I. This post was going to be another single-fandom-focused one, but I decided I'd had enough of that, thank you very much. Besides, it'd mostly have just been bitching.

II. I also wanted to mention the nightmare I had the other day. It was terrifying. My parents and I went to a production of Sunday in the Park with George, but when we got there, we found out that the play had been totally butchered in order to insert hip and trendy stuff about war, plus flashy scenery and stuff. It was a Sondheim show, and it was so bad that I walked out halfway through. What a horrible dream.

...I wish I were making this shit up. However, it does remind me that I should do another Sondheim Pimping Project post soon. Sweeney Todd is next!

III. Here's the bitching, though. ( It's about the current arc of House, and it's long. You knew it had to come sometime. )

IV. That aside, I am so stalled on my bleach_yurithon fic. Why the hell did I assign myself the hard one? Oh, right, because I had an idea for it...an idea which I can't seem to get to work now. ghdlfkjs. Maybe I'll do a quick catch-up on recent chapters in order to revive my interest? That might help.

V. On the plus side: did an icondump at andthekey and opened suzaku_euphemia for business.

VI. Want Geass 10 now. D:

I. Long time no post--at least for me. Why? I guess I just haven't been doing very much that's worthy of reporting.

II. I did, however, write this Komui and Rinali fic for 31_days. I am not all that pleased with the fic itself--it could have been so much better if I hadn't started writing it with only a few hours to spare, while I was still somewhat drunk--but at least there is now one more Li siblings fanfiction out there in this intarweb.

III. Mostly, though, I've been watching Babylon 5. Lots and lots of Babylon 5. What will I do when I've finished watching seasons 2-4 with my father? (We're almost finished with season 3.) Well, other than get my heart broken again by Marcus and Ivanova. I suppose I'll look up that place where I heard you can watch low-quality versions of season 1 episodes online...I probably won't bother with season 5, what with Claudia Christian being gone and pretty much everything being wrapped up anyway.

But anyway, my question is: does anyone know where I can find B5 screencaps? If I can't find the ones I want (mostly of Marcus, because I need icons of him inflicting violence or having violence inflicted upon him. It is required), I may have to stick the DVDs into my father's computer (or, if I really want to tempt fate, mine) and wrestle the computer-devil until I can pull screencaps off them myself. If that's the case, well...I'll take requests if anyone wants to make them.

I'll let you know.

IV. No, brain, no. I do not write B5 fic. I will not write "Five Times Susan Ivanova Thought She Could Love Again" even if I already have ideas for three of the entries on the list, because it would be stupidly maudlin and I do not write B5 fic.

Even if #2 would have lesbian sex.

V. I had a ridiculous dream last night where my family and I were living in an apartment in NYC and we were each paying $80 a week (so $320 a week in all) for rent, until I got this powerful mystic ring and people started blowing up the building in an attempt to get to the ring and take it from me. Then the landlord upped my personal rent to a billion dollars a week.

VI. So, question.

I have an idea for a fic prompt community: every two weeks, I'd pull ten phrases from an issue of New Scientist and slap them up on the community. Then people would have the next two weeks to post fics (and three weeks to write them, as the themes would be announced a week in advance) using any of those themes.

I think it's a solid idea, but I'm not sure how I'd go about promoting the community. It could be really tough. I asked team7 if she has any tips.

VII. Speaking of which--the reason I was emailing team7 in the first place is I was asking for another month at 31_days. And holy crap, they're filled up through 2007 already. So I took one in 2008, but damn. That's insane.

I woke up to awesome news today.

Which was good, ( because the dream I'd woken up from was less than pleasant. )
The terror went away when I woke up and realized that Lovecraftian beings were not plotting humanity's doom, but a sense of anxiety has followed me all day. Hopefully it's either a remnant of the dream or a reaction to the new ADD drug that will go away as I adjust.

I also started watching "Skin of Evil" for the first time today, but find myself oddly reluctant to continue, because even from the craptastic first-season episodes I've been watching lately, I've come to like Tasha Yar. She's a woman with a typically masculine job (security) in a show where both the other women have typically feminine jobs (healing and emotions). And while I don't think either one of the others is a bad character (well, I have some reservations about Troi. But not enough to really make me condemn the character as a whole), I find it a pity that the different perspective Tasha brought--prickly but passionate, devoted and professional but insecure--had to go so soon after the show started.

Eh. I'll watch it anyway.

And maybe I can even poke myself into working on my SEED fic later. And I think it's getting to be about the time where I should get another entry out for 30_kisses. I do have a couple ideas; I should work on one of them.

Maybe I'll encourage myself with another poll about my fanfiction; it's been a while since the last one.

Edit: Goddamn, makeup crew, that is the fakest bloodsplat I have ever seen. It looks like she's got a tattoo on her face.

I forced myself to attempt sleep last night/this morning (that is: at about 5:30) without drugs. The result? Well, it took a while, but I managed it.

And I had a crazy damn dream.
( There were kittens. )
Why can't I have cool dreams with interesting plots instead of vague and incoherent dreams about kittens in danger? It's not fair.

So I wound up sleeping for fifteen hours. HURRAY. That means no sleep for me tonight! Instead I will watch Seed, make icons, and play Xenogears.

I had a dream tonight that I can't recall very well (but it was probably inspired by this set of chibis), but because of it I woke up with the conviction that someone in Naruto fandom had gotten a hold of spoiler information proving that Sasuke would return in a few chapters. Then I realized I'd just dreamed it. :(

I also heard a joke today that I'm going to call the Hell Litmus Test.
( Cut for incredibly poor taste. )
If you laughed, you're going to hell.

I laughed.