I don't mean to nitpick, Tom, but is this really your plan?

Ugh, Farscape, how can you be so good? ( Season 3! )


( Stephen King, Max Brooks, and a tribute to Rick Hautala )

Eureka: ( Spoilers are still in the Matrix )

A Softer World: this could work for so many of my fandoms!

Rec: Pairing Pendragon/Merlin: Meta, really, in which BBC Merlin characters are Starz Camelot fans. I have rarely felt more directly hailed by a text! (As Sady Doyle once said, this must be what guys feel like all the time.) The embarrassing stuff is there, along with the love.

Interesting article on Foreign Policy’s gender issue (pun, sadly, intended).

( space opera and Stephen King's daddy issues )

Unlikely but true: Jensen Ackles is prettier in HD. Still getting used to the color differences from my old TV, but really glad to see the full screen.

Interesting video from Kink for all, where participants talk fanfic.

I also wrote a little something:
Five More Deaths That Didn’t Matter, PG/gore
Prompt: later_tuesday, 5 deaths Dean had during Mystery Spot (that weren't aired)

( Stephen King, Sime/Gen, Claudia Gray )

The evil side of me really wants a vid about shows we break up with—XF, SV, Heroes, BSG, Dollhouse, etc.—to Voltaire’s Future Ex-Girlfriend.

( books about making books )

My Yuletide story was a character piece, Michaela Dupont from Anna to the Infinite Power.

Fannish things I have recently loved:

Sarah Walker vid, Creator, by talitha78.

linabean’s poem taken from snippets from sgastoryfinders.

…
the one where
McKay
is turned into a puppy!!!
It ends up
with John and Rodney together

I'm almost sure
I didn't imagine it.
I know it's out there

I'm looking for a story
Please?

John is very politely (with guns) asking
I am looking for a fic

See also trinity_clare’s riff on William Carlos Williams in the comments:
I have read
the stories
that were in
the comm

and which
you were probably
saving
as bookmarks

Forgive me
they were del.icio.us
so slashy
and so hot

And then there’s the additional material, not McShep, which is funny but also seems to me to serve as a critique of the pairing-centeredness of so much fandom, especially when it’s two white guys at the center.

Jayne Leitch, Dearly Divided: SPN/Dexter, Dean & Deb. I don’t know Dexter, but the SPN plot—oh, Dean. (Also, oh, Sam.)

( short reviews: Pratchett, King, After School Nightmare, Eternal Sabbath )

Last night’s dream: I was watching a group of superheroes. The first and second in command were Batman-Superman types (aren’t they always?), and the second in command was very depressed for some reason. They were above a neutrally hostile country – the country was not pleased to have them there, but wasn’t going to do anything first. Instead, it sent sentries, city-sized dark red robots. The robots hovered in the air, but horizontally, with their eyes closed, sleeping, waiting for something to happen.

The 2IC fell from the sky, plunging down through a high school and deep into the ground. The country sent an operative in to find out what was happening, and she was telepathic and didn’t speak the same language as the superheroes, so when the rest of the group showed up, she talked to the leader using the 2IC’s mental names for the members: “Fantastic” for the leader, “Lucky” for the Flash character – and it was so obviously revealing that the leader got her to stop before she said more.

Then I woke up.

( Fiction: Goodman, Pessl, Bachman/King )

PSA for Washingtonians: The Library of Congress Professionals Association is having a book sale in the Jefferson Building. Today paperbacks are $.50 and hardcovers $1; tomorrow it's a bag for a buck. The selection is heavy on popular fiction; I left behind a lot of Pratchett I already own, but picked up some Jennifer Crusie and a water-swollen copy of Outlander -- 28 books for $40. Some donor reads a lot of hardcover sf.

( Reviews: what's the plural of apocalpyse? )