jaybee65

I deactivated Twitter and am not on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok or many other social media sites. I plan to check here and on Tumblr (account name jaybee65) for fannish stuff. For now, I can also be found on Mastodon, Post, and CounterSocial for non-fannish stuff - ping me if you want those account names.

There's quite a nice community of Madeline/Operations vidders over on Youtube - I've been enjoying their work for a while now. But I just came across one vid by Maria Purt that she says was inspired by one of my fics, Return From the Land of Shadows. The vid is great, and I am thrilled that one of my ideas helped inspire her to create something else!

I'm embedding the vid here, and I hope any TR fen who see this will go and leave Maria a nice comment!

I haven't had time to browse very many of the Yuletide stories yet, but for those on my friendslist/circle who are fans of Caprica, there is one story that you simply *must* read. (WARNING: the story contains spoilers for all of the unaired episodes, so if you haven't seen them yet and wish to remain unspoiled, please wait to read this.)

The story is entitled, "We Built This City," it's in Tamara's POV, and not only does it flesh her character out wonderfully, it really delves into the possibilities of V-world in rich and thought-provoking ways. You can read it here. It's gen, and not rated, but spoilers ahoy!

I've been out of town this week, but had my laptop, which meant that I actually had a little free time to watch a few shows!

Most importantly, Spooks S9 - I just caught up through Ep. 6. I wasn't especially eager to watch this season, but wow, I'm glad I did! The plots and premises have become ridiculous beyond belief, but at this point it's gone far beyond getting annoyed by and crossed over into "Oh, what the hell, I'll just roll with it" territory.

My likes (I'll try to avoid specific spoilers):

1. Ruth's character development. She's got a hard edge this season! And a kind of confidence that I never could have imagined the Ruth of S2 having. I can see her running Section D now, to be honest.

2. The newbies (and I still include Tariq in that group). I like how they are gelling as a team, and I like that their personalities are their own instead of just version 2.0 of a prior character. (Well, Dmitri is a bit lacking in the personality department so far, but I think he'll get there.) And I like that they still make n00b mistakes, too.

3. Lucas!!!! I liked Lucas well enough in S7 (but was never a big fan), and found him annoyingly stupid in S8. This season's Lucas is still stupid, in a way, but wow, they've managed to make him the most interesting character of the season. Suddenly, I find myself sitting straight up and thinking, "Whoa, this dude is HOT. Like interior of the sun, hot. Why did I not notice this before?"

I can't wait until the next episode! *Bites nails*

I've been so swamped lately, I've barely had enough time to sleep, much less keep up with online reading/posting. (I'm also several days late posting a story for a fic challenge I signed up for...argh!) But I gather LJ has done something upsetting again? Oh, quelle surprise!

I briefly had a Facebook account, but deleted it because I found that 90% of what I saw there were people's game-playing updates, which, you know, I just don't care about, and i got tired of blocking every damned application. I do have a twitter account (both a regular one and a fannish one, which is jaybee165), but rest assured I will never cross-post without explicit permission! (I probably wouldn't ever cross-post at all, anyway. It's mostly a lurking account.)

I'm soooo behind on replying to comments (and reading my friendslist - I will catch up soon, I promise!), but I'm emerging for a quick update. (The virus infection: cured! After 2 days of running different scans and fixes. The knockout combo seems to have been malwarebytes plus tdsskiller. We will be keeping a wary eye on that computer for a while, though. Fortunately, we never use it to pay bills or do anything particularly private. Flat tire: replaced! So those annoyances have been dealt with.)

Today, however, was very strange and disconcerting. My work situation is somewhat complicated these days, but setting that aside, I go down to my (sort of) former office in downtown Oakland (nearly) every day. If you're familiar with Bay Area current events, you'll know what I mean when I say that my building was precisely at ground zero during last year's Oscar Grant protests (which I witnessed). If you aren't a Bay Area person, I'll just say that my city is facing its own version of the Rodney King verdict at any moment, starting from tomorrow on.

There was quite an air of nervousness today. Lots of businesses boarding up windows; small rallies already taking place at 14th & Broadway and in Frank Ogawa Plaza; lots of email alerts from building management about what to do/how much warning we'll get about the verdict. (I've set up all sorts of SMS and Twitter alerts from BART, the police department, and news organizations, so that should give me plenty of advance notice.) I plan on staying at home tomorrow, but God knows how long the jury will actually take! Watch: they'll get hung, and we'll have to go through all this again.

Oh, show!!! I am going to miss you. You made fandom lulzy and happy for me in a way that nothing else ever has!

So now...I look for fic.

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That is all I can manage right now. Coherent later.

So. Yesterday, I decided to do some spring cleaning type activities. While doing so, I spotted what I thought was an empty box and decided to move it somewhere else. It wasn't empty!

End result: horribly thrown-out back, lots of ice-pack applying.

I can sit comfortably enough; I can lie down; I can even stand -- it's getting from one position to the other that's torture. I am doing my best to look and sound pathetic so that the person I live with will bake me cookies, but so far no dice.

To everyone on my flist who enjoys TR fic, there's a new story that you should go take a look at!

It's called Stalemate by clueless_02. It's short but lovely, and it really captures the essence of the characters!