( here be some spoilery unfiltered commentary... )

HI SHOW I MISSED YOU

Because I am a lame lameypants I seem to have forgotten to make a post about my new banner. It took me a while to get around to uploading it and then I got distracted, which is no excuse, but there it is. So. In case you haven't noticed already...

This is my new lj layout with banner by the incomparable aerynvala!!!

::pops champagne::

thank you. <3

( SGA - Quarantine (new ep) )

Slapping, punching, stabbing, slashing, kicking, dropping, and all of those in reverse, at the Winter Wonderland [stage fighting] Workshop. Quotes of the weekend:

[shouted]: "Anyone in the blood class, we are now in room 165!"

A: "You kicked me!"
B: "Well, you were still making noise!"

My last three hours today were a Fighting For Film class taught by Maestro David Boushey who is well respected in the film combat industry and blah blah blah and WORKED ON HIGHLANDER. AS A SWORDFIGHT CHOREOGRAPHER. I found this out after the fact, though I definitely got the impression during the class that he was a big deal. I mean, people were calling him Maestro without irony, and who DOES that?

HIGH. LAN. DER.

::bounces around squealing::

My partner in the fight we learned and filmed was a Big Guy and I took him DOWN with a pile drive punch to the face and a knee in the nose because the choreography said so but shut up. It was AWEsome with a capital AWE and I wanna do more please kthx.

Also ow.

::collapses::

Ganked from nixwilliams

1. Is there anyone on your friends list you would ever consider having sex with?
Um... hhhYEAH.

2. Sex in the morning, afternoon or night?
Mmmmorning. ::sleepy smile::

( More stuff of a similar nature )

One of my post-Christmas presents from the mum was a recreation of The Royal Game of Ur, one of the oldest board games we have tangible evidence for. A board something like 4600 years old was uncovered in the '20s and the rules, while not exactly clear, have been reconstructed from references. It's kind of a predecessor to backgammon, and it's a fairly simple (by today's standards of complicated game mechanics you can get college degrees in) racing game. We've played it a few times.

There's just something really mesmerizing about getting lost in an activity that's been around for so very long.

then to life again, like spring!

It's a gorgeously snowy day out here, and I revisited my New Year's tradition of watching the Tournament of Roses Parade on HGTV with the 'rents. I've missed the last few years because I wasn't around people that watched it, but it was really awesome to start the tradition over again. We discovered some years ago the vast superiority of HGTV's coverage of the Parade over the networks -- 1) it's commercial-free and 2) the commentators (being on Home&Garden TV) actually know what they're talking about! Imagine that! ;) Some highlights:

* A giant car that transformed into a flying rocket thing with SMOKE AND FIRE (yes, fire coming out of the back of a thing made entirely of plant material, in fire hazard country... pretty fucking awesome, actually).
* A marching band from Japan that did the coolest corner-turn ever, collapsing into a tight formation to RUN around the turn and then stand up and start normal-time walking all at once.
* State of New Mexico's float, which was full of Roswell aliens (meh) but very good Roswell aliens with some cool animation

In other news, the sniffly cat just sneezed all over my keyboard. Ew. ::scrubscrubscrub::

Finally, a new-to-me series of Supernatural recs:

Paradigm Shift by lyra_wing -- futurefic going AU from end of s.2 where Sam and Dean head their own division of the FBI. Yes, it's like that. Continued in New Blood (nixwilliams this one is for you, and I think you'll know why by the second paragraph, if you haven't already read it) and Like Family. The more recently posted prequel is here: To Catch a Thief I and II

<333

Happy New Year!!!

( And so the shortest day came and the year died... )

Hey, I can still do that one from memory. Good to know. :) I'm having a wonderfully fabulous time of it because fashes is here with me and we have done... fun things. ::happy smile:: Now all I need is some fresh snow to fall and it'll be a perfect week.

::scatters happy things::

kashmir1 has begun the Livejournal Lust Meme. My thread be here.

So here's the deal: Have someone on your flist or in your fandom that you wanna snog within an inch of their life? Wanna have a threesome with some people in your favorite fan fic comm? Whenever you see a post from a certain someone does it make your loins tingle?

Well, comment here with your user name and people will let you know what sort of depraved, dirty things they wish to do to/with you, anon or not.

Just remember - keep it nice, if not entirely clean. ;) No flaming, etc, etc. We're all here to have fun.

Anon commenting on, IP logging off.

So I have an (mostly untested) theory about Heroes fandom, which contains no spoilers because of its intense generic-ness. *g*

Those Heroes fans whose meta I seek out, whose posts make me feel like I'm in a fantastic fandom even when they're criticizing parts of the show I like, or reminding me of things I don't like -- in short, the fen who are watching the same show as I am -- are mostly comics fen. Who are watching Heroes like it's a comic book. Because (I've been coming to realize) that that's exactly how I've been watching the show, and a big part of the reason I love it so much and am so grateful for it. They're giving me a new Superhero Comic Book Story. ONSCREEN. Every Week. With hot actors.

::gleeees::

And there's also a very important difference between Heroes and, for example, the big-screen versions of those major comic books they've been making into movies (or, yes, TV shows) these past years. A chunk of fandom is always going to hold those up to the standard of the Original Source Material -- and the onscreen version of a character/world/story is always going to be less than -- or a 'poor to fine depiction of' -- the 'real' (comics) version of the character/world/story. This is just how it works. Heroes, on the other hand, has given us a new set of characters, still drawing from the ideas and traditions of the comic book superhero genre, and is therefore in some ways removed from that particular quirk of fandom.

I'm perfectly willing to admit that this might sound elitist, and I'm trying for it not to be: I'm not saying that "only comics fen can appreciate Heroes" or "only people who know superhero comics can watch Heroes in this way" or even that "I can only talk about Heroes with comics fen". What I am saying? Actually, maybe the point I'm making is that for someone's meta to be interesting to me, regardless of one's background, one has to be watching Heroes like it's a comic book. Whatever that means.

Background: I actually spent the first season watching Heroes weekly with my two roommates who are on the fringes of fandom as I define it; one of them is a giant DC/Marvel comics geek who slashed Sylar/Mohinder from the first moment they shared screentime. (Or maybe it was more Zachary/Sendhil. I don't think he was really sure.) This may give me something of a weird perspective on the show. :)