R.I.P. Leonard Nimoy. You will be missed.

Just a brief note to the people I'm unfollowing today and in the coming weeks: it's nothing personal, you guys are still awesome and I will refriend you again in the future, but I'm sorry, I can't deal with all the Reboot posts currently on my f-list, because frankly, what J.J. Abrams did to the characters and philosophy of my oldest and still most ( Read more... )

Pick 5 TV shows you like before reading the questions.

1. Star Trek: TOS
2. Life on Mars
3. Game of Thrones
4. Supernatural
5. Torchwood

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Note to self: Unlike *cough* most problems in life, papers don't just go away by themselves if you ignore them long enough. (Though they definitely should.) *sigh* At least not in a way that makes a remotely pleasant outcome possible. (Especially, since I'm also still job-less and slowly-but-steadily running out of money ( Read more... )

I've been thinking about narrative kinks lately, and the many different ones I have. A major one I came up with is a kink for silence. Not enforced silence (gags, or the like), but the kind of silence that arises because the characters fail to communicate. That may well be because somewhat distant, emotionally repressed characters are whom I tend ( Read more... )

My f-list keeps on gushing about the new Star Trek movie... How they love the actors and the new universe and how active a fandom there suddenly is ( Read more... )

I spent the entirety of last week with Spacelogic, and it was awesome! She got me into the BBC Hornblower miniseries (sooooo pretty *activates shallow fannish enjoyment mode*), roughly a decade after I read the books, enlightened me as to what that MST3K thing everyone talks about is (it's Mystery Science Theatre 3000, a show that snarks the worst ( Read more... )

Oh come on, Star Trek fandom! I like how you've come back to life recently (even if I'm not fond of the reason why) and that so many new people have joined, but what really bugs me is the nasty little habits they brought with them.

Yes, I'm referring to weird pairing smushes and misspelt character names here. But mostly? Nu!Trek. WHAT THE FUCK, ( Read more... )

...on my own, because only having non-Trekkie friends around sucks like that.

( Let's say I was pleasantly surprised by this movie -- but only because I expected to dislike it in the first place. (SPOILERS follow, obviously.) )

It seems I'll get the flat after all! I was at the guy's birthday last night and (as far as I can tell) got along with everyone there. Decent music, nice people, lots of dogs... my depressed mood didn't make it through the first bottle of beer. I couldn't stay all that long, sadly, having no car and the last train going before midnight, but that ( Read more... )