Here you go. Oh, and now I want to go look at the signature myself.

ciaddict - Thanks!

I just went swimming.

Lucky you!
Where is everybody?

You're welcome!



Its good to see you and your random thoughts Valley!

My gosh I love "The Princess Bride."

Oiy, but that swimming comment reminds me of the last time I was in a pool. Needed to do 4? laps without drowning to graduate university, and after avoiding it 'til the last hour, jumped in fully clothed and managed it at a remarkably slow rate. Highly unpleasant, never again! I hate chlorine.

I remember liking swimming when I was a kid though, so I know it isn't all bad. Hope you had much fun!

Oh good bagel. I watched Third Watch for a season or three, then it had me groping for reruns of E.R., or better yet, Chicaco Hope, or better yet, Adrenaline Junkies, since my favourite shows always get cancelled just before they cancel my back up shows. Heck if I really remember why now, but I think I was coming off a high of shows like High Incident and Brooklyn South and was inching frantically back to sci fi.

But after the Jason Wiles fans have been pouring in (dribbilng in, whatever), I started to poke around the Third Watch 'dom, and hell if half the fics I first came across aren't these weird Faith/Bos ones. Shoot. I always loved them for their platonic friendship. If there was one reason I would have kept watching the darn show, it would have been them. And somewhere, somehow, it got took where it weren't meant to go. But I kind of like it. Bugger, and now I've got to rewatch the entire show, stem to stern. *facepalm*

Hi BadAssJammieSquad,

I am a Third Watch fan and a big fan of Jason Wiles. I also go to TWDotNet and Jason site that NYPDBosco runs. I enjoyed Bosco and Faith together I am not a shipper though but I most certainly enjoyed the stories that everyone wrote.

Happy 4^th

This is the only time I miss living in DC. Loved the Fireworks Spectacular on the Mall. Of course, New York City is no slouch when it comes to the Macy’s Fireworks Show. But, the NY show just doesn’t “tug” the way the one over our Nation’s Capitol does.

Hiya Michel!

I had to go back to the fic site I'd stumbled upon, to make sure it wasn't a Bos/Faith collection (it wasn't) and started reading. Lo and behold... *blushes* ... I like. Back in the day I was a total NoRoMo for them, so it's a bit of an adjustment. What squicked me at first, and still does though, is how in this huge massive fanfic collection, 95% of the stories were Faith/Bos! Weird! And it was such a complex ensemble cast! - Well, that was squicky, and the fact that half the fics I read went "Bos is in love with Faith. My gosh! He tells her. And Faith loves him too! Joy!" (And oh yeah, 'twas the TW.NET I stumbled upon. When I hit on random links, I hit good ;]

BadAssJamieSquad those stories where great all of them. When I started reading them my mouth hit the floor. They were so real I could see everything in my mind as I read the stories. I was amazed that the writes were just normal people who to me had a great talent in writing. I never read any fanfic before so this was very amazing to me. To me a great story is one that I can picture in my mind while reading and it can hold my attention. Very few books can do what the fanfic did for me. I stopped reading fanfic in 2005 not after TW ended but after Hurricane Katrina took everything from me. Reading the fanfic was to painful for me. I guess I should have continued reading it because it might have helped me deal with stuff. On TW there is a link at the bottom where it says multimedia ,people make music videos of Bosco and on YOU TUBE find Third Watch Bosco and there are videos also. I wonder if there will be any In Plain Sight music videos and I saw where someone has a link for IPS fanfic. I went there but couldn't find the stories just reviews.

Hi Michel- First, a technical note for the IPS fic site: if you're on a site with a summary and links to reviews, (but no story) click on the title link again, near the bottom, and it'll take you to the story itself The Mary_Marshall Livejournal's got even more, at this point, that're just under cuts. And I'm sure ff.net will, soon as we start asking for an IPS category.

On the fanfiction front: as much as I love to debate, I couldn't even begin to argue with you here. Personally, I'm coming from a much different place: I've bounced around fic for dozens of fandoms over the last 10 years; reading, writing, beta'ing... And I'm a lit crit by trade. I don't even know if it's right, all my gut-reaction analysis, since it just means I start questioning everything further maybe than I should. But I can't change that for myself, not anymore.

But about your fanfic experience... I remember that feeling ;] I had it for my first fandom, way back when. Small and shortlived as it was. And I still have it for a few 'doms, where the fanbase was limited and I knew/know everyone, know where all the stories came from, or maybe just know where every fic hit a new note because we've still not put out enough to come close to repeating ourselves.

Because I truly believe that if you're of a mind for it, fanfiction redeliniates our relationship with a mass media product. Somehow it's stronger than just talking with other fans about our attraction for certain characters, pairings or storylines. It's like suddenly, a completely new dreamscape, where before all we had was the bare bones of possibility. A place to hide and a place to find yourself, wrapped up in the guise of someone writing from one state over. Emotional/intellectual discourse without the pretensions and with all the gut reactions and feelings that make us human.

