Fractured Thoughts

Hi all, I have returned from the black hole I have been living in for the last... well let's just say it's been awhile since I've posted.

I've been busy reading through supernatural fic and inception fic and buying (and watching) lots of films with Joseph Gordon Levitt or Tom Hardy in to fuel my obsession. I have also been enjoying netflix's arrival to this side of the Atlantic (it is a large part of the reason I am now the owner of a new TV and an internet blu-ray player), rewatching Numb3rs and Avatar the last Airbender and have rather a long list of series I've been meaning to watch that I can now legally stream in HD and in order .

Mostly though I have disappeared into the world of swagbucks and superpoints, which pay me in amazon vouchers or paypal for messing around on the internet (and thus pay for the blu-ray, TV, and JGL and TH films) and are depressingly addictive. I'm not going to put a whole post up about them (at least not yet) because I'm still debating whether that's OK in a mainly fandom blog but the links above are referral links if anyone wants to join and feel free to ask about them if you're interested, they are US sites but also work for UK (like me), Canada and I think Australian users.

In other news I finally got round to buying (what was supposed to be) a legitimate copy of Hikaru No Go (I'm gradually trying to make sure I have boxsets for everything).... Not entirely convinced whether the boxset I had imported is real or not the disks and box looks real but the chapters on the DVD are put together really badly and the subtitles are terrible.

I know people often say fansubs are better than the official one's (and they often are) but these - in some places it is like someone put the script into babel fish and then put that up on the screen. Seriously they really are that bad, it's not just that it doesn't match what they are saying it's actually not really English (and bizarrely they change the characters names in the subtitles, for some unknown reason Hikaru becomes Kanazi, why???????). I only know what's going on at all because I understand a little Japanese and remember the story.

Hey all,

Have just realised it has been a horrendous length of time since I looked at LJ/DW. I'm still around, just haven't been on LJ/DW for awhile. I've been sucked into the black hole that is supernatural fanfiction. I am on a mission to read it all... But unlike my other fandoms this one seems to be... a little big. I don't think I'll be able to catch up on 6 years worth of fanfic.

This is strange to me, I've read just about everything there is to read (in English) in the highlander fandom, probably twice at least (or anything ever recced and still available online), at one point I'd read all the highlights of the gundam wing fandom (I'm now totally out of date, I rarely read anything new just catch up with updates of a few favourites), made fairly significant dents into Charmed, Magnificent 7, Hikaru No Go and Prince of Tennis and in the last few months just about all of the recced stuff in the Leverage or Loser fandoms. Supernatural though appears to be a never ending supply. Am unsure whether this should please me or not, on the one hand will probably never run out of new stuff to read, on the other think of all the fic I will miss.

Anyway I'm sure you can see now why I haven't got round to checking my flists. New leaf, I shall try to be a better flister and keep up with peoples posts.  And I really, really must start writing fic things again, I have lots of snippet type ideas i should probably commit to screen.

Feel like I have disappeared into a cave for the last week or so. It's a cave called Supernatural with some guys called Sam and Dean in it.
Years and years ago... (logic dictates probably 6 judging by current season number) I was really into the season, then midway through Season 2 I got sidetracked and I just didn't watch the next. I kept meaning to but never got round to it.... Then there were fanfics drawing me in and I found the Season 1-5 boxset for a (relative) bargain. So started again right from the beginning.

So now a week later.... Just started season 4. Give me another week or so and I'll be up to date :0). Am really enjoying it, despite already knowing the plot highlights (yes that's what happen when you read the fanfic when you're not up to date).

Anyway so that has been my life for the last week. Though strangely although I have plotbunnies, they are all Doctor Who plotbunnies.... I'm definitely shipping River/Eleven which will make the third het pairing that actually hands me plotbunnies. (Really must do something with the Hardison/Parker bunnies that are running around too).