Rules and Guidelines:

I watch 100 movies or more in 2009.

I keep track of how many I watch in this post.

I only record first-time movies.

I leave the entry public. If you want to recommend any movies to me, go for it.

( Films seen thus far ): 39

So: I fail at writing this week. I think, I plot, I sit in front of th keyboard and something is my brain refuses to write. I pulled up Write or Die in hopes it would help and instead of letting the bouncy pop music annoy me into putting words into the text box, I just shut off sound on my computer. My brain and I, we're going to have a little chat about this soon.

Commentfic and prison fic still coming. Just -- slowly.

Instead of writing, I've been re-watching SGA in order to dive in fresh and obsessed into my season five DVDs. I've gotten to the end of season two again, and I have two thoughts I would like to share.

1. Wow: this show is even gayer than I remember (and my short-term memory plugged it in as "pretty gay"). I'm watching Inferno right now, and man! John doesn't even pretend with Elizabeth that he's upset with Rodney flirting because he wants Norina for himself. It's just that Rodney has an interest. Hee! Boysss.



2. As much as I really liked Ford, I absolutely adore Ronon. (I keep saying I need a Ronon icon.) It doesn't feel like the Team was the Team until Ronon came along. It makes me wonder how things would be different if Ford had stayed. I can't see Ford inspiring a bond between team members like Ronon inspires a bond. Yes, they're all centred around John, but Ronon raised the equality level to a different plane. Teyla and Ronon have a bond apart from John (and thus in a way, allowing John and Rodney to have a larger bond apart from Teyla and Ronon); Rodney and Ronon have a bond apart from John (and thus allowing Teyla to act more as 2IC for the team). Instead of each member having a part in relation to John and focused around John as leader, they each have their own place, their own specialties, and they all respond and relate to each other. I don't see that happening with Ford. Ronon really made the team Family.

I feel like I haven't been around all week, even though I've been reading the f'list. How are you guys?

Season five of SGA came in the post yesterday. Score! Now I have absolutely no excuse not to finish the series. My life is so tragic.

So today I went shopping and bought awesome awesome bras and now I have breasts, guys! Breasts! I haven't owned a new bra in over four years, which has kind of taken its toll on the silhouette. It was totally exciting to get something new. When I came out of the dressing room, both my mum and the sales woman had the shocked pause moment of, "Whoa, baby!" It was like going through puberty again. Breasts! Yay!

And to those who celebrate: Happy Canada Day! I hope it was an awesome awesome day of Canadianism.

First of the commentfic for those who voted for Team Peace. I, uh, totally blew the character-limit of a comment but whatever. More commentfic and prison fic to come, probably tomorrow.

For shutterbug_12, who wanted: Barney loses his voice, and must employ alternative methods of picking up women. Appearances by the whole gang would be awesome. (Pre-Barney/Robin.)

1300 words
Barney/Robin UST
Rated G
With thanks to shutterbug_12 for beta-eyes.

( That's A Good Line )

Hey guys; mcshep_match has voting for its Drabble Tree Challenge. Team War has 217 drabbles and Team Peace has 251 drabbles. You can read all the drabbles here. Voting is here. The prize for winning is two extra days to work on your story before the deadline, so obviously totally awesome. Voting closes in five and a half hours. Go vote for Peace! [ETA: Voting now closed, and my team lost. D: Oh well. Thanks to you guys who voted! You all rock my socks off.]

Since we're apparently not above offering bribes, here's my bribe: if you help Team Peace pull ahead, I'll finish off and post the next bit to my John and Rodney prison fic. And if you aren't into SGA, I'll write you commentfic to your fandom of choice (Even House! Even Harry Potter!) in the comments. Just drop a prompt.

What do you say, guys? Give Peace a chance!

Oh, man. Dude, dude, dude. I just saw my housing contract offer for uni and awesome. It is awesome. My university is awesome. England is awesome. AWESOME.

I not only have a single room with a private bathroom but it is also smoking (this is important) and on the top floor in the corner so there will be windows and nobody pounding through the ceiling. Is that not -- what's the word -- awesome? I think it is. Yeah-huh.

This sure beats the hell out of four years ago, when I was living in a cramped dorm room, sharing a bathroom with 40 other people, and trying to block out the voice of my roommate having phone sex with her boyfriend over the stereo sounds of anime porn on her computer. I totally do not feel bad about stealing her copy of Aristotle's Poetics.

Well spittin' in the sink: I just taught myself Linear Algebra and Differential Calculus. Or re-taught myself. Either I vastly under-appreciated my high school math programme or I am way more inclined to numerical thinking than originally foreseen. I think it is the former. A lot of this stuff came easier once I pulled out my old notes and doodles.

All of this is for my SGA Big Bang fic. You better appreciate this, John Sheppard, you bastard!

Lesson learned from all this?
Fandom: it makes you smart, whether you want to be or not.

Dreamwidth's been live for a little over a month, so I figured I owed a post explaining how I'm going to use that in re: primary journal vs. secondary journal, and livejournal.

I made a sticky post about it, which should sum up my thoughts. Livejournal is going to be my primary journal: where I hang; where I keep up with you guys; where I post most of my entries. I haven't crossposted to dreamwidth all that much and I think that mode is going to continue. Some things will be crossposted; some won't. If I'm reading you on livejournal, I'm not going to add you to my dreamwidth reading list. In the future, I might begin to use dreamwidth more, but while it's in beta, I'm going to stick to what I know.

So there's that.

I did however code my layout onto dreamwidth, which therefore makes me awesome. I used this tutorial to do it. It was remarkably helpful.

The other day I picked up a Polish-English dictionary because I got tired of asking my mum, "Translate this into English," or, "Translate that into Polish," to which she usually responded, "I don't know how to do that." I've been reading words to her on and off throughout the evening: words I like, words I haven't heard before, words that the dictionary claims are adjectives and she claims are nouns. In doing so, I found the best word in the world.

Poniedziałekowy

adj. Monday-esque or Monday-like.

So you can say, "Yeah, I heard about the foot-removal surgery; how's that working for you?", and the person can reply, "Eh. Sucks like Monday. Poniedziałekowy." Which is pretty damn slick, if you ask me.

Also, I like the word "bób", which is fun to say, and which means bum. I have started to call that Sam just to fuck with him.

Signed up for Team Peace on mcshep_match. Sign ups still currently open here. (And peeking at the sign up lists, several of you seem to be my new competitors. Hi, other team! *waggles fingers*) I'm just jumping head-first into this whole fandom partcipation thing lately. Whew.


I've also started to do the thing where I want to write everything but what I'm suppose to be writing. But this time it's totally worth it, I swear; it makes up for my lack of attention span, oh yes. As I pitched it to shutterbug_12:

earlwyn: i have 1000 words of an sga au that is not my big bang
earlwyn: nor the thing about rodney being a genie
earlwyn: which i will totally write, btw
shutterbug_12: that was my next question
earlwyn: it's john and rodney in STATESVILLE
shutterbug_12: I don't know this Statesville place.
earlwyn: joliet state prison?
shutterbug_12: Not ringing any bells.
earlwyn: like, the scariest maximum security prison in the us?
shutterbug_12: Nope, but I believe you.
earlwyn: whatev. john and rodney meet in prison. it's going to be awesome.

( I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die | ~900 words )