I don't even try to justify my sunglasses
So Vienna Teng, on her Twitter account, offered to call and thank anyone who donated money to a Haiti fund. Which I did, in support of ontd_startrek's UNICEF fund. So I sent her my number, and she CALLED ME. We chatted about rollerskating and the way it's hard to have routines while touring and our mutual proclivities to spend all day in front of the computer when we get the chance, and oh my god my face is just about ready to split clean in two, I'm grinning that hard. (Not to mention, she remembered who I was without me identifying myself, oh god I really am such a groupie.) So that's what's going on over here.
Also, congratulations to Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer, who are getting married. Good for them. I've been a fan of both of theirs for a while now, and they seem really happy, and I am all about happiness in real life.
So today I have:
- made a playlist of unrepentantly British music
- written fic
- made a playlist for said fic
- geeked out on Twitter
- mourned Captain Britain & MI-13
- championed S.W.O.R.D., comic of awesome (it doesn't deserve to go the route of Captain Britain! Save S.W.O.R.D.!)
- cooked sausage! (Portobello and chicken. Can I get an OM NOM NOM?)
- avoided calling my parents to discuss financial business
- not gone back to bed, despite my great wish to do so
- listened to a lot of Florence + the Machine, music of amazing
- made bad earthquake puns.
Speaking of bad earthquake puns:
I was reading about Pat Robertson and HAITI MADE A PACT WITH THE DEVIL or whatever the hell he was on about, and talking with my housemate Brianna about how people will blame natural disasters on God punishing their group of choice.
Brianna: ...And when San Francisco has an earthquake, people will be all, "GOD IS SMITING THE GAYS"... never mind that, y'know --
Iambic: --the city's built on a FAULTLINE. GOD SMITING THE SHITTY BUILDERS.
Brianna: Yeah, that wasn't great planning on their part.
Iambic: I guess everyone's got their faults.
YEEEEEEEEAH
This is basically what I've been expecting, but it also looks like Marvel is finally cutting excess fat on their Avengers titles. I hope this means we'll have one team of Avengers again, and I really hope that Steve Rogers ends up on it. Come on, Marvel, justify my preference. JUSTIFY ME.
I'm slowly but surely catching up on Criminal Minds, which is going to elicit a groan from Smoke because she wants me to catch up with Supernatural. I don't want to catch up with Supernatural. I love the characters and the plot and the show, but I can't deal with a certain character death that occurs in the latest episode that I was spoiled for, and I don't know if I can make myself watch the show, knowing what's coming. I'll watch it eventually, hopefully. But I'm still not ready. I don't have a similar excuse for Dollhouse. Or Flashforward. (Or Doctor Who, for that matter; I'm excited for Eleven.) Maybe catching up with Criminal Minds will get me back into watching television. Or maybe White Collar's return will.
In other fandom news, the Sherlock Holmes Kink Meme chatroom is full of amazing people, who create things like the Cageverse (which basically does what it says on the tin) and the Holmes Big Bang. Okay, both of those were partially me. As I was saying. They've gone and sherlocked me into writing a modern AU. And you can thank Merlin fandom for the slapstick comedy direction in which it's headed. This will, however, have to take back seat to the Big Bang and my help_haiti offers. But I've been good about not signing up to exchanges! I've already forced myself to pass on two.
In conclusion, this thing has turned massive, Twitter is a pretty awesome resource for tracking the internet, and 2010 is getting off to a geeky start indeed.
Also, congratulations to Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer, who are getting married. Good for them. I've been a fan of both of theirs for a while now, and they seem really happy, and I am all about happiness in real life.
So today I have:
- made a playlist of unrepentantly British music
- written fic
- made a playlist for said fic
- geeked out on Twitter
- mourned Captain Britain & MI-13
- championed S.W.O.R.D., comic of awesome (it doesn't deserve to go the route of Captain Britain! Save S.W.O.R.D.!)
- cooked sausage! (Portobello and chicken. Can I get an OM NOM NOM?)
- avoided calling my parents to discuss financial business
- not gone back to bed, despite my great wish to do so
- listened to a lot of Florence + the Machine, music of amazing
- made bad earthquake puns.
Speaking of bad earthquake puns:
I was reading about Pat Robertson and HAITI MADE A PACT WITH THE DEVIL or whatever the hell he was on about, and talking with my housemate Brianna about how people will blame natural disasters on God punishing their group of choice.
Brianna: ...And when San Francisco has an earthquake, people will be all, "GOD IS SMITING THE GAYS"... never mind that, y'know --
Iambic: --the city's built on a FAULTLINE. GOD SMITING THE SHITTY BUILDERS.
Brianna: Yeah, that wasn't great planning on their part.
Iambic: I guess everyone's got their faults.
YEEEEEEEEAH
This is basically what I've been expecting, but it also looks like Marvel is finally cutting excess fat on their Avengers titles. I hope this means we'll have one team of Avengers again, and I really hope that Steve Rogers ends up on it. Come on, Marvel, justify my preference. JUSTIFY ME.
I'm slowly but surely catching up on Criminal Minds, which is going to elicit a groan from Smoke because she wants me to catch up with Supernatural. I don't want to catch up with Supernatural. I love the characters and the plot and the show, but I can't deal with a certain character death that occurs in the latest episode that I was spoiled for, and I don't know if I can make myself watch the show, knowing what's coming. I'll watch it eventually, hopefully. But I'm still not ready. I don't have a similar excuse for Dollhouse. Or Flashforward. (Or Doctor Who, for that matter; I'm excited for Eleven.) Maybe catching up with Criminal Minds will get me back into watching television. Or maybe White Collar's return will.
In other fandom news, the Sherlock Holmes Kink Meme chatroom is full of amazing people, who create things like the Cageverse (which basically does what it says on the tin) and the Holmes Big Bang. Okay, both of those were partially me. As I was saying. They've gone and sherlocked me into writing a modern AU. And you can thank Merlin fandom for the slapstick comedy direction in which it's headed. This will, however, have to take back seat to the Big Bang and my help_haiti offers. But I've been good about not signing up to exchanges! I've already forced myself to pass on two.
In conclusion, this thing has turned massive, Twitter is a pretty awesome resource for tracking the internet, and 2010 is getting off to a geeky start indeed.