one wound-up punch of intuition

I think this is the fastest I have ever made it through the archive! God bless two weeks of paid vacation. Happy Yuletide to all, and to all, a good night.

( 27 recs in 18 fandoms: Into the Woods, The Losers, Miss Congeniality, The Mindy Project, The Mummy, Night at the Museum, The Office RPF, The Paper Bag Princess, Paranorman, Parks and Recreation, The Princess Bride, The Road to El Dorado, Selfie, She Keeps Me Warm - Mary Lambert, Spiders Georg, The Thrilling Adventure Hour, Two monks inventing things (the Toast), Wreck-It Ralph )

Now that reveals have gone up (on that note: SOME OF Y'ALL WERE FUCKING SNEAKY AND ARE GOING TO RECEIVE EMAILS SHORTLY), I can post this! I was probably overthinking it but thought that a certain omission toward the end of the alphabet might tank my secret identity. To the last few recs!

( Pitch Perfect; The Incredibles; The Office [UK]; Titanic; Veep; Watchmen; You Belong With Me - Taylor Swift )

(Gif source: Tumblr, which I now have an unhealthy addiction to.)

Under single digits! Bright side: it has already been 52 days since a new episode and thus waiting for nine more is nothing. I have sympathies for people in Supernatural and Smallville fandoms; I would be punching television executives if somebody bumped the premiere of my show back a week because they wanted to air another show twice.

I found Community last night mostly unfunny and uninspired, and the episode also had a lot of really creepy aspects and I did not enjoy it at all, which was an unpleasant surprise for a show that I usually find pretty wonderful. Bones continued to make me wonder why I am still watching this show, though (despite knowing that it was coming) that thing that happened was delightfully sudden and shocking.

( Glee meme day 21 -- Favorite guest star )

Realization of the day, which I don't think is much of a spoiler but does include a mention of a song that'll be in Glee's Valentine's Day episode, so I'll put it ( behind a cut. )

And a question: where did the last name for Blaine that fandom seems to have settled on come from? I'm assuming there was an interview/reveal of some kind during my December yuletide-coma, because I've somehow totally missed this.

I'm having one of those weeks where my mind is flying in about 16 directions at once with things I want to do and want to work on, but all I have the energy for is stretching out on the floor in front of the fire with my computer and skimming through Tumblr or refreshing my f-list and hoping for good fic to show up. I have apparently been here for so long that the cat thinks I'm a permanent fixture. He's currently curled up on the backs of my legs. This is not a cat that welcomes cuddles or human attention. I think he thinks I'm part of the floor.

I really, really need to sleep more.

( Glee meme day 15 - A scene/moment that made you happy )

A very vital question: is there a way to do custom comments pages on Dreamwidth? I like reading things in the Porn Battle, but much to my dismay, it has shifted over to Dreamwidth. I don't mind DW, but I hate its comment pages. I really, really just want a blank white one like the LJ default. Is there a way to get that? GOT IT; I'M AN IDIOT.

True Grit is excellent! Hailee Steinfeld looked and sounded disturbingly like a younger brunette wild wild west version of Paris Geller. She was also fucking excellent. Oh my God she was so good. I now just want to watch westerns from here to forever.

I am so ready for the Golden Globes. I mean, not ready as in "I'm familiar with the stuff that's nominated," but ready as in "I am ready to sit in front of the television in my pajamas and mercilessly critique every bit of fabric that walks down the red carpet." I love the red carpet. On the actual awards side of things, I don't actually know, like ... any of the movies that are nominated. Of all of the nominations, for everything, I've seen: Easy A, The Town, Inception, and Toy Story 3. That's it. There was a point in my life where I would watch all of the potential big-award nominees, but I'm apparently too lazy for that now.

I also don't watch a single one of the shows that were nominated for best drama (where are Southland and Sons of Anarchy? >:((( ), or most of the other shows that were nominated for things.

