Delightfully Useless

Okay, here goes. I'm not going to say much in defence of this, except it was written a while back when I was depressed and (as usual) I don't really know if it's much good.

Title: To Rust Unburnished
Summary: Stargate SG-1, Tin Man ep tag. Robo!Jack muses on what he's lost.
Notes: Gen, rated PG for Jackish language. 50 words. Title from Tennyson's Ulysses, which is An Awesome Poem.

( How dull is it to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life! )

loneraven is doing one of those memes where you have to get somebody's attention to participate - this one is a "talk about five fictional characters beginning with a given letter" thing - and since I was lucky enough to actually get a letter from her (this is an Unusual Occurrence in my online life), I am now yattering about five some fictional characters beginning with the letter P!

...I really don't think I can come up with five. Wow.

( Peregrin Took )

( Mary Poppins )

( Portia Blake, Pindar Payton; heck, I'm just going to babble about Gone-Away Lake and Elizabeth Enright in general )

...you know what? It's past 8 o'clock, and I've got four out of five anyway. (And if I go on too much longer I shall exceed the post length limit.) TL;DR: Pippin was shortchanged in the LOTR movies; Mary Poppins is cooler in the movie than in the books; everybody that likes kidlit ought to read Gone-Away Lake and Return to Gone-Away if they haven't already. Or re-read it. Goodness knows I'm on my umpty-zillionth reread. ;D

not here. no sleep. back eventually.

sorry to miss stuff.

I suspect I won't be online much if at all tomorrow or Saturday (it's been a long week and I am pretty thoroughly wiped out), so I'd like to take this work-fleeing LJ break opportunity to wish all my Tolkien-loving friends a happy Cormarë! :D

fic_rush peoples - don't know if I'll show up. Maybe for a bit on Sunday. Have fun, all! Save me a glowstick! ;-)

...When will I ever learn not to bookmark fics on my laptop? I have a bad relationship with laptops. Mine is currently in the shop, and with it my fic bookmarks. (The ones that weren't eaten when the last laptop died.)

However! I can still find the top two stories I always knew I'd have to re-read when Who-ish people died. (I never even imagined, dangit, that I'd be reading them for the man they were written about.)

The first one, and the most awesome of all possible Who deathfics IMO, is this one: The Cheviot Hills by Jennifer on FFnet. It is the one in which all the Classic Doctors who worked with the Brig attend his funeral (including Eight, thanks to the BFAs). It made me cry even when Nick wasn't dead, and I don't cry at fic.

Under the cut because it is a spoiler and also religious content (in the sense of assuming the existence of a deity), but there is no way I could be making this post - dash it all to heck, how can I be making this post?!? - without quoting the lines from the Gallifreyan funeral service that are in that fic:

( this is a cut )

*sniffles*

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The other fic I have to rec, of course, is clocketpatch's excellent Nothing Ordinary, which I'm guessing you've all read already but I'm reccing it anyway. It's just a beautiful little tribute fic.

(On re-reading these two stories, I note with interest that we all assumed - I certainly did - that it'd be heart trouble that would get him. Not cancer. DANG IT HOW CAN THE BRIG DIE OF CANCER. I have a feeling a lot of us, if we met the Doctor right now, would be shouting with Amy Pond "THEN WHAT'S THE USE OF YOU???")

*will now go home and cry a lot*

*and then watch Terror of the Zygons or something*

ETA: I forgot to say two things I really should have said. One is: What About Everything, the ultimate Who vid for every occasion. (Seriously, I once introduced a family of NuWhovians to the entirety of Classic Who in an evening using frame-by-frame "What About Everything" and a lot of babbling.) Allow me to direct your attention to the sequence beginning at 1:34.

The other thing is: I saw somebody say "R.I.P.... rest in Peru, Brigadier." This amuses me slightly.

List fifteen of your favorite characters from different series, and ask people to spot patterns in your choices, and if they're so inclined, to draw conclusions about you based on the patterns they've spotted.

I expect very few of my friends are familiar with all or even most of these series/whatnots, but maybe we can get some conversations started anyway.

1: Odo (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
2: Logan / Wolverine (X-Men - mostly Chris Claremont's comics for canon, but I read genfic from anywhere)
3: The Third Doctor (Doctor Who)
4: Samuel Vimes (Discworld)
5: Dr Donald "Ducky" Mallard (NCIS)
6: Dr Janet Fraiser (Stargate SG-1)
7: Merryweather (Disney's Sleeping Beauty)
8: Bert the chimney-sweep (character played by Dick Van Dyke in Disney's Mary Poppins, who may or may not have done permanent things to three-year-old!me's taste in guys)
9: Sherlock Holmes
10: Captain America
11: Dr Leonard H. "Bones" McCoy (Star Trek: The Original Series)
12: Gandalf (Lord of the Rings - books especially)
13: J'onn J'onzz (Justice League - TAS, mostly)
14: Eddie Brock / Venom (Spider-Man 3 does not exist, la la la)
15: Andrew the Angel of Death (character played by John Dye on Touched By an Angel)

Obviously most of these should have a note of "closely followed by at least one or possibly all of the other characters on the relevant whatnot", but hey... I was running out of parentheses. ;D

...who both tend to link YouTube videos and other fascinating things on their journals at intervals, I'm reccing y'all two Star Trek blooper reels of awesome, both of which I've watched numerous times before I finally got around to sharing them with my friends.

The first one is from Deep Space Nine and Voyager - mostly Voyager -

( Under the cut... )

and the other features the original Starfleet Seven, in a blooper reel from The Voyage Home aka The One With The Whales. (Dang, I forgot how much I miss these guys! Especially De Kelley. Of course.) It is HILARIOUS, especially since Leonard Nimoy is directing as well as acting - so he cracks up on camera quite a bit.

Also the ending is brilliant.

( Under the other cut... )

If there is one person or more on your friends list who makes your world a better place just because they exist and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the internet, then post this same sentence in your journal. ♥

(If you're seeing this? You are probably that person. All of you. *grin*)

One more hour till this month's fic_rush starts! I am hanging out in the 24-hour computer lab at uni, watching my Greenwich-synced computer clock and doing "research" (aka watching the new disc of The Middleman * which just arrived from Netflix. Netflix is the awesome.)

If you are not familiar with fic_rush - though I don't know why you wouldn't be, since I natter about it on a fairly regular basis - it is a two-day fanficcing marathon, held once a month on a weekend. Obviously no one person spends 48 straight hours writing, but there are hourly posts in which to chat, and we all pop in and out as we please. Lately there have been glowsticks.

(Not to mention the alien fish, singing Sontarans, lost_spook's wandering seaside penguins, and other strange creatures that infest our comment!fic. (Whoops, speaking of which, I have to default-ify my alien fish icon! *skedaddles*)

* Yes, it has done things to my syntax, although actually nobody but me ever notices and I won't even notice if I ever come back and read this post again. *g*

...I had so many comments I was going to post right after math class. And then I saw this. Which I suppose doesn't mean much to most of y'all - I have surprisingly few flisters who are at all likely to have watched "Touched by an Angel" - but... dang, what is it about January anyway? *sniffles*

RIP, John Dye. You'll be missed. :-(