( The Fannish things: there are no spoilers, but there is some flailing )

LIFE things include angsting over getting my hair cut (to the point where I'm working myself into a neurosis of some kind), more birthdays than I can even think about, and an upcoming wedding for one of my good high school friends. Good stuff, but busy stuff!

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I'm not having a Great Day, so I thought I'd take a page out of Zip's book and think of five good things instead.

1. If I weighed only 170 pounds, I would totally be able to do an unassisted pull-up. Whee!
2. Crepecakes (halfway between a crepe and a pancake) are 1) easily made with some few leftover ingredients and 2) delicious.
3. Fresh, potted basil smells really, really good.
4. Other people do, in fact, care about parking lot safety.
5. Wacky dreams in which one finds out that one is supposed to become a superhero are AWESOME. Even with the miniskirts. :-)

Whew. That was harder than I liked. But I do feel better!

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I just saw a comment from ultranos that said that Stargate is the Hotel California of fandoms, because people move on but they never leave. I can personally attest to that.

Also, I think that once I'm in a fandom, I'm a tenacious little fangirl. Oh, I have my flings, but when a fandom gets me, it gets me HARD, and then I write fics. LOTS of fics. *g* I suppose I might be ready for another True Fandom in about two years or so.

In other news, I am on Pottermore! Let me know if you want my user name, and I'm TOTALLY a Ravenclaw, which I was hoping for with crossed fingers like whoa. :-) :-) :-)

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Title: Five Lovers Helen Never Took
Fandom: Sanctuary
Rating:PG
Category: Five Things, UST
Pairings: Helen/OMC, Helen/OFC, Helen/John, Helen/James, Helen/Nikola
Summary: Five times that Helen didn't take an opportunity that presented itself.

( There was someone before John )

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The meme post was over here, and I finally finished tonight! :-)

kedd wanted ( Helen/Nikola )

and ( Parker/Hardison )

annienau08 wanted ( Han/Leia )


kayim wanted ( Sam/Daniel )

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For some reason, it is very hard to convince grown people that My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic is awesome.

I can't imagine why.

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Well, my theory about how my immune system sucks has another data point! This time, though, I've started wondering if it is slightly allergy-related, because I remember getting sick last spring. I just can't remember if I was sick other times last year... I keep meaning to track it. It's not that bad, really--just a bit of sinus ick and fatigue.

YOU GUYS. My friend is getting married and so she had her bridal shower and a fun engagement/bachelorette-type party in which a bunch of us went to a karaoke place with private rooms, and I had a BLAST. I've done karaoke bars, which I find entirely too intimidating--something about getting in front of strangers and performing triggers my fright/giggling reflexes. BUT in a group of people I (mostly) knew, I sang "Dog Days are Over" and "Everlong." I'm not ENTIRELY sure that the applause after "Dog Days" wasn't because I didn't faint during it, and I'd love to have a recording of myself singing it to see if I totally sucked or not, because I honestly couldn't tell at the time. :-)

So, I did this meme thing, and I haven't actually managed to answer most of them, but I thought I'd post what I did have.


xfchemist wanted ( Sam/Jack )

and ( Jarod/Miss Parker )


macgyvergal wanted ( Helen/anyone else, so I picked Helen/Will )

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1. When people ask you something, you say, "Just a second," and then, when you get back to them, they say "never mind" and refuse to tell you what they wanted.

2. When people tell you something they mean to be cute or funny, but is, in fact, some anecdote about them behaving badly in a way that you don't find cute or funny at all.

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Snagged from annienau08

Give me a pairing and I'll tell you:

1. When or if I started shipping them:
2. What I think their challenge is:
3. What makes me happy about them:
4. What makes me sad about them:
5. What moment I wish had never happened:
6. Who I'd be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other:
7. My happily ever after for them:

Here are some ideas for fandoms: Stargate SG-1, Sanctuary, Fringe, Lost, CSI, Star Wars, Iron Man (movie), The Pretender, Leverage.

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I have a friend who got a tattoo of the Japanese kanji for, presumably, "peace"--it's kind of a long and funny story that probably wouldn't sound so funny if I tried to tell it here... but we were curious to know if anyone out there is an expert--or expert enough--to tell us if it did, in fact, say "peace."

From an internet search I came up with what seems to be the same symbols, but there seem to be a few different options.

Any takers?

( picture below! )

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YOU GUYS.

This show, it is SO GREAT. I just finished watching Desperate Measures and Wormhole X-Treme and Proving Ground, and I love it so much it HURTS.

