[maybe I will make those unicorn poop cookies I saw posted somewhere]

[tellitslant]

I was out with a friend the other night and talking about how I have decided that 2012 is the year of awesome and happy and puppies with sunshine and all things, and he asked whether 2011 had been that bad. And, no, 2011 was pretty good, actually (though that doesn't mean 2012 can't be better!), except for the fact that I wish I had gotten more work done on my DPhil. Well, I was thinking about that this morning (because I have a meeting tomorrow with my supervisor to go over what I've done while he was gone - which is Not Enough), and while I didn't do a hell of a lot on that project, since August I have developed and/or started three different side/future projects: the Paul Gross one, the comics one, and the Sanctuary one. So I feel a little better about my productivity. :P

In other news: I am probably never learning to vid. And if I do, it won't be until after I finish my DPhil. And if I did learn, I wouldn't start with a vid for a pairing I don't really ship, in a fairly small fandom, to a piano ballad from the 70s that's in a language that most of the fandom probably doesn't speak. But, all that aside - is this not the perfect Helen Magnus/John Druitt song? (The English subs are fairly accurate, if a bit... shall we say clinical? But you get the idea.)

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[sophia_gratia]

You know my feelings on the academic stuff.

But. This song. So. It's creepy as hell. Which makes it not creepy enough by half for The Creepiest Pairing. (Things that scare me about fandom: people would think that a Helen/John vid to this song was like sweet and romantic in an unproblematic fashion.) You know that I say this as someone who has some affection for the Tragic Doomedness of Helen and John.

Also I spent the entire video wondering if this woman's hair was designed to cover Romulan/Vulcan forehead and ear characteristics. Ahem.

[tellitslant]

Academia /o\

Okay, but, come on: Is je t'aime avec ma peau not the most delightfully awful declaration of love to a serial killer known for practically flaying some of his victims? Also, I can't help what fandom-at-large would thing of things. I can only make dark and twisted fanworks that reflect the awfulness of fandom's own desires back at them. And sometimes porn. That too.

[jae]

You've been very productive work-wise! Just not on the thing that will get you your degree. (I feel your pain on that, by the way--I was the same way in my last year.)

-J