Aelfgyfu

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That seems to be the first trailer for White Collar! They appear to have made it entirely from the pilot/premiere.

I loved that show even while I felt I shouldn't. I loved the cast. I loved the characters. A few months ago, when the kinds of fics I read in the fandoms I liked seemed to be drying up, I thought I'd look back. Some of you have noticed, because I've been commenting on your fics from a decade ago or more! (Some of which I read before, and I don't seem to have commented much—or I read it somewhere other than AO3 the first time? That's more likely.)

I'm back into White Collar, and I still don't know why. The cast is mostly beautiful (Willie Garson is not beautiful, ok?). I love the characters. I hate some of the things they do.

( Thoughts on the first two episodes (the second time) )

I keep meaning to post and not doing it! I will try to make some shorter posts instead of the kind of longer round-up that I'm not likely to finish.

I discovered that my fanfic site The Mead Hall went down, probably in late November 2012. I have been paying it so little mind that on the rare occasions I have looked in the last 18 months, I have found it not working and made a mental note to talk to Brilliant Husband and then promptly lost the mental note. I have done this at least twice before I realized that it's really down! On the other hand, my ownership of the site expires in July, and I'm not paying for it again, so I'm letting it go. I am in the process of moving my fanfic all to AO3; you can find me here.

I have 18 stories up now. None of my Primeval or Stargate: Atlantis stories have made it yet, but they will be there; if you want a specific story added that I haven't yet put up, just let me know, and I'll put it at the top of my List of Stories to Move!

Also note that I have given up on writing recommendation posts. I just can't manage to do it. I have been saving up Sherlock stories for a rec post, and I just don't think that's ever going to happen, because I've mostly gone off Sherlock except for stories by a few writers, and I cannot find the motivation to make a post for a fandom where I'm hardly doing any reading. Most of what I did mean to rec, I bookmarked on AO3, so you can go to that link above, click to see my profile, and then find my Bookmarks in the left-hand menu.

Moreover, I suddenly fell into Marvel and Captain America fandom. (Okay, more honestly: Winter Soldier fandom, with healthy sides of Captain America, Sam, and Natasha, though the proportions of those vary.) Aware that I can't manage rec posts, I have begun trying to make slightly fuller summaries of stories I'm bookmarking as recommendations so that not only can I remember them when I look back, but friends can decide whether they might want to read each.

On the downside, I realized yesterday that I appear to have tagged fully half the stories I've bookmarked "friendship," and I suspect I'd have tagged a lot more that way if I'd been tagging for people other than just me when I started making bookmarks. And "friendship" actually describes what attracts me to nearly all these stories, so you might not find it a useful tag if you decide to search my bookmarks.

Behind the cut: a brief summary of Where I Am in Fandom, for those who are curious—and to help me remember what I might want to tackle in individual posts. This list may change as I think of something else I want to remember. ( Fandoms )

Let's talk about that season finale.

( Nothing but spoilers here and in comments )

I didn't write much fanfic in 2011. In fact, I wasn't going to do a round-up until I lost count of my friends who were doing year-end round-ups and wrote how sad they were that they hadn't done more. Ha! I can be more pathetic than any of y'all!

I went to my website, Aelfgyfu's Mead Hall, and confirmed my memory that I didn't even manage to post a single story there this past year, even though I wrote three short stories in 2011. I just have to redo a bit of the coding and hand them over to Brilliant Husband, but I can't even manage that. I wanted to redo a bit of "Doppelganger" to make sure that it will make sense to Chuck fans who don't know Stargate SG-1, but I can't seem to muster the will or the mind to do it. . . .

My year in fic consists of Tales of an Accidental Fic Writer.

My plan for 2011: write the third story in my Primeval AU; write more SG-1; dabble elsewhere.

What I actually did in 2011: I wrote two Chuck stories and one for Cabin Pressure (details below).

Seriously, Muse?
1. I don't even read Chuck fic! I have read virtually no Chuck fic whatsoever; I'm just not that interested in the show, though I think Adam Baldwin is great.
2. Cabin Pressure is a radio show. I have so far heard: two or three random episodes of series 2; one random episode of series 3; all but the last episode of series 1. That's a total of about eight half-hour episodes of a radio show. I have read some Cabin Pressure fic, and I remain perplexed by it, because for me little of it strikes the right notes. How can I write fic for something of which I know so little?

Enough introduction. Here's what I wrote this year:
( Chuck and White Collar )

( Chuck and Stargate SG-1 )

( Cabin Pressure )

( Goals for this year )

I was going to write up an episode reaction to last week's White Collar ( to say any more would be spoilery )

I might write more later, but I just saw last night's White Collar, ( and it's all spoilers from here on out! )

Those of you who have known me for long know that I have a completely unsecret obsession with figuring out where the bathrooms are in tv shows and movies. I blame the original Star Trek and learning as a child that the blueprints for the Enterprise did not include any bathrooms.

I wasn't actually worried about Neal Caffrey's bathroom because I could see a door that must be a bathroom—until I watched the most recent episode last night.

I don't think this really qualifies as a spoiler, but ( Here's a cut anyway )

(Next stop: where is the bathroom in 221b Baker Street? I was looking at Aithine's screencaps from 'The Great Game' yesterday and saw a door or hallway to the left of the fridge in one scene, but of course now I can't find that cap again without investing time that I don't have this morning.
EDIT: FOUND! See here. Sam thinks it's either Sherlock's room or the bathroom. Could be both! Goodness knows how many rooms there are back there!

I found a very clear cap of John looking in the fridge, but sadly it's really dark to make an icon, and his face isn't doing quite what I thought I remembered it doing.)

Yes, I've made a new tag for something I discuss a surprising amount on my LJ: "bathrooms".