Ad hoc, ad loc, and quid pro quo! So little time! So much to know!

Internets, it's been a pretty strange week, so this is gonna be a pretty strange post. Of course, by strange I mean A.D.D.

1) First, some fic recs:
- Easy to say but harder to feel this way by noelia_g - Brad/Nate - A FBI/undercover!AU featuring Brad and Nate playing house in, as Brad puts it, "ABC fucking Family hell on earth". Only, it turns out they're not playing as much as they thought after all. Enjoyable chemistry and tension going on, and interactions I could actually see playing out in my head. Plus Ray makes an appearance as his usual awesome, tech-wizard self, but that's just a bonus. Generally speaking, the writing is such that you can't help but root for the boys to wind up together.

- The End Of The Line by romanticalgirl - Brad/Nate (implied) - A very thought-provoking conversation piece between Brad and Nate when Brad comes back from the war. Great for the politically minded, but generally intriguing insights into their characters as well.

- Five Times People Realized Brad And Nate Were Together by irisgirl12000 - Brad/Nate (implied-ish) - What it says on the tin, basically. Very subtle and, in one or two places, just plain sweet. Generally, it seems like a pretty plausible view of how the boys navigate around DADT. (Also, Reporter's bit is hilarious, y'all will see what I mean)

- Falling Apart To Half Time by miss_begonia - Brad/Nate - Pretty much the best dance!AU I've ever come across (I'm something of a closet dance wonk, so these things are relevant to my interests). Very enjoyable sexual tension/chemistry, creative use of side characters (Poke has "Latin hips", y'all), intriguing song list (.zip file of songs used in the fic is offered at the very end), this has pretty much everything.

2) What The Sugar-Frosted Fuck Is Wrong With People? (Part 1) and Part 2. Also known as Why Hanging Out On ontd_political Is Bad For Your Mental Health.

3) The new GK kink meme (bonus points to whoever finds my prompt :D) I've said it before and I'll say it again: there are some sick, talented weirdos in our fandom and I LOVE IT. I hope they never leave <3

4) sgrio posted this little gem, which I've affectionately christened The Many, Many Reasons Stephenie Meyer's Editor Needs To Be Shot Into The Sun. Especially humorous for the literarily inclined and the grammar wonks of the internet.

5) A humorous conversation with Le Boyfriend:

Le Boyfriend: So I notice the nursing majors are traveling in larger packs than usual lately.
Me: They're clearly massing (for some nursing revolution, obviously)
Le Boyfriend: So...if enough nurses mass in one place, would they all congeal into a doctor?
Me: ...



Maybe I'm just especially sleep-deprived (you know, to that point where everything is hilarious) or it was a "you had to be there" sort of deal, but I thought that was fantastic. Stuff like this is absolutely why I keep him around.


Anyway, I'm sorry I disappeared for so long. I had a long, immensely headache-inducing issue with my computer (the wall charger died, so I couldn't use my laptop for a while), a mind-boggling shuffle of school work (including weather-related acts of God!), and just...life happened. To be more precise, college life happened, in the sense that it hit me like a fucking truck. Things are better now for the moment, so I should be a bit more active now.

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"Only the educated are free..." -- Epictetus

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Cheers.

P.S. - I'm saving the True Blood write-ups to post in one block next week, since the season finale is this Sunday. I promise I haven't forgotten them! /o\

Internets, I officially hate my neighbors. Two noise complaints later, I woke up at about 8:00 this morning and was shuffling around Le Flat (waiting for the caffeine to kick in), and what am I confronted with? The ever familiar, ever rage-inducing BOOMF BOOMF BOOMF BOOMF BOOMF of my neighbors' speakers (from above this time).

Who honestly needs to blast their shitty, generic R&B at EIGHT FIFTEEN IN THE GODDAMN MORNING?! I ask you. Is this trendy? Did I miss something?

Ugh. Anyway, since either a) my R.A. hasn't done anything, b) the neighbors are exceptionally asshole-ish stubborn, or c) some combination of both, I am now plotting revenge. Mostly in the form of putting my tiny stereo on the highest shelf I can find in Le Flat with the speakers pointed at the ceiling and blasting the most terrifying death metal I can find (said tiny stereo is shockingly loud). But internets, I'm torn over choices in death metal based on what I have, which is where y'all come in:

[Poll #1613168]

I know this comes across as really fucking immature, but god damn it I can't take a whole semester of this, I need to nip it in the bud.

In the mean time, stay tuned for True Blood write-ups later today/tonight (omg the season is almost over, when did that happen O_o)... Ack! Gotta run, class is starting soon



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"Big results require big ambitions..." -- Heraclitus

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Cheers.

ETA: I FAIL AT BIRTHDAYS YET AGAIN fjkldshakjlhfgdjklrahg

Um.

