! Tony Stark, in particular, was fabulous. I'd be perfectly happy if RDJ spent the rest of his life playing him. I keep threatening to write fic, but I am intimidated by the comics. I do, otoh, have 1,500 words of a terrible Steve/Bucky fic. musesfool thinks she wants to read it, but that is the natural side effect of not having read it.

7. After months of mollyamory bullying me, I finally watched the Person of Interest pilot. I resisted, you see, because of mollyamory's terrible taste in TV. And because she didn't sell it properly. "John is awesome," she said. Like that meant anything. Amusingly and violently awesome! Those were the words she belatedly decided she should have used. "I don't like killing people. But I'm very good at it," was the moment he stole my heart, in case any of you were wondering. I haven't seen any more of it, and I don't know if I'd be shippy about it, but I really enjoyed the pilot.

8. I am going camping or something at the end of September. Though glamping might be more accurate. Either way, I am still troubled by the lack of shower. How glamorous can it be?

I feel there might have been more, but maybe I will save that for another thrilling update. How have you been! You've all taken up with Tumblr, haven't you? Nobody's even here, anymore, right?

Thing the first, I have been meaning to say, thank you for the blue dragons on my info page. You guys are inexplicably sweet to me.

Thing the second, signups for the next round of silverbullets open on MOnday. I am excited!

Thing the third and just for the record, I think of mollyamory as the sPN of people. Which is to say, I consider her to be very dark and angsty and very occasionally frightening. It's a wonder I still talk to her at all, really.

Thing the fourth, I have started finishing at half 1 on a Friday. I think it might be the best thing that's happened in my working life. Or...my life.

Thing the fifth: I cannot post competently at all today. The edit button is my friend.

I am updating mostly because I keep meaning to update when I have a reason, and then...not. LJ is a habit I should pick up again, really. So:

1. I saw and loved Deathly Hallows. I am, of course, saying this weeks after I first saw and loved it, but in my defence, I did actually try to update about that at the time, and technology thwarted me. By the time I realised it wasn't going to go through, it was already 04:30, and I was supposed to be in work by 08:00. But if the post had gone through, it would've been full of squee and flail. I have very much not loved the previous two films, but this made up for all. It was sweet and sad and funny, and totally captured what I loved about the books.

2. I keep reading these Wheel of Time books. Why? I am not at all sure I like them, what with how there are many things about them that strike me as pretty awful, and yet...I am on book 11. I think there are only 13 books, and that's not even the end of it. Will it ever end? Does anyone know? Will I still be reading when we're on book 66, and author 15?

3. I have seen the first 4 eps of Haven. I really like it! It has intrigue and creepiness and banter, and it is not all procedural-y. These are all things I approve of. I think Audrey is awesome, and Duke and Nathan are quite clearly in love. I have high hopes for its continued awesomeness. I am tempted to read The Colorado Kid, but I'm not sure how much doing that would ruin the show, and I don't want to ruin it at all.

4. Writing is hard. I have stories with something approaching plots, and I keep not writing them, because OMG difficult! I am trying to be better about this, but my natural procrastinating tendencies are very difficult to overcome. If I don't post the troll story, and possibly the story in which Dean and Sam are separated in alternate realities before show starts back, I want public shaming! And ridicule!

5. This is my favourite Josh Ritter song ever. How is he so awesome?

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Okay, firstly, for people reading this on LJ, I have 5 dreamwidth codes, if anyone still needs one. I...have been meaning to say that since it opened, and continually forgetting.

Secondly, things what I have been reading today in between napping/watching football: I really like this awesome article on awesome, hot women on broadway. Hollywood, you still kind of suck, but apparently, not everyone does.

And this story of Pakistan students trying to make their country better makes me sort of sniffly. Everything I've read on Pakistan recently has been bleak, on almost every level, but this was just very, very hopeful, even if collecting garbage is this tiny thing in the scheme of things.

This, though, on separate proms for black and white students just makes me sad. It's the quote from the girl at the end, I think; it's the bewildered hurt of it, and I kind of want to shake everyone who's just like, "Oh, it's tradition," as if kids aren't hurt by it, and as if--even if it were only a tradition--preserving it at their expense is okay. And then I have to remember that I'm only hoping that as a white kid in one of those towns, I'd have actively wanted to change things; the reality is, as an 18-yo kid, maybe I wouldn't--maybe I'd have bought that line about it just always having been that way, too. I don't want to be arrogant enough to presume that I wouldn't have, if I'd grown up in those circumstances and not mine.

