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My Farscape: The Complete Series DVDs arrived a day early yesterday (of course while I was out) but it sure was nice that they were home waiting for me!

Oh, how I love them! I thought they'd be in those thin-packs, but it's even BETTER! Each SEASON is stored in one standard-thickness plastic case with 2 hinged double-sided "leaves" inside (I dunno the industry packaging term), accommodating up to 6 discs each when the sides are used for storage, for a total of 5 cases (1 for each season plus the bonus features).

There's no mini-episode-guide booklet (as with the Stargate: SG-1 Complete Series) because THEY PRINTED THE TITLE OF EACH EPISODE ON ITS DISC! Genius. Well, an obvious user-friendly feature that the dorks who did the packaging for the Stargate set didn't do.

Another nicety? The menu interface doesn't have THOSE DAMNED ANNOYING ANIMATED EXPLOSIONS every time you make a menu selection. OMG, on the old Farscape DVDs I rented at my local video store, the animated menu drove me batshit. It was... interesting... the first time I used it, then became a frustrating delay when I wanted space porn ASAP. So YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY to the new minimalistic menu and its ease of selection both on a TV screen and on a computer with a mouse.

Now, levitation:

Whenever Rygel appears onscreen FLOATING, I squee. There's just something about a levitating pain-in-the-ass that makes my day.


Could be that when I first saw the De Laurentis movie "Dune" and the swollen, dissolute Baron Harkonnen appeared, solving his mobility problems with a hydraulic suit that levitated him around, I fell in love. Only in speculative fiction do you get LEVITATING characters.


So when The Cigarette-Smoking-Prior levitated Cam in the Stargate SG-1 ep "The Fourth Horseman Part 2", I officially fell in love with Colonel Cameron "Camshaft" Mitchell.

OK, OK! I relent to peer group pressure!

Rules:
- Bold all of the following TV shows which you've ever seen 3 or more episodes of in your lifetime.
- Underline a show if you're positive you've seen every episode of it.

( Read more... )

OMG OMG OMG OMG! 3 days to science fiction cocaine!

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MASSIVE SPOILERS FOR STARGATE: CONTINUUM

( A long, 2-part Daniel/Vala manifesto with por-- er, photos. )

So there you have it – all 14 of my Daniel/Vala shippy moments in Continuum. Go to your bunks and dream up some pornographic fanfic for me to read now.

Photos like this one give me a hard-on.

Dr. Daniel Jackson, looking relentlessly intellectual, wields a green dry-erase marker in front of a white board in the SGC briefing room in the episode "200". Two alien alphabets (Ancient/Atlantean and Asgard) border the bottom, and there's (GUH!) a partial derivative in the upper-right hand corner, and some three-space vectors below it -- clear evidence that he consulted Colonel-Doctor Samantha Carter on his lecture notes.



What's the third alphabet in the upper left, FList?

I want to change my LJ theme, because I want my posts to have BLACK text on a white background in Verdana.

I've tried changing the CSS, but LJ isn't explicit on whether I'll be superseding a declaration in the cascade or replacing the entire style sheet, and I wind up with broken layout.

Isn't there a tutorial out there that's not CSS 101 (because I know CSS2 & XHTML), but LJ-specific? Or am I trying something only allowed on upgraded accounts?

GRRRRRRRRRRRR

Some sly jokester nominated my latest drabble "Halloween at Cam's" for a Words on the Wind award.

Although I'm flattered, it's not the best thing I've ever written (Daniel Jackson would have to be seduced and drunk to dress like Indy), and I'm sure it'll get crushed by anyone else nominated in its category.

I'm asked to select the category, because the nominator didn't. There's no "Crack" as a category, but "Humor" and "Holiday" seem safe enough.

Now the fun begins, because I'm gonna started nominating some of the peeps on my FList!

And on a funnier note, regarding THE SAME STORY:

We're sorry, but we've chosen not to accept the story you submitted to All Daniel Fic. Unfortunately, we feel it doesn't sufficiently meet the criteria of being Daniel-centric enough to fit in with the rest of our archived content.


Thanks for thinking of us and hope you find a home for it,


The ADF mods

The John and Aeryn Porn show to Pink's song "OMG"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvEnpjw7wE4&NR=1&feature=fvwp

That settles it. I'm totally buying Farscape: The Complete Series. Four years of space pr0n for only $105.00?

WORTH IT.

Why can't I stop watching Claudia Black in a Bikini on Farscape?

