this might be the place

I swear I'm not dead or anything. I've been poked by a few needles and sneezed through two boxes of tissues and become far too emotionally invested in our stock of Sudafed, but I'm otherwise okay. So let's play catch-up! How've you all been? What incredible romance and intrigue have I missed? I've been a terrible LJ friend and also incredibly bored (have you noticed that Spike only plays CSI marathons when you have other things to watch? I sense a deep evil in that station), feel free to babble at me. Also:

Drop me a comment, and I'll tell you the first thing that comes into my mind when I think of you, whether it makes sense or not.

Or, if you are afraid I will answer with NINJA MONKIES!!!, make some icon requests! :D

This is unprecedented for eleven o'clock on a Saturday morning. I've already been up for a ridiculous number of hours, which is so very not like me, eaten pizza for breakfast (delicious and nutritious!) and fumbled my way through the first few hundred words of my happy fic. What's going on? I don't know. Possibly I've slipped into an alternate dimension. To combat the weirdness, I'm reposting a small comment ficlet written yesterday for melloniel, whose battle with her recliner was inspiring.

Untitled Chair Ficlet
McKay/Sheppard, R ~620 words

( The department store was vast and baffling, and the two of them had spent the better part of that morning and afternoon blindly stumbling from one section to another, tossing whisks and shower curtains into their overflowing cart and arguing over the shade of blue the area rug for the front room should be. )

Annnd, here's a small bunch of icons, mostly of people making amusing or shocked faces. Because that's so how I roll. Twenty eight all together: eighteen John, four Rodney/David, four Teyla, one Elizabeth, one McShep.



( Mmmm, faces )

In other news! I've decided to go on a movie binge this weekend, try to catch up on all the culture I missed growing up in the nineties. So far I've watched Singin' in the Rain and Who Framed Roger Rabbit - as, um, I'm sure you all noticed yesterday - and right now I'm twenty minutes into The Maltese Falcon. What else should be on my list, do you think?

*hoardes popcorn and blankets*

Julie and I have been flailing sporadically about last night's episode almost the entire day, so it's really no wonder it was so easy for her to elbow me into making icons. Boys! I can't even think about it for long without getting incoherent and flapping my arms like a particularly uncoordinated bat.

( twelve spoilery icons )

Also, Back to the Future parts II and III have been playing on HBOF all day, and even though the future fashions make me want to cry, I have dutifully watched them both each time and thought fondly of John Sheppard wearing a reflective rainbow baseball cap. Please tell me I'm not the only one who desperately, desperately wants a time travel fic wherein John gets to use all he learned from Marty McFly to save the day while Rodney bitches and groans and asks the sky why he's been cursed with an idiot for a best friend.

kashmir1 and I watched Scanners 2 last night - no, I don't know why either. Except, wait! I do! Damn you, DHew.

It was a pretty gross movie, and I could have seriously done without all the bubbling flesh and...things, but at least there were a few high points. AKA David Hewlett. trinityofone's puppy ficlet means so much more to me now. The relevant bits of the movie (or, well, what I consider relevant anyway, meaning: kissing, puppies, and telekinetic sex) are uploaded here and here, both .mp4 files. Prepare yourself for young David's high, adorable voice, huge blue eyes, and, yes, feathered hair. Also:


Yeah.
On a related note, it has been brought to my attention by concerned parties that I make way more Joe icons than David icons. And that this makes David a sad panda. So! A small batch of David icons with the promise of more if anyone has caps they'd like done. Nudge nudge, help me out here?

( Sixteen DHew icons from various movies and tv shows, including Traders and Scanners )

Probably not going to be around much for the next few days due to me being a sopping wet blanket right now and not wanting to bring everybody down; here's a tiny batchlet of icons as a going away present. Twenty icons: four stock, seven John Sheppard, three Rodney McKay, two McShep, and one each of Teyla and Ronon (with variations).


( An education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on. )

I'm in the mood for fic in which John and Rodney are Meant For Each Other and their Love Transcends All and, you know, maybe they recognize each other from Past Lives or Alternate Realities, shut up. Gimme recs, please? Here, I'll even bribe you.



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( And a small smattering of icons! )

I swear one day I will actually get completely caught up on comments. Until then, some spam:

( Some SGA recs, mostly McShep )

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( sixteen sga/sga cast icons! )

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From: unamaga
Sent: Thu 10/25/07 3:47 AM
To: schneestern
Subject: OH MY GOD

OH MY GOD I JUST HAD A THOUGHT AND IT WOKE ME.

Remember that lovely Joe/John we did where John was watching movies?

( mckay/sheppard ficlet, pg-13, ~500 words )

Today I cleaned my room. It was kind of scary. I found the petition for gay marriage I tried to concoct when I was thirteen. Ahaha, it had, like, ten signatures on it - two of which belonged to my parents - because I was too shy to go up and ask people I didn't know to sign. Oh, junior high, I don't miss you at all. Speaking of embarrassing memories, I also found my two "official" *NSYNC books and the two made-up tests I wrote for my friend when I decided to teach him Trigonometry a year early. Nice to know my dorkitude has been ingrained from the start.

Also, I'm kind of in an iconning mood right now. Any quotes you all want iconned? Here are the six random ones I've done so far:




Yay pastels! Yay Joss Whedon! Yay!

Yesterday was kind of a wash: I didn't get to see Barack. Apparently something like 25,000 people showed up - which wasn't exactly surprising so much as very, very loud, to the point where Lee and I couldn't hear him speaking at all. Even the rap music (YES, there was RAP MUSIC because Barack is totally down with that, yo) was muffled and sort of incomprehensible. There was an upside in the fact that I got to laugh at a bunch of kids from NYU who were trying to mosh at a political rally. This is absoLUTELY the time and place for a mosh pit, guys! Way to go! Yeah.

Anyway, Lee and I ambled down to The Strand (when we realized it would be more fulfilling to watch the speech on youtube) and bookgasmed happily over the specials in fiction, and then we got some gelato in Little Italy; so, all in all, not a complete waste of subway fare. Oh, well. He'll be around again, and maybe this time I'll try to get there fifteen thousand hours early so I can be closer to the platform.

But tonight promises to be better! Stargate Atlantis! I've seen the leaked version already, and I'll miss the Bang Man, but I think it's going to be a whole different experience to see it with everything put together right. I'm excited! *does a little dance* Who else is gonna be watching it? Anyone on the east coast want to babble through it with me on AIM or something?

Weekly moosic blob:
[Snippet of Conversion Commentary] Not really music per say, but oh my god Joe Flanigan and David Hewlett are precious! Slapfight!
[Pink Martini - Bolero] Obviously not theirs, but they make it jazzy and smooth. <3
[The Clash - London Calling] If you don't know this song already I may have to cry.
[The Tragically Hip - Poets] I don't know if I've put this one up before, but whatever. So. FUN.

Thirty Three Icons
Fifteen Stock Photos
Nine Barack Obama
Six Panic! at the Disco
Three Stargate: Atlantis




( I am shocked by this unforseen turn of events! )