(Eee!  I made the semi-finals!)

Day 29 - Current TV show obsession.

Is there even a question about this one?  But since it gives me a chance to proselytize, I'm still gonna answer it!

Day 21 - Favorite ship.

HAHAHA like I can pick just one. Let's face it - shipping is important. Sometimes that brief hand-hold or peck on the cheek is all that saves an otherwise mediocre episode. You need to see characters grow and evolve over the years, and no better way to do that than to see relationships grow and evolve as well. And, you know, shallowly, sometimes you just want to see attractive people make out.

So I narrowed it down to the top five. I couldn't cut any more than that. In chronological order from when I shipped 'em.











Yeah that last couple made it on the list! Why else do you think I managed to watch the entirety of seasons three and four in eight days? (Okay, it was like 30% ship, 60% the show was just that good, and 10%...because...I have a crush on Bruce Boxleitner. I mean, come on!)

Day 20 - Favorite kiss.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer - 6x08 - "Tabula Rasa"

Buffy's been through a lot, including being brought back from the dead when she really didn't want to be. Alienated from her friends, feeling overburdened, she ends up turning to Spike as a kind of comrade-in-arms, confidante, and punching bag. Down in the dumps, he shows up to be there for her, but she wants none of it, and so he leaves. Or so we think...

Iconnnnns. Seriously though, I post these more for my own benefit and as a reference, and I know that none of you watch the show, so no big; feel free to skip, heh. Although number 11 is probably one of prettiest, if not the prettiest, icons I've ever made.

1. 2. 3.

4. 5. 6.

7. 8. 9.

10. 11. 12.

13. 14. 15.

May New Media.

Books
22. Nazi Germany and the Jews: Volume 1: The Years of Persecution 1933-1939, Saul Friedländer. 5-7.
23. How to Write a Movie in 21 Days, Viki King. 5-9.
24. First Year Latin, Charles Jenney. 5-12.
25. These Three Remain, Pamela Aiden. 5-20.
26. From Dead to Worse, Charlaine Harris. 5-22.
27. The Evil That Men Do, Stephen G. Michaud and Roy Hazelwood. 5-29.
28. Nazi Germany and the Jews: Volume 2: The Years of Extermination 1939-1945, Saul Friedländer. 5-31.

Movies
18. Julie and Julia (2009). 5-2.
19. An Education (2009). 5-7.
20. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). 5-14.
21. [Rec] (2007). 5-14.
22. The Vikings (1958). 5-15.
23. Shrek Forever After (2010). 5-25.
24. The Young Victoria (2009). 5-27.
25. Paranormal Activity (2007). 5-28.
26. Where the Wild Things Are (2009). 5-30.

