hafital | Entries tagged with st: ds9

Procrastination! YES.

I saw this on my tumblr dash but I have no idea how one is supposed to respond to this type (or really any type) of meme on tumblr so I'm doing it here instead. This is exactly the type of meme I love to answer because sometimes months or years later when you look back and see your answers you're like "omg why did I answer Pulaski for every question?? what was I thinking?" haha.

Um. This is long. And I may not have an answer for each of these. My memories of DS9 are murky, at best.

( Ultimate Star Trek Asks )

Crossposts: http://hafital.livejournal.com/258386.html

Rewriting is a bitch.

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I meant to comment on Lost Girl, both seasons, which I actually managed to finish a couple of months ago, but then I got distracted by so many things I've lost count now. Anyway, I truly loved it although I was a little underwhelmed by the main plot of most of the second season.

( Courtesy of Senior Malbec )

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I have signed up for

hl_chronicles! yay! Haven't a clue which story to choose, though. o.O

Oh, and I was very much remiss not to publicly acknowledge and admire the lovely pic

nrrrdy_grrrl made for the 20 years challenge for my story Crash of Light. You can see it here. I love it. I can't say I thought much about where they would be in 20 years after the end of that story, but naturally they would still be together. And in kilts. Yes. :D :D

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I haven't seen the Avengers. This is woeful, but I'm sure it will eventually be remedied, somehow. I am not much into this fandom but I have been enjoying most of these films, so I'm eager to see this thing that so many of you like so much.

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I managed to acquire all of the Harry Potter audiobooks as read by Stephen Fry (UK version) and then listened to them no less than 3 times, all the way through. Possibly four times. I'm a bit fuzzy on that. Talk to me if you would like them. I'm sure we can figure out a way.

They are as near to perfect as can be. Although Stephen Fry's Fleur Delaceur made me think of Maurice from Highlander which was possibly the most unintentionally hilarious thing ever and sent me regularly into giggle fits while driving.

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May was one busy (understatement!) month. I'm hoping that things will be less ridiculous from here on out. One can hope.

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Yes, the family continues to be somewhat bonkers. Dad is feeling better, so I'm told. Mom was having trouble with her eyesight, but I guess that's also a bit better, although she called me in tears the other day for I don't even know what. She was feeling down, I guess. Sister went back to an inpatient clinic for a couple of weeks. She should be back out again by the end of the week. I've been speaking with her a little more regularly which is good. She's a hot mess, though.

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LJ sent me an email about their migrating scrapbook for pictures, which I confess I hardly paid attention to, but I finally checked it out today and rather rediscovered all my icons! I almost forgot all about them. Many of them are a bit so so or worse, but a few of them are quite lovely. So many Oz icons, I had forgotten that I was doing all that. I stopped when my old computer got rained on and this new one (well, it's no longer new) has a version of photoshop that I find annoying. sigh.

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Oh! I remembered something I wanted to say! I finally (FINALLY) finished watching all of Deep Space Nine. Only took me three years.... I thought I would never get out of the Dominion War, was getting a bit desperate there. When I hit the Ezri episodes I knew I was almost done! lol. (And weirdly, adore Ezri, always have, and a lot more than I liked Jadzia. I know, I'm weird, what can I say) And have joyfully begun Star Trek: Voyager. If you recall (or you don't recall...) I was attempting to watch all of Star Trek in chronological order, but the experiment has not really been, um, attended to with much diligence, sadly. And I had meant to watch the TOS and TNG films at the appropriate times but that never seemed to happen. Anyways, I have begun Voyager and I am awash in total complete love. I only watch it here and there, when I want to snack on an episode and, you guys, it's my show! sigh. I couldn't tell you why I love this show out of all the trek shows so much but I do.

Too bad the show was popular in that awkward period of fandom when so many began to host their fiction on private websites that have vanished. It was always rather the redheaded stepchild of the franchise. Hunting down fiction is like doing major archeological excavations. *pets it lovingly*

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Nine Nine Nine for the Lost God...

You know, this no livejournal at work think sucks donkey cock. I really do miss it. :( My iPhone is great and a life saver, no question, but I get major eyestrain reading on it, and it's much worse to write posts or long emails on it.

It's why I'm not posting as much or reading my friend's list as much. :( sniff. Pity me. I miss you guys something awful. I can't read LJ at work and I'm so frequently busy until late in the evenings that reading and posting once I get home is also difficult.

