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[bubosquared]

Heh,I've been poking at gmail for a week now, trying to make it display the chat thing, and I finally figured out why it's not. I have gmail set to UK English, and the chat only works for the US English version. *changes* (My gmail username is femgeek, in case anyone wants to come chat me up at work. :D)

And while I'm talking electronics, should I just switch back to pre-1.5 Firefox at home? It breaks the nice style=mine GreaseMonkey script, and it's apparently a memory hog, which, um, on my home computer? I can really, really tell. Sigh.

I know at least one people on my flist is going to have her head explode when she sees this, so: Katie Sackhoff from Battlestar Galactica and Nathan Fillion from Firefly to team up in Dracula movie. And speaking of BSG, your queen requires fanfic and an explanation of what is going on in this series. (Yes, I know, TWoP recaps. I shall hie myself hence posthaste, I promise.) I tried watching an ep this week, but I got kinda lost as to plot, so. Yes. Visual aids and stuff also welcome, BTW.

Oh, and hey, UK people, anyone else watch the first part of The Posseidon Adventure last night? I only vaguely watched it, because I saw this part when I was in Belgium over Christmas, but whee, Adam Baldwin! With guns! I'm easy, yes. Shut up.

[ETA] OMG, you guys, you must check out what <3 does in googlechat, it's fab! Also fab: IM LJ-ifier, which is going to save me a bunch of c&ping, let me tell you what.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go murder my co-workers. Survival of the quietest, you understand.[/ETA]

[ETA2] Being the giant nerd that I am, I've decided that I much prefer the gmail interface over the femgeeks webmail one, and also that I only want to have one of them open at the same time. So I set my femgeeks addy to forward to gmail, set gmail to fake sending from my femgeeks addy, and will hopefully remember to set up a pop account for my gmail, which will hopefully mean that I'll effectively be using my femgeeks addy through the gmail interface. Go me!

Also, if anyone wants gmail, if only for the chat? I have 100 invites. Yeah, you heard me. Feel free to pimp me out to people, too, for those.[/ETA2]

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[ruby-fruit.livejournal.com]

In season two even MORE crazy shit happens. The Boomer on Galactica gets shot and dies, the Boomer on Caprica gets shot and lives. Helo is sweet, but will never beat anyone at chess. Galactica's sad, drunk, old whipped dog of a second in command becomes first in command because Adama's been shot and is nearly dead. He fucks things up magnificently. Starbuck goes back to Caprica to get a mystical thingy for the Prez - and after getting beat up by Six, meeting some sports stars, and captured by a hideously disturbing Cylon maternity squad she returns with the mystical thingy and the bonus cargo of Helo, Boomer, and baby makes four.

Six (the Cylon in scientist Baltar's head) tells him that Boomer's baby is actually theirs. Jacob has named this 'Crazy Six math', which, yes. It's still not clear who's side Baltar is on and this is a concern, since he's the vice president now.

When they get CapricaBoomer back to Galactica they stick her in a cell and only let her out on the end of a metal pole leash like dog catchers use - even after she saves all their asses from a Cylon virus. The leash thing is just as disturbing as it sounds.

The guy GalacticaBoomer was dating before she died tries to kill Helo with a monkey wrench, but changes his mind and builds a stealth fighter from scratch instead. Helo is surprisingly cool about this because he loves everyone.

Then they meet that second Battlestar I mentioned and a whole lot of deeply disturbing things happen that no power on Earth will make me spoil. In the end Starbuck gets promoted, but stops loving Adama a little more (she's his surrogate daughter) and the fleet gets a shiny new Battlestar. And the show gets a Six who is not just in Baltar's head. Also, they blow up the ship that when Cylon's die, just transfers their consciousness into a new body. This is a very good thing.

And then Adama kisses Roslin and everyone explodes with glee and the sheer sweetness of the moment. Or maybe that's just me.

But next time, Roslin - who's been getting sicker and sicker - starts to die for real and everyone freaks out because she is awesome and we love her. A needle full of blood from Boomer's baby - which she tried to abort - cures her.

Since then we've only had boring and nonsensical backstory on Apollo (Adama's son, Starbuck's mirror), interesting and compelling character arcing on Starbuck, and the tragic death of the President's aide.

I've probably missed a metric ton of stuff, but, um. Read the recaps, woman. :)

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

*head spins* Right, recaps it is, then! And hey, where's the porn, dammit? :P

[ruby-fruit.livejournal.com]

Hee. Dude, that's not even half of it. This show is awesomeness tightly packed.

I don't actually have any desire to read fic for this show! I'm thinking of getting my brain examined.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

*feels your forehead* Are you ill?

[ruby-fruit.livejournal.com]

*worried look* I think I may be!

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

You poor thing! Here, let metuck you into bed and call Dr Tam for you. :D

[ruby-fruit.livejournal.com]

Yay! I mean. *cough* *pathetic look of sickness and woe*

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

*snicker* Shameless. :P (Ooh, bunny forming ...)

[ruby-fruit.livejournal.com]

Oh, look who's talking. :P

(Ooo, share?)

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

(Jayne, determined to get laid already, pretending to be ill so Simon'll have to come down to his bunk ...)

[ruby-fruit.livejournal.com]

Heee! Oh, he would be so bad at faking it.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

(He so would! All fake-coughing and trying to look miserable. Aw.)

[ruby-fruit.livejournal.com]

And! He would try and do that fool the thermometer trick but end up with a reading that said he was on fire, or dead for several hours.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Ahahah! Yes! And Simon'd be all amused, "Jayne I'm afraid I have bad news." "... What?" "You're dead."

[ruby-fruit.livejournal.com]

Ha! And Jayne would be all stunned and "...huh?"

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Heee! "Jayne, according to this thermometer, your blood should be boiling in your arteries."

[ruby-fruit.livejournal.com]

And then Jayne would totally give it away, all "Gorram! Am I really sick, then?". Hee.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

And Simon would totally invent some sort of exotic and fatal disease that Jayne supposedly has, desribing it in lurid detail and everything.

[stellated.livejournal.com]

Here are a few good recs, for starters, and you can sort of click around from those to find more by the same authors. Intra, the last one recced there, is particularly good.

There was an archive here, but it appears to have been deleted in the past couple of days (!) and finding anything halfway decent there involved wading through a lot of crap, so. Looks like some of it's still accessible on the Intarweb Archive, though, if you're desperate.

And um. Yay porn! I love this show, so let me know if you come across anything else particularly good.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I find I have an easier time getting into fandoms if I read some good fanfic first, so this will help. :D