Holdouttrout

This is a compilation of the fics that I keep going back to, time and time again, for a shot of the stupid cute, be they funny, smutty, angsty, or crackalicious. Are we still saying -licious?

See? This is how nostalgic I'm getting!

Of course, these barely scratch the surface of all the fics I know, love, and re-read. I mean, it's really ridiculous how many are NOT on this list. But I have to go to bed sometime!

More Sam/Jack fics are tagged here. Also, I highly recommend searching out the other fics by any and all authors mentioned in this post, and I'm sure I forgot some very talented writers, too.

( Recs under here! )

It is snowing in my neck of the woods, which means SNOWMAGEDDON. Only even the storm teams can't quite work up enthusiasm about this weather system. We're getting a light dusting, then it stops snowing and melts a bit, and then another light dusting. Of course, I'm just as excitable as everyone else around here and wondering if it's really safe to hit the road. *laughs at self and checks the weather again*

Also, this meme humored me:

Pick up the nearest book to you. Turn to page 45. The first sentence describes your sex life in 2012.

"Suddenly the room was full of action again."

I've been rather busy lately saving the world making Christmas cards (long, long story, but it's rather boring after you know that it was all my own fault), so while I've been watching Sanctuary, I haven't been talking about it much.



First, Fugue: ( I had several people holding my hand (figuratively) during this episode )

Second, Chimera: ( Dream Team in a Dream World )

Third, Acolyte: ( I did not see that one coming )

1. Why is it that sometimes, when I'm stressed, my eyes start... twitching? ARGH. Eyes, you are not helping!

2. How annoying is it to wake up early and go back to bed for some much-needed sleep, only to find yourself aware that you are not asleep for the next forty minutes?

3. How in the world did Once Upon a Time get successfully pitched? It's a straight-up action-adventure fantasy about fairy tales. On my TV. That I like.

4. Why is it that good, awesome fic ideas so seldom linger around for things like sleep and free time? I am sorry, awesome fic idea for SG-1 and/or Sanctuary that I can no longer recall.

5. Is not The Hunger Games trailer one of the best trailers ever? It was so good that I broke my "one watch only" rule and watched it TWICE. TWICE, people. I did not even realize I liked The Hunger Games that much, but apparently I did! I now find myself thinking crazy things like, "Maybe I should re-read the series." You know, in all my spare time.

So, if a moment of insanity, I signed up for tumblr (as holdouttrout, of course). WAY behind the curve here.

Anyway, I'm not quite sure how I'll use it, except to stalk fannish reactions to various shows, but I'd love to add/be added over there.

I'm looking for a book that I read when I was a young whippersnapper*, and of course I can't remember the title or author. This is the SECOND time I've tried to track this book down--the first time I spent hours combing the library shelves where I knew it ought to be, and I did finally manage to find it (it was one of those "I know it has a green cover**!" things). Alas, that library is long gone (to a happier, larger home), so that strategy is right out.

Here's what I know:
The main protagonist is a young girl.
She is not a mermaid, but she does have some mermaid ancestry.
Her sister is much more mermaid-like than she is.
There are environmental concerns because of stupid humans. (I remember something about butterflies being extinct, or nearly extinct.)
The merfolk are actually called something more like "Sea People."
It's set in the "future," which may not actually be the future anymore.

Any ideas? I feel ridiculous even looking for this book. Mermaids. I mean. Really. It's just BUGGING ME.

*I probably read it in the 90s.

**It probably doesn't have a green cover. If that helps.

AAAAAAUUUUUGGGGGHHHHHHH!

(appropriate tags for this entry include: no_i_am_not_dead, no_time_no_time, why_work_why, if_one_more_person_asks_for_a_favor_i_will_scream, college_was_a_cakewalk, bring_on_the_laserfish)

*runs out*

Trailers and I have a love/hate relationship, and I have to remember that they are deceitful, squirmy little critters that make me think entirely the wrong things about what is going to happen. I will resist!

Maybe.

In other news, I'm going to my high school reunion tomorrow. So there's that.

Every time I post these days I feel like I need to apologize profusely and come bearing fic--but I am not going to jinx anything by actually talking about fic here. Shhh.

I don't even want to know how long it has been. I suspect longer than I have been pet-sitting, or I would use that as an excuse. So here's some things that have happened recently:

1. Fall meetings are starting up again. This is both happy and a little scary. I will have at least one fewer night at home from now until December.

2. My laptop battery... well, it didn't quite blow up, but it did do alarming things that suggest I should probably not use it for the time being. As in, ever again. So that's fun.

3. I caught up on the teamy, wonderful, awesome goodness of Leverage! Oh, so much fun. I'm with Parker--Nate's getting creepier, but I kinda like him that way. And I also think the whole Nate/Sophie thing is cute, ridiculous, and going to blow up in their faces.

4. I have also seen a couple of eps of Necessary Roughness, which is cute, and Misfits, which is anything but, but is very interesting.

5. Awkward fannish question time! Way back in the day, one of the shows I didn't watch but secretly wanted to* was Lexx. Turns out it's available on hulu, so I watched eps 1 and 2... does it get any better? Because I'm kinda intrigued but... well, honestly, I'm a little bored.

6. I saw the new Jane Eyre movie and LOVED IT. I love Jane, and this movie made me remember why. The quips! The naivete! Her firmness in pursuing her own happiness! Plus, I love moody atmospheric things. Still don't quite know what to think about Rochester, but I think I liked him a bit better this time around.


*Most anything with hints of sex/sexual tension fell into this category--I blame it on my conservative upbringing.

I've had a couple of moment lately where I said "I should write an entry about that!" but I can't remember what they were, due to the slight heat wave we've been experiencing, leading to a lack of sleep.

Oh, and the weirdly obsessive reading I've been doing lately. I just finished a re-read of all eight Anne of Green Gables books (I almost wrote Anne of Green Bagels there), which was interesting on so many levels, not least of which was a sort of bittersweet nostalgia for the way I thought the world ought to work when I was a child. And, you know, the sheer delight of reading someone who can create character and scenery with a few well-picked words.

Then there were The Hunger Games. I'd read the first one a while ago, liked it, and... not gotten around to the second or third (this was not due to lack of interest, but lack of time and really long wait times for the library copies). However, I was spurred into finishing them by my boss' daughter, who does not like Twilight and thinks The Hunger Games is amazing. Really, really good reads. I think I want to re-read them so I can think about them a little more not that I don't have to devour them to find out what happens.

Speaking of finding out what happens, apparently spoilers actually increase our enjoyment of a material. I can't believe this is universally true, or at least not true in the sense that any and all spoilers are welcome. I think it changes our enjoyment of books/tv/movies more than increases it. For instance, I was spoiled for Sixth Sense and still quite enjoyed it, but I missed the opportunity to have that thrill of discovery, the moment when the whole movie clicks into place and releases you from suspense.

I LOVE those moments. There was one in Animorphs* that was so delightful, so unexpected, that I actually had a histerical laughing fit in my kitchen, and I wouldn't have traded that for a million spoilers. Those moments get less frequent as I get older, as I run through the possible twists and permutations of common tropes, as I draw my bell curves to edge out surprises.

And I miss them.


*Stop laughing. Animorphs was awesome.

P.S. annerbhp: I read The Thief, and will start reading the next one either today or tomorrow. (I liiiiiiked it, although I guessed... everything. *g*)

P.P.S. Is it Sanctuary time yet?