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+ Today I had Christmas! my sister is leaving tomorrow and won't be back again for a long time, so we figured we would have Christmas this Sunday, complete with the traditional breakfast (Christmas Morning Coffee Cake, bacon, eggs, oranges/orange juice) and a tree and everything, which turned out really nice. :) We didn't do a lot of presents, but the ones we did were really good - a sweater, a lap stand for the laptop, a water bottle, and my sister got matching rings for all four of us girls. And then later at my grandmother's I got cash and a really nice necklace, and when we stopped by Whole Foods Market on the way home I got myself two boxes of tea, both green. I'm drinking one of them right now, it's quite nice. So yay!
+ School's wrapped up, except for my final in A. P. Gov., which is nice. School doesn't start again for me until January 20th, though I do have to get my books before that.
+ I'm working on the apocabigbang and have quibbles about a few things. I want all of the Pevensies there, and I'm specifically going to be pretty vague about how they got there. And I really want to have Sam and Dean and Castiel, but part of me wants to use this as a midway point for the Dean and Cas we see in 'The End', because it would fit pretty well as a 'break them more!' thing. BUT. I really want Sam in on it. So maybe I'll hint that this happened in the alternate-timeline-that-Zachariah-created too? AGH. I don't know. (Pairings showing up so far in my vague outline. Sam/Lucy/Edmund, Dean/Castiel, Peter/Susan, past!Susan/Dean.)
+ just something I wanted to mention - one of my friends who has watched the old Trek series/movies recently watched XI and was like 'I loved it all except for Uhura - she wasn't RIGHT. she was too sharp!' and I just sat there and went 'wut?' she also objected to the Spock/Uhura relationship because it wasn't in the actual series. which. I dunno, it was just frustrating to me, because everyone (in RL that I've talked to) seems to be bringing Uhura down when she was ridiculously awesome and so on top of things. I loved her! why can't everyone else? :(
+ I've still been neglecting my f-list, which is sad. I'm going to get back on top of things this week, though. I have been reading everything on my f-list, just been really distracted and busy, even after NaNo ended (portfolio! tests! omg for a second there I panicked and was like 'I HAVEN'T TAKEN MY MATH FINAL' but no. no, that was last Thursday. whew!). this week is purely for relaxing and hanging out online with y'all and writing. it will be fabulous!
+ it is rec time! divided up!
show: Criminal Minds! I watched the entire thing straight through this week and the last, because I was knitting a scarf for my sister and I need something to occupy my brain while I knit or I get really, really bored. and I loved it, surprisingly. cop procedural shows have never really been my thing - I've liked the few episodes of Numb3rs I've seen with my mom, who watches it (MAAAAATH), and The Unusuals was ADORABLE, but it was all character-oriented for me, though Numb3rs also had me truly interested in the math. But Criminal Minds is fabulous - great characterization, subtle and quite good acting (s1&2 have Inigo!), psychology (academiaaa!), believable cases, mostly good plotting, just really good. I've enjoyed it the whole way through, and there's a lot of episodes I'd watch again. They're really good at spreading out characterization, not info-dumping, and you can trace various character's evolutions. it was loads of fun. Reid and Morgan are my favorites, though everybody's awesome.
vids: I'm Here To Start A Revolution by all_lois_fan , in which the women of all the Star Trek series and movies are AWESOME. And Legion by ozonebaby and sockkpuppett , in which SPN is told from the demon's point of view in a chillingly gorgeous vid, showing their manipulation of the Winchesters from freaking 1973. includes spoilers through S4 finale.
fics: remember xover_exchange ? well, adaptationdecay was extremely kind and wrote me Derail, a Narnia/Harry Potter crossover in which Susan meets Moaning Myrtle. Alternately hilarious and adorable. also written for me not long ago was A Winter's Tale by misura , a Doctor Who/Narnia crossover that reinforces my belief that OMG SUSAN/THE DOCTOR IS TEH AWESOME. very well written and lovely. I adored it. :D and lastly! A Green Knight In Prince Arthur's Court, or: Boys Are Stupid, Throw Rocks At Them by dollsome . One of the funniest things I've read in months. In which Morgana and Gwen are awesome and Merlin and Arthur are.... bespelled. along with all of the men of Camelot. (and there is a second part too!)
poetry: Marfa by Linda Gregg
With God's body, dreamless and sleeping
while awake. Nothing between me and it.
Immigrant Blues by Li-Young Lee
It's called "Survival Strategies
and the Melancholy of Racial Assimilation."
The Spirit Says, You Are Nothing by Larry Levis
But you were young, and you had
Plenty of time:
Menace of the Skies by Larissa Szporluk
All this time
I've been hanging, the secret tides
of my body staying high.
For Jenn by Andrea Gibson
like a promise to the ocean
that we will always keep moving towards the music
Beyond the Ash Rains by Agha Shahid Ali
I had still not learned the style of nomads:
to walk between the rain drops to keep dry.
Manifesto by Margot Schilpp
Know there are places it isn't wise to go.
Begin again if you must: there are ways
to make up for what you have been before
Boot Theory by Richard Siken
A man takes his sadness down to the river and throws it in the river
but then he’s still left
with the river. A man takes his sadness and throws it away
but then he’s still left with his hands.
Frida Kahlo to Marty McConnell by Marty McConnell
place it
on whatever altar you fashion
with a knife and five cranberries.
Things My Son Should Know After I've Died by Brian Trimboli
My left and right hands were rivals.
In Blackwater Woods by Mary Oliver
everything
I have ever learned
in my lifetime
leads back to this
You Are Jeff by Richard Siken
There are two twins on motorbikes but one is farther up the road, beyond the hairpin turn, or just before it, depending on which twin you are in love with at the time. Do not choose sides yet. It is still to your advantage to remain impartial.
