I am posting on an iPhone to say this but:

FIX THIS.

I feel like I can't properly mourn this until I reach the end and am to understand that this is definitely not unfuckable. And then I will mourn and never watch Torchwood again.

Also, there are so many posts I want to comment on but alas, I am apartment hunting in Boston and iPhone typing is a paaaain.

OMG TORCHWOOD OMG !!!!!

( Brief, barely spoiler-y thoughts for Day One )

Dude, someone on my flist did a Generation Kill Nate/Brad picspam, and now I cannot for the life of me find it. :'( x 100000. I mean, at the time, I was very much like Gen what? Nate who? Mmm EricBrad...But now! Now I'm three episodes in and dreaming in military code and wondering very much where this is headed. Someday the internet will obey my thought dictations and dig up prettiness on command.

In the midst of trying to pawn off various bits of furniture we've accumulated over five odd years of living in Chicago so I'm mostly out of it, but the best thing just happened to me:

I was surfing Television Without Pity's annual award voting and one of the categories is Best Almost-Romantic-But-Not-Quite Relationship, and there was Castle and Beckett (Castle) and Chuck and Sara (Chuck), and I was just thinking this one's going to be hard to decide when I saw John and Rodney (Stargate: Atlantis). Oh my heart! I think I just melted right there. &hearts It's so nice that they can still pop back into my fannish consciousness like this.

I take this as a sign that TWoP still wins the internet even though some of their recapping has started to seriously suck.

1. I am ostensibly moving to Boston in about a month or two. Goodbye Chicago! I think neither you have been good to be me nor I to you, but I'm still going to miss being able to look out the window and see the lake. Obviously, Chel/large bodies of water = OTP.

Also, shelling out $2000 a month for a small, one bedroom apartment seems a bit ridiculous to me. On the other hand, the neighbourhood that I'm hoping to end up in is suppose to be pretty chill.

2. I think standardized testing remains one of the few acceptable, legal forms of torture. I was tired (ok, this one is my fault), starving, freezing cold and under great mental distress during my LSATs. If the roof had leaked, it would be just like waterboarding.

3. Star Trek has finally given the world a good reason for the knowledge of rarer words. Obviously, they are for utterly charming your co-stars and engaging in word porn during interviews. I'm just saying.

So, aurora_84 was asking for "Pinto" recs the other day, and I was all superior and like "haha pinto". And then, because I have the LSATs the next day (which only determines the rest of my life, whatever), I was halfway toying with writing commentfic that was all about how Chris Pine is very pretty and mostly a nice guy but also kind of a douche (but still pretty!). And ZQ of course is a cool frood who really knows where his towel is.

Then, it was 3:30 AM and my fic got too big to fit in a comment.

Also, it is unbetaed because it was suppose to be quick, commentfic ok?

The worst of the truths are behind us.
by godofwine
chris pine/zq, r
7 June 2009

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I actually went to see ST:XI a few days after it came out knowing basically what's permeated the cultural landscape and not much else. I was happy! I was entertained! I had a steady of stream of good-looking men and fist fights to keep me interested!

So I thought, ok, I know TOS came out in the sixties and it has all this stigma attached to it, but what the hell, let's give it a shot. And although I was admittedly distracted by the "special effects" and scenery at first (and ok, the presentation of women is of course not something that I'm particularly comfortable with), I got a lot more excited by it than I thought I would be.

And so, recently watching XI again, I was really surprised at how, with just knowing a bit more about the franchise, my enjoyment of it kind of decreased.

( la la la I say things about XI )

And hey, it was still very entertaining to watch! :)

(Captain Fine is still definitely fine. And ZQ improves with acquaintance.)

Oh, and William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy have the kind of friendship that makes me melt. ♥

It could be just me, but Arthur's face totally randomly reminds me of Jensen Ackles. I think it's the cheek bones?

I just have to say, David Archuleta, cutest thing or cutest thing of all time???

(The entirety of that interview has like the most priceless quotes ever. "That skin, dangit!" And his whole flailing at being called a sex symbol, I mean gosh!)

Seriously, where have you been hiding him world?

(Ok, Utah, which is probably a damn good place to hide someone.)

Also, I have Touch My Hand on like permament repeat. Even though my opinion of the majority of his music is basically: ok, I like it, I like listening to it, but I'm not even close to any kind of musical nirvana. But yeah, Touch My Hand, I don't know, it's just one of those songs that make me really giggly inside just like every other 23 13 year old.

01. Being able to customize Contextual Popups is one of the happiest things to happen to Livejournal design since S2 came out. Five sec transformation from blah to glah!

