ninety6tears

Soo, time to talk about how much I liked Avengers!

( Love is for children. )


-I only recently realized that "SMH" is supposed to stand for Shaking My Head, not So Much Hate. I did think people had the tendency to use it a bit over-dramatically...

-I think I need to read up more on Prometheus, though it may be futile cause the writers/cast are so tight-lipped they've only barely admitted that it's, yes, a prequel to the Alien series (sort of, yes, no, yes). But for some reason I was so excited to learn that Fassbender's character is a robot. Like, stupidly thrilled about it.

Title: Trading Cards
(one-shot, 3170 words)
Characters: Cassie & Rob
Summary: Every detective has a type of case that's particularly tough for them to deal with. They don't always talk about the reasons why.
Timeline/Spoilers: In The Woods (pre-Operation Vestal)
Rating: R
Warnings: Non-graphic descriptions of rape and murder of a teenager.
A/N: I've had a few different ideas for fics for this series and this really wasn't the one I expected to get out there first, but y'know, I guess something devoid of the cracky tropes and AU premises running around my head is a good place to start. I can't tell you how excited and nervous I am about writing for this canon, which has so little fandom activity for it that even using a word like "canon" in its vicinity feels kind of weird. *hides* I have other fandom projects in the way right now but I do really really hope to write more for DMS in the future.
Because the LJ readership is so small and this is a short one, this isn't beta'd, but anyone who might be willing to offer that service in the future can feel free to tell me so ;)
Also: I don't remember if it's mentioned in the book whether Rob was sent to any kind of therapist (and I think probably not) but I imagine one might have been involved at least immediately after the Knocknaree incident, so I took liberty with it.


( You get nightmares often? )

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LOL, somebody please join. I was thinking about organizing some kind of laid-back reread event so I figured it would be a good idea to have a separate place for it in case anybody else wanted to join in. And anyway, I have reason to be optimistic on the fanworks front. Just sayin'.

I may update about Man Men later. I think. Yeah.

Recently a couple little fancasts for Tana French's books have popped up on Tumblr, only some of which have been even remotely congruous to the descriptions of the characters or of the fact that the novels are set in Ireland or just of my image of them. Since the current theme at picspammy is "Crime and Law Enforcement" I figured it would be fitting to stop whining and do my own. I had a hard time narrowing down how many characters I would do and settled on sticking to the guards and, hypocritically enough, I've managed to only cast half of the characters who would ideally be played by Irish actors with Irish actors. But hey, no yankees.

These were fun. I have no doubt that I may end up doing some epic 2-disc fanmix for ITW/Likeness at some point, but this was a good place to start :D







BSG x Star Trek: Kara Thrace/Leonard McCoy - for kerrykhat

Rising Sign - Mike Doughty
Milk - Kings of Leon
I Found A Reason - Cat Power
Head Over Feet - Alanis Morissette
This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) - Talking Heads



Dublin Murder Squad (various characters) - for cosetteferaud

Sorrow - The National
Cross Bones Style - Cat Power
And All That Could Have Been - Nine Inch Nails
A Sorta Fairytale - Tori Amos
Paradise - Coldplay



Dublin Murder Squad x Lost: Grace "Lexie" Corrigan/James "Sawyer" Ford - for flowrs4ophelia

Brandy Alexander - Feist
Ramblin' Woman - Cat Power
She's Not There - The Zombies
Apply Some Pressure - Maximo Park
Flightless Bird, American Mouth - Iron & Wine


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Meme the first:

Comment to this post, and I will list seven things I want you to talk about. They might make sense or they might be totally random. Then post that list, with your commentary, to your journal. Other people can get lists from you, and the meme merrily perpetuates itself.

flowrs4ophelia gave me...

The 80s. I am often irritated with the stigma against the 80s that has always been in my generation. Especially the common statement that the music sucked, as if all of the popular (and unpopular) music that was made in all of ten years can be encapsulated by crappy new wave. The most regrettable thing about the 80s was a lot of the fashion, but that's fashion for you.

James "Sawyer" Ford. I don't know what I can say about Sawyer that I haven't probably already flailed about on teh LJ except that he's probably the one character I would keep in if I ever wrote that pan-fandom crossover craziness based on Lost that I'm pretty sure I've talked about before. And his love of reading continues to amuse me throughout the show. I like to imagine that he's never actually bought a novel in his life but has always been incapable of being in the same room as a book without picking it up and reading from page one and on until someone demands his attention.

your dream house. I don't really have one. Living on the beach would be pretty cool, but that'll never happen. Or, you know, a hobbit hole would be awesome.

