I'm not setting myself any goals, I just want to see how much do I manage by the end of the year. I'm stealing the rating system from lasamy ♥.

01/10 > utterly devastating
02/10 > bad
03/10 > disappointing
04/10 > half-hearted
05/10 > average
06/10 > okay
07/10 > good
08/10 > very good
09/10 > awesome
10/10 > excellent

( movies in 2009 )

( books in 2009 )

I might add concerts or stuff when/if they happen. ;)

1. So, tomorrow I'll be heading to the grandparents' for the holidays. And this year we're going a day later than usual and leaving one earlier, so you probably will be spared me complaining because whenever I'm there for more than one day while I do love my family they make me go crazy and either I bitch or I want to headdesk. Though it's ALL my dad's side which is better than when it's not everyone. Just hope that my cousins grew out of the singing Christmas songs off-key attitude, even if I'm not too sure. ;) Anyway there's the internet there so I'll be around.

2. I sent the cards out! Sorry for doing it so late *sigh* anyway, I don't think I missed anyone, some of you who didn't ask for drabbles got some surprise ones and I just hope they arrive at least before the 31st. And cards speaking, thanks so much to mozartfan1313, polvodestrella, haldoor, jaydblu, gottalovev, onlyechoes and pnr! I think I'm not forgetting anyone out of the ones which arrived until now (if I did I'll rectify when I thank the next bunch *wink*) and I ♥ you all. <333 The cards were all so pretty and I ♥ you.

2b. Uh, thanks also to my anonymous stalker...? In the sense, in additions to the ones in point 2 I got this card from Finland without a return address, with a Boone picture attached to the back and signed, literally, creepy stalker. Uh. Well, I figure that if this person has my address then he/she is on my FL but atm I can't figure out who you are so, er, thank you so much? ;) Also the picture was very appreciated. Indeeed.

3. Also, on the 26th I might post a bunch of late birthday fic/Christmas stuff I got from lists/etc. Or maybe on the 25th if I manage but I doubt it.

4. OT: my exam list for the semester is as it follows. Major Hegel exam that implies a lot of studying that I didn't exactly do until this point - Jan. 11th. Not-too-hard exam about some ancient Greek stuff which is fairly easy but requires some studying too - Jan. 15th. Medieval Philosophy exam from hell - Jan. 29th. Dreaded History of Pedagogy exam (which well, after all SHOULD be easy, but I need to prepare a Powerpoint presentation for it and one of the three books I need to read makes me want to tear my hair out) - Feb. 12th. Semiotics (not TOO hard but both written and oral on the SAME day and a lot of stuff to study) - Feb. 26th. Someone SHOOT me. Now. The fact that I actually LIKE the subject of two of these, kind of can work with one even if it's A LOT and that I absolutely and completely do-not-care about the other two doesn't exactly help. Argh. Again, shoot me. The only decent thing is that the exams schedule doesn't conflict too much with my TV schedule.

5. I'm up to episode 14 of Chuck S2!! I love it. So freaking much. I can't even believe how much I exactly love it.

( Spoilers! AWESOME! Mozart! Nerd-y heaven! )

6. Random, because hopelessfangirl linked it to me on Twitter: MISHA COLLINS IS GORGEOUS. TRUE FACT. CLICK THIS AND TRY TO DENY IT. Jesus. Not what I needed to see before going to bed because now I'm kind of NOT sleepy, but still. <3333

7. Last thing before I go. RECS! I took part in three exchanges and I already recced the crossover one I got, but I need to rec also the other two that were written for me because just, YES.

At deancas_xmas: Dean's Favorite Christmas is just lovely and whoever my awesome mystery person is finally went and picked my prompt where Cas zaps Dean back to a Zeppelin concert which I tried to force upon poor anonymous people in exchanges for a good six months and never got picked up. It's totally adorable and heartwarming and just, awww.

