in the morning through the window shade, when the light pressed up against your shoulder blade

[mooging]

ahjsgfhj I am so behind on everything. Fic! Comments! Emails! Applying for uni accomodation for September! Packing! Renewing my passport! SO MANY THINGS. AND YET. INSTEAD OF DOING ANY OF THAT, here is an lj entry instead! My life choices continue to be excellent and productive. #who let me be a human being

Fic-wise, I'm aiming to get the first of my help_japan fics (ALL SO LATE, OH MY GOD, MY ENDLESS, ENDLESS APOLOGIES EVERYWHERE) up by Saturday, and then the TSNBB drafts are due relatively soon, I think, so there's that, and then more help_japan fics, and then ugh hopefully at some point I will stop being so rubbish? ANYWAY. I may have to chain myself to the laptop and stick on Write or Die at some point, but I WILL NOT BE BEATEN BY FIC.

TV! In a move that is entirely and completely novembersmith's fault, I have started watching Stargate Atlantis. Elizabeth Weir owns an alarming portion of my interest in this show, I have to say -- I've seen the first four episodes so far, and on so many occasions she's said something I have just thought. Like, I'd be going "huh, okay, plants, well, I'm sure that makes the set more decorative even though this city's been deserted for years" and then she'd go "can we lose the ten thousand year old dead plants?". UGH BB I WAS DOOMED TO LOVE YOU. Okay, and you know how there are shows/films etc that you try to avoid because you have the sinking feeling that they could eat your soul? No? I mean, that could just be me, but earlier this year I was all "I WILL NOT WATCH TSN, I HAVE GLIMPSED THE FUTURE AND THAT WAY LIES MADNESS" - I clearly didn't listen to myself, and look how that turned out - and for actual years I have been avoiding all the Stargate shows, and - aekjghfs ffs. SGA kind of combines an actual ton of Things that are Relevant to my Interests - settling/surviving in a new place! Snarky/secretly super brave/super clever scientist! Equally snarky soldier! Women being badass all over the place! UGH UGH FUUUUUU SGA YOU CANNOT HAVE MY SOUL, I NEED IT.

um though I mean, fic recs would be welcomed. ;________; I have lost control of my life.

I've seen the first two episodes of GoT but, like, I am hanging on to my knowledge of who these characters are by my fingernails. I DON'T KNOW ANYONE'S NAME. THERE IS SEAN BEAN. THERE IS THE AWESOME ONE WHO SLAPPED THAT DOUCHEY KID PRINCE. THE AWESOME LITTLE GIRL STARK WITH THE WOLF. LENA HEADEY AND HER INCESTY BROTHER WHO LOOKS LIKE SHREK-MADE-MAN FROM SHREK 2. HARRY LLOYD AND HIS CRAZY EYES AND HIS AWESOME HOT SISTER AND THAT HUGE DUDE WITH THE LONG HAIR. THE KIND OF POUTY HALF-STARK WITH THE IRRITATING FACE AND LINGERING LOOKS AT ONE OF THE STARK BROTHERS. MORE STARKS! UNCLE WORKS-ON-THE-WALL! asgfdjsh someone help.

ALSO: THE DIRE WOLVES. SOMEONE HOLD ME. I AM SO IN LOVE WITH THEIR STUPID WOLFY FACES. I hear the most recent episode is all kinds of splamtastic? ugh I really need to catch up fast. And then I need to read the book! agjksf things.

With that wall of caps aside, let's talk about DOCTOR WHO. S P O I L E R S

RIVER SONG. MELODY POND. OH JESUS CHRIST MOFFAT WOULD YOU PLEASE STOP BEING SO EXCELLENT. Also, though, I had read this in speculation in passing and worried that that would be true and I'd be spoiled (~crazy spoiler purist~) and this is why I don't read spec, but I DON'T CARE. RIVER SONG, THERE IS ACTUALLY NO WAY I COILD CONCEIVABLY LOVE YOU MORE. I've read conflicting reactions to this reveal, and, I mean, because of reading the spec I'd had time to think about it, and the conclusion I came to is - I need more time to think about it. I mean, I don't have a problem with it at all in theory - Amy is a+ and Rory is a+ and their kid should therefore be equally a+, and River is already, like, better than all the people anyway - but I kind of want to wait and see how it plays out. I don't like the idea of River's life suddenly being ~all about the Doctor~ but then I never got that feeling before now anyway. Like, to me it always felt like the Doctor was clearly this incredibly important figure in her life, possibly the most important, but that didn't stop her from being badass and excellent and enjoying life without him and doing things without him and generally being fulfilled in herself as a person and in her choices without him by her side every day, you know? Like, just because she clearly looks forward to the times when she does see him, that doesn't make the times when she doesn't any less amazing. oh god, this is why I don't word about things. UGH UGH IDEK IDEK I JUST LOVE HER.

And - I kind of see it like, like in the time River knew the Doctor before he found out who she was, she's made him into the guy she's going to meet when she's younger, which doesn't entirely negate the THIS IS A TAD CREEPY element that could arise if he spends a lot of time with her when she's little, but then the time he's spent with her as an adult means that he's not, idk, ~shaping her~ so much as he already knows the person she's going to be? IDK IDK, basically, I have my fingers crossed that everything works out well and the squick factor doesn't ratchet up and that Amy and Rory get administer some righteous smackdowns to everyone who has been treating them/their daughter this way, and that River Song the amazing, self-possessed, part Time Lord continues down the path that rocks.

also what the hell is this hiatus, that does not happen on British tv. MORE WHO NOW, PLEASE.

ALSO also, of the over-used alsos, I've been getting back into using twitter - procrastination! I need all the ways to do that - and I'm mooging. What are your twitter naaaames?

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MARK WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO MEEEEEEEEEE *cries forever* UGH JESSE EISENBURG YOUR FACE HOW ARE YOU SO TALENTED

WILL THIS GODDAMN MOVIE EVER STOP BREAKING MY HEART?