sent up our flag and moved on

[antihysteric]

I had forgotten how much I love painting. Laying protective tape just so satisfies my inner obsessive-compulsive, and the repetitive motion of brushstrokes is lulling. I also really love the color I used, this pale green that changes with the light but never looks garish.

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I finished reading Santa Olivia today, by Jacqueline Carey.

Comments

[electrizity]

Ooh, what are you painting, if I may ask?

I don't really watch tv unless a show has already been discontinued (too much effort to tune in each week when I want to consume it all at once). I always appreciate picspams of pretty ladies, though!

[antihysteric]

The stairwell in the basement! My efforts to avoid getting paint on the floor and various fixtures are probably therefore unnecessary, but OH WELL.

I prefer to mainline tv, too - that's what I did with the first two seasons of Fringe this summer - so I definitely understand wanting to wait until there's closed canon.

Also, HI! I haven't seen you around in a while - everything okay? <3

[electrizity]

Okay, this may sound strange, but I actually love stairwells -- the eerier the better. So often they look completely different from the rest of a building, as though they occupy a separate dimension or world of their own. Um. Anyway, that sounds awesome, you should post a picture when you're done!

Hi! <3 I'm doing pretty well, thanks. I know I've been a terrible poster, and I'll have to get around to fixing that. It kind of feels like once a lurker, always a lurker, you know? It's a tough habit to break.

[antihysteric]

That is so delightful! This is me admiring your imagination. :D Our basement stairwell has these slanting slabs of ceiling overhead at intervals, and in the right light, they do create some rather unearthly shadows. My uncle is relentlessly cheerful and not afraid of color, though, so the brightness of the yellow and green paint - that also conveniently obscures some of the walls' more dubious stains - might dispel some of the eerieness. (The house's exterior is painted purple, and the trappings of the front porch are a mix of orange, green, white, and purple. I adore my uncle.)

Lurking is a totally acceptable practice! My recent posting spree is out of the ordinary for me, really; I'm kind of baffling myself. I didn't mean to pressure you or anything - just always glad to hear from you in any form, whenever. :)

[heather]

I LOVED Santa Olivia; I've read most of Carey's other stuff and this might be my fave because it had much less filler and and first-person prose - though I'd still heartily recommend the Kushiel books. I love the protagonist, love that she's a PoC, love the canonical lesbian relationship that ends happily and is also really hot, love the sci-fi... the only thing I wished was that the ending hadn't been so easy, that maybe she'd stretched it into a trilogy that expanded beyond the isolated world now that they've left it. Ohhhh I would've read the shit out of a trilogy.

Oh, and gorgeous picspam!

[antihysteric]

I agree with you on all counts! You've pinpointed everything that makes it so awesomely loveable, and the ending did feel kind of pat. But Carey is at least writing a sequel - Santitos at Large, to be released spring/summer of 2011. :D

[aurora_84]

(even if people who don't ship Olivia/Peter are so very wrong on the internet)
Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!! The Fringe ladies are so very pretty.

[antihysteric]

Aren't they? I hope Astrid gets more of a role in season three.

I don't usually have firmly entrenched OTPs, but when I do I get a little militant about it. (This is my "I'm totally kidding!" face.)

(...But really, SO WRONG. :D)

[aurora_84]

I hope Astrid gets more of a role in season three.
Yes! (I also wouldn't mind seeing more of that FBI agent from the s2 premiere; I thought her character had potential.)

(...But really, SO WRONG. :D)
Heeeeeee! I must admit that I didn't ship them hardcore from the beginning, but they really grew on me as the show progressed. A slow burn.

[kuteki]

Yay for pretty ladies of Fringe! :)

What fall tv are you guys most excited about?

Um...Gossip Girl.

[antihysteric]

Yay! indeed.

That's cool! I admittedly don't know much about it, beyond what I get from admiring the fantastically gay photos of Blake Lively and Leighton Meester that the set yields. Would you recommend it?