broadcast me a joyful noise

I'm not dead! Just AWOL-ish. I've been camped out at ryokophoenix's house for the past few days with six other people and seven sewing machines and a metric ton of fabric, glue, ribbon, papier mache, soft drink, very loud pop music and DVDs of animated movies. Operation Disney Cosplay For Supanova 08 is GO. Photos of the completed bottom half of my costume may be forthcoming.

Meanwhile, I WANT TORCHWOOD, and I also want everyone's reactions to Torchwood, but that'll all have to wait until tonight. Or maybe a few weeks from now when I regain proper Internet speed. But anyway, if you've made a Torchwood 2x01 reaction post, please comment here with a link to it. There is no way I can track them all down on my own.

Seized by a sudden and strange desire to see if the Torchwood fandom has produced any fic worth reading since I abandoned it many months ago (short answer: not really, no), I started wading my way manfully though the torch_wood fic tag. Both Ji & I find Jack/Ianto to be an intensely boring pairing, thus disqualifying 90% of the fic, but we discovered that you can make almost any Jack/Ianto fic ten times more interesting if you work on the assumption that Ianto is the Master in human form.

(*polite nod in the direction of ariastar and her comment about stopwatches that could hold the essense of a Time Lord*)

Though if anyone does know where one can find the Torchwood fic of decent quality (I don't suppose there's an elitist cabal hiding anywhere and churning out drabbles? no?) then please share that information. I miss my incompetent bisexual snarkers.

PSA: tomorrow I am off to the coast for a few days with my mother and sister. I will be taking S1 of both Life on Mars and Heroes, and am hoping to get a lot of writing done. To that end, I need fake-canon facts about one Lucy Saxon to use in my crazyepic backstory. Toss 'em at me!

Final Random Fact: one of the things I hate watching more than anything else is someone losing a large sum of money at a casino. I just...I can't stand it. It's worse than the most immature humiliation squick. I have such an awful gut-wrenching aversion to the idea of gambling with important sums of money.

Yeah, Empire Records, I'm looking at YOU. But I still love you. Lots.

My friends list is a hilarious/awesome place sometimes. I should do this more often.

- mercuriazs has solved all of our fandom woes with the concept of wikicanon.

- stars_like_dust wrote a sequel to Stupid Thing Last Night in which she sort of remixes Benevolent Sibling and includes gratuitous Kat/Racetrack and it's hilarious and hot and full of pilots both old and new. YAY.

- marenfic wrote Kinesic, a deliciously bitter Dee-POV piece focusing on 'Unfinished Business'.

- blackboggart should be getting way more attention from HP fandom than she is, because I think her art is just gorgeous (she's on a Remus kick at the moment).

- emiloy did a Jack fanvid to Savin' Me, which, well, come on. It had to be done sooner or later, and although it could certainly have been done better, this chooses some interesting clips to include. (Okay, I especially like it because it uses 'Small Worlds' footage, and I loved that episode to tiny pieces.)

- I believe I first got this recipe from bantha_fodder, though I could be wrong...anyway, these are the best cookies in the world. (I use the word 'cookies' for soft, chewy things like the ones that Subway makes, and 'biscuits' for harder ones like gingernuts. That is just me. I embrace all Western food terms!) ( I am making a batch this afternoon )

Finally...thank you, everyone who commented on my last post, though I really was serious when I said I wanted to hear what you liked about you :) I won't be ungracious, however; I was in a low spot, and there's no remedy quite like feeling loved. Thanks.

Alarmingly, I seem to be spending my summer holidays either

a) at work
b) on the computer
c) watching television (sometimes on the exercise bike)

My third year of uni will start and I will discover that I have accidentally destroyed all of my brain cells.

My brother is addicted to NCIS and my mother is addicted to David Tennant. I love my family.

Currently I am staring obsessively at the download for the Torchwood season finale, because I can't watch the final three eps on this laptop which means I have to burn them to DVD and THEN watch them on the OTHER laptop and EVERYONE IS GOING NUTS OVER THE FINALE and I am stumbling through LJ with a hand over my eyes trying to avoid being spoilered more than I am already. ARGH.

I think I'll watch some more West Wing while I wait, because I am more in love with it than I would have thought possible for a show about American politics. I tried to pick a favourite character in an idle hypothetical moment the other day and was reduced to gleeful flailing about, uh, everyone. Gun to my head, I think it'd have to be a tie between CJ and Josh, because I just watched the episode where CJ has emergency dental surgery and Josh takes the press briefing and nskjahsbdss. SECRET PLAN TO FIGHT INFLATION. OH JOSH <3333

Oh also: in less than two weeks I get a visit from stars_like_dust! Fear us, internets.

I do not think that 'loot' or 'swag' or whatever is a very accurate term considering that all of my presents combined would fit into a small shoebox, but WHATEVER, I love them all, and that is what matters.

( Net gain )

Oh, and today I am working 2:45-9:45 so I SLEPT IN (oh, love. love. joy. bliss. etc.) and then finally watched 'Out of Time'. I can't watch 'The Runaway Bride' or 'Combat' (OWEN EPISODE! EPISODE! ABOUT! OWEN! OMG!) for a week or so, but this episode was so fantastic that I think I'll just rewatch it for a while and be perfectly content.

( Torchwood 1x10 - Out of Time )

Finally: I have a Yuletide rec list coming once I've read the few remaining fics I have bookmarked.

1. “No sex forever, Apollo,” she says without raising her eyes, and his hand wavers near his pile of coins, under the amused gazes of the entire table, before he sighs and folds on a hand of full colours.

~

Yuletide is drastically incomplete and yet all I want to do is write fifty-sentences fic of pilots in an established relationship because the fandom has a sad lack of that and CLAIRZA IS A HO (yeah, remember that one?) and she is encouraging me in an extremely unhelpful manner.

I watched all of Arrested Development S3 yesterday and today, which meant many gleeful hours sitting on the couch stuffing my hand into my mouth to keep from shrieking with laughter. WHAT. As I told Ji: S1 was funny and random, S2 was hilarious and batshit insane, but S3 was like what might result if Shati, Emmy and Sweeney took a lot of illegal drugs and then sat down and threw ideas around and only kept the MOST RIDICULOUS ONES.

I want to watch all of The Office S2 again. Randomly.

I am yet to watch the latest ep of Torchwood, even though it is sitting there on my hard drive. Mostly because everyone's reactions to it, even the purely non-spoilery stuff that I've been exposed to, have been less than enthusiastic.

I have done hardly any reading in the Doctor Who fandom but I HAVE been reading most of the Torchwood stuff, and I have put together a short rec list of those fics that I think are worthwhile.

( Some Torchwood, some DW )

holy. shit.





I...just...this...omg.

WATCH THIS SHOW, YOU GUYS.

( Slightly more articulate reaction under here. )