Variations on the same theme

Sci-fi-loving dudes! And dudes who like good movies. I'm feeling such a surge of Tim Minear love right now.

I want to see this movie. Like, yesterday. Can somebody please produce it?

I actually truly enjoyed the Christmas special. I thought it was well written, David was as excellent as ever, and they emphasised the horror that came with being the Doctor, which is all I could ask for. The bride even grew on me; Catherine Tate was excellent, too. It almost made me wish she would be his companion.

Now, I was just wondering if I ought to get this meme going again, because I'd loved doing it last time round, when it popped up on the flist. So, gakked from spritter: Leave a list of fictional characters in your journal that you would love to get a message from. It is your friend-list's mission, should they choose to accept it, to write you an in-character "letter" from a character on that list.

( Please humour me, and post this meme on your own journals! )

Thanks in advance. (Yes so I keep changing the list because I can't make up my bleedin' mind. Ssshhhh.)

The first 15 people to comment on this post, with a fandom, character or pairing and prompt of some sort get to request a drabble from you. If they feel like it, and only if they feel like it, requesters can post this in their journal and write a drabble for you.

And I swear to you people, I will actually write these drabbles straight off. No pushing it back, no waiting months for them. (And by drabble I mean tiny little ficlet. I can't be bothered with word counts.)

( The fandoms I'll write in. )

It's snowed! The garden is all white! ...and of course I'm going back to Paris, which means muddy snow (there's a word for it, I know there is... slug? slush? yes, slush) at best. Would it really have killed the weather gods to have it snow a couple days earlier, so we did get a white Christmas for once? *pouts*

Am catching the 2:50 train back to Paris, during which I shall not watch the Christmas Invasion, as I'm waiting for Joey, which is a big damn proof of my love really. I might watch some more Rome (rant upcoming), or that CSI:NY episode I downloaded because James Badge Dale is in it and I missed him in 24 Day Four, or write those drabbles I've promised people. Which, let's recap: one Harry/Remus (squick!! but shall do my best), one Vaughn/Sark (what is it with people asking me for slash? and not even of the pairings I actually ship? I write het and gen too, people!), and one Simon/Mal. Add to that the Chaucer ficlet I still owe the_grynne (no, I haven't forgotten!). Anything else? Come on, guys. Prompt me on more obscure, less written-about fandoms too, will you? Or tertiary characters you barely see in the big fandoms. Blaise Zabini and Dean Thomas deserve their drabble! Glorfindel! Scott Hope! Or, you know, whoever else. I feel like exploring things for the most part unexplored so far.

Finally, let's rant about Rome. This show rocks. And it's so crude at times. And there is much Puresex nudity. (James Purefoy, guys. Do you still not know who he is? I feel for you.) And it's just - well, it's an HBO show. Some of those characters are just... kudos to Octavian (played by Lord Blakeney, the kid that loses an arm in Master & Commander?), who is chillingly sensible and I heart him so very badly. Mark Anthony (Puresex) I obviously love, and not just because of James - he's everything I love. A warrior that enjoys good life, good shags, good food, good wine, and whose honour is the most unseizable thing - does he or doesn't he have any? You'd say not, until someone assumes he doesn't, and then he does the honourable thing - just out of contradiction? Who knows. *loveslovesloves* And, of course, my favourites, Titus Pullo and Lucius Vorenus. The best male friendship portrayed on screen ever, and it's so ripe for slashing except I don't even want to because they're just so. Good. Just the way they are. And Titus keeps breaking my heart lately, who'd have thought! Also, Brutus. For some reason I adore Brutus. And Attia is rather fascinating, although I'm incredibly glad she isn't my mother. I wonder whether we will see more of Cleopatra, too, which I dearly hope, especially since she has had no scene with Mark Anthony just yet.

Also, there are some very attractive men and incredibly beautiful women on this show. The way they shoot those bodies... good camera work. And sex work. You know.

Let's finish up with some Titus-and-Lucius goodness:

Titus, when Lucius asks him for advice on how to make his wife love him: When you couple with her, there's a spot just above her cunny, it's like a little button. Now... attend to that button, and she will open up, like a flower.
Lucius: ...how do you know this about her?
Titus: All woman have them! Ask anyone!

So, well, yeah. Three episodes ago, Rescue Me made me cry. Two episodes ago, quite frankly, I didn't get that much into it. One episode ago, it gripped my heart. And tonight, the finale dug its nails into it.

( Rescue Me finale rant... )( ...followed by a rant on the fashion that is gayness in today's fictions. )

And to conclude this rant with something I'm not sure fits with any of the points I was making, guys, go check out the trailer for "Hellbent." I swear. You need to. A gay horror flick. It's bound to be fun - either because it's really bad, or because it's really good at not taking itself seriously. Cheesy gay films can just be so much fun.

