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[sunshine_queen]

I hate that I've become one of those people who doesn't really use LJ anymore. This isn't to say I'm not all over my flist like I'm being paid, it's just that nothing actually happens in my life. Legit. I mean, this is what is going on right now:

- Flailing about 17th Precinct: Can't stop, won't stop. TODAY TRICIA TWEETED A PICTURE OF HER AND CALLIS AND BAMBER. I CAN'T EVEN DEAL.

- I'm watching The West Wing. I love it.

- I recently found out that CJ/Toby wasn't something I was making up in my head, and this DELIGHTED ME.

- I have nicknames for everyone on the show (natch) but as a unit they are called the court of Justice. Nicknames as follows:
Leo: The Duke of Justice.
Sam: The Dauphin of Justice.
Josh: The Earl of Justice.
CJ: The Countess of Justice
Toby: The Viceroy of Justice
Charlie: The Knight of Justice.

I'd say that Bartlet is the King of Justice, but I already call him the President, so I think he's good.

- In real life news: I'm trying to get stuff together in order to try to get a gig substituting at the Catholic school a few blocks from my house because this whole not working thing is boring as hell. I hate it. I need money, dammit.

- The only thing in my life that I am really excited about is September 2011. First D*C, then Monica's wedding.

So... that's about it.

Comments

[wondygal.livejournal.com]

yay, I'm super excited to see those guys on 17th Precinct! My only qualms are, a)does that mean no more Bamber on L&O:UK? I guess so, and b) couldn't they have named her anything other than Morgana? I already have two shows with Morganas!

[sunshine-queen.livejournal.com]

I hope no more Bamber on L&O:UK if only because I want him to be on this show FOREVER AND EVER AND EVER AMEN.

I'm not wild about the name Morgana in general, but you're right- there are a lot of Morganas around! A lot of magical Morganas. Tricia wins though.

[dollsome.livejournal.com]

What's the other Morgana?? (Besides Merlin, I am assuming.)

Ye gods, I love Morganas!

[wondygal.livejournal.com]

Yes, Morgana from Merlin, and Morgan from Camelot, who I call Morgana in my head. So clearly it counts.

[nazkey.livejournal.com]

*waves* OMG, I'm so excited too!!! I saw the pics Tricia posted today and got completely distracted and then of course, there's all the Jamie YUMMEH on JBN. *sigh*

You know, it would be totally awesome if we actually got paid to just hang out with our FList and fangirl all day. *double sigh*

Also, TWW? *HIGH FIVES* BEST SHOW EVER!!!!

I quote it all the time. Today's favorite: "I wanna mock people" Hee.

[sunshine-queen.livejournal.com]

You know, it would be totally awesome if we actually got paid to just hang out with our FList and fangirl all day. *double sigh*

Dude, this would be my dream job, let's not even play.

TWW IS AMAZING. I actually quoted the "I wanna mock people" on my twitter the other day when I saw that episode because I was totally delighted with it.

[seariderfalcon]

I was just discussing with someone else on my flist how we've never been this excited for something in pre/just barely in-production. NBC better pick this one up.

THE WEST WING! I love how much of my flist seems to have independently started watching/rewatching around the same time I fell in love with it. I have more people to flail at over it and don't feel so late to the party! :D

[sunshine-queen.livejournal.com]

Dude, I don't know what I'll do if NBC doesn't pick this show up. Cry, probably.

RIGHT? I'm delighted with how many people are watching at the same time as me, because I feel like I'm not annoying everyone with my flail. It's so good!

Also: I LOVE YOUR ICON!!!!

[seariderfalcon]

I'll be quite devastated if they don't. YOU CAN'T TEASE US WITH THIS MUCH AWESOME AND THEN NOT GIVE IT TO US. YOU GOT THAT, NBC?

YES! I seriously expected to be my own little fandom of one, with everyone else patting my head all "Aren't you just adorable with your squee. Oh btw, 1999 called. It wants its show back now." I'm so glad I'm getting to share the experience with others because this show absolutely DELIGHTS me in so many ways! I don't want to keep it to myself!

