Since you're gone my empty arms have nothing left to hold

1. Exam two on five is done! Now if I can just keep up the average that I managed to get this round I'll be a happy person. Other than that, it has snowed for the first time in years! Like, seriously snowed with the snow lasting for three days. And obviously since our mayor is an idiot, the city is half-paralyzed and today they closed everything even if it has snowed on Friday. And obviously public transport isn't working either. *facepalm*

2. And since this weekend I stayed holed up to finish an exchange fic that ended up being 28k and I didn't manage to do reaction posts, have some TV blathering under the cuts. SPN, vampire porn, Luck and some Ringer headdesking.

a) Ringer 1x10/11(getting the crappy stuff out of the way first): okay, this isn't gonna need spoiler cuts because I can't even take it seriously enough, but I can't wait for Misha to do that episode so I can quit watching it. The last two episodes were... the epitome of abysmal. I mean, my most basic reaction is is everyone in this show completely dumb?, and the fact that the only person who showed some smarts lately is the bff's husband says all. Also ( cut for potentially triggering subjects ie non-consensual sex )

b) Luck: no spoiler cuts since this is just general impression, but is anyone else watching this? Horse races/betting isn't really my thing but since a) it's David Milch's idea, b) Dustin Hoffmann is in it c) Michael Mann directed the pilot I figured I'd give it a try. I thought it was pretty good even if it's not at the awesome level that Deadwood was (at least at the pilot level) and in the only episode I watched it was all about characters, but the second looked more fast-paced and the acting is actually excellent, so I guess I'll stick around and give it a chance. Heck, I still haven't quit Ringer and that one is just bad, this one actually has good premises...

c) SPN 7x13 ( the splice girls - spoilers )

d) Vampire porn 3x13 ( bringing out the dead )

3) Also, in the midst of all the Plato I had to read I managed to finish this non-ASOIAF novel by GRRM which I think deserves a bit of a rec if only because it's.. well, an interesting read at least. Or well, I bought it mostly because when you tell me that it's a novel about a former rock journalist turned writer who lives wondering where his generation went wrong in the seventies and ends up investigating a murder that is related to some cursed rock band named NAZGUL and which could be the trigger for the apocalypse... well, color me intrigued.

( by the way, it's named The Armageddon Rag )

4. Also, I managed to see J. Edgar obviously months after the rest of the world saw it and apart from some questionable choices in make-up department... Clint Eastwood, just never stop making movies okay. Clearly it got Oscar-snubbed too (seriously, poor Leo deserved a nomination at least), but whatever, I loved it. ♥

5. Random music rec for Bob Dylan fans (and well, look at the list and see if there's someone you like): Amnesty International has produced this OMG SO MANY SONGS compilation thing named Chimes of Freedom where.. well, a bunch of people cover Bob Dylan songs and that you can buy on their site for a total convenient price (20 dollars for all 78 songs, 25 dollars for the cd or you can buy individual mp3s). Apart from being for a good cause.. well, while there's something in there that is questionable at best (I still don't know how I feel aboutMiley Cyrus or about Kesha covering Don't Think Twice, It's All Right...) there are some damn awesome covers (IE: Patti Smith doing Drifter's Escape, Gaslight Anthem doing Changing of the Guards, Mark Knopfler doing Restless Farewell, Flogging Molly doing The Times, They're a Changin' & Pete Seeger doing Forever Young, and there are also the likes of Jackson Browne, Nils Lofgren AND Paul Rodgers [which sent me into heaven], Lucinda Williams, Kris Kristofferson and Steve Earle; also I think there are a couple new groups I want to check out just based on how they did Hattie Carroll) and it really is a bargain, so I figured I'd leave the link here. Also all the money goes for a good cause, so..

