Dudes. I'm so glad the main wave of Ark of Truth reviews is (surely) over. It's not so much the avoiding of spoilers - I'm admiring how thorough everyone is being with that, by the way – but just that you've all been talking about that, and I'm booooooooooored! I have nothing to read! Bah. *is self-centred and should probably not spend so much time pressing refresh on lj anyway*
I have some plastic moulds for making my own Easter Eggs, which is fun and extremely messy (there is no 'but' in that sentence). Oh, and I learnt something about eggs and bunnies, from Bill Oddie. People used to think that hares laid eggs, apparently, because of a bird that lays its eggs in hollows in fields. The hares use the hollows to hide in, lying flat against the ground. When someone is coming their way, they pop up - as if by magic - and when the person looks at where they were, there's some eggs. I don't know if that's exactly where the Easter Bunny comes from, but it's not quite as random a connection as you might think.
I found a 14-year-old Bryan Adams (yeah, yeah) gig T-shirt the other day, packed away in a box with the blanket my Great Aunt knitted me to keep me warm at college, and other assorted bits and pieces. It says, in foot-high yellow digits, "69", and underneath, smaller, "JUST DO IT". Referring, of course, to the song, Summer of '69 (riiiiight). I love it dearly, but I wasn't brave enough to wear it in public when I was sixteen, and it turns out I'm still not brave enough now.
I was thinking the other day, whilst watching The Return pts 1 and 2 because I've now bought season 3 of Atlantis and no I haven't watched all of season 1 or bought season 2 yet and yes I'm pathetic, that Torri Higginson is rather RDA's type. I wondered whether that had anything to do with the chemistry between the two characters, or whether it was just the situations they were in (particularly in The Real World - and is it wrong that I find Evil Jack terribly sexy?). And I was thinking about something I read, that he thought that Jack had partners on and off throughout the series, and thinking that would make an interesting series of ficlets, and that Elizabeth could be one of them. Except that just after they met he was frozen in stasis, and then when he was revived she went off to a different galaxy, and my personal canon is that he's with Sam after Threads or thereabouts. But still. And also it should involve his poker nights with the local sheriff, Andy.
Speaking of things that are keeping me amused, A bought himself a Wii this weekend, finally (he's been talking about it for ages). The invisible tennis is the most fun as a spectator sport - watching A rather than the screen. I feel that the geekishness of my life has risen a few points. Oh, and you can design yourself a Mii, which wanders about the place and does... stuff, I'm not clear on that part. Anyhow, I made one - tall and tanned, with messy grey hair, a crooked smile, black eyes and dark glasses. He's called Angus, and he waves his tiny little arms and legs furiously when you pick him up. A wasn't fooled for a second – I might just as well have called him Jack and been done with it. It's lucky we're so tolerant of one another's foibles. :)
(And yes, I'm thinking of making the whole team, if A lets me.)
I found a 14-year-old Bryan Adams (yeah, yeah) gig T-shirt the other day, packed away in a box with the blanket my Great Aunt knitted me to keep me warm at college, and other assorted bits and pieces. It says, in foot-high yellow digits, "69", and underneath, smaller, "JUST DO IT". Referring, of course, to the song, Summer of '69 (riiiiight). I love it dearly, but I wasn't brave enough to wear it in public when I was sixteen, and it turns out I'm still not brave enough now.
I was thinking the other day, whilst watching The Return pts 1 and 2 because I've now bought season 3 of Atlantis and no I haven't watched all of season 1 or bought season 2 yet and yes I'm pathetic, that Torri Higginson is rather RDA's type. I wondered whether that had anything to do with the chemistry between the two characters, or whether it was just the situations they were in (particularly in The Real World - and is it wrong that I find Evil Jack terribly sexy?). And I was thinking about something I read, that he thought that Jack had partners on and off throughout the series, and thinking that would make an interesting series of ficlets, and that Elizabeth could be one of them. Except that just after they met he was frozen in stasis, and then when he was revived she went off to a different galaxy, and my personal canon is that he's with Sam after Threads or thereabouts. But still. And also it should involve his poker nights with the local sheriff, Andy.
Speaking of things that are keeping me amused, A bought himself a Wii this weekend, finally (he's been talking about it for ages). The invisible tennis is the most fun as a spectator sport - watching A rather than the screen. I feel that the geekishness of my life has risen a few points. Oh, and you can design yourself a Mii, which wanders about the place and does... stuff, I'm not clear on that part. Anyhow, I made one - tall and tanned, with messy grey hair, a crooked smile, black eyes and dark glasses. He's called Angus, and he waves his tiny little arms and legs furiously when you pick him up. A wasn't fooled for a second – I might just as well have called him Jack and been done with it. It's lucky we're so tolerant of one another's foibles. :)
(And yes, I'm thinking of making the whole team, if A lets me.)

Comments
Sorry, sorry! I'm all done w/AoT now and will try to post some interesting things. :D
I really liked the Jack-Elizabeth dynamic in The Real World. I thought both actors did a nice job either creating chemistry or capitalizing on the chemistry they already had.
I remember reading a couple good fics with the J/E pairing that were pretty decent... I'll have to find those again. It is a totally plausible pairing - and certainly, when they would have met at the end of Season 7/beginning of Season 8, Sam would have still been unavailable to Jack. And after his close brush with death, I'm sure he thought about moving his love life in new directions.
I should think so, too! ;) Aw, I don't begrudge the squee, it's just it's been a bit quiet around here, scrolling past all the cuts in my flist.
If you find those fics, let me know! I think they could just about manage a fling between Jack being revived and Liz flying off to Atlantis, but I don't feel there's much more time in there. I need to watch Atlantis some more, though - I'm not clear on how often people can schlep back and forth, and at what points breakthroughs in technology are made, all that sort of stuff.
(um, NC-17)
And I wrote one here: http://abyssinia4077.livejournal.com/155252.html#cutid2
(also NC-17)
And I might have others....I think there are others.
Oh, cool. How'd I miss that?
(Jack/Elizabeth is my secret little ship that could but rarely does)
http://www.samandjack.net/stories/sjarchive7/hohalfalife.html
But I found this one too:
http://mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com/168905.html#cutid1