From winterlive's journal:

1. Reply to this post, and I will pick four/five of your userpics.
2. Make a post and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon squee.

( Danny's Picks - Warning: Some AtS and SPN Discussion )

Interviews. I don't care if I'm giving them or receiving, I always feel like a total ass right after.

But luckily there are memes :p Which are fun and think-y without straining the brain.

Snagged from spastic_visions:

Name a character in one of my fandoms and I'll tell you three (or more) things about them from my personal canon.


Fandoms:

Star Trek: Voyager
Dark Angel
NCIS
Supernatural
Angel
Firefly
Torchwood
SeaQuest
The Faculty

This is sort of a crazy, catch-up post as I haven't posted in some days and a lot has happened in the meantime.

First, the fannish things, because they are more easily discussed:

WARNING: Spoilers behind every cut, including those for the movie Deception, Supernatural episodes 3x13 and 3x14, NCIS Season 5, and all of Torchwood.

1) My dearest Ewan.

Ewan McGregor. One of my truest loves. I maintain that I would listen to the man reading a grocery list - even pay to do so if the opportunity arose - and I have watched him portray everything from a trombone-playing plant worker to an indecently exposed rock star with a cocaine habit and too much eyeliner.

( All that being said... (Spoilers for Deception Ahead )

2) And how about those Winchester boys?

( 'It's uncanny how you managed to both honor his memory and grossly exploit the manner of his death.' )

3) Meanwhile, my NCIS squee...

( ...knows no bounds. )

4) And then there's Torchwood.

( 'I should have known right from the start//that you would go and break my heart...' )

Last, Real Life.

( Or the least random bit of this randomness. )

So. I've just heard Kripke's spoilers for the character casting in Season 4. And unlike some others, I am not altogether pleased.

( Here's why. )

I know this is not a popular opinion. Respond to it anyway :p Give me your (well reasoned and intelligent) thoughts. Give me your opposition or your support - even if only in a tastefully concise >:( or :D I'd like to see how the numbers add up on either side of the fan reaction to this decision.

There is a poll here pitting Jensen Ackles against David Boreanaz :P

I say we call in Alexis Denisof to do the judging. Who's with me?

*looks for hands*

Strachey fans, help me out:

How unlike the novels are the Strachey movies? Initially, I'd heard good things about the books - but now I'm hearing disparaging comments as well. Before I go about buying all (what, seven?) of them... Has anyone else here read them? What did you think of the characterizations? I love our onscreen Don and Timmy so much :p I don't want my reading experience to color my appreciation of them in a negative way.

O. M. G. Ha!

I am a total geek for even getting excited about this... and it doesn't matter at all to anyone who isn't into both fandoms...

But I was looking through Sebastian Spence's IMDB profile (for nefarious, naughty-RPS-writing purposes) and realized why he looked so familiar to me! He was on Supernatural! Minus the suit and glasses, in jeans and a leather jacket...

Azazel's son is Donald Strachey's husband :D That is just hilarious to me.

ETA: Apparently, he was also in an episode of Dawson's Creek that Jensen Ackles guest-starred in... And he was on Dark Angel! Charlie! I can't believe I didn't catch that.

I have five drabbles, a DA ficathon fic, and a crossover missing a paragraph here - some tweaking there.

And after every line I write, I'm clicking on my ImageReady icon and playing with another icon for my tim_don_a_thon entry. Or writing another line in the Strachey!fic I've got going.

That's when I'm not giving up completely and popping Third Man Out back into the dvd. (Oh where, oh where, is my Shock to the System, nice postal man? WHERE?!)

I've joked about fandoms eating my brain, but - dear God - I had no idea what I was talking about! I love those pretty, married boys - oh, I do, I do!

And I love the pretty boys who play them. Why is it that hearing Sebastian Spence is straight makes me want to write Chad/Sebastian RPS so bad? And would I be completely twisted if I did? :p

This was meant to be for the Old Challenges Revisited prompt at slashthedrabble - challenge #012: 'Switch'.

I went over 500 words and didn't want to cut any further... But I like it all the same :) Tell me if you agree.

Title: Shift
Fandom: AtS AU (Wes/Angel... sorta;)
Rated: PG
Disclaimer: All hail the Joss.

( Not that, you know, Wes doesn't work the whole vampire thing nicesly... )

And this is just random, but... Look at my icon. Mini!Booth is blonde... like Darla. It's not such a task to imagine that this is Angel with a young Connor, is it?

Only a thought :p

Once again I find myself infatuated with a totally new fandom, and LJ seems to have been ready and waiting to nurture my new interest :) As strange as HSM 2 slash sounded in my head when I wrote my drabble last night, I rewatched the movie today (I was much too distracted during the first viewing by fic-y thoughts) and knew there had to be like-minded slashers out there. The boys were wearing one another's clothes in one scene! You can't tell me that someone over at Disney didn't know what they were saying there.

And sure enough, I found a number of HSM communities when I looked. Not to mention some icons and fics that made me squee a bit :D I've got to check out more of iconthology's work and I enjoyed magickalmolly's Hey Batter, Batter, as well as:

( I'll Show You How I Swing - More Ryan/Chad Recs )

It isn't nice of new fandoms to take over my brain these days. I've become crap at doing anything creative about expressing my interest, so any bunnies that attack just sort of stick where they hit and squirm.

I blame sutext-y youth programming. And my children. And even you, chlare, who wrote that lovely bit of Liam/Wes/Will the other day, prompting me to reread your popularity series and no doubt putting me in a receptive mind-set for a East High pairing ;P