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Spoilery talk about the NCIS spinoff beneath the cut.

( The Cut )

taylorgibbs posted a link to this little gem today.

Pay careful attention around 1:28 when Michael Weatherly makes it clear what NCIS is *really* about *ggg*. We already knew that of course!

And I found this interview a few days ago:

TV Guide: What can you say about the reports of turmoil on the set, which ended with creator Don Bellisario leaving the show?
Michael Weatherly: I stay largely outside the politics of the show. I learned two lessons on another show [Dark Angel, in which he costarred with — and became engaged to — Jessica Alba]: The less I say the better, and don't date your costar! So Mark Harmon and I have never dated. Though the Silver Fox and I did spend a week in Vermont that nobody knows about.

A week in Vermont, huh...?


I think MW's been reading too much slash *ggg*.

Okay, so I took some time out from editing the total angst-fest that is "Damage" and wrote this entirely silly post-ep ficlet last night *g*.

Title: Tony's Dry Spell
Author: Xanthe
Fandom: NCIS
Pairing: Gibbs/DiNozzo
Genre: Slash
Category: Humour
Rating: R
Status: Complete
Spoilers: Post ep for 6X18, Knockout
Wordcount: 3668
Summary: Think 'NCIS meets Dexter' and you won't go far wrong *g*.
Warnings: Well, it's supposed to be funny, so you might not want to drink and read at the same time...
Notes: This story was totally inspired by this conversation with kateri and tejas.

Tony's Dry Spell

To a trailer for next week's NCIS ep? Only I've heard there's something in it that I've been wanting to see ALL season... (no, it isn't Gibbs and Tony kissing - obviously I've wanted to see that all season too but I AM realistic *g*).

 Edited: Fenders found it for me! For those who are interested it's here: http://videos.team-ncis.com/video_486_trailer_6x18_vo.html and the bit at the beginning is JUST what I was hoping for! Now, the question is, why did it go and why did it come back? I'm glad they mention that it's been awhile  - although I suppose an explanation is too much to hope for...

Fenders also gave me this link to MW's new upcoming movie which looks great. Squee! Here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiPXIK3V9Zk

 

I'm still bloody ill. Still! AGH! Not as bad as on Monday in that I have no desire to vomit any more but the stomach pains are worse and we won't even talk about the constant trips to the toilet. If it's not better tomorrow then I'll go to the Doctor. I am sick and tired (literally, on both counts) of loafing around the house feeling ill, no matter how wonderful my cats are (and they really are).

Something fandom-related has pissed me off. It's a recurrent theme in my fandom life so I won't go into it other than to just say a loud: ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! And an entirely cathartic: FUCK OFF!!!!!!! There. That's done. I think I might need a break from fandom when this fic is done. Maybe a year in the Caribbean would help. If only I could take my cats!

I've been re-watching S6 of NCIS for something to do.

 

( Spoilers for S6 under the cut )

Last night I dreamed of babies made of meatballs and unwrapped xmas presents.

I don't think I have anything else to say, and have surely been tetchy enough.

Does anyone know the dates of the remaining eps of NCIS for the season? When are they due to be broadcast and what is the date of the season finale?

In other news my *new* hairdresser totally got what I was talking about. It might take awhile to grow back after being turned into a hedgehog by the last guy but at least it's on the way!

More snow is forecast for tomorrow morning. Sigh. We just got rid of this last batch today! My mum is supposed to be coming around to cook me dinner (yay!) tomorrow night as well so that might not happen.

I'm now 55,000 words into the new story and it's a rollercoaster. "Ten Years On" was such a smooth ride that I'd forgotten how tough the really tough ones can be. HiPS was very up and down as well. The long ones are harder to juggle, and this one is about emotions and psychology rather than being more action-oriented like TYO, although it has it's moments. But primarily I have to feel my way along with the characters and really they're so far outside their comfort zone now that I have no idea how they'd react and have to really think it through with each bloody paragraph - or so it feels. I have no idea if I'm getting it "right". 

The first 20,000 words of this one were a dream to write but there have been some really hard bits since then. And the subject matter - eep. It hurts sometimes. Anyway, it's clearly going to be very looong, and as it's mostly angst from beginning to end, the H/C junkies (of which I am one. As we know *g*) should arm themselves ahead of time (tissues, cups of tea and a feline support system usually work for me!).

Today I feel like I've been hit by a truck. I slept in despite going to bed early last night, and Harley kept trying to get me to wake up for a full two hours this morning with nose-patting and sitting on me but I wasn't having any of it. I kept dreaming of snowstorms and buses appearing in my garden because they'd got lost in the snow - not that it's actually snowing here but apparently it will tonight.

Yesterday I met flyingnorth in town and we had a nice wander around and then went to see Alison Steadman in the Alan Bennett play, "Enjoy". Now, FlyingNorth and I are both good at understanding subtext and furreting out complex themey type thingummies but neither of us understood what the hell the final half hour of the play was about. Plus, it was freezing in the theatre because they'd removed all the scenery so the coldness swept in from the back and across the stage. When we came out the weather had turned very cold so we were forced to go to Konditor and Cook for cake and hot chocolate to warm up *g*. Then I had a very long, boring drive home with lots of hold ups. I went to bed early but still woke up feeling exhausted.

I had a bit of a discussion with FlyingNorth about this story I'm writing at the moment.

( Story concerns under cut )

In other news, the latest NCIS ep was...well...I dunno.

( Spoilers for latest NCIS ep )

And finally...I've submitted my favourite Harley and Jemima photos to a cat photographic contest. They probably won't win but *I* think they're adorable anyway *g*. Here's one of my favourites, just because... *g*



I think I'm done now ;-).

