broadcast me a joyful noise

Clicking around the fandom, I came across this theory, which...well, let's just say it involves the old series, and it's gotten me very curious.

SPOILERS for BSG 3x17, obviously, but it's well worth a look.

It appears that my two favourite shows are conspiring to make me flail myself to death.

( Spoilers for 'Maelstrom' )

ETA: OH MY GOD. OH MY GOD. IT JUST GOT SEVEN MILLION TIMES BETTER.

Preview scene for the same episode. (Click 'Watch Clip'.)

I seem to spend an inordinate amount of time pimping the works of pirateygoodness, but she keeps writing things that are so crazy nobody else would even bother to humour the concept, let alone indulge it hilariously.

Ergo: If the Colonial Fleet Ever Finds Earth, They'd do Well to Take up Beet Farming

Four moments in Dwight and Angela's relationship that involved Battlestar Galactica.

Read and love.

~

In me-news, I am EVEN MORE SICK, wtf body, but have promised my mother I will clean the bathrooms, kitchen and family room today.

*girds self with tea and Panadol*

Pausing the SG:A season one finale to mention that I have isolated another of my fictional kinks that this show keeps whacking squarely on the head: absolute loyalty. Loyalty to a person even in the presence of what should be a higher authority. Defying orders because of unshakeable trust. Military sci-fi is great for this - BSG did it a lot at the beginning of S2, during the martial law scenario.

The upshot of this is, uh, I think people should write me lots of Sheppard-Weir right now. It's just like Apollo-Roslin! Except with the bonus feeling that any second they might start outmaking against walls!

Silver City-ers - I have exhaustively revised and fleshed out the plot outline, Sophie has exhaustively annotated it, and I'll try to have it posted later today. Be warned, it contains requests for input and assignments. Buckle up.

drewcypher has uploaded the promo pics for BSG 3x17 and OH MY GOD. They are driving me insane with how good this episode has the potential to be.

( Pictures! And picture-specific babble. )

So stars_like_dust and I went a bit crazy during the past 24 hours (and didn't get a whole lot of sleep) and managed to write 14,330 words worth of fic. It's AU. It's aggressively piloty. We are ridiculously proud of it.

(For the record, Claira writes UNBELIEVABLY FAST. She would look up and be all "Finished!" and her scene would be enormous and I would have finished maybe three agonising paragraphs.)

She's gone out to dinner with an old housemate, and I am going to sit here and catch up on The Office, and you should all go and read our epic, Those Journeymen Divine.

“Leave it to me,” she says, grinning. “I have a plan.”

ETA: Much as I love feedback and comments, if you could leave it at the ficblog post rather than here (so that both Claira and I can see it), that'd be great :)

If I have ever said or done anything to imply that BSG is not, in fact, my favourite television show in all the world, I TAKE IT BACK.

I TAKE IT ALL BACK.

CAPRICA! SAM! MYTHOLOGY! EPIC MILITARY STANDOFFS! PILOTS!

*delirious with joy*

( EXHIBIT A. SPOILERY. )

Claira and I are made of awesome and have finished our fic of post-Unfinished Business pilot outmaking!

Now I have to work on Yuletide again. Dammit.

Gold To Iron, at my ficblog. Please leave any comments at THAT post, not this one. Ta :)

My three days off were lovely, but tomorrow I am working 10-7. Blah.

Also, everyone who hasn't yet watched BSG?

( You should, because Joss Whedon wants you to. )

- Having wrestled Microsoft Access into submission (I could use it like a pro in Year 9, thanks to a dull term's work of database manipulation in IT), I now have a mostly-updated address list. If you have not commented to this post here and you would like to be on this list, PLEASE DO SO NOW.

- In other seasonal news, LJ is offering the Give More deal, which means that if you buy paid time as a gift for another user between now and the end of the year then they get the 100 userpics add-on FREE for the duration of the time that you purchased. THIS IS SUCH A COOL IDEA. It's also amusing that you can buy someone a lump of coal for their userinfo page, but I find the concept of those kinds of purchases to be a ghastly waste of money. If you want to buy someone pointless pixels, at least buy them THEIR CHOICE of pointless pixels, ie. icon space. (I suppose that $1 is not exactly exorbitant, but the miserly uni student in me still cries out in dismay at the very thought.)

- Working my way slowly through my to-do list. Currently sticking some files on DVD for my mother, who is even more obsessed with Doctor Who than I am (no, really, she recently rang me to spazz about how she was watching Jude solely for Christopher Eccleston and how she had discovered that David Tennant had a bit role in it too) and who I recently showed the Torchwood pilot. She wants more, and wants more now.

- I am on an enormous PILOTS high. It's great fun.

- This high has been in no way dimmed by ingrid_m's fantastic fic The Four Cornered Stone. It's post-'Unfinished Business' Lee/Dee, Dee/Gaeta and Lee/Kara and it's kind of excruciating if you are in any way fond of Lee, but at it's also very wicked, smart, and dark. Like that horrible 99% cocoa chocolate.

- Also along BSG lines: tomorrow's episode, 'The Passage', is the one written by Jane Espenson! Whoo! Battlestar Wiki informs me that it has lots of science (hurrah!) and that it is Kat-centric. If Ms. Espenson writes me Kat/Racetrack subtext of ANY KIND then I will die...pleased.

- If anyone can work out WTF is going on in this moodtheme picture of mine, I would be very interested to hear it.

Having watched this episode once, I am now going to watch it again. This method of viewing allows me to actually scrape together some opinions that are a little more intelligent than 'abncsjhdshurgl pilots'.

( Dot points. Nothing exhaustive. )