*whistles*

Don't mind me, writing my first RPF about pretty baseball boys (visual reference here; Tim's the one who looks like Loki). I'm just gonna put this here and walk away.

Grab hold of the soul where the memory lingers
by Sophia Jirafe/sophia_helix/sophiahelix

Fandom: San Francisco Giants RPS
Pairing: Buster Posey/Tim Lincecum
Rating: NC-17
Length: 4300

Summary: "Buster isn't sure when Tim became his problem, but he guesses it's true, and everyone knows it. "

Link to story on AO3.

( Lincecum is losing it. )

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...and felt profoundly meh about it? I mean, there were some funny moments and a few things I liked (::cough:: mostly Loki-related*), but my primary impression was "wow, that was a long movie." I won't go into my list of nitpicks becaus I don't want to squee-harsh, but it feels very odd to be so very far out of the fannish mainstream on this one.

*Though whaaaat is uuuup with them giving him Jaime Lannister's "there are no men like me?" line? I'm sure it was spontaneously generated by the writers but didn't anyone on the production know their fantasy literature canon?

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All right! Hello, DW and LJ people. It feels like a million years since I've posted, instead of just barely two weeks, but that's because I have been busy as fuck. I am commuting 2+ hours each way for work every day, which isn't totally awful because the train ride is really pretty, especially in the mornings when the sun is coming up, but since I'm gone from 5:30 in the morning until 7:30 at night, and I basically have enough time at home to eat, say hello to my people, veg out for a minute, maybe watch an episode of something, and sleep, updating long-form blogs has obviously not been my priority lately.

However...updating short-form blogs is totally a priority! Which is to say, yes, I've basically defected to Tumblr these days. It's incredibly inferior to DW/LJ as a fandom platform, is full of fandom newbies both extremely young and old, and has a hundred annoyances in its UI, but that's where the most active people are these days, that's where the fandom I tripped and fell into is (Sherlock), and also it's really really easy to quickly update with interesting pictures and I don't feel guilty doing short entries there like I always do on blogs.

So you should come find me! I'm sophiahelix over there. (If you hate Sherlock, I promise I tag carefully and also don't really post about it all that often.) And give me your name if you haven't already! Also if you are into Avengers, well, there is a big ol' Avengers fandom brewing up wildly on Tumblr, you should probably look into that.

(I have yet to see Avengers, due to exhaustion and all my weekends being taken up with laundry, real-life socialization, and the occasional pedicure. Soon!)

This week I am not doing srs bzns commuting, because spectralbovine has kindly let me camp out in his apartment while he's away for a few days, so at least through Wednesday I will get something approaching enough sleep. I am enjoying Bay Area commuting, actually, and I think I've finally been on the BART more times than on the London Tube, now, which until a few weeks ago I hadn't. (My family always drives in SF, because we are suburban.) It's been incredibly pretty in downtown San Francisco, but normally I am outside for less than five minutes a day because I'm in such a hurry to get my train home, so I'm enjoying the chance this week to be a little more present in the area.

The saddest thing about commuting is that I have a lot of time to kill.... which I murder mercilessly. I really do nothing useful, unless of course I've decided not to bring the wireless keyboard, in which case I am suddenly seized by The Muse and then I have to scribble horribly on a notepad. Normally, though, I just space out with my iPad or maybe a book, and then feel guilty for not calling my mom or updating DW/LJ or whatever. However, the contract project I'm on is so boring that it's hard for me to get any brainpower going after eight hours of it, so I'm mostly resigned to being a zombie commuter.

So that's my update, minus some stuff about TV that could probably wait for later. Now, off to raid Cow's bookshelves and wait for Castle to air, provided I can stay awake that late.

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Because the train is boring today and annoying tourists are making incorrect statements about local cities:

( The 'stories by hit count' meme )

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The "is it really terrible allergies or a cold?" game appears to have been resolved in favor of the latter. Climbing into bed at 9 pm with tissue and ice water and listening to all the episodes of Cabin Pressure. I was never much one for radio dramas because I can't stand not to multitask, but apparently the solution to my attention span problem is to have all my brains leak out my nose

(also Benedict Cumberbatch being hapless and pathetic, shh)

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For the "I volunteer!" favorite characters meme (comment with that and get a letter), I was given L by musesfool. I have also totally cheated on a couple of these, because it turns out I don't have a lot of favorite characters whose first names start with L.

1. Lily Aldrin: My husband and I are a pretty perfect combination of Lily and Marshall; while I have a few amusing superficial similarities to Marshall, personality-wise I am much more Lily. I love her for being a combination of tough, rude, but also girly, and I love her drunken crush on Robin and the fact that she's been with the same guy for like 15 years. Basically I identify with her a lot.

2. Luther, John: Augh, Luther, break my heart, why don't you? He's all brain and all heart at the same time, such a crusader for what's right and so lost morally sometimes. He can't ever make it easy on himself, even when he tries. He can flip from being an in-control BAMF to a really scary person so quickly, with quiet warm moments in between that let you see what he might have been like ten years ago before he was totally broken. (Basically Idris Elba wins everything.)

3. Lord Peter Wimsey: So reserved and classy, and so much fire and pain beneath! He's an entertaining society cariacature much of the time, British gentry to the core, except it's clear he acts that way because to feel and think as deeply as he does all the time would be too overwhelming. Also one of the few characters I can stand constant literary quotations from.

4. Liz Lemon: Even when she's at her most awful and over-the-top, I still love Liz Lemon. How could you not? I sympathize with the fact that she pretty much always wants to go home, get into bed with some good food, and watch some dumb TV.

5. Leia Organa: I love the romance and I love her warm, womanly side, but you know who is the best? Original Star Wars Leia. She's smart, cranky, in-charge, and just the boss of everyone and she knows it. Truly a heroine for the ages.

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Hmm, you guys wanna talk TV? Let's go.

( Games of Thrones S2 premiere )

( Mad Men, S5 so far )

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Here's another Tumblr meme that really goes better over here, in part because I wanted to answer all the questions. I cut some of them, though, because it was originally an art meme and some of the questions just don't make any sense for a writer.

( Writing stuff )

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Halving Infinity
by Sophia Jirafe/sophia_helix/sophiahelix

Fandom: Sherlock BBC
Pairing: John/Sherlock
Rating: NC-17
Length: 9800
Note: Third in a series; previous stories are here and here. The timeline on this series goes AU somewhere in S2 before the main events of "Scandal" occur.

Huge thanks to roane and emmadelosnardos for the insightful beta.

Summary: In which John goes on holiday, dances with a pretty girl, and resolves a certain situation with his flatmate.

Link to story on AO3.

( John needed a holiday. )

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