I may have come home a wee bit tired....

Just woke up.

I remember coming home some time around 10pm.

I remember checking the delivery of a cashmere sweater (ah, it's here, just waiting the mailbox -- oh hey, sarka, I got it).

I know I came downstairs thinking I should get some food (today I've had cookies, an apple, and some cheese, yes, that's all day), grabbed beer and almonds for now. Slumped onto the couch, clicked on a recording of Archer (which isn't as funny this season)...

... and blinked awake. At 3am. Some depressing Iranian movie was playing (a man yelled that the war hadn't benefited him, he had his tractor stolen, and didn't even qualify for insurance, then pathetically limped to the door and slammed it ... meanwhile a wife who was a former prostitute had to silently endure her husband marrying a second, younger wife ... wait, why was I staring at this? Iran sounds like a miserable place).

Whoa. Okay. May have been a weee bit tired. It was a long day.

Now, I must find something to eat. Maybe popcorn? Or a salad? Brie? Don't tell me I need real food. I know that.


ETA: Decision: brie. For ease and nutrition. :D And I was so tired, I forgot to kiss the kitties when I came home. (That's remedied and forgiven.)

ETA2: Wait, I remember now. I did eat.

When culture seeps into your fanfic unbidden....

Just got totally thrown from an SGA fic. I think the writer was Chinese, or maybe Japanese. I quite liked the character voices, and the premise sounded fun, but I've grown picky as I've gotten on in fandom years: little things bug me.

You know how it is. When you're new to a fandom, you'll READ IT ALL. So long as it has a trace of what you're looking for, you can suspend disbelief on just about anything. But as you continue in fandom, your tastes refine, you have certain interpretations you prefer, you're no longer so hungry for your favorite pairing that you're willing to overlook minor plot holes, and "darn it, John could never pull off that climbing maneuver because he wears a wrist band! How could the writer forget about the wrist band?!!!!"

Yeah. A shade picky.

The issue in the story I tried was very small, but crucial to the plot: characters went through performance reviews and got demoted.

( And here comes the pickiness.... )

... Rodney would become a ticking time bomb and lead the scientists' revenge against the IOA. Which still undermines the premise of the story. Which I would totally read.

Darn. I tried. This fandom old age pickiness, tsk.

Any recs? I'm really in the mood to visit SGA. I even wrote a John/Rodney kiss drabble, posted somewhere around here.... McShep post-Valentine's Treat (named by Gaffsie, and it works).


ETA: Friends-who-know peg this as totally Japanese.