My weekend in a numbered list...

[bluflamingo]

1. I am victorious over my packing (moving house on new year's eve, yay!), my laundry, my posting of christmas presents and my buying of furniture (including an amy moment* in which I acquired a chest of drawers that would have been £70 including delivery for only £30, because I went by a nice secondhand place). However, I have also packed all my tools away, despite knowing I'm going to need them the day before I move in order to take apart the furniture I already own. Thankfully, I labelled all the boxes this time, so I just have to find the right one.

*So named for my little sister, who has a tendency to pick out something she wants, take it to the till, and find that it's being sold for about half of what she was expecting to pay.

2. I've succumbed to the mass fandom diversion to Merlin (as if there was ever any doubt I would - it has wizards, sorcery, Anthony Head and a dragon). It's a lot funnier than I was expecting, and may explain why I haven't got anywhere with my sg_flyboys fic, having spent today reading Merlin fic instead.

3. Of the good: I have a long femslash plot for SGA. Of the bad: I also have a het plot. I don't write het! At all! And I suspect that it will bring the Rodney lovers to demand my head on a pike, and probably also make the Keller haters think I agree with them. It may also require me to actually watch more than the first minute of Brainstorm. Despite all this, I desperatly want to write it, if only to make up for all the fic that has Keller as some kind of evil witch who's wrecking Rodney's life when he should be with John (because Rodney isn't ever complicit in their relationship, it's all Keller's fault. If SGA were merged with Merlin, she'd be Nimueh).

Actually, both of the ideas require me to watch Brainstorm, and the first one requires the one about the runner, the name of which escapes me. Sigh.

4. Three days from now, I will be home for Christmas, and as badly as Christmas went last year (oh, so very badly, especially considering my faher didn't find out that I came out to my grandmother by letter a few months before. Which, hey, fate's probably saving that for *this* Christmas, so I can uphold my reputation as the bad daughter. Excellent), I don't care because I'm homesick and I miss my mum, and I actually cried at the end of this week's Criminal Minds, which is nothing if not a sign that I need to go home for a few days.

5. I'm off to write about John, Cam and Alex, and snow, and hot chocolate. And possibly make myself hot chocolate to go with it.

Comments

[ionaonie.livejournal.com]

YAY - You got caught by the Merlin bug *g*

It's a fun affliction to have, I can tell you.

I'm possibly slightly obsessed - probably more with Arthur than anything else *G*

[athousanderrors.livejournal.com]

*delurks* Just curious - where did you find Merlin? I've been looking for it EVERYWHERE, having seen the last episode and getting curious as to where all my fandom faves have disappeared to...

[skieswideopen]

I'm glad to hear you're moving! I know you weren't fond of where you were. And good luck with the visit home. Will your grandmother be present at Christmas?

I know you don't write het, but I kind of want to read your story after what you've said about it.

I guess I may eventually have to download Merlin, just to see what all the fuss is about.

[ninja007.livejournal.com]

YEA!!

You're going to write about John, Cam and Alex!!!

You made my day!!

[10pmpacifictime.livejournal.com]

2) I've stayed away from Merlin, because my geeky medievalist is going to flail worse than when SG-1 did king Arthur.

3) I've always liked Nimue and I've always found Mallory's portrayal of her more complex than later authors giver her credit for.

4) Last week's Criminal Minds was freaking tragic. And that was even with out the gut wrench of the guy being played by Mitch Pillegi.

5) JOHN! CAM! ALEX! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! I know they are all your work, but I can't help but feel like it's my universe just a little, and it's a warm fuzzy feeling every time it grows.

Can you recommend a good beta? I'm on page twelve of my epic Granger/Lorne fic and I need someone to read over what I've gotten so far and maybe help me through the rest.

*trundles off to make herself hot chocolate*

[http://users.livejournal.com/_la_la_la/]

Yes! Another one falls to the sparkly power of Merlin :D I love all the characters, even if I'm shipping Merlin/Arthur so hard. Morgana and Gwen have some lovely scenes together, though I'm hoping for more development of Gwen in the second series.

Yay - more John, Cam, & Alex! *smishes*

[ariadne83]

I hope you know, I'm really looking forward to #3, whichever idea you end up writing.

I sympathise - my brain has been taken over by a Rodney/Jennifer friendship-fic plotbunny.

[kyizi.livejournal.com]

it has wizards, sorcery, Anthony Head and a dragon

...see, I'm at a loss as to why I haven't started watching that yet!

I'm off to write about John, Cam and Alex, and snow, and hot chocolate. And possibly make myself hot chocolate to go with it.

*flails* Really? *g* YEAY!