As it's unlikely I'm going to write more fanfiction this year, time for the two memes.

a) The one in which you post the first sentence of the first story you posted each month this year:

January

On the day Angela Petrelli turns twenty, she opens her eyes and decides her life is over.

Optima Mater, Heroes, Angela and Nathan Petrelli

FebruaryI ( Read more... )

I've been wrestling this past week with a decision that wasn't easy for me to make: breaking up with a show that is still ongoing. But I've always believed that once the joy and/or fascination you take from something you're fannish about doesn't outweigh the elements that cause you anger or boredom anymore, it's time to move on, rather than being ( Read more... )

Flashback time! *settles down with the popcorn*

( You look good in a suit )

One minor effect the US elections had on me; I've started to rewatch The West Wing and this time might get around to aquire seasons 3-7 on DVD. The reason why I only possess season 1 and 2 so far was two-fold: a) while I like The West Wing, I don't have the sense of fannish urgency about it which would make me buy very expensive DVD sets instead of ( Read more... )

The last two days were insanely busy, and I only now got the chance to watch this.

( I'm just glad you're as messed up as I am )

From penknife: Go to your icons page in Livejournal and look at the first two icons (the one on the right and the one on the left). Pair up the characters in the two icons. Go to the next two and do the same until you have a list of ships. Then...well, write 'em.

( Um. Oh dear. OMG! )

Cold makes for insomnia, which means more reviews. Over in the Heroesverse, we've moved on from Yeats to Dylan Thomas.

( Though it really should be Graves )

( Spoilers are feeling exceedingly smug )

Said by Robert Oppenheimer when Project Manhattan, the atom bomb, was first tested successfully; if I recall correctly, the test site was called Trinity. He was quoting the Mahabaratha, and the complete quote said by him was: "I am become death, the destroyer of worlds."

( Guess whom this makes Oppenheimer? )

First of all, Christine Rose and Milo Ventimiglia did a podcast for this episode, which the awesome 12_12_12 transcribed for those of us who can't access the NBC website for it, here. Go, read it now, it will make you smile for the rest of the day. Containing such gems as ( Christine saying something spoilery for this episode about HRG )