OH MY GOD. Doctor Who/My Little Pony mashups! Not fanfic -- action figures: [link]

My Little Jack Harkness is PURE AWESOME.

cilantro garlic greek yogurt

What is this wonderful-sounding concoction?

I can't believe I don't slash them. I think something's wrong with me.

I would ordinarily agree, but if you don't see it, I worry about you.

Danno doesn't interact enough with Chin Ho for that to be worthwhile, but it would be visually appealling.

OK, I don't slash at all, but that idea of that ship is very very pretty indeed! (Signed, a biiiig DDK fan.)

Because I love you -- Danny/Chin

DH leaves tomorrow morning for a week away, so we are ordering in our favorite Thai food as a going-away dinner. Leftovers should last me a couple of days, so it's also a moar laziness dinner for me!

What is this wonderful-sounding concoction?

I use plain greek yogurt, minced garlic, and chopped cilantro if I have it fresh, although dried works as well. You can add a bit of lemon juice. It is an extremely simplified version of stuff like tzatziki and raita, I guess?

Erin, how did the meeting with HR go? Smoothly I hope?

Me, Erin? I can't remember which HR. The phone call for the Shmoop consult job went great.

The meeting with the school HR awhile ago was impersonal; basically, they just told me I'd gone two days over my PTO and would get those days deducted from my pay. Nothing else. They couldn't have cared less about anything else.

Whatevs, I'm fine with it. I can't see that I'll take any days off between now and then end of summer, unless I break a leg or have some serious illness and if that happens, they can fuck themselves. I'll work till the end of summer, do my best for my students -- after these novels and research papers are done this week and piles of papers graded over SB, I'm focusing on fun, easy to grade creative writing and reading, my seniors will have only two and a half weeks left anyway -- and then I can focus on freelancing.

Woo motherfucking hoo! I made two good contacts last night actually, at the show, so I am feeling more and more confident and excited about the freelancing thing. Things are percolating and bubbling and solidifying and it's great!

The TV show with the strongest online fandom is no real surprise.

What surprises me is how highly Castle ranks. I mean, I really enjoy the show, and I've read a bit of fic for it (like Shrift's), but it doesn't take up a lot of electrons in my online haunts.

Where are all these frenzied Castle fans? Where are they generating all this fanfiction and whatnot?

This morning, I went running, and then climbing, and then had a big brunch, and walked for at least two miles all over the Marina. I'm exhausted. I really just want to go to bed, but I have all sorts of tv built up on my Tivo...

I am always suspicious of fanfic/fandom surveys anyway.

Where are all these frenzied Castle fans?

I know they're very active on TWOP. Nathan Fillion is ridiculously popular, and he has a lot of Browncoats watching the show. And we know what that means. His twitter is very popular.

I am always suspicious of fanfic/fandom surveys anyway.

They didn't ask me, so how valid can it be?

I am always suspicious of fanfic/fandom surveys anyway.

Yeah, me too. They always end up unbalanced by someone drumming up interest in "their" corner of fandom. There really isn't a way to get a true full-spectrum look at fandom, because it's in so many places, many of them password-protected.