Don/Peggy. This is one of those pairings I "ship" more in the sense that one of them can just...accidentally sneeze on the other and I'd be like THIS IS AWESOOOOME (I'm really only slightly exaggerating). Even when I feel it's too limiting to say that it's a completely 100% platonic relationship, if Don was to somehow grow into a person who could make a relationship like that work romantically and they were to fall in love and get married it would probably have to happen in a way that's an afterthought to all the other ways they more transparently love each other. And anyway...I just don't know yet if Peggy would ever go for it.

F. Scott Fitzgerald. I liked The Great Gatsby but I have almost no memory that would serve to help me explain why other than that I liked the writing style. (I'm useless at book reviews, seriously. I rarely hate books.)

marriage. I'll get married sooner or later but I'm just not excited about actually having a wedding and putting my personal life on parade so that everybody can gush at me with supposedly universal sentiments about emotions that I don't really think are universal at all? A lot of my friends pretty much agree that it's not really crossing any threshold you shouldn't have already crossed if you're that committed to someone and that it's basically just a good excuse to have a big party and yes, weddings are lots of fun, but the mere thought of being the center of attention at one just makes we want to crawl into a hole. Probably the biggest reason I'm so hostile to the idea of getting married is because as soon as I do, the questions about when I'm getting married will turn into the unexplainably socially acceptable harassment about when I'm going to have children, which is ten times more of a sore spot. And then if you make the case to me about it being financially practical, I point you to the fact that that isn't something everyone who's in a committed relationship is able to enjoy in my country, sooo.

McCoy/Chapel. This is probably my favorite Star Trek pairing that admittedly has very little basis in canon. I have this thing for characters having unrequited (or otherwise ~not-meant-to-be crushes) that make them miss out on the possibility of what's right in front of them, so I wish there were more (or any) fics that actually explored Chapel going from having the Spock crush to finally starting to uh, notice McCoy. My favorite McChapel fic which is unrelated to that but still amazing is this one.


Meme the second (snagging this from pikasafire):



The RULES:
Give me a fandom/pairing and I will make you a mini fanmix of between 3-6 songs! (It would be cool to leave a couple to choose from, but whatever. If I really like the idea it may end up longer and in a separate post.)

Fandoms I feel fanmixy about:
Star Trek XI, Sherlock, Battlestar Galactica, Tiger & Bunny, Mad Men, Harry Potter, Dublin Murder Squad. Cracky/crazy crossover ideas welcome.

Because of a recent post at thequestionclub I've come to realize that the occasional audience who will give a brief applause at the end of a movie in the theater is not only apparently a thing of the midwest, but a great annoyance to people not from the midwest. I felt like I needed to explain to people that we're not all a bunch of ignorant farmers who can't distinguish between a film festival and a local showing of a movie, that it's more of a ~feeling of community~ thing. Of course it's totally acceptable to scream about sports in your living room where the athletes can't hear you, though. *eyeroll*

I'm finally catching up on this last season of Southland and about five or so episodes in I'm already woeful that the season is so short. Cooper and Tang are making an unexpectedly awesome partnership. Lucy Liu is still listed as a guest star so I hope she's still going to be around a while, but in other news she's WATSON, so.

So I saw The Hunger Games and I had lots of feelings but I feel unqualified to talk about them because I thought I didn't really want to read the books and I guess I'm gonna have to. No warnings about Mockingjay are needed, I already know it pissed off a lot of people. Assumptions that I will dislike the ending of something just because most people did make me kind of prickly anyway.
But yeah, I'm getting slightly annoyed about the huge number of people that don't think the world was fleshed out enough/weren't able to take for granted that a dystopia like that would even be possible, like the movie needed to be heavy on pithy exposition-heavy conversations for anybody to read between the lines. Please to be looking up "hegemony" in a dictionary/studying more history. Sure, you probably have to suspend disbelief to an extent, but nobody ever makes that complaint about Brave New World, do they? For the most part I could see some younger audiences having some trouble grasping the politics rather than just accepting that Villains Are Evil, but maybe that isn't giving them enough credit.
And then there's the Team Peeta/Team Gale bullshit that I think probably comes from a confirmation-biased readership that wouldn't have expected a romance and wouldn't see this series as a romance if it had been written by a male. I like both characters enough? Can I just be Team Cinna?
As you can see, I have nothing to say about The Hunger Games.

