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apocalypsosIt was really easy to tell that I was aggravated at work last night because I started out the night cracking jokes about the one guy who tried to ask me out on IM while I was trying to get my Bigbang finished Monday night and ended it complaining that I really didn't want to hear anymore about how the only guys who seem to hit on me are unattractive and drunk.
On the plus side, the list of Bigbang fics makes me giddy in my pants (even though I'm terrified at how much tweaking I'll have to do to my story and I told myself I'd let it sit for a week before hitting it, which just makes it that much worse). *grabbyhands*
Oh, and for the record, since the list has been revealed, I guess now I can admit that I wrote twenty thousand words of RPS AU in which the CW gang are actors by day and costumed superheroes by night. *beams*
... what? Why are you looking at me like that?
I've also got my weekend planned out already.
1. Have Smirnoff handy.
2. Drunken recaps!
3.Leave bed occasionally String cable for computer into living room, not have to leave the bed for anything but food or the bathroom for DAYS.
Yes, I've planned my sluggitude. FEAR ME.
So, yes. Thursday television! Because network executives want me to suffer by scheduling everything at the same damn time.
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See, this is why it's distracting to fangirl a show that's set in your hometown area but not filmed there -- because my immediate thought as soon as they showed them in the Steamtown Mall food court (*cough*) was, "Oh, those chairs are WAY too nice to be in our mall."
I also giggled when Angela was sitting there reading an Electric City. Heh. Those damn things are everywhere. (And they're free, which explains why they're everywhere.)
Michael talking about Jan at the girls' day out was so pathetic. Seriously, the man has no understanding of how to interact with other people at ALL. It's almost clinical. I always feel like that's why most of these people feel the occasional need to help him out, because it's not so much that he's intentionally cruel (except to Toby) as much as he's astoundingly clueless.
And how can I like Karen and yet still want Jim to break up with her? Presumably because I don't want Jim and Pam to hook up while he's still with Karen, I guess. I don't hate her at all, but I do dislike the needling she and Pam keep doing. Not that I blame them fighting over a guy like Jim -- God knows you can't find a guy like that in Scranton to save your life. (Not that I'm speaking from experience or anything. *cough*)
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Arrested Development and Knight's Tale shoutouts! And that, your Honor, is why my heart belongs to Ugly Betty. *beams* (Well, part of my heart. The part that's not watching GA and SPN and The Office and Heroes and Shear Genius. Er, hi.)
Oh, poor Daniel and his sex addiction. *sigh* I don't know. I guess it's not so much that I don't want him to be a manwhore as much as I'd like him to be a reformed manwhore without resorting to wonder drugs from Europe or whatever.
I want to sweep Alexis into my arms and give her a great big hug and tell her, "Oh, sweetie, you'll find someone who's not a total skeeze." And they'd better give her a real someone to fall in love with eventually, too. I want her to find a real boy who loves her even though she used to be a real boy too.
Also ... go, Hilda! God, I love the Suarezes. Under all the drama and silliness, they're just so damn functional and real and lovely. In the TWoP recap for last week there's a bit about that scene where Hilda asks Justin whether she should accept Santos's proposal where the recapper says, "Aw, Hilda is a really good mom," and then when Justin said to go ahead and do what she wants they said, "Aw, Justin is a really good kid," and they ARE. And if it was just a show about the two of them I would totally love it and watch it always and forever, amen. :)
I totally want to write fic where Jake Foley beats up Deputy Leo. I wonder why.
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I love how everybody's all, "Let's get the 'Oh, Dean' out of the way first and foremost." Because, HA. Yes. YESYESYES.
Several points --
1. I've said it before and I'll say it again -- taken out of the context of hunting things and saving people ... Dean? Yeah, he's an ass. Even in the context of the hunting he's pretty awful in general. I mean, yes, WE think he's wonderful but dealing with that guy on a daily basis, never mind growing up with him, has got to be a stone cold bitch. I'm such a Dean girl, but that's with the understanding that if that guy came up to me at a bar and smarmed all over me I'd probably throw his drink in his face, big pretty green eyes or not. And that's even before I learned he had no home, no job, a criminal record, questionable hygiene and eating habits, and a trunk full of weapons. You know those guys you see from across a bar and you think, "That man right there is packing enough STDs for a dozen CDC research grants?" That's Dean. He may be a hero, but he's also a pig and a jerk and it's amazing that anybody puts up with him.
The thing is that Dean gets that.
He knows damn well he's a very flawed individual. That he drinks and carouses and womanizes and that even in a normal life he's probably been arrested once or twice. That it takes work to love him in a real-world setting.
But underneath it all he is a very good man with a heart the size of a mountain. And as long as everybody else in his life is happy, it doesn't matter if he's got problems.
2. After this episode I keep going back to the fight John and Sam had that led to Sam leaving for Stanford. I know a lot of fans are like, "God, John was such an asshole," but I always think back to how much John expressed a desire for his boys to have a normal life. If Sam had left for college still maintaining a good relationship with his family, he's still there. He may not be hunting, but he's still tied into that life. I've always pictured that fight as being John's awkward fumbling way of giving Sam that normal life by not giving him the out of, "Oh, you're in the area hunting. Want company?" (Not that I'm sure Sam would have said that, but he would have had that option, and I'm not sure John wanted that for him.)
