Smarter Than the Average Squirrel

 OK, I had better apologize in advance for this post, because I have been drinking wine out of my Autobot Pimp Cup for the past few hours, and this post may not make complete sense. But it's Saturday night and I'm bored on the internet, and I realized there were things that needed posting about that were not meme related, so. Yeah.

Point the First - Alpha fics, yatta! Oh my god, you guys, there was SO MUCH good stuff written for this fest this year, I can't even. I still need to go back through and kudos-review all the things. 

I wrote One of Their Own for thesecondbatgirl because we're ridiculous people. It's rare that I say this, given that my self-esteem is generally less than stellar, but I am actually proud of this fic. And hey, if I had to watch the same three episodes of Goseiger on repeat for the sake of writing it, it was still a worthwhile venture. 

I received TWO fics, woohoo!

First, Mistel Me What You're Thinking by Revieloutionne who...I don't THINK has a DW otherwise I'd be linking him right now? IDK. This is one of those wonderful situations in which I prompt the thing, I don't expect anyone will actually write the thing, someone DOES write the thing, and it's WAY BETTER THAN I EXPECTED IT TO BE. Seriously, I can't say enough good things about this fic. It has it all. Gia and Jake having an awesome bromance! Prank wars! Troy backstory! Troy having an angst! How often does a fic inspire both laughter and wibbling? I rec the FUCK out of this fic, it is AWESOME. 

And second, Something Fishy This Way Comes by queenriley , in which so many of my favorite things happen, let me count the ways. 1, Billy showing up in seasons where he ought not be. 2, there is FINALLY FIC ABOUT BOTH BILLY AND ANTONIO BEING AFRAID OF FISH, 3, he still makes Antonio eat sushi but he is SO MUCH NICER about it than Ji was in canon, 4, Billy totally knows what motivates Antonio and tells him to DO IT FOR JAYDEN. I am so happy this fic is a thing. 

And even though these were not fics for me, I'd be remiss if I didn't give a bonus rec to Private Lessons by tptigger , which is the Rocky and Justin friendship backstory I've always wanted but was too lazy to write myself, and The Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship by queenriley , which is far and away THE BEST social worker!Rocky fic I have ever read. 

I swear, this fest gets better every year. <3

Point the second, I have plane tickets now, so I am officially going to visit thesecondbatgirl for couchcon again! Huzzah! I can't wait for another extended weekend of hanging out with awesome fandom people, watching ridiculous amounts of toku, writing fic and making my liver hate me. <3 <3 <3

 How did I go an entire year on DW without my "marry a fish" icon?!

Anyhoot, rivulet027 requested that I write about why Billy is my favorite, and my headcanon pertaining to him. And by a wonderful bit of serendipity, it is also David Yost's birthday!

( This deserves celebrating! )And we're back on schedule! Tomorrow's post will be on color theory as requested by thesecondbatgirl . And Day 9's post will be on why Rocky is awesome and my headcanon pertaining to him, as requested by rivulet027 .

Happy Christmas Eve to all those on my flist who celebrate!

The past few days have been super awesome. thesecondbatgirl came to visit and occupied my couch all weekend, during which time we drank a bunch of wine, ate a bunch of junk food, hung out with all the rest of my favorite nerds, played D&D, engaged in an epic 5-hour marathon game of Cards Against Humanity, watched Carranger until it threatened to break our brains, managed to find ACTUALFAX SUPER MEGAFORCE TOYS on sale at the Toys R Us, exchanged gifts, and outlined what will ultimately become about 50,000 words worth of a very large and profoundly self-indulgent AU fanfic.

And it was good.

El Husbando and I exchanged gifts early, mainly because I got him a Nintendo 3DS and have reason to believe that his family will be getting him games for it. Since we're going to see them this afternoon, it would make very little sense to give him games without giving him the system for it first. So he's now happily puttering with his 3DS, while I happily putter with my own new toy.

You guys, Xyc got me a NEW LAPTOP for Christmas. BEST HUSBAND. BEST.

New Laptop, from which I am presently posting, is a shiny happy Asus with a huge keyboard that I'm still getting used to, and I've decided to name him Tensou. After I get all my files and whatnot transferred over, Pippin the Epileptic Laptop will take a well-earned retirement after nearly five years of faithful service.

Now if I could just get motivated to set down and write my Alpha fic, all would be right with the world.

So I did a marathon of Transformers Prime and watched all the episodes. This marathon officially elevated the show's status in my life from 'thing I watch sometimes' to 'thing I fan the hell out of'.

(While rec is not exactly the point of this post, I will sidebar to say that if you have any interest at all in giant sentient transforming robots, especially giant sentient transforming robots who have a lot of angst, and have not yet seen this show, you should see this show. It is STUPID GOOD. The cast is extraordinary. The animation is gorgeous. This show has won Emmys and totally deserves them. WATCH IT WATCH IT YAY.)

At the end of said marathon, I managed to find the first episode of the third and unfortunately final season, which premiered on Friday and which I missed due to being in the car en route to PAX. (Thank you, Hasbro, for not being a butt about copyright like you usually are and not having it taken down from Youtube yet.) Except now I'm sort of wishing I hadn't watched it, because that episode gave me the HUGEST SAD EVER. Holy shit, show. WHY ARE YOU SO GOOD, AND WHY ARE YOU SO MEAN TO YOUR CHARACTERS? This season is going to kill me with feels. Just thinking about it turns me into a wibbly mess and it's only going to get worse.

What am I going to do about this?
1) Watch the episode again because I am a masochist like that.
2) Find and read as much shippy fic as possible to ease my pain.
3) POSSIBLY WRITE FIC THAT ISN'T ABOUT POWER RANGERS WHUT.
4) Buy toys.

Robot fandom is like a boomerang, man. It may go away for awhile, but it always comes back. And hits you upside the head when it does.

It's been over 24 hours and two viewings, and I think I'm going to have to resign myself to the fact that a cogent reaction post to yesterday's Megaforce premiere is just not going to happen. I can't. There are way too many thoughts and all of them are interrupted by flail and squee to the point of no longer making sense. The headcanon machine has gone wild over Troy (Why is he dreaming of Rangers and just what is this adversity in his past that we keep getting allusions to?) and Gosei. (But at least I got the canon link with Zordon that I wanted. LET THERE BE FIC.) And I love the girls and will continue shipping them together with impunity until the show gives me something else to work with.

Everything was nostalgia and nothing hurt. <3