02. I am, for no explicable reason, writing SGA season one/two fic. Wha??? I have 5000 words from my first SGA fic ever, and I'm half determined to finish writing it or die trying. I am also possibly the least prolific writer type person ever.

03. I almost watched ABC's version of Life on Mars, but then I said to myself, "Self, you have a headache, you want to take a shower, why would you ever do this to yourself?" The answer: I'm not. (Seriously, they've been promoting it like woah and yet it just makes me want to watch it even less.)

04. I finally, finally got a del.icio.us account. (Except I think it's just delicious.com now? The original is way cooler. Also, bring back Panic at the Disco's exclamation mark!) I like how my tags are like "poignant" and "sweet". Also, I think I only have the ones that really stuck out in my memory for whatever reason. Sadly, I've forgotten some really great fic. :'( Everyone should rec me some!

Firstly, this doesn't relate at all to what I actually want to post about, but it makes me ridiculously happy anyway: I just learned that Joe Flanigan's hair is naturally that pointy. My love for Joe Flanigan's hair is seriously unnaturally great and possibly only outstretched by my love for John Sheppard's emotional fucktard-ness.

( Which is my segue into what I actually wanted to say... )

Apparently, my number one procrastination technique has become "make a new LJ layout". But also, I needed a new layout anyway since, sorry Iants, out of sight, out of mind.

So, for some reason, I've always had a huge crush on Sheppard (omg so hot! and also, mmm emotional fuctard!) and a huge crush on Rodney (because let's face it: he's Rodney!), and I've always though David Hewelett was really really awesome but I had no interest in Joe Flanigan whatsoever. Except on a "he is hot while playing Sheppard" way.

But randomly, I've been doing a lot of sighing of the teenage girl variety and thinking nice thoughts about Jflan (no really, I actually think of him neither as "Joe" nor "Joe Flanigan" but a weird squashing of the two, too much "ollian" influence???) even though I still have very little interest in his life or "work". Public advertisement of "this is your brain on unemployment" or just he really is that hot?

Finally, this layout has both sad :( Sheppard with happy :) colours so maybe I am just happy when Sheppard is sad :|?

Google's Position on Proposition 8

(Proposition 8 btw is the proposition to amend the California Constitution to define marriage as only between a man and a woman, thereby overturning the Supreme Court's decision that allows for same sex marriage in California.)

Ok, I've always liked Google because their sites were very straightforward and fast and practical, and sometimes the way they changed the Google graphics was really cute, but I've never had Google-mania or anything. Except now I just want to run around shouting "I &hearts Google!" because this rocks so much.

There's a reason I can never get into politics, and first and foremost I think is that it absolutely disgusts me. I mean, I think most politicians are people who want power and whose goal is to maintain that power once they have it and in the process they make decisions that affect our lives. And even if they actually care about making a change and trying to make the country better, a lot of them seem willing to sacrifice that to be politically popular.

But please, please, can we stop electing the dumb and crazy guy because we're dumb and crazy as well and he makes us feel better by being president? Ok, you have self-image problems with your intelligence, fine, go see a shrink, but don't take it out on the rest of us who would rather see the most competent person do the job then the one that "I can relate to". When you go and see your accountant, do you want to go to the one who has a million degrees in accounting or do the one who hands you a beer and says "I don't know anything about taxes, but I went moose hunting the other day"? When you pick your doctor, do you pick the one who went Johns Hopkins and who can name every bone in your body or the one who smiles prettily and can't pronounce aorta?

The point is, you wouldn't pick people in charge of important aspects of your life based on how much you relate to them, so stop treating voting for president like the search for your next BFF. Because guess what, their job isn't to be your friend; their job is to govern the country.

And the thing is, you can't even move to another country and hope it gets better because apparently Japan picked their crazy and dumb Prime Minister because he has nice hair.

(This rant is basically the result of me watching the debate last Friday and hearing how McCain seemed to have won because he sounded more forceful and said "Obama doesn't know" more even though he said we should deal with the bail-out crisis by freezing all government spending except for the military, compensation to veterans and other vital core services. Yeah, vital spending probably like making sure the President gets paid and not say, roads or medicare or welfare or anything like that. Geez.)

Sad but true: while I have never watched American Idol at all, I've been reading David Cook/David Archuleta slash. Like, in a the-same-five-stories-over-and-over way. Obviously, this proves that gay sex is universal and they should really make out on camera like all the stories say they do.

I'm also attempting to get a real job, by which I mean admiring my usage of italics on my resume and watching a lot of House. My parents want me to find one in New York, I want to live in San Diego, but maybe I don't because my boyfriend is still in Chicago, but maybe I do because let's face it: San Diego > boys. (Plus, I bet the density of cute surfer boys per square mile is really, gorgeously high in SoCal.)

