what may or may not be hard reality

I've spent pretty much all of my allocated fangirling hours (except for when the new pictures of Christina surfaced - gosh she's pretty!!) in the last few days on these two very pretty women, Angie Harmon and Linda Kozlowski (the former mainly due to Sharon Bowers's Night and Days series, which is one of the best fanfics I've ever read, and I re-read it a few times every year - there's no direct link, scroll down to L&O). And I kinda wanna ship them, but it's bloody hard. If anyone can come up with, you know, any plausible crossover ship, any way that any characters they've ever played could possible have run into each other, that'd be really awesome. (And it's not that I mind RPFS-ing them, but it kinda feels like giving up... characters are more fun!)




And in the meantime, I grabbed this meme from sakuracorr:

Ask me a fandom, and I will tell you:
+ OTP
+ Runner-up
+ Honorable mention(s)
+ Crack pairing(s)
+ Ship everyone else seems to like, but I don't

Title: Jurisdictional Dispute
Author: Fallon Ash
Rating: PG
Fandoms Crossed: Nikki&Nora/Women's Murder Club
Pairings/Characters: Nora Delaney, Nikki Beaumont, Lindsay Boxer
Seasons/Spoilers: None
Word Count: 345
Warnings/Disclaimers: They're not mine, I'm just borrowing.
Promt: Nora/Lindsay - jurisdictional dispute
Summary: Silly stuff.
Author's Notes: Anyone who recognizes the reference to another fictional lesbian detective gets a cookie!
Written for the cross_my_heart International Day of Femslash Ficathon. Thanks to sakuracorr and green_iguana for beta.

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( Jurisdictional Dispute )

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I've been meaning to blog for a while now. But really, life is mostly work, which is interesting and satisfying, but not something that makes me wanna blog (and also that non-disclosure agreement I signed), and as for TV, at the moment, the hour I most look forward to is Men in Trees, which just started up here again. Which saddens me a bit. Not hugely, or anything, I'm very fond of Men in Trees (for reasons I haven't quite untangled yet, but I'm sure they're there), but in these days of new L Word episodes that I've waited almost a year for, 30 Rock, We're Getting Nowhere recapping what I thought would be my favourite show and all the other awesome AfterEllen vlogs, Ellen's writers being back from the strike, Women's Murder Club, and Cashmere Mafia there is something sad about my favourite show being about a straight city girl relationship coach stuck in the woods with a bunch of very quirky characters.

Now, 30 Rock has an excuse. I only have a few episodes left of my 1st season DVD set, and I know once I've watched those I'll have to wait until fall for season 2 to appear. So I'm trying to back off it a little, because I enjoy the feeling of having episodes yet to watch.

As for Ellen, well, the obsession is going on a year and a half now, and is starting to mellow out a little. I adore her, and Portia, and the show is funny, but when you've seen a few hundred of them they're starting to seem pretty darn alike. These days I mostly just tape them and wait for the forum to tell me what parts I should watch (because there's too much going on to find the time every day to watch an entire show).

Women's Murder Club and Cashmere Mafia have failed to hold my interest. No big surprise there. Women's Murder Club is straighter than Men in Trees, which is really sad because the first is a crime drama/comedy/whatever and the second is mostly a relationship comedy. Cashmere Mafia started out relatively well, but it got to where storyline after storyline got unwatchable, until I was fastforwarding more than I was watching, and the only reason I watched was because Miranda Otto and Bonnie Somerville are gorgeous, and then I might just as well look at pictures.

The runner-up for biggest disappointment is The L Word. It doesn't take home the big prize because it really has only followed its usual pattern. I look forward to it so, and then I really enjoy the first 3 episodes or so, and then it starts going downhill. This season I'm really into TiBette, of course, but I get so sad when I think about how much it will hurt Jodi, and Alice freaks me out these day, and I hate hate hate Jenny, and Cybill who? And Helena's not even around these days. MAJOR suckage about Helena. Again, I just save the episodes, and then wait for scribegrrrl to recap so I can go watch the scenes I think I'll like.