At lostsquee: Big Bad Wolf (Jack/Damon from the vamp porn) is... THE MOST AWESOME THING EVER EXISTED. SERIOUSLY. People. If you haven't read it, go read it NOW. Right, it's a vampire porn crossover (which I didn't even ask for but I hadn't realized how much I actually needed it in my life until I read it), but as long as you know that Damon is a snarky vampire son of a bitch with a kinky mind and (mostly) no morals whatsoever, you don't have to know zilch about VD. COME ON. It features an awesome and snarky and deliciously evil POV, CROSSDRESSING which is not just lingerie, delicious crack, hothothothot sex that is just scorching, each voice COMPLETELY down pat, the best ending ever and it's just so AWESOME THAT I CAN'T EVEN FATHOM IT. GO READ IT. I need to spread the love. And even if I have my suspects about who is my mystery author, be sure that I'll worship you again properly after the reveal. <333

8. Random: I suddenly want to watch It's A Wonderful Life. Clearly tomorrow it's impossible because here they don't air it and I doubt it'd be too appreciated. *sigh* I'll bring the dvd and try to re-watch it on the 25th. That said, it's 2 AM and tomorrow I have a suitcase to pack and books to gather, so bye for now!! <333 and have a great 24th everyone!!!

Also, I'd rather post about this than rant about my exam plan being completely fucked up. Or my PM.

So I can't exactly remember who recommended this show to me first. It was either elliotsmelliot or hopelessfangirl? But anyway, whoever it was, THANK YOU. I'm utterly in love with it and the fact that it's taking ages to dl S2 isn't helping me much, lol. And I really really needed a light show after Pushing Daisies got canceled and this one fits the bill so much it's not even funny. Though I'd have probably started watching it sooner if I had known people go around with TYRELL CORPORATION BAGS. I MEAN, BLADE RUNNER INSPIRED BAGS. <3

( random thoughts about all of S1 since I've seen it in like three days. )

Okay. I'll go stop procrastinating and get into bed. MAYBE. Also because tomorrow is my last day of classes.

Ignore this. The other is getting too large and last time I tried to update it it said I was exceeding character limit, so I'm just putting everything that isn't Lost here.

( Master fic List part II )

1. I am DONE with all the exchange fics. And with the bigbang. YES? Now I need to find out what does it mean to write stuff on your own, lol. In the end the D/C exchange one wasn't my first choice but I wasn't going to finish that in time, so I went for the back up plan and somewhere in the middle I started having fun with it and in the end it wasn't too bad, I guess. I just hope my recipient does like it...

2. Also, I should be caught up with all the comments I owe? Sorry for replying so late to most of them but I've had some crazy four days. From Wednesday to Friday I've slept a total amount of probably twelve hours, which probably doesn't make it too strange that on Saturday morning I woke up at 1 P.M. On Wednesday my grandparents arrived from Sicily, the train was three hours late and I ended up going to the station two times, the next day I had class at 8 AM and I had forgotten that I was supposed to go see Macbeth (which, by the way, was AWESOME. Well, the setting and everyone except the actress playing Lady Macbeth who imo completely butchered the role, but whatever) in the evening (and it was the day I was supposed to post the long-ass fic which I still was editing) so no sleep either, on Friday I had class all morning and stuff to do in the afternoon plus I had free tickets to go to a Mozart concert that evening so I wasn't going to pass it up and in the midst of it I spent most of my time driving. Which wasn't exactly good for my sanity but whatever.

3. Now some genius who is in charge of the trade union for the shopkeepers in my street (which has a LOT of shops, it's all shops actually) had this great idea of making this Sunday Christmas-special or something so there's one guy dressed up as Santa in the streetwalk in front of my window with kids sitting on his lap and stuff and next to him someone dressed as Mickey Mouse and they seem right out of Disneyland. I'm failing to see the cute factor. Also, reminds me I completely didn't do any of my Christmas shopping. Faaail.

4. I'm working through the cards. At least I've written all the addresses and I know what gets sent to whom. Now I just need to write them and finish the drabbles. Thankfully I'm at a good point.

5. I'm downloading Chuck. I decided I need a fun show even if I don't need another show and in the end I went for it also because I kind of wanted to check it out since it seems like my kind of crack. Also now that I'm done with writing I'm so checking out my Deadwood DVDs.

6. Also, has anyone seen Tom And Viv? I found out about it yesterday even if I really don't know how I didn't know that Willem Dafoe was in a biopic about T.S. Eliot since I <3 them both and it took me some six hours to download the whole thing. I just hope it's worth the effort...

7. Random: I miss the vampire porn. Also, His Prettiness + cast were meeting fans in London last day. Why do I live here, remind me? *sigh* From what I read everyone was awesome and they signed stuff and all the rest. When the hell does the vamp porn get aired here? Not that I'd watch it dubbed but you know.

