*sigh* Oh, procedural drama.... you seem to be composed of equal parts People Being Idiots and Dramatic Shouting ( Read more... )

Random stages of mental static watching this particular comic romantic pairing ( Read more... )

Greetings, everybody, from Honolulu, where I will be participating in a Japan-focused academic seminar for three weeks, and then doing independent research and beach time for a week ( Read more... )

Ok, guys? Seriously, if you are not watching "Grimm," you need to get yourselves over to Hulu or your source of choice and check it out. It is almost entirely fantastic*, with moments of sheer bloody awesome (sometimes the "bloody" is more literal than other times), including a scene last night that resulted in massive squee-noises, ( Read more... )

Right, so, very busy of... well, seminar things. Which involve reading. And lectures. And so on. It is all fantastically cool, and I can't wait to get a chance to actually use it. Meanwhile, there are some things that just ....must be shared ( Read more... )

In my continuing quest to get work done at ridiculous hours fail at resisting shiny narratives watch "Criminal Minds" in syndication, I keep ending up watching the second part of any given pair of episodes. Yeah; syndication order is weird. Although sometimes, as in this case, the two episodes are connected, but not immediately following one ( Read more... )

Hmm. I was just in the middle of a post about plot-convenient stupid, when the second part of a two-part episode attempted to correct said plot-convenient stupid. I am not entirely sure how I feel about the attempted correction.

( Spoilery discussion here )

Ok, I have been looking forward to the "Iron Chef America: Super Chef Battle" for... well, pretty much since they started promoting it ( Read more... )

My brain, ladies and gentlefolk, will try to turn pretty much anything into a story. Seriously. Ask anybody I've ever talked fic and/or fanfic with.

And my brain does not particularly care if the original inspiration was _supposed_ to generate story ideas or not.

( For example )