This weekend: 

- Yoshi puked on my glasses. 
- I finalized my favourite chapter of Once More with Pharaohs
- Justin and I finished a playthrough of Divinity 2
- Scully got abducted and unabducted on the X-files
- I need to get my update schedule in order and put chapters 13/14 (out of 17) out for beta. 
- I think I'm going to start a playthrough on tactical difficulty for Divinity 2
- Need more red plants for the aquarium, I'm thinking AR mini. I like to get my livestock/plants from angelfins because it's local, they've got the best selection of in-vitro plants in a 50km radius, and none of the fish I've gotten there have died themselves dead yet. 

If by "I've been busy" I mean I've posted 5/8 chapters of my Good Omens fanfic. 

https://archiveofourown.org/works/19838476 



I had vague ideas for other stories too but I couldn't get them started because they didn't have enough angst to keep them going. 

I dreamed I was a grad student again, being hosted in a foreign country by a host family. With me was another grad student. I flirted with him, unsuccessfully. Then I ran errands with dude boy, who was also a grad student. We got lost around a street that looked like Warden and Huntingwood, near the Tim Hortons where I stopped at for a donut once, on a bike. When I got home the host parents had chopped the other grad student's hands off. It was not good.

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The Riddick/Pitch Black theme sounds like the Rick and Morty theme song (start nine seconds in):  

Ever since Archie comics shook off the Hays comic code they've been doing some interesting things, chiefly Afterlife with Archie, but now also Riverdale. I have some small thoughts about episode 1 - river's edge:

- I like the casting! Veronica (Camila Mendes) is an excellent pick, for sure and she has the best material this episode. Archie (K. J. Apa) looks like a slightly younger Andrew Garfield and Betty (Lili Reinhart) looks like Heather Morris from Glee. I guess it's worth mentioning the cast diversity, relatively speaking. On paper everyone (except Chuck and Nancy) look white as mayo, but Josie and the Pussycats are clearly set up as Destiny's Child, Reggie and Dilton are now the Cool (douche) Asian and Asian Nerd respectively, and Veronica is now Latina. So, this is very cool! 
- That being said I still think it's very weird for actors in their 20s (... Cole Sprouse) to play 15 yr olds. Is it normal for 15 yr olds to be ripped? 
- It's also very odd that Miss Grundy looks nearly the same age as the students... and I can't believe she's in that romance subplot. Squick. What the hell? 
- the dialogue is pretty stylized, but after all, Riverdale is more Brick than Mean Girls. This is not a bad thing. 

My personal predictions, which i will update as time goes on: 
- Betty is going to go completely off the chain by the end of the season, out of stress, and... extenuating plot factors that force her to grow a backbone. Also, I can't see her accepting what Archie was up to that summer. 
- Miss Grundy is going to die. 
- It's jarring that Kevin acts so flamboyant in an adult way at the tender age of 15. IDK it felt a lot more subdued when Kurt in Glee was camping it up. I wouldn't be surprised if they reveal that Kevin did the wild thang for the first time when he was 13, is extremely traumatized on the inside, and pulls a Brandon from Easy A. And dies. 
- Cheryl didn't commit the murder. That's too obvious. But they're definitely incest twins. That's a known fact. She is going to survive and be very unhappy. 
- Veronica is going to die, because she's currently my favourite character. And she's not really reformed right now. 

Title: Scenes from an accidental courtship
Fandom: Stargate SG-1
Pairing: Sam/Daniel
Categories: Friendship, romance
Length: 25k
Warnings: None
Summary: "No, not that way. We were really, really good friends." And maybe just a little bit more. Season 7 behind-the-scenes friendship and romance.

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What I thought:

OH MY GOODNESS, I don't think I've had so many FEELS to deal with since, like, Kirk/Spock.

This fic hits soooo many points for me. I didn't even know I shipped Sam/Daniel until I read this fic. But what do I know? When I started out reading HP fanfic I was only into canon pairings. And here, having only touched the tip of Stargate fanfiction, I thought that the SG-1 team members had the sexual chemistry of four pumpkins all spaced a polite distance apart from each other. I've tried a few shippin' fics already but none of them have really SOLD their pairings to me yet, y'know?

Well, the characterization of this fic is believable. Which makes the friendship component believable, and the friendship component of this fic is what makes it goes down smoothly. If the friendship aspects of the fic are believable, it's only a gentle slide down to being open to the romance aspects of the fic. But thank goodness the fic is only rated T because I might have not have been able to suspend my disbelief otherwise. Maybe another time, yes? But small steps first.

I also love way that Sorrel draws out the friendship aspect of the fic to add tension so that every time the romance aspect steps it up, I'm more than ready to accept it. Also, UST is delicious.

The last two paragraphs are a kick in the teeth. There is a sequel (Winter). I need a sequel between this fic and Winter in my life, but there isn't one!!!

Anyways I now find Sam/Daniel utterly obvious and natural and all other pairings are ruined for me temporarily.

Title: Pieces tossed aside
Fandom: Firefly
Rating: R
Words: 9230
Characters: Mal, crew. A touch of Mal/Simon and Kaylee/Jayne, although I would consider this genfic more than anything.
Summary: Paquin goes radio silent. Everything else follows. AU. Set after the TV series.

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Why I liked it:

This is the best apocalyptic Firefly fic I've ever read. In this fic, the apocalypse is quiet - where you watch worlds go silent, one at a time, and no news is bad news.

This fic is a perfect blend of despair and hope. By that, I mean it's mostly despair and any hope I picked up on was magnified by own denial about how bad the situation actually was. Also, the end was fantastically ambiguous. I want a sequel but Pieces tossed aside is perfect the way it is. 

Same deal as before.

1 - Kind of an iredeemably rubbish episode.
2 - A bit rubbish but with at least one sufficiently cool part.
3 - A solid episode.
4 - A memorable episode, in a good way. I have a bad memory.
5 - Personal favourite

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Conclusions
- About the same as Season 2
- The Tok'ra and the Tollan can't be trusted
- Which must be why the Asgard never go running to them for help.

Thought I'd note down some thoughts about each episode here. All ratings are out of 5.

1 - Kind of an iredeemably rubbish episode.
2 - A bit rubbish but with at least one sufficiently cool part.
3 - A solid episode.
4 - A memorable episode, in a good way. I have a bad memory.
5 - Personal favourite

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Conclusions
- Season 1 was pretty hit-or-miss (hit-and-miss?) inconsistent.
- It does have some great moments but doesn't add much to either the plot, mythology, or character development.
- The horizontal stargate - cum - moon door is awesome.

I am so tired of getting blue balled by Game of Thrones.  

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Last night I dreamed about geocaching in Nunavut. There was a building built on the ice, and I broke the ice, and it sank into the lake, but before it sank, I salvaged as much of Paul's rope as I could. Then I requested the cache archived. A very, very fuzzy cat popped out of a birdhouse. There was a massive multi-vehicle collision. I drove a red pickup truck southeast to rescue Sweet Boy from something. Of course the truck was red.



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I switched back to my old mouse because my other mouse was not right-clicking properly. 

Solid episode. Yell count at laptop-cum-television: 4. Gasp count: 3. I'm not sure that having seen a hooker over twenty years ago is an instant disqualification for a supreme court appointment, but what do I know about America?

As much as I know how many roads a man must walk before he becomes a man. Or what Jesus would do. Or what Batman would do. Or how paranoid one should be.

Well, for the last one, we look to FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder.
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