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ria_oaksFirst off, happy birthday to Stephen Colbert! I know I've drifted a bit from fakenews/pundit fandom, but I still love you. :)
And second, happy Supernatural day!! Can't believe it's season finale time already - in about7.5 hours 6 (this took me awhile to write, and I got distracted...) I'll be listening to Carry On Wayward Son playing over over 'The Road So Far' (or at least I better be - it ain't a Supernatural finale without Carry On Wayward Son!). Other than the CW's trailer, I'm totally unspoiled for this ep. I just hope no one awesome dies. :( I'm just glad this won't be the final episode ever, though... whatever season 6 may bring, I'm not ready for the show to end. I remember watching the season 4 finale last year (while in Melbourne!) and thinking, "one year from now I'll be watching 'The Road So Far' previously-on and listening to Carry On Wayward Son for the final episode ever of Supernatural". And the thought made me muchly sad. :( So, yay for this not being the series finale!
Lesse, other stuff... the orientation for my program is tomorrow, and classes start next week. Eek! Weird to think I'll be back at school, at least for a few months... hopefully it'll be good and I'll enjoy it, and more importantly, hopefully it'll help me get a decent job in a travel agency or something come September. It's all pretty nerve-wracking, not least because it's hard to know if I'll actually like the program/working in this industry, but I think it'll be good! I really don't have any better ideas right now, and I think it could be a fun job... with lots of room for advancement into different areas, and transferable skills I could take to another job. I've gotta stop thinking in terms of 'one single life-long career', because that's not really the case for most people anymore. I keep wishing I could plan everything out, but it just doesn't work that way. And I got frustrated because I didn't know what I wanted to plan out. So yeah, we'll just see how it goes. :)
In the meantime, at least, I'm doing still work for Mom's publisher, writing/revising supplements (ie. questions, instructor materials, etc) for a Word 2010 textbook. It's the same book Mom's writing right now - she's doing the second half of the book, and is still writing the last few units as I do supplements for the earlier ones... I'm kinda stuck now, having done all I can until they send me more units. Which aren't fully written yet, I don't think. ^^ Least Mom's units aren't, I don't know about the other author. Too bad, I was hoping to be able to work on it for the last few days before classes start, to get as much done as possible before I'm juggling it with schoolwork. On the plus side, it pays really well - hell of a lot better than temp work or, really, anything I've done. Kinda dull, but... it'll keep me afloat for the next few months, and now that I have money again I can finally go shopping and buy myself stuff! Need new summer clothing, and I'm not crazy about clothing shopping, but it'll be nice to get some new stuff. Might go today; nothing else to do, and it's a gorgeous day out.
In other fannish news... I finished watching due South last weekend, finally. I'd been trying to spread the last few episodes out because I didn't want it to end, but I finally gave in and watched Call of the Wild. And it was glorious. :) I was pretty much spoiled for it from fics, but I didn't really know how all the pieces fit together or precisely how the show ended, so it was intersting to see how it all worked out. Ended differently from how I thought (I vaguely thought that the 'quest' actually took place in the episode, because I wasn't too clear on what the quest was or what the episode was actually about, and I'd been triyng to avoid finding out) - and ended on a lot happier and more hopeful note than I'd thought, so yay! I mean really, could that ending BE any more slashy?? Wow.
Oh man, there was SO MUCH I loved about CotW. Seeing Vecchio again was wonderful; I'd been really looking forward to seeing him again, and also to seeing how he came back. I vaguely knew that Fraser blew his cover somehow, but didn't know the details. That mustache was deeply horrifying though, LOL. Thank god it was gone quickly. (also, I can't help but wonder why he didn't just grow a mustache?? Did he spend 2 years or whatever undercover with a stick-on mustache? Seems a bit silly. But then, DS and undercover logic don't really mix (aka, "let's bring in a blond Polish guy with experimental hair to play a balding Italian guy and hope that no one notices". Yeah. Never really made any sense, but whatever...).
But anyway, yeah, nice to see him again. I was sad at the end of s2 to say goodbye to him, even though I figured I'd probably like RayK and I knew he would be back at the end of the show. I'd gotten so caught up in Kowalski, and F/K fic, that I almost forgot how much I loved Vecchio. :)
Let's see... as I said, I knew a fair number of things about the finale, but not how they fit together. Like, I knew that Fraser and Ray went to the north to track down someone named Muldoon, but I didn't know who he was. That was one of the few real spoilers I didn't know. Poor Fraser... The last scenes with Bob, when Fraser's mother appears and they fade away together, totally made me cry (and I didn't stop until the end of the episode, heh). I knew that that was going to happen, generally, but I didn't know the context. I also didn't know that Martha Burns played Fraser's mother, which seems vaguely Freudian... Really seems a bit perverse, LOL. It amused me, even as I cried. :)
I adored all the scenes of Fraser and Ray treking through the snow while going after Muldoon. I'd seen several of the clips (ie. the shot of them on top of the mountain) in music vids, but it was much better actually seeing them. That shot of them on top of the mountain was beautiful - I loved how happy and victorious Ray was. And I almost died when Fraser started singing while they were stuck in the crevasse. I really wish there was a full version of Paul Gross singing that - I can't find one, so I guess it doesn't exist... that was such a wonderful and perfect scene. Also, the look on Fraser's face when they arrived in the north and he said that he was home was definitely one of my favourite parts of the ep.