Dream
Last night I had a rather fabulous dream. I must say in all my years of writing fanfic I don't think I've ever had a dream about the actual characters which is odd as I spend so much time writing about them. I've had dreams about the *actors* occasionally which is also weird as I tend not to be overly interested in them. Anyway - drumroll - last night I had a dream about Tony, Gibbs and Abby - and it was really *nice*.

The prelude seemed to be that a snowboarding!Tony jumped over a high black wall and landed in a tree from which Gibbs rescued him. But that wasn't the good bit! In the next bit, Abby and Gibbs are in her lab and she calls a reluctant Tony down. Then she and Gibbs look over to her side office in which there is now a bath (why?! Who knows!). Next scene (there's some good editing in this dream!) is Abby sitting in her lab and she glances over at the bath behind the glass dividing wall. Gibbs is kneeling in the bath, fully clothed (in black, very sexy!) and Tony is lying down in front of him (fully clothed, in black, very sexy again!) with his back against Gibbs's knees. The bath is full of water and both men are soaking wet. Abby grins and Tony goes "oh shit" and Gibbs takes hold of his shoulders and pushes him under the water and holds him there for a short while. I have NO idea what that was about but in my dreamscape it seemed to be some kind of decontamination procedure. And Abby was amused, Gibbs was kind of no-nonsense but mildly entertained and Tony wasn't liking it but seemed to see it was necessary and on some level clearly enjoying it.  Gibbs definitely wasn't drowning him - Tony trusted him completely and there was a nice sense of intimacy to the whole thing.

I have NO idea why they had to be clothed though...*g*. I mean they were taking some kind of weird *bath*!

Other Stuff
I'm going through a bit of a depressed phase at the moment. Too much sleeping and looking and feeling like crap. All pale with red-rimmed eyes. My joints ache all the time, I have no energy and I keep getting headaches. Nurofen has become my close friend!

I've started a new long story but have no idea if I'll finish it. It's just going to be so sad and angsty and the subject matter really intense so I'll see. I've never written on this particular theme before and feel it should be done as respectfully as possible so if I don't think I can do it justice as I go along I'll just stop.

Went to see Avenue Q again last night with some friends for the third time. It's still SO good and makes me laugh. I think it's closing in March though so I'm glad I got to see it again. When I got home, the house smelled really badly of poo and I assumed one of the cats had had an upset tummy in their litter tray. The truth was more worrying. One of them had done a perfectly healthy, firm poo (lots of it!) on the beanbag in the lounge. Neither of them has EVER toiletted outside of their tray before - in fact they've both been very scrupulous about it to the point that when she had diarrhoea as a kitten Jemima RAN full pelt for the tray to poo into it even when she was clearly busting to go. When I first got them I was concerned because beanbags can make cats think of the sensation of litter under their paws but it's never been a problem before. It could be behavioural - either a protest to me for being out later than usual, or because they'd clearly been bored at some point and had ripped open a parcel in the spare room and scattered the contents around - whether they were scared about having been naughty I don't know. They have lots of toys and climbing frames to entertain them and the garden to play in so they shouldn't be bored. And their litter tray was quite clean so it's not as if that was dirty and stopping them using it. If it's a one off then I don't mind but if it becomes a habit I'll find that really upsetting.

I spent the morning writing up appraisal notes on someone who is clearly a "small detail" kind of person and seems to have included every single task he undertook in the past 6 months in his self-review section of the process, no matter how small or insignficant. So, thirteen pages of notes later, I started wondering what the NCIS appraisal process would be like and came up with this ridiculous little ficlet  *g*.


Tony's Appraisal

I dunno what's wrong with me but I've felt very down all week. Of course being ill hasn't helped! But I feel I've lost my spark. All story ideas seem pointless and silly, and nothing buzzes around in my brain. If I run over any story ideas they all seem ridiculous and not worth the effort. My brain is like a big, empty airplane hangar with a tiny stalled Cessna in the middle that's refusing to go anywhere. I was feeling so good right up until New Years Day as well! Really positive and full of energy. I've LOVED feeling like that.

I've been so inspired since the end of July when I started writing HiPS and then had a nice run of stories - it all felt very effortless and I enjoyed it so much. I've been thinking about HiPS and the process of writing - when I started HiPS, I had a general idea of the overall plot but it unfolded as it went along and became so much more, as most of my stories do - and I was wondering about that process. It seems so out of my control that I wonder where it comes from - which makes me wonder how on earth I'll get it back! I know I'll just have to hang around and do boring things like go shopping for new kitchen lights and preoccupy myself for awhile in the hope it'll come back one day. I just hope it's not another 2 years like last time!

I know I *could* write something but I want to feel in love with a story, as I have with every story I've written since July, and I can't seem to access *that* feeling right now. Maybe it is just because of being ill and the total boredom of work over the past week. Or maybe it's fandom related - am I over that first flush of NCIS love that's been inspiring me? I do know that sometimes I have a sort of process that I call "putting stuff back into my head" following a period of time when I've been taking a lot of stuff out (ie writing!). So maybe my brain is tired of output and wants some input right now.

So I'm bored and I miss the writing frankly! This has led me onto some musing about *how* I write which is probably boring to everyone but me so I've put it beneath a cut!

( Writing-y type musing this way )

In other news, I'm going to visit bluespirit_star on Tuesday for a few days - we're going to a spa! Yay! So I'll be pampered and I'll get to chat and squee with Bluespirit which will be SO wonderful. It always is. I'll also get to snuggle with the gorgeous Buddy and annoy Mr Bluespirit by taking Buddy gifts of very squeaky toys *g*.

And liresius has posted some fab animated headslap icons to the ncis_headslap community.

And finally...I saw "Caged" and really enjoyed it. Go McGee! I can totally see him making Director in ten years time *g*.