I liked this episode a lot more than I thought I would, actually, having read some spoilers for it before I actually saw it.

I don't have much new to add to what people already have, but here's some extra bonus thoughts on Elena and Stefan (separately).

( Vampire Diaries )

Well, better get this up before tomorrow.

I ... should keep a list during the year, that's what I've learned from this exercise. Short Memories R Us.

Also I just had the title of this post as 2010 for at least an hour before I caught it.

( MEMERY )

I'm kind of ... written out, I think. I did so much so quickly for Yuletide (and the BSG holiday fic, and something long for fandom-stocking which isn't even out there yet) that I have no mind for writing at all. I thought about treats for YT Madness and couldn't think of anything. ugh. hopefully I recharge or whatever soon.

Title: The Blessing of Proserpina
Rating: PG
Summary: On New Caprica, Sam and Kara's life together takes a surprising turn that changes everything.
Wordcount: 12K
Recipient: scifiaddict86for the pyramidofdreams ficathon.
Beta: sabaceanbabe
Note: No one was more surprised than I was to be writing this. But it was a prompt and it was something I've never done before for Kara/Sam, both the pregnancy and yet-another-AU of the Occupation.


( The Blessing of Proserpina )

On to part 2

We went to eat (kid-free!) and then went to watch Captain America. And then there was Yogurtland and acquiring the Hello Kitty spoons we were missing.

I have no particular deep feelings for Captain America. It was fun. The movie proved to me that Pillars of the Earth was not an exception and Hayley Atwell remains awesome.

I do have some silly crossover thoughts though:
- Steve Rogers' grandson has to be Johnny Storm. Steve finding that out would be hilarious

- the Marvel Universe is the alternate future of Lord of the Rings where Elrond took the One Ring and went completely fug-buck nuts and evil.

The easter egg at the end of the credits wasn't worth sitting through a bazillion names, if you've already seen the Avengers trailer.


Speaking of trailers:
- Tintin looks disappointing.
- I'm not going to see Amazing Spiderman but it'll be popular.

Other than my phone I've been very unconnected to the net the past week or so, so here, finally, a chance to update! If I've missed anything of great import (or little import) let me know.

So, my travels. We're in Hawaii (Oahu, specifically, where I have family). I've been posting a pic a day over at my Twitter (@lizatLAX) if you wanna see some scenery. A lot of what we're here for, besides vacation, is helping my MIL deal with things now that her husband's passed away, so there's been some not-very-exciting bank visiting and the like, but besides that, it's been the beach and various sights. Alas, no Hawaii Five-0 sightings this year, at least not so far, but I did see the casting office for the upcoming tv show "The River" which is also going to film here.

We also went to Sea Life Park, where the worlds only "whalphin" lives. She was produced by an oopsie at the park 25 years ago - a bottlenose dolphin and false killer whale got it on and are closely enough related that the whalphin was able to have a baby herself. (Cetacean Shape of Things to Come?)

Fannishly, I've done nothing worth mentioning. Being out in the sun makes me so tired I have to crash at night. And then my MIL suckered me into Korean soaps which didn't help.(CITY HUNTER -- he's got a Justin Bieber haircut! He fights crime! what more do you want in a drama, amirite? Yuletide fandom? MAYBE...)

As much as I mock "Teen Wolf" for the overwhelming TEEN-NESS of it all, it does do one thing better than any I've seen in a while -- menace. There's a sense that people are in danger which I haven't gotten from, for ex, TVD in a long, long time. (and JR Bourne has definitely refined his ability to be affable one minute and a really fucking scary dude the next. And he's not even the scariest person in the cast.)

Which I suppose means that I've started to care about them all, even the kids. *sigh* But I'm not writing porn for them! I refuse! lol

I started K/S for porn battle -- and 1500 words later, there's still no porn to be had. Not everything has to be death and despair, and the rest of the Endless...

Yeah, so this happened for Porn Battle. I DON'T EVEN KNOW.


Come Alive
Bumblebee (Transformers) /Impala (Supernatural), rated R for car/robot sex/canoodling

I left the YT links in, not that any of the songs are obscure but hopefully it'll be taken in the crackish spirit intended...

Now I will go try to write less cracky porn. In my favor -- EVERYTHING is now less cracky...

I'm going through some of the prompts and culling out my own list. It's kind of like Yuletide in that 80% of the fandoms there I know NOTHING about, and another ten I couldn't write anything for without some sort of refresher.

Leaving... oh, plenty. :)

hough I'm drawn to the obvious ones for me, I'm also strangely drawn to the crack. Like, I like Christian Bale and Matt Smith, okay. I do. But I don't write RPF and certainly not for those two! I just don't know. It's not as if I've seen more than a handful of interviews with either of them

Though I suspect some of my odd intrigue is due entirely to the BBC AMERICA poll of British Male Hotties. Which is an EVIL EVIL POLL. I mean, it STARTS with Colin Firth vs Sean Bean.

(and for my BSG pals, Jamie is poll 14, against Henry Cavill. He could probably use your vote against FRAKKIN SUPERMAN.)

I'm amused that I'm loading pages faster on LJ now. The site does seem significantly better right now, to me at least, as if the attack has subsided or the extra resources are paying off for people like me whose only problem seemed to be server load.

I'd be more willing to switch, but DW still seems so small. Many fandoms aren't represented at all, or barely, and something like bsgfanfic is a year inactive. IT IS VERY SAD. :(

But if more move, then there'd be more stuff. I do not like my fandom looking DEAD. BOOOOO. :( :(

ETA: It crossposted! woo, now we know LJ is coming back up. yay

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