OH WAIT THERE THEY GO

As a break from editing my podbang, I recorded this hilarious little fic by queenklu. You can download it here at my journal

New Dollhouse Comic: Curse Your Sudden But Inevitable Cancellation http://ping.fm/g2dRz

SO YEAH THIS WAS PRETTY COOL:

BUT DUDE -- BORING, RIGHT? (Although seriouspost it would have been annoying if they'd stuck comedy option boxers on him.)
SURELY WE CAN DO BETTER THAN THAT! Though that picture has far too little real estate showing, so we'll have to use this one instead:

It can make sense! It can make no sense! It can be a meme! It can only be funny to you! Whatever! Let's just have some fun!
(And thank you so much for your continued support. I'll try to have some higher-caliber stuff soon. ^_^;)

PS: An Archive of Our Own, the fic archive of the wonderful Organization for Transformative Works (also responsible for Fanlore), is going into Open Beta! Right now it's invitation-only, and I have ~one~ invite. Not sure what to do with it. Demand goods/favors in exchange of it (I'd love a Foreman & Amber banner for alwaysright)? Give it to the first person to comment, or to whom wants it most? Give it to a close friend (though, as far as I know, the people I'm close to either already have an account or don't know the AO3 exists).

If you'd like the invite, though, leave a comment, and I'll follow the above guidelines somewhat. Only one person will get the invite, natch, but if/when I get more later, I'll come back to this post to see who else is trying to get in. Comments will be screened.

Oh, as addendums:

1) the OTW is awesome. Seriously. I've been a terrible volunteer, but whenever I see their work, I grow all warm and snuggly and proud of fandom;

2) i'm bellaboo over there! :D

Mmmmm, this makes me want to dig in and spend all weekend reading good fic. Which I can't do. But! Go AO3. ♥

ETA: Invite gone! As it turns out, the first person to comment is a very dear friend, so that worked out nicely. ♥ Sorry to the others; still, do leave your name and, like I said, when I next get invitations, I'll know who else to give them to. You can also leave your name on the AO3 waiting list, which will go live soon. And this doesn't meant that some other kind-hearted person couldn't still make that Amber & Foreman banner

• 21:42 RT: @ridiculant: Blog post: The Matrix, as a silent film bit.ly/1ZwDZV #
• 21:43 My Maths GCSE tomorrow. I'm scared! Kinda. #
• 16:22 Did my maths GCSE... #

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I have an invitation to the Archive Of Our Own!

I will totally give it to the first person to promise me a House/Foreman story. You know, with a strong chance of following through on that promise.

More details here on the Open Beta, which includes the fact that all you need to do is put your email on a list this weekend and you'll eventually get an account if you want one.

But if you want one from me, all shiny, and new, and practically right now...all it takes is a little House/Foreman.

*raises single enquiring eyebrow that no one could possibly ever resist due to its challenging and yet seductive nature*

ETA: Tonight perspi is my favourite, and I sniff loftily at everyone else! Go and read her perfect gem of a double-drabble, here, and then nod at the wisdom of my choice to give her an AO3 invite!

If I get more invites in the future, btw, this system has obviously proved its worth. Clearly y'all should preemptively try to win my love just in case I get more invites to distribute. *beams unrepenantly*

Nominations are now OPEN for the 2010 Rock The House Awards Program and will remain open until January 31, 2010. We are taking nominations for any and all House, MD inspired and fan created works of Art, Fiction, Videos and Web Sites. A few of our Rules & Guidelines have changed, we hope they're clearer this time around.

Membership is NO LONGER required for nominating, but as with last year, it will be required to vote.

Please note that due to some objections from the fandom to the word 'slash', we have gotten rid of the 'slash' category per say. All stories containing a sexual/romantic 'relationship' no matter the orientation will be listed in the Relationship Based Category. All pairings will be separated just as they were last year. 'Slash' based works are still very welcome in the competition.

The more nominations we receive the more categories we can open in the spring. Please, start sending in those nominations and pass the word along regarding the program to your friends and anyone you feel may be interested in taking part. We need your help so that we can Rock the House!

WR
http://www.thehouseisrocking.webs.com

Just a quick post to answer a few questions. First: yes, House went to Michigan first. I am charmed by the idea that, like Lex Luthor of Smallville, House was thrown out of more than one school. No, this was not a bit of carelessness we’re trying to quickly retcon after the fact – note that House says “thrown out of my first med school,” implying there was more than one. Just to make sure we were in lawful territory, when we were writing this we went back and pulled every reference to House and Cuddy’s past from every episode where it was mentioned. Mind you, sometimes mistakes can creep in because writers are used to hearing ideas that never make it to script, or reading things in scripts that never make it to air, or watching episode cuts that go on to lose scenes before the audience sees them. Those things can lodge in your mind. So we were careful to get the final transcripts – and then, in one case, corrected a reference to something that changed after the final draft was written, and hadn’t been updated in script form. Recently I heard from a couple of people who referenced a tweet I’d made, in which I “tried to explain my mistake.” So, my friends, I challenge you: if anybody can point to a line of dialogue anywhere in the show where it was stated that Hopkins came first, I will take you out to lunch personally and tell you how clever you are. While I’m as amused as anyone by our occasional tumbles from the railroad of continuity, this was not one.

