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I actually had a pretty great 2014. I finally got off my butt and applied to Grad School (well this was a starting in 2013 thing but mostly 2014) and I got in! I moved. I made some great new friends. I'm working toward a degree I'm really passionate about and looking forward to the future. I hope 2015 is even better.

So I saw Prometheus and I have thoughts, largely of a positive nature.

( One (semi-spoilery) problem )

On to things of substance.

( Spoilers under here )

 I just wanted a post on the 29th. Because unusual dates have always appealed to me. 

I spent the past five days in California. So naturally I have returned just in time for snow. 

Revenge is going to be huge for Yuletide this year right? Because as of last night we had actual canon queers and in such a way that absolutely sets up possibilities for more. And the possibility of threesomes! So lots of people are going to write Revenge.( sorta not even spoilery )

Personally I would like some Pan Am fic. If I was writing fic just now I would definitely write a long fic for Pan Am where Maggie starts to school Ted on his privilege and then eventually he'd be less horrible and sometime when he didn't even know she was around he would school someone else on how they are being a sexist jerk and Maggie would hear and then they'd eventually date. For Yuletide I feel like asking for a story with Laura from Pan Am discovering she is a big lesbian. It is honestly my fondest wish.

I've been rewatching Firefly this summer and I just got to "Objects in Space" and it gave me thoughts so I thought I'd share them.

Joss Whedon (quite rightly) gets criticized for his obsession with crazy girls. And River certainly fits this mold. But I love her. For most of the run she is merely crazy, she doesn't have any agency (it's been taken from her by the Alliance) and it doesn't seem like she'll ever be able to get it back. "Objects in Space" changes this, it shows the beginning of a real arc for River that we never got on TV and only got a little bit in the movie.

( A long Ramble on  )

That probably didn't make much sense since it is the middle of the night but it needed to come out of my head.

I read an article/interview with M. Night Shyamalan about The Last Airbender and then I read comments on ONTD (because I hate myself apparently) and it just makes me so upset. I understand why soem people don't care (even though they should) but I just get so mad when I read the justifications. People actually defend the casting because "movies have to appeal to lots of different people." And that doesn't make them angry. Why aren't they mad that Hollywood is saying that we white people can't identify with people who aren't white? It makes me furious and insulted but they seem to think this is perfectly okay.

I also watched the finale of Doctor Who. ( spoilers live under the cut )

I finished my Yuletide story! It needs a solid look over and a beta but it's all done! I'm so excited. I wish uploading was open because once I'm finished with this I just want to post it. I mean after it gets checked over. Also I like to know what number I am and hope that it is low!

Also, I watched the Alice miniseries that was on Syfy last weekend. I kind of loved it. It was exactly the kind of awesome/terrible things that the Syfy channel can excel at. And Alice/Hatter is totally the new ship I am obsessed with. Alice is tough but with a center filled with issues and Hatter is a con man with a heart of gold, or a charming rogue, both of which are totally tropes I love. And Hatter is adorable and British! (I also found out that in real life the actor who played Hatter is engaged to Hanah from S Club! Which makes him even more adorable!)

Anyway Alice/Hatter is where it is at. I might even write some.

Oh man, Rahm Emmanuel just made me cry. He wasn't even trying to. It's supposed to be funny. But I can't listen to him talk about my beloved Sarah Lawrence (which it is so obvious that he loves as well) without feeling a little teary.



I didn't know how lucky I was to be there when I was there. I want to go back.

"I like curios, millenary, and daguerrotypes as much as the next gal, but I can't get behind the values of those eras. I wouldn't want to live surrounded by those mementos."- some commenter on Jezebel.

I feel like this quote is the most perfect storm of Internet comment. It has a certain pretentiousness combined with an outrage about something trivial that just completely makes the internet. If only there was a lolcat somewhere in there at the same time.

I love the days when all the numbers are the same. 09/09/09. It just looks cool.

I defy anyone who watched Sesame Street as a kid not to watch this this tribute and not tear up at least a little. When I was little I wanted to live on Sesame Street so badly. I don't think much has changed all these years later.