Lurker Central

I am appalled --- appalled! --- that there is no Romo/Lee community. This is a huge shock coming from Heroes and Doctor Who fandom, both of which have fic comms for pairings that never met in canon. I'd heard tell that BSG fic was fairly scarce, especially the slash, and man, you all weren't kidding. I thought the most recent episode (not to mention the end of last season) would have spawned some fic.

It almost makes me want to start up a community for them, until I remember I know nothing about community maintenance and even less about graphic design. And yet I'm still tempted! I love those two that much. I'd call it...I don't know. Lawyers in Space, maybe.

Incidentally, online reaction to Sine Qua Non has only driven home to me that I'm watching the "Flawed Humans are Awesome...and Also, There are Some Robots" version of BSG (in addition to The Adama and Roslin Hour and, obviously, Lawyers in Space, among others), because while I understand why those of my flist watching the Cylon Show had problems with the episode it really worked for me on every level. Avoiding spoilers, I tend to watch BSG much more for the human (presumed and actual) characters than the Cylons, and episodes that deal with their connections to each other and how they try to rebuild their society affect me much more than the larger Cylon arc. This often results in me squeeing over episodes dealing with politics and union battles, then going online and finding that the episode got a resounding "meh" from fandom at large.:) Not that I'm not engaged by the toasters, mind you; I just like the humans more.

Oh, and a word of warning: on Cute Overload there is a video of a kitten so cute it actually broke my computer, resulting in my writing this on a borrowed laptop. Sure, maybe it's more likely that the problem actually stems from lappy's chronic overheating issues and that it shutting itself down immediately after viewing said video was mere coincidence, but I say...yeah, you're probably right.:) It is, however, a much better story if I say that my computer's in the shop because it died from kyoot, so that's what I'm sticking with.

Sigh.

So Discworld fans, we know how there's a Death of all kinds of things, right? People, rats, etc.?

I am the Death of small electronic devices.

Which is a roundabout way of saying that I've killed yet another MP3 player.:( My poor little Zen deserved better at my hands; it never gave me moment's trouble and if anyone out there is in the market for an MP3 player and doesn't want to deal with iTunes, I can't say enough nice things about the Zen Microphoto. Just don't, say, drop it on a hard floor like klutzy me and you'll be fine. Sigh.

I should have a replacement in hand by Friday, but it's going to be a sad, quiet few days. I miss my tiny music machine.

On the bright side, someone at mature_heroes must have sensed my pain, because the current challenge is inspiring lots of "Claude molests Peter in public" fics, which always brightens up my day.:)