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Helen: "It's just that sometimes you judge people's behavior by a pretty rigid set of standards. Not everyone can live up to them."
Daria: "That's what's wrong with the world."
Helen: "Not even you live up to them all the time."

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pensive1! Tell Patrick Jane to keep his stoopid meta and crossover ideas away from me. I'm trying to write NaNo.

On a vaguely related sort of tangetial completely unrelated, for my NaNo note, anyone in America? What kind of departments would the CBI cops have? I've got Homicide, Narcotics, Serious/Major Crimes, and Vice. Is Vice a department of its' own? And also what does it do?

:: Is sheepish:: Thanks, guys!

Ok, I seem to have skipped these two. They should come just before Fixed, which was two entries ago. Sorry about that.


Title: Darkness Overwhelming
Fandom: Mystic Force
Pairing: N/A
Rating: 15
Disclaimer: Not mine.
Summary/Warnings: Somewhere, all wishes come true. Time Force's POV on Diamond int eh Rough; Maddie forces some home truths on Xander.
Word Count: 932 / 52 682
Author's notes: My table is here.


( 031 Broken )



( 074 Healing )

I love that Mac Taylor signs his texts "Mac Taylor". In an only vaguely related note, this episode of CSI has used the phrase "ho-vine" twice.

In other news, Mac is totally wearing an Emerson Football t-shirt on this episode of It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia. Undefeated since 1880! I wonder if this is like Dennis insisting he hasn't been to the Hard Rock Cafe in Fiji, and it's just a random t-shirt, or if anyone on the show's staff actually went to Emerson and/or recognizes the hilariousness of the shirt. (I always wanted one, but they were hard to come by in a ladies' size.)

Community was (un?)intentionally hilarious in making a meta reference to Joel McHale's character watching E!. Also, the other debate dude was Friedman from Joan of Arcadia! And he mentioned Joan of Arc! It is probably a coincidence, given that the episode was written before he was cast, but I like to think it was intentional. Als0 als0 wik, I hope that Jeff/Annie doesn't just end here; I find it vastly more entertaining than either Jeff/Britta or Annie/Troy. (ANNIE IS TOTALLY PETE'S WIFE FROM MAD MEN.)

Oh, seriously, Johnny Damon? You "played an important part of it" and you "want to play an important part of it again"? I DON'T RECALL THIS SPEECH A FEW YEARS AGO. 2004 Jesus D, I will always love you. It was a good year, we all had a good time, I felt good being a part of it. Then you broke our hearts for cash money, you bastard, and there is a lot of resentment there.

And while I'm at it, some thoughts on recent television.

( Glee, spoilers: 'Wheels' )

I need to interrupt this post to say I'm watching Beyonce perform on Tyra, and her backup dancers are two dudes with enormous shoulder pads and silver hairdos as though they're Ruby Rhod from The Fifth Element. Oh, and one solitary silver wrist guard apiece. I think Beyonce, with her robot hand and these mofos, is starting some kind of demented android army. Also, Tyra wanted to give her a wedding present, and it was a cardboard cutout of Jay-Z in a recliner. ...a Jay-Z-Boy. I WILL JUST LET YOU CHOKE THAT ONE DOWN. Oh, Tyra. You are so... Tyra. I can't tell if Beyonce actually likes her or is just afraid of her crazy. I often feel that way myself. (Dude, is Beyonce's entire band women? That's actually awesome.)

( Stargate Universe, spoilers: 'Earth' )

Going back to a comment kikos_ai made awhile ago, the way the Sailormoon manga deals with things is very interesting. God save it, I still love it as much as I ever did, but it is straight up cracktastic. Thing one. Dude, Mamoru is like, 17/18 when the series starts, right? And Usagi (I had to actually pause and think of her name, I wanted to call her Bunny) is 14. And she's all spendin' the night at her boyfriend's house and whatnot, lying to her parents about it. And in the text, Mamoru insists that "we have an innocent relationship" and "you're going home, my rep's on the line" (SuperS vol. 1), but in vol. 5 (of the regular series), they totally do it. So they have done it. And they have sleepovers all the time, with or without Chibi-Usa, so I don't think that two horny teens (with somewhat adult mentalities, while Usagi is the least emotionally mature of any of the senshi, as Sailormoon she's distinctly adult), especially ones who have seen the future and know they will end up together with kids are going to spend completely innocent nights together sleeping in the same bed. (Hilariously, when I was looking through the manga to find the scene I was thinking of, I actually picked up the correct volume on the first go, and opened right to the page. Pure accident, I swear.)

