wiseheart: (Gildor)
Good grief, I really wasn't here for almost 5 days? Where has the time gone? So much about being more consequent with my journal. Ah, well.

It was a busy week. I had to take mum to the optician (sp? - I mean the eye doctor), and since I was already there, I got my eyes checked as well. Apparently, they are all right fo an old hag of my age, which is a relief. I spend entirely too much time before the telly and the computer screen. And reading and writing. Even stitching at times.

Well, the telly problem is solved for a time - my satellite receiver died, and since it's linked with the DVD player somehow, I can't watch DVDs, either. Tried to switch the plugs and stuff, but I'm technically chalenged. Friendly Guy from the repair shop promised to come... eventually. We'll see.

So I put the time to good use and wrote down the synapsis to my TNG stories I plan to write. Also, since I German TV is re-running Babylon 5, I felt inspired to pick up "Kansasn 2" again, the B5-Voyage x-over that has been lying on ice for the last five years or so. No writing actually done yet, but a great deal of research, which is fun.

Among other things, I re-read all 16 chapters of "A Minbari Courtship", which is an excellent story.

Perhaps tomorrow I'll write a little, too.

School starts on Monday again, although without kids for a week. Sigh. I don't feel up to the challenge at all. Getting old and stuff.
wiseheart: (Zelenka)
After more than a year, we finally managed to make a one-day-trip to our beloved Vienna again. We were supposed to go there last summer, but Mum got into the hospital just a day before. So, we were both very happy about it.

The day was great, although very exhausting. Stupid trains were late by almost an hour, it was very cold in the morning and in the evening, so I might get ill yet (hope I won't, though - took aspirin and will bake tomorrow, which provides a nice, warm environment).

In any case, we had fun. And I got a real Easter treat by Saturn (the electronics shop). I found the boxed edition of Atlantis' 5th season, which was the primary reason why I wanted to go. Aside from that, Babylon 5 and Andromeda seasons were on sale, so now I'm the proud owner of the B5 episodes I lacked from the 5th season. Granted, I had to buy the whole 5th season for that, but I got it for a third of the original price, so I call it a bargain.

The usual pre-Easter insanity was largely over already, but it wasn't so bad, honestly. We got a handful of small chocolate bunnies and bees (they're freaking cute), bought a raisin bread at Anker's (the best bakery chain in Austria), so that I won't have to bake it, too, tomorrow... and it's actually better than mine, the dough isn't that heavy.

So, I'm a happy camper. Easter decoration (painted eggshells) is ready, Easter eggs are coloured, Easter ham is cooked, Easter bread is bought - all I have to do tomorrow is to bake Ischler and Russischen Zupfkuchen, and the feast is being cared for. Yay!

It's a good thing, actually, as I've finished the next chapter of "Atlantis Café" and need to type it up.
wiseheart: (Default)
Apparently, my muses sold their fickle souls to the dark side. No, seriously. They're evil.

Here I am, wanting nothing more than find some time to finish at least one or two of my never-ending WIPs, and what happens? Do I get the necessary inspiration? No, I don't. Instead, the frigging stories start spawning wildly eclectic plotbunnies, so that I can have even more unfinished WIPs for the next two hundred or so years.

You remember my new Criminal Minds story, the one that I've only posted to my Insane Journal for a test run? I intended to finish that one in, oh, six to eight chapters. I got so far as Chapter 4, with extensive fragments already written for later chapters.

Then the plotbunny went into hibernation. But not before spawning another Criminal Minds crossover bunny. This time with Startgate: Atlantis. Set after the first season of SGA, contemplating the "what if" possibility of Dr. Spencer Reid getting hired for the Atlantis expedition. As he's canonically graduated from CalTech - the very same place where I had Kavanagh study, and later work, in all my Atlantis stories. From that realization on, there was no more way back. I've already worked the whole frigging story out in my head, up to "Critical Mass", in which Reid would put his years as an FBI profiler to good use to clear Kavanagh from suspicion.

Yeah, I'm clearly insane. I know.

And if that wasn't enough, my current reading of Marcus/Neroon fanfic has finally nudged the long-hibernating plotbunny for the Still Not in Kansas sequel. After four and a half frigging years!

How am I going to ever finish anything at this rate?
wiseheart: (redplanet)
I've rewatched the 3rd season Babylon 5 episode "And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place" yesterday, and a funny thought occurred to me.

Tolkien, who was a devout Catholic, consequently left out any aspects of an organized religion from his work, even though there are, of course, clear parallels.

JMS, who's a declared atheist, can't stop dealing with religious stuff in B5. Really, it reminds me a little of how straight women keep writing male-on-male slash. Something about the forbidden fruit and all that... only the other way round.

Rabid B5 fans have been raving about Star Trek inferiority for uncounted years, their main argument being that Trek lacked originality. Plus, they raved about DS9 being a shameles rip-off of B5, just because both series took place on a space station. Some equally stupid Trekkers riposted that B5 was ripping off DS9.

Now, I happen to like B5 a great deal (even though I'm a devout Trekkie), but I always found it amusing that nobody seems to address the actual rip-off... cuz, let's face it, JMS has ripped off Tolkien, big time. Starting with naming the homeworld of the Shadows Z'Ha'Dum (Moria anyone?) and even giving a techno-mage Gildor's sentence about wizards being subtle and quick to anger. And there are many other examples.

I for my part do find this amusing.
wiseheart: (Default)
I finally got around to watch the movie. I must admit, I liked the first one better. Granted, the sequel had a bigger budget and perhaps cooler effects, but it has almost completely ejected the werewolves.
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And speakin of newly-achieved DVDs: the additional B5 stuff is utter crap. JMS took some old footage, snapped three characters from the two series (Lochley, Galen and Sheridan), added one excellent guest star (Alan Scarfe), and let them babble about philosophical stuff in front of the green screen. I was very disappointed.
wiseheart: (Centaurus)
I've meant to write someting about it for a long time - and essay, perhaps, for the Otherworlds board - but my thoughts never seemed to form a coherent whole for that. So I'll just write down my woes as they come to my mind.

Woe #1 - The Changing Profile of Doom (TM)
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Woe #2 - Character Rape
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Let's Bring in the Boobs
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The "Everybody is American" effect
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Okay, babbled enough. I just wanted to add that I won't be watching Atlantis in Season 4. I've read spoliers and transcripts about how Season 3 will end, and it's not the show I've grown fond of after a rather bumpy start anymore.
wiseheart: (Default)
Nah, still not dead. And to prove it, here's the new "Kansas" chapter (waves to Jillian):

http://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=1791644&chapter=16

This time, it's just Garibaldi and Ayala trying to escape, Tuvok and a security team searching for them, and Lyta... well, she's having a bit of bad luck. Quite a bit, in fact.

On other news, school ends today. So, starting tomorrow, I might regain some of my mental abilities. *sighs* Maybe I'll even bring up the energy to go to the fitness studio regularly again. It'd be sorely necessary.

More Serious Stuff(TM), including the promised analysis of my class's social structure will be coming later. Or not. Depends on how much my brain will be functional after today. *g*
wiseheart: (Default)
In this chapter: Harry and B'Elanna try talking Marcus out of his heroic mood, Delenn, Kes and Janeway compare their childhoods, Sam Wildman has dinner with Vir in the Fresh Air Restaurant and Ayala makes a shocking discovery.

Here:
http://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=1791644&chapter=14

My wonderful beta sent me the next chapter of Alternate Caretaker last night, but I'm holding it back for a few days to allow people to read Kansas first.

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