New items at Help the Project

Bidding ends in seven days! Act now! (Also, it's not too late to link.)

My parents have generously offered $100 worth of fashion jewelry from their fashion jewelry company.

There are great auctions going for baked goods, tailored recipe books, and jam.

And signed books by Ellen Kushner, Elizabeth Wein, N. K. Jemisin, Sarah Rees Brennan, Martha Wells, Leigh Curran (the Project artistic director), Cecil Castellucci, and Sarah Monette, many of which currently have amazingly low high bids.

Not to mention all the stuff I'm offering personally, from stories to critiques to postcards to poetry.

New items at Help the Project

Bidding ends in seven days! Act now! (Also, it's not too late to link.)

My parents have generously offered $100 worth of fashion jewelry from their fashion jewelry company.

There are great auctions going for baked goods, tailored recipe books, and jam.

And signed books by Ellen Kushner, Elizabeth Wein, N. K. Jemisin, Sarah Rees Brennan, Martha Wells, Leigh Curran (the Project artistic director), Cecil Castellucci, and Sarah Monette, many of which currently have amazingly low high bids.

Not to mention all the stuff I'm offering personally, from stories to critiques to postcards to poetry.

Criminal Minds Season 1; Season 2 through "Ashes and Dust"

I continue to enjoy this very much, despite the perfectly valid objections noted in comments to the previous post. Please do not spoil me past season 2's "Ashes and Dust" (the one with the serial arsonist and the completely over the top yet kind of awesome opening scene in which a house burns and a family dies to the weirdly perfect accompaniment of... Enya.)

I had a whole lot to say about other episodes, but then I hit "Revelations" and forgot most of it. Except that the season one finale was profoundly ridiculous, and the fact that the writers had the characters comment on its ridiculousness did not make it any less ridiculous. It was like a cross between bad fanfic of Criminal Minds and bad fanfic of The Phantom of the Opera. Though I did enjoy seeing the team going about their normal lives (best bits were Hotch looking good out of his suit, and Gideon's cabinet video screen - on the one hand, reasonable precaution. On the other hand, I sense a total failure of compartmentalization. Also, his girlfriend is totally going to get refrigerated. Mark my words.)

I was also quite put off by the episode immediately following that one: "The internet is evil! Pedophiles are creepy strangers who inhabit the internet! Parents, don't let your kids get online!" Usually the show is much more realistic about who's really abusing kids: people kids know and trust. (See "Profiler, Profiled," which I thought was excellent, and most other episodes.) Luckily the rest of the season was much better.

( Aaron Hotchner. He's a classic narcissist )

Criminal Minds Season 1; Season 2 through "Ashes and Dust"

I continue to enjoy this very much, despite the perfectly valid objections noted in comments to the previous post. Please do not spoil me past season 2's "Ashes and Dust" (the one with the serial arsonist and the completely over the top yet kind of awesome opening scene in which a house burns and a family dies to the weirdly perfect accompaniment of... Enya.)

I had a whole lot to say about other episodes, but then I hit "Revelations" and forgot most of it. Except that the season one finale was profoundly ridiculous, and the fact that the writers had the characters comment on its ridiculousness did not make it any less ridiculous. It was like a cross between bad fanfic of Criminal Minds and bad fanfic of The Phantom of the Opera. Though I did enjoy seeing the team going about their normal lives (best bits were Hotch looking good out of his suit, and Gideon's cabinet video screen - on the one hand, reasonable precaution. On the other hand, I sense a total failure of compartmentalization. Also, his girlfriend is totally going to get refrigerated. Mark my words.)

I was also quite put off by the episode immediately following that one: "The internet is evil! Pedophiles are creepy strangers who inhabit the internet! Parents, don't let your kids get online!" Usually the show is much more realistic about who's really abusing kids: people kids know and trust. (See "Profiler, Profiled," which I thought was excellent, and most other episodes.) Luckily the rest of the season was much better.

( Aaron Hotchner. He's a classic narcissist )