I would like to buy an iPad, and maybe in the new year I will manage that. I would have to get a 3G one, though, as I can't use my workplace's wireless without invoking the wrath (and idiocy) of IT. bastards. I hate them.

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So, I've finished Mad Men through its most recent season and, I don't know, it was great and all, but I hope I'm not supposed to be madly in love with Don Draper, 'cause he's gross. Nearly all the male characters on that show are revolting, imo. I do love Peggy and Joan, though. I have wanted to love Betty, and I feel for her being married to a nightmare like Don Draper, but she's a tough one to get fond over. I love little Sally.

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I don't talk about this much, but I am *still* working my way chronologically through all the Star Trek shows. Started with Enterprise, then TOS, then Next Gen <3 <3, and now Deep Space Nine, which was the only one of the ST series that I never watched in its original run and the only one that I couldn't get into. And, it's still very difficult for me to remain interested in it. I don't know what it is, I know so many of my friends love it and hail it as the best of the ST shows, but I find watching it so tedious for some reason. Not that I don't love many of the characters in it a great deal, but I guess the conflicts in it don't grab me as much. It's weird to love the characters so much but not really care about the show (I am supremely uninterested in the Dominion or Cardassians and what not. I am somewhat interested in the Marquis because of Chakotay and Tom Paris, but there isn't much about them, really). I've come to love Kira, and I hadn't much liked her before. And I'm all about Odo and her and can't wait for them to get together! I think they might be my favorite, then Sisko and Jake, and then the rest. I used to really love Dax, but now actually watching the show more closely, I don't find her nearly as interesting as I thought I would, and I'm not really that big a fan of Dax/Worf. I love Alexander Siddig quite a bit, but, although I am fond of Bashir, I like the actor so much better in all of the other projects I've seen him in. (Assad, I will always love you!!! xoxo)

I'm in the middle of season 5. I got waylaid somewhere mid season 3 and stopped for nearly a year, I think, but then muscled through. It's a little more interesting now.

Thank goodness that most (all?) of the Star Trek shows are on Netflix streaming!!! yay. I've set up the xbox I stole from my mother so that I can stream onto my TV. In a word, It's AWESOME.

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New apartment is lovely, although I lost energy and got distracted and haven't finished decorating and stuff. whoops.

Still horseback riding tons. Oh hey, I have also started a weekly ballet class for adults! I'm... really not very good at it, I've discovered. haha. Who knew? lol. Ballet is hard, you guys. It's like, really hard. I find that I have tons of strength, and I'm not even a little bit sore the next day, but completely fall apart when I have to balance or twirl. It's fun though! My body is all the wrong shape for ballet, but it's all good.

I've signed up for the

dw_femlash ficathon and of course

hl_shortcuts. *big eyes* I guess this means I actually have to write something... For the past few months I've mostly been rewriting some original fic; my fanfic writing skills are rusty.

Although I've been reading tons of fanfic. Mostly Harry Potter fanfic, randomly (don't ask), although I'm not finding anything I like much. :(

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So, where was I...

I think I'll answer two of these, seeing as they're relatively quick answers.

5 –If you have ever had a character try to push their way into a fic, whether your "muse" or not, what did you do about it?

Um, I don't think I've had a character try to push their way in so much as I've had characters in a story know the direction of a story better than I do. *g* So, in those instances where characters take over the wheel of the car, I go through this process: fight it, get stymied, stop writing, let the story stew for a bit (anywhere from moments, a day, or weeks), go back to it, try the opposite of what I was doing before (meaning, for example, if I was trying to make the characters go forward, I make then walk backward, or sometimes it's make a character whisper instead of shout, or have them be weak instead of strong, or something like that), that usually unlocks the story and I can get going again. Sometimes I can bypass this whole thing by taking a step back, closing my eyes, asking a question, letting the answer bubble up naturally, then writing again.

I don't think that really answered the question, though.... lol.

6 – When you write, do you prefer writing male or female characters?

Oh, I like both. I used to think I preferred writing male characters, and I think in fanfiction that still is the case. But in original fic, I write both and enjoy both. There's something wonderful about writing the opposite gender, I can't lie, but I love writing complicated women, too. They touch different places inside of me.

( The 30 questions on Fic )

I miss you!

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Realizing that my actual online fannish activity has dropped below to negative integers, I remembered for the first time today to read my flist. I see there's some sort of greater discussion about LJ and DW. Frankly, I'd move to DW in a hot minute and the only reason I haven't is I'm a lazy bum. And straddling two journals is difficult for me. So, how's that for selfishness.