My bro's watching Kill Bill (vol. 1) in the same room I'm in, in case you were wondering about the title. I don't know when my lust for Lucy Liu disappeared... probably when I saw Charlie's Angels and decided that Drew was much more to my taste. Still, Lucy's lovely-looking, and she's got style. I really don't like that volume overly much, all my love goes to the second one (despite the lack of Lucy, but Michael more than makes up for it).

Am very frustrated right now, because I've made buttloads of icons and LJ won't let me upload any! Dammit, I wanted to use my shiny new "sexy scotman" Billy Boyd icon. Am very much not frustrated with my Twins story though, since I finally followed up on one of my feelings, and I do believe it was the right one. Now I know why I was stuck and kept writing and rewriting and working and reworking the beginning of my story: because it's not the story that I should tell first. Have now started working on the real first book of that universe, and I feel much better about the whole thing. It will make the writing of the second book much easier, it will be a much better introduction into this world of mine, both for myself and the readers (huh), and I just can't wait to tell that story, too. I've got the big outline, now I need to think of the details and get to the writing! I know this must all sound cryptic and so very vague to y'all, but I needed to share the revelation. Writing that first scene felt good. I hope it works, though.

I love the International trailer for Serenity!

Also, incidentally...

I have it!!!

"It" is, of course, Harry Potter. Will be off to read it very shortly, but first, you guys have about half a day to order drabbles out of me. I will be internetless until a week on Monday, so I'll be free to drabble away. (Well, drabbles or vignettes or ficlets or whatever I'll come up with.) So go on. Give me any specifications you want and I'll try and make y'all happy. Any fandom you know I like is fair game. Please? I need to get my creative juices going. (Bonus points for anyone who asks for DW stuff. I need to try my hand at some DW. I signed up for the Jack ficathon, btw!)

So come on, people, start asking.

A really interesting meme on Original Characters, gakked from heikki_cheren. ( Clicky! )

Also, Bad Wolf (aka the second but last episode of Dr Who for this season) was brilliant! And I still love Captain Jack. I'm getting so very sad in advance about Nine leaving, though. And for those of you who are puzzled about how I can like that show, here's an article that explains my feelings really well. And here's a little thing Russel wrote, in which he endears himself to me even more and, incidentally, thanks Buffy. I swear. Go read! I love him.

Russel? I love you. In a completely platonic way. And I never would have set your testicles on fire, as some die-hard fans have been threatening you with.

Just to let you all know that I arrived safely and I'm looking forward to seeing or chatting with you all. How've you all been? I'm not going to be reading all your entries I missed, so if something of importance happened in your life that you think I should know, or would just like to know, please comment and tell me! As much as I enjoyed this year abroad (a whole bloody lot), being cut off from you has definitely been the main downside.

For those of you whose work I love... I don't expect to be catching up on all the fanfiction I've missed too quickly, but you will eventually get feedback. I'm planning an update of NLF soon with new icons and wallpapers, but I don't think there's any new fic on the menu. I'm still working on the Sarkney fic among other things, but my muses are a bit too passive these days and nothing good comes out of them.

Also, let me just say a quick word about how frustrating and depressing it was to follow the post-result frenzy on the radio. This sucks.

My Serenity pics are crap, but my CoRo rock, by the way! I do love Adam something fierce. And after watching the Lost finale, spoilerfree, I heart Sawyer, Mike and Jin. And Sayid, always and forever, so that's nothing new.

Hope to catch up with you all dead soon!

I've been unable to produce anything this weekend. I was so enthusiastic about writing something, and it just would not come. Not anything. So I reworked Tapping (no, I'm not giving up on it, but I am however going to make some radical changes to make certain Willow is as far from Sue as possible, and get a better sort of plot overall) and started rereading cgwriting's very good Without. I'm enjoying it even more than I did previously, and it's good to get a Haldir fix now and then. Cinnie, it's been a while since I last told you: you rock, honey. Your writing is so very enjoyable, and such a welcome relief from the mass of insipid fanfiction one can find out there. Thank you for sharing all your stories with us.

So, if I did not spend it writing, what did I do with my weekend? Julia and I went downtown on Saturday to buy Leticia's birthday gifts (Lety is the Spanish assistant here), and I bought lots of clothes in TK Max (sp?). Which is bad, but feels so very good. On Sunday the boys cooked us an absolutely wonderful meal, with duck and oven potatoes, and we opened my last bottle of red wine. A true Sunday lunch. (Feel free to imagine the goofy smile on my face.)

By the way, my co-Serenity-attendants, I had - is it Sean? - on the phone, and it turned out they had lost all my details. So I gave them again and he said the tickets would be mailed to me first thing today, and he apologised for it all. The point is: the tickets are on their way. And Fred? I can't wait for CoRo!

Now if only my muses would come back from wherever they spent the weekend...