Supernatural and Vampire Diaries amongst other things

Almost lunch time. Slept in, ate a nice breakfast of poached eggs, bacon, and gluten-free English Muffins (which actually taste and look like real English Muffins) - they are a multi-seed brown rice and flax concoction that I get from Food For Life, courtesy of my local health food store. Also watched my cheesy/soapy gothic serials - Vampire Diaries and Supernatural - which are both highly entertaining, sort of taking the place of Buffy and Angel (even if Buffy and Angel were better written and crafted shows - by better written, I mean riskier and more experimental with the format, as well as with far more layered characters and a lot better actors - and clever/sharper dialogue - few people write television dialogue better than Whedon. Plot-wise, the other two are admittedly tighter, but also a tad more predictable - that's the downside of a tight plot - it tends to be easier to predict, because let's face it there aren't that many ways the thing can go and if you figure out the pattern, the mythos, and the genre, plus the fact that it is a tv show and they want to keep going - you pretty much know where it's headed. This was true to an extent with Buffy and Angel too, actually.)

( Supernatural - spoilers for this week's episode )

( Vampire Diaries - spoilers for this weeks episode )

Off to make lunch and go to Doctor appointment at 2:30.

Shipper Meme

Okay, I'm going to try to do the Shipper Meme for associated fandoms, which I ganked off of londonkds of all people (he doesn't strike me as a shipper, but neither am I really - since I go by the story more than the pairings, if the pairings further the story and are interesting - it works for me, if they aren't, it doesn't). I find these memes difficult, because I'm such a dilettante when it comes to ships, also tend to be a canon shipper. If the story and writers convince me that the two characters are interesting together - I will ship them, if they don't, I won't. I do not care if they are good for each other or in real life would make each other happy - I care if they are interesting and integral to the plot and the character's emotional arc and if the relationship will tell me something new about them. In short - if the ship bores me, I won't ship it, if it interests me - I will. But even that isn't very clear-cut, because sometimes I like relationships that are comforting to me. Also depends on the show. Like I said - I'm inconsistent on this.

( Buffy )

( Angel )

( LOST )

( Farscape )

( Torchwood )

( BattleStar Galatica )

( Doctor Who )

( Vampire Diaries )

That's enough of that...off to make dinner. That was bloody hard. And I'm not even sure I'm willing to stick to some of the answers. That's the other thing, I'm moody - I have a tendency to change my mind on these things every day of the week. Tried to do Bab 5 - but the only pairing that interested me was G'Kar/Londo.

It's late and I'm overdue for dinner.

Egypt and Spammer Meme

Here's a link to a rather good post in the feminist community journal that I'm watching - by a thirty-something British artist living in Egypt and posting about the protests.

Go here for the post: http://community.livejournal.com/feminist/3255818.html (it's not really about feminism so much as about what is really happening over there from a non-media perspective or a perspective that hasn't been filtered through the media.

The meme below, I ganked from petzipellepingo:

( Random Memage )