Man, Dean is SO John's son.
3. I finally find a female character I want to ship with Dean and she's an imaginary girlfriend from a beer ad. HEEEE.
4. That whole thing about it taking work to love Dean in a real-life setting ...
Yes, Dean is flawed, but his flaws evaporate when he's saving people. He really is a big damn hero in those situation. He is at his best when he's got a gun in his hand and a monster to fight, and because this other Sam's never seen that I'm not the least bit surprised he and Dean barely speak.
5. I want to write dreamworld fic like crazy, and if it hadn't been for that utterly heartbreaking scene in the warehouse I would have SUCH an easier time with it. Like, I have this mental image of Dean going back and leaving the old Dean behind, and old Dean being all, "Dude, what are we doing here?" and Sam knowing but not telling, and then ... you know, he's Sam. He gets curious. And he starts looking stuff up and realizes that these things do exist and they are real, and he tries to talk to Dean about it, but this Dean's all, "Man, you have GOT to get away from those damn books, you big nerd." And he kind of misses the fake Dean a little. So he talks to Jess about it, and she thinks he needs to ... I don't know, take a vacation or something. And they take a weekend off and go out to this little motel in the middle of nowhere this one fall weekend, and when he wakes up one night Jess is on the ceiling --
ARGH. *headdesk*
And also maybe fic where Sam was the one who ended up there instead of Dean.
6. Oh, Dean. He wants to mow the lawn and eat a sandwich! He's just ... he's so damn simple. And I'm not saying that as an insult. He doesn't really NEED anything. Good food, doing something he likes and getting paid for it, a happy family, an awesome girl. (And also a HUGE flatscreen. Heh.)
7. The whole bitch-jerk exchange and Sam's response when Dean called him Sammy just hurt. Because, seriously, it's not just that he's not the Sam Dean knows. It's that they don't even like each other well enough to have in-jokes. I mean, my brother and I are eight years apart but we have lots of stuff like that, like when we're sitting next to each other in the back seats of cars we always whack our elbows together on purpose. And they don't even have that? AW. AWWWWWW.
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I didn't get to watch the entirety of Grey's Anatomy yet because I set my laptop to torrent the latest episode and forgot, duh, there were TWO of them, but I can say this much -- I will trade two Very Special Episodes about how angst-ridden Veronica and/or Logan are over their dating other people for four random shots of Piz without his shirt and with a new haircut.
I had a sudden realization about Shear Genius while discussing this week's episode with a coworker, and that is that Ben completely won me over because not only is he a tattooed boy (which I love) who likes to play with hair (which I love), but he also gets the nervous giggles (which I adore.) So, yeah.
On the plus side, the list of Bigbang fics makes me giddy in my pants (even though I'm terrified at how much tweaking I'll have to do to my story and I told myself I'd let it sit for a week before hitting it, which just makes it that much worse). *grabbyhands*
Oh, and for the record, since the list has been revealed, I guess now I can admit that I wrote twenty thousand words of RPS AU in which the CW gang are actors by day and costumed superheroes by night. *beams*
... what? Why are you looking at me like that?
I've also got my weekend planned out already.
1. Have Smirnoff handy.
2. Drunken recaps!
3.
Yes, I've planned my sluggitude. FEAR ME.
So, yes. Thursday television! Because network executives want me to suffer by scheduling everything at the same damn time.
*
See, this is why it's distracting to fangirl a show that's set in your hometown area but not filmed there -- because my immediate thought as soon as they showed them in the Steamtown Mall food court (*cough*) was, "Oh, those chairs are WAY too nice to be in our mall."
I also giggled when Angela was sitting there reading an Electric City. Heh. Those damn things are everywhere. (And they're free, which explains why they're everywhere.)
Michael talking about Jan at the girls' day out was so pathetic. Seriously, the man has no understanding of how to interact with other people at ALL. It's almost clinical. I always feel like that's why most of these people feel the occasional need to help him out, because it's not so much that he's intentionally cruel (except to Toby) as much as he's astoundingly clueless.
And how can I like Karen and yet still want Jim to break up with her? Presumably because I don't want Jim and Pam to hook up while he's still with Karen, I guess. I don't hate her at all, but I do dislike the needling she and Pam keep doing. Not that I blame them fighting over a guy like Jim -- God knows you can't find a guy like that in Scranton to save your life. (Not that I'm speaking from experience or anything. *cough*)
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Arrested Development and Knight's Tale shoutouts! And that, your Honor, is why my heart belongs to Ugly Betty. *beams* (Well, part of my heart. The part that's not watching GA and SPN and The Office and Heroes and Shear Genius. Er, hi.)
Oh, poor Daniel and his sex addiction. *sigh* I don't know. I guess it's not so much that I don't want him to be a manwhore as much as I'd like him to be a reformed manwhore without resorting to wonder drugs from Europe or whatever.
I want to sweep Alexis into my arms and give her a great big hug and tell her, "Oh, sweetie, you'll find someone who's not a total skeeze." And they'd better give her a real someone to fall in love with eventually, too. I want her to find a real boy who loves her even though she used to be a real boy too.
