Lizardbeth's Tale

This was intended to be meta for redial_the_gate but I'm not with it enough for thinky meta. Instead, have a PICSPAM with a bit of snarky commentary, because that's what I do.

A LOVE AFFAIR ACROSS TIME AND SPACE!!! a history in pictures

Please note, this is heavily image intensive. May break your page layout therefore, have a FORMAT LIGHT link.

(all caps by me. I have a lot more where this came from, believe me. *pets her precious little ship*)

( Once upon a time... )


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My recap for redial_the_gate is HERE . There are rhyming couplets!

Clearly I was way too tired last night :)

Just wait until I do my Sam/Martouf SHIP OF DOOOOOOOMM! meta in a few days. I'd love to do it seriously, since it's one of my actual ships, but I think I'm too tired to actually think about it. Maybe if I promise myself I'll do a real meta on it later....

I grabbed my BSG S.3 DVDs this morning, haven't even taken the plastic off yet.

And my JONAS QUINN action figure arrived, WOOT! It actually looks like Corin, so yay for decent likenesses.

One of these days when it's not "vacation", I'll have to do some sort of action figure theater with all my guys.

Well, I think I got schooled in what people want me to write next. *eyes flist warily* But thank you for playing.

Of course, the truly first priority thing I need to write is write the "Tok'ra Part One" recap for redial_the_gate for next week. But recaps are always so much fun, even if this one's not quite as snark-worthy as "Bloodlines" was. Martouf! *squishes him and his FUNNY HAT* (honestly, isn't he lucky Sam looked at him again after the tragic fashion faux pas of the hat?)

See, recaps pretty much write themselves.

Unfortunately prompts for sg_rarepairings comment-a-thon aren't writing themselves. I can only think of a few random words at a time apparently. But go forth and add prompts - you don't have to be a member of the comm or intend to write. Ship or friendship/gen are okay. They just can't be Weir/Shep, McShep, Daniel/Jack, or Jack/Sam or crossovers. Who knows, maybe someone will be inspired by your random request for Anise/Mitchell.

I probably won't write any of the prompts, any more than I wrote anything for LeapGate (comment!fic is hard for me, people), but ... someone should!

Oh my... this turned out... long. But it's the whole thing.

I attended the BSG/Stargate Creation Con in Burbank again last weekend, Nov 16 -18. This year was especially awesome, since I got to meet lyssie, sabaceanbabe, lucyparavel, greycoupon, mamaboolj, ebneter, and mrsMayorofDogsville from Kindreds. And some others whose fannish nicknames I didn't get.

You are all even more awesome in person. Just so's you know. :)

And as always my pictures are crap because I don't have enough zoom and the ballroom lighting is orange. My photoshop skillz are not great, but I tried to make the actors at least recognizable. There are only a handful, so not too many to suffer through. (you can find someone else's better pics when you're done)

My adventure begins...

( Friday )

( general BSG production news )

( Saturday )

( Sunday )

the end.

My main fannish contribution for the day is my Recap for Bloodlines over at redial_the_gate. I am just a wee bit snarky.

I'm feeling ranty about some comments (particularly at TWOP) on this week's Heroes.

( Kinda spoilery, but more ranty )

I'm perhaps more annoyed than I should be, but I had the builders highpressure spraying the house to remove the old paint and it was really loud and then water came in under the door. But I didn't notice at first, so there was a good sized puddle that got the carpet wet. And... it was no fun.

But, the BSG Season 4 promo is MADE OF WIN! yes. And so creepy in how the implications are all layered in, though probably not as they'll happen.

I finally figured out a story idea for my sg_rarepairings exchange fic. YAY! I know there are some people who are already finished I hate you, but I couldn't even decide which prompt to pick. I had too many choices and couldn't figure out what to do.

But yesterday I was thinking about one of the prompts and realized that I could use a world I created for an unfinished fic and some backstory out of my Asheron series (some of the general politics like Ishtar and the rise of Baal and things like that), and from all that, I knew how to get the pairing to work. In theory. It required some research today as well, to find a good name. (Knowingly lumping Mesopotamian deities together is better than doing it in ignorance, right? *g*) The fic might be long - but it should go quickly once I start.

