soupytwist

Have any of you had the thing where you're trying to do something that Matters Desperately to you, only it's a really big thing so there's no actual chance of finishing any time soon, it's a matter of figuring out where you can pause, and you keep finding new things to do and also it affects other people but you don't know what you're doing?

And also the news is terrible and makes you want to cry?

That.

So I am going to talk about TV for five minutes!

( The Americans )

( The Good Wife )

( Mad Men )

( Deep Space Nine - um, trigger warnings )

People, I have SO MANY Mad Men feelings. SO MANY.

( some flail/thinkings on the last few episodes, with SPOILERS )

( thoughts on the upcoming finale )

Oh man, I have been Seeing Family and also playing with my new Sony Reader (which is beautiful! I am the most lucky) and eating ALL THE FOOD IN THE WORLD and I've barely even read any Yuletide and anyway that's why I've been off for, like, a week. *breathe*

But I got two BEAUTIFUL stories for Yuletide! OMG, people, when my name came up on the pinch-hitters list for the second year in a row I was half convinced I'd Broken Yuletide, but I hadn't. Instead, I got:

Invisible Steel, a Mad Men fic about Peggy and Joyce through their lives. Joyce and Peggy being fantastic and complicated and just, yay, ladies. *loves them*

Something Soft And Low, a story inspired by the Magnetic Fields song Drive On, Driver. You don't need to know the song to like the people and queer music culture postulated in this story, but it makes me very happy that the song now has a world.

I have also watched some Christmas telly, as is traditional.

( Psych )

( Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol )

But mooostly I went OMFG OMFG at the trailer for the new season of Who. I am seriously SO EXCITED about that, way more excited than I've been about Who in aaaages! I clapped, and laughed at the mental image of tellitslant falling off her chair at various bits. :D

I warn the world, this is pretty long. :P I have finished season four of Mad Men and may just possibly be in the mood to geek.

( Peggy )

( Betty )

( Don )

( Joan )

( Roger and everyone else )

I will probably think of other things too as soon as I've posted this, but yeah, I kind of love this show.

I have been busy having Actual Training this week! This is both good and slightly disconcerting, as it turns out that one person who will be doing training with me was in my year at primary school. Most o_O inducing!

Oh, and the other thing I have been doing, mostly, is watching more Mad Men. I'm...er... halfway through season 3. *hides* I may need an icon.

( Spoilery thoughts for up through to 3.08 )

I really want to watch more, because the March on Washington and the Kennedy assassination must be coming right up. Eeee, show! Though twitter just asked if Don was now a Russian spy, so apparently I have surprises coming up. *g* My predictions are:

( predictions )


Other random linkage:

This parody of science journalism - plus comments! is both hilarious and ow-inducing.

This is an art project showing immigrants as superheroes. A little on the nose, possibly, but I found it genuinely moving.