prison for jerks

It is a hundred degrees outside. This is pretty horrifying, since people in the Pacific Northwest melt once it gets above 90. Blah blah blah the problem with having mild weather fifty-one weeks a year is the total inability to deal with the other week blah blah blah.

One room in my house has air conditioning and is shut off from the rest of the house like a cave. It is very pleasant to hole up in during this weather. Sadly, it is not the same room where the internet is available! I love you so much, lj, but not enough to leave the air conditioning more than a few times a day.

I think my next project for this summer should be trying to vid. Down side: vidding is really, really, really hard. Up side: ..........

No, I'm sure there's something. I keep coming back to it, so there has to be SOME reason, right? Right! Vidding woo.

I have sucessfully pimped my sister into Doctor Who, only to find the rental place doesn't carry any of the dvds. Between that and slow internet, I am being thwarted. Lame!

In conclusion, Ray Kowalski!

We all know you're soft cause we've all seen you dancing
We all know you're hard cause we all saw you drinking from noon
Until noon again
You're the boy with the filthy laugh

Belle & Sebastian is so far down on the list of bands I would ever expect to make me think of Ray, AND YET. Also, "filthy laugh" is a wonderful phrase.

Thatcher to Fraser at the end of "Asylum":

Thatcher: Fraser, I will expect your report to be on my desk by 0900 hours, and if your explanation isn't satisfactory, you can expect to be transferred to Baffin Island.

MAN. Talk about ill-chosen deterrents! Threats rejected before Thatcher settled on this one include "If it isn't satisfactory, I will be VERY POLITE TO STRANGERS!" and "If it isn't satisfactory I will GIVE YOU A GIANT PILE OF PEMMICAN!"

Today on the list of lots of random fic I want, I am thinking about V/F/K. The kind where it is still early and prickly and it doesn't quite work yet, really, and Vecchio and Kowalski are still kind of suspicious of each other but trying to make it work, and Fraser is Happy Because He Has His Two Rays and What Else Does He Need? I want the two of them to get Fraser drunk, in the happy tipsy giggly sort of way, with mussed hair and red cheeks. And then they will take care of him while he's all goofy and affectionate and there will be bonding when they recognize again that they both love him, because I am a sap. A bitchy, bitchy sap. Yes.

(Drunk Fraser threesome! Like in those adorable mood icons someone used to have! Was it cmshaw? laurakaye? I don't know, but the drunk icon on that set was a happy thing.)

I have two topics for discussion today, people.

FIRST. Okay, so what is your guys's opinion on Diefenbaker's diet in Chicago? Primarily kibble, you think? I'm not sure Fraser in either the apartment or consulate has the resources for a raw food diet. We also see Dief eating a lot of people food (which, even leaving the donuts and pizza aside for a moment, Fraser, why are you giving your wolf spaghetti? Honestly). He seems pretty healthy no matter what, though. Presumably there's a stricter regiment when Diefenbaker is in working mode as a sled dog, as well.

SECOND. Fraser is basically respectful of authority -- but the law trumps authority -- and justice trumps the law. This last part is SO INTERESTING to me, you guys, because throughout the series we get, like, dozens of examples of Fraser telling other people that the only way to get to justice is through the law -- but when it comes down to it, the places where they don't meet up is still a major struggle for Fraser. Like, I don't think he's a hypocrite at all, but there are definitely times when in order to do the right thing, he is circumventing the law.

Examples off the top of my head:

+ Refusing to take the baby to the authorities in Mountie, Cop and Baby
+ Not turning in Kowalski in Asylum or Vecchio in Dead Man Running
+ Sitting in the Riv while Vecchio is in the gym with Zuko in the Deal
+ I haven't seen the episode in a while, so I don't remember exact details, but he's definitely torn in some way when it comes to Mask

There are more, I'm sure. And that's not even counting the times when he is tempted to the edge and you see how he's restraining the "wild sort of justice" within himself, just like he tells RayK in Eclipse. With Gerrard, with the gun in the pilot and the boot in the chest and throwing knives in Bird in the Hand; with Muldoon in Call of the Wild.

And of course, one of the questions that comes up is the same question that comes up with pretty much any question of Fraser characterization, which is: how does Victoria fit into all of this? Picking the law above love, and love above the law, and it goes wrong every time. How does justice fit in there at all?

Oh, FRASER. You have such deeply held beliefs. That is reason number 874 why I love you. <3

Okay, so brooklinegirl's last entry is worth reading all the many many comments in their entirety, just because her friends are hilarious, and also OH GOD TURNBULL PLEASE NO MORE. But! There's also this thread in the comments, which I like to call "No, Really, Dirty. Diiiiiiiirty."

Basically, this is a game where everything Fraser has ever said or could potentially say is sekritly an innuendo or euphemism for something dirty. That is the entire concept, seriously. You would think the amusement value for this would be very, very short-lasting. YOU WOULD BE WRONG. SO VERY VERY WRONG.

In other news, fox1013 posted a variation on the Mary Sue meme which makes it, um, less impossible for me to do? Because I have no idea what fandom or characters I would interact with or what I would be like. But if you do, you should totally tell me! Give me a ficlet or just a sentence or two of my Mary Sue, and I will think you are the keenest thing since sliced bread.

Hello! It is time for your daily dose of Callum Keith Rennie photographs. I know, I know, you're sick of it, but sometimes you have to just take your medicine, you know?

None of these pictures are new, of course -- I'm sure I got all three from c_regalis, Queen of the Picspam, at some point.

( Can I have one? )

I feel like I should have intelligent commentary, but I totally don't. I just want more porn, you guys. I'm selfish. RAY KOWALSKI! Tell me how the first picture is taken by Fraser and what they did right afterwards, plz. CAAAAAAAAAALLUM. PLEASE LEAN AGAINST THINGS AS OFTEN AS YOU LIKE.