8. I've seen A Serious Man. It was awesome. Coen brothers = ♥ ♥ ♥.

8. Okay, I'll be off writing cards, catching up with some fic I kept for when I didn't have to meet deadlines anymore and probably studying some.

This = my fic for scifibigbang. [And I'm sort of using it also for another table. *cough*]

Title: Devil's Arcade
Art: totally awesome art by divka
Pairings: Desmond/Sayid (main), Jack/Sawyer, Boone/Charlie (both sort non-explicit but there); most canon (male) characters appear. Sawyer/Kate and Desmond/Penny are sort of referred to, but they're both backstory.
Word Count: 32800
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: The rating is not only for a sex scene, but I went for it mostly because since it's a war fic it gets very violent, there's some gore, a full battle description, probably touchy/triggering subjects and everything that goes with the setting. (Though it's not a death fic.)
Summary: WWII AU; Desmond and Sayid (plus Charlie and Sawyer) are British soldiers at El Alamein. This follows them and others (Jack, plus Boone) in their unit from 1942 until 1945 (and sort of later, too).
A/N: first of all, endless thanks to elliotsmelliot who did an awesome beta-ing job for this in a very short time and whose help was just priceless beyond any possible description. Thank you so much again for it. And to divka who did the awesome art and who had to stand my complete and utter failure-ness with PMs. Also, this is the result of brainstorming over one fic idea for a year and a half. I just hope it did end up being a good effort. ;) Also, title stolen from Springsteen. Yes, I know you were all totally NOT expecting it.

Prologues [England, Iraq]; Part I [El Alamein - first]; Part II [El Alamein - second]; Interlude I [Tunisia]; Part III [Italy - Sicily]; Interlude II [Italy]; Part IV [Italy - Cassino]; Part V [Italy - Rome]; Part VI [Italy - Rome and Reggio Emilia]; Epilogues [Paris and New York]; Notes and references and research post; art by divka

Okay, I thought I could link at the end of the last part but then I realized that it was going to be too long so this is a list of all the references I had on the web while writing that fic if anyone is interested or wants to see what the hell I was talking about or whatever. ;)

( List here. It's long. )

Arrrgh. I'm barely on time for this but today I had plans and then they got royally screwed *sigh* buuut anyway the only point of this post is to wish a great happy birthday to siluria! I hope that you had a great day (since it's almost over *headdesk*) and an even better year, also because you totally deserve it and you're one of the nicest people around and I also kind of owe you. *cough* ;) Seriously, happy birthday again! And if you want to throw a prompt my way I'll see what I can do. ♥

Why, did you think I was skipping that this round?

You were so wrong. ;) Also because since last year there have been shoots and THE VAMPIRE PORN, I REPEAT THE VAMPIRE PORN. Also, ages ago I told emiliglia that I'd hook her up with Prettiness shirtless-ness, so there's that too.

Warning: this is heavy. It will break your dial-up, if you still have one. I take no responsibility for it. ;)

(Also, I sent him a message on Twitter. It feels weird to make him birthday wishes on Twitter. But still. That's what's it for.)

( aaaaand it's 31! )

Bye for this year. I did my job. Now I'll try to answer the comments I have NOT been notified yet...

I saw this at gottalovev's and I figured I'd try it. Not like I haven't written most of these during pedagogy class and not like it isn't the crackiest crack that ever cracked except when I ended up writing serious angst but whatever. Also, 15 words? HARD.

1. Write down the names of 10 characters.
2. Write a fic of fifteen words or less for every prompt, using the characters determined by the numbers. Do NOT read the prompts before you do step 1.

1. Boone Carlyle (Lost)
2. Castiel (Supernatural)
3. Eddie Dean (Dark Tower series)
4. Sayid Jarrah (Lost)
5. Roland Deschain (Dark Tower series)
6. Dean Winchester (Supernatural)
7. Crowley (Good Omens)
8. Nathan Petrelli (Heroes)
9. Mal Reynolds (Firefly)
10. Rorschach (Watchmen)

( craziness underneath )

Seriously. What. I'll go edit stuff. And write stuff. And maybe I'll do a real entry tonight since I have Steve Earle squee to share.