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Horrified that I hadn't had any honest to goodness fannish content on this LJ in weeks, I thought I'd do the

fannish5 this friday.

List 5 fictional doctors you'd want treating you. (Or not.)

1. The Doctor (preferably Nine, but honestly, I'm not picky.)
2. The Doctor, EMH Mark 1, Chief Medical officer of the USS Voyager ( :D :D :D )
3. Methos (he's still a doctor!)
4. McCoy (if only for the running commentary.)
5. Dr. Bashir

Yeah, 3 Trek doctors. Well, what do you expect, honestly.

Also, I now think it would be hilarious for The Doctor to meet The Doctor. HAHAH.

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In other news I'm in love with a gray western arab pony named Jake. He is the bestest pony EVAR.

what had happened was...

~ Highlander story of doom midway through beta. whee! My boys. They are mighty fine and dandy.

~ I muscled my way through all of Ashes to Ashes series 2. I kind of loved it. Except, I found it really stressful. I dunno, Leverage is about the level of stress I seem to want to handle at the moment and ( Spoilers make the Gene Genie beat you over the head with a lead pipe ) This is all to say that I rather ridiculously love Gene Hunt in the same way I love Roger Lococco. Love them, think they're kind of crazy hot, don't want to have anything to do with them, ever. He's a great character and fascinating and if the bad guys were breaking down my door, I'd want him there to beat the crap out of them.

~ Best friend and roomie S has left me for two weeks on an Eastern European Vacation. I'm so jealous! I wish I could have gone with her. She's visiting countries I've already been to, so I couldn't really justify it. Besides which, I'm broke. bah.

~ I finished watching all of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Sadness! I waited a long time to watch the final two episodes because I didn't want it to end. :( I've started DS9 and I'm looking forward to finally getting to watch it properly, and to get to the parts when it starts to get interesting.

~ I keep almost screwing up at work. yoinks. Oh well. At least I catch my mistakes.

~ I got back on a pony this weekend after taking the last week off due to bruised hand. So, that's good. Still trying to figure out what I want from all this.

~ Leverage is my happy place. I started watching season 1 again. *facepalm* This could potentially be a problem. lol. eh, it's like candy popcorn, and I'm licking the bowl. I'm reading fanfic and find most of it already full of character tropes but I'm still reading (when I can. stupid work) because I'm hoping for a few diamonds in the rough. When do episodes come back?

~ Speaking of candy popcorn, for the love of mike, when is the next Doctor Who special airing??

~ And, because it can never be said enough, Duncan+Methos=WIN

Thanks to mysteriously wonderful

gray_bard, I present to you all the Keeping Up With The Cardassians Episode Guide

Brilliant highlights:

Episode Two

A sex tape featuring Legate Damar's daughter Kata and two Ferengi club owners circulates around the Federation of Planets. Dukat posts a rant on his blog dissing Snoop Dogg and starts a West Coast–Delta Quadrant rap war.

Episode Three

Legate Damar's daughters want Lil Wayne to sing at their sweet-16 party. After much convincing, Lil Wayne agrees to do it in exchange for a Galor-class starship with custom Romulan rims. Garak's daughter Seska drops a record and sets out on a tour to promote her new single, "Touch My Nebula."

Episode Five

The Damar girls go shopping on Rodeo Drive and their intergalactic MasterCard is denied. They call their father, who tells them money doesn't grow in replicators. Seska meets the Jonas Brothers on tour; rumors of Joe Jonas caressing her neck ridges at a Grammy party surface on Perez Hilton.

omg you guys, is Seska really Garak's daughter?? And how sad and completely geeky is it that that's part that I was all omg whut? lol.

Brilliant. Trust McSweeney's to be just ridiculously awesome.

Thanks to mysteriously wonderful

New job is SCARY. And the less I complain about that the better. *stressssss*

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So, am I the only one that does a double take each time someone (usually the television) talks about the reality tv show Keeping up with the Kardashians and think they're saying Keeping up with the Cardassians?

And then I think about a reality TV show with Dukat and Garak and Damar all living together in the same house and Garak has his clothing shop and Dukat has all the dating adventures, and Damar is the long suffering sister who just wants to be normal. HILARITY AND WACKY ADVENTURES ENSUE. They must all have time out in the confessionals, and at the very least Garak would have a blog.

Clearly, I need another vacation.