Just a little bit weird.

[hackthis_archive]

a) oxoniensis has discovered the love that is Grey's Anatomy. I know you all want to go and share the George!love with her. Read Fuck the Details, which totally wins for best title award.

b) prairiedawn wins The OMG!Gary<33333 Award for linking me to this Snow Patrol gig in Vancouver, and uh, Tahmoh Penikett just wins for being dead hot and making me want to do nothing but write Helo porn.

c) ISO the following songs: Bobby Brown 'Don’t Be Cruel'; Stardust 'Music Sounds Better with You', Franz Ferdinand 'Take Me Out'; Modest Mouse 'Ocean Breathes Salty Water;' Beck 'New Pollution'; Blondie 'Call Me'; ETA: The Beatles 'Get Back'

d) I'm working on discrediting myself with Battlestar Galactica and everything I said about a) not seeing slash on the show and b) not needing to write for it, because it's so complete on its own. I mean, yeah, I was all what slash, and now my brain is all, think about the Helo/Lee pretty and hello, how angsty is the Chief/Helo? Sadly, one cannot have the Chief/Helo without addressing the Sharon Factor, and I'm not a Sharon fan. And yet, I just keep thinking I could actually make the Helo/Lee work.

Imagine if you thought your boyfriend was dead, and then your dead brother's fiancée (who you'd been in love with prior to your boyfriend) showed up. And then, you lost her again, only to have her come back with your dead boyfriend, who had impregnated the person who'd tried to kill your father. You'd be a really unhappy person, wouldn't you? Yeah, Lee should get laid.

Comments

[supergrover24.livejournal.com]

Here's the Franz Ferdinand. (I also have an acoustic version of that if you're interested.) http://s39.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=159PQW27YQ8143OY1NRCIKUW6M

I think I have the Modest Mouse around here somewhere as well...

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Thank you, sweetie!

[supergrover24.livejournal.com]

Aha! I knew I had it somewhere.

Modest Mouse: http://s46.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0W8Y1N61YU23U1VPA15MI78X00

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[dopplegl.livejournal.com]

ISO? I have two of those songs. Does that mean you want them?

*loses at acronyms*

ISO = In search of.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

LOL. Yes, if you have them to share.

Re: ISO = In search of.

[dopplegl.livejournal.com]

Modest Mouse - Ocean Breathes Salty (http://s49.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0O5B4N46TBWLA3US3FAWVTVS7A).

Any other Modes Mouse? I have pretty much all of their stuff.

Re: ISO = In search of.

[dopplegl.livejournal.com]

And I have no idea why there is hella blank space there. *eyes it warily*

Re: ISO = In search of.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Is there something in that blank space I should know about young man? How many times have I told you about fraternising with blank spaces?! You don't know what they could mean, or where they've been. Wash your hands at once!

And, you know, thank you ;)

[mellafe.livejournal.com]

GEORGE!!!!! <3

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

I know!

[fivil.livejournal.com]

They're airing BSG in Finland soon & I'm pretty excited, and even though it's a bit sad, I'm really happy it's another fandom you're writing that I can get into. Also, from all I've heard, it's just a really good show in general. Yay!

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

It's very very very good. I recommended it pretty much everyone I know. It's just incredibly intelligent and well-done. I only watch like three hours of TV a week at any given time (along with Grey's Anatomy & Entourage when it's one), and I make a point of never missing this show.

[serialkarma.livejournal.com]

Imagine if you thought your boyfriend was dead, and then your brother's fiancée (who you'd been in love with prior to your boyfriend) showed up. And then, you lost her again, only to have her come back with your dead boyfriend, who had impregnated the person who'd tried to kill your father. You'd be a really unhappy person, wouldn't you? Yeah, Lee should get laid.

Huh. You know, at that point I'm thinking Lee should just be all, "Oh, fuck ALL OF YOU" and go find Dee. Seriously.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

You know, at that point I'm thinking Lee should just be all, "Oh, fuck ALL OF YOU" and go find Dee. Seriously.

Yeah, she's only got a boyfriend, that's no real obstacle. And you know my feelings on *that* pairing anyway. <333333

[lazulus]

Turns out Call Me is yet another one I only have on vinyl! However, I do have The New Pollution on MP3! Go me. ;)

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Yay, lazlet! I would boo the vinyl, but one cannot boo vinyl.

[lazulus]

Indeed, one cannot boo vinyl!

