Excellent New York Times article on the show, including some feckin' awesome new good news about the Season 2 DVD release... (it's not spoilery, so go for it)

It blows my mind to think that the show's been off since December. I mean, it's not as though I haven't noticed, or felt it, but still... it's kind of astonishing... because since the start of the show, there's been more hiatus than there's been broadcast. And being a member of the fan community means that it's never too far from my thoughts (in fact, it's very frequently on my mind; I'm sure think about Heroes as often as guys supposedly think about sex...) and I've started just randomly popping the DVDs in, watching an episode here and there. (Yesterday I watched the beginning of "Nothing To Hide", but I had to leave the house before we got to the Petrelli Family Brunch. This week I plan to watch "Six Months Ago" again, for the Gabriel Gray jollies, floating Nate, Peter's slash-tastic, gay-DJ, wine-soaked party, and the Haitian pwning all.) I haven't marathoned Season 1 since last summer, and I still haven't gotten around to re-watching my VHS tapes of Season 2 because VHS is just kind of a drag, especially the internet-distracted, always-cooking-or-pet-grooming way I watch... so I'm just going to hang in there until the S2 DVD comes out. I'm going to keep my eyes open for any kind of special retailer deals, so I can avoid the excitement and expense of the S1 release, where I ended up buying two different editions. I don't know if they're going to do that again for this one; they should, I think, as an incentive to get people to buy it; we're nerds, we'll buy multiple editions. Really. C'mon.

I am so jealous of the people going to San Diego ComicCon that it's actually made me physically ill for the last week (well, that, and a resurgence of grief for a friend who died five years ago, and other friends being out of town, and general frustration at my lack of money/responsibility/drive). If you are going, let me know - I may have a special mission for you, for which I am willing and happy to pay you.

On an unrelated note, I'm very annoyed with myself for missing Milo's birthday. So happy belated birthday, Milo. I'm really crap at keeping up with my Heroes Holiday schedule. Good thing nobody cares about it but me. ^_^

Tags: heroes holiday, hiatus is killing me, milo ventimiglia, season two dvds, status report

I just re-read Ritual 20, which, by my notes, was supposed to be the last story in the series. And here I am, six months later, in the middle of writing the 40th - and 41st. So much for neat, round numbers. (I am thinking now that I should shoot for 50, and that's it. That'd end up being about 350,000 words. And that's plenty. Just reading that much is kind of staggering, let alone producing it. Anyone who has read all of Ritual is a badass.)

It's been sad watching the attrition in the fandom - so many folks have ditched it, at least in terms of being fans of it. On the other hand, new folks are coming on board all the time, with the magic of DVD. I have two different loaner copies of S1 in the field right now, and I will still discuss it endlessly with anyone who is willing to go there.

It still amazes me that anybody else likes Heroes. Not "still" likes it; that anyone ever liked it in the first place. It's both great and a shame that it became so popular so quickly; great because it was given a proper chance to survive, and a shame because more than half of the people who were wild about it in spring of '07 have moved on. I don't want the show to have a short lifespan; I definitely don't want the fandom to, either. But life is what it is.

Anyway, I write as I can, and I grit my teeth and clench my fists as I refuse to look at spoilers, or go anywhere online where I risk seeing spoilers by accident. There's tons of them out there now that they've started shooting S3, and it tears me up inside, not being able to peek. But really, it's better if I don't.

I want my S2 DVDs now, please, thanks.

Tags: status report
Current Mood: thoughful
Current Music: The Style Council: Long Hot Summer

Man, I really want to work on those stories!

I'm doing something I've never done before - working on TWO at the same time. I just got some really good lines for one of them (inspired by reading the interview with Cristine Rose in the new-ish Heroes Official Magazine), so I started on it, too. Many requests will be fulfilled!

*tosses confetti*

Perhaps there's a Ritual smorgasbord in the future. But for now - it's just day after day of having no more than 10 minutes a day to work on them. I can't live on 60 words a day. I want to stretch my legs... but yet again, not tonight. And perhaps not tomorrow night, either. Stupid poopy day job, and gosh darn my friends for either needing me desperately, or providing things that I need desperately, or both! Stupid love. It's for schmucks.