1. I love how Desperate Measures is not "Team rescues Sam from really, really stupid people," but "Team helps Sam rescue herself from really, really stupid people." (Look, the really really stupid people should know better or at LEAST be more cautious, but whatever. Sam kicks ass the whole ep, even if she does get captured by two (three?) very questionable "ninjas.")

2. Wormhole X-Treme? It made me laugh on a not great day, and it just has so many fun, meta-y things. I don't think I'd seen this episode since the Sanctuary season.. two(?) ender with the rapid-fire Zap-zap-zap bit that goes on for two years (at LEAST), and when I got to that part of THIS ep, I just laughed and laughed and laughed and had to lean against the wall to keep from sliding into an absurd little puddle of laughing fish.

3. Watching Proving Ground while knowing what's going on is also pretty hilarious, mostly because there are all sorts of nifty tells throughout the whole Foothold Scenario. Also: Daniel on the phone with Jack and making sure he's not supposed to get shot this time is brilliant.

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Sometimes, for no real apparent reason, I throw up in the mornings. I haven't for a while, though, so I was surprised yesterday to find that this lovely and charming quirk had made a reappearance. Still, I wasn't alarmed, and I felt fine, so I went to my dentist appointment (which was awful), and then to work. I ate lunch, and dinner, and felt fine the rest of the day.

Except this morning I threw up again.

Now I'm sitting at home, debating whether or not I feel good enough for work.

I'm just a little frustrated, because I'm not sure WHY it happens. Allergies, maybe?

Ugh.

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[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.]

My words from surreallis: ( earthquakes, cupcakes, holidays, bookstores, tea, yellow, cold )

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Last night, after making myself some pasta with cheese, cabbage (fried, and so-so), and some tuna fish (don't even ask), I settled down to be COMPLETELY unproductive. I was so unproductive that I ended up watching Legend of the Seeker vids for quite a bit of the night, in between rounds of bejeweled.

Oh, LotS, with your epic hair and unexpected female friendship and gratuitous cleavage/thighs and pretty, pretty landscapes. *sighs dreamily* No matter how stupid I felt the plot got right at the end of season two, I will never, EVER forget that it did some things so, so right.

I am on the VERY LAST EPISODE of season four of Stargate. Jack not getting all his memos! Jaffa revenge thing! BLOWING UP A SUN.

Is it wrong, though, that I get depressed every time I watch Double Jeopardy? I feel like it's sort of wrong to mourn the robots, but they just get the short end of the stick, and it all happens at once, and they were separate people, damn it.

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If you're the kind of person who likes nearly impossible choices (but not necessarily impossible ones), then there's fun for you at the final round of sf_marchmadness today! It's Sam Carter versus Aeryn Sun--a very good matchup, indeed!

I am going to make carrot soup tonight, and I'm currently debating about adding the non-orange carrots I have to the mix. I think it might make it look disgusting, but I'm not sure. Thoughts?

My SG-1 rewatch is still going strong. I just finished 2010 this morning ( more nostalgia below )

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Any of you ever have one of those days when you watch one youtube video that was linked to you, and you're amused enough to click on another of that person's videos, and then you CANNOT STOP WATCHING THEIR CHANNEL?

No? Just me, then.

So today my plan was:

1. Sleep in.
2. Work out.
3. Eat breakfast.
4. Start laundry.
5. Watch videos.
6. Finish laundry.
7. Watch more videos.
8. Work up willpower to go to coworker's St. Patrick's Day party.

I... am actually doing pretty well, but I have this feeling that something in my life is going horribly wrong while I watch youtube videos.

*tells self that she's just imagining things*

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So, the poll looked like it was going to be close for a while, but I think we can safely call "Sam freakin Carter" the "bestest character ever."

Now that that's settled, I have an amazing, spectacular, fantabulous announcement! After I don't want to know how many years, I have completed one full, legitimate, standard push-up. Whee! Now, I just need to be able to do 10 in a row, and I'll be pretty darn happy.

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In the Spirit of March Madness:

Poll #1825998 SUPER AWESOME POLL
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 42

Which is the bestest character ever?

I was super bored, so I was flipping through one of my folders and reading snippets of things, and I found an incomplete NaNo novel in which a witch and an old woman go off on an adventure. It's actually pretty intriguing, especially since I TOTALLY FORGOT I WROTE IT, but the best parts are the parts where I obviously didn't know what came next and just made stuff up.

For instance, there's this part:

"Yeah, well, the more you know."

The plant just gave her a quizzical look, which Mina knew was justified since she was definitely not in character at the moment.

and this one:

Suddenly, a zombie appeared from behind a tree! In one horrible shamble, he approached them and then bit them, tearing at their flesh in an effort to get at their brains. Okay, not really.

What really happened is that they walked down into the fog

Oh, NaNo.

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