Miss Cellaneous

As for that latest infamous SGA Season Five Promo Pic (spoilery, duh)?

( My brief visual comment after five stolen minutes with PhotoShop )

ETA: Back on the Bauhaus sofa with my knee up, and really, you might want to do as I do right now -- no, not the couch thing, I mean reading all the comments to thingswithwings's snarky post on that abomination. Gold, I tell you.

Guys, I've been reading through this year's mcshep_match entries and noticed there aren't all that many comments to the stories, and almost no one ever tries to guess the writer. Which is half the fun!

Because I'm a participant, I haven't given feedback or made recommendations -- I'll do so after the end & the reveal, and also across the board, but really, friendsromanscountrymen, don't you perhaps want to take up the slack in the mean time?

Check out the Away Team stories especially. & ;-) Vote! (And do take a guess at which story is mine. It's so very obvious, anyway. *g* Here's a list of the Team Members.)

And now, off to work.

Oh, God, my heart is racing, people.

As for the German team? ROCK ON! ♥

In fannish, SGA-ish news, I also made this from the first part of Ardhanarishvara: ( an Ard wordle that says it all )

I have no idea if the poster was serious, but oh, this fandomsecret made me smile.

( Not actually fandom-specific PostSecret behind the cut )

PS: Where are all the Atlantis ones? SGA fandom, don't let me down!

PPS: Chris Carter, stop making Scully cry. Also, I hate the fact that I keep accidentally adding a "t" to your first name. &>:-(

PPPS: Stop hurting Mulder, while you're at it. Je-sus. I remember Mulder!Torture being an actual genre, but friends, Americans, countrymen -- don't emulate a creator who clearly has no idea how to treat his characters, much like those Panda bear mommies that let their cubs starve to death rather than nurse 'em.

Like most people, I wasn't interested in the LiveJournal User-Representative Election. But I did read my flist and don't take kindly to candidates who pursue commenters into their personal ljs, are members of such "fun" communities as rape_an_ljer, and let their bullying internet buddies post seizure-inducing pics into rydra_wong's lj (who has now locked everything down).

I'd rather have some halfway sensible fandom folks speak for me, you know? Here's a comprehensive post on the fandom candidates.

( Re: SGA )

Back in my own apartment after a great weekend -- birthday barbecue in Mikey's tent & garden where we girls conducted strictly scientific experiments on the boys, meeting up with another old friend on Saturday. Euro-types know what turning on the tv that day meant: Grand Prix d'Eurovision: We wept for humanity. Okay, mostly we laughed. My father never watches this sort of thing, but that didn't stop him from being a bit huffy about Germany making last place along with the UK & Poland.

In fannish news, I made a few icons off pics for the mcshep_match Screencap Challenge --

take a look at what screamed Away! Team to me: 5 screencaps + 1 loltastic manip

( 5 John/Rodney Icons )

I may have decided to join mcshep_match -- or try to, anyway.

As requested by this our pre-season friendly, in small study breaks and increments, I made icons for the McShep Match --

check out my icons and vote for your favourites!

Right, you want to see examples....

sample#1	sample#2	sample#3

Now, go get 'em!

Before I'm off, here's a little someting that will ( make my SGA posse grin )

Not a very productive day, so let me cap it with a photo taken on the SGA set, spoilery for the S4 Finale, featuring my favourite:

( Pic! )

1. SGA:

I used to idly think it was just individual folks misremembering things, which totally happens (all the time when it comes to yours truly, God knows), but I've now seen it pop up again in the latest SGA Noticeboard announcement, so for the record:

SGA Big Bang deserved its not-limited-to-McShep name from the beginning because svmadelyn set it up for one slash, one het, and one femslash pairing after polling for ship popularity, despite other Big Bangs in other fandoms only ever allowing one single pairing. Authors for the het'n femslash couples signed up and joined their respective writing & chat groups. Alas, they just didn't complete their stories.

As I already mentioned elsewhere, man, these are ten minutes of my life I'll never get back.

ETA: svmadelyn adds her two cents below, if you're one of the five people still interested. 0 :-)


2. General:

- astridv found awesome shots of art made with only one sheet of paper (from an exhibition in the Hirshhorn Museum in DC).

