Wednesday Night TV

Watched ( Glee. )

During Glee, they showed a preview for Avatar. I had been hearing for quite some time that Avatar was going to be an amazing science-fiction extravaganza I should really want to see, but, weirdly, all of this promotional material totally elided over the plot and premise. ( Now I know why. )

Tuesday Night TV

I am 10,000% over Callan the woobie. Because the thing is, Callan doesn't act like the socially maladjusted, emotionally incompetent wreck you would assume that someone who was ( spoilery background details )

would be. Heck, he doesn't even particularly act like someone with an inability to form close ties to people, considering his relationships with Hetty and Sam.

Look, I would be down with mad, bad, and dangerous to know G if they actually wanted to go there. I dig crazy characters (does anyone remember the Profitt Arc from Wiseguy? I do, with total fondness. The only times I really liked John Sheppard was when he got all blank-eyed and deep-voiced and psycho vengeful. [Okay, blanker-eyed.])

But they aren't giving G. this terrible backstory in order to play the effects out on him, they're giving him a terrible backstory in order to make you want to pet him and hug him and call him George. And I don't need all of that, I don't need a bad ass to be psychologically ~complicated~ and ~dark~. I love Sam, and his backstory to date has been pretty damn straightforward. Just keep the two of them squabbly and flirty, and I will be totally happy.

P.S. Seriously hot porno Sam/G commentfic. Has some POV issues, spelling issues, but otherwise awesome.

P.P.S. While I'm pointing to commentfic of awesome: White Collar: June/Neal The world needs more of this.

Follow Friday: Fandom

Okay, so everyone is excited that the Archive of Our Own is moving to Open Beta in about 13 hours. You know how people found out about Open Beta? By subscribing to otw_news. That's the news blog for the Organization for Transformative Works, which is the non-profit organization which sponsors the archive, the Journal of Transformative Works and Culture, the Fanlore wiki, and is filing amicus briefs and public comments on legal issues of concern to fans, around the issues of fair use and free speech.

Another great fannish comm is as_others_see_us. This is a weekly post of references to fanfiction and media fandom in the media, along with the occasional discussion.

Last but not least is the geekfeminism_feed. The Geek Feminism blog is not about media fandom, but it is about geek culture and women, so the areas of interest overlap.

P.S. I have one Archive invite available. First person to private message me for it, gets it. Mischief managed