waking dreams

...actually kinda pleased with that.

(I need something to cheer me up after what I just heard on the news about the French government voting to ban the burka.)

I picked up a Firefly prompt at comment_fic, and the resulting fic is a) two pages and threatening to be multi-chapter and b) turning into a Fringe crossover.

Also, and I have no idea why, but I've had the theme song from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air in my head for DAYS, GODSDAMMIT, DAYS.

I haven't watched that show for YEARS. Why now?! GAHHH.

(Um. I have two reel_torchwood fics to finish. AHHHH. And new plotbunnies just won't leave me alone. AHHHH.)

Had this idea at work re: Ashes to Ashes. See, the series (and LoM) are kind of irrevocably linked to David Bowie's music for me. So my idea was to basically write a short fic (100 words minimum) per song. I'm calling it Project Bowie, and I have at least two fics planned already. :D

1. On a whim, watched the first two episodes of BtVS again tonight. I would say that it reminded me how much I love that show... except that I never forgot... anyway, it was fun.

2. Also, started plotting a BtVS/Supernatural fusion fic that involves the Winchesters at Sunnydale High after I realised that in 1997 (BtVS S1), Dean was 18...

3. I have a new favourite show. (Yes, again...)

Right now, it's Sons of Anarchy, which has bikers and Katey Sagal and Ron Perlman (otherwise known as FREAKING HELLBOY), and is all kinds of awesome.

Also it has a character called Jax Teller (played by Charlie Hunnam). I... might be in love. He's just sort of... beautiful... IDEK, folks. He's just... *sigh*

4. Sons of Anarchy also has some really great music. Really great music.

5. As a direct result of finding SoA, I have concluded that Eliot Spencer/Dean Winchester/Jax Teller would be the most awesome crossover threesome or OT3 or whatever IN HISTORY.

(....fic is being considered...)

6. Caprica is awesome. In general.

It seems like everyone is doing these. Well, might as well jump on the bandwagon.

2009. What to say about 2009.....

2009 was the year of getting the Big Proper Adult Job, and being pleasantly surprised to find that I was working with a group of really, fantastically awesome (and often HILARIOUS) people that I probably wouldn't have met otherwise.

2009 was the year of the Film Course, and the year when many films were watched. It was the year I realised that actually, yes, I'm really good at writing essays on aesthetic film theory, Citizen Kane, the Western, and the way socio-political and ethical issues are dealt with in science fiction television.

2009 was the year I watched a lot of really good TV, including some shows that I really wasn't expecting to like so much - Glee and Gossip Girl, I'm looking at you - and made some great LJ friends through them.

(It is also, JUST ABOUT, the year I found Prison Break. <333333)

2009 was the year of Watchmen, and the year of Star Trek, the year of Sherlock Holmes and the year of Inglourious Basterds.

2009 was the year Michael Jackson died. It was also the year Andy Hallett, Brittany Murphy, David Carradine, Patrick Swayze, Natasha Richardson and Farrah Fawcett died.

2009 was the year I started figuring out who I am, and what I want from this life. I haven't quite figured it out yet, but I'm getting there.

2009 was the year that comment_fic took over my life, and pushed my writing productivity WAY up.

2009 was the year Obama became President of the US. Still waiting for him to save the world. Starting to think he's not going to.

2009 was the year of Children of Earth and of Battlestar Galactica finishing. AKA, the year a lot of TV producers, writers and exec producers broke my heart more than a few times.


Some bad things happened in 2009. A lot of good things happened in 2009.

Here's hoping that the next year, and the next decade, will be even better for all of us.

My resolutions, such as they are, for 2010:

#1. Travel more, while I have the chance. I need to go SOMEWHERE outside Europe, at least.

#2. Keep writing.

#3. Live as healthily as I can.

#4. Try not to let myself get annoyed or angry about things out of my control.

OK, just saw this film, after... mixed reviews. Personally, I... well, I guess I liked it, even though it scared the living crap out of me, and generally, Japanese horror films are the only thing that does that. I was watching with two different mindsets, sort of, and came up with two quite different reactions.

( SPOILERY REACTIONS )

Episodes seen:
- "the dark night" (GRRRRR NEED TO MAYBE KILL CATHERINE NOW),
- "the ex-files" (WAIT WHAT THE HELL?!),
- "the serena also rises" (Blair, you are being decidedly un-awesome here. stop that RIGHT NOW. Also, yay, Serena grew a spine...)
- "new haven can wait" (Chuck meets the Skull and Bones society. YES, YOU SHOULD BE QUAKING IN YOUR BOOTS.)

ANYWAY. I had some ideas. Fic-based ideas. (honestly, this happens in most of my fandoms... *sigh*)

IDEA OF AWESOME #1:

This one is a Supernatural crossover, and (should it ever get written) should not be taken seriously AT ALL.

Really, just picture this: instead of picking Nick the Random Guy as a vessel, Supernatural!Lucifer chooses....

*drumroll*

GEORGINA SPARKS.

('Cause of her being evil and all. It's a match made in Hell.)

IDEA OF AWESOME #2:

Not a crossover (unusually for me).. this one would be a future!fic, I guess. Sort of... the characters that we love/hate/drool over (delete as applicable), twenty or twenty-five years into their futures.

Chuck/Blair is a MUST for this one. It might also be a good way for me to get some Nate/Jenny in.

AND THERE WOULD BE CHILDREN.

I picked out the names for Chuck and Blair's kids already - twins, a boy and a girl, named Charles Howard Bass and Eleanor Serena Bass. There may also be a subplot that involves Dan and temporarily!reformed!Georgina getting drunk!married in Reno and ending up with a kid of their own, who may or may not be called Carolina.

...yeah, OK, I MAY have thought about this in quite a lot of detail...

Had an idea for Firefly fic today (first time in ages, actually)... I guess someone might have already done this but I'm considering writing a long fic that basically ignores the movie and the comics, and picks up where "Objects in Space" left off.

So, really, it's Firefly Season Two.

It'd be fourteen "episodes" (probably one chapter to an ep), each with its own plot but with a big overarching plot linking it all together. (I've got episode titles already and EVERYTHING)

Also, I'll be... borrowing things from the post-season-one canon (comics and BDM), incorporating them into my Big Overarching Plot. So Miranda will happen, but not necessarily in the same way.

Blue Sun is also going to make an appearance. Don't know how yet, but they will. Heh.

OK, so... I was watching the new Leverage (2x02) the other day. And it made me think about Eliot a lot.

(I should point out that in my head!canon, Eliot and Lindsey-off-of-Angel are brothers. This is important.)

So now I find myself trying to get my ideas down into written form. And somehow that turned into fic, though I'm not sure where it's going, or of anything, really, except for the fact that it's very definitely an AU.

(Well, there's one thing I don't like about the Angel finale. Guess what, it's what they did with Lindsey.)

So... yeah. Whatever. If something decent comes of this I'll post it somewhere. If not, never mind.

HOLY CRAP, guys.

This will be in some kind of order... should make sense but forgive me if it doesn't, I am still in shock after all...

( Spoilers )

...no, brain, now is not the time to suggest writing Much Ado About Nothing-Torchwood style with Jack and John as Beatrice and Benedick.

Really, not the time.

(hmm. all my posts this week have been TW-related. Ah well.)