There's all these things I wish I knew to say about your experience. Maybe I'd know better if I'd gone off and read all those academic papers on fanfiction and whatnot. Probably not. Really though, what do I know? I was hundreds of miles away when Katrina hit, and spent the aftermath crying over NPR reports on the way back from classes. But I've give up fanfic before, given up TV entirely for various reasons that seemed huge at the time. And found going back to a fandom life not nearly as easy as it was meant to be. I guess it meant more to me than I realized.

Anyway, I wanted to wish you the best of luck and enjoyment. IPS is an amazing fandom, and getting better all the time. *Huggles*

I'm back!

I'm working through this program called "The Artist's Way" and last week the assignment included the ban of ALL recreational reading. So I've missed a lot, I see - and I'm one of those people that likes to see things happen! But after a week of book and forum-dep, I'm back, and SO looking forward to tonight's episode.

Also, book dep led me to do this:


See, this is why reading books is GOOD for society.

The penguins are coming! The PENGUINS are coming!

Actually I can't remember if penguins are meant to be creepy like that. I mean, I know clowns are, and monkeys fling poo. And then there's bunnies. Penguins freak me out at least. I mean, if there's a gaggle of them coming after you with the mob-like apparel and the peculiar waddling gait. Just like old-school zombies. Slow, steady and looking sort of funny but they always catch you. *shudders*




In slightly less off-topic news, help me! Third Watch has sucked my brain out! Man, I've literally spent the last few days (when not at work) searching for eps and information. I'm in so deep I couldn't even enjoy the SGA premiere!

*Dives into the penguins so they can, um, peck or flap or whatever and rescue me from this dangerous obsession.*

*_{and I feel really really bad because given my personal preferences in entertainment or whtever, I think TW a stronger show than IPS*}

I’m taking a course. On of my instructor’s comments was that that my writing is not descriptive enough. One of the reasons I like writing to the Board is that it is a good place to get a short burst of many different writing styles. Also, it is a great place to practice my writing without having to worry about technique. Your writing tends to be very descriptive. Not only descriptive, but also colorful and to the point. Since you have given up on the show, just wanted to let you know that you’ve given me a few good chuckles, and that I will miss your writing.

Unfortunately I ended up writing Bos/Faith shipper stuff. I co-wrote with someone, and she was a HUGE shipper. I was anti-shipper (I mean seriously, why can't a man and woman just be friends?!), but I wrote shipper fic cause it was an opportunity to write with a friend and I figured some of it was good practice for the day I write a romance novel..hehe Loved the show TW, and I enjoy IPS but it's definitely a much different show, writing and all.

Curious. Bubba, I just dropped in over at the 4400 site; there were some discussions about the problems some posters had when the Board’s sign-on procedures were changed. You were mentioned. Before then, I had not noticed that the system no longer registers your mega-volume of posts. Would really suck if it were lost forever. What’s the story?

Oiy, *blush*, me as well. Sorta. Now. I mean, I've had all numbers of really super good friends who were totally platonic, despite their sexuality (which has run the gambit.) But somehow fanfiction needs to brush across that boundary just a little, or dash across it, since whichever, but real friendship is bloody hard to capture and never seems quite enough. I feel you with the romance novel though - it's always been a plan of mine to pay my way through something by writing trash romance.

Mmm, I'm moulder for a moment, within the thought of Bos and Faith being themselves.

But yeah, IPS offers a *much* different spectra of possibility than TW.

And here I delve into possible otherland that was mentioned, but WHY oh WHY am I stuck as sniksnak with 90-odd posts I KNOW I didn't make from here? I can't figure out who to email, and this is my real problem. I'm supposed to be badassjammiesquad. That's who I have been. But the email addy's that should have lead to it simply aren't, and I'm extraordinarlily frustrated. Gah.

I just finished 1 jumbo mug of soda

Shiny!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just beat my boyfriend in Golf, mwua-ha-ha-ha-ha!

One of the great things about coming to the board is that you have a diverse group of people around to fill in the blanks. (Even when you don’t realize that you have blanks).

Interesting that we all watch the same show and yet, somehow we miss certain things that others latch onto right away. And, we are outright mistaken about others. It kinda of makes you wonder about the value of “eyewitness” reports. Here we are watching a show under no pressure (relaxing in front of our TVs) and still sometimes we don’t get all the details right. Can only imagine what it must be like for an “eyewitness” in a desperate, tense situation to get everything right.

That’s one of the reason I don’t put too much stock in “eyewitness” testimony. Sometimes I wonder if it is not so much what you see, as how you see it.

Anyone planning to give the new show “Fringe” a look-see? It has gotten great (4-star) reviews. It sounds intriguing. …plane lands at airport on autopilot…all aboard are dead…not only are they dead, but some chemical has eaten away all their skin…what in the &^^% happened?

Haven't seen a trailer, but it sounds like my kind of show.

The lead is a female FBI agent. The first episode airs tomorrow at 8 EDT on FOX—looking forward to checking it out.

I saw Mary M. this summer in the play Boeing Boeing. She was awesome as the German flight attendant. When my sister and I got last minute tickets in New York I had no idea she was in it. She stole the show!