I live in hope that one day:

a) I shall be rich enough to replace all my favourite vinyl lps with cds
b) some of my favourite vinyl lps will actually be available on cd

;)

[delicate-sass.livejournal.com]

Blondie - Call Me (http://s44.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=36OEXL2JSWULJ06TP29DEYJO52)

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Yay! Thank you :)

[romancandles.livejournal.com]

blondie - call me (http://s22.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0MDR9K5G4XFS535PEC9ZH52ZVL)

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[literaryll.livejournal.com]

Get Back (http://s13.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2DWGVOUM0LLH20SNFBQ81TV3N7) The Music Sounds Better With You (http://s13.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0H29VN1JL7GG003JP94INWQB7W)

:)

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Yay, Ash!

[oxoniensis.livejournal.com]

Imagine if you thought your boyfriend was dead, and then your dead brother's fiancée (who you'd been in love with prior to your boyfriend) showed up. And then, you lost her again, only to have her come back with your dead boyfriend, who had impregnated the person who'd tried to kill your father. You'd be a really unhappy person, wouldn't you? Yeah, Lee should get laid.

Poor Lee! I shouldn't laugh, but dude, that's some fucked up life! And I had to read it twice to work it all out!

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

What's really killer is that's totally how the show's gone. Except for the boyfriend part.

[phaballa.livejournal.com]

I have only seen one episode of Battlestar, but I can definitely see the slash. My friend Jacob does the recaps for TWOP and he keeps insisting I watch it and that I will love it, etc. The episode I saw was good, but the overall goodness was detracted from by people trying to explain the premise of the show to me while the show was on.

Which one is Lee, and which is Helo? The whole thing is so confusing. And the androids who aren't really androids and look like people and um... yeah.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

The man in my icon is Karl "Helo" Agathon. He is a big man. 6'3. He's got gorgeous eyes, arms that would make you need to have a lie down, and he's very manly without actually trying to be so. He's also incredibly dedicated and loyal. I don't believe he's know for his brain power, but the loyalty tends to make up for that. Plus, he is the only man I can think of that I would sedate my independence for. He's the man I would call to kill bugs, fix things, and put me in a sexual coma.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

The man in this icon is Lee. We love Lee, because you've never seen anyone try as hard to be good and just get disappointed time and again. Everything I said about Lee being in love with his dead brother's fiancee is true (see the girl, her name is Kara. I love Kara. She is the ONLY female character I have come across in the last five years that I truly admire and relate to. She's as stubborn as a mule and twice as pig-headed. The difference is that she's got the goods to go with the mouthiness). Right, back to Lee. Lee is the CAG (Commander of the AirGroup), which is like the Head Boy of all the pilots. He takes his very seriously. Sometimes a little too seriously. He needs to get laid, a lot. Except that he's in love with Kara, and she's in love with him, but the whole dead brother things makes it difficult. And he has issues with his father, who is the Commander of the Galactica. Lee could use a therapist, or six, instead he boxes with his father. Oh, Freud would plotz.

[phaballa.livejournal.com]

Now, are these the two guys in prison on that crazy woman's ship? Or is that someone else? The whole experience was very confusing. I really need to see them from the beginning but Limewire has been failing me for 2 weeks straight on this front.

I think (knowing nothing about it, of course) that Lee needs to get over Kara and drown his sorrows with Helo. Yesss, that sounds like the perfect plan. Then Kara can, um, rule the universe and be happily unattached and like, um, clone the dead brother or something.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

No, Lee isn't trapped in prison. The crazy woman just demoted him. The person that Helo is trapped with with Galen "Chief" Tyrol (see icon). Tyrol is the Cheif of Deck on the Galactica, that means he's charge of keeping all the planes in the air. Think of him as the Head Mechanic. Tyrol is loved by, well, everyone. There is not one person I know who doesn't love him, when he walks on set, everyone hollers, "Cheif!" Really. You could take a poll and people would admit to this. The reason that everyone loves the Chief is that he's just that right mix of loyalty and intelligence and manliness that every woman craves. He's got more brain than Helo and less analness than Lee. Tyrol is The Boyfriend, except that the woman that Tyrol used to be in love who (Sharon) turned out to be one of the machines (A Cylon). She shot Lee's father and was then killed by one of Tyrol's underlings out of misguided loyalty. Wait, it gets better. Cylons only have twelve models, so while Tyrol's Sharon was shooting the Commander and being killed, another model was back on their home planet with Helo, seducing him, and well, now she's pregnant. This is obvious hard for the people on Galactica to digest.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

I forgot to tell you that the reason Tyrol and Helo are in prison is because an officer on the other ship (the one run by the crazy lady) tried to rape Helo's Sharon when she was in the Galactica prison. It was seen as breaking the enemy. When Helo and Galen found out what was about to happen there was a huge fight in the jail cell and the officer hit his head on an exposed bit and died. Helo and Tyrol were then arrested for treason and murder.