6. Okay, I'll now go deleting all the spam comments that LJ has seen fit to send my way lately (if they want me to be frustrated with them, they're doing it right...) and amusing myself with the porn battle prompts for this round that I have eyed today. There's been some awesome stuff posted already. :D *goes eyeing prompts*

1. Hi world! ♥ First thing, thanks so much for the birthday wishes everyone. They so made my day even more awesome and I love you all. ♥ I think I replied to everyone? If I didn't, it means that I missed it. <3

2. I was about to do a very long post with catching up and fic recs, but I need to finish packing in order to go to the grandparents' in Sicily and it'd take me too much time. Anyway I'll be internet-less except for daily internet point time from the 20th, but since I'm leaving tomorrow and I'll spend a day of doing utterly nothing at the other grandparents' place before I go, I figured I could do that post tomorrow. And meanwhile, entertain myself with this, which I haven't done for ages and will give me something to do tomorrow evening as well.

So, stolen from toestastegood and lenina20, have some random comment porn!:

1. Give me a pairing (or character, or the name of a show) and a prompt (a word, a phrase, a situation, an emotion, a few lines from a song or, hell, even an entire song) and I will do my best to write you a snippet based on your request.

2. Post to your own little corner of LJ offering to write snippets for people, thus spreading the joys of comment porn.

3. Sit back, relax and enjoy the porny goodness. \o/

* You don’t have to offer to write snippets for other people if you leave a request.

** Snippets don’t necessarily have to be porny, comment fic is just as much fun. As is a rambling stream of consciousness type thing about how character x and character y meet and why they would get on like a house on fire – whatever comes bouncing into your brain is a-okay.

*** If you’re one of those people who have a big old ‘friend of’ list then you might want to put a limit on the number of requests you’re willing to write.

I'm leaving tomorrow and then I'll have to kill time on a boat for eight hours when I go to Sicily - I might as well entertain myself.

Fandoms: Lost (all pairings except Jack/Kate, Sawyer/Juliet and Ben/anyone), SPN (anything except Alistair and Meg pairings or Cas/people that aren't Dean/Sam/Balthazar), Vampire porn Diaries (Damon/Alaric preferred but whatever, I'll go with anything), Dark Tower series (heck, any King book you want provided that I've read it), A Song of Ice and Fire (books based - I'll give anything a shot but please no pairings involving Cersei and/or Littlefinger and please no prompts that include Theon and non-con scenarios XD), Deadwood, Chuck, Six Feet Under, Sirens, The Three Musketeers (book based). If there's something you know I like and isn't in the list feel free to throw the prompt at me - if I can't manage it I'll just ask for another.

1. Hiiii. *waves*

Also, dear fellow university students in Europe/half of the rest of the civilized world, I envy you your vacations. I have finals until July 11th, uuughhh. WHY can't I be on vacation like everyone else. Also outside it's already thirty degrees. I'm sure it'll be such fun, I want to smite myself just thinking about revising in this heat.

2. In better news: next week there's a referendum and for the first time in my life I'm actually hopeful that it goes the way I hope, and I'm this close to clutching my voting certificate. Hey, if it goes as I want we don't get nuclear centrals (like, no. We're not technically ready for that, not now and not before a couple of centuries, regardless of other implications) and B. doesn't have excuses not to go under trial anymore. It feel so weird not to go voting with a sense of gloom hanging over your head.

3. In fandom news: I've been interviewed at rec_hymenated! It was some great fun. And I blathered a lot. I guess it wasn't unexpected.

4. In other shallow news: meme from the lovely cassiopeia7! I hadn't done it for ages and I figured I could give it another go.

The rules:
1) Comment to this and (if you want) I will give you 3 (fictional) people.
2) Post this meme to your LJ with your answers.
3) Provide pictures/text descriptions and the names of the 3 people.
4) Label whom you would shag, marry and (push off a) cliff.

I got Jimmy, Dean and Balthazar from Supernatural. That was evil. But I think I found a perfect way to answer. ;)

( answers here! )

5. I have enough recs for a rec post. Which will come sometime next week along with the rest of the top fives.

6. Also, uuuh, hi new friends? Do you want me to friend back? Talk to me? *waves* Really though, I want to know. Mostly because lately I've had some people friending me and then defriending after a month or so, and I'm wondering if it seems like I'm being rude since I don't friend back automatically. :/ (sorry - it's just that if you're only here for the fic and I already barely manage to keep up with the f-list completely, I just don't do it on automatic. But as long as you want to talk I'll totally friend back. :) )

7. I thiink it's all for now? Or well, I might have other stuff but then this would become too long. Also, I'm not sure I get how communicating with people on tumblr works. Because half of the people I follow seem to interact while I'm not even sure of what the netiquette in there is. But I'm saving buttloads of pretty pictures so I can't complain about that. Even if I'll clutch to LJ's comment system for now.

