planning the revolution

I wrote very, very little this past year, and what I did write was mostly drabbles. But I did get in a couple of crossovers and the like, so whatever. Year in review!

( the fics. )

( the break-down. )

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The end. I wrote much less this year because of work and general lack of inspiration, but I'm not disappointed? I don't know. I thought the lower count would bother me, but it doesn't. It's been a success this year just to talk about the things that I enjoy in fandom, so any fic at all becomes an accomplishment.

Yesterday I waited over an hour for takeout. What the hell. But then I came home and watched the penultimate episode of Spooks S7 and got seriously happy. That episode is still unreal to me.

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Monday through Wednesday I was in Newcastle! I love Newcastle; it's gorgeous. My cousin (P) and I basically hung around town sorting things out for her birthday and the EngSoc netball team (...yeah) and then went out in the evening and had an amazing time. It went so quickly, and I wish I'd stayed a little longer.

But, hey, less than a week until Swansea! Whoop whoop!

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I STILL haven't seen this week's Mad Men; the plan is to do that today. I did watch Life with The Mother, though. She's been ill all week (and tried to give it to me - how rude!) which freed up some of her time. We watched Farthingale, Serious Control Issues, and Dig a Hole before I had to go to sleep. She watched the finale and was appropriately excited about the whole deal. Just waiting on S2 to come through my door now.

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Felt wicked deathly last night due to the cold that The Mother tried to give me, or that I picked up from Geordieland. Woke up this morning sans swollen tonsils so I think I'm improving. Don't need this right now.

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I NEED TO SEE AN EDUCATION. NEED IT LIKE BURNING.

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Work was pretty boring for the two days I was in, though I got a lot of stuff sorted out, and RE sorted out the shitload of re-assessments that had been sat on my desk for a fortnight due to upper management being unable to take five minutes to okay the letter that we needed to send out. Hopefully Monday-Wednesday next week won't be horrific.

Took the train yesterday and realised that the lift share has spoiled me: I hate that fucking commute so much now. In the morning I had to take the connect because there's no earthly way of getting the direct if you take the bus; in the evening it took me 2.5 hours to get home. UNBELIEVABLE.

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To conclude: Hallowe'en isn't a thing in the UK, although it's growing. It definitely isn't a thing down my street, though, and I'm not going out. I look forward to using the evening to bake like a tater.

I don't do resolutions at this time of year; in fact, I make them at any time of year that isn't now because the winter festivities brainwash me into thinking I'm capable of things that I'm not really capable of and I break all my resolutions by February. So. I don't know. That was a fairly pointless way of opening this post.

I will say, though, that I hope expand my flist some and to get back to my regular pattern of posting a handful of times during the day, if only because I sort of miss it, and it stopped me from being piss lazy. True story.

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YULETIDE REVEAL!!!! I wrote more for Yuletide in that span of a week or whatever it was than I have all year for anything. RIDICULOUS. My main fics were Strength in Numbers (ensemble, Army Wives) and I Will Dream I Was a Daughter (Ruth, Spooks) for ceridwyn2. I also wrote three pinch-hits/yuletide treats: Half-Life (Spooks) which looks at Ros between seasons 6 and 7; Asynchrony (Spooks) which is about Lucas re-adjusting to England (I suspect I gave myself away with that one; what say you tigertrapped?); and Lloyd's Still Got Them Polaroids (Life) which is about Tidwell's half-endearing, half-creepy interest in Dani Reese.

Yeah. YEAH.

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Eventually I will do that fic round up meme though probably not before I do another picspam. Haha. Plus, I sort of want to do "previously, in fandom" posts for all the shows that I stopped talking about a couple of months ago. But to do that I sort of need to catch up with them? Oh dear.

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GIP! I love this icon, but I still think it would be funnier if the line was I shit thee not.

I'm trying to keep these fairly short because rambling doesn't make for an easy read, and because otherwise I will be here altogether too long. Some quick round-ups for episodes that I don't have much to say about: Bones was really rather FABULOUS and I don't know that I can say much more than that; CSI: NY was also very good, and I don't know about other people, but the Flack storyline is breaking my heart (and also the other thing made me Super Happy because I'm all about Flack-love); and I've yet to watch The Unit but it's a double, so I'll watch them together. Also, Life was very funny, but I confess to not having anything to say about it, and also not having any clue whatsoever about that last Dani and Tidwell scene. No, seriously, I was watching it and I just didn't understand what the fuck was going on.