And another thing. Why does Chibi-Usa never acknowledge that Ikuko-Mama is her grandmother? She is, right? valmont_god and I were discussing this; Usagi was obviously reborn into this century, it's a reincarnation thing, yes, but Ikuko-mama and Kenji-papa are her biological parents. So therefore they are Chibi-Usa's biological grandparents, but that's never discussed. Nor do they ever really go into the idea that Usagi and Mamoru actually are her folks, they're treated almost as separate entities, and they refer to NQS as "your mom" as though she isn't Usagi's future self. As though she is a separate woman altogether, even though she isn't. And NQS always refers to SAilormoon as a separate woman, although I suppose that can be justified in that she lost her powers when she reached 22 and became Queen isntead. And you know, what happens to her family when that happens? Mom and Dad and brother whose name I forget? What happens to Ami's workaholic mom and absentee dad, Rei's crazy grandfather, Minako's mom that we haven't seen since the Sailor V manga? (Or maybe we have? I'm not up to the 'Venus Dream' chapter yet.)

Getting back to my original point, though, the SuperS saga is all about dreams. The Dead Moon Circus plays on your inner dreams and tries to brainwash the senshi into giving up fighting for these dreams, so they can steal heart crystal energy or whatever the fuck it is that they do. Mostly just dance around like gay clowns. And the senshi all have very specific dreams: Minako wants to get married and be a star (as two separate dreams, although I suppose she could get married and achieve stardom through some Sonny and Cher type business); Rei wants to manage her own shrine; Ami wants to be a doctor; Makoto wants to get married and run a bakery and flower shop (both in the same building, I think, which is a bit weird, but all right. I question trying to run a bakery surrounded by pollen, but one way or another, someone with allergy issues would walk into that building ad just drop dead). And they all more or less get talked out of these dreams by these crazy inner whatevers of them. Ami's mini-Mercury, Phobos and Deimos, mini-Jupiter human!Artemis. Don't have lives of your own, ladies! Give up everything to save Serenity and Endymion['s penis]. The girls honestly never go on to do anything else but fight. And they get their powers reduced to their original forms, but I believe that's only because Naoko had no idea the series would go on that long, and everyone would require power-ups. And, you know, even when they get their fancy-schmancy power-ups and new battle abilities, it's still Sailormoon that comes in and saves the day with her big pink stick. And these ladies die a lot, too, while we're at it.

And this is not even discussing the continuing weirdness of the whole Mamoru/Chibi-Usa relationship. Does he not even find it remotely weird that his daughter from the future is competing for his love with his current girlfriend? He treats them approximately the same. (Minus the sex, which he claims he is not having!) Gives them the same gifts. Takes them out for ice cream. Tells adult!Chibi-Usa that she's hot and whatnot. Not to mention that time he was all brainwashed and ran off with Wicked Lady and her short-shorts. Goddammit, Mamoru, keep it in your pants. No, for reals, it's very incestuous and downright creepy. It's even weirder when you consider that Chibi-Usa is 901/902/903, one of those, so she is older, and... you know what, I can't even process/articulate my frustrations. This series is so screwed up.

Dear Twitter,

I'm sorry to have to be the one to say this, but I think we should break up. You started off kind of fun, but we never really got each other, did we? I've been using you less and less, and you had to have seen this coming, right? We're just not meant for each other.

Sure, you let me keep track of my friends. But most of what they tweet, they also put in their journal. And what they don't journal is usually none of my business any ways. And I know you were only trying to help my dating life by having all those pornspam Tweeters follow me, but they just don't work out. And the poor Spanish Tweeter! He only speaks Spanish and we both know he's only following me because I have the same name as a Latino soccer player and he's living on the desperate hope that I'll magically turn from an English lesbian fangirl into a Latino soccer player, but we can't keep taunting him like this. We have to think of the poor Spanish Tweeter in all of this.

I just don't think it's working out between us, Twitter. I'm sorry. It's not you, it's me.