- andrastewhite muses on Season One of 'Dexter.' There are links to more excellent essays in the comments!

( SGA 4x20 The Last Man )

I am painting my toenails and have to say yet again that these are the best thing ever. How did humanity survive before? (I know, I know: used balled up tissues, tiny rags, or didn't care.)

An ljfriend's post on meeting a Physics Nobel Prize winner reminded me of how, in the display of a bookstore, I saw, "The Beginner's Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize" by P. C. Doherty, and immediately thought of the most fitting gift for one Dr. Rodney McKay.

Also--thus the above action--I'll be gone for a little 5-day vacation with a few pals till Friday. There will be frolicking in the waves of one of these holiday parks with waterslides, and also in Amsterdam (if the weather forecast is to be believed, that'll also involve lots of water; of course: welcome to the Netherlands & ;-).

( SGA 4x19 The Kindred II )

Since I promised myself an ljpost after going over the previous section in the script I'm working on, and since I was reminded of both the episode and the guh-some looks of one Joe Flanigan by thegrrrl2002's last picspam, I'll share with you ( something that bugged me about 'Outcast' )

ETA: In the first comment, eleveninches gives us the best explanation-slash-theory, also but not exclusively pertaining to my complaints above. ETAII: See also thegrrrl2002's musings!

( 5 characters you have or had a crush on/find attractive but who would be a boyfriend or girlfriend in real life )

Got all my planned studying done, and then some. Phew.

smittywing says,

I have three classes today and I'm over the negativity. Give me your SGA gal pics, your fic recs about our ladies, point me to the art, leave me a drabble, prompt me to give you one. Talk about when our women were awesome. I'll start.

I've posted some dial-up user hate-inducing picspam already; how 'bout you?

Wow, there really is a lot to say about middle names in the US. Thanks for sharing your family stories; I'll send grundbuch over to be properly enlightened by this anecdotal survey.

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The white smoke hasn't quite dissipated, so to speak, but the new head of the (Catholic) German Bishops' Conference, Archbishop Zollitsch, has already publicly stated that abolishing clerical celibacy is possible, as the latter "isn't theologically necessary," adding that such a change would, however, constitute "a revolution that a part of the Church would not support." Liberal statements plus rueful pragmatism? Maybe there's hope yet.

( Some more points of note, perhaps not only for German Catholics )

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Speaking of, ( in the Still Too True For Many category )

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SGA fans who care for Teyla, you may want to check out wneleh's post-and-poll here; even beyond that, I found the Pegasus/Athosian culture speculations in the comments worthwhile and interesting.

toomuchplor is hosting a new twist on the old challenge:

"So - six word stories in the comments, any fandom, any pairing, any genre."

Right now, it's way too Atlantis-heavy for some of you. & ;-) Come play!

Which reminds me -- she and I had the best-ever conversation regarding Rodney so-not-bottoming, thanks, over at thingswithwings, who had the liveliest fanfic!pet!peeves discussion. I think there's a certain Need To Know element, as in: Do I really need to know this ohmygod?, but really, if canon characterisation as applied to sexual preferences and habits interests you (and if you're reading this lj, it probably doesn't abhor you, at least), feel free to scroll down to my comment and the ones following it.

I continue to looove The Sarah Connor Chronicles. ::doodles little hearts:: Evil FOX, keeping me hangin' and hopin'. Icon recs, fic recs (gen so far, I'm thinking)?



ETA: Ooh, thanks to whoever it was who said awesome / things about me in svmadelyn's Valentine's Day Game!

If you're active in fandom, you should totally check it out; there's a good chance at least one friend left you an anonymous love note.

If I were into the "x AUs I'm not writing" meme, I'd totally (not) do a Vineyard AU, you know? ( Not just John & Rodney's Big Wine Adventure... )

...but well, I'm not. I'm just trying to get my fix of John'n Rodney and tasty wine at the same time.

(Then again, what are AUs, after all, than a fic-writing way of combining two things we love--our pairing or dynamic of choice with a classic movie, the world of academia, or *gasp* high school?)

( Five Things on SGA 4x16 )


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In non-fannish news, have you seen Knut's successor-ess already? NSFPWDLPBA (not safe for people who don't like polar bears anymore)!