Okay. Next!

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( Merlin, 1x06-1x09 )

( Californication, 2x07, In a Lonely Place )

( True Blood, 1x10, I Don't Wanna Know )

( Sarah Connor Chronicles, 2x08, Mr Ferguson is Ill Today )

( NCIS, 6x07, Collateral Damage )

( Criminal Minds, 4x07, Memoriam )

( Grey's Anatomy, 5x08, These Ties That Bind )

( Supernatural, 4x09, I Know What You Did Last Summer )

Let us talk about all the ways in which I didn't understand this episode.

( 7x04, insta-reaction. )

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edit: I picspammed Life for the latest challenge at picspammy today. My gosh, that pilot continues to be one of the shiniest things.

I also watched the Criminal Minds that was on tonight (girl lost in the mall) and let me take a moment to say a/ TEAM LOVE and b/ Emily was amazing. (This is how she sees herself. Dirty. Disgusting. Oh gosh, oh gosh.)

Tonight I have to walk The Sister to a party at a local hotel and then I basically have the night to myself until at least 10pm. HUZZAH HUZZAH!

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( NCIS, 6x04, Heartland )

( Pushing Daisies, 2x03, Bad Habits )

( My Own Worst Enemy, 1x01, Breakdown )

( Life, 2x05, Crushed )

( Californication, 2x03, No Way to Treat a Lady )

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Merlin tonight! Yay!

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I have been doing this thing recently where I come into a song all wrong. I mean, I hear it, and the beat doesn't syncopate in my head, so I'm all disoriented for a minute before my brain rearranges the noise and makes sense of it. It's so weird.

( Sarah Connor Chronicles, 2x05, Goodbye to All That )

( Life, 2x03, The Business of Miracles )

( Pushing Daisies, 2x02, Circus Circus )

( NCIS, 6x03, Capitol Offense )

( Criminal Minds, 4x03, Minimal Loss )

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Part II later, once I've actually caught up already.

Dear Mad Men, way to be entirely depressing! Which is not to say that I didn't love it, because, well, OBVIOUSLY I did. Jane is entirely boring to me, though; I think it was the casting choice. It was nice to see Hildy, though, whom I adore. Please, show, continue to wreck me. I don't mind at all.

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( True Blood, 1x04, Escape from Dragon House )

( Life, 2x01, Find Your Happy Place )

( Sarah Connor Chronicles, 2x04, Allison from Palmdale )

( Californication, 2x01, Slip of the Tongue )

( The Unit, 4x01, Sacrifice )

I've yet to see Dexter; am feeling pretty blahface about it, actually. I may have to store up a few episodes and watch them in one go. Even though I liked it last year, I only watched it on time because I was watching with T. And, well, not there any more.

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I have new music, eee! Some unreleased Patty Griffin and Seth Lakeman's albums, whoop whoop. Folk at its best. And now: NCIS and Criminal Minds. It is a Good Day.

Today's perusal of music blogs revealed a track that I actually own but have never listened to properly. To wit: check out Jaymay's Gray or Blue.

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The answers for this meme: ( answers. )

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So, Vera Farmiga has astonishing eyes. I thought so in The Departed! And now in Touching Evil (US), too. Which did exactly what I thought it would do with the British version. It reminds me of Life? Except. I don't know. Life both takes itself more and less seriously than TE. ODDNESS. (Oh guys. Life needs to come back. RIGHT NOW PLEASE. daygloparker, are you watching this? Because: yes.)

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edit: OH MAN. Best in Show is one of the funniest films ever.

( and the pursuant scene, in which Parker Posey loses her shit. )

(1) Am still failing at academia. Hurrah, hurrah.

(2) As happens every year or so, I have rediscovered Rilo Kiley.

(3) Saving Grace continues to be MAGNIFICENT. Honestly my favourite show.

(4) Life! Ever delightful! (Is it wrong to want Constance/Reese femslash? On top of the other stuff?)

(5) I dreamt I was in hestia8's zombie fic. Ros was awesome. I was not.

(6) Um. I'm totally writing a NCIS/Spooks fic. Assassins ahoy!

(7) And now I have to write a Super Detailed Plan of my dissertation. Sadface.