1. Main point for which I'm doing this entry:



I CAN BARELY EXPRESS MY JOY. JUST - THIS SHIP. It makes me suffer like no other and it's throwing me for emotional rollercoasters but it's always given me such satisfaction. THESE TWO. Them and their profound bond and all the things they'd do for each other and everything Cas did for Dean and and and ;___; I'M IN LOVE WITH MY SHIP RIGHT NOW AND EVERYTHING IS AWESOME AND CANON DOESN'T HURT. Sorry for the gif spam but I feel so validated. XD

2. On less exciting news, top five post is still open for business! What I have for now is awesome but since I won't get to do it until the weekend..

3. I swear I'm going to stop talking about the SPN finale at some point, but I'm this close to make the first sort-of-polemic post in my entire fandom life. I don't like to be polemic but there's one thing that's being said a lot which is making me go like 'PLEASE DON'T'. Meeeh. Also I think there's too much finale-inspired stuff I want to write ( spoilers for it ) When what I really should do is finish editing the spn_j2_bigbang story and get it betaed even if I have time for that.

4. Finals start in about two weeks or three. I'm absolutely NOT excited for that but at least it's just three. Which would be good. Except that we already started with bureaucracy crap and hell I so had NOT missed that. Italian university, such a failure.

5. Okay, that was all. Yes, not exactly consistent but it was made because of point one mostly. I'll now go writing stuff at the Lost comment fic meme at lostsquee while I rub my hands happily thinking about point one. Also I decided I'll try giving the weekly fic recs a go - let's see if I actually stick to it.

1. Hiii world! Uh, first post of 2011 apparently? I hope the new year started great for all of you. ♥ I've tried to catch up with the fl and commented here and there (I probably will randomly comment on some stuff I have open) but it really was a lot of stuff, so I hope I didn't miss anything too huge. I had a great time at NY's, which was awesome even if I kept on feeling like crap until the 30th. Whatever, I think I'm pretty much okay now.

2. I also have some TV thoughts but since I'm catching up with things now that I have practically nothing to do until school starts in two months I'll save that for later. Maybe after I do those fandom memes that are around.

3. Speaking of memes, have a couple from wandersfound.

3a. ( 2010 meme )

3b. ( Fic in 2010. God this one is scary. )

4. I read The Vitner's Luck over the holidays. My comments can be summed in, without quoting because atm I don't have the book and if I had to quote I'd re-write it, ( spoilers, maybe )

5. The new Clint Eastwood movie was out today. I think I know what I'm doing tomorrow. ♥

6. Last, meme stolen from mollivanders because I'm sure you all want more memes than there are already in this entry. ;)

1. Do not look at the comments.
2. Take a look at my userpics.
3. Post a comment with the icon of mine you associate with me. Leave commentary if desired.
4. Repost with your default icon and profit. [it also saves me from choosing an icon from this post. Yay! Even if my default isn't relevant at all, but whatever, it's Misha. XD]

1. First thing, HAAAI new friends from the lostsquee friending meme! And also the SPN ones that I made in other ways. ;) I hope you will have a good time here! <3

2. Lost speaking, if you're in Lost fandom, the most awesome haldoor is hosting a Lost love meme ♥ which totally made my morning/day/afternoon and is just as awesome as usual, so go play if you haven't already! ♥ And I'm so excited for the luau starting tomorrow. :D [to people not here for Lost: next month will be full of Lost related stuff. Skip it if needed. ;)]

3. I seriously, seriously hope that no one reading this will ever be in a position that implies having to read Heidegger talking about Medieval philosophy. Way to unite my two worse nightmares. Also, that exam will be the death of me but I just need to think that after that it's another two and they're easy. Though damn, I wish I had taken this in the first year.

4. Anyway, on to more cheering things. Uh. That long-ass fic I wrote for spn_j2_bigbang? It... uh. It generated spontaneous art. Which is also freaking gorgeous. I swear when _izu_ linked that to me I stared for a while being like no, I made it up in my head. WHAT. It never happens that people draw something because they like shit I write. It might have totally done my day yesterday. Now I feel like I should make myself an account on DA just to thank them personally because really.