I am in St. Louis right now and my sister and I are probably going to the Science Center today to check out the Star Trek exhibition. Woo!

Soooo haven't updated in forever.

1. As you all know, I went on a CRUUUIISE. It was the first time my sheltered midwestern ass had ever been outside the US, so it was pretty exciting. My favorite was Cozumel even though all we really did there was drive around in an open-top Jeep avoiding hitting these huge iguanas and feeling like we were in Jurassic Park or something. And we went on a tequila tour and drank really good really expensive tequila. It was so beautiful there and urgh, I got sunburned SO BAD despite putting on sunscreen that morning and that had to be the night we had the formal dinner back on the ship so I was supposed to look all nice and was very...pink :/

LOL, days before I left there were all these news stories about stuff like E. coli break-outs happening on these cruise ships and one or two them was actually the cruise line we were on so people kept going "Oh, uh-oh" when I told them I was going on a cruise. Well, I know how to wash a hand and apparently so did everyone else cause as far as I know nobody got sick.

Also, we were in New Orleans for a day and got to hang out at one of the Mardi Gras parades when we got back (It is decidedly G-rated in the daytime). So we screamed for free shit (they were throwing everything from cups to bags of potato chips, it was kind of funny) and then ate at an amazing seafood restaurant.

Bluh, so there may be pictures from this trip later, I don't know. I never take pictures but Shep's mama is trying to get to me a disc full of pictures she took.

2. Uuum, I watched the first season of Hell On Wheels. Is anyone watching this show? It didn't blow my face off, but it's good. Colm Meaney, if you've never seen him play an asshole before, makes a very good asshole with a sorta complicated vulnerable side. One of the big highlights for me is that Christopher Heyerdahl (Alistair 2.0 in SPN!) is a semi-regular as the seedy security officer. And there's plenty of eye candy - the main character reminds me a bit of Viggo Mortensen (yum?) and I'm really starting to ship him with the predictable love interest of one of the lead females (the inclusion of female characters really isn't bad, considering the setting). The downside is that there are definitely a couple mostly bland characters, though one of the two I find really boring I do start to warm up to a lot at the end of S1.

3. I am no longer living with my parents. I don't think I could stand it anymore if I was.

4. As it seems to come up in half of the articles/rhetoric against gay marriage that I come across, I am forever perplexed at the "What's next? LEGALIZED GROUP MARRIAGE??!?!?!!? OMG" idea spouted by people who clearly believe it is this fool-proof weapon of argument that will shock all of us into clutching our pearls. Like, LOL, you must not have heard me correctly when I said that I really do not care what other people do with their sex/love lives as long as it's negotiated and desired between consenting adults.

5. Oh, and I saw This Means War. Both positive and negative opinions about the movie seem unanimous in stating that the real love story is between the main dudes (Ebert actually said, "Clearly they are gay.") This is fact.
Now, I don't think Chris is a terrible actor, but in a movie where he has many scenes with Tom Hardy he is out-acted, to the point that it was almost distracting. I'm not much of a fangirl of Tom but I am a fan (as much as I can be while only having seen him in a few things).( spoilers )

If you read this, leave me a one-word comment about your day that starts with the third letter of your LJ USERNAME. Only one word please. Then repost so I can leave a word for you!

Also, very un-dire situation: My .gif bank seems to have way more in the pissed-off/unhappy category than gifs of flails. So if anyone could just spam me with gifs of ~happiness~ that would be awesome (none of this girl please, agh what the hell is that one even from, I'm so sick of her face).

Post a bunch of snippets from all the WIPs on your hard drive.

I have a lot of unfinished crap, so it's not everything. These are somewhat in the order of priority/the likelihood of them ever being finished. Also, since one or two of these is kinda spoilery (I mean more for the fics than the fandoms) and it's also quite a mix of fandoms, I'm specifying what they are.
And I guess I could "answer questions" about them but I left that part out too X |

( Let's see...one ST, one T&B, one DMS, two SPN WIPs...oh and that crossover. With some tiny bits of commentary n stuff. )

So, Tinker Tailer Soldier Spy. Is it not as good or about the same if you already know who the mole is?
I've heard this film is so confusing they were actually handing out these sort of cheat sheets at screenings though. LOL

Also, come on, there's got to be a Sherlock k-meme going on somewhere? I found one but it looked pretty dead.

