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

1. ... hi again. *waves* wow, this month I've been the worst at updating. *sigh* well, I'm giving you bullet points.

a) University has started again. I have sort-of-decent-classes, except for the ones that I have to study for without attending. Also I should manage to do my masters thesis with the person I want, but there's some bureaucracy drama going on over there and seriously, it's been five and a half years and I'm *still* headdesking over bureaucracy.

b) Random advice from yours truly: never put iodine tincture on you if you can help it. Long story short, I put some on my shoulder to relieve myself from mosquito-related swelling and I practically burned a hole into my skin. That happened two weeks ago. I still can't go out without gauze over it. /o\ seriously, don't ever do it.

c) I have tickets to see Gaslight Anthem in Milan! \o/ I'm so excited about it, you don't even know. \o/

d) My granddad is doing decently, or at least more decently than I thought, so at least there's that. *crosses fingers*

e) I have the new Chabon book. I'm not much far into it yet, but it's about two guys working in A USED RECORD SHOP. Needless to say that the moment I read the synopsis I was very much pleased.

2) So, TV that isn't SPN. Have all bullet points - nothing will be spoilers.

Boardwalk Empire: Richard and Van Alden are (the last one surprisingly) the best thing about this season yet. Nucky is seriously starting to scare me. Margaret has gotten slightly better since last season's fail. I appreciate that the Italian people actually sound Italian. Needs more Chalky overall. Gillian keeps on majorly creeping me out and Richard is still the best person in that bunch.

H50: the premiere was meh, also because they were seriously pushing the 'let's write shit that couldn't possibly happen according to the laws of physics' - also people need to stop dump all the angst on Chin. The second episode - I watched it the evening when I finished The Wire. Suffices to say that I totally don't remember what happened. The last one was actually delightful, also because finally they went back to the S1 formula. Can it be like that always? Thanks. Anyway, as things are whenever Danny or Chin aren't on screen I tend to tune out. :/

And a shout out to the vampire porn, which is back today and which will undoubtedly make my Friday a lot better than it is right now.

Anyway, the sad thing is that (with SPN's exception, but more on that in the next point) everything I'm watching lately seems either sub-par or just *not good enough* because I keep comparing it with The Wire, which is obviously not very smart of me since a few things can compare to it in the first place.

3. Okay, let's talk about SPN. I wanted to make a post about the premiere but I obviously didn't because a) I was too lazy, b) last week this time I was too busy trying to figure out what to do about the iodine-induced burn on my shoulder (with pitiful results) and in the end I didn't manage. So, under there there's rambling about both the premiere and the second episode.

( spoilersssssss )

4. In other news, the new LJ posting interface (the one in beta) is fugly. Can I hope it can be opted out from, when it's time? Because I don't want buttons to help me with my html. :/

5. And with that I'll probably go have another emotional breakdown while I rewatch that certain part of the latest SPN ep discussed above. I still can't believe that happened.

1. Happy late birthday to jaydblu! :D I hope you had an amazing day and that next year brings awesome/nice things all the way. ♥

2. So, classes have started which is why I've been scarce. Thankfully this round I actually give a shit about four classes on four rather than one on three, so maybe this semester won't be the complete drag that last semester was. Also none of my current teachers is an idiot, which is definitely a plus. Now I just need to get through a will-be-not-nice session at the university office if they have to bitch about what I need to put on my study plan. Hopefully I won't end up on the newspaper for strangling the employees. (Also, in my university the office supposed to deal with students is now open TWICE each week, three hours each, and none of these is in the afternoon. At times I think I should have done university abroad entirely.)

3. TV talking under the cut! Or well, what TV I've seen that isn't the vampire porn or SPN. Also: the bit about H50 isn't exactly flattering and there's talking of possibly triggering subjects.

