screw you

Occasionally in the last year, too tired to deal with CD changes I have listened to the radio in the morning on the way to work. This is of course a terrible time to listen (not that there is ever a good time) because all the stations have their annoying morning shows so you can't even listen to the terrible overplayed music. However, I have noticed a change in the composition of this terrible institution since the last time I was listening to the radio (about a decade ago). In addition to the male (mostly guy's guy but with cracks of desirable softness) and the female (feminine but the sort of chick that hangs out with the boys and talks like she isn't into the complicated girl drama or whatever) they have now added a gay guy... because that's apparently a different gender or something. Now on the one hand, yay being gay is obviously more mainstream, but listening to five minutes of the persona they are representing forces me to conclude that possibly the world is scarier than ever. These guys are inevitably shallow, stupid, and emasculated. They are the worst sort of stereotype and seriously probably worse than nothing.

On the bright side. Listening to the radio reminded me of Junior High and how I used to write these amazing RFP future fics in which I was famous and successful (read: a famous actress, author, and designer) and would encounter all the people I currently knew and the ones I was mad at would have terrible futures and miserable fates and all my crushes would be madly in love with me and basically it was all amazingly indulgent wish fulfillment. I suspect that I am not the only one to have done this. Possibly most people didn't write them out but we all fantasize about these kind of things. I do have a point: Let's all write what we think our favorite characters' fantasies about the future would look like. Characters that are teenagers in the canon are probably going to be the easiest (Veronica Mars, Harry Potter, Buffy, etc.) but I'm sure there are others that would work as well (Ugly Betty maybe since they all act like they are twelve half the time?).

Looking towards the future, I took the CBEST on Saturday. Since for whatever reason I am not doing what I would need to in order to do a PhD program because maybe I don't really want it as much as I thought and honestly doing so isn't exactly a brilliant career move, I am moving on and I think that forcing Romeo and Juliet down the throats of 14 year olds, giving them vocab test, and grading their terrible papers would probably suit me surprisingly well and there is always a need teachers. So if all goes according to plan I will be starting Sac State teaching credential program in January (and if not then next fall) and finishing in Spring of 2010 either way.

Friday was Jeremy's birthday. I gave him a blue ipod nano. He named it Malcolm (as in Malcolm Reynolds).

sophia_helix and actoplasm came over for the birthday dinner. I made peach pork chops(a chicken variation for sophia_helix) and twice baked potatoes. It turned out really well. ( Details under the cut. )

I am having a crappy day so I am offering drabbles/ficlets for the first person to request on for each of the shows I am watching or other things I am fannish about. For your convenience a list:

Currently Watching

Rome written for aphrodite_mine
Title: Displaced Shame and Affection
Pairing: Octavia/Servilia
Rating: PG
Word Count: 402
( Octavian is young but he was always much cleverer than Octavia and she believes him. Everything with her mother comes down to lust, lust of the flesh or lust for power. )

Battlestar Galactica

Veronica Mars written for novin_ha
Title: No Fairy Dust, No Magic Words
Character: Lamb
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 719
( The wizard can't give you anything you don't already have. He is merely the man hiding behind the curtain. She hates him for that. )

Bones

The Office

Grey's Anatomy written for novin_ha
Title: Like High School
Characters/Pairings: Callie, Izzie, Callie/George, Addison
Rating: PG-13
Word Count:570
( Meredith and Cristina and Izzie are those freshman girls your whole senior class sort of hates because they got asked to prom instead of you. They giggle and whisper behind their anorexic little hands, and you know that they are mocking you.  )

30 Rock

Ugly Betty written for qt_ninja
Title: The Ice is Thin, but Thickening
Pairings/Characters: Santos, Hilda, Justin
Rating: PG
Word Count:661
( They reach the door and Justin races inside to tell his grand pappy everything. Hilda lingers for just a moment, gives him that sort of half smile that always drove him wild. )



Also Fannish About

Song of Ice and Fire written for rosenblut
Title: Blossoming
Characters/Pairings: Jon Snow, Sansa Stark
Rating: PG
Word Count: 724
( More than her beauty; however, it is her presence that startles him. Sansa has gained a grace and poise, a real understanding of the workings of people. Jon watches her interact with those around her and thinks to himself that she has become everything she thought herself to be but was not when he last saw her. )

BtVS

AtS

Harry Potter written for shakanaman and qt_ninja
Title: Past
Characters/Pairing: Minerva McGonagall, Tom Riddle, Voldemort
Rating: PG
Word Count:370
( She has not seem Him in years, and although she's heard of the changes she has not seen most of them. They are not comparable to her aching bones and sagging skin. )

