So as far as Babylon 5 goes, I kind of got the whole Susan/Talia thing, but I didn't really get it.

So then I read icepixie's really clever "Five Things that Never Happened to Susan Ivanova", which is really quite light on the Susan/Talia, but somehow bit me in the brain. (DUDE. I so want to write a "Five Times Susan Was In The Psi Corps And Talia Was Also There" but that seems TOO SPECIFIC, and also like FIVE MAY NOT BE ENOUGH.)

Then, this vid:

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... I GET IT NOW.

I still love Talia/Garibaldi tho, okay?

Because I kind of also have this plot bunny biting me in the face about how obviously Control would have chosen Garibaldi as the easy mark in the command staff for Talia to get close to since Susan hated her while he wanted in her pants, yes? And so that should happen? And then collossal angst perhaps and Psi Corps intrigue?

The infamous Globe columnist and professional Boston sports buzzkill has declared that it is "Just no fun beating these New York Yankees anymore."

I beg to differ, Dan Shaughnessy.

And by that I mean, 8-0 in the season series, GLEE effing E!!!

I'm pretty sure this doesn't make me a bad person.

Sims 3 release + early birthday pressie = EPIC BRB.

I have created a test house with computer generated sims. One is a gardener who would like to be an indie rocker. One is an "inappropriate" sim (this is represented by a beanie, so I think it is not the naughty sort of inappropriate) who wants to be an all-star, I think. The last one is a random shmoe with rather douchey choices in default clothing who wants to be an international SUPER SPY. I <3 that this is an option. I will pretend you all care for the duration of this paragraph.

Wheeeee!!

Usually I try very hard NOT TO DOES THEM, but I really like this one (via wildtiger7)!

Give me a character from any fandom, tv show, movie, book you know that I know and I will tell you:
a. My favorite thing about that character.
b. My least favorite thing about that character.
c. One person I would ship them with in their own verse.
d. One crossover ship for them I think would be neat.
e. One crossover universe for them I think would be even neater.
f. Their ship from hell.
g. Their song.
h. The title of their biography or autobiography.
i. The last bad dream they had.
j. How they're gonna shuffle off the mortal coil, if they haven't already.

Title: "Dead Souls"
Rating: PG-13
Category: Babylon 5, AU, Ivanova/Garibaldi, aaaaangst
Summary: Susan remains on the station after S4, and the ghosts remain at the banquet.
Spoilers: None, since it's AU, but I reference some S5 stuff. I haven't seen S5 in a bazillion years, so the references are almost certainly inaccurate.
Author's Note: The pairing and the idea are both icepixie's. I'm only posting it because of her, because the whole way through I was thinking "this is crap, and yet I cannot stop writing it." The dramatic title is thanks to Gogol, because Russia produces a lot of dramatic and angsty things.

( Dead Souls )

Title: "Huis Clos"
Author: Little Red
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Sheppard and Weir get stuck in a transporter, and not on a good day.
Challenge: for tchadensis, who requested it in the comment-fic-request-meme. Mwah!
Author's Note: Holy crap. I don't think I've ever actually written the stuck in a transporter/shuttlecraft/puddle-jumper/Volkswagen/etc story before! I must have. Right? Er, well, now I have for sure.

( Huis Clos )

Title: "Simplifying Fractions"
Keywords: The Happy Voyager Project. Ocampalets. Harry Kim. If you're not aj, chances are you will not appreciate it.
Dedication: Good thing it's for aj then, with birthday gleeewishes!


( A lot of things had changed since Kes had children. )

Everyone usually sees these things before me, but sidhefaer has abridged the hell out of STAR TREK XI and you will LOVE IT.

*dies of laff*

I put off talking about my Star Trek reaction on here, because everyone was talking about theirs and I didn't see it on opening night so I'm sure it has all been said, but if anyone has possibly been pining away without my two cents:

( Little Red Goes To The Movies )

Um, yes. I am not doing

THE ANONYMOUS WRITING FEEDBACK MEME

because, well, THAT'S FREAKING TERRIFYING. I admire the people who have thrown their names up for commenting, and I'm finding all the comments super fascinating from a psychological-experiment standpoint (are some of the "REALLY YOU ARE THE BEST!" comments coming because someone is paranoid that they will be found out? The people who go "OKAY, you really piss me off when you write so many damned fics about TRIBBLES" -- how long have they been stewing over that? Or were they just scrambling to think of something they could say anonymously that they can't normally say?).

But yes. I would really rather NOT know what people really-really-honestly think of me! I like critical feedback on individual stories, because very often the feeder-backer makes good points that I use in my next Exciting Life-Procrastination Fanfic Adventure. But if I ask generally, and someone anonymously says, "I can't stand it that you never write in the first person," then I will feel so horribly guilty for having INFLICTED my third-person writing on this person and will fret a lot about ever posting anything again, in case I will be RUINING someone's flist page! It would just be a mess.

So I'm posting this kind of as a public service announcement that the meme is out there and might be fun for people of stronger character than I, and a public confession that I am more weenier than you!!

For the record, anonymously or otherwise, I think y'all are awesome. :)

Kirk's choice in women continues to be deeply suspect, Janice Rand has the lamest swan song ever, and this is one hour of my life I will never get back.

( The Conscience of the King )

Poll #1401644 REALLY NOW.
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

This is Ron Moore's favorite episode!?

This week in bizarro-world, Janice Rand and her hair go on an away mission, the redshirts survive to the end of the episode, and James T. Kirk is out-hammed by a ten year old.

