Stolen from cosmosmarinerGive me a character and I will tell you my ( Read more... )

melannen over on Dreamwidth has cooked up what has to be the world's most bizarre crossover art: MSNBC pundits in Star Trek, with Keith Olbermann, Capt. Rachel Maddow, and a couple of others flying around on the USS Bill of Rights (sounds like a ship straight out of Andromeda, of the same class as the Continuation of Politics and Salient Debate-- yes, ( Read more... )

One True Squick: The character that you never want to see 'shipped, twitch at the very idea of them and sex or romance in the same sentence, and, now that you're thinking about it, you'd really prefer to never see them cross the screen/page ever again. At all. Period. (Or, maybe not. Maybe they serve a good purpose in the story, they just squick ( Read more... )

I've wanted to comment about RaceFail '09* for weeks, but I always manage to talk myself out of it. Too much work to be done, feel too crappy today, SF/F isn't my genre, feel I've got nothing useful to add that hasn't been said elsewhere and better (still feel this is true), feel white people should shut up and listen. But I've finally found the ( Read more... )

Now that my internet has gone to the "up" side of the up-down-like-indecisive-prostitute dance it's been doing for the last two hours, I can actually post!

( Lyrica ad rant, cut for general gimp bitchiness and lack of relation to Doctor Who )

It sure wouldn't surprise me. The show is funny, approachable, has two hot guys in a slashy relationship so damned obvious that it's pretty much text, not subtext.

Anyone else seen this thing? I predict a deluge of fanfic.

Switching gears a moment to Top Chef, ( (spoilers) )

This sprang from a rant on fanficrants about the overproliferation of vampire fics in non-vampire fandoms. Someone said "it's all Twilight's fault, isn't it?" and someone else said that they hope that Twifans didn't drag some of the stupid concepts from that awful series into their fandom, as the two lead characters wouldn't take too kindly to the "sneak in ( Read more... )

There's nothing like being really, really fired up about a new fandom and having shiny new canon out there and *not being able to get at it ( Read more... )

"Meadowsweet is a rare and expensive herb used in Pagan human sacrifices"? WTF? Are you kidding me? Freaking Filipendula, twits! It's not rare, it's available at any decent garden center. Not even going to touch the "human sacrifice" bullshit. I know it's fiction, but this ep is really obnoxious ( Read more... )

I've been in a fannish mood lately, and especially interested in gaming. Have basically come to the conclusion that a healthy fantasy life is highly useful to facilitate a healthy real life-- or, at least, the former helps keep me from being quite as cranky in the latter.

So darthblitzkrieg and I are trying to go back to the DMing for each other thing, maybe ( Read more... )