1. 17-19: Calgary Comic Con! Cuz Dragon*Con wasn’t enough. Or, rather, I’m going with a different group of friends.
2. 26: Leverage season 4!
3. 13&20: Last two Sanctuary episodes of the season. And it looks like the period of crappiness is well behind us so omg omg omg.
4. 22: The day Virgin (allegedly) switches to SaskTel’s new lines and thus gets the SIM phones. I plan on upgrading from this piece of crap (except I totally have the green version and I didn’t buy it refurbished) to this slightly less crappy piece of crap. I still can’t afford an iPhone.
5. 24: Payday! As is today, but I think the money is already in my chequing account so I’m no longer looking forward to it.
6. 29: I suppose I should put my birthday on the list.

Turns out that it was posted yesterday (on the first day possible, hmm) and I was amused and skipped down to the comments to view the epic wank that love would produce.

Aaaand there was none. It was like a whole slew of people appeared to profess that I/the characters/Doctor Who was awesome and that everything must be full of love. There was only one negative comment in the entire thing, and that was just someone questioning the validity of how someone could love every Doctor Who character simply because there are so many and are so different. And it wasn’t even a wanky comment (though at least one anon jumped on it to create a little bit of wank) – very calm and rational. Whoever that anon is, I like them.

Anyway, here’s the thread if you ever need a reminder that the Doctor Who fandom isn’t entirely full of hate. :D

But, as per usual, I digress.

I ended up starting to write the Rizzoli & Isles college AU simply cuz it requires no planning. I have enough plot details in my head for that and, well, it’s not like I have to develop characters with fanfic. I just have to stop college!Jane from being too much like me. But it’s kinda hard when I’m writing Jane having a bitch of a time in biochem (gee, writing from your own experiences much, Nikki?) and having her stubbornness work destructively against her. Jane is a lot more focused and assertive than I am (and had more on the line), though, and is thus actually willing to get help and is far less destructive than I am. (Or maybe it was just the lure of Maura’s boobs. I would totally be willing to ask for help if the TA looked like Maura Isles.)

Still. She’s behaving way too much like me and it’s bugging me. Maybe I should rewatch R&I for the fourth time (more, for some episodes) to ensure that I have her character down. :P

In all seriousness, this is actually a pretty common concern for me, though mostly with original fiction where I care a lot less cuz none of the characters are entirely me, just have some aspects of my personality. And I actually expected that I’d write Maura too much like myself, not Jane. Though I have only written Maura through the (third person) eyes of Jane so far. And I have always said that if you combined Jane and Maura’s personalities (and sucked out of all their awesomeness), you’d get someone very similar to me.

Anyway, I have written 2287 words of the first draft of an R&I fic (and femslash – I am finally writing femslash instead of bitching about how not enough people write f/f) and it is going wonderfully. Yay me for succeeding at goals (thus so far).

In other news, my mouse batteries croaked and I’m posting this from the WordPress iPhone app. Likely something will end up wrong. Also, I forgot the HTML for the more tag and can’t be arsed to google it so suffer with the lack of a cut.

Not that I’m ever consistent with remembering to cut posts. Sorry for making you all scroll.

Cut for spoilers. Not that the cuts work in the RSS feed, so, uhhh, suckers?

Not a lot to say other than omfg amaaaazing. The Five reuniting! TPTB confirming that Helen and James were totally involved! James, John and Helen all aware that John’s really the person that Helen loves mostest! More blatant John/James subtext that even I notice! Nigel being casually naked in front of Helen and James!

Yeah.

I’m so in the The Five were all screwing each other camp.

And I totally swore at John for being in that Nazi uniform. And having hair. Mostly the hair, cuz, really, John a Nazi? He’s a depraved sociopath, yes, but racial purification isn’t really his thing. He’s more about the indiscriminate murdering.

Also, is it just me, or did Tesla have less control over his vampyness than usual? I don’t really pay attention to Tesla (usually cuz Helen’s on the screen at the same time and c’mooon, Helen vs Tesla? No contest) so idk. Maybe I’m just used to him being devamped.

Speaking of Helen… mmmm French speaking wide eyed flirty Helen. Oh Helen, I love you as much as a person can love a fictional character and not be a crazy astral wife.

And now for the whiny part: wtf why was Will’s grandfather in it? What was the point of that other than making Helen look like a super creepy stalker? Also, no Kate. ): I mean, that’s no surprise, but I still miss her.

And that is all.

• Sarah Jane’s stuffed owl. All I know is that it was in the scene where Four and Sarah parted ways and it was absolutely adorable and I absolutely want one.
• Romana. Particularly, Romana I. Blame Darcy for that one.
• Jamie and his kilt.
• The Master’s inflatable chair of death and his strangling of the Doctor with a telephone cord. YouTube and Darcy again.
• Liz Shaw. Fanfic, actually. I’ve read a lot of fic with her in it. I should stop reading Sarah Jane fic when I haven’t seen a lot of Classic Who – so many references keep flying over my head.
• Jo Grant. Cuz she’s awesome on SJA.
• K-9!
• The companion who’s name currently escapes me (dammit!) who apparently has a girlfriend on every planet. Darcy is at fault for this one, of course. She either always knows exactly what will interest me or our tastes are very similar.
• Ace. Who apparently has explosives? I like explosives.
• The penguin companion. Holy shit, a penguin is a companion.

Pretty much everything on this list is Darcy’s fault. Even if she wasn’t listed at fault, I’m still blaming her.

