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([personal profile] rivkat Feb. 15th, 2007 10:01 pm)
LJ ate my first, second and third versions of this post. I guess it's just punishment for being away for so long that the damned interface is all screwed up. 

Anyway, I haven't left fandom, or book reviewing. Don't give up on me! 

Newsy: 

1. Six months pregnant, due in May. The Rivkid doesn't quite get it -- see him smiling, all unknowing, here. Though he is starting to react to the phrase "new baby." 

2. Up for tenure this year, nervous but optimistic. Or is it optimistic but nervous? 

3. Getting further into SPN.
If you had told me two months ago “flashbacks to the X-Files – but in a good way, really” I would have laughed at you. Or smacked you. Well, I concede. You were right, fandom. 

Side note: My first XF episode, which shaped my entire perception of the series, was Jose Chung’s From Outer Space. So you can imagine (or perhaps you heard) my loud squeals tonight. 

Mely says that “the two of them on the road, alone together, forever” is a happy ending for XF but a tragedy for SPN, but I think it’s tragic for both; it’s just that it’s the best possible outcome for Mulder & Scully, and possibly for Sam & Dean as well. Anyway, Dean = v.v. pretty, and has overwhelmed my usual preference for book-learnin’ with his Gift of the Magi-like dedication to Sam. 

So, fandom, where are the stories about how Dean hustles for money when credit card fraud and pool sharking just aren’t working? Where are those stories that also star Lex Luthor? (Note that, in my personal canon, Jason Teague and Dean Winchester resemble each other in the way of pretty men, but not uncannily.)
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From: [identity profile] luvmax1.livejournal.com


Congratulations on the new baby! Mazel Tov!

SPN was hysterical, wasn't it. And you're so right, this was so in the vein of "Jose Chung". That was one of my all time favorite X Files episodes.

From: [identity profile] rivkat.livejournal.com


Thank you!

Jose Chung changed my life -- which, sadly, isn't even an exaggeration. I love it to death even now.

From: [identity profile] barely-bean.livejournal.com


Congratulations on the pregnancy and best of luck on the new baby! And man, when did Rivkid become so big? I was also amused because my first reaction to his picture was "ooh Cars" because the nephew here is a HUGE fanboy of that movie.

From: [identity profile] rivkat.livejournal.com


Thank you! He is a big guy, though a few weeks ago we met a 7-month-old who weighed 25 pounds, so he's not the biggest out there. He's the best as far as we're concerned, though.

From: [identity profile] myownghost.livejournal.com


how wonderful about the baby on the way! and how handsome the rivkid is, my goodness.

From: [identity profile] rivkat.livejournal.com


Thanks! We think he is the most attractive baby ever. And we are very objective judges.

From: [identity profile] fairwells.livejournal.com


Your kid is adorable :) Congrats on your pregnancy. A spring baby :)
I hope you get the tenure you want. Good luck. TGIF. Have a good one.

From: [identity profile] mustangsally78.livejournal.com

Oh yay!


Rivkid with sibling.

Ohmigod. I can't believe . . .

Where did Rivkid get that blonde hair?

The mind boggles.

Sal

From: [identity profile] rivkat.livejournal.com

Re: Oh yay!


I was a blonde baby, though not that blonde, and Z. was blond until age 6-7. His hair is actually the same color as my dad's still is, so the genes are in there somewhere, though I expect it will darken eventually.
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From: [identity profile] gchick.livejournal.com


That's fabulous news! Congrats! (and the Rivkid will figure it out eventually -- enjoy the unknowing smiles...)

From: [identity profile] rivkat.livejournal.com


Thank you! He has three more months of ignorant bliss.

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From: [identity profile] popfantastic.livejournal.com


Terribly excited about 1 and 2, but I do have to confess that I'm also curious: do they become Rivkids, or does the new baby get his or her own unique clever LJ moniker?

From: [identity profile] rivkat.livejournal.com


That's an excellent question. I like Rivkid, but I'm not sure I want to call them both that. Any suggestions?

From: [identity profile] pinkfinity.livejournal.com


1. Huzzah, new baby!

2. I read this amazing and long fic (http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=big_pink&keyword=Red&filter=all) which has some hustling by Dean but if I explain more it'll give away the plot. This fic is actually gen.

And if you want a rec for a fic where Jason is Dean and there's some great John/Genevive backstory, let me know and I'll find the link...
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From: [personal profile] minim_calibre


Red is really, really good. I second this rec.