I am actively rooting for:

-Modern Family, Best Comedy/Musical;
-Katey Sagal, Best Dramatic Actress;
-Anyone who is not Matthew Morrison, Best Comedy/Musical Actor;
-Jane Lynch or Sofia Vergara, Best Supporting Actress;
-Chris Colfer, Best Supporting Actor

Everything else? I don't really care! And even on my list, the only one that I really want to see win is Colfer in best supporting actor. The rest would make me smile if they won, but, meh! I feel like this is a pretty un-exciting year for awards. Nothing really moves me!

In other news, I FINISHED MY CRAFT PROJECT. (Oh my God I am so dull it's amazing.) ( HEADBAND! )

Eons ago, I was working my way through a "30 days of Glee" meme, where I was answering the question and writing a little drabble for every day, then I quit doing everything except writing my yuletide fic, and then I never went back to the meme. I'm going back now!

( Glee meme day 12 -- the couple you ship the most )

One of the performances from Sectionals on Glee already leaked (web address contains a song spoiler), and I just need to say: Rachel Barbra Berry, I love you and everything absurd that you stand for.

Why is it not 5:00 yet? It is the day before Thanksgiving; everyone is leaving, including the receptionist (she has a massage to get to, she informed me). And yet I am still here. This weekend: vegan baking extravaganza + Harry Potter. FINALLY.

( Glee meme day 7: your favorite Finn-Kurt moment )

I swear to God the Glee posts are going to get less constant once we get past tomorrow's episode; it's just that tomorrow's is the one I've been waiting for ever since I first heard somebody was cast (so -- for several months now?), and the basically month-long wait with no new episodes (the Rocky Horror episode had no plot; it doesn't count) has driven me kind of bananas. Once we see tomorrow's episode, I am going to stop wigging. Probably. Maybe.

Anyway, in the meantime, this meme seemed appropriate! It says "30 days" but it's probably going to take me longer, because I am a slow creature by nature.

( 30 days of Glee, thing! All of my responses will be spoiler-free safe zones. )

I have been quietly committing atrocities fic on the Glee anonymemes. They are ridiculous fics. Somebody asked for Kurt being sick and Finn being helpful, so I did that, and then somebody else asked for young!Kurt-and-Burt based off of that awesome blog that's been making the rounds, about a mother supporting her young son who wanted to be Daphne from Scooby Doo for Halloween. I sort of debated that one and whether it would be weird, then decided that if I was willing to ask for RPF for Yuletide, it was kind of silly to be freaked about writing fic based on the structure of a blog post. So I did that, too. You should definitely read the blog post that I linked, if you haven't seen it yet; I wanted to reach through the internet and hug that mom.

Excerpt from the truly special drunk blog post about the Rocky Horror episode that I am still finishing: "i'd like toe preserve you in a jar in my basement," she says. MERCEDES I WOULD LIKE TO PRESERE YOU IN MY HEART. Bad news: I cannot remember what half of this shit means ("frenching grizzly bears consider living in florida"????) so I'm going to have to rewatch that episode. I was very proud of my coherency levels when I wrote that post two weeks ago, but I am seeing now that the sober was a lie.

I've hit the point of my day where everything feels like ~*floating in dream land*~ so that's nice! I always enjoyed that aspect of pulling all-nighters in college. Also, I have figured out why I am feeling so crappy! (I am an idiot.) There's not much I can do about it, but at least I am no longer sitting here thinking terrible dramatic sleep-deprived thoughts while I Google symptoms. Added bonus: I just called my house and the answering machine picked up after a couple rings, which should, I think, mean that the power is back on! SUCCESS!

Title: A Very Serious Matter
Fandom: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (TV)
Rating: PG-ish
Characters: Precious Ramotswe, Grace Makutsi, BK, JLB Matekoni, Cephas Buthelezi
Summary: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency takes on several summer cases, including one that hits closer to home than usual.
Notes: This was written for lydiabell in yuletide 2009; I'm just finally getting around to posting it now. Thank you to deutscheami for the early beta, to voksen and several others for the read-throughs while the story was in various disorganized stages, and to bethan_b_bad for pointing out the most glaring Americanisms. Any errors remaining are my own.

( A missing hairpiece?! )