I stood beneath an orange sky

Wow, it feels like forever since I've properly updated. In case you're wondering why, it's for the same reason as always - I tripped over a new fandom. In this case, it's Brothers and Sisters, and, yeah. It's an angsty family melodrama, which really isn't my usual type of show, and yet ... I don't know, it's strangely addictive.

And, okay, it has Justin/Rebecca, which is the real reason I started watching. Don't act like you're surprised.

Briefly, in non-fannish news, technology apparently hates me. First, my desktop computer totally died, and it took us forever to find out what the problem was. It turned out to be the video card, which kind of sucks, because J was looking forward to me (eventually) getting a new computer so he could snag my video card and get rid of his old crappy one. Luckily, I only really use that computer for gaming, and we've put his video card in my computer so I can still do that, but it's a temporary fix.

And then, because apparently I wasn't done, I was ... erm, maybe fiddling with some files on my laptop, and I managed to erase the entire contents of my iTunes. I still have all my music, luckily, but everything else - all my playlists, including my list of potential vid songs, some awesome fanmixes (from other people), and a couple of fanmixes in progress (mine) - is totally gone. Sigh. I figure as long as nothing blows up in the next couple of days, I'm probably safe from further meltdowns.

More happily, today I submitted my postgrad uni application. I'm not sure when I'll find out whether I got in - I applied for mid-year entry, which means there might be limited places available - but I'm nervous and really hopeful right now.

Fannishly: remixthedrabble is opening sign ups for its next round soon. I'm a huge fan of the challenge (and, okay, a co-mod), and it's a lot of fun; this round is going to be a drabble purist round, which means all remixes must be 100 words exactly. Which is a really awesome challenge, plus it means that, unlike other challenges, it's a relatively small time investment. So, go check out the community, and please think about signing up when the challenge goes live!

And Brothers and Sisters, because I am still capable of making TV reaction posts, I swear: ( spoilery for the latest episode )

I really might have to write that Kevin/Julia(/Scotty) thing. Except for the fact that I have a million fic obligations right now and absolutely no time. And two big bangs due in roughly a month or so, which ... I won't lie. If we can keep this just between us, dear flist and assorted lurkers, they are not nearly as far progressed as they should be. At all. So the next month is either going to be very busy, or suddenly free right up, depending on whether or not I think I can actually finish them. Like, I don't doubt that I could finish them, I'm just not particularly invested in either of them right now as much as I need to be in order to do that. I might have to put them on hold? But then I'd feel majorly guilty about signing up and not delivering.

Since I decided to write Brothers and Sisters for femgenficathon, though, that seems to be going swimmingly. At least something is.