Jim and Blair from the Sentinel. No, really. Yes, they are so married! :-D

Yep, just like the subject says. Astolat is writing Arthur/Merlin-fic! I gotsa new fandom! Shiny! :-D

Uhm... speaking of... recs or lists of recs greatly appreciated from those Merlin-fans out there... :-)

I hate fan-fic writers who encourage people to comment on their fic - and then never bother to reply to the comment!

... I think I'm going to have to start a list of writers who won't bother with a simple 'thank you' to the people who put some effort into commenting about their fic - 'cause in that case? I'd rather make the effort with other writers who might appreciate getting comments about their fic!

Sit in the shadow with a tall, cool drink and a good book.

Alternatively, inside with every door and window closed. If I'm careful, I can keep the temperature one or two degrees celsius below the outside temperature - which is a good thing if there's no wind outside.

I'm sitting here, door open to the evening, and listening to some of my neighbors playing Yatzee outside. It's so cozy - mostly because it brings back warm fuzzy memories from my entire childhood, where Yatzee was the favoured game whenever my dad and my grandmother were together.  :-)

Okay I admit it, I liked it. Sorta... The whole fantasy-castle-thing totally grates on me, and the dragon's lips just tore me straight out of the dramatic moment when Merlin had his destiny revealed - but that aside, it wasn't too bad.

Oh, and I just kept going: "OMG that's Gwen from Torchwood!!!" every time Helen was on-screen.

Liked Uther, though (yeah, yeah, no surprise there, ASH makes a wonderful bad guy!). Liked Merlin's MacGyver'esque way of using his powers to survive his fight with Arthur. Keep wondering where the hell I know the girl playing Gwyn from? And liking Morgana. Every story needs a bitch... although Arthur seemed surprisingly capable of filling that role all on his own in this first episode. Was kinda surprised he didn't take offense to Merlin touching him... ;-)

And now I'm wondering what, exactly, a manservant is supposed to do... :-P

My back's been hurting  like a son-of-a-bitch since I woke up Friday. Saturday (after some TLC with a good friend) it went better. Yesterday, I actually hardly felt a twinge.

Today I had to go home after two hours of work. Then again, those were two hours of standing, walking, twisting my head to the side and generally doing 15 different things I know is bad for my back when it's like this. It got to that point I hate with a passion. When it hurts so bad my brain stops interpreting it as pain and starts interpreting it as nausea and feverishness.

So now I'm lying in my bed, propped up on pillows, with a heating pad behind my back to try to make the muscle relax - just a little - and I've got water, an apple and pills within easy reach. Now I just need the NCIS I've got on a hard-drive to make life bearable until it's time to go see the physical therapist...

The ugly duckling, always. What can I say: I love the underdog being vindicated. :-)

Title: "I’m more Jack Russel Terrier"
Author: Dhae Knight
Word Count: 11,678
Pairing or Featured Characters: Gibbs/DiNozzo
Rating: NC17
Warnings and/or Spoilers: Well... Kate and McGee are with the team. Does that count?
Author's Notes: This is crack. Blame it all on the wonderful SGA fandom with it's dolphins and penguins and goldfish. Oh, and on Gibbs' quote that he's more Jack Russel Terrier.
Summary: Gibbs and Tony vanishes and a Jack Russel terrier with a bad temper and an Abyssinian cat with green eyes turn up in stead. Weirdness ensues.

Over on my Dreamwidth fic-journal

Don't think I ever posted this one - but now you get it! ;-)

Title: Tony has a thing for beauty (over on Dreamwidth)
Author: Dhae Knight
Pairing or Featured Characters: Gibbs/DiNozzo
Rating: G
Warnings and/or Spoilers: Early season 1 - episode tag to Hung out to dry
Summary: Tony gets his first look at Gibbs' boat, and reaches a few conclusions

Most of you'll have seen this already,  but it's such an awesome interview that if you haven't: go read!

Interview here

I want Ianto for Timelord, please!

Just woke up from one of the weirdest dreams I've ever had the pleassure of.

It involved: A post-apocalyptic (think Mad Max) house in the mountains; a big-ass green-house that housed a shit-load of tomato-plants, all filled with big, red tomatoes; a couple of bad guys who trashed said tomatoes; Clint Eastwood doing his very best Nameless, only now post-apocalyptic; my mom; my aunt; and last, but not least, a very involved shower-setup that involved extensions, a 7-foot chair (to stand on top of in order to shower)...

At which point I thankfully woke up.

Too bad. I wouldn't have minded watching some more post-apocalyptic Eastwood... ;-)

Lengthy update ( beneath a cut... )

I'm a sucker for sci-fi, so just one will never do me.

Top 5 - in no particular order:

1) Star Trek: TOS
2) Firefly
3) Stargate SG-1
4) Stargate Atlantis
5) Babylon 5

I really, really want to throw the B5 spinoff: Crusade into the mix, not to mention Dune - the new mini-series, 2001, Star Wars the original trilogy, Star Trek the original movies...

Like I said: sucker for sci-fi... :-D

If anyone out there would be interested in reading my thoughts on the extremely heteronormative world-view as presented by the Twilight-saga as opposed to the way The Dark Magician-trilogy shows us how problematic a heteronormative world is to those who don't fit in...?

SG-1 once went through the 'gate
and out there, they met quite a fate.
'cause when they were drunk,
two guys shared a bunk,
turned out they weren't totally straight.

Lookie - I got myself a Dreamwidth account

It's meant to absorb my fic; as an when I find and move the things. It's also meant as a writer's blog, where there will be fic that a) isn't finished and b) isn't likely to be finished.

However, since I hate WIP's with a passion and will only read them under durress myself, I will clearly mark WIP's. Comments on WIP's will be extremely welcome, though. :-)

I haven't received any invite-codes, yet. Psyche, you are not forgotten! I promise, as soon as I get one, it'll be heading your way. Might take a while, though, after reading through their policy on invite-codes and their availability.

ETA: Naturally, new fic will receive a link from here... ;-)

Oh God, HELP!

I'm fondling DreamWidth, but have run into a snag. I want to move the moodtheme I'm using here across to Dreamwidth, but... a) apparently, they won't host anything but my icons and b) apparently I can't use the images I've got, right here, in my scrapBook.

So... where do I host images? Where do you host your images?

Ok, just purchased Dreamwidth for a year. Waiting for confirmation... :-)

Have been in Fjord&Bælt today. Wonderful place. I love watching the Harbor Porpoise perform (to my very best knowledge, this is the only place in the world where they're thriving in captivity?), and watching a 96 kilo Harbor Seal jump five feet in the air is pretty impressive, too. Even though he was too lazy to do full turns when the trainer wanted him to.

Most impressive sight of the day? Was totally watching one of the Harbor Porpoises swimming, belly up, slowly past the entire row of spectators so we could really see how they look.

Animal trainers impress me muchly.