I misunderstood the point of this ride

There is so much leftover Halloween candy around the office today. Seriously, did all the kids in Central Mass stay home on Saturday?

Oh, yuletide season. So ridiculous. I have the google doc with my "to offer" list open in the background as I work, and I just keep deleting things and then adding them back. (Surely someone will want Eastwick femslash? I love Paul Gross to handsome talented bits, but I don't think I want to write anything focusing on Darryl.) I'm looking forward to sign-ups opening, so I can stop second-guessing myself and just take the damn plunge.

Speaking of Eastwick, I'm a little weirded out by how much I'm enjoying it. I keep expecting every episode to be the one that finally pisses me off, but . . . it keeps not happening. (And meanwhile: walked through fire. ♥ Uh, yeah. I sort of feel like I'm thirteen again and making hearthands over Now and Then, but what the hell.)

I've been in post-move hibernation mode for the last couple of weeks, so I've been watching a lot of tv (and reading YA fantasy novels . . . in my defense, The Dark Is Rising is not a series I'd read before). I got my new roomie watching some first season Farscape with me--it's really a shame that I only have a handful of episodes (maybe I'll ask for it for Christmas)--wondered again why I've never watched more than a handful of episodes of Psych, and fell in love with White Collar (least surprising ever). Has anyone written a Leverage crossover yet? Because seriously, people. (I want the lesbian agent back, though. Can't we have her and Natalie?)

Also, why did nobody tell me that the Star Trek: Animated Series is really fun? It features things like Tiny Spock, and kickass Uhura (and Chapel) taking charge of the ship! (Why couldn't there have been just one TOS episode like that?) The animation's pretty crummy, but some of the background painting is pretty gorgeous.

Goal for the week: pin down my yuletart contribution. If I haven't at least decided on a fandom by the time yuletide sign-ups open, there will be panic and bloodshed.

(I did in fact watch The Search For Spock and The Voyage Home this week, but I'm totally taking a break from Trek movies now. Yep.)

Oh geez, holiday madness is truly upon us. yuletide has its brainstorming post up; I've stuck my hastily cobbled-together list of possibilities here. (I haven't even seen Whip It! yet, but I'm going to be pretty shocked if I don't want to slash it.)

I've been waffling for the last week or so about st_santa . . . I dropped go_exchange this year to avoid overload, but Star Trek! I mean, it's one of the most popular offers/requests at yuletart this year, naturally, buuut. Hrm. On the other hand, that's looking kind of tiny.

Also I was thinking about trying to put together a general holiday card for the first time in a few years . . . would people be interested in that?

Did I mention I'm moving a week from tomorrow? Ahaha. /o\

Stil so ridiculously busy, at work and out of it. At this rate I will probably be reading Staring Through The Demons in January. :( Well, I'm likely to need it at that point (admissions hell and all).

My yuletide fic is moving forward, thank goodness, though I kind of took a break tonight to clean our filthy living room. (Much better.) Also in exciting holiday news, yuletart started posting today! FAVORITE. :DDDD Highlights so far include this amusing seasonal Buffy piece and Labyrinth fanart that BLOWS ME AWAY. Also there's a very pretty rendering of movie-verse Tony Stark and some cute frolicking Pokemon . . . and eighty-eight pieces of multifandom fanart left to go. Hot damn.

Flist, I don't know those of you who are Avatar fans have heard about the movie casting controversy? The four major roles in the film--Aang, Katara, Sokka, and Zuko--have apparently been given to unknown white actors (one of whom is a teen pop musician I've never heard of). If you think there's something deeply, painfully wrong about all this . . . well, I couldn't agree more. I wish I had time for eloquence right now. glockgal has posted profusely on the topic recently (I can't even pick which post to link to). There is also a letter-writing campaign protesting the whitewashing, to be found here: aang_aint_white. I definitely plan to join in.

Hrm. I should go sleep so I'm alert enough to answer applicant questions and jot down bits of fic all day tomorrow. At least I seem to have secured a place to sleep during those four nights in London.

Here I am entering holiday crisis mode, so busy that I can't even read the sequel to my favorite fic ever for real (bexless's priest!Gerard series, of course) until I get some things done. So I'm trying to avoid the internet just a little, but some people are THWARTING me.

Jabba Glob and Toro snowblowers and Frank's thoughts on Gerard (robots?). I may die. SHUT YOUR PRECIOUS FUCKING FACES, MCR, I have work to do that does not involve drawing any of you right now. ♥

[ETA:] "- everyone’s gonna have kids out on the road and their wives and stuff, it’s just going to be like a touring family circus."

Oh internets, I miss you. :( My entire October has been taken up by multiple out-of-town visitors (mostly wonderful, but tiring) or work being inexplicably completely insane, and now I have to spend my weekend catching up on readings and doing my take-home midterm. Boo.

