Mischief Managed

For people that I went to the last Serenity convention with: here are some pictures of Alan Tudyk without his startle reation! Everyone else still needs to click on the link because it leads to some very pretty pictures of the male members of the Firefly cast. Yum.

niannah has opened the first round of fridgemagnetfic. In case you missed her last wordathon, you donate five words to a pool and then when the word pool is complete you go away and write something using only the words from the pool. Or you can just donate words if you don't want to write or just write if you don't want to donate. It's pretty good fun. :) It's an autumn theme this time.

The cutest picture ever of Nathan, Sean and Summer at the Serenity premiere (nicked from casirafics and glitterdemon):

( hee! )

I can't wait until Serenity²!

Everyone is doing this poetry meme: When you see this, post a poem you like on your LJ.

Because I am an uneducated heathen I don't really recall any poems apart from ones I did for GCSE. So for you, my very special f-list, and because I love you, I wrote a haiku:

Remus likes to watch
Sirius fly on his bike
It's very sexy

Are you astonished by my poetical genius? I thought so. I think there should be more Sirius and his giant flying motorbike fic. Remus would chastise him for doing something so dangerous but secretly he loves the way Sirius gets all covered in grease and sweaty in his leathers and flushed from the exhilaration of flying and doing something illegal. Plus, it's a legitimate way to get Sirius into leather! Do you think the penalty would be worse if he was caught flying an illicitly charmed muggle object whilst in his unregistered animagus form? Assuming Padfoot was able to balance on a flying bike of course. I bet he tried it.

*dons pimp hat* niannah has written a really lovely Sirius/Remus fic: Sorrow's End. It's set pre-Lie Low at Lupin's and post-PoA which I haven't read much of before. It's angsty yet hopeful too. <3

I'm going to see Serenity tomorrow! Yay! I've pretty much re-watched the whole lot of Firefly this weekend and I want to see the film now! I wonder if I'll notice whether anything has changed since I last saw it? Did I ever mention the Firefly fandom newsletter the_cortex? Well I have now! It's very useful.

ETA: And well done to Lost for those Emmys!

I've got tickets to see Serenity in Nottingham on the 20th of September!! Yay! How cool is that!

Another rec from me: I finally got around to reading prankstersguide. It's a (mostly) Marauder era collaboration with fics centered around a book the Marauders wrote called the Pranksters Guide. It's hilarious in some places and quite poignant in others. And one of the only places where I've seen Peter as Scabbers fic.

I finally got my mp3 player replaced yesterday and spent ages yesterday putting all the music back on. Hopefully this will last a bit longer than eight months... I'm a bit worried because as I said a few entries back, it seems like I'm not the only one that this has happened too. Bugger. I still love the little thing though and it keeps me entertained on the bus to work.

I think I may try and ride Oscar tomorrow. He's got some shoes back on, I've been giving him anti-inflammatory stuff and the ground is a bit softer now so hopefully he'll be ok. We'll see.

I've just looked back at my entries for the past month or so and none of them are much longer than a paragraph! I quite clearly suck at journalling. And I still don't have anything to say despite realising that. Ah well. I never seem to really say anything much about my personal life any more. Then again, I've never pretended that this journal was anything more than shallow fannish squee. I kept wanting to say something about the terrible devastation and tragedy that Hurricane Katrina left in its wake but I just didn't have the words. I can't understand how the rescue operations took so long and were such a mess but I'm very glad to see that the people are finally getting help.

I've just got in from work and my head feels like it's going to explode everywhere. But before that happens I must go and feed the horses and link to this freaky freaky video clip that's on Viral Video: River Tam, Session 416, Second Excerpt. Link nicked from casirafics. WTF?!

For some crazy reason I was convinced that this weeks Lost was the last episode of the season. Obviously it's not, so yay.

Link nicked from casirafics: The truth about River Tam (no spoilers of course). Ahahahaha - <3 Penny Arcade.

And just in case you were wondering (which I'm sure you were ;)), the brownies went down quite well at work as they were nice and non-burnt.

I know everyone's already said this but: OMFGSERENITYTRAILER!!!.

I can't wait for the con next weekend!