Oh look, Avengers. WELL THAT WAS AWESOME.

( Part One: Why I Love Midnight Showings (spoiler free) )


( Part Two: Why I Love Everyone In This Helicarrier (spoilers and capslock ahoy!)  )

*deep breath* I REALLY LIKED THIS MOVIE AND YOU SHOULD ALL GO WATCH IT BECAUSE IT'S WONDERFUL.

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I did a Mildly Interesting Thing, which may in turn be Mildly Useful To Writers in various fandoms, if you're doing medical stuff or situations where there are lots of casualties. So I made a post about it! Yay!

Every term, the Campus Response Team (the highly trained students who rush to your aid and try to stop you from dying until paramedics arrive) does a training session. And when I say "training", I actually mean a fast-paced contest where teams of responders pit themselves against the most complicated and difficult medical situationals ("sits", for short) that the judges can imagine. For this, they need a team of volunteers to play the victims.

When I heard that we'd have to wear old clothing because we might get covered in fake blood, my hand shot up so fast it practically bounced off the ceiling.

( Read more... )
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Last night, in a delayed celebration for surviving LAST term's exams, Luise, Gwenyth, and I sat down to eat Chinese takeout, drink, and watch the Twilight Saga. The entire Twilight Saga. Mozzie, Russ, Rupert, and Mr. E all spent a certain amount of time in the room mocking us, and I liveblogged everything that happened. They're low on coherence - see the above re "drink" - and they probably won't make a lot of sense if you havn't seen the movies, but I'm told they're somewhat amusing. Interested parties can read them here:

Liveblogging Twilight
Liveblogging New Moon
Liveblogging Eclipse
Liveblogging Breaking Dawn (pt 1)

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So after a goodly while of idly reading White Collar fanfic from authors I like - sholio  and sam_storyteller, to be specific, although the rest of you lot have been periodic offenders, and I admit to the occasional foray into the AO3 tags after seeing a few White Collar fics recced in a row - I finally decided to watch the pilot episode. It was fascinating coming into a fandom via the fic like that; normally I read a story or two in a new fandom, decide I like it, and then stop reading until I have time to consume canon in its entirety, because I have this thing about consuming all of a given canon, and also I'm quite the spoiler-phobe. So this is a strange new experience for me!

( Spoilers for the pilot, if anyone still cares about these things. )
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Meme, from Sophia_Sol who asked me the following questions. If you want your own seven questions, drop a request in the comments.

( What's the dumbest thing you've ever written? )

( What's your favourite thing you've ever written? )

( What fandom are you reading the most fic in these days? )

( Could you please give some sort of handy guide to all the people you refer to in your Housemate Chronicles? )

( How are you so awesome? )

( If you could force me to write one thing, what would that one thing be? )

( What book(s) are you reading right now? )
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Hi all, sorry about the radio silence and the way I've fallen behind on... practically everything. I owe a lot of people replies and suchlike and I swear I'll get to it. My head's just been all over the place lately; I haven't been able to muster up the focus for much more than mindless TV watching and compulsive tumblring.

On the plus side, what this means is that I got back up to date on Sanctuary.


( Some spoilerific and largely disconnected thoughts on season four as a whole. )
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WHY DID NOBODY TELL ME ABOUT SUPERNATURAL 6.15

AND HOW INCREDIBLY GLORIOUS IT IS

(The only way I can stop myself from watching Sherlock before Russ gets home is by watching Supernatural, okay?)

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Okay, so. I am BIG into New Years resolutions. I can't get enough of them. I spend, like, a week before New Years listing all the things I want to accomplish in the coming year and winnowing them down to a manageable selection that covers a wide cross-section of my life. Part of this process, of course, involved reviewing last year's resolutions to see what progress I made on them.

Which is when I realize that one of my resolutions for last year was to finally finish my 25 crossovers table. Which. Uh. I very, very much did not. Also I'm going to be cabining for the last day and a half of the year, so time is a bit tight here.

BUT. There is hope! Each fic must only be a minimum of 100 words. I only have nineteen slots left to fill. I can write 1,900 words in three days, easily! But I could use a little help:

If you go to the table and pick one of the unfilled words, and give me a fandom to cross Stargate SG1 or SGA with (anything I've written, or mentioned, or that you have good reason to believe I might know something about...) I will write you a 100+ word shortfic for that prompt and fandom. Feel free to claim multiple words, or to give me additional prompts (pairings, scenarios, quotes, etc) because honestly that just makes my life easier.

Your help is greatly appreciated!

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I was cleaning out my box of misc childhood paper-based memories today, and I found an entire typewritten page that I think dates to grade one or two, detailing my passionate love for Narnia and all of the feels that I got when all the horses were killed in the last battle. Seriously: “The black dwarfs were the ones who killed them. That was mean. I cried. And I’m criying right noe because just thinking about it makes me cry.” And the whole first part is all about how I’m from Narnia and to judge by what I wrote I think I thought I was Jewel the unicorn? Jewel the time travelling unicorn, apparently, because I also claim to have been ridden by Prince Caspian and killed the white witch? FANDOM. IT STARTS YOUNG. My teacher is all like... what a delightful story? Good, um, expressive language!

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Title: Seven Days in Dreamland
Fandoms: Firefly, Stargate SG1, Supernatural
Wordcount: ~2,800
Rating: PG
Summary: Sam, River, and Daniel have something in common. And for seven days, they dream.
Notes/Disclaimers: 2001 xoverexchange story for skieswideopen. Many thanks as always to my beta, sophia_sol. I scraped this fic together in between exams and final essays, and thanks to her y’all don’t have to put up with my utter inability to handle tenses when tired. All the fandoms belong to their respective creators and not, you know, me. Set between Firefly and Serenity, but with spoilers for the big damn movie. Set in SG1 mid-season-seven, but with implied spoilers for the Ori plotline. Set mid season three for Supernatural, but with implied spoilers for season four/five.

( One the one hand, he knows that in theory, dreams come from one’s own subconscious. If so, he hasn’t the faintest idea what his subconscious is trying to tell him. )

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