In conclusion, cock.

TANGENT ALERT.

From the comments on my last entry:

juleskicks: Erica, posting all these pictures of Callum bending over and from behind is NOT HELPING with my pegging kink. I'm just saying.

pearl_o: I THINK YOU WILL FIND THAT DEPENDS ON YOUR DEFINITION OF "HELPING."

\o/

(Also, there is a reason why the second story I ever posted in ds was totally RayK getting pegged, dude. Also, I think you will find the fandom has a very profound fondness for Callum getting fucked by girls as well.)

juleskicks: ...this may well be my new favorite fandom. \o/

You all know what this means, right? RIGHT? Come on, fandom, do not prove me a liar! I NOW DECLARE THIS THE OFFICIAL POST IN WHICH TO DISCUSS HOW CKR (AND/OR CHARACTERS PLAYED BY CKR) NEED A GOOD FUCKING FROM A GIRL WITH A STRAP-ON AS OFTEN AS NECESSARY.

Here, I will even give you discussion points to start with:

+ RayK: big whiney bottom for, well, EVERYONE?
+ Give us more pictures of Callum being bendy from the back!
+ Is he just so very queer that even the most heterosexual sex must be queered as well?
+ I really think Billy Tallent would be less fucked up if he got fucked more, y/n?
+ Combining genderfuck PLUS pegging, like in etben and shoemaster's Bend Over, Buddy: does the genderswap in addition to the pegging create a situation where the queerness is exponential, or is there a point of diminishing returns?
+ Callum is hot. Discuss. Extra credit for diagrams!

I am currently thinking thoughts about Molly Parker's sex toy collection, how about you?

So in addition to showing fox1013 "Burning Down the House" earlier today (verdict: she liked it a lot), I have also been showing her a lot of random due South related crap on youtube. There's not actually that much there, but some of the stuff is important! Like showing her Fraser and Dief being woobie like in the cell in Wild Bunch. And showing her the clip that explains exactly WHY three-quarters of the con was singing "Barrett's Privateers" during the vid show. (Not to mention why many of are wont to explain our behavior in terms of "...See, I've been drinking.")

Anyway, just now I had to show her the music video of "32 Down on the Robert Mackenzie", because juleskicks had been mentioning it as one of the singalong songs for when she and Fox kidnap me and Roz and take us on the roadtrip across North America. So it was important, you see! Plus, omg, how can you NOT want to be in a fandom that contains THIS DUDE?

( Paul Gross as Paul Gross the Rock Star )

I think you all know you have to make a decision right now. It's hard, but a choice but be made: Emoting!Paul Gross (EMOTE, PAUL, EMOTE!), or Purely, Unbelievably Doofy!Paul Gross (seriously, at that point in the video, he's just ... I don't even know)?

Somewhat tangentially, this reminds me of a conversation I was having with katallison last Saturday at the con. Because between brooklinegirl showing me "Voodoo" and the Elvis debacle, and strangecobwebs PG vid on Friday night, and the panel on Paul Gross and F/K and Franklin's hand, I came to a very important conclusion which is this:

I don't think it's true, exactly, that Paul Gross really does think he's a ROCK STAR, or that he's especially vain, or essentially full of himself. I think all of his seemingly self-aggrandizing moments actually come from the same place as his most painfully dorky ones, which is -- Dude has NO SENSE OF SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS WHATSOEVER. It's not that he thinks he's the most gorgeous guy alive and gets caught by his reflection in the mirror, but it *is* that he's been told he's gorgeous since he was, you know, born. If you have no sense of shame or self-consciousness, there is nothing in your head to keep you from throwing youself one hundred percent into every single thing you ever do! Most of us have SOMETHING that would keep us from plastering our names a hundred different places on Men With Brooms, or doing the Elvis debacle, or giving any of the thousand interviews or performances or statements he's done. But it's not that we're more modest than he is, I don't think. I think Paul Gross is just TOTALLY INCAPABLE OF FEELING EMBARRASSMENT.

(For extra credit, please compare and contrast with CKR in the comments!)

Edited to add: discussing fox1013's sole due South icon, which you can see in the first comment to this entry here:

pearl_o: You know, if Ray really was a Cylon, that would make so much more sense out of the entire undercover plotline.
pearl_o: Because ... then they would look the same.
fox1013: heeeeee
pearl_o: Plus, Cylons! Good at undercover.
fox1013: THERE ARE MANY COPIES.
pearl_o: *giggles*
pearl_o: DO THEY HAVE A PLAN?
fox1013: ...At this point? Honestly?
pearl_o: heeeeeeee.
fox1013: I think Cylon Ray's plan is, roughly, "frak Kara Thrace".
pearl_o: mmmm.
fox1013: The more detailed plan includes notations like "often", and occasionally which positions.

Here is what I have accomplished today:

+ I wrote a little bit! Yay!

+ I did all my linguistics reading for the next week! I am ahead of the game! Even if it is only the first week of term, that is still awesome. Yay!

+ I have watched lots of Doctor Who. mayatawi showed me a few episodes when I was in Boston, and then I came home and downloaded the entirety of the Ninth Doctor. I'm currently almost through with 1x07 (The Longest Game) and I expect I will probably be watching many more episodes tonight. While I am never going to be fannish about this, wow, is this show incredibly enjoyable! Time travel! Space travel! Aliens! Zombies! Fun fun fun. I am totally not surprised at how everybody on my friends list was shipping Nine/Rose, considering they don't seem to do anything at all except flirt. Also, I find Rose's accent very pleasing. Lots of glottal stops. Awesome.

+ Here is part of an email I just sent to justbreathe80 about Ray Vecchio and Stella having babies:

( I don't know )