( Miri )

Spock begins a lifetime of mind meld floozydom in this episode, Kirk gets to first base again under an external mind-control influence, and we realize THE WHOLE SYSTEM COLLAPSES without the presence of one Yeoman Janice Rand.

(warning: image-heavy)

( Dagger of the Mind )

Poll #1399602 The Facial Contortion Olympics
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

Who wins the gold medal?

I love this unexpectedly lovely, chilling cover of a classic song:

Old School Freight Train does 'Heart of Glass'

Das Boy is evidently very anti-cover, and so declined to listen despite my need to share. His loss, your gain. :)

I FEEL JUDGED BY DREAMWIDTH!

Okay, not really. But I went through a few pages to approve my openID, then set up an account with an invite code from lanna_kitty, which took a whole bunch of pages, then I COULD NOT FIGURE OUT HOW TO FIND FRIENDS, then finally made my way back to the post I was trying to comment on, and then it told me I WAS NOT VALIDATED.

Anyway. I am "mylittleredgirl" over there, but I do not know how to use it, because I am 85 years old and technology changes baffle me! Hahahaha. Also, I don't know how to code mylittleredgirl such that it shows up with a little dreamwidth person. I FEEL UNCOOL.

So, I kind of tried to jump on the bandwagon and fell off and everyone LAUGHED AT ME. *clings to livejournal*

However, now I can comment on people's posts over there that they crosspost to el-jay. SUCCESS.

GUYS. GUYS.

Okay, you know how I am really, really, ridiculously, shrieking-twelve-year-old-y in love with Talia Winters/Michael Garibaldi from Babylon 5? And that there are basically four people out there who agree with me that this is kinda neat, and one of them is my mom?

THERE IS A FIFTH PERSON OUT THERE SOMEWHERE, AND THEY MADE A MUSIC VIDEO.



The squeeebomb CANNOT BE CONTAINED. HOLY CRAP. (Also: DECENT QUALITY, and the song is total cheezbomb, but now I have to love whoever that cheezbomb band is, BECAUSE. Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. *hyperhyperhyper*)

NESN announcers: "You've gotta make them pay."

(Talking about the Yanks bullpen walking the bases loaded with 0 outs, whatever, I still hear echoes of "nineteen-eighteen" when I look at PINSTRIPES)

YES. THANK YOU, RED SOX. YESSSSSSSSSS.

wildtiger7, SRSLY, Jason Bay is everyone's new Red Sox boyfriend. (Hmm, must be time to hop over to redsoxicons again...)

Also? I think this is the first time I have EV-ER seen a pitcher change in the middle of an at-bat. I DID NOT KNOW YOU COULD DO THAT. REALLY. I DID NOT.

liminalliz wanted, and I quote: "OMG OMG OMG. Write me Kira Nerys and Jadzia Dax post-holosuite Camelot adventures!! If you throw in Kira/Odo angst for good measure, I'll love you forever."

I did what I could. :)


( Season 4, sometime after 'Crossfire' )

I have successfully made my own yogurt!

It was INSANELY EASY, with no crazy equipment required (I did use a cooking thermometer, because I suck at temperature guessing, but you don't even really need that). And the most miraculous part: it looks and tastes just like YOGURT! Like it's real, store-bought yogurt! Huzzah!

I got the recipe from Food on the Dole, where there are pikshurz. Works A+ well! Onlee thing I did differently was use 2% milk instead of whole milk.

Yogurt was previously the most expensive item on my weekly grocery list (next to meat, when I buy meat), and I crave it all the time. So now -- CHEAP! Every week, our local grocery store tends to have $1/half-gallon milk coupons, so yogurt = win! (Cheap dairy products with hormones and filler = fail, but still, food > no food.)

Seriously, though, try this just for the OMGSCIENCE element if nothing else. Given my perennial suck at lab science, I doubted it would work, so I was in SHOCK when I pulled out ACTUAL YOGURT.

Title: "Eclipse"
Rating: G
Category: Enterprise, Trip/T'Pol, T'Pol!fic.
Spoilers: Takes place throughout the series, but most major spoiler is for "Terra Prime."
Summary: "You can't see the Vulcan sun," he tells her.
Challenge: for wildtiger7, who wanted Trip/T'Pol. Random word generator found by google gave me "eclipse." This fic would have been better if anr had written it, though I had her in mind.

( Eclipse )

Okay, I actually regret turning off the game last night, because fielders were pitching and pitchers were fielding and that's probably about as hilarious as a 13-0 loss can be.

I don't have a dreamwidth account, not so much out of personal politics or anything as that I am way behind the news curve and feel daunted by the idea of having to figure out something new. (My brain cells are kind of like Boston pitching yesterday -- scattered injuries, overworked, and getting lost somewhere out in left field.) Am I gunna lose all my frenz? DO U STILL LUV MEEEE?

I thought I had swine flu this morning, but then I ate a bagel and felt better. I can't decide if I want to freak out about this thinly spread epidemic or not. The numbers on the CDC site make it seem so bland that the cynic in me thinks this is all a big diversionary tactic, and next week we'll discover that we invaded England or something while no one was looking. However, CDC people also say "this could mutate and kill everyone in like ten seconds," so I will err on the side of not putting unsterilized objects in my mouth, nose or eyes.

I cannot get up the oomph to do a darned thing this week. I'm brushing up on my telekenesis by staring at the piles of to-dos on my desk and attempting to will them to do themselves.