The major disappointment totally has to be the We're Getting Nowhere recaps of The L Word. I was looking forward to this something fierce, which is of course why it's so disappointing to find I don't enjoy it as much as I thought I would. And it's not that I don't love Karman, Jill, and Dara, I do! It's just that I don't agree with them. They love the scenes I hated and fastforwarded through, and they don't care about my favourite characters, and they roll their eyes at the stuff I adore. They're still brilliant as ever, but when they were recapping South of Nowhere and Top Model I had never watched either of these shows so what they were saying didn't matter to me, I could just enjoy them being hilarious. Now when they're doing The L Word I get all riled up and sad that they don't talk about the stuff I cared about in the episodes, and then I roll my eyes and shiver in pain when they go on and on about how much they loved a scene that I absolutely hated. *weepies*

So Men in Trees it is. Anne Heche is pretty, and adorable, and quirky, and a lot of fun. Suleka Mathews is *gorgeous*. Sarah Strange is quirky and cute. Scenery is pretty, too. And the show is easy on the eyes, and easy on the mind, doesn't deal much in angst or embarrassment, and is a perfectly harmless funny little show. Why isn't next week here yet?

(Also, if they went and signed that Arrested Development movie deal, that would totally make my day.)

My teeth have moved over night. Like, actually moved. I woke up this morning, and my upper and lower jaw teeth were no longer aligned, and I can't bite down properly. It's terribly disturbing. Doesn't hurt, or anything, it just doesn't fit at all. When I bite down my teeth touch in two places, the very front (where the upper front teeth feel like they're too far back, and therefore the lower front teeth doesn't fit behind them), and the third molar on the right on, just two of the tips brushing, where I'm pretty sure they didn't use to. Yesterday I could grind my teeth, if I felt the urge. I kinda wanna blame the fact that I flossed last night, something I'm really terrible at and usually forget, but last night I did, and now my teeth have moved. Suggestions, anyone? I hate having to go to the dentist, it's expensive, and they never do anything anyway.

Quote of the Day:
Lindsay: "[Bla bla bla murder]"
FBI dude: "You sound like you're reading from a phone book."
Lindsay: "You want an interpretive dance?"
~Lindsay Boxer - Women's Murder Club - 1x10 - FBI Guy

Bwahaha!! (partly at the title of the episode, partly at the quote.)

Other than that, the latest episode mostly made me sad.

( Teeny tiny spoilers... )

Then I read Tammy Lynn Etheridge's post about the rules of nature, and got even sadder. She has a way with words, that one.

However, then I saw the Best. L Word. Picture. Ever. It's from the party on Sunday, and it's the Best. Ever. Srsly.
( Click here to see it. Really. Click! )
And then head over to Queerty (where I found this one!), AfterEllen, or DorothySurrenders to see some more!

There's a ton of stuff I wanna write about that I haven't had time for in the last few weeks. I'll work my way back.

Women's Murder Club - no spoilers:
I finally got around to seeing the first two episodes today, and I mostly kinda liked it. I mean, Angie Harmon is gorgeous. (Why don't I have an Angie Harmon icon?) I've loved her since I first laid eyes on her back in the Baywatch Nights days (which I should totally re-watch some time, for old times sake). And I gotta say, if the new pilot is as awful and terrible compared to the original as Sarah & Lori says, the original pilot must have been one hell of an awesome show. It makes me sad, though, because all the things they're upset about, are all the things I'm always rolling my eyes at in just about every single crime show, and according to Sarah & Lori, the original didn't have a lot of those things.

I'll probably continue watching it (for a while at least), because it's all about women, and it's got Angie Harmon, who's really really hot. However, after I'd watched the two first episodes I started looking for fic, and I had absolutely no idea which one was which. I had to head over to IMDb and check out what Angie's character's name was (Lindsay? Really? Not that there's anything wrong with it, it's just... so... child starlet junkie-ish). But at least Lindsay rang a bell, but the names Jill and Claire and Cindy meant absolutely nothing to me. So obviously the show must be doing something wrong.

My ship-of-choice would be Lindsay/Claire, of course, because omg, the other two are just children! There are NO such fics, sadly. However, people seem to be into Lindsay/Claire for whatever reason. And sure, I'll read it, but rather Lindsay/Jill (if I can't have Claire), and there's some of that around too. (Not much of anything yet, though.)

At least Angie's not doing what Kim Delaney on Army Wives did, which was drive me straight back into the comforting arms of NYPD Blue fic. Lindsay's so different from Abbie Carmichael that while I will surely be re-reading all my favourite Law & Order fics many times yet to come, it won't be because of this show. It might make me watch Baywatch Nights again, though.

And I need icons. Definitely.

eta: Oh, also? Lindsay Boxer's San Francisco is not the same as Kate Martinelli's San Francisco in my head, which is freaking me out.