But, mostly I was relieved when the show didn't end the way I'd thought it did. I'd thought for awhile now, based on fics and such, that the show ended with Fraser staying in the north and Ray going back to Chicago. I dind't really know how the quest fit into that; I just vaguely thought that they'd say it happened but that afterwards Ray went back to Chicago or something. I definitely did NOT expect it to end on such a hopeful and open-ended note with them leaving to go on their quest. SO HAPPY about that, oh my god. What a relief. (course, hell, I had a period awhile back when, based on some fic summaries I'd accidentally seen, I thought that RayK died at the end of the show. Didn't really seem like DS to kill off someone so major, but I was paranoid... eventually figured out from reading fics, even ones I knew I shouldn't read because they were post-series, that he obviously didn't die. Heh.) But yeah, talk about slashy endings - I mean, they basically rode off into the sunset together. On a dogsled. Awesome.
Other random things... nice to see Frobisher again; I didn't realize he'd be back. I did wonder, though, because I'd see that '11th of March' speech go by a few times and I knew he gave it, and since it hadn't happened yet I vaguely figured it'd be the finale... forgot about that until I saw his name in the guest credits, though. Loved the speech, anyway. Also, on a random note, I lol-ed so hard at Turnbull clutching a stuffed husky in bed. Awww, Turnbull... (and lol at the Thatcher bath scene, heh)
There's probably more I'm forgetting... so many awesome moments, and I'm sad I've finished watching the series now but it was great to finally see the finale. Now, at least, I can read any post-series fic that I was avoiding, and watch post-series vids.. and I watched the s3/4 bloopers, which were great. Not least for the part where Paul and Callum mimed having sex. ^^ I was totally thinking that when I saw that actual scene ("So what, we still partners?" "If you'll have me.") - I mean, how dirty does that sound? Evidently Paul and Callum feel the same way, LOL.
And speaking of DS, I need to work on my DS Big Bang art... I finished reading the fic and have started sketching out the drawing. It's pretty ambitious for me, and I KNOW the perspective and proportions will be off because I'm not that good at actual scenes with multiple people, but hopefully it'll turn out okay. It's due in a little under a month, so I have some time. I also need to work on my![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
lgbtfest ifc, and by work on, I mean start. Sigh. Have a little under a month for that, too.
And okay, this has gotten way too long, so I'm stopping now... except to say, new default icon! I finished writing this then went in search of DS icons, got a bunch, and for now am making this my default. Sorry Keef and Andy, I still love you, but I've had that default icon for going on a year...
And second, happy Supernatural day!! Can't believe it's season finale time already - in about
Lesse, other stuff... the orientation for my program is tomorrow, and classes start next week. Eek! Weird to think I'll be back at school, at least for a few months... hopefully it'll be good and I'll enjoy it, and more importantly, hopefully it'll help me get a decent job in a travel agency or something come September. It's all pretty nerve-wracking, not least because it's hard to know if I'll actually like the program/working in this industry, but I think it'll be good! I really don't have any better ideas right now, and I think it could be a fun job... with lots of room for advancement into different areas, and transferable skills I could take to another job. I've gotta stop thinking in terms of 'one single life-long career', because that's not really the case for most people anymore. I keep wishing I could plan everything out, but it just doesn't work that way. And I got frustrated because I didn't know what I wanted to plan out. So yeah, we'll just see how it goes. :)
In the meantime, at least, I'm doing still work for Mom's publisher, writing/revising supplements (ie. questions, instructor materials, etc) for a Word 2010 textbook. It's the same book Mom's writing right now - she's doing the second half of the book, and is still writing the last few units as I do supplements for the earlier ones... I'm kinda stuck now, having done all I can until they send me more units. Which aren't fully written yet, I don't think. ^^ Least Mom's units aren't, I don't know about the other author. Too bad, I was hoping to be able to work on it for the last few days before classes start, to get as much done as possible before I'm juggling it with schoolwork. On the plus side, it pays really well - hell of a lot better than temp work or, really, anything I've done. Kinda dull, but... it'll keep me afloat for the next few months, and now that I have money again I can finally go shopping and buy myself stuff! Need new summer clothing, and I'm not crazy about clothing shopping, but it'll be nice to get some new stuff. Might go today; nothing else to do, and it's a gorgeous day out.