Hee! CJ is my klutzy queen! ♥

[coffeesuperhero.livejournal.com]

THERE IS ALWAYS TIME FOR TWW. ALWAYS. :D :D :D

[yahtzee63.livejournal.com]

Will I get to see you on Saturday?

[sunshine-queen.livejournal.com]

YES, with bells on!. I was actually going to message you to see if you had time to get coffee or something while you're here!

[nicole-anell.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD, I JUST REALIZED WE CAN CONTINUE SAYING "TRICIA IS MAGIC" AND IT'LL BE 100% ACCURATE NOW, INSTEAD OF METAPHORICAL AND JUST A LITTLE ACCURATE.

SQUEE.

[sunshine-queen.livejournal.com]

I HADN'T THOUGHT ABOUT IT, BECAUSE I HAD NEVER DOUBTED THE LEGITIMACY OF OUR CLAIM BEFORE, BUT YOU ARE COMPLETELY CORRECT.

[coffeesuperhero.livejournal.com]

Dude, NBC kept The Cape for nine episodes: it should pick up 17th Precinct and see what it can do! And I say this as a person who enjoyed The Cape, and not just for Richard Schiff's ADORABLE FACE.

[sunshine-queen.livejournal.com]

NBC should pick this up, and then have it for many years, many years of happiness and good magic!

SECRET OFFICE CODENAME: VICEROY OF JUSTICE

[dollsome.livejournal.com]

I AM REALLY EXCITED FOR THE G6 AND LELAND MAGIC SHOW. Just, what a marvelous idea! I feel like it's something we would make up as a giddy joke, but real.

[dollsome.livejournal.com]

p.s. I am happy you updated, I miss you. ♥

[sunshine-queen.livejournal.com]

I'm kind of terrified it's going to turn out to be a really elaborate hoax because it sounds like it shouldn't be real precisely for the reason you mentioned: it sounds like it's something we made up as a joke when we were spazzing about how Tricia and Callis should only work with one another and actually she's magic and btw Lee is fun too. WHAT IS THIS JOY. HOW IS THIS REAL. WHAT IS AIR.

[juliet-demarcus.livejournal.com]

I'm so excited about 17th Precinct! I've been following all the tweets and such about it too. I can't wait! :)

Best of luck with getting the substituting gig!

[sunshine-queen.livejournal.com]

SO EXCITED. SO EXCITED!!!!!!!!

Thank you!

scattered semi-delightful drabbles

[nicole-anell.livejournal.com]

So maybe there's a story in this?? But probably not yet! But here's what I wrote for you. And it's because you once prompted me with "Caprica, Gaius, Ellen, and Tigh having joint custody of Liam" or something. :DDD

(((TOTALLY UN-BETA'D DELIGHTFUL CHAPTERS)))

1

Her child was born almost unnervingly healthy and was the smallest living thing she'd touched yet. The doctor called him "strong" and she impossibly thought, yes. This would become a pattern for all of them: projecting anything worthwhile in themselves onto him. He did look like Saul to her, with his newborn wrinkles and confused expressions, as much as something that small could look like anyone. His name was Liam and he was the first child born on Earth, though people were subtly relieved when a human child followed two weeks later. Saul borrowed and held him while she rested, not exactly sleeping but stretching out on the cot and replaying his bizarrely alive new features in her mind. Hours may have passed because she next heard Ellen say, "Saul? I think Caprica would like to hold him again," in a gently amused voice. She'd spent much of this time laying her hand on Gaius instead, because she knew he could not shake the feeling of being awkward in the room, but every moment he didn't flee for the door was a smaller and smaller miracle, until it seemed not only possible but likely he would stay.

