I shall post this before it gets too unwieldily long

[wisdomeagle]

+nominees for SyFy portal's best TV thingies:
[cut for vague spoilers through: "Not Fade Away," "Prometheus Unbound," and "The Gift". Also cut for being long.]

Best actor, TV:
Ben Browder, "Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars"
Joe Flanigan, "Stargate: Atlantis"

OMG. NO competition whatsoever. Just none. I'm sorry. I'm a horrible Farscape snob, I know, but nothing Joe Flannigan did, not even in "Eye" which was when I liked Sheppard best, can possibly measure up to BB's excellence. This theme will dominate throughout my thoughts on these...

Best Actress, TV:
Claudia Black, "Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars"
Amanda Tapping, "Stargate SG-1"

Again, love Sam very much, and she's very cute and all, but.. AERYN. OMG. Again, no competition.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR/Television
David Hewlett, "Stargate: Atlantis"
Michael Shanks, "Stargate SG-1"

I'm torn here between MS and DH, of course (since I don't watch the other shows). I am fond of MS's acting, but on the whole I'd have to say DH for the pitch-perfect creation of an almost brand-new character.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS/Television
Amy Acker, "Angel"
Rachel Luttrell, "Stargate: Atlantis"

Ha. Ha. Ha. No competition whatsoever. One of these actors brought you Illyria. One did not.

BEST SPECIAL GUEST/Television
Claudia Black, "Prometheus Unbound," Stargate SG-1

.... I'm so torn. Because the only one of these I know is of course our gal Claudia, but her talent in "Prometheus Unbound" was criminally underused.

BEST EPISODE/Television
"Not Fade Away," Angel
"Prometheus Unbound," Stargate SG-1


My mind is totally boggled by this one. Totally boggled. One of these episodes was stellar and moving and tragic. The other was... Claudia Black in a storm trooper uniform making with the sex with Daniel. How is this possibly in the same league as NFA? Just.... *brain boom*


+My Diary, Amy found her third grade diary, and ten entries have been painstakingly colored with crayon and narrated by experts to preserve the essence of the third grade gestalt.

+My Dinner With Catharine MacKinnon: And Other Hazards of Theorizing Virtual Rape by Julian Dibbell. In my ongoing efforts to remember whether it was MacKinnon or Dworkin who taught me how to write pr0n, I stumbled across this, which I found quite readable and contains the following description of an RPG-space: "a permanently, radically liminal ground on which the real and the imagined meet on equal terms." Possibly worth a look-see, cheese_munkey?

+Just attended a thesis defense. OMG, I'm glad I'm not letting her at my paper. [/cryptic]

+lookie! I wrote a character study for with_character.

+_elektra maked a lust thread. My name isn't on there once. *cries*

+just took final exam. Yay? Got A on teh_art_paper. Going to show once again that no one at this school has any taste whatsoever.

+thanks to everyone who signed up for the OT3+thon so far. Y'all rock super-much.

+Assignments for the BSC ficathon and for the Buffy/Giles ficathon are in. Both of them seem writable, though I will probably end up doing the BSC person's second choice and I think I have discovered a new thing I can't stand in requests, to go along with "no plotless fic." And what might that be? "No kinky sex." Because I have made it my purpose in fandom to write only kinky sex, in the sense that it's not strict, missionary style, vanilla and lace, infused-with-ugly-cultural-meaning sex. Because sex has meaning and if the sex I write is normative than I'm failing in my mission to shake things up a little.

Also, it'll really be time soon to buckle down and write all these fics I've signed up for.