Insta!rec - Radar, Kirk/Spock vid by bionic. I have been WAITING for someone to do Radar. *mists*

Remember how back in the day I was pretty religious with talkoncorners2? I started a new delicious account a bit ago in the hopes of getting back onto the reccing bicycle. So...yeah, I have a few TOR recs up there if anyone needs 'em, but this will be multi-fannish.

And thing the THIRD - only twenty of you would participate in a Star Trek Harlequin Challenge?! If we're going to DO THIS, we're going to DO IT RIGHT. (Well played, alita_b_angel, well played.) At least a lot of you would gawk at it.

So. Hilariously. I was in bed reading a Harlequin (because when one needs to shut one's brain OFF, there's truly nothing better than something in a Greek tycoon family) and I could not stop thinking about a Star Trek Harlequin Challenge.

Poll #1426709
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

If Madelyn organized a Star Trek Harlequin Challenge, would you play?

'cause this kind of thing is not fun without lots and lots of people. *firm*

Does anyone need today's Torchwood? Hypothetically speaking, I might be able to assist. Send an e-mail to svmadelyn@yahoo.com. :) ETA: ahaha, that'll teach me to post so soon. FYI, my upload is going a bit slower than normal, but I'll answer your emails as soon as it...lets me.

MEANWHILE, check out the preview list of upcoming stories and art for the boxofmagic, Merlin Big Bang Challenge! \o/

( More Kings, only, you know, tonight's. )

HOSHIT THIS IS GOING DOWN. WHY IS IT NOT NEXT WEEK.

How did you all stay so silent about how terrifyingly awesome last week's Kings was? I saved it until tonight so I could have like, a two-parter.

Kings.

( OMG. )

In summation: BRING ON MOAR TONIGHT.

I totally hate the feeling that I'm missing wank in my literal backyard. One of the owners in my building put up a notice for people to sign up for times that a meeting of the condo association would work for them. As I do not own my unit, I ignored the notice until today, when at the top with STARS around it, my neighbor that I share a wall with wrote: VOTE _____ FOR PRESIDENT. AS I AM NOT CRAZY!!!!! (with multiple exclamation points, yes.)

Which implies that the current condo association president *is* crazy.

...or that my neighbor wants to reiterate that he, is in fact, not, lending him dubious credibility.

The thing is, I have never seen my neighbor in anything but a bathrobe. He looks *exactly* like Brent Spiner playing the eccentric doctor in Independence Day - gray hair, ready to be hella killed by aliens. He chain smokes like there's no tomorrow, and totally is at one with the mary jane to the point where *I* get brownie cravings at one a.m. and get to blame them on him. He blares his television - and he seems to be a big fan of political speeches, so there's nothing like incessant Barack Obama or JFK at two a.m. on Saturday nights. (And yes, this is the same guy that blares his country music and sings along, though that seems to have subsided in recent months.)

I would like a SILENT VOTE AGAINST THIS PLEASE. I wonder who the heck the current condo association president is. I VOTE BLINDLY FOR WHOEVER THEY ARE. MAINTAIN THE STATUS QUO. MAINTAIIIIIIN.

Hmm. Today was going to be a day of lounging and fannish admin activities, but I have been wanting to see The Hangover forever, and decisions are HARD.

*mulls deeply*

I can't even believe I survived this day, seriously. I cannot even believe some of the people I had to deal with today survived this day, as they failed at their jobs. I've never been a big passive-aggressive type at work - people know when I'm displeased with them - but today at around noon, I just said fuck it all, and it's really hard to like, throw down with people when you know you're going to need them to do you favors in the future, and are generally not this inept.

*sinks to the ground* This three day weekend may be the only thing that helps me maintain sanity. Bring on Mr. Depp and Mr. Bale shooting at things, pls.

I am too tired to even read fanfic.

Last call! Anyone else in for 4th of July shenanigans in Chicago? We were thinking a viewing of Public Enemies beforehand, then dinner, then some FIREWORKS would not be amiss.

In other news, I just checked out a few books on how hard pregnancy is for men (one being: The Dudes' Guide to Pregnancy: Dealing with Your Expecting Wife, Coming Baby, and the END OF LIFE AS YOU KNEW IT - It Takes Balls", and other being "How to Make a Pregnant Woman Happy"), and I'm finishing my Mohinder/Sylar mpreg if it kills me. This is going to end in such wretched tragedy, I can see it now. *GAMEFACE*

KINGS NIGHT TONIGHT.

Alas, I will be at Transformers with talitha78 and thehoyden (and we are all way too anticipatory/happy that this movie is getting such wretch reviews), but I know how we can sometimes manage to forget that it is Kings Night.