Guys, adult life is hard; send puppies.

(Also, I was writing John/Rodney the other day. I blame Thore's weird highlights for reminding me of my love of brunettes.)

Guys, I would just like to say that the internet has personally betrayed me by letting me find out about SGA's cancellation right when I suddenly got back into in it again. Grrr internet! I shake my fist at you!

But in that note, I watched SGA today on TV for the first time in like, ever. Ok, maybe I've caught a repeat here and there but the point is, I kept thinking: OMG I DO NOT KNOW HOW THIS WILL TURN OUT. It was very bizarre for me. Let me just say, The Queen is no The Shrine if you catch me (and I think you do) but it sure beats the one with the mist and the girls.

Also, did Todd go through a personality change or is it just me? Either way, he is <33333!

Finally, I would just like to say I couldn't watch the JP/Kieron break-up/death scene because I felt too awful about it. THIS IS HOW MUCH SOAPS PERMEATED MY BRAIN. Send help pls.

Ok, not to be ultra spammy here, but I just logged into my uni email account for the first time in weeks and I am apparently now friends with THORE SCHOELERMANN on facebook!

I believe my reaction was: WHAT!? Followed shortly by, WHAT!? Ending with the classic, WAIT, WHAT!????

No, honestly, I have absolutely no recollection of ever adding him on facebook because aside from the fact that I never log on to facebook, I would also just assume that it's a fake profile or someone else entirely. But I don't know, so far every indication seems to point to it being actually him. Half of me is doing a little dance of joy that Thore Schoelermann might know I exist (I &hearts Thore!), half of me is vaguely embarassed that I once tracked him down on facebook and now if he does know I exist, it's in conjugation with "oh some random girl who friended me on facebook for no apparent reason", and the third half (yes, I am 1.5 woman, can you handle it?) is still on the WHAT!??? part of the conversation.

In conclusion, Thore is very pretty.

Dear Livejournal,

I am a. still alive, b. stuck in the last summer classes I need before graduation and c. probably dreaming over Thore Schoelermann's hot little dimples at this moment. <33333

(No really, how does Christian and Oliver get cuter and more in love every day? And Thore's hurt puppy look when he saw Olli with another guy, awwwww. I am such a sucker for love stories, and I am in the happy place where I am constantly surprised that Thore is actually a really decent actor and I am not constantly cringing at the crappiness of what is going on. Like I keep catching snippets of As the World Turns on Gays of Daytime and I cringe at just about every line. It doesn't help that both actors are very unattractive in my book.)

Also, I would like to point out that World of Warcraft is addictive and terrible and ruins relationship. I was on a happy Wii Fitness regime until I became consumed with leveling and getting my +healing past 2k. Video games are totally evil. More porn instead!

Finally, since ok WHERE ARE ALL THE CHRISTIAN/OLLI FICS GUYS THEY NEED TO BE SEXING NOW!!!! I am in serious fanfic withdrawal, could any one send some recs my way? I will take anything especially if it's Rome or funny Draco/Harry (omg don't judge) or anything. In a prefect world, someone is writing long, thoughtful, lovely Shelter fic out there....

Do you know that there is actually *multiple* Jimmy/Coop stories even though they're one shot characters from one episode of Cold Case? I know nothing of Cold Case, and I've only seen the flashback scenes from that episode, but firstly, finally a gay couple where both of the actors are absurdly attractive, and secondly, damn but did that call for fanfic! And the internet provides!

(Seriously though, watch that clip. Storyline aside, it's just really beautifully done.)

This could only get better if there was somehow Shelter fanfic out there. Or Friends and Family fic. (Has anyone seen that move?) Apparently the pairings I want fic for most are from the most obscure non-fandom inducing canon ever. *tear*

Guys, I don't care how gimmicky and overpriced Wii Fit is, I am totally digging it. Especially considering we spent, no joke, something like three plus hours driving all around Chicago trying to find someplace that wasn't sold out. It came out two days ago! It's sold out everywhere online! Are there really this many people who know about it/willing to shell out 90 bucks for it? I blame Ellen. (She gave one along with a Wii console to everyone in her audience.)

( A couple things I don't like about it... )

With that said though, I personally hate working out in front of other people which is why I avoid my totally free school gym like the plague. So it's really good for still being able to get training type instruction at home, and it makes it that much more likely that I'll get my exercises in. I mean, I really bought it for the yoga and running, but some of the other stuff is pretty neat as well.