And also the huzzahs!

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From: [identity profile] gianna24.livejournal.com


You are a brave woman, two babies in diapers is an endeavor I would not be eager to undertake. Then again, babies! SO cute.

From: [identity profile] rivkat.livejournal.com


It is scary. I hope that the Rivkid will decide to toilet train soon. He is showing some (but not all) of the signs they tell you to watch for. He'll probably regress when the new baby shows up though.
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From: [personal profile] astolat


HEEE, yay!

Also, I disagree that it is a tragedy for SPN, necessarily; there are ways of them being on the road alone together forever that I think would be happy. I think the really tragic ending for me would be (like with Mulder and Scully), a breakup of the partnership along the original fault lines -- Sam quitting to go back to a normal life and Dean continuing truly alone because he doesn't know anything else. Because that would be a denial of everything that had changed or grown between them. And *that* would be truly sad.

From: [identity profile] rivkat.livejournal.com


Maybe I have a different image of Sam, but I'm not sure I can see him happy on the road forever. He'd really have to go through a self-revelation to reconcile his image of himself with that, I think. I wouldn't exclude it, whereas I would say M&S on the road like that is always a tragedy because Scully wants to be part of a bigger structure. Neither Sam nor Dean necessarily needs that.

From: [identity profile] rivkat.livejournal.com


Thank you! We think the Rivkid is the handsomest baby ever. And we are extremely objective, as I'm sure you know.

From: [identity profile] wordplay.livejournal.com


A little one, a pregnancy, AND tenure? Wow. I am seriously impressed.

Go you!

From: [identity profile] rivkat.livejournal.com


Thank you! Tenure is hoped-for, but not yet here, kind of like the new baby.

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From: [identity profile] barkley.livejournal.com


Big news and adorable picture! Go you!

There is a hustling fic where the PTA brings Sam cookies and Dean money. It's kind of funny, and I can't remember who wrote it. (And then there's another one that's not really funny and I can't remember who wrote that either.) So I'm basically no help.

From: [identity profile] rivkat.livejournal.com


Thank you!

I would really like to read Dean hustling fic. If you think of them, please let me know, because -- Dean! Hustling! Cookies wouldn't even be necessary, but they'd be a bonus. I read Big Pink's Red and enjoyed that, though it wasn't funny.

From: [identity profile] rivkat.livejournal.com


It just grew and grew! It's cut now, but wasn't at picture time. It's exactly the shade my dad's still is; Z. was blond until age 6-7, so he may have it for a while, but it will probably darken.
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From: [personal profile] sage


Congratulations!! And best of luck! And omg, he's grown so fast!!

From: [identity profile] rivkat.livejournal.com


Thank you! It all seems so fast, and then there were the endless nights of feedings, so time is pretty elastic around babies.

From: [identity profile] denynothing1.livejournal.com


Congratulations! V. exciting news.

Anyway, Dean = v.v. pretty, and has overwhelmed my usual preference for book-learnin’

Sing it -- this change in my usual preferences has surprised me as much as anything as I've gotten more and more sucked into the show.

And I agree with [livejournal.com profile] astolat -- the real tragedy for both shows would be a breakdown of the partnership -- SPN is hitting my partnership kink hard in a way very few shows have since XF.

From: [identity profile] rivkat.livejournal.com


Love the icon! It's so accurate. With me, it's pretty + devoted to another person to the exclusion of self-preservation that's the killer combination. I don't think I have a partnership kink as such, but I do like their interaction.

And thanks.

From: [identity profile] destina.livejournal.com


Mely says that “the two of them on the road, alone together, forever” is a happy ending for XF but a tragedy for SPN, but I think it’s tragic for both; it’s just that it’s the best possible outcome for Mulder & Scully, and possibly for Sam & Dean as well.

I think there will not be a hug and a farewell and Dean driving off into the sunset, leaving Sam to his normal life with visitation privileges, at the end. I think this will end badly for one of them. Alas. Just a theory.

So, fandom, where are the stories about how Dean hustles for money when credit card fraud and pool sharking just aren’t working?

Oh, they're out there. BUt I think you should write one, too. I'll just wait over here. *g*

*waits*

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From: [identity profile] acampbell.livejournal.com


Congrats on the cute kid and the upcoming one, too!

Nice to see you around.

From: [identity profile] rivkat.livejournal.com


Thank you!

I will be back, I swear. Just a busy time this semester.
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