Kinda tired after a day of candy-catching, crowds-ducking, and sight-seeing with Jen, tomorrow's going to be X-treme Celebrating again. Exercises done, to the tune of Life on Mars (which she's really taken to *g*).

After reading the flist, I'll add something that might interest SGA folks (and not even all of those): the McKay-Sheppard comm policy changes as a result of the poll...and my less than happy response to it.

( Brief addition so I wouldn't be all tl;dr )

Good afternoon, SGA fandom! ( Wankity wank! )

We might start posting Ard tonight. Hmm.

( IM conversations re: John. PG-13 for language & situation. )

How to better spend the First Day of Christmas than lazying about under the Christmas tree next to the nativity scene? That's where our Italian couch stands, that most perfect union of steel and black leather--now with cozy blanket of gold-patterned satin and black fur.

Idle hands etc. pp.: I played around with on-line quizzes as to determine the SGA Team's character types. Here's a Myers-Briggs Type Indicator introduction about the measuring of Extroversion v. Introversion, Sensing v. Intuition, Thinking v. Feeling, and Judging v. Perceiving. As always, these are just for fun and by no means set in stone for me; I'd be interested in what you think works best.

( John Sheppard )

( Rodney McKay )

Now. If you think I didn't try to match them up in the Marriage Test, you're dead wrong. ( Results for John & Rodney )

( Teyla Emmagan )

( Ronon Dex )

Off to bed with me now--we're calling my sister in Australia at 8am tomorrow morning. Directly after that, off to Christmas Mass in the Cathedral with grundbuch, who may be a non-churchgoing Protestant but who is still utterly fascinated by the rites and rituals of the Catholic church. After that, some organisation, dinner (not with each other, though, but the families) and a movie.

mcalex22 and thebratqueen, your Christmas/Holiday cards arrived! Thank you so much. ♥

Are dentists in your country the best salespeople ever, too? I don't think I've ever been in the office of a dentist who wasn't tall and impeccably groomed, who didn't first tell me all about his sincere dedication to great craftsmanship and then try to sell me all sorts of extra services and materials for my teeth? Also, all mercury-free (and thus not, you know, free) fillings cost way more money than I can spare at the moment. Is there a way to swap Santa Claus for the Tooth Fairy?

That said, I came home from this annual check-up with the gifts of a new Swiss state-of-the-art toothbrush (I KNOW. Or rather, I don't), a bottle of Listerine Orange, and a felt-tipped toothpick to use in lieu of my (fluffy!) floss...as well as the latest brushing techniques. Because, well, ( you know what this dentist would tell you? )

Sorry 'bout that.

Otherwise, I made a new John/Rodney icon for yours truly and Key Lime Apple Almond muffins for my OSG friends tomorrow. It's just, uh, entirely possible that I forgot one of the two apples. *facepalm* They came out fine; it's just that I like my cakes very fruity, you know?

...don't say it.

Because I really want to read what y'all have to say, here, divided into what I liked and what I didn't, are a few ( thoughts on SGA 4x09 Miller's Crossing )

Dexter 2x09? Can I just say, HOLY SHIT!? ::has to watch next one, too::

No, I still haven't looked at the SGA 4x09 reviews & analyses. Then again, is anyone really waiting with bated breath? Still bursting with love for John and Rodney, in any case, so I did make ( 3 quick McShep icons )

Also, 'tis the season again:

Happy Hanukkah!

I could wax not-quite-poetically about that well-known fact of Jewish holidays beginning at sundown, but the truth is, vaznetti posted her own greetings, and I went, Ooh, right!

I watched SGA 8x09Miller's Crossing today after my first day at the new place.

Have read all the post-ep fanfic but not a single review or analysis yet, as I want to post mine unbiased. Tomorrow, then: Rome, built, day.

That said, do have this tiny Millers Crossing episode tag. ciderpress kindly looked this over (but could unfortunately not be pressured into writing fanfic herself).

( 1 1/2 drabble. McShep. Rated R. )

Whoever nominated this piece of fanart for the McShep Awards -- thank you. You're totally the wind beneath my wings.

Shower now, then bed, then -- tomorrow -- the next exam, but I feel like telling y'all that I loved SGA 307 "Missing" more than all the chocolate in my last post. ♥

Here, have a Teyla icon (Keller ones in this batch):