Television Episodes
161. Fringe - 2x12 - “Johari Window.” 5-1.
162. Fringe - 2x12 - “What Lies Below.” 5-1.
163. Babylon 5 - 2x06 - “A Spider in the Web.” 5-2.
164. Babylon 5 - 2x07 - “Soul Mates.” 5-2.
165. Babylon 5 - 2x08 - “A Race Through Dark Places.” 5-3.
166. Fringe - 2x13 - “The Bishop Revival.” 5-3.
167. Glee - 1x17 - “Bad Reputation.” 5-4.
168. Fringe - 2x14 - “Jacksonville.” 5-4.
169. Fringe - 2x15 - “Peter.” 5-4.
170. Modern Family - 1x22- “Airport 2010.” 5-5.
171. Fringe - 2x16 - “Olivia. In the Lab. With the Revolver.” 5-5.
172. The Office - 6x22 - “The Cover-Up.” 5-6.
173. 30 Rock - 4x20 - “The Moms.” 5-6.
174. Fringe - 2x17 - “White Tulip.” 5-6.
175. Fringe - 2x18 - “The Man From the Other Side.” 5-7.
176. Fringe - 2x19 - “Brown Betty.” 5-7.
177. Supernatural - 2x03 - “Bloodlust.” 5-8.
178. Babylon 5 - 2x09 - “The Coming of Shadows.” 5-8.
179. Babylon 5 - 2x10 - “GROPOS.” 5-9.
180. Babylon 5 - 2x11 - “All Alone in the Night.” 5-9.
181. How I Met Your Mother - 5x01 - “Definitions.” 5-9.
182. Babylon 5 - 2x12 - “Acts of Sacrifice.” 5-10.
183. Fringe - 2x20 - “Northwest Passage.” 5-10.
184. Glee - 1x18 - “Laryngitis.” 5-11.
185. Deadwood - 3x01 - “Tell Your God to Ready for Blood.” 5-11.
186. Modern Family - 1x23 - “Hawaii.” 5-12.
187. How I Met Your Mother - 5x02 - “Double Date.” 5-12.
188. The Office - 6x23 - “The Chump.” 5-13.
189. 30 Rock - 4x21 - “Emmanuelle Goes to Dinosaur Land.” 5-13.
190. Babylon 5 - 2x13 - “Hunter, Prey.” 5-15.
191. Babylon 5 - 2x14 - “There All the Honor Lies.” 5-15.
192. Fringe - 2x21 - “Over There Part 1.” 5-16.
193. How I Met Your Mother - 5x03 - “Robin 101.” 5-16.
194. How I Met Your Mother - 5x04 - “The Sexless Innkeeper.” 5-17.
195. How I Met Your Mother - 5x05 - “Bagpipes.” 5-17.
196. Glee - 1x19 - “Dream On.” 5-18.
197. How I Met Your Mother - 5x06 - “The Rough Patch.” 5-18.
198. Modern Family - 1x24 - “Family Portrait.” 5-19.
199. How I Met Your Mother - 5x07 - “The Playbook.” 5-19.
200. The Office - 6x24 - “Whistleblower.” 5-20.
201. 30 Rock - 4x22 - “I Do Do.” 5-20.
202. How I Met Your Mother - 5x08 - “Slapsgiving 2: Revenge of the Slap.” 5-21.
203. How I Met Your Mother - 5x09 - “The Window.” 5-21.
204. Fringe - 2x22 - “Over There Part 2.” 5-22.
205. How I Met Your Mother - 5x10 - “Last Cigarette Ever.” 5-22.
206. Star Trek: The Next Generation - 5x24 - “The Next Phase.” 5-23.
207. Babylon 5 - 2x15 - “And Now For a Word.” 5-24.
208. Babylon 5 - 2x16 - “In the Shadow of Z’Ha’Dum.” 5-24.
209. Glee - 1x20 - “Theatricality.” 5-25.
210. How I Met Your Mother - 5x12 - “Girls Versus Suits.” 5-26.

So, I was reading a Fringe thread at TWOP, and someone posted a Babylon 5 spoiler right in the middle of a comment. Which, yeah, it's been off the air for ten years, okay. Still, that kind of thing usually has me bitching for days. In this case, however...see, I've kinda had a ship interest on B5. You know how mine usually go; something weird and unlikely to ever happen and if I'm lucky they're in the same scene together and maybe I'll get some dream/hallucination/spell thing at some point and that'll be it. I mean, hell, one of the characters is an alien. Turns out that my ship ends up being the main relationship of the whole show! Hot damn, you guys! I may have spent some time on YouTube watching shippy fanvids with this look on my face.

Day 13 - Favorite childhood show(s).



Okay, I kinda cheated; I made this favorite childhood shows instead of just show. There was no way I could pick just one, though; it was hard enough cutting it down to a top five, and leaving out shows like Get Smart and Sightings. I tried to keep myself to the years five through eight or so, and I think that the above list really does explain a lot.

When I used to come home from kindergarten, the essential dilemma that always confronted me was: would I watch The Addams Family, or The Super Mario Brothers Show? They were on at the same time, and most of the week TAF won, but on Fridays, TSMBS would have Legend of Zelda cartoons, and I ALWAYS watched those. (I actually found the entire Legend of Zelda cartoon collection a couple years ago and bought it and ran out of the store because obviously it couldn't be real, right? They couldn't actually have put THE BEST CARTOON EVER on DVD, right?) Sadly, when I think about it, Thundercats is the only show up there in which I wasn't invested in some ship (and that might just be me not remembering, and not that there wasn't one). Gomez and Morticia, Tony and Angela, Scrooge McDuck and his Lady Love Whose Name I Have Forgotten*, and yes, Link and Zelda. OMG, I remember watching the episode when Link turns invisible and Zelda gets worried and they end up kissing at the end, crouched on the floor about eight inches in front of the TV, FREAKING OUT, and guys, if I had had the ability/knowledge to tape things at the age of five, and had been able to tape that, and had been able to rewatch it whenever? IDEK.

*I still have a Duck Tales sticker book that includes a story of Scrooge and his Lady Love and it was kind of a big deal when I ended up finding the important relationship stickers. I remember my dad driving me to a couple different grocery stores and being so excited to come home and put them in the book and being so scared that I would somehow lose them between the store and the house. I am sometimes legit sad when I look at that book and see that I was only a handful of stickers shy of filling it completely in. I was so close!