It's slowly but surely beginning to sink in for me that Benedict Cumberbatch is going to be in the next Star Trek. I hope he gets a super-gritty role, doesn't necessarily look pretty and acts his ass off. Whatever happens, he's probably going to be a much cooler bad guy then Nero.

Sooo my seasonal work is over, at least until they call me in again some time in March. I really don't want to end up needing the job then so I'm taking it as motivation to get full-time work before then, but I'm not getting my hopes up that will work out.
I hate hate hate job hunting so much. You should give me a job because otherwise I won't have health insurance that's why.

But in good news that's at least good news to me, I have very randomly been having a lot of thinky thoughts about my fantasy novel I haven't touched since I wrote a very rough draft of it in college, and I think, for real this time, I know how it ends (I mean, I pretty much already knew how it would end since a year ago but I didn't know how to orchestrate it in a ~dramatically satisfying way, w/e). Anyway, I've been doing a lot of mental revisiting of the characters and getting privately very emotional about this and it's a funny kind of happy because I can't just celebrate and get drunk with myself over basically nothing but having a fuck-ton of work to do.

It still depresses me that I don't know how to summarize the plot in less than a paragraph, though. That doesn't feel like a good sign.


Agh, so there's no way I'm going to address all my feels about the last Sherlock episode so let's just have a brief list of things I loved about this last season:
-Lestrade ("Oh God. Ah Christ.")
-Adler
-Molly
-The fact that Molly and Lestrade totally need to get together.
-The fact that John and Sherlock continue to have occasional giggle fits and generally act like immature BFFs sometimes <3 <3 <3
-Moriarty's music choices.
-Sherlock's fucking tears.
-Everything about John Watson forever.
-On a spoilery note about John: ( This is not the most astute observation but )

I am not optimistic about the next series of Skins. I've heard so many little things about it that add up to me feeling like they're just bein like..."Now that we got your attention we're just gonna do the same old tired shit."
I was unaware that one of the novels apparently heavily went with the idea of Mini being very attracted to Liv. I would be insanely happy about this, but the novels are probably really bad and it seems about as valid as somebody writing it in fanfic at this point :/

I am experiencing my occasional hankering to watch The Departed, which I sadly do not own. Though, one of these days I really need to watch the Hong Kong movie it's based on.

+ As We Would Lay and Learn - (Queer As Folk; Brian/Michael)
+ Dog Years - (Star Trek; self-indulgent OC background fic XD)
+ A Game Called Life - (Harry Potter; gen)
+ The Counterfeits - for startrekbigbang (Star Trek; gen; Kirk/Spock, sorta Kirk/OC)
+ a couple commentfics I don't really care about linking.
+ ACTIVE WIPs (because this list looks depressing despite hitting over 114K)
-- In Our Nature: Book Two (Star Trek)
-- The Trail's End (Battlestar Galactica)
-- Thieves (Tiger & Bunny)
-- Trapdoors (Inception/Star Trek)
-- I'm Not Your Favorite Lover (Dublin Murder Squad)

( :questions: )

Delicious needs to stop changing things. Just when I think "OK, I miss the way it used to be but I guess I can get used to this" something else goes wonky. Ever since they added the feature so that you can have spaces in your tags, tags that weren't filled out with commas are all smushed in as one tag (the tags are still searchable somehow, I think, but it still bugs me). And while I'd formerly had issues with bookmarks refusing to be deleted, I had the much worse horror of being unable to find a link that I swear I had bookmarked, which is going to make me lose sleep wondering how many of my links have disappeared.

There's no way I'll be able to remember much of everything I had to say about Lost buuut here are some random disorganized and overlong thoughts about s3 and 4... ( Jack fans be warned... )


My New Year's Eve was fiiine. We went down to Carbondale to see my brother's 70s rock tribute band...He changes up his bands/genres all the time but he always has the same kickass drummer and of course he's not a shabby bass player so it's always a good time. I was a leetle disappointed they didn't play "Cracked Actor" after he said they were learning it but they hit a couple of my favorite Stones tunes so I cannot complain. The irrefutable highlight of the evening was that my brother's girl (who is now his BETROTHED :D) got my dad to dance with her. There were plenty of people over fifty, if not sixty, getting down in this bar. Cardondale isn't a rowdy town because of the school; SIU is a party school because of the town.