I listened to the new episode of "Heroes: The Official Podcast" from BBC7 today and it made me all goopy and sentimental. I want my Season 2 DVDs right the hell now, but in the meantime I guess I'll have to soothe myself with my crappy dubbed VHS-with-the-commercials-in. But I think I must. It's so horrible how I've become this format snob recently; I hate watching things on VHS now, especially television. Even my Bad Boyfriend™. It doesn't change the fact that the tape is in the player right now... I just haven't turned it on for a couple of months. But I've got a need to be reunited... to climb back into the thicket of the Drunk!Nathan Beard/Hedgehog of Doom.

Tags: status report, whine

I have three potential stories to work on now (2 definite Rituals and one potentially not, but possibly yes). Nothing like being too busy to write to really get my engines going... I always want to get to a nice even number in Ritual stories before I take a break from writing them, but it never works out that way (see: Ritual 11, Ritual 16, Ritual 21, Ritual 34, etc.) Oh well.

I need to decide on a POV for one of them, and then I'm ready to go - I outlined it yesterday... evening, I guess? before going out. I can work on it over the course of the next week, and maybe outline the next two as well. I hope to have all three stories done by the end of the month, but I'm facing a couple of very busy weeks with job stuff, other job stuff, and scrambling around trying to make ends meet, so... it'll have to be hobby/leisure writing instead of "THIS IS SO TEWTALLY WHAT I DO".

Ah well, it'll work out.

Tags: status report
Current Mood: coolin'

OK, I have a plan for the next story... or perhaps two.

I feel a bit crap at the moment, but I will attempt to start working on something tonight. (I already started on an outline last night before bed, after my Profit DVD started fritzing out.) For now, though, more drugs, more headache, more blowing my nose, and curling up on the couch with some China Miéville, a cup of tea, and the classical radio station.

Being sick just plain sucks, but I might make some porn because of it (I almost always do).

Tags: status report
Current Mood: still ill

Who knew it would take so long to write a smutty PWP?

Heh... it's not that it's hard, it's just that my time and energy have been eaten up by other things for the last several days... doing a lot of that stuff I didn't do last year because I was too busy being holed up writing slash.

Ritual 37 is pretty easy... it's not going to be very tight or innovative. Just some very straightforward porn which may be incomprehensible for people who haven't read Ritual 4 or Ritual 36... but it can't be helped. I'm doing it for me, anyway.

In the meantime, the latest webcomic easter egg image is definitely in line to be my very favorite one of all. I mean, I love Hayden on Milo's back, Cristine and Adrian looking so-fist-i-kated, Milo carrying Adrian and several pounds of gory special effects makeup... but just Adrian in costume and character, with the perfect Politician Hair and that tie that I like a lot, looking so sad and noble (when he's probably just thinking, "When the hell is lunch? I could murder a dry egg white omelette right about now...")

Waaaaaaaah.... I MISS my SHOW.

Tags: adrian pasdar, hiatus is killing me, status report
Current Mood: okay but sleepy
Current Music: rain on the skylight

I am such a tool - I missed an important Heroes Holiday!

On March 20th, 2007 - THE VIRUS WAS RELEASED!

...or it wasn't! Yay Peter! :/

*shakes head in dismay* For cripe's sake, I've got the dates listed on my own damn blog. I win at life. Except not.

In other irrelevancy news, last night I had what I believe is my very first Heroes dream... I dreamed in extremely vivid detail (to the degree that I had to spend the ten minutes between my alarm going off and my actually being able to get out of bed telling myself that it hadn't actually happened) that Peter was actually Linderman's son. Angela told Peter about it in more detail than Peter actually wanted (turning away, clapping his hands over his ears, yelling for her to shut up because he didn't want to know about it) and Nathan stood by, wearing that uncomfortable stinkface that he gets (see: Simone's visit to his campaign office, threatening to take the existence of Specials public... you know the look I mean). I blame this all on reading a report from the UK Heroes con that happened last week, and Cristine Rose saying that she speculates that Peter is Linderman's. Ha! She doesn't know! I shall disregard this as idle speculation on the level of enhanced abilities being caused by Midi-Chlorians - that was a long time ago, far far away, y'ken?

(Obviously my mood is better. Better living through chemistry. Ritual 37 coming soonish.)

