"And She Feeds You Tea and Oranges..."

[psalm_onethirtyone]

It’s a little hard to sum up everything that’s going on right now, but I can give it a good try, or at least make a bulletpoint list of the important items, which may work just as well.

--My granddad will probably be dead within the next month. We thought it would be more than that, but he’s sicker than everyone thought. He’s in hospice care, and I know they are going to make him as comfortable as a person can be until he dies. It really is the dying that’s harder than the death--if I thought he would live the same amount of time and die on the same day but without any of the pain I think it would be almost easy to acknowledge. It’s just that he hurts so much, and all the time.

--The good news is that that’s the only really bad news. Otherwise, Christmas was kind of quiet. Will has decided he wants to be a dentist, which is really weird to me, but he’s got two more years before he’s even in college, so. I just find the dentist part surreal, since Will is a very, very handsome boy who keeps a coffin in his room and plays guitar in a rock band.

--I got my ears pierced as a present to me, which is sort of exciting. I have little stars in my ears! It only hurt a lot! I am totally going to forget to turn them every night, and I am going to rely on the_chloroplast to help me know how to do this right.

--Sherlock Holmes was utterly crazy and totally wonderful, and I loved it. Also, Maria has a celebrity crush on Robert Downey Jr., which is really really funny. I think we’re going to watch it again on New Year’s unless there is something better coming out, which I doubt.

--We watched the Star Trek episode where Kirk gets body switched with Dr. Lester last night, and somehow I’ve promised to write Maria Spock/Kirkette. That episode is just crazy, though, because it’s the most incredibly brilliant plot idea and they totally didn’t realise what they had in their hands, I think. The mutiny aspects are played up and the absolutely gorgeous unspoken Kirk-Spock interaction is just treated as mundane, which is really isn’t. Also the loyalty of the crew to Kirk, and also how badass Kirk is as a woman--a lot more badass than he is as a man, actually, but it’s really cool. I can also see how the episode could be perceived as incredibly misogynistic, and I was wondering where anybody else has seen it--particularly greyswandir. Because I want to know what other people got out of it. But I really loved it, and now I owe Maria fic, which is terrible, and it is going to be terrible.

--I’m going to post my Yuletide fic here as soon as I can, but I’m really reassured because my recipient liked it a lot, and that makes me feel really good. I was hoping she would. >_> I might actually creep on her and friend her after the reveal. I wonder if that’s bad manners.

--I also wrote Galahad/Sagramore, for some reason, but I’m not actually planning to post that unless there is some demand for baffling religious imagery and Galahad’s extremely weird relationships with people.

--I’m actually writing all this at two-thirty in the morning, even though I’m posting it now. There are kittens scratching on my door. I am going to kill them. Mabon walked through my paint to-day while I was working in my crafting area, and the Tribble is the cutest, cuddliest looking poof of fur, but when you try to pet her she glares at you and walks away.

--It's no longer two-thirty in the morning, and I have discovered, on the way to the library, that my car's speedometre and odometre no longer work. Also, he does not want to shift into first gear, and is making a very weird dripping noise when I drive. O_o This is really not the time, Car. Much as ilu.

--I swear to God I’m working on people’s Twelfth Night stuff!

--I am still on dialup and do not dare to try to inspect what has been going on in my flist during my absence, so you tell me! How was your holidays? My hopes are for the best--although it’s freezing, there is an almost full moon outside, and it is very beautiful

Comments

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah. I know. That would have been cooler. But at least they didn't try to blame it on her being a woman--they established that she was a bad captain because she was a loon, and not because she was a woman. I thought it would have been worthwhile to explore how the whole thing kind of exposed some of Starfleet's really unfair policies, but sadly they missed that opportunity.

>_>

[snowyofthenight.livejournal.com]

It's true, but they did make the choice of making her a woman and not just some loony man.

:D

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

But the advantage of her being a woman is that we get Kirkette. >_>

[snowyofthenight.livejournal.com]

Sooo true. :D (and once you start thinking about it there are SO MANY TOS crew members who would be so excellent upon passing through the super techonobabble genderswitch ray I made up just now... I can't imagine Bones, for example, being too terribly pleased)

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Omg, ladymccoy would be so awesome.

[snowyofthenight.livejournal.com]

i know, right??

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Actually, I guess trek_crack covers that a little.

[snowyofthenight.livejournal.com]

Indeed? I never read fic anymore. >_> I miss it!

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

It's not fic. >:D It's cartoons.

[snowyofthenight.livejournal.com]

And they are so, so beautiful.

I think I frightened other people in the house laughing.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

:D I'm so glad I got to share that with someone who appreciated it.

[snowyofthenight.livejournal.com]

SO MUCH appreciation. XD

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

:D :D :D