Let's do this meme:

Give me a fandom and I'll answer the following:
Favorite character:
Least Favorite character:
5 Favorite ships (canon or non-canon):
Character I find most attractive:
Character I would marry:
Character I would be best friends with:
a random thought:
An unpopular opinion:
my canon OTP:
Non-canon OTP:
most badass character:
pairing I am not a fan of:
character I feel the writers screwed up (in one way or another):
favourite friendship:
character I want to adopt or be adopted by:

I guess I never mentioned that I'm being dragged along to the boyfriend's huge family reunion in Oklahoma City. Well, there's internet where I'm staying, so here I am anyway.

During the ride over (which was helll for various reasons I don't want to bitch about, whatever) I watched Reservoir Dogs. I'd seen it before, some time when I was in high school, and I remember not disliking it but saying for the longest time I'd rank it close to the bottom of all of Tarantino's films. When I realized I couldn't even remember that much about it I figured I should watch it again.
Well, LOL NEVERMIND. Apparently Reservoir Dogs is my favorite Tarantino movie. Damn.

No, I still have not flailed about Lost, but it's going to end up being about seasons 3 and 4 when I do.

I swear it takes over a week of some kind of adjustment period for me to get absolutely anything done outside of work when I get a new job. Even with only working these little four-hour shifts the rest of my day keeps getting sucked into this weird "What is my routine again?" funk. And Sara wants to watch so much Lost, which is difficult to resist. Long rambling post about season three, now that I'm at the end of it, is probably coming soon.
As for the work, it's not bad. The test I'm scoring has a less complicated rubric so it took a lot less time to get used to. I'm definitely not missing the nine-hour days I took on last time.

I am getting pretty excited about Girl With the Dragon Tattoo...There's an 8-minute trailer for it on iTunes right now.
I do feel a little annoying for not really giving a damn about the book (or I guess not being motivated to brave the discomfort of reading it) and then not really giving a damn about the Swedish film and then being excited about the new one, but I admit it took Daniel Craig and David Fincher and a certain Trent Reznor to make me look like this dinosaur.

I don't think it's going to be a perfect movie. I can admit that putting this kind of story in the hands of a director who's been less than perfect with the treatment of female characters in the past...could be a problem. But damn, I feel like I'm going to like, platonically ship the crap out of these two characters even without knowing very much about the novel. I have high hopes.

Thank God Rooney Mara is a better actress than her sister. I miss when Kate Mara was just Ennis del Mar's adorable button-nosed daughter in Brokeback Mountain to me; her character in American Horror Story is so fucking jarring after a while. (I feel bad for saying this because it would really kill me if my sister and I were both actresses or something and she was far more acclaimed than I was, LOL.)

I am behind on Misfits, Walking Dead, and American Horror Story. The only thing I seem to keep up with is SPN. Speaking of Supernatural, there is...a certain spoiler going around, and I'm not unhappy about it, but I wish I didn't know about it.

Seems like no one ever comments on these even on the journals for the popular kids, but w/e...

1) Comment with a story I've written, and I will tell you one thing I knew, learned, or wondered about while writing the story that didn't make it onto the page. [I have a decent memory for this kind of thing so I'll take a crack at just about anything, but the mini master post would be good to pick from.]

OR

2) Pick a paragraph (or any passage less than 500 words) from any story I've written, and comment to this post with that selection. I will then give you a DVD commentary on that snippet: what I was thinking when I wrote it, why I wrote it in the first place, what's going on in the characters' heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment means in the context of the rest of the fic, lots of awful puns, and anything else that you'd expect to find on a DVD commentary track.

I'm so irritated about that last Walking Dead episode. ( Here's why. )


Hey, remember how I was watching Lost? I am still watching Lost. Just slowly. I'm somewhere in season 3, which is quite better than S2. This show is after making me want to read tons of femmeslash that probably doesn't exist.


It is just not good that I have discovered the clothing of Out Of Print, because every time they come out with something in a book I love I'm gonna be all grabby-hands. Seriously if they had the Slaughterhouse-Five design in the sweatshirt style I could have easily been sucked out of eighty + dollars; as it is I am happy with the adorable Wizard of Oz one. That Pride & Prejudice design is also so pretty it makes me more tempted to actually read Jane Austen. Right, I know, blasphemy. I've just never been super-inclined.