Happy (belated) birthday to liketheroad, feminesque, and christinareborn -- hope y'all had a good time <3

Internets, there is a cicada (or some other variety of chirpy/shrill thing) on the wall just outside my window and IT WILL NOT SHUT THE FUCK UP. And I am without sleeping pills, so it startles me awake every time it decides to start back up again.

Plus the people below me just started playing loud, crappy bass-heavy even as I write this entry. Bear in mind that it's approximately one o'clock in the morning here -- normally, this wouldn't be a problem for me, but I am actually trying to rest up so I won't zombie my way through my SEVEN A.M. THURSDAY MORNING CLASS.

So, basically, this is me right about now:


with just a little bit of


If all this starts up again tomorrow night, internets, I will show all parties involved whole new terrifying vistas of suffering. Why worry? Because when I get sleep-deprived, I get creative *eyetwitch*

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"All life is an experiment..." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Cheers.

Welp, I'm back in collegeland. It hasn't been a great day though:

1) New internet/cable service is sucking bigtime

2) Neighbor below us keeps playing loud, bass-heavy music (Le Boyfriend, patient as he is, is even contemplating a noise complaint)

3) Just got an email from my professor about my new text books (sent a few hours after I ordered said textbooks). My almost-$300 Spanish course bundle from the college bookstore is not correct for the web class (which I am taking).

They listed the wrong books. The wrong, very expensive books.



This would have been useful to know A FEW GODDAMN DAYS AGO fhjldajgiluhilrthngijjfhjgkfdlhagjklfhdiuahg

....*ahem*

Also, have another meme (I've just been in a meme mood lately). Gacked this one from jean_iris:

RULES
1) Post a list of up to 20 books/movies/anime/TV shows/video games/bands etc. that you've had an obsessive fannish love or interest in at some time in your life.
2) Have your f-list guess your favourite pairings from each item.
3) When someone guesses correctly, strikethrough the item and put the name of your favorite pairing next to it.

You can guess as many as you like, there are no limits.

1. Generation Kill Brad/Nate - their_darkness
2. Harry Potter Harry/Draco - katherine_lupin
3. Glee Will/Emma - katherine_lupin
4. True Blood Eric/Sookie - britticism
5. OZ Keller/Beecher - southoffebruary
6. House, M.D. House/Wilson - southoffebruary
7. Buffy: The Vampire Slayer tie between Spike/Buffy and Willow/Tara - cosmicriver
8. Angel Fred/Wesley - southoffebruary
9. Repo! The Genetic Opera
10. Supernatural Dean/Castiel (sorry, Cas haters of my flist, blame kasiowy :D) - ladyseraph_756

Hint: I have many ships from these fandoms, and the ones listed on my profile aren't necessarily my favorites. Good luck!

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"Ideas control the world..." -- James A. Garfield

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Cheers.

Warnings/Spoilers: M/M sex, Angst, drunken behavior, consensual giving of ones virginity, interracial sexual intimacy.

Oh for fuck's sake, Supernatural fandom, it feels like we JUST HAD THIS DISCUSSION (it was even big bang again). Bigotry is bad, mmkay? I...I don't even know what to say at this juncture, so I'll just be over here beating my head against the wall.



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"There is moderation even in excess..." -- Benjamin Disraeli

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Cheers.

Dear God, how has it been three days already? Shit, time flies indeed.

Once again, not much has been happening 'round these parts so I just didn't feel there was anything to report. Aside from Le Boyfriend's continuing efforts to break me of my hermit-like tendencies (or at least lessen them). But anyway...

1) Went to Le Boyfriend's mother's birthday dinner at a hibachi place last night (think Benihana but off-brand). Opted out of letting the chef fling a bit of fried rice at my face in hopes of landing it in my mouth, as those usually hit me in the eye almost every time, but it was otherwise a pretty good night. I didn't even mind being squished up next to perfect strangers! (Occupational hazard of hibachi joints, yo)

2) This made me so angry I had to put the computer down and do something else for a while. Then again, mental disorders (especially stigmas toward and naysayers against them) are something of a touchy subject for me, so I suppose I brought the rage on myself. NONETHELESS.

3) Have also been watching a really absurd amount of Six Feet Under and Invader Zim with Le Boyfriend recently. Amusement ensued when we realized that the mother (Ruth) in SFU is the same woman who played Bootsie (the meek, over-religious maid) in Die Mommie Die. More for the contrast in character, really, but we'll also probably laugh our heads off over it when we get to the two episodes with Stark in them. Die Mommie Die reunion! Except SFU came out first by two years...SFU reunion then! \o/

...holy crap, the A.D.D. is strong in this post. Um. Anyway.