In other fannish news... I finished watching due South last weekend, finally. I'd been trying to spread the last few episodes out because I didn't want it to end, but I finally gave in and watched Call of the Wild. And it was glorious. :) I was pretty much spoiled for it from fics, but I didn't really know how all the pieces fit together or precisely how the show ended, so it was intersting to see how it all worked out. Ended differently from how I thought (I vaguely thought that the 'quest' actually took place in the episode, because I wasn't too clear on what the quest was or what the episode was actually about, and I'd been triyng to avoid finding out) - and ended on a lot happier and more hopeful note than I'd thought, so yay! I mean really, could that ending BE any more slashy?? Wow.
Oh man, there was SO MUCH I loved about CotW. Seeing Vecchio again was wonderful; I'd been really looking forward to seeing him again, and also to seeing how he came back. I vaguely knew that Fraser blew his cover somehow, but didn't know the details. That mustache was deeply horrifying though, LOL. Thank god it was gone quickly. (also, I can't help but wonder why he didn't just grow a mustache?? Did he spend 2 years or whatever undercover with a stick-on mustache? Seems a bit silly. But then, DS and undercover logic don't really mix (aka, "let's bring in a blond Polish guy with experimental hair to play a balding Italian guy and hope that no one notices". Yeah. Never really made any sense, but whatever...).
But anyway, yeah, nice to see him again. I was sad at the end of s2 to say goodbye to him, even though I figured I'd probably like RayK and I knew he would be back at the end of the show. I'd gotten so caught up in Kowalski, and F/K fic, that I almost forgot how much I loved Vecchio. :)
Let's see... as I said, I knew a fair number of things about the finale, but not how they fit together. Like, I knew that Fraser and Ray went to the north to track down someone named Muldoon, but I didn't know who he was. That was one of the few real spoilers I didn't know. Poor Fraser... The last scenes with Bob, when Fraser's mother appears and they fade away together, totally made me cry (and I didn't stop until the end of the episode, heh). I knew that that was going to happen, generally, but I didn't know the context. I also didn't know that Martha Burns played Fraser's mother, which seems vaguely Freudian... Really seems a bit perverse, LOL. It amused me, even as I cried. :)
I adored all the scenes of Fraser and Ray treking through the snow while going after Muldoon. I'd seen several of the clips (ie. the shot of them on top of the mountain) in music vids, but it was much better actually seeing them. That shot of them on top of the mountain was beautiful - I loved how happy and victorious Ray was. And I almost died when Fraser started singing while they were stuck in the crevasse. I really wish there was a full version of Paul Gross singing that - I can't find one, so I guess it doesn't exist... that was such a wonderful and perfect scene. Also, the look on Fraser's face when they arrived in the north and he said that he was home was definitely one of my favourite parts of the ep.
But, mostly I was relieved when the show didn't end the way I'd thought it did. I'd thought for awhile now, based on fics and such, that the show ended with Fraser staying in the north and Ray going back to Chicago. I dind't really know how the quest fit into that; I just vaguely thought that they'd say it happened but that afterwards Ray went back to Chicago or something. I definitely did NOT expect it to end on such a hopeful and open-ended note with them leaving to go on their quest. SO HAPPY about that, oh my god. What a relief. (course, hell, I had a period awhile back when, based on some fic summaries I'd accidentally seen, I thought that RayK died at the end of the show. Didn't really seem like DS to kill off someone so major, but I was paranoid... eventually figured out from reading fics, even ones I knew I shouldn't read because they were post-series, that he obviously didn't die. Heh.) But yeah, talk about slashy endings - I mean, they basically rode off into the sunset together. On a dogsled. Awesome.
Other random things... nice to see Frobisher again; I didn't realize he'd be back. I did wonder, though, because I'd see that '11th of March' speech go by a few times and I knew he gave it, and since it hadn't happened yet I vaguely figured it'd be the finale... forgot about that until I saw his name in the guest credits, though. Loved the speech, anyway. Also, on a random note, I lol-ed so hard at Turnbull clutching a stuffed husky in bed. Awww, Turnbull... (and lol at the Thatcher bath scene, heh)
There's probably more I'm forgetting... so many awesome moments, and I'm sad I've finished watching the series now but it was great to finally see the finale. Now, at least, I can read any post-series fic that I was avoiding, and watch post-series vids.. and I watched the s3/4 bloopers, which were great. Not least for the part where Paul and Callum mimed having sex. ^^ I was totally thinking that when I saw that actual scene ("So what, we still partners?" "If you'll have me.") - I mean, how dirty does that sound? Evidently Paul and Callum feel the same way, LOL.
And speaking of DS, I need to work on my DS Big Bang art... I finished reading the fic and have started sketching out the drawing. It's pretty ambitious for me, and I KNOW the perspective and proportions will be off because I'm not that good at actual scenes with multiple people, but hopefully it'll turn out okay. It's due in a little under a month, so I have some time. I also need to work on my
lgbtfest ifc, and by work on, I mean start. Sigh. Have a little under a month for that, too.And okay, this has gotten way too long, so I'm stopping now... except to say, new default icon! I finished writing this then went in search of DS icons, got a bunch, and for now am making this my default. Sorry Keef and Andy, I still love you, but I've had that default icon for going on a year...