Actually, I’m not sure how far I’ll make it before depressing myself so much that I run away. I primarily read/watch happy things for a reason, dammit!

I’m not sure why I’m making this a blog/LJ entry… it should be a doodle comic, hmmm. Or I should make a doodle comic of it after I finish the rewatch.

THE LIST

• Being Human (I’m about halfway through series two.)
• The Big Bang Theory (Only a couple of episodes behind.)
• The Closer (I watched season one out of boredom last summer. Not really my thing, but then I learned that Mary McDonnell is in it later on and I was all fuck it I’m going to watch the next five seasons for Mary. Cuz Mary is wonderful.)
• Doctor Who (I’ve seen An Unearthly Child, season 12, the first serial of season 13, the movie and all of New Who. I need to watch everything else. Cuz Classic Who is wonderful.)
• The Dresden Files (I’ve been watching this on and off for about two years now. Self, there are twelve episodes of the entire show – it should not take you this long.)
• Fringe (I, uh, haven’t seen the last six episodes. Bad fan, I know.)
• The Guard (It has Ryan Robbins and Zoie Palmer!! In a sorta relationship idk I’m only a couple episodes in.)
• Hercules (Doesn’t have enough Lucy Lawless or Renee O’Connor to hold my attention, really. I think I’ll just skip to the crossover episodes and the cracky shit like how Kevin Sorbo is apparently really Hercules?)
• Jekyll (I really will watch this, Darcy, I swear! It has Gina Bellman and you know that I love Sophie so, yes, it will be watched.)
• Legend of the Seeker (Haven’t started. Downloaded cuz of the crazy fan campaign.)
• MacGyver (What? It has RDA! With a mullet, but he’s still hot.)
• Merlin (Halfway through series two. Still.)
• NCIS (I watched seasons 1-7 (well, half of seven) in a little over a month in November/December. I’m currently in the beginning of season eight.)
• The Outer Limits (Torrent quality is utter shit – I think I’ll just wait until I have the money to buy the DVDs.)
• Primeval (Couple episodes into series one.)
• Sherlock (Ummm… I still haven’t watched the last episode?)
• Spartacus (I’m partway into Blood and Sand, but mostly I wanna watch Gods of the Arena cuz it has Jaime Murray.)
• Star Trek (All of it. Except for Voyager, which I have already seen. Actually, put Voyager back on the list – I haven’t seen that in, like, five years.)
• Taken (I don’t even know what this is about or why I downloaded it.)
• Torchwood (Partway into series one. It’s not that exciting since I watched Doctor Who first and, consequently, got spoiled for some of Torchwood. Also, Owen pisses me off like whoa.)
• V (The second miniseries and then the show from the 80′s.)
• The Walking Dead (I’m not a zombie fan, at all (the science is too bad even for me – don’t even get me started) but everyone I know freaked out over the pilot so I downloaded it… and then never watched.)
• Women’s Murder Club (Watched the pilot. Too much discussions on men and relationships and not enough about the dead fucking body in front of you. But pilots suck so I’ll keep watching.)

So! Which should I watch first?

Cut for spoilers, obviously.

omg, Abby has to be the dumbest character on Sanctuary ever. Even dumber than Will’s last girlfriend, the invisible girl. srsly Will, you have a terrible taste in women. I mean, really, who the fuck actually escapes from a hostage situation… and then runs right back into it? Especially when you’re the leverage! And, dammit, I woulda downright applauded Abby and thought she was pretty awesome if she had just thought to phone the fucking Sanctuary before rehostaging herself. Even if you don’t know the number off the top of your head, you just ran around to all these suppliers asking for the Sanctuary rate – clearly the Sanctuary are regular customers and, well, a store is a store – they always have a way to contact their favoured buyers. So, yeah, if she had phoned, filled in Kate on wtf was going down and then went back to Will so that they don’t kill him, I woulda been fuck yeah, Abby is awesome. Go Abby.

But, no, she just basically did nothing. Worse than nothing – she got a guy pissed at them for no reason.

Just cuz it’s worth mentioning, I don’t like the invisible girl cuz she was all ooooh nooo having powers sucks boo hoo hoo and I was like I will cut you bitch – you turn invisible. You look 100% human. There is nothing about you that spells out I AM AN ABNORMAL on your forehead. No. You’re just a human with fucking superpowers.

And you bitch about ‘em.

And I hate characters who bitch about superpowers when they’re not a curse. Helen? Helen can bitch about being quasi-immortal. It would really suck at times. (Though, as an aside, I think Helen’s longevity isn’t just a physical thing – I think it affected her mind as well. She and Tesla, both biologically immortal(ish) adapted to the changing times with great ease. James with his mechanical slowed aging, however, did not. And John’s too crazy to know if he fits into the 21st century.) John certainly can bitch about teleporting – it turned him into Jack the Ripper. Hell, even Tesla could bitch about being a vampire, but Tesla thought that being a monster was cool. And I like that about him.

But the girl who can choose whether or not to be invisible? No. You can not complain. You could complain if you were like the proper H. G. Wells character (um, for those who haven’t read The Invisible Man, Griffin can’t make himself visible again and turns crazy), but you are not.

Okay, I’m done being bitchy now. Though, if you have a reason for why I shouldn’t hate on Abby, please tell me. I don’t like hating characters.

Yes, I fixed the title but couldn’t be bothered to fix the actual map. One is easier to do than the other?