Stay tuned for a True Blood write-up, among other things. Things will probably get a bit more regular 'round these parts when school starts back up again -- I haven't decided yet if this will be out of boredom or out of school forcing my mind to unfuck itself back into something remotely resembling organized.

In any case, that's all I've got for now. Have a Courage Wolf!

FYI: This is so one of my new missions in life -- even if I have to go to a local midnight showing instead of the premiere

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"Land really is the best art..." -- Andy Warhol

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Cheers.

P.S. - Le Boyfriend just told me about a joke macro involving the Legend of Vuvuzelda (yes, a direct spoof of Ocarina of Time). I LOVE IT.

P.P.S. - In talking about World Cup stuff, Le Boyfriend also posed an interesting question that I now pose to the soccer wonks of my flist:

Was there some incident a while back that led to a country's team being pulled out of the Cup (by their country's leader) for two years/series/sessions? If so, what happened and what country was it?

Alrighty, so Les Olds are back from vacation, which means that my house-sitting duties are concluded and thus my journal activity should pick back up a bit now. Still not back to every single day yet because I'm trying to break myself out of compulsive hermit-dom, but it's an improvement nonetheless. For now, a few things:

1) True Blood Episode 3x06, ( 'I Got A Right To Sing The Blues' )

2) True Blood Episode 3x07, ( 'Hitting the Ground' )

Finally, I come bearing a meme I gacked from luvinjcnjt

1. Pick 10 of your favourite movies
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Fill in the film title once it's guessed.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search functions

( This ought to be fun )

Argh, I only have two(ish) weeks of summer left. I have a hilariously easy schedule this fall, I've been bitching about feeling useless here all summer, and yet still I don't want to go back. Oh well, at least it's supposed to rain in the next couple of days.

ETA: Also, a happy (actually on time for once) birthday to queene91 and eviinsanemonkey!

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"Beware the barrenness of a busy life..." -- Socrates

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And I'm honestly at a loss for words. When the credits rolled, I literally had this look on my face



And then actually said "What the fuck?" out loud (before I remembered that it's about quarter-'til-godawful o'clock here).

I...I just...how the hell is the show gonna go on after this? I know there's a sixth season in the works, but what's gonna...I don't even...GAHgjdfklhjzglhilthi. I give up, still too gobsmacked to write a coherent post.

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"Sin is whatever obscures the soul..." -- Andre Gide

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Cheers.

* - Yes, I'll probably go back and do write-ups for the necessary episodes, even though I'm not entirely sure when this will take place.

Ahoy there, internets! I come bearing the news that I'm almost done with my Supernatural write-ups and the exciting (well, if you're me) announcement that my muse might finally be starting to unstick a bit. I've been having flickers of ideas lately, which seems like a good sign.

But first, many thanks to idrilfinial and ladyseraph_756 for sending me Dessert Waffles <3 Like everyone else, they made me hungry as hell (but I loved them anyway).

Also, in an amusing anecdote of the "LOL my life" variety, I got a mass email this morning from the president of my university to tell me that some miscreant hacked one of the servers that Health Services uses. Addresses, prescription numbers, social security numbers and a host of other sensitive information (except credit card info, thank God) for 27,000 students/staff/faculty got out to some unknown party.

My reaction:



Le Boyfriend's reaction:



Oh, the perks of higher education.

Anyway, I'll be off here in the corner finishing my Supernatural write-ups. I also finally persuaded Le Boyfriend to watch Generation Kill all the way through (which we're doing as I type this), so I'll have to post an AAR of that later :D How go things for y'all? Spam me, talk about your days, whatever strikes anyone's fancy. I'm feeling chatty.

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"Photography helps people to see...." -- Berenice Abbott

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Cheers.

Before I get on with the True Blood action, I'd just like to issue a big honkin' "Thank you" for the outpouring of support in my last post. I was touched beyond words and y'all made me legit smile in real life more than once and just...*sigh* as internet friends go (or friends period), you guys are the best. Bar none. Full stop. Thanks for bearing with the mopey/emo/teenager post


<3

Anyway, let's get on with it:

1) True Blood ( Episode 3x03, 'It Hurts Me Too' )

2) True Blood ( Episode 3x04, '9 Crimes' )

3) True Blood ( Episode 3x05, 'Trouble' )

I have such a love-hate relationship with this show, y'all. It's so cracky and ridiculous and yet completely addictive (mostly because it teases me with a good episode for every LOLQUOI? episode or two). There's also the ASkars factor, but that sort of goes hand in hand with the crack aspect, at least where addictive potential is concerned. Stay tuned for a Supernatural post, and thanks for y'all's time; you guys know you rock, right?



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"The desire to write grows with writing..." -- Desiderius Erasmus

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Cheers.

P.S. - I may have a surprise for you guys very soon. Today's quote is very much related ;)