Giving Xenophobia a bad name since 1992

...each somewhat different.

The Warmth of the Fire (AU, Stannis/Stansa, Shireen)
( seventy-seven, seventy-eight, seventy-nine... )

It's only castles burning (Daenerys, Jon; post-series?)
( What do you know about home, anyway? )

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I seem to be wandering slowly into ASOIAF fandom; anyway, I am writing some things, and am leaving comments on the fic memes I've found and even on AO3. I'm just moving out of the "read all the words" phase on a new fandom, which brings back fond memories of the time when I read ALL the Syd/Vaughn babyfic on Cover Me, and liked it. And really, it's nice to be in a fandom with so many female characters with agency to play around with -- in that it reminds me of Alias. Someone should write that AU or crossover, with the Derevkos as a noble house in Westeros. Or maybe the Bristows? or both? Sark could be a Lannister bastard of some kind.

Some thoughts under the cut ( since they might be spoilery for the books at least up to ASOS )

Also -- and this isn't spoilery, but it's been driving me crazy -- how do they keep track of years, if every season is of unpredictable length? Are there individual "years" (ie two solstices and two equinoxes, which would produce mini-seasons) within each season? (I favor this explanation because it keeps me from worrying about the entire population of Westeros starving to death.) I am imagining this as a planet with a really wobbly axis, or some kind of unstable orbit, because I find it difficult to apply the necessary handwavium to this problem.

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Yesterday was dry: we planted lots and lots of lettuce, and also three small tomato plants. Today, we had an hour of pea-sized hail.

In other news, I was poking about online and came across an organization apparently dedicated to the real-life practice of Roman religion -- they collect dues from their members, and their CFO has taken the name Lucius Cornelius Sulla. I guess everyone pays on time over there!

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Thank you everyone for the birthday wishes -- it was quiet but actually very nice. I was going to have a hobbit birthday present story done, but obviously that did not happen. But at least I think I know where the story is going! (And I'm writing something) But instead, television!

Being Human: ( palinode goes here )

We are now watching the second series of Scott & Bailey, a police procedural known affectionately in our household as "All Men Are Crap"; this season seems even better than the last, probably because they've given Gill Murray (the boss) an even bigger role. She does walk away with pretty much every scene she's in. ( small spoilers )

Now that it's out of DVD I have seen all of A Game of Thrones. ( Yay. Well, mostly yay. )

We are also watching Homeland -- it's just started here. Has everyone else given up on it? Was it cancelled in the US? I like it a lot.

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These aren't spoilery for specific events, but are very much so for the S4 setup. And they are not uncritical, although as I note below the problem may be with me not the show -- the execution is as usual very good.

( babies )

( and vampires )

Reading over this, I wonder whether I'm trying to shoe-horn the show back into the comic end of things, when the writers have more or less given that tone up (to the extent that some of the comic scenes feel out of place to me now, considering everything that has happened.)

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Hello, Livejournal! or Dreamwidth! I am sorry I haven't posted in more than a month. And I am sorry that this isn't any kind of personal update (maybe I should do that?) Instead I have comments on the season opener of Being Human ( under the cut )

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Hello from Mexico, where we have been on an intensive schedule of relaxation, interspersed with trips to the beach and regular ice cream cones. How are all of you? Needless to say, I have not been doing a good job of paying attention to Yuletide, or to the LJ changes -- sorry if my journal style remains difficult to read. I have fiddled with the style, but not very successfully.

And now I think I will go sit out on the porch some more. Happy New Year!

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I am thinking of taking the plunge and buying a 13" macbook pro, with the Office programs so that I can keep using and transferring files between that and the pc. Any opinions? I am starting to think that I would have to pay about as much for a reliable, small pc that would do what I need as for the mac -- and am coming to the conclusion that a netbook probably won't be quite enough machine for my every-day computing needs. I don't want to spend £200 on a netbok and then need to buy yet another piece of equipment in a few month's time because I just don't use our home computer as my primary computer.

Is there anything I should know? I am just about certain that this is what I want, and it looks like the transition between pc and mac is straightforward (and anyway, I'd have to transition from xp to 7 anyway, and get used to the new versions of all the programs...)

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How do I end up going twenty days without posting? Oh yes, Michaelmas term, that's how. And it's about to get much, much worse, too.

But still, I can go no longer without commenting on this final series of Spooks. Spoilers, obviously ( under the cut )

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We watched the first two hours of Terra Nova the other night; it was OK, but it reminded BH of his desire to see Julian May's Pleistocene Exile books made into films or a big miniseries or something. To which I used to respond "the cost, you fool! the cost!" but now I just think, why not, if HBO can make ASOIAF? Let's have time travel with lots of plot and extra aliens! How hard could it be?

So I have this weird idea that Spooks would make a really great crossover with ASOIAF. I'm not entirely sure why; maybe just the thought of Harry having to deal with the whole mess. Plus, high mortality rates. It's just a matter of deciding which version of the Spooks cast you'd want to inflict that on.

The other canon which would make an excellent ASOIAF crossover is of course the Vorkosigan books. Because Ned Stark and Aral Vorkosigan weren't exactly separated at birth, but there are certainly some structural similarities there.

ETA: the tablet is still in its box, but I think I'm keeping it. Even if it is mostly useless for work.

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