*blows out candles*

[icepixie]

Soooo. I haven't read much fic in the past year or so. I'd forgotten what a fic bender is like.

Yeah, I've been trawling the Due South archive, LJ comms, mailing list archives, etc. for the past four days. I've been reading a lot of gen, because I love teh funny in this show, but I've also been wading through some Fraser/Thatcher stuff. (99% of the time I'm all over canon ships/canon UST like scum on a pond, white on rice, gel on Fraser's hair, or any other similie you care to name, so it was inevitable. And they are kind of cute. Okay, a lot cute. Hee, Mountie love!) Although I'm totally seeing the slash between Fraser and both Rays, so this show may make a multishipper out of me yet. (And I can still, in some twisted recess of my mind, get behind Thatcher/Turnbull. Frannie/Turnbull is pretty amusing too.)

Needless to say, if anyone has recs, I'm all ears. I'm up for casefiles, little bits of humor, stylistic pieces, plotty pieces...whatever. I'm avoiding the really glurgy, flowery stuff and the NC-17, but beyond that, I don't care.

Speaking of DS, today is my birthday, which means I got to open my DS seasons one and two boxsets yesterday when my parents I did the whole cake and presents thing. Wheee! (OMG, I'm 23. I feel ancient.)

I watched "We Are the Eggmen" last night. (I'm totally going to go in order now that I've seen that one. I kept seeing references to it in the fic I was reading [see above about the Mountie love], and I was curious.) Hee. I love when Fraser saves Meg from her dinner with Clouthier: "Your car. It's...on fire. It's burning away, and all of the other cars feel threatened." And saving the day by throwing raw eggs! Hee!

This show is so giggle-inducing. Good for a birthday.

Comments

[icepixie]

What does that make me? Has someone forgotten to notify me that I'm knocking on heaven's door?

Heh. Maybe so. ;)

I'm glad you've had an excellent birthday--and I see you found ways to acquire the DS discs (and that it didn't take any too long for you to decide to get them!). ;)

Hee! Indeed. Getting two seasons for under $30 certainly didn't hurt. ;) (Although wow, the quality of the video certainly does indicate that the DVD makers put about $12 of effort into each these things...)

[alto2.livejournal.com]

Although wow, the quality of the video certainly does indicate that the DVD makers put about $12 of effort into each these things...

I think that's why I'd heard it was better to spend more money and get the Canadian discs, which are apparently much better and have features, etc. My cheaper side ultimately won out, though!

(And if you think that video transfer is bad, you should get your friends together for Bad Movie Night and watch Dealers with Paul McGann, which is hands-down the worst-quality DVD I've ever seen. It literally looks like someone did a quick/dirty copy from an old VHS tape. And for the record, watching with friends in the MST3K style is the only way to enjoy watching that movie--unless you turn the sound off so you don't have to hear the awful script!)

[icepixie]

Heh, I definitely don't like this show enough to spend the kind of money Amazon wanted for the Canadian copies on it. I don't like any show enough to do that! (And I hear that while the transfer is better, the only feature is commentary by Paul Gross and maybe some others on "Call of the Wild." And Netflix has that episode on DVD, with the commentary, so if I feel a burning desire to hear it I can just rent it.)

It literally looks like someone did a quick/dirty copy from an old VHS tape.

Ouch!