Thirdly, I have some Dean/Sam schmoop to be working on, but I was thinking I could, I dunno, maybe write some ficlets for fandoms I also like. I am notoriously bad at completing these, but if anyone wanted to take a chance and prompt me in comments, I would appreciate it, and who knows, maybe I would actually finish something. Fandoms I wouldn't be terrified to write in, and pairings where that's a thing--which, really, it mostly is--are HP (Remus/Sirius, most likely), O11 (Danny/Rusty), Sports Night (Danny/Casey), Firefly (Wash/zoe, or Mal/any of the women on Serenity, except, probably, Inara), Dr Who (Doctor/Rose for pairings, though I would totally be up for some Donna gen) FNL (Lila/Tyra--yes, yes, I am surprised by this, too, given how I used to feel about Lila--and Tami/Eric), The West Wing, and Merlin (Merlin/Arthur).

Fourthly, I still really love Sam Winchester. Really really really.

Links to things what I have been reading, in no particular order: this story about actors who have, OMG, put on some weight is incredibly rage-inducing, on about 8 different levels. Most obviously, the fact that the article blurb goes something like, "Leading men are getting larger, and not necessarily in the good way." Uh huh. Way to announce your stereotyping at the very start. But what could have been an article on how Hollywood, in general, promotes an incredibly unhealthy idea of beauty and weight, is pretty much just a list of men. There's one tiny reference to women being unable to do the same, but nothing further about how there aren't many older women on screen at all, or how unbalanced it is that the men can put on weight, and still play opposite women who have to be no more than, I dunno, a size 2. Journalism at its finest.

Here, as a counterpoint to the stupid--possibly an overly-optimistic one, but I am in the market for that, right now--have this article on the current state of gay marriage in the US, which is pretty awesome. I do like Frank Rich an awful lot.

And apparently, those who engage in music piracy, are ten times more likely to also buy music. I'm sure the record industries will say this is clearly false, and maybe it even is, but in my purely anecdotal experience, it doesn't seem implausible.

And finally, I haven't seen the last few eps of Dollhouse, but this does a much better job than I could do of explaining why the creepy premise works for me--well, for the most part, anyway.

In general, I adore this blogger. She makes me laugh, while being smart, and that is pretty much my recipe for perfect. Plus, she links to this really very weird article by Caitlin Flanagan--a recognisably crazy woman if if ever there were one--inspired, far as anyone can tell, by reading Alec Baldwin's book, although CF opts for creepily discussing father-daughter romance, instead of whatever great wisdom the book contained. I wouldn't actually recommend reading it (the article, not the book. I haven't read the book, and nor am I likely to, but I do imagine it might provide some unintentional hilarity of the variety only Alec Baldwin can bring, at least when he is not just being a complete dick), for any number of reasons, but most importantly: 1, because creepy, and 2, because it is lavishly sprinkled with stereotypes about a girl's need for romance. But I don't think you need to read it to believe in the fact that Alec Baldwin's crazy makes crazy people crazier. Trufax. I can't say I'm surprised. (Whenever I remember that he once wanted to be president, I am very nearly grateful for Bush. Only very nearly, however.)

And here ends the most ridiculous tangent ever. All the more random since I don't think I've ever mentioned on this journal how endlessly amused I am by Alec Baldwin and his remarkably deluded perception of himself. Um, consider that this post.

We are officially at that time of year again when I start making random posts that say only things like, "OMG, injury time is so fucking annoying. Why did they not just score another goal? Why?"

I would sort of rather we weren't playing Arsenal in the next round, but there you go. At least there is a next round. I also finished work early to watch it, and changed into my pyjamas, and now I am being bullied into leaving the house to go see people again. Outrageous.

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I am actually just making this post because I forgot I used to like posting by email, and I figured I'd try that again to see how it worked on DW, and if I could crosspost to LJ that way, too. Since I don't want you all to think I'm just posting pointlessly, however, I would like to say that there is a thing I have to announce, and if my next post isn't me doing that thing, I want to be shunned by all of fandom. Even people who don't know me should shun me, okay?