Angel Negra

From tonight's rerun of My Name Is Earl, reading and attempting to decipher the deeper meaning of a mix CD: ""Feel Like Making Love": Nice. "You're My Best Friend". "Stroke Me": you're looking good again. "That's What Friends Are For". "You've Got a Friend In Me" and "Ooh, Ooh, That Smell.""

And then later:
Earl: "And I thought I was in the clear, until she made me a mix CD. Listen to this. "Feel Like Making Love". "You're My Best Friend". "Do Me". "Don't Do Me Like That". "I Want Your Sex". "Don't Stand So Close to Me". This girl's impossible to read."
Randy: "I know. George Michael with Tom Petty? I mean, are we partying or just hanging out?"

Title: Darkness Overwhelming
Fandom: Mystic Force
Pairing: N/A
Rating: 15
Disclaimer: Not mine.
Summary/Warnings: Somewhere, all wishes come true. Ryan meets LeeLee; the Rangers are offered help.
Word Count: 1 248 / 52 682
Author's notes: My table is here.

Two chapters today because I missed Friday on account of the baby.


( 032 Fixed )



( 098 Writer's Choice: Wisdom to Lead )

( Cut for...I dunno. Symmetry or something. )


Gotta love how Jane "accidentally" groped Van Pelt while looking for her keys...and how fast Lisbon got back to CBI. She must have been really close. There's only about three minutes in it.

Apologies for anyone who may have been confused by some of the comments in my last few reviews of Rescue Fire. It turns out that Fire-6 doesn't exist. It was just the fandom seeing scans of Dash-6 and GaiaLeon and jumping to conclusions.

( Dragon Knight 31: Xaviax's Wrath )

( Spider-man Toku 36: The Onion Iron Mask and the Youth Detective Club )

( Rescue Fire 32: Ritsuka's Overwhelmed: The Proud GaiaLeon )

( Shinkenger 37: The Epic Glue Battle )

( Double 9: S Terror/Look at the Maid Detective! )

My oldest sister had a boy yesterday morning. Hence I haven't posted; everything's a bit weird here at the moment.

Órán (Pronounced like the magic doo-dah in NeverEnding Story) Patrick, 9 4 at birth. All happy thoughts gratefully accepted. As soon as I get pictures I'll post.

...for my oldest sister, who's just gone in labour.

Finally watching Kamen Rider Amazon ep 1. It's amazing how ridiculously weak Decade!Amazon's henshin call is compared to the original's badass screaming.

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A very very super happy fun times birthday times to my darling pink_thunder17!!! I know it's too late in the day for me to wish you a good day, but how about I throw some bonus birthday vibes towards tomorrow? Or any other day in the week, your choice! VIBES APLENTY. ♥

( Episode 13, or 14, I've lost track. Someone dies at a country club party. )


Ok, the look on his face in the interrogation room right there? That acutally broke my heart. He was desperate for her to say yes, it made it better, even though he knows it doesn't...



( Episode 14, or 15. The one where I squee a lot because Jane is blind. )


SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Also, it's about time he had to face up to something other than taunting Red John for once. He never has to face consequences. He should have to do it more often...guilt looks very pretty on SBaker.


( Episode 15, or 16. Dead guy falls at Jane's feet. I don't squee quite as much. )



OK. So this week Jane learned that revenge doesn't actually help, faces some bad stuff he did, and finds out that Lisbon doesn't trust him. Even though she actually does. I'm exhausted just from watching this stuff!

::Wanders off::

You all remember that post I made about the t-shirt I won five months ago? Well, Ms. Sanchez finally sent it. She was pretty angry at herself for forgetting to send it like that, but I assured her it was alright; as long as I got it eventually (and by eventually I mean before this year's MAGfest), I didn't care overly much. XD

Anyways, pictures! It's a size M, and I would've preferred an L, but again, Capcom only made 300 of these, so I'll just have to suck it up. I'm definitely going to be washing this separately to keep the colors.

( IIRC, the kanji on the front says 'Hadoken' (which is ridiculous since he's doing a Shoryuken here), and the kanji on the back says 'Bird go!'. )

Apologies for the spam, this is the second of three updates tonight.


Does anything think I should be worried that at almost 8000 words, only one of my main characters has appeared? Two random subplots jumped up and delayed her from meeting up with anyone else. At this rate I'm not sure I'll have time to introduce the others, let alone end the story...good thing I'm aiming for 60K instead of 50, isn't it?