Yeah, I know.

[phaballa.livejournal.com]

Wait, I thought that some guy was being raped? MAN, I am confused. My friends were convinced that a man had been like, gang raped or something. Holy crap, this is complicated.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

No, no men have been raped on the show. Yet. They did allude to the possibility last week though, which really freaked out a lot of people, including me, but I think what really had people reeling what the realization was that this was just *so* possible in RL.

What, IMO, makes BSG so amazing is the way that the storylines run parallel with modern day concerns and politics. The idea of terrorists living among us; the idea that every decision really does have raminfications; and what really tends to draw people -- the fact that there is no good and bad on this show. A lot of shows get bogged down with the whole "this is right and this is wrong, because we say so" shlock, but BSG doesn't do that. BSG knows that people are multi-layered and that no one is good all the time. What you would think of as "good" people do henious things. Stereotypically "bad" people do great things. It would be easy to write off the Cylons as heartless machines, but they have a God, they have beliefs, they fall in love and have dreams and stuff. It's all grey. It's really fucking fantastic.

[phaballa.livejournal.com]

It sounds awesome. Now if only I could find season 1 for free...

[ravurian]

Dude, the crazy lady is Ensign Ro from ST:TNG and that's a whole level of crazy all on its own. It's like, Ensign Ro and Captain Picard had a lovechild and then it got exiled to an alternate universe where its genetics made it perfect for both crazy fucked-upness and for commanding spaceships. See, the crack writes itself!

[phaballa.livejournal.com]

Okay I remember the pregnant machine bit. So. No one I watched it with could explain to me how that was even possible. Like, do the machines have ovaries? Do they produce eggs? How can the machine support life? Do they eat and all that?

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

The machines aren't machines in the sense that you are thinking of like The Terminator. They're a next generation human simulations. They were "created" by other machines, but for all intents as far as we've seen they're human enough biologically to feel emotions and have sex and laugh and cry and hurt and all the things that make us who we are. The difference, well there are a lot, but one of the big ones is that when they die, their conscious and their memories are uploaded to the next model in the line. Imagine if you could keep living over and over as you, looking exactly the same, but you could learn from all your mistakes. It improves on humanity's one shot model a lot, no?

[phaballa.livejournal.com]

Ah! So it's like the Sims in Hyperion, if you've read that (which if you haven't, you should, you'd love it I think). Are they connected to the machines that created them in any way, like... through their consciousness?

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Not in a remote control sort of way, if that's what you're thinking, but yes, their memories are uploaded when they die for the next iteration. The models all have assigned "tasks" shall we say, when they are sent out in the world. Their consciouses are all their own, however, and so while they may do whatever they're programmed to do, a fair amount don't know what their task is. Most don't even know they're Cylons. Sharon, for example, didn't know she was Cylon until she shot the Commander, and even afterwards, it was like she'd repressed the whole thing. She did a lot of sabotage on the ship without remembering until everything came to a head. What was even worse was that Galen had covered for her, and so it was pretty fucking tragic for both of them.

[kismeteve.livejournal.com]

If I had never seen an ep of BSG, these characters recaps would be enough to make me do so.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Aw, thank you. I am very passionate about this show, can you tell? Also, your icon cracks me up.

[kismeteve.livejournal.com]

I love Baltar. He's mentally unstable, but he means well.

*pats*

[ravurian]

I didn't really see slash in BSG either until suddenly, hell, yes, I did. Helo is the enabler, man. He allows guys to get their gay on. It's a thing.

Having said that, I'm still wistfully gazing round the internet in search of Lee/Billy slash, but apparently nobody thinks they could be slashed except me, which is annoying. I suspect that any story about them would also (to some extent) have to be about the squabbling of their parents the President and Commander Adama and post-divorce, pre-remarriage custody issues. After all, she ended up with his son, and he with hers her aide and the boys, well, they should play nicely. Except. Well. Helo is the great enabler on BSG. Sigh.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Now you see why I wrote Helo/Lee pron the other day, because with Helo all things are possible. *sighs*

I suspect that any story about them would also (to some extent) have to be about the squabbling of their parents the President and Commander Adama and post-divorce, pre-remarriage custody issues. After all, she ended up with his son, and he with hers her aide and the boys, well, they should play nicely.

Also, this is like the best write-up EVAR! Where have you been? I've totally missed your cracktastic spin on the world.