you're like a candle, your flame slowly fading
Holy fuck, it's cold outside.
*hates*
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Sigh. I woke up this morning wanting to write girl!Sam but that generally means porn and I am not yet comfortable busting out the porn at New Job. Plus, I do have actual work to get done first. Heh.
There was TV last night!
Chuck
I did not expect them to get Orion out of the way so quickly, especially since I suspected Orion would be Chuck's dad. I mean, it's possible he's not dead, but that looked like a pretty definitive helicopter explosion.
I hope this means that Chuck will get some actual spy training now - some self-defense, at least. I mean, there are a million ways for that to go wrong and be funny.
I thought the Burbank v. Beverly Hills showdown was hilarious. Jeff's office! Bwah! Though I was sad at the lack of Anna again.
The Mummy! I enjoyed his professionalism. And I loved Casey's, "I always have a gun." I bet you do, Casey. I bet you do. And "The 80s are over, Casey." Hee! "She's tiny."
One thing I am a little tired of is Chuck always hearing the wrong part of the conversation, so he always hears Sarah say the thing that will cause him maximum angst, but never hears how she doesn't really mean it or whatever. It's a lame plot device you shouldn't pull out very often, and the show has used it more than once. Otoh, if it gets us some SIX I am okay with that. Every show could use some SIX to liven it up a little. Heh.
They are really kicking what little mytharc they've got into gear now and so far I am enjoying it. (I still wish Lena Olin would be cast as Chuck and Ellie's absent spy!mommy. That would be EPIC WIN.)
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Castle
I enjoy Nathan doing his thing and his relationship with his daughter and his mother. I enjoy the flirty banter, and the not too terrible use of Manhattan, but seriously, they should hire someone who has at least worked on a good cop show - if not someone who was an actual cop at some point - because man, their police work is sloppy and painful to watch. Otherwise, this is a cute show that doesn't require much thinking, and can be on in the background while I check my flist and do other things.
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I posted a story yesterday! A coda for 4.16:
I thought the ocean (the ocean thought nothing)
Supernatural; Dean and Sam; pg; coda for 4.16; 1,340 words
Dean wonders, not for the first time, how much of a masochist he actually is.
It's not exactly what I envisioned when I started. I was going to start it with Pam's funeral, but then I couldn't decide whether she'd have a real civilian funeral or if they'd just salt and burn the body. I kind of wanted Sam and Dean to have to confront her family and friends, but then that seemed like an awful lot of figuring out original characters etc. Then it was going to be folded in as a flashback - the nurse being old enough to be Dean's mother was going to trigger that - but then Sam was there, and the story compacted into a single scene, which I am okay with.
Really, there were two things I wanted to get into it - Sam telling Castiel off (and Dean's ambiguous response to that), and Dean keeping track of the color of his own and Sam's eyes. Oh, and Dean's feeling of exhaustion, and how he's still trying to spark up occasionally - mainly because it's an instinctive response by now - but he can't really manage it.
Anyway, I like how it turned out, though I am still a little sad I decided against using Dean brushes his teeth. Sam hovers. as the summary. I would read a story with that summary, because it amuses me, but I wasn't sure anyone else would. Heh.
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Okay, work now. Maybe writing later.
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*hates*
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Sigh. I woke up this morning wanting to write girl!Sam but that generally means porn and I am not yet comfortable busting out the porn at New Job. Plus, I do have actual work to get done first. Heh.
There was TV last night!
Chuck
I did not expect them to get Orion out of the way so quickly, especially since I suspected Orion would be Chuck's dad. I mean, it's possible he's not dead, but that looked like a pretty definitive helicopter explosion.
I hope this means that Chuck will get some actual spy training now - some self-defense, at least. I mean, there are a million ways for that to go wrong and be funny.
I thought the Burbank v. Beverly Hills showdown was hilarious. Jeff's office! Bwah! Though I was sad at the lack of Anna again.
The Mummy! I enjoyed his professionalism. And I loved Casey's, "I always have a gun." I bet you do, Casey. I bet you do. And "The 80s are over, Casey." Hee! "She's tiny."
One thing I am a little tired of is Chuck always hearing the wrong part of the conversation, so he always hears Sarah say the thing that will cause him maximum angst, but never hears how she doesn't really mean it or whatever. It's a lame plot device you shouldn't pull out very often, and the show has used it more than once. Otoh, if it gets us some SIX I am okay with that. Every show could use some SIX to liven it up a little. Heh.
They are really kicking what little mytharc they've got into gear now and so far I am enjoying it. (I still wish Lena Olin would be cast as Chuck and Ellie's absent spy!mommy. That would be EPIC WIN.)
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Castle
I enjoy Nathan doing his thing and his relationship with his daughter and his mother. I enjoy the flirty banter, and the not too terrible use of Manhattan, but seriously, they should hire someone who has at least worked on a good cop show - if not someone who was an actual cop at some point - because man, their police work is sloppy and painful to watch. Otherwise, this is a cute show that doesn't require much thinking, and can be on in the background while I check my flist and do other things.
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I posted a story yesterday! A coda for 4.16:
I thought the ocean (the ocean thought nothing)
Supernatural; Dean and Sam; pg; coda for 4.16; 1,340 words
Dean wonders, not for the first time, how much of a masochist he actually is.
It's not exactly what I envisioned when I started. I was going to start it with Pam's funeral, but then I couldn't decide whether she'd have a real civilian funeral or if they'd just salt and burn the body. I kind of wanted Sam and Dean to have to confront her family and friends, but then that seemed like an awful lot of figuring out original characters etc. Then it was going to be folded in as a flashback - the nurse being old enough to be Dean's mother was going to trigger that - but then Sam was there, and the story compacted into a single scene, which I am okay with.
Really, there were two things I wanted to get into it - Sam telling Castiel off (and Dean's ambiguous response to that), and Dean keeping track of the color of his own and Sam's eyes. Oh, and Dean's feeling of exhaustion, and how he's still trying to spark up occasionally - mainly because it's an instinctive response by now - but he can't really manage it.
Anyway, I like how it turned out, though I am still a little sad I decided against using Dean brushes his teeth. Sam hovers. as the summary. I would read a story with that summary, because it amuses me, but I wasn't sure anyone else would. Heh.
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Okay, work now. Maybe writing later.
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