Arctic Light

Dear Carnivale: It would be so much easier to quit you if you did not keep giving me scenes like THIS.

( Shameless objectification of shirtless Tim DeKay under the cut (worksafe, no spoilers) )

I am totally watching this show for the plot. Yep.

I came across a link to an online Q&A session that Matt Bomer and Tim DeKay did at the end of the first season of White Collar. I've seen a brief clip from it on Youtube (of the two of them spontaneously breaking into song), but I never knew where it came from.

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/5167122

I was only planning to watch a few minutes of it, just for kicks, because I figured it's just the actors answering audience questions; how interesting can it be? Um, and then I ended up watching the whole hour, because ... OMG. NO WORDS. The adorable quotient is through the ROOF on this one.

I grabbed a few short clips and uploaded them to Youtube to give you some idea.

( Embedded under the cut )

Er ... this was supposed to be one post combining the kitchen scenes from 3x15 and 3x16, but the screencapping got out of hand. /o\

(All in all, neither of these scenes is particularly spoilery if you haven't seen the episode. Mostly they're just cute.)

( Screencaps of adorable from 3x15 )

My last White Collar picspam was all Tim & Matt, so here's everybody! Prettiest cast, or prettiest cast? :D (No real spoilers; most pictures are behind-the-scenes, publicity shots, or from other roles.)

( 23 pictures under the cut )

Today was my first day coding the newsletter and everything went very smoothly. \o/

There's a clip from the Season 3 gag/outtake reel floating around and ohhhh, I miss them all so much! Is it January yet? :D?

The clip contains a couple of outtakes from unaired episodes, so it's all under a cut for the scrupulously spoiler-free among us. (Which obviously does not include me at the moment.)

( Link to the S3 gag reel + very mild spoilers for unaired episodes + squeaky dolphin noises )

Please, no additional spoilers in comments, beyond those scenes in the clips above. I'm trying to stay as spoiler-free for the back half of the season as possible (er, not that you can really tell by looking at me).

ETA: Oh, and also: White Collar stocking stuffer gift exchange at collarcorner. \o/ It's loosely patterned after fandom_stocking, except gen-only (the community is a gen one) and without comment screening like fandom_stocking does. Beyond that, though, list what you like and get GIFTS, yay.

I just saw this and it looks awesome: Fall Fandom Free-For-All. You leave a list of requests for fic/vids/art, and in return promise to answer at least one request from someone else's list. I think I'm going to play. :D I just need to figure out what to ask for.

ETA: Also, it looks like most people are requesting things in big fandoms and there's obviously nothing at all wrong with that, but it seems like this is the sort of challenge that might be tailor-made for getting something in a very small/rare fandom or for a really rare pairing, should you have one that you've been craving fic/vid/art for. Especially since multiple requests are allowed, so you can spread your requests between the "common" fandoms and the not-so-common ones. :D *ponders her rare fandoms*

ETA2: My requests are here. *is utterly shameless*

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I love watching my flist be all happy about H50 coming back. :D It is not my show, but seeing you guys all a-squee makes me happy!

Meanwhile, I've been attempting to console myself for the tragic lack of new White Collar until 2012 by looking up interviews, many of which I've already read/watched, but I'm still wallowing happily in how adorable and funny and nice this cast is. Awww, I think I've talked about this before, but they make my heart all squishy with their open appreciation and praise of each other. The shows that I fan on usually seem to have casts who get along really well off-set as well as on-set, but I don't remember running into a cast who go out of their way to say nice things about each other as often as these people do. Like, multiple times per interview, even. It's so sweet.

( Some particularly happymaking links and excerpts under the cut )

( Big shiny screencaps courtesy of my DVDs! )

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We had the most incredible aurora borealis last night. About 12:30 a.m., I'd wandered into the darkened kitchen to get a drink of water before bed, and happened to look out the window at a sky full of light, so bright I could see it clearly without my glasses. (I'm so tremendously nearsighted that I often can't see the aurora, at least as anything other than a vague green blur, if I don't have my glasses on.)

Last night was probably somewhere in the mid to upper 30s (temperature wise) but we spent as much time as we could stand in bathrobes and bare feet on the new second story of the deck, watching an incredibly fast-racing, unfolding aurora with shades from green to white, red and purple. Then I had to come back inside to get a coat and shoes, and I went out into the front yard to watch some more -- the husband went to bed at this point -- and that's when it got just incredible, the sort of thing you probably will only see a few times in a lifetime even if you live in a place that gets auroras a lot (as we do). It was right overhead -- I think that's one of the things that made this one so amazing, because normally they're somewhat to the north of us, but this one filled the sky and the center was almost directly over us -- and as the fast-moving, spiraling and swirling activity began to slow down, it started breaking up into discrete, incredibly tall shafts of light. I've been trying to find a good image of what I mean, and this image is about the closest I can find, but directly overhead, so that they were radiating down onto me from everywhere. They seemed to shoot straight up to the stars. It was amazing.

Once I could tear myself away, I went and woke up the husband, making squeaky "You will not believe this! You have to see this!" noises. Sadly, by the time we got outside, it had died down considerably, and never really got bright again. It was still all over the sky, though, to the north and the south. I imagine this one was probably visible at points farther south than you can normally see them. By the time we finally went in around 1:30, it had died away to the faintest whispers of light.

And I would've missed it if I hadn't been looking out the window by pure chance, with the house lights off so that I could see it.

I need to look at the sky more.

ETA: I found a video on Youtube that shows something fairly similar to what I was looking at -- this is a time-lapse of photographic images, but this is about the speed at which it was moving (even faster in some cases, especially when those big swirls would unroll across the sky, or brighter flashes would propagate down the whole curtain of light - you can see that happening a little bit on the lower band of color at about 2:39-46). And it has the shafts-of-light thing at the end, too.

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MID-SEASON FINALE TOMORROW EEEEEEE! (Once again, I've been avoiding spoilers as hard as I can -- I'm not 100% unspoiled, but I'm mostly unspoiled, and would like to stay that way. Your cooperation is most appreciated!)

But the actual purpose of this post is a lot of disconnected happy noises resulting from re-watching random episodes (or pieces of episodes) over the last couple of weeks. There's no actual thinkiness or analysis or anything like that, just squeeful comments in no particular order.

( I think we can assume spoilers for everything that's aired so far )

( Screencaps! (watermarked, sadly, for the most part) )

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astridv made gorgeous fanart inspired by ME! It's for my story Night Ops (Jennifer, Rodney, John; mostly gen with light McKeller, though not in this scene). Rather large picture under the cut -- vaguely spoilery for the story, I guess, but only if you couldn't figure out from my past stories that John and Rodney probably don't make it to the end unscathed.

( Big damn action heroes! )