*******

2

Liam spends every second weekend with his daddy and Ellen in their house, except for once he asked why it's not every first weekend and how you tell the difference, and Gaius picked him up from the floor and said "He's a genius, honestly" and then spent a seriously long time explaining the relative time paradox to him, which was confusing, but he likes to hear Gaius talk in his funny voice and he likes being up off the floor and carried over by the cows. Sometimes the cows scare him but that's why Gaius holds him far away and he's an astronaut. He sees daddy and Ellen almost every day anyway, sometimes they even come over in the morning before he wakes up, but it's only the weekend he sleeps over in their house. Their house is a blue tent.

*******

3

It was Gaius who was most obsessed with getting him to speak, primarily getting him to say the word "Gaius." Proud as he was of his own vocabulary, he felt sure this was the most crucial development skill for a baby, followed by walking-very-quickly and morality -- the three were essentially in that order. He remembered Hera had taken a disturbing amount of time to form anything resembling words and sentences, and sought to do better with his second non-biological child. In no time Liam was calling Caprica a name which sounded like "umma" more than anything, and this was very encouraging. Mostly it pained him to not understand the amount of crying Liam did, even if it stopped moments later; Gaius thought this would help him attach names to his feelings, and give them all a much better sense of what Gaius could fix for him (general anxiety, occasional diaper), or when he could just go back to sleep.

"Enough I trust that shifty motherfrakker around my son to begin with," Saul would say.

"It's what Caprica wants," Ellen smiled magnanimously. Her hair would look quite glossy and Cylon-goddess-like when she did. "And we agreed. It takes a village, Saul. You can't just keep him on a leash until he's eighteen,"

"I'll trust him less with Baltar when he's eighteen," Saul grumbled back. "And with whatever's left of that frakkin' cult around." Saul seemed to be going out of his way to fill the swear jar Ellen had made to keep their profanity in check. They eventually relabeled it "college fund."

The fact these conversations would sometimes happen directly in front of Baltar made him all the more committed to his language project. "Gaius," he would say, exaggerating his mouth, woefully unprepared for the flood that would come when Liam finally settled on "Dai-ya" as his name. This achievement came with a gift for telling Gaius stories about his baby life that were both incoherent and very, very long, leaving Gaius both agonized and prouder than he'd ever been in his life.

THE LESS DELIGHTFUL CHAPTER

[nicole-anell.livejournal.com]

4

Liam shows the picture to his mother of their house and how many trees it's made of, it's made of wood like some of the fences, and he draws her and him and Gaius inside it. He draws Daddy and Ellen when they come over, and he draws some other people in red and yellow colors with no faces.

"It's the people who came to our house," he tells his mother, but she doesn't understand, so he says, "The ones with the big matches." He'd drawn them and everything. Mama holds him so hard it hurts a little in his shoulder, she didn't want him to remember that, but he remembers it even more now because she did it that night also. She was holding him too hard and he felt like everything was shaking but only them, and then they went outside and he was crying "Umma" because that's what he called her then, and because he was scared to go outside but she wasn't of anything. There was blood and blood and later she said it was because they let some of the animals out, they only ran away and didn't die, but he knew they did because he's honestly a genius; and he knew Gaius was blood and hurt too and that's why she was holding Liam so hard with her one hand and going toward them, and Liam didn't care it hurt, he hung his arms even harder around her and God kept him from falling.

And then she said "Leave" in a voice Liam never heard before, he could feel it coming from her inside but he was shutting his eyes. She said, "Leave him or I'll tear your head off with my hands. Do you want to see if I can?" And now it is now and he drew it in a picture, and she is kissing him a hundred times. She asks if he remembers what else happened, that other people came and helped them fix everything, and they sent those people to special jail, and he says "Yes" even though he really doesn't remember, he only remembers her and the scary voice. But he believes they are in special jail and maybe dead, and he draws a picture about how they are all Cylons except Gaius and Daddy who sometimes forgets he is, and nothing hurts them.

[amaliak.livejournal.com]

Here's a reason to use LJ again...I'm giving you an icon made by me.


Congrats.
:D
cheers.
--Lex

[sunshine-queen.livejournal.com]

Aw, thank you, Lex! You're too sweet to think of me. ♥ ♥ ♥