Mythology

Arthurian Legends written for roguebelle, cyn_ful, and qt_ninja
Title: Hungry for the Light of Day
Characters/Pairings: Arthur/Morgan, Merlin
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 608
( Morgan, daughter of the first, murdered, marriage, walked like a ghost in her stepfather's castle. She grew up in shadow, a constant reminder that not all was well in the kingdom. )

His Dark Materials written for shakanaman
Title: Butterfly Bezerking
Pairing: Asriel/Marisa
Rating: PG
Word Count: 252
( NShe called him her mentor, her maker. Asriel both wished it was not true and longer to have that kind of power over her again. )

Firefly/Serenity written for silver_fic
Title: The Things That Aren't Hers
Characters: River, Crew
Rating: PG
Word Count: 510
( River likes complex strategy, something to fill her head so there are less empty spaces for the things that don't belong in there. )


Ask away!

10 Unpopular Fandom Opinions (I think)

1) Logan/Veronica is not OTP to me. I'm not like opposed to the pairing but I don't think it's that amazing and thanks to fandom I would not be sad if it dissapeared from the face of the earth.

2) I don't generally like friendship pairings. This doesn't mean that I don't like pairing anyone who are friends together but the whole "oh look we are such great friends it must be love" thing bores me to death. So yes this includes: Harry/Ron, Harry/Hermione, Sirius/Remus, Mal/Zoe, Mal/Kaylee, Veronica/Wallace, Izzie/George etc.

3) I don't care about who Harry OR Draco is paired with. Neither character is really that fascinating or attractive to me. Also... I don't care about Regulus Black.

4)Izzie/Denny made me want to puke all over myself. Seriously.

5) Slash and Het really aren't fundementally different. Get over yourselves on both sides.

6) I liked Duncan. I didn't like a lot of the writer's choices about what to do with Duncan in season 2, but I think he was an interesting character with a lot of potential.

7) I enjoy Buffy/Angel and Buffy/Spike differently but with no particular preference for one over the other.

8) Ron is the king of straight people. Straight as an arrow and what not.

9) Protagonists and villians usually are less intersting to me than side characters.

10) I don't like Mal/River or Jayne/River.

Fandom: Firefly/Serenity
Title: Bitter Aftertaste
Characters/Pairings: Simon, River (optionally Simon/River)
Rating: PG
Word Count: 402
Written for the fandom_arcana Death Card Challenge
Author's Note: Sort of a failed Greek Mythology metaphor attempt....but it's ON TIME for the challenge for once. The idea was to have Simon as Demeter and River as Persephone, but Simon doesn't have the power to make the whole world suffer his grief.


( The Hades Institute had an irreproachable reputation, and father was sure she was happy there, sure she was valued there. )

Title:Osiris
Posted: April 13th, 2006
Fandom: Firefly/Serenity
Characters/Pairings: Simon/River
Rating: PG
Word Count: 1,417
Notes: This fic was originally going to be longer and more explicitly incestuous. I really like it anyway. The details are very River and it mirrors, in some ways, the fic I wrote about Simon dreaming.
Much thanks to meinterrupted for the beta.

( She smiled wider at River, speaking to her with a condescending tone one might use with a five year old, and River knew right then that Lethe would always hate her, so long as she was River and Simon was Simon. )

This Post is in Honor of sophia_helix, if you'd like a post for you fill out this poll if you haven't already.


Literature (and maybe some not quite Lit): ( You Should Read if You Haven't Already )

So How are Things Going in the Life of Ariel?: ( Not Too Shabby, Thank You )

( I can't help reminscing, even though it's not like I'd ever want to go back: Facing New York )

( Grey's Anatomy and How the Person Complaining isn't Always the One Truly Wronged )

BtVS:( The reason why I can understand Xander's behavior and still hate him )

( So Why is it that Wesley and Cordelia are no longer attracted to One Another in AtS? )

( In my spare time I write Arthurian Legend Porn )

( Just When I think I am Done with the Harry Potter Fandom )

( Shipping in Firefly and the prevelence of Hufflepuffs )

[Poll #696837]

Title: Warmth
Fandom: Firefly/Serenity
Characters: River, Simon, Kaylee
Set during or after Firefly but before Serenity.
Word Count: 746
Raiting: G


( River has heard that it's lonely out in the vastness of space. To her it seems crowded )