friendshipper

This is the journal formerly known as "friendshipper" (my name was changed to be consistent with my usernames on AO3, ff.net and other fan sites). Content is crossposted to my primary journal at LJ. I don't usually grant access to people I don't know, but if I have you friended on LJ and you'd like to be added here, please leave me a comment!

http://newsminer.com/view/full_story/17302801/article-Alaska-man-seeks-to-reclaim-his-22-cats

Short version: homesteader packs up his 22 beloved cats and heads to town for supply run and booty call (yes, really). Lives in a friend's shipping container while attempting to find a woman for said booty call (I cannot imagine why he's having trouble with this part), meanwhile storing all 22 cats in his Toyota hatchback. City confiscates cats. Cat custody battle ensues.

Sometimes there is just not enough *facepalm* in the world.

This show mashes down my friendship/found-family/island-of-misfit-toys buttons so hard. ♥ ♥ ♥

( We've seen up to the end of the 3rd DVD of season two - some spoilers, but mostly general nattering )

... and today, a rather adorable interview with Tim DeKay. No specific spoilers; he talks in very vague terms about season four, but not in any specific detail.

Some choice bits: TD talking about Peter and Neal -

I think these two really love each other, and they enjoy each other’s company very much, and they respect each other in this odd way. But there are facets of each other’s lives that they don’t trust. They are like two guys playing a game of poker. They love playing with each other, they sit down and talk about their lives, they go to bat for each other, but they will never ever reveal the hand that they’re holding.

And after the interviewer asked him if there's anything he really wants to see for his character:

Here’s something that Matt and I have talked about before – our dream episode is where Neal and Peter get stuck in an elevator, and all they have is, I don't know, possibly a board game somehow – the writers are brilliant that way; they can create anything they want- and they are just stuck in the elevator for the entire episode. I think it would give us potential for some great dialogue.

They've mentioned the stuck-in-an-elevator episode in interviews before. :D From your lips to the writers' ears, Tim.

Community: We're up to the middle of season two, and you know, I think one of the things that makes me love this show as much as I do, as well as the fact that it genuinely makes me laugh - a lot - every episode, is that its soft little underbelly is real. In a lot of shows with a similar kind of sarcastic meta-humor, the "heartwarming" aspects are part of the joke, and a running theme is the characters thinking they're going for a happy moment (as they would be, in a show that plays it straight) and then getting the rug yanked out from under them. (I'm thinking here of shows like Simpsons, Futurama, Invader Zim, that kind of thing. I'm not saying they're bad shows for that, just that it can be hard for me, personally, to get into a show that's forever dumping on the characters and denying them moments of genuine happiness or heroism.)

But that's the one thing in Community that isn't a joke: the characters' genuine love and affection for each other, and willingness to back each other up, even in some truly absurd situations.

( Very mildly spoilery question for season two episode )

I started to write about Fringe here, too, but it started getting long and spoilery and I'm not sure if I'll finish writing it tonight, so I figure I'll put it in its own post whenever I finish it.

If you're American, and concerned about SOPA/PIPA (two new, overreaching Internet copyright bills, hence the protests on various sites like Wikipedia and Google) zillah975 provided links where you can see which of your Congresspersons support the bill, to contact them if desired:

http://lifeaftersopa.cheezburger.com/32355841
http://projects.propublica.org/sopa/

Also, information:
https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Learn_more
http://hq.deviantart.com/journal/Join-a-SOPA-and-PIPA-debate-280023798

ETA: Here is a good link from an attorney talking about why the bills are a bad idea and providing a number of links, including some to the text of the bills themselves: http://foresthouse.livejournal.com/613882.html

Not exactly how I was planning on spending part of my afternoon .... I called yesterday about getting a coal delivery -- our heating system is an outdoor boiler than burns coal for heat (it's a long story, and we really would like to replace it with something more eco-friendly and less of a hassle to feed, but can't afford to put in a whole new system). With the unusually cold weather (well, more like usually cold weather, but the last few winters have been anomalously warm) we've really been going through a lot of coal this winter. I left a message, but they didn't call me back to schedule it as usual. So I called again today and discovered that our delivery was already on their books for today -- which, on the one hand, is awesome, because we're almost out of coal and running out of coal means running out of HEAT, but on the other hand, it meant that a dump truck with 10 tons of coal could be rumbling into the yard any minute. And nothing was ready. CRAP. I scampered around the coal shed picking things up (nothing worse than having your coal shovel buried under a few tons of coal) and then discovered that one half of the industrial-sized tarp that we use to cover the coal pile (the part outside the shed) was VERY thoroughly frozen down under a few inches of ice with two feet of snow on top of it. Which means that I couldn't move it out of the way of the coal truck.

Cue 45 minutes of frantic shoveling and hacking at the ice with an axe. MY LUNGS. OW. Lungs do not appreciate intense cardio at -35F. Neither did the rest of me. On the other hand, the coal shed is all cleaned up and ready for delivery. Which hasn't shown up yet, but that's okay -- we're ready and that's what counts.

*cough, hack, collapse*

ETA: Also, wow, now that I'm hydrated, I am craving sugar! I think I really did a number on my blood glucose levels with that little burst of activity, as well as maxing out my heart rate and all those other metabolic things that function properly for people who, y'know, exercise. I actually came pretty close to passing out while I was out there -- I had to stop at one point and lean against a wall for a couple of minutes while I stopped being dizzy. When I came back inside, all I could do for a few minutes was flop on the bed while I recovered the ability to use my body. WHO IS IN TERRIBLE SHAPE? ME! But if my body needs chocolate for glucose recovery, who am I to deny it?

Title: Unspoken
Fandom: White Collar
Word Count: 2800
Pairing: Gen (w/a little background Peter/El)
Rating: PG
Summary: Written for this prompt by surreal_44 at whitecollarhc, although I had some trouble sticking to the original prompt and ended up changing it a bit. Peter has cancer; Neal deals.
Cross-posted: http://archiveofourown.org/works/320684

( Unspoken )

So, my main computer is a laptop, and one of the problems I'm having right now (the only problem, really) is that the headphone jack is starting to die.

( Cut for headphone question )

ETA: hahaha, or possibly I could just look up "external headphone jack" on Amazon and find that a) yes, they do exist, and b) they're cheap enough that I could buy one even without being positive it'll work on my Mac. For $2.78 I can afford to experiment a bit. NEVER MIND! (But if anyone has other suggestions I hadn't thought of, I'm totally open to them.)