one more miracle

Drive by rec: Alone Together by buffyaddict_fic. Band of Brothers, gen, Tipper and Liebgott centric, 22,000 words. I was intrigued when I saw it on my flist, mostly because I LOVE Liebgott, and I was surprised to find an extremely well-written, moving, powerful portrait of two young men who build a connection only to have it snatched away by a mortar in Carentan. Tipper's point of view is delightful - essentially an original character, given he only has one scene in BoB, but I fell in love with him immediately. I especially adore his perspective on Joe's slightly manic nature. But as poignant as the first part is, the second part, where Lieb has to soldier on by himself, survive Bastogne and Landsberg... well. Let's just say it got me crying. There's only 2 parts (of 4) posted so far, but she has them written and they should be up in a couple days.

If you're a Band of Brothers fan, you want to read that. Just sayin'. :)

This story isn't helping my problem with being COMPLETELY HEAD OVER HEELS for Liebgott. He's vying for #1! Crazy, I know!

Minor disaster at work today - know that pretty pretty product I was talking about? Well I had about a third of it in a round bottom flask... and I dropped it on the bench. It shattered, pretty pretty product went all over dirty dirty bench :( Luckily a large portion of it actually landed on the label wrapped around the cable for the hotplate sitting there, so that part of it was easily collected back. I lost about 60 mg out of 100. It wasn't a huge tragedy, especially since I still have a large portion of the product in another vessel, but it gave me that nauseous feeling of being a complete fuck up and hating it. Anyone know the sensation? Heh. My stomach didn't settle down all afternoon, though I now realize that's also partially because I just started my period, LOVELY.

Thought for the day: There's something wrong with a country where people getting gunned down and knifed and what have you is status quo in the media, both fictional and non, but an accidental boob shot is cause for a national uproar and anything sexual beyond kissing calls for covering the kids' eyes. Objectively, violence is terrible and wrong and should never happen, while sex is beautiful and natural and necessary, but we seem to have turned that on its head. Sigh.

Just bought my ticket to Order of the Phoenix on Friday in IMAX! So excited!!! I watched my first full scene from the movie on Youtube last night, and it's Harry's reunion with Hermione and Ron after the summer, and it's lifted directly from the book and it's one of my favorite scenes and I'm practically SPLITTING with joy!!! Eeeee! This movie better make my life, because I'm not particularly looking forward to Half Blood Prince!

I have no idea what I want to do for dinner. Hrm. Anyway!

I'm currently watching SGA 3x07 Common Ground, in which Rodney is desperately worried about his boyfriend, Kolya makes me want to do dirty things to him, the whole team is fabulous and hardcore, and there's a Wraith with an actual personality. I forgot how much I liked this one!

McSheppers on my flist! Go read this ABSOLUTELY ADORABLE ficlet written for me by 1ightning - she's seen about one episode of SGA and she already has the boys' voices down! It's hilarious and fantastic and sweet and LOVE. (There's also two Wincest ficlets there that are also super sweet, if you feel like checking those out too :))

Whenever I finish reading a quiet, thoughtful, beautiful story about John and Rodney and how much they care about and need each other, I then feel the desire to watch some canon along those same veins, but then... there isn't any! Not really. I've worn out the end of Tao of Rodney in service of this desire, but even that's not the same. With the Winchesters, I can finish any kind of fic and have my choice of canon to match the mood. Gutwrenching declarations of love? Check! Intense expressions of "I need you like a limb"? Check check! Oh Winchesters. I can't wait for the angstfest that is going to be the rest of the season.

I'm exhausted. Farscape and McShep fic and orgo studying kept me up too late. Again. How predictable am I?

(Title of this post, and the fic that kept me up too late, is from aesc's gorgeous twoparter, "Late Feet" and "I'm a Stranger Here Myself", the beginning of which can be found here. There, now this post has a purpose!)

This is pretty awesome. I can't wait to see what shows up.



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ETA: Holy CRAP, people! One hour after I posted this and I've already got 62 locations logged! That's a visit a minute! INSANE O.O

Just watched Houses of the Holy with Michelle. Mmm. I love, I love very very much. (See shiny new icon! Yay. Made by applepie_icons)

Last night at the dining hall was Led Zeppelin night - it was AWESOME. They played like 5 songs in a row. Dazed and Confused! When the Levee Breaks! There may have been chair dancing :D

I have work in 2 hours. I don't wanna! *whine whine bitch bitch* I wanna read veronamay's assassin!Jsquared!fic! Which you should ALL go read, right NOW! On Your Mark *shoos you*

Ummmm this is a very random entry. Happy weekend, everybody!

Drive by fic rec: Never is a Promise (And I'll Never Need a Lie) by __tiana__. This is an absolutely gorgeous gapfiller for Playthings - Dean comes back later that night. She's struck the emotional tone perfectly, and it's just so bittersweet. All Dean and Sam really want/need is each other, but this thing is trying to tear them apart and all they can do is cling on to each other. Absolutely beautiful. Wincest, R.

Also, GIP! ♥