Ya boy is back

It was sort of a mini vacation. I wore smashing dresses, ate omakase sushi (my favourite was the sea urchin/tuna tartare, the monkfish liver, and the bonito), and got new earrings.

I'm now on Ghost Story in the Dresden Files.

I've begun writing That Interquel (which will not exceed 20k words).

Tonight, I watched Lasting Impressions in ( Read more... )

Reading the Poppy War trilogy felt like reading morbid wikipedia articles when I was a kid. I don't mean it in a bad way, but after a certain point you just sort of detach yourself a bit from the subject matter. That's not to say the books weren't good. They were. The prose got the job done without belabouring the point or being too brief. The ( Read more... )

 I liked it, and there's value in sharing Gawain's uncertainty at what happens next with the audience by ways of leaving the ending ambiguous, BUT. I still wanted a greater sense of finality in the ending. The ambiguous ending was absolutely the correct choice, but I don't have to be happy about it. 4/5

Also I forgot to tuck my shirt in when I was ( Read more... )

So the Lee/Kara post-canon fic is officially a go now.

But also, what would be the best command to give to a Kuo-toa fish pope to prevent a TPK on Saturday?

Blasphemize's a good, safe option. Autoexcommunicate gets the point across, but it's got too many syllables. Baptism would work for regular pope, but this one's a fish... And if it's too ( Read more... )

Okay so I had a dream about this girl I'm acquainted with. But it was exactly that kind of dream. We were working in this post-apocalyptic factory, made out on a grotty futon, and then she told me that she loved me, and I just totally froze up. Didn't know what to do. Just kissed her and skedaddled.

After that I dreamed I was rampaging through a ( Read more... )

Yay! And, just a few weeks til my designation finishes processing...

I have some new creative pursuits on the horizon.

First of all, the BSG finale WRECKED ME BIGTIME. I started crying when the opera house dreams started aligning with the present, except that everyone was wearing TACTICAL VESTS and I couldn't handle the CONTRAST and the SOUNDTRACK ( Read more... )

Why is it whenever I dream of public toilets, they're either out of service, dirty, or don't have working doors??

Must I live in terror that Gaius Baltar is going to jump out from behind the sink? Or that the opposing stall door will slowly swing open, revealing Starbuck as she peruses a magazine?

Please, say it ain't so.

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I dreamed that I'd booked a hotel room in the midwest for a conference. My friend had joined me for the last night - they were passing through on a trip of their own, after their reservation fell through. Nothing untoward happened that night, because they're a chivalrous type. In the morning, I made hotel room coffee and we drank it on the balcony ( Read more... )

Just watched E2S10 of BSG and holy shit, I was warned it was a three parter, but now I have to watch the other two otherwise I won't be able to fall asleep tonight, or read the episode synopses on wikipedia. Can only imagine how it must've been when the series was first airing on TV.

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So I've been busy. New things I've found that I love:
- Battlestar Galactica - I'm in Season 2, it's just so freakin good, I can't believe I'd never watched it before!
- Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American - So I've heard a bunch of their tracks on fanmixes but never listened to one of their albums straight through until now. How did I miss this too ( Read more... )