Also ... go, Hilda! God, I love the Suarezes. Under all the drama and silliness, they're just so damn functional and real and lovely. In the TWoP recap for last week there's a bit about that scene where Hilda asks Justin whether she should accept Santos's proposal where the recapper says, "Aw, Hilda is a really good mom," and then when Justin said to go ahead and do what she wants they said, "Aw, Justin is a really good kid," and they ARE. And if it was just a show about the two of them I would totally love it and watch it always and forever, amen. :)
I totally want to write fic where Jake Foley beats up Deputy Leo. I wonder why.
*
I love how everybody's all, "Let's get the 'Oh, Dean' out of the way first and foremost." Because, HA. Yes. YESYESYES.
Several points --
1. I've said it before and I'll say it again -- taken out of the context of hunting things and saving people ... Dean? Yeah, he's an ass. Even in the context of the hunting he's pretty awful in general. I mean, yes, WE think he's wonderful but dealing with that guy on a daily basis, never mind growing up with him, has got to be a stone cold bitch. I'm such a Dean girl, but that's with the understanding that if that guy came up to me at a bar and smarmed all over me I'd probably throw his drink in his face, big pretty green eyes or not. And that's even before I learned he had no home, no job, a criminal record, questionable hygiene and eating habits, and a trunk full of weapons. You know those guys you see from across a bar and you think, "That man right there is packing enough STDs for a dozen CDC research grants?" That's Dean. He may be a hero, but he's also a pig and a jerk and it's amazing that anybody puts up with him.
The thing is that Dean gets that.
He knows damn well he's a very flawed individual. That he drinks and carouses and womanizes and that even in a normal life he's probably been arrested once or twice. That it takes work to love him in a real-world setting.
But underneath it all he is a very good man with a heart the size of a mountain. And as long as everybody else in his life is happy, it doesn't matter if he's got problems.
2. After this episode I keep going back to the fight John and Sam had that led to Sam leaving for Stanford. I know a lot of fans are like, "God, John was such an asshole," but I always think back to how much John expressed a desire for his boys to have a normal life. If Sam had left for college still maintaining a good relationship with his family, he's still there. He may not be hunting, but he's still tied into that life. I've always pictured that fight as being John's awkward fumbling way of giving Sam that normal life by not giving him the out of, "Oh, you're in the area hunting. Want company?" (Not that I'm sure Sam would have said that, but he would have had that option, and I'm not sure John wanted that for him.)
Man, Dean is SO John's son.
3. I finally find a female character I want to ship with Dean and she's an imaginary girlfriend from a beer ad. HEEEE.
4. That whole thing about it taking work to love Dean in a real-life setting ...
Yes, Dean is flawed, but his flaws evaporate when he's saving people. He really is a big damn hero in those situation. He is at his best when he's got a gun in his hand and a monster to fight, and because this other Sam's never seen that I'm not the least bit surprised he and Dean barely speak.
5. I want to write dreamworld fic like crazy, and if it hadn't been for that utterly heartbreaking scene in the warehouse I would have SUCH an easier time with it. Like, I have this mental image of Dean going back and leaving the old Dean behind, and old Dean being all, "Dude, what are we doing here?" and Sam knowing but not telling, and then ... you know, he's Sam. He gets curious. And he starts looking stuff up and realizes that these things do exist and they are real, and he tries to talk to Dean about it, but this Dean's all, "Man, you have GOT to get away from those damn books, you big nerd." And he kind of misses the fake Dean a little. So he talks to Jess about it, and she thinks he needs to ... I don't know, take a vacation or something. And they take a weekend off and go out to this little motel in the middle of nowhere this one fall weekend, and when he wakes up one night Jess is on the ceiling --
ARGH. *headdesk*
And also maybe fic where Sam was the one who ended up there instead of Dean.
6. Oh, Dean. He wants to mow the lawn and eat a sandwich! He's just ... he's so damn simple. And I'm not saying that as an insult. He doesn't really NEED anything. Good food, doing something he likes and getting paid for it, a happy family, an awesome girl. (And also a HUGE flatscreen. Heh.)
7. The whole bitch-jerk exchange and Sam's response when Dean called him Sammy just hurt. Because, seriously, it's not just that he's not the Sam Dean knows. It's that they don't even like each other well enough to have in-jokes. I mean, my brother and I are eight years apart but we have lots of stuff like that, like when we're sitting next to each other in the back seats of cars we always whack our elbows together on purpose. And they don't even have that? AW. AWWWWWW.
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I didn't get to watch the entirety of Grey's Anatomy yet because I set my laptop to torrent the latest episode and forgot, duh, there were TWO of them, but I can say this much -- I will trade two Very Special Episodes about how angst-ridden Veronica and/or Logan are over their dating other people for four random shots of Piz without his shirt and with a new haircut.
I had a sudden realization about Shear Genius while discussing this week's episode with a coworker, and that is that Ben completely won me over because not only is he a tattooed boy (which I love) who likes to play with hair (which I love), but he also gets the nervous giggles (which I adore.) So, yeah.