I was on YouTube to hear Eric Cartman singing Lady Gaga's Pokerface and guess I got distracted.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qST5eVLudrQ

On a Trey Parker/Matt Stone related note, I bought & watched "Orgazmo" on DVD last night and laughed my stupid ass off, dreaming about a smutty Stargate crackfic using the "an alien artifact made us do it" trope. Viva l'Orgazmorator! What boggles me is that "Orgazmo" got an NC-17 rating, while "Zack & Miri Make a Porno" got an R.

PS: I also rented "Pitch Black" to see Claudia -- which I did -- but didn't finish the rest of the movie.

TITLE: Halloween at Cam's
CATEGORY: Daniel/Vala, mainly
RATING: PG / Teen
SEASON/SPOILERS: post Continuum
SUMMARY: Drabble where I dress them up in fangrrl squee.
WORD COUNT: 100

. . .

"Neo, pry Indiana Jones off Lara Croft," orders General Solo while handing me another Guinness.

"Yo, Tombraider." I give the long braid a tug. "Ready to frag some zombies?"

"How are we splitting into teams?" She wipes her mouth and returns the leather hat to Jackson, who casually covers his fly with it.

"Dunno. Military versus civilian? Shirts versus skins?"

"Chicks versus sticks." Seven of Nine, who'd been explaining light sabre physics to Mace Windu, hands Vala a Wii wand.

So me, Teal'c, Vala and Sam play "House of the Dead: Overkill" while Jackson and O'Neill watch and get drunker.

Vala Mal Doran puts out on the first date, so there's no question that I'd first take her to a swanky seafood restaurant (San Diego's my home), then to the symphony in the backless velvet gown I'll have bought for her, and then to the Hotel Del Coronado.

I'm okay if she screams Daniel's name when I rock her world.

If I ever jump on the NaNoWriMo bandwagon, I'd only generate a bunch of porny, non-sequitur fanfic that crosses over The X-Files with Stargate SG-1, Lord of the Rings, Dr. Who, Firefly, Farscape, Monty Python's Flying Circus & South Park, then feel as though I'd totally wasted time better spent generating a meticulously-edited 5000-word smutbiscuit.

I mean, seriously, I cannot expect anyone to suffer reading the kind of crap I'd produce for NaNoWriMo. More power to ya if anyone on my f-list does the NaNoWriMo, because you're doing what I simply cannot commit to doing.

Rules:

1. Grab the book nearest you (the NEAREST, not your favorite book, the coolest, or the most intellectual).


2. Turn to page 56.


3. Find the fifth full sentence.


4. Post that sentence along with these instructions in your LJ.

( This is embarrassing. )

I just visited my local video store and paid for the Stargate: SG-1 Complete Series on DVD! It should be here in a week or so! OMG OMG OMG I can't wait!

I've been renting the Season 1 disks, week-by-week, but it's just not the same as owning OWNING O W N I N G them myself. GUH

The first thing I'll do is rip "Prometheus Unbound" so I can watch it to death without warping the original DVD. Then I'll catch up on S9 & S10, because reading transcripts is just not the same!

Ya know, when I read the transcript for "Avalon Part 2", the scene where Sallis/Vala is burned to death while Harrid/Daniel watches helplessly just made me shocked and horrified and sad and tearful and depressed. Then I read LJ blogs where Daniel/Vala 'shippers expressed how that scene made 'em 'ship, and I'm all WTF? On "paper", it's just not 'shippy. It's mortifying. So maybe I'll have a different impression when I see it blocked, costumed, performed and shot? I dunno.

BTW, I'm one of those weird people who's not "spoiled" by reading transcripts. I have a degree in Theatre, so reading a play, for me, is merely the first step in executing the finished, collaborative artwork.

I didn't leave the video store empty-handed, either. I've rented "The Mikado" (version with Eric Idle!) and Season 1 of Aqua Teen Hunger Force AND a staging of Shakespeare's "All's Well That Ends Well" because I like unpopular Shakespeare plays.

Don't you hate it when you forget to change the privacy setting on your post and it goes public for the few minutes it takes you to realize how careless you are?

Yes, that just happened to me.

And if you read it, please feel free to mock me. It was a rough draft of some smutty unfinished fanfic; I use LJ as a backup for my drafts.

Which is a brilliant idea only if I REMEMBER TO SWITCH PRIVACY SETTINGS.

Started renting Farscape DVDs a few weeks ago, and now I'm in love with a leviathan. Literally.

Just watched "Tech Girl" and the way Moya's cobbled shield was penetrated by spermlike shuttlecraft, and now I'm swirling in this cosmic metaphor of a giant womb nurturing the wounded detritus of disparate races, melding them into higher aspects of themselves.

Not to mention I'm now 'shipping Aeryn/Gilena (courtesy of Claudia Black's powerful, subtle goodbye scene), 'cuz I can't quite see past my indifference to Vala/Cam to 'ship Aeryn and John.