Lizardbeth's Tale

So Paul Wesley made it to the third-round of EW "UnderAppreciated Entertainer of the Year" Bracket Game (defeating Jared Padalecki, btw, and if you don't think that turned into a TVD v SPN spitting match, you don't know fandom at all). Paul is currently fighting it out with Thomas Gibson of Criminal Minds -- he had a close but pretty solid lead and then abruptly started to nosedive.

The reason for this sudden nosedive?
A - a massive sudden upsurge of CM fans
B - poll failure (which is what a bunch of Stefan fans were thinking)
C - a bunch of tinhat Delena shippers voting him down out of spite?

If you picked C, congratulations, you've been in fandom (any fandom) longer than six months.

OH FANDOM

AJ Cook is apparently going to be fired from Criminal Minds and Paget Breweter's role is being reduced. Supposedly for "financial reasons", which is the biggest load of crap I've heard from a network in a LOOOONG time.

I like Paget's Emily - she is competent and kickass and all those things, which are awesome. But Jennifer Jareau is ME. I don't think I could actually BE Emily, but JJ is someone who is also awesome, she's a mom, she does her job well, and she's still affected by the horrible things they see. She's the one tasked most often with dealing with the media and the victims' families, and brings it all to a human level that the profilers kind of don't have anymore.

I think the eps where she was on maternity leave show that the team is NOT THE SAME without her.

NOOOOOOOO. Well, CBS has already received an email from me this morning. It's a big fandom - hopefully it can mobilize on this.

eta: oh, and now they're saying it's a 'creative decision" and they're going to bring a new female castmember in at mid-season. Well, thanks so fucking much for NOTHING.

Join the Facebook protest group

Two days at Disneyland has kind of killed me. But I caught the finale of Dexter last night. (because that's what everyone needs when returning from a trip exhausted - serial killer mayhem!)

( SPOILERS FOR DEXTER AND CRIMINAL MINDS )

eee! I totally missed this ep of Criminal Minds the first time around.

*stares at Michael Biehn* still hot. damn.

Ohai there, Kyle Reese. damn it. Even CBS is freaking GUILTING ME with hot men, how is this even possible?????

*back to ficathon fic*

Renee O'Connor is on tonight's Criminal Minds! *insert Xena joke here*

Poor Hotch. It's a tough year for my woobie.

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Now that I've kicked the fic (it had the very exciting title of "Farm AU" for the LONGEST time) out the door finally, so many more WIPs to work on! *iz buried*

I really meant to finish that one ages ago. I am so SLOOOOOOW...

I'm going to try to put up my "Believeth" comments tomorrow. See, what I mean by slow?

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I bought the cutest little mini wallet today - it holds id, a credit card, and has a little attached keyring. Perfect for tucking in a pocket (particularly when RUNNING after the speed demon!). Now that I don't have to carry baby stuff around anymore, I've been simplifying my purse; this, is pretty much as simple as it gets.

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Boy, am I glad I'm not trying to fly anywhere right now, especially those on AA. Anybody who does has my sympathies. yikes.