I shall, of course, download as soon as I see a link, 'cause HOMG ( Last week's ep )

Ahahaha! So I'm prepping Big Bang summaries for artists, and I'm checking through them as I go along and there is the BEST SUMMARY EVER in one of them (I'm not gonna say whose; lest anyone think I am a biased mod. *eg*) BUT OH MAN THIS STORY LOOKS AWESOME, hence the literal clap I made when I read it.

♥ boxofmagic

Anyone out there stupid enough (as I am) to want to go to the 4th of July fireworks next weekend? (They are on the 3rd, Friday night.) There will crowds to brave and CTA to cry at and heat to die from, but FOURTH OF JULY. We could have shenanigans? Comment or e-mail offstagelines AT gmail.com?

I totally have an OTP that will never go away, never fade with time.

Madelyn + Air Conditioner.

*flicks lighter in general direction of air conditioner*

In other news, boxofmagic submissions have been coming in! MOST EXCELLENT.

So, I went to buy shoes. I have never paid more than 40.00 for a pair of shoes (I know, some of you are staring hard; they're just not my thing!), but I did today.(Fine, 49.)

Not because I was in love with the shoes, mind you. But because they were, out of the hundreds of pairs of shoes in the store, the only ones that were somewhat comfy and looked fine for work. It was very depressing. I could conceivably go to other shoe stores, but that would require effort and things. So afterwards, I meandered around for a new place to try for dinner, and there was this creepy guy all in my face asking me what time it was, even though he was pointing to his watch, so I said a time that was clearly very wrong and glared at him a lot for being in my space, and ducked into this little hole in the wall diner place. So I asked the girl what I should order and she suggested the Philly Cheese Steak, so I figured hey, if I'm going to go down in a dubious looking diner, I might as well go down in style, and went with it.

And it was *delicious.* I would thank the freaky exuding weird vibes guy if he weren't...freaky and exuding weird vibes.

In the meantime, I have a card for cliche_bingo! ...this is a strangely hard card for me, as very few of my hardcore cliche favorites are on here. This is why it is a CHALLENGE, yo. Somewhere, rheanna27 is laughing, as she blames me for getting her into this.

This is your helpful heads-up that it is KINGS NIGHT. (For some reason, I still forget, mostly because television shouldn't be on Saturday nights.)

ARE YOU READY FOR OUR PRINCE TO START "GIVING BACK" TO MR. SHEPARD.

*GLEE* Sometimes whining *does* work. A couple weeks ago, I posted, wondering who might take on the noble cliche version of the kink bingo challenge. And lo, rheanna27, like all good challenge mods do, said: I'm only writing one SGA Big Bang story! There is TOTALLY enough time to run a challenge too!

And thus, cliche_bingo was born. She'll post the list she's working off of after work if you want to wait to sign up, but I totally rubber stamp those prompts a LOT.

GO FORTH. (Especially all you Kirk/Spock GQMFs omg.)

Today freaking sucks. And if things continue this...potentially amazing spiral, wow, is the rest of this week gonna be...something.

People should link me to the most awesome/terrible, but awesome thing they've seen on the internet in the last month. (I won't make you pick "ever", because it could cause an aneurysm or something. And I'm sorry, but I don't think anyone's going to top Hooked on a Feeling for me.) It can be anything! A youtube! A comment that you happened upon that made you choke! A story! A picture! It can be funny; it can be interesting, it just has to be awesome.

I will totally pick a best of show. *coax?*

5 Minutes Into Kings, and my only thought is:

( Spoilers )

To possibly be updated if there is gay. Etc.

Space Olympics - vid by taleya - okay, why do The Lonely Island songs work SO WELL fannishly? I'm going to try not to question it.

ST Trading Cards - At first I was lame and thought this person photoshopped all those cards and was like, aww. Okay, well, some of them are funny! Good on them! But no, that's what someone made up and used on the real cards back in the 60s. It helps to read the header text sometimes. *gleeful laughter*

Also, hang in there till the end for a discussion of Spock's frozen beverage.

Today, I'm trying out this thing where I'm not almost late to work due to reading Trek fic. This has worked, mostly due to my computer restarting and all my tabs from last night being gone. I shall have to take a look at my settings when I get home, but for now, I'll take it as the universe saying: JUST LEAVE, YOU TOOL.

Last call for ribs and Mr. Potter! thehoyden pointed out that these two things go together nicely, so I think we're doing both this Saturday. You can join for one or both.

Ribsfest Chicago - ribs! Okay, there's music and other stuff, but, you know. RIBS. NOM.

Harry Potter exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry!

Feel free to comment or email svmadelyn@yahoo.com if you wanna make some plans. :D