( Ringer )

( H50 )

( Boardwalk Empire (or the one good point in here) )

4. Meanwhile, out of utter curiosity (and because it was short) I went and downloaded/watched New Amsterdam. What's sad: the eight episodes of that show are better than half of the new shows I checked out. *facepalm* It was lovely. And I obviously need to catch up with things either till airing or wrapped up, not things that were canceled without an ending ages ago.

5. I signed up for mini_nanowrimo again, in hopes that during November I manage to finish stuff. Last year it was awesome and being forced to write daily is a good thing, so I'll give it another go. One of these years I'll do the regular Nanowrimo again but it'll be when I'm done with classes forever.

6. Sadly, the exciting news are done for now. But hey, why not a meme? Stolen from elliotsmelliot and mollivanders: give me a book/show/movie and I'll answer with:

+ Favorite episode(s)
+ Favourite character(s)
+ Favorite villain(s)
+ Favorite Ship(s)
+ Favorite growth arcs
+ Best portrayal overall
+ Favorite quote

1. Err so between managing to get sick in May and having my life swallowed up by the five acts meme (for which I'm still working on some late fills), I missed birthdays. Soo. Happy late birthday to polvodestrella and amantium_irae, and late happy birthday for yesterday to twoskeletons! :DDD I hope you had amazing days (for the first two) and that you'll have one as well (for the latter), possibly with a lot of Misha's face spammed your way. And that the next year is nothing but awesome for all of you. ♥ [and if anyone wants to throw a prompt for anything my way I'll see what happens.]

2. Okay, let's talk some about the other two finales I got after the vampire porn this season, shall we. And possibly more stuff about those shows since I don't talk about them regularly.

( Hawaii 5-0 )

( Chuck )

Also: I've seen the Community finale because Josh Holloway was in it. Apart from having stared at him in that get up for way too long (Josh, get a show! Lost people other than DDK, GET A SHOW! Damn this is not the time for me missing Lost, sigh). I apparently decided that the whole thing looks good so I might start to watch it sometime soon. Eee. Late to the wagon like woah.

3. SPN people, if you haven't checked out the site for Divine: the series... do it. It sounds the right kind of insane. Also considering that Misha is partially behind it - I don't even know. I'm totally excited for it. (Also if anyone wants to be friends on there I'm Janie and I have the bride of Frankenstein in my avatar - I wish I looked like Elsa Lanchester *cough*.) Also lol I love that it's basically all SPN/Smallville/Vancouver-based-shows people making an online series pet project, aww. I mean all the actors are from that lot too, it sounds like such a family business thing. xD

4. Possible other sign of the apocalypse: in the last three days the more I hear politics news the more I want to weep for joy instead of frustration. Or: PM isn't going away anytime soon but he just got a pretty major blow and just hearing him seething and eating his own hands is making me happy. I had lost hope of ever being happy about politics in my lifespan or something. Now I'll just bask in the feeling until it lasts because I'm pretty sure that I'll have a bunch of reasons to bitch in a short while, but still. PM seething = did anything else happen?

5. I'm posting my spn_j2_bigbang story on July 29th which means that I'll have at least enough time to edit it as it pleases me. Though I really should work on the only major one I wanted to make instead of procrastinating on that (what news). Also I should seriously finish a couple of long things and then work on the two other challenge stories I have signed for but I guess I'll finish with the five acts stuff and then get to that. Especially I should work on the dcbb one since it's gonna be long. Joys of planning fic, but writing regularly again feels pretty awesome.

5b. Last day I re-watched The Good, The Bad and The Ugly because writing spaghetti western fic makes you want to. Then I found this online. I think I have to share.



I don't even know, I can't stop staring at it.

6. Uhm, so for the first time in my life I had the dubiously lovely chance to watch Eurovision. And Italy got second when we hadn't been in there for like thirteen years. It was the sublime kind of trash. Also out of 25 I think that there were just two songs that could have been considered not bad, but I guess it's why it's the sublime kind of trash.

7. That's pretty much it for now. Expect five acts re-posting some point during the week. If I survive the SPN finale. *crosses fingers* *waves*