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Linking this because of caesaria82's post - Keith Olberman's reaction to the passing of Prop 8 in California. Beautifully said, and he really gets to the core of the issue - why can't we just let people have a chance at happiness in life, and how does that happiness negatively affect the rest of us in any way? With a side dish of, what the fuck is this "sanctity of marriage" bullshit, anyway?



...And then she went and got me totally distracted with these pictures. Holyfuck how have I not seen those yet?? God bless John Barrowman... wonder what his husband thinks of him always making out with his co-stars at conventions? XD He's probably used to it, actually.

SQUEE. I love fandom, ya'll. Less than 15 minutes after finishing watching the last TW ep, and having just listened to JB singing "Save the Last Dance for Me", I wander over to jackxianto to see if any fic has been written based on that ep yet and find this. My brain promptly implodes from the irony of it all. ^^; Mostly I'm just still squeeing over Jack and Ianto... how'd this happen, anyway? Season 1 I could take or leave Ianto and I wasn't especially excited about Jack/Ianto beyond "yay canon slash!" Now I'm squeeing like mad every time the show so much as mentions their relationship. *happy sigh*

Watched Torchwood partially on the bus and partially in the Student Union Building today, and daaaamn. I wish I could've been watching THAT scene at home because I wanted to squee SO hard. ( spoilers )

Eeee!!! Check out what I received as my yuletart present! Dean and Sam as Cap'n Jack Sparrow and Commodore James Norrington! *squee* It's gorgeous and awesome and hot damn someone needs to write a fic like that. Whoever you are, mystery artist, thank you very much! (check out the likenesses, ya'll - amazing, aren't they?)

http://community.livejournal.com/yuletart/4030.html?view=30398#t30398

Anyays, I'm sitting here in North Van freezIng my ass off. We got down to North Van this afternoon to find that out that our furnace isn't working. *sigh* Hence, very cold. Mom and I took off to Metrotown for the afternoon to stay warm (and see Enchanted, which incidentally is very good), but now we're home and cold again. I'm sitting here in my coat and scarf and gloves. o.o The furnace people are supposed to be on their way, but who knows when they'll arrive? We may have to go up to Bowen again if they don't come, in which case I'll stay overnight at Grandma's place in West Van so I can get out to UBC tomorrow more easily.

Also, electronics are weird. I was in the car today waiting for the ferry and nothing on my portable harddrive would play properly. I freaked out, because I have 5 gigs worth of music videos on there that I really don't want to lose. Then I get home, and it's working fine. -_- And quettalinde, evidently that DW ep kept crashing because it was originally a corrupted file. -__- Sorry for all the stress in the car today. ^^ I get a bit.. overwrought when it comes to computers. But it's all fine now, though I'm going to back up my music videos and may buy a new harddrive because this one clearly has... issues. Or maybe that's just my computer. -_-

Oh, oh, and check it out! Screencaps from Torchwood s2 with a certain guest star doing a certain something that I was REALLY hoping would happen. I am excited, oh yes. :) (spoilers, obviously, though I think everyone knows about this guest star now and probably suspected this would happen)

http://rhymephile.livejournal.com/217006.html#cutid1

My fingers are gonna fall off. ;_; But it's hard to type with gloves on..

*watches Torchwood 1X13*

( fake CGI monsters and boykissing! )
And it's over. ;_; When's series 2 airing??

In the meantime, I'm going to watch the new Doctor Who because I want the background info and I want to see Jack on it. Might pick up s1 from zip.ca...

*just finished watching Torchwood 1X08* Oh hell yeah, canon boy-slash! I always thought that 'mouth-to-mouth resuscitation' scene a few eps back seemed more of a kiss than was strictly necessary to revive him. XD caesaria82, sorry I haven't written up my thoughts yet - got distracted with exams. But those are done and I'm almost caught up now, so going to jot down some random thoughts. Figured that the Jack/Ianto scene in 1.08 was a good excuse to come and squee. ;p I so very much want to know what they plan to do with that stopwatch now... haha. There's no way I can read that scene to mean anything other than officially canon slash, though I imagine some people are trying. I love how everyone on this show gets to indiscriminently have sex with people of both genders. :) I think everyone now has had something going on with someone of both the same and opposite gender.

( More thoughts on Torchwood in general )

I want to go find some fic now... possibly Jack/Ianto, esp based on that scene. Woot.

That aside, I'm heading out to UBC today to meet up with rainbowpegacorn after her exam. Yay. :) I've hardly seen her since April, reall - saw her twice over the summer, I believe, and that's it. o.o Looking forward to hanging out on campus and eating Pie R Squared pizza. And hopefully bubble tea if it's open.