(I used to wonder, actually, where the whole “Hopkins was first” thing came from, till someone told me it was once on Wikipedia. In fact, the person who told me this was an assistant at House whom I’d asked to double-check my continuity accuracy, because we were being, well, careful. When I heard this, I figured that a fan somewhere made an assumption. Since we aired the episode, I’ve also heard that the Fox site might have said so as well. I can’t confirm this personally, but if so, I can only wonder whether the Fox site got it from Wikipedia (stuff like that happens) or vice versa; such is the serpent ouroborus of TV-fan interaction in these exciting times.)

As it happens, continuity is one of my personal bugaboos. When I read a script that says, for instance, that Wilson’s second wife has a dog who’s 17 years old, I completely rebuild my mental picture of how long House and Wilson have known each other, because that is the kind of girl I am. (“But, Doris, they could always have gotten the dog when he was already old.” Me, stubborn as a toddler: “No, they couldn’t, because the dialogue says they got him as a puppy.” Thus do we get the origin story in “Birthmarks.”)

In this obsessive spirit, when we first started talking about how House and Cuddy might look back at their first meeting, I originally wanted them to have entirely dueling versions of it, a kind of Rashomon meta-joke on the occasional continuity tangles a show in its sixth season can get into. But as the scene was refined, I realized it would work better for them to have more or less the same memories, but interpret them differently. I loved the idea of House in the campus bookstore, a local legend who could mercilessly analyze innocent students from their syllabi. So there’s Lisa Cuddy, at the opening of the semester, one of a line of students halfway around the block. She gets to the counter, gives the guy her list, and gets a load of unasked-for and troublingly accurate personal information along with her books. She goes away, intrigued.

For House, of course, she was one of the teeming masses of students looking for books. He doesn’t notice her till later, when he hears her arguing with the professor in endocrinology. He doesn’t remember her from the bookstore; he doesn’t even know (then) that she’s an undergrad. But he’s intrigued. He tracks her down at a campus dance. It’s their first dance together, and from his point of view, this was all his own idea. He picked her out; he pursued her.

He goes on thinking that as the next few months pass. Cuddy knows differently. One night they’re at a party given by one of their classmates, a mutual friend, and she makes her move. They spend the night together.

And then he disappears. She gets that something happened, she gets that he's not around – but not even a phone call?

So all this time, House has assumed the determination of their relationship had been in his hands; that he had planned it and courted her. Actually, it was strong-willed Lisa Cuddy who’d singled him out; Cuddy who knew what she wanted in school and (she thought) in life; Cuddy, the future endocrinologist, who talked her way into attending classes undergrads weren’t supposed to get into; Cuddy who came out of the whole thing thinking that maybe what she’d wanted this time just hadn’t wanted her back. And that’s colored her relationship with House ever since.

So House learns that their relationship didn’t begin the way he thought; and Cuddy learns that their relationship didn’t end the way she thought. There’s nothing more poignant than knowledge that comes too late. (As my favorite episode of Babylon 5 attests.) And when we were going through actual programming schedules from medical conferences, and the first one we read listed an 80s dance, it seemed serendipitous. Where better to discuss the 80s? (As someone who lived through that decade, the idea of an 80s dance always feels to me like having a party on Wednesday in honor of Tuesday. But I digress.) (I also have a compulsion to give characters "their moment," a drop of honey in the cup, particularly when they've had bad times before, or have bad times ahead. I once argued passionately on Smallville to let Clark take Chloe to the prom in season one; that poor girl had been passed over all year. The character deserved her moment!)

So. Yes. Continuity? I may not always be perfect. Sometimes, in fact, I make stupid mistakes, and the doom of television is that they never go away. But I happen to give a damn.

Title: And I Will Walk On Water
Author: tracy_loo_who
Reader: fullondazzled
Fandom: Supernatural
Pairing: Dean/Castiel
Rating: NC-17 for dark themes
Warnings: implied rape/torture
Size: 15.07 MB
Format: .mp3
Text: 1/18
Download Link: Part 1

First sketch is some little "blurb" that popped into my head. The second one was something that appeared in my mind after listening to "Fireflies"for a while, and I always love to see young Jeeves and Wooster pics :D. Do excuse the crappy, 5 minute coloring.




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OK, so listen. I've been very busy lately, so sorry I haven't shared much, but here are some LULZ. This was a '90s cartoon called (oh man, how can you forget? the theme song only repeats the name over and over and over) SHERLOCK HOLMES IN THE 22ND CENTURY

THERE IS A ROBO-WATSON. It makes no sense! They bring Holmes back to life to...solve crimes? That apparently the technology of the 22nd century can't? They have flying fucking cars but they need some 19th century dude to figure out TEH CLUEZ. Just watch this theme song. It tells you all you need to know.




If you MUST watch this show, a few episodes are here.

I was nudged by mxdp to Joosterize this photo. If you haven't seen her own version yet, take a look! Here's mine.

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And here's a silhouette that had been sitting around for a couple of months that I finally got around to finishing this week.

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Poll #1484601 Deep fandom thoughts
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 87

If I keep doing Wilson-y things will you still enjoy them?

(obviously if the answer is 'no' just scroll past)