5. That said, I promised wandersfound that I'd upload some Stone Temple Pilots for her so there it is under the cut. Two records and random songs, all on mediafire because it was more convenient for me but I can put them somewhere else if needed.

( music here. Quite a lot. )

6. Right now, I should be writing that pedagogy thing. Clearly I'm not doing that but I'll try to stop procrastinating after posting this. Whyyy do I even need to take that, whyy. /quits whining

7. Also, Misha Collins will be at jus in bello again next year! :D Guess who is going to get herself an early, early birthday present when they sell photo ops? *cough*

8. Aaand okay, this is probably all for now. Will try to write my pedagogy presentation while trying not to fall asleep over it and thinking it's for my own good. *repeats mantra*

So I said I wasn't going to take bingo cards because really, I don't need more stuff.

Then I found this. And. I couldn't resist. And well, I mean, I have time until the end of the year, right? Right?

( card under here for my reference )

Okay, I'll go back to reading shit and possibly accomplish something. /runs

1.

DO THIS. It's awesome. I'm almost done with the one I claimed and I asked for some Dark Tower which I fear no one is going to pick, but I'll see to choose a more doable fandom for the wish I have left for now. ;)

2. In other news: I'm actually ahead with studying for my first exam on the 7th. WTF. I am never ahead. Well, I won't complain about an entire week of revising, right? And I might sneak pedagogy in there and actually accomplish something for once. I feel weird, lol.

3. Six months after the rest of the world I've finally seen The Road, and while I had to wait until now for it to be released I'm glad I did because if I had watched my previously downloaded copy (which I got in like December) it wouldn't have been as good. ( cut for some spoilers even if I guess that whoever wanted to see it did it ages ago. )

4. ( another movie rec, re a movie - Draquila - which has political content here therefore if you're interested click and if not skip. )

5. I'M DONE WITH CLASSES UNTIL NEXT YEAR. \o/ Well, I have six exams to go and a thesis to write but I'M DONE WITH CLASSES. *phew* I could weep with joy, especially because of the Saturday at 8.30 AM one. Also I start training at the library on the 8th and start working for good in July. Eeee. At least it's money coming in and I'm pretty excited to start.

6. Also, I didn't have time to talk about the Chuck finale because it was right after the Lost one, but just one thing: ( spoilers )

7. I owe some e-mails I think. I'll answer asap, sorry but I've been half swamped with studying, the last classes and trying to actually see a couple of movies before I bury myself in books until July. And to read some fiction before the only fiction I read becomes all the Kafka I need to finish for my German literature exam. Thankfully I had read half of it already when I was fourteen or so. Also, I probably had something else to say but it's one AM and I can't recall, so it'll come with the next update. *waves*

8. Uh, also, hi new friends! Both the ones from that spn friending meme and... the three or so people who added me without saying anything? ;) Er, do you want me to add you back? Talk to me, I don't bite. ;)

Okay, this is my list for toestastegood's AWESOME five acts meme.



Rules are:

- Post a list of your five favorite sexual acts/kinks. At the bottom, add what fandoms/pairings you're interested in.
- Read other people's lists.
- Post comment-fic based off of other people's lists.

( list + fandoms/pairings )

( fics I've written )

1. First thing, happy birthday slybrunette! <3 I hope you're having an awesome day and that next year is all kinds of fantastic for you. ♥ and if you want to prompt me or something I'll see what I can do when my two-exams-in-a-week madness is over.

2. Fanfic tropes meme stolen from bachlava, zelda_zee and aurilly.

( Tropes, let me show you them. )

3. Other fic meme. This was stolen from, uh, a bunch of people.

( My fic in 2009. )

4. ( University issues blathering, cut to spare your FL. )

5. ( Misha Collins in 24 blathering, cut for same reasons. )

6. Uh, I think that the random entry is over. I'll go answer comments, have a shower and then hit the bed because the next two days will be basically cramming, cramming and cramming. And then from the 12th to the 15th it'll be even more cramming. *waves*