Come on Jessica, come on Tory!

...It does look like I won't be going to Worlds after all, at least not this month. Which is, obviously, understandable, but disappointing, especially as I spent a lot of money on the trip.

I'm holding out hope that it gets rescheduled when things are a little safer here, and also not during the week I'll be in New York.

I feel like literally every post I make lately is a "I swear I'm not dead" post. Regardless: I'm not dead!

My life has been alternately super busy and then not busy at all for a solid two-week period where I had the stomach flu and no energy to even write words, so I've been kind of... inactive. Also, there was WoW. But! I have a few things to say:

1) IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR NYC GQMFS AND ALL OTHER NEW YORK TYPES: I WILL BE BACK IN NEW YORK FROM APRIL 28TH-MAY 9TH. ROUND UP THE PARTY PATROL.

2) Media shit: Saw Black Swan, did not like it. Have not seen any other movies, because we don't have those newfangled cinemaplex things out here in the boonies. TV has been kicking ass lately, anyway. Community has returned to being my #1 jam, with Parks in a close second. I already miss Cougar Town. I'm disgustingly addicted to Grey's and really miss Owen, WHERE HAS HE BEEN LATELY? I started watching The Vampire Diaries and Fairly Legal but am fairly ambivalent towards both so far.

3) Speaking of shows I find mediocre, I wrote Big Bang Theory fic! (I kid, I kid... mostly. From what I've seen of the fandom, it seems better than the show itself has been lately.) Which I will post in the next post, so apologies for clogging up your flists.

4) WINTER IS COMING. WINTER IS COMING. You guys, I am getting so fucking excited about this series.

5) And speaking of things I am getting so fucking excited about, there is a fair chance I may, in fact, be going to the figure skating World Championships in Tokyo. *_* Only for one day, only for the Men's SP/Pairs SP (in b4 LOL pairs), but oh my God I might actually get to see both Daisuke Takahashi and Ryan Bradley compete in the same event PROOF THAT DREAMS COME TRUE.

So I'm way behind in the midst of all this crazy IRL business, but today has been a pretty big day in fandom! Let's discuss.

( The Emmys, Johnny Weir, Daisuke Takahashi, World of Warcraft )

There's a lot of other stuff I've been meaning to talk about, like how we finished LOST and how the Karate Kid was fucking awesome and how everything about The Last Airbender makes me want to weep blood, but that can all wait for a later date.

In the meantime, um... Work of Art is seriously the best new reality show around and you should all watch it, there's a Community marathon on NBC tonight and you should all watch it, and Mad Men is coming back ON THE DAY I LEAVE THE COUNTRY sob. But you should all watch it anyway.

Stayed up late to watch Super Medalist on Ice or whatever the hell it's called. TOTALLY WORTH IT. A lot of the programs were far too srs bsns for my tastes (I don't know why anyone does serious programs at an exhibition), but then YAGUDIN and PLUSHENKO and STEPHANE LAMBIEL THE ZEBRA OF MY HEART made it all worthwhile. Stephane's new exhibition is amazing. I can't wait for it to get uploaded to Youtube. I will watch it every day.

Relatedly, this Evan Lysacek picspam made my day. It's so perfectly "LOL Evan."

And non-relatedly, I am seeking a second beta for a Star Trek fic! It's like ~4000 words of mirrorverse Kirk/Spock. Any takers?

I know in every post I'm like "I will do less keysmashing about skating" and then totally fail to actually stop talking about it. But I decided I had to finally icon up, and then wasted 20 minutes staring at Daisuke and the stupidly hot Brian Joubert (and his constant nudity) and anyway to make a long story short I just wound up stealing this one from hobnobofjoy because it's Lambiel romancing a zebra, and what better way to sum up my feelings about figure skating?

But to change the subject entirely: I see I've reached that time of year again where I just cannot stop rewatching Due South and rereading classic Due South fic. I blame technathene, who as soon as I got down South was like HEY REMEMBER WHEN WE USED TO WATCH DUE SOUTH IN COLLEGE LET'S DO THAT AGAIN. And then I remembered, oh yes, this is the fandom of my heart.

I've already been through like, all of Resonant and Speranza and Arrow00's backlogs again, and reread Family Portrait, and jumped on Spuffyduds's awesome little Bedverse and I am not yet sated, so: what great Fraser/RayK have I totally been missing out on lately? Or what classics have I forgotten? Indulge me.

Okay, so I haven't posted about it much, but during my latest convalescence, in the wake of the Olympics, I've been getting pretty into the whole figure skating thing. Sometimes, it's lovely to watch, like The Swan, or Takahashi's 2010 short, or anything Queen Yu-Na does. Sometimes, it's kind of hilarious and kind of sad, like every episode of Be Good Johnny Weir.

And then sometimes Stephane Lambiel dresses up like a cat and skates to creepy meowing.



So yeah, that exists in the world.

In other news, there are still three unguessed quotes on my movie meme (seriously, you guys killed that, I'm going to pick harder movies next time!), and one more round of Fandom Steel Cage March Madness! You had best go over and vote Buffy!



edit hoshit, I forgot it was March 11th. HAPPY 11TH OF MARCH, DUE SOUTH FANDOM.