Wound by Corinne Wohlford Taff
If I have loved, it is mostly
because that is what I have
called it.
Plus, y'know, anything here. I just picked my favorites from the ones I've bookmarked since my last poetry rec post.
+ School's wrapped up, except for my final in A. P. Gov., which is nice. School doesn't start again for me until January 20th, though I do have to get my books before that.
+ I'm working on the apocabigbang and have quibbles about a few things. I want all of the Pevensies there, and I'm specifically going to be pretty vague about how they got there. And I really want to have Sam and Dean and Castiel, but part of me wants to use this as a midway point for the Dean and Cas we see in 'The End', because it would fit pretty well as a 'break them more!' thing. BUT. I really want Sam in on it. So maybe I'll hint that this happened in the alternate-timeline-that-Zachariah-created too? AGH. I don't know. (Pairings showing up so far in my vague outline. Sam/Lucy/Edmund, Dean/Castiel, Peter/Susan, past!Susan/Dean.)
+ just something I wanted to mention - one of my friends who has watched the old Trek series/movies recently watched XI and was like 'I loved it all except for Uhura - she wasn't RIGHT. she was too sharp!' and I just sat there and went 'wut?' she also objected to the Spock/Uhura relationship because it wasn't in the actual series. which. I dunno, it was just frustrating to me, because everyone (in RL that I've talked to) seems to be bringing Uhura down when she was ridiculously awesome and so on top of things. I loved her! why can't everyone else? :(
+ I've still been neglecting my f-list, which is sad. I'm going to get back on top of things this week, though. I have been reading everything on my f-list, just been really distracted and busy, even after NaNo ended (portfolio! tests! omg for a second there I panicked and was like 'I HAVEN'T TAKEN MY MATH FINAL' but no. no, that was last Thursday. whew!). this week is purely for relaxing and hanging out online with y'all and writing. it will be fabulous!
+ it is rec time! divided up!
show: Criminal Minds! I watched the entire thing straight through this week and the last, because I was knitting a scarf for my sister and I need something to occupy my brain while I knit or I get really, really bored. and I loved it, surprisingly. cop procedural shows have never really been my thing - I've liked the few episodes of Numb3rs I've seen with my mom, who watches it (MAAAAATH), and The Unusuals was ADORABLE, but it was all character-oriented for me, though Numb3rs also had me truly interested in the math. But Criminal Minds is fabulous - great characterization, subtle and quite good acting (s1&2 have Inigo!), psychology (academiaaa!), believable cases, mostly good plotting, just really good. I've enjoyed it the whole way through, and there's a lot of episodes I'd watch again. They're really good at spreading out characterization, not info-dumping, and you can trace various character's evolutions. it was loads of fun. Reid and Morgan are my favorites, though everybody's awesome.
vids: I'm Here To Start A Revolution by all_lois_fan , in which the women of all the Star Trek series and movies are AWESOME. And Legion by ozonebaby and sockkpuppett , in which SPN is told from the demon's point of view in a chillingly gorgeous vid, showing their manipulation of the Winchesters from freaking 1973. includes spoilers through S4 finale.
fics: remember xover_exchange ? well, adaptationdecay was extremely kind and wrote me Derail, a Narnia/Harry Potter crossover in which Susan meets Moaning Myrtle. Alternately hilarious and adorable. also written for me not long ago was A Winter's Tale by misura , a Doctor Who/Narnia crossover that reinforces my belief that OMG SUSAN/THE DOCTOR IS TEH AWESOME. very well written and lovely. I adored it. :D and lastly! A Green Knight In Prince Arthur's Court, or: Boys Are Stupid, Throw Rocks At Them by dollsome . One of the funniest things I've read in months. In which Morgana and Gwen are awesome and Merlin and Arthur are.... bespelled. along with all of the men of Camelot. (and there is a second part too!)
poetry: Marfa by Linda Gregg
With God's body, dreamless and sleeping
while awake. Nothing between me and it.
Immigrant Blues by Li-Young Lee
It's called "Survival Strategies
and the Melancholy of Racial Assimilation."
The Spirit Says, You Are Nothing by Larry Levis
But you were young, and you had
Plenty of time:
Menace of the Skies by Larissa Szporluk
All this time
I've been hanging, the secret tides
of my body staying high.
For Jenn by Andrea Gibson
like a promise to the ocean
that we will always keep moving towards the music
Beyond the Ash Rains by Agha Shahid Ali
I had still not learned the style of nomads:
to walk between the rain drops to keep dry.
Manifesto by Margot Schilpp
Know there are places it isn't wise to go.
Begin again if you must: there are ways
to make up for what you have been before
Boot Theory by Richard Siken
A man takes his sadness down to the river and throws it in the river
but then he’s still left
with the river. A man takes his sadness and throws it away
but then he’s still left with his hands.
Frida Kahlo to Marty McConnell by Marty McConnell
place it
on whatever altar you fashion
with a knife and five cranberries.
Things My Son Should Know After I've Died by Brian Trimboli
My left and right hands were rivals.
In Blackwater Woods by Mary Oliver
everything
I have ever learned
in my lifetime
leads back to this
You Are Jeff by Richard Siken
There are two twins on motorbikes but one is farther up the road, beyond the hairpin turn, or just before it, depending on which twin you are in love with at the time. Do not choose sides yet. It is still to your advantage to remain impartial.
Wound by Corinne Wohlford Taff
If I have loved, it is mostly
because that is what I have
called it.
Plus, y'know, anything here. I just picked my favorites from the ones I've bookmarked since my last poetry rec post.