I have been listening to Razia's Shadow almost constantly this week; I'm kind of tempted to do a big meta post discussing the story, its flaws, and its influences (hello, Jesus Christ Superstar and twisty Biblical resonances in general, no wonder I'm so mesmerized). Really have a lot of other things to be doing instead.

If you're at all curious, though, Razia's Shadow is a weird, off-kilter fantasy musical in two parts. Like most concept albums I've heard, it's fascinating but not entirely consistent (there are storytelling problems). I've uploaded the album here. (There's more info, including complete lyrics, over at razias_oracle.)

Aside from that, I'm being horribly obsessive over the election, so that can't be over soon enough. And along with homework this weekend, I'm going to sit down and try to work out my go_exchange and yuletart submissions. Might come to you guys for input? I need to get cracking, yuletide nominations are about to end, which means sign-ups soon! Also, because last weekend, I bought plane tickets! I am spending Christmas in Strasbourg (where my brother is doing his year abroad), and definitely visiting London before flying back the second week of January. (Equal parts stress and excitement! Whee.)

HAPPY HALLOWEEN, my lovelies (and HAPPY BIRTHDAY, FRANK IERO ♥). I am sitting at my desk dressed as girl!Harry Potter (never trust a Weasley with a hand-labeled bottle of potion), the only costume I could compose out of the contents of my apartment (since my actual costumey stuff is all on the other side of the state; FAIL). No parties for me, though (or I'd have made more of an effort, yeesh); I'll be spending the evening reading the Bible and making response paper outlines. :p Clearly, next year will have to be an EXTRAVAGANZA.

So far, this work week has been completely maddening. I only took two days off last week; that should not have been enough time for everything to go to hell in a handbasket! Argh.

Fortunately, there is Gerard Way, whose hair is giving me flashbacks to my early days of comic readership. Also, you know, HIS FACE. I cannot deal with it.

In other fabulous news, yuletide fandom nominations are finally open! :D: So excited, so very panicked. (Seriously, if the holidays do not kill me this year, it's going to be pretty miraculous. Three exchanges and maybe a trip to Europe and probably having to write my research paper a month early--right when the exchanges are due! What am I doing oh god.)

I'm waffling a bit on ( my noms this year. ) I guess I'll hold off for a little while and ponder.

While I'm pondering, I suppose I should get back to work. There is much to do . . . plus unexpected fire drills!

Oh, thank you, hometown radio station. This song will never again make me think of anything but Saved!. Not that it's really a bad thing.

Life suddenly looks ridiculously busy for the foreseeable future. October is full of visiting friends, not to mention Halloween. (I need to come up with a jack'o'lantern design! Also, I am now considering going as Wendy Watson. Maybe I can have multiple costumes.) November will have the election (WAUGH), any number of exciting new media releases. (Folie A Deux! Umbrella Academy! And, as I discovered on a routine check of the Oni Press website . . . new Blue Monday. Finally. :D), and Amanda Palmer. ♥ December has holiday exchanges galore, and also hopefully a trip to Europe to see the little brother, olivia_circe, and maybe sweetvalleyslut.

I really have to resist joining in on atla_slash_swap, don't I. :( Oh god, I'm so tempted. There isn't nearly enough Avatar slash around. (It's not a holiday exchange, but I have to get everything done early somehow if I'm flying to Strasbourg on December 22.)

Speaking of holiday exchanges, yuletart nominations end Monday, so if there are any fanartists out there who might want to contribute, get going! And there are finally signs of life from yuletide (I was getting a little worried). Cue sudden (and oddly unexpected, even after all this time) floods of excitement. I need to be much more conservative in my offerings this year, hmmm. And what should I ask for? I'm thinking The Middleman, although I don't know what characters/pairing (I would like to see some Wendy/Lacey, of course, but I'm oddly compelled by Middleman/Lacey, and honestly I could go for some gen).

And I'm babbling already. Life's . . . not as productive as it should be right now (hello, steps toward networking that I'm avoiding, original comics that I'm not drawing), but it's really fun. The I Don't Care video is amaaazing and would probably deserve a post of its own if I had the time. (Nuns! Naked Joe! Gabe! Alarming ending! Paaaatrick. ♥ Tiny Pete is tiny! I know that's nothing new, but still!) Also I'm on a steampunk kick thanks to _audrey and blondiusmaximus (see amazing fanart), just reread the entire Girl Genius archive, and keep doodling steampunk versions of old original characters. I've been working on intensityboat merch (coming soon to a cafepress near you). And work's kind of crazy right now, too.

Ahaha, yeah. Things are definitely going to get noticeably more multifannish around here for awhile, though there are definitely bits of bandom fanart in the works as well.