I hope.

I have to finish my reel_sg1 fic first though... I think I'm going to have to dump part of it. I had written some of this idea a long time ago, and most of what I thought I could use, doesn't work in actual canon anymore. Anubis - messing with my fic even after he's gone. gah. I hate it when that happens.

Since this has been going around again...

I was WAY overthinking this, until I figured out it's just an excuse to post pretty pictures. (and I still have a problem picking the married ones... I'm such a dork)

(1) List 5 celebrities you would have sex with without even asking questions.
(2) Put all of them IN ORDER of your lust for them. You made me pick only five and now I have to put them in order? HAH!
(3) Say which movie/show/thing it was that hooked you.
(4) Supply photos for said people.
(5) Tag five people. everyone should do it and raise the hotness level of lj some more!

meme, schmeem. It's a picspam. It breaks my layout so here's the meme in light format. And if you're on dial-up, you probably shouldn't even try, sorry.

( Follow the pretty lemmings )

Observations--

First: there were soundtracks for the t.v. series 'Whistler'. WTF? This Canadian show, to my knowledge, has only been shown here in the US on some obscure cable channel once (and I discovered it was shown at all too late.) I only know about it because I wanted to know what Ingrid Kavelaars was doing lately, and discovered it's chock full of other actors I like, like Nicholas Lea. (so if anyone has it and would like to share? I'd love you) It's not on DVD here. So WHY is there a soundtrack? Or, more to the point, why were there FOUR COPIES of the soundtrack for a t.v. show that maybe a handful of people in the whole CITY have seen? *blink blink*

Second: I did not realize that Robin of Sherwood has finally been released on DVD here. WOOT! When I was in the UK many years ago, I bought it, tragically not understanding the difference between Region 1 and Region 2. So I'm all excited to see it, for I have many fond memories. (and it will probably not hold up under my rosy glow of nostalgia, but I'm going to watch anyway).

Third: the anime section is going to take over all DVD soon. It used to be one group of shelves next to the sci-fi, now it's an entire row all by itself. (I saw Appleseed, btw; interesting, but I'm glad I waited til cable)

Fourth: I'm still irritated every time I see the SG-1 slimpaks that we can't exchange the packaging. I would gladly ship all my giant boxes to MGM and get the slimpaks instead -- I have the discs for the first eight seasons in a case right now (and the packaging taking up vital action figure space in the garage). Functional but not very pretty. Stupid MGM.

The Fourth of July
by lizardbeth_j

Characters: Sam, Cassie
Rated PG, Gen
Wordcount: ~ 3000
Summary: There used to be picnics and fireworks to celebrate freedom. Not anymore.

Note: Written for the apocalypse_kree ficathon. Thanks to selmak for the beta. And yeah, I know "Ba'al" is the preferred canon spelling; it's a quirk of mine.

( The Fourth of July )

bah, 2200 words on my apocalypse_kree fic, total. And the country's not conquered yet, to say nothing of the whole world. And what I have isn't exactly deathless prose. But I have already killed a secondary character, brainwashed another, 'disappeared' a fan favorite, and am set to arrest another, which looks tremendously exciting when I write it out like that. But it all feels very...plodding to me right now.

I think I'm going to do a Baal marathon and see if that kick starts my rather sullen and pouty muse. If that doesn't help, nothing will, and I'll have to scale back on my plan.

And then I'll have to figure out whether I'm going to use Baal or Ba'al. I know the latter is more canonical, but it makes me grit my teeth. That stupid unnecessary NEEDLESS APOSTROPHE makes for awkward looking possessives! Bad enough I have to write Teal'c's (and avoid it wherever possible), I don't want to write Ba'al's as well. It just looks so stupid and wrong to me.

Whoever thought up the idea that flinging apostrophes into names to make them look more 'alien' needs a good thwacking. Except he's probably already dead, since it's a very old SF thing, but still. Baal.