Tags: angela, heroes holiday, lame, linderman, nathan, peter, show commentary, status report

Thanks to a sudden violent upswing in the amount of work I have to do at work (gee, imagine that) and the fact that suddenly there are a million things to do outside of work, my writing output has been severely curtailed.

At the moment I'm not writing anything. No sir, I don't like it. But hmmm... am I not writing because I'm depressed, or am I depressed because I'm not writing?

Anyway, I'm going to try to yank some control back into my life and write a little Ritual story sometime soon, perhaps over the weekend. It's naughty misbehavior, when I should be working more on the novel, but I have a sleazy book to read about Morrissey and Johnny Marr and the tensions between them which led to the breakup of the Smiths, and I feel like I should read that before I write the next chapter. (Mmm, original slash, my favorite.)

In the meantime, Ritual is just free-form poetry. I genuinely will pull off a PWP, because the plot's already there (it will cover the hour or so that I didn't address that comes in the middle of Ritual (7), "Vermont", as I've had some ideas there). Same old same old, and yet, a completely different approach to the material than I had before.

In other irrelevancy news, I might be coming down with the flu...

I miss my show. I want to curl up in a blanket and watch the entire Claude arc. I think he meant you, friend.

Tags: aside, status report

You'll notice that there hasn't been much fic activity out of me lately... Life has just gotten really, really busy lately, and I did actually buckle down and got started writing that original novel that I keep whining about. It could be really cool, but I need to do a bunch of research still... and a lot of writing, too.

I'm kind of bummed because I got used to getting nearly-immediate feedback on my writing, and at least for this project, that can't really happen. I am spoiled.

But on that note, I do plan to write some more Heroes pornfic, for sure... sometime soon. The next couple of days are also going to be insanely busy and I won't have time for myself almost at all until next week - I might be able to snatch a couple of hours on Sunday morning, if I don't go to brunch with a friend who's been in Australia for the last six weeks (the lucky bastard).

I'm going to try to outline the story I have in mind while I'm at work today, and determine if it's going to be a single one-off story, or whether it will be a short series of maybe three or four chapters in length. (A four-chapter Petrellicest PWP? Yes!)

It is not Ritual. I think Ritual is on hold for a while. I just have too many other things going on right now. Of course, as always, if I have a Ritual idea, I'm going to write it, but for now, I'm going to put it to bed, and try not to feel bad about that. I am mentally and emotionally exhausted, and if I'm going to be able to work on the original novel, I really have to figure out some way of getting my shit back together. Unfortunately the stress of "DO IT NOW!! YOU'VE ALREADY WAITED TOO LONG!!" really doesn't help.

And really, I just want to write Heroes pornfic. I really do. With the original novel, more than anything, I want to READ it, but I have to write it before I can read it. Boo. (And then there's the idea that maybe I should just write a non-porny Heroes tie-in novel, finish it, and pitch it to the folks at NBC and see if they'd buy it. If they did, I would probably make a year's wages in a single advance payment - and it wouldn't even be that big of an advance. Blah, blah, blah. I'm a lazy, TV-watching dreamer who needs to just give up everything in her life that's not work, or else there's no way in hell I'll ever attain my dreams, or even be able to financially look after myself. Give up friends, restrict sleep to 5 hours a night, give up TV. Or it won't happen. I know this; I've had to do this before. A brutal 90-hour workweek is sometimes necessary. I just really don't wanna...)

Tags: :(, status report
Current Mood: trying not to be depressed
Current Music: Radiohead: House of Cards

I had a quite nice weekend - sushi Friday night, writing tons and tons, lunch with a good friend/writing genius/out of town pal who I ought to see more often. (And who apparently now lives in NYC, or thereabouts - train-accessible. Sweet - now I have even more folks to stay with out there!) And I also watched ROCKY BALBOA and really enjoyed the hell out of it. Ah, sweet, young, frustrated (and then seriously handsy and eager with the huggin') Milo. Thank you for your excellent timing, library holds system.

Ritual 33 is gonna be rilly rilly long. Like, Ritual 13 long (I estimate 17,000 words; I'm not quite done with the writing, though the entire plot is already in place, and the ending is written). Good though - reads quick, is funny and sexy. I should be posting it tonight or tomorrow at the latest.

Tags: milo ventimiglia, status report, yay
Current Mood: crampy