i wanna be part of the human race

There's all kinds of end-of-2024 activities or memes to post for fic/icons/whathaveyou, but I can't really participate as I barely did anything this year! So I'm just going to do a summary for my fic and icons. I don't usually post these things in my journal so this will serve as a good roundup post:

2024 Fic

I wrote 3 fics this year:

Egg Therapy - Psych, Jules & Lassie, post-ep for "Mr Yin Presents..." (for 2024 Candyhearts exchange). 525 words.

I was deep in my Psych rewatch and living in my Jules & Lassie feels, so this was felt like perfect timing for me that my exchange recip requested this. It's on the shorter side, but one of those fics where I stared at it and just couldn't figure out how to make it any longer without just adding extra random stuff. Basically, I said what I want to say in it! But I think it worked, and I like it despite its shorter length.

must've done something right - Law & Order Criminal Intent, Alex/Bobby hurt/comfort. 15,033 words.

I may not have written many fics but I did manage to write this beast. It's actually the 3rd longest fic I've ever written, so that was an accomplishment for me. As I've mentioned a million times I'm deeply obsessed with LOCI at the moment, so, this was inevitable. I had to get my feelings out about this pairing. I was driving to work one day and thinking about possible fic scenarios and the scene of Alex cleaning blood off the walls popped in my brain and then the fic was pretty much crafted around that one image that I wanted to write, haha. I wrote this in a fever pitch over a handful of weekends, cause I just like to get manic about my obsessions sometimes.

Free - Law & Order Criminal Intent, Alex & Bobby, post-ep for Frame (for 2024 Yuletide). 5,098 words.

I got so lucky that my assignment for Yuletide was also the subject of my current obsession. I put together a list of at least 2 dozen possible fic ideas for my recip (who was very open to pretty much anything) but then I rewatched Frame, and I was struck with feels, and went in a little fix-it direction instead. I rewatched the episode five or six times while writing this and I felt pretty good about how I addressed some of the issues between our two heroes at this point in the canon.

2024 Icons

5 True Detective Night Country Icons. This lovely little show capture my imagination for a while. I was guaranteed to watch it because I love Jodie Foster and I love strange cosmic horror vibes. The show really delivered. My favorite from the batch:



11 Star Wars The Acolyte Icons. My heart is fucking broken over this show. To the point that I can't engage with any new Star Wars media, because I refuse to give my views and dollars to a media company that capitulates to the loudest, most bigoted assholes around. It was an utter travesty this show was cancelled and it will probably go down as the single biggest missed opportunity in the Star Wars canon. But, what we did get was wonderful. My favorite from the batch:



11 Law & Oder Criminal Intent Icons. Beating a dead horse.. my obsession du jour. I want to do more icons eventually (I can feel the inspiration for more in my body), but this post was more practical because I just needed some icons for myself to use! Haha. My favorite from the batch:



2025 Resolutions

I'm being pretty lofty here by setting some goals for myself. Historically, I usually don't manage to reach goals I set for myself, lol. But I would like to challenge myself a bit more so if I shoot high and only get halfway there I'll be satisfied.

Fic - I would like to publish 6 total fics this year (an average of one every 2 months). I have many ideas and several partially completed WIPs, so, I think this is doable.

Icons - I would like to publish 12 total icon posts this year (an average of once a month). I already made my first icon post of 2025 so I'm feeling optimistic about this one!

I'm going to (attempt as much as possible) doing this year's snowflake_challenge. So here goes, challenge #2:

In your own space, talk about your fannish origin story.

( This is long, I'm so sorry. )

Law & Order Criminal Intent:

- Still continuing my rewatch-and-chronicle journey over on my tumblr.

- I put a lot of thoughts in all the tags but also I have some meta posts I'm doing (including too much over analyzation of one specific scene) because overanalyzing TV is one of my greatest joys in life.

- I spend an inordinate amount of time every day just thinking about Goren and Eames together and how wonderful they are and how they hit so many of my specific shipping kinks so perfectly.

- These caps omg:



They are a BONDED PAIR and they must be ADOPTED TOGETHER!!

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Criminal Minds:

- I've just finished season 5/just started s6! Season 5 has been the first season that's felt a little patchy. Some of the episodes have been almost boring. Also there was a terrible backdoor pilot for a spinoff in there, and lord how I hate backdoor pilots. BUT. Lots of great Penelope moments and great Hotch moments.

- Does Morgan ever stop being a giant asshole? It's like his whole job is to disagree with Prentiss, publicly, in front of everyone and god, just to do a Devil's Advocate thing. And Prentiss is my GIRL so it irritates the fuck out of me when he swans in just to be an asshole. It's really bothering me, IDK. Morgan has never really been on my good side this entire time, tbh. I don't like the way he treats, like.. anyone? In the s5 finale (or maybe the s6 premiere, I forget), Morgan is having a Bad Time and he takes it out on Penelope (who is my other GIRL damnit) and yeah sure he apologizes but wtf? And Penelope is like "oh that didn't bother me I understand" NO GIRL MAKE HIM GROVEL. Long story short I just Don't Like Morgan and Never Have and I feel bad about it and I tried REALLY HARD to like him but he's just an asshole and I can't abide it.

- I wish Reid had more to do? Especially in season 5 (but from what I read the actor had an injury that sidelined him for quite a bit so I'm guessing a lot of it had to do with that) Reid just sits in the background until they need someone to spit some mundane facts out or to quickly read a book, then he's there. PLEASE UTILIZE HIM MORE, SHOW.

- The Hotch/Garcia scenes mean everything to me but this one in particular was just *happy sigh*:


I will ship this insane grumpy/sunshine pairing until I die, I think. If I get no other joy from Criminal Minds, at least I will have them.

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Stargate SG-1:

- It's been a stressful few weeks for me and the other day I needed a day of Comfort Show Binging so I chose SG1/Atlantis. And I must report after rewatching a handful of specifically chosen SG1 episodes, I'm back on my Sam/Cam bullshit.


I was ruminating on it and wondering to myself why is it that Cam/Sam wasn't more popular, pairing-wise? Was it because by season 9/10 we were all kinda tired? I mean I know I was, I was angry at the show for a lot of reasons and I actually resented Cam at first, it took me a long time to warm up to him and then longer yet for me to decide I actually love his stupid macaroon-eating ass. But even still, you'd think as the sort of main het pairing option, it'd have gotten more fans. But alternately maybe everyone was too distracted by Daniel/Vala (which I could unfortunately never get into) to care about Sam/Cam which, by comparison, was tame and probably boring to some. But everything about Sam and Cam's interactions together really do it for me. Sam is so different with Cam than she was with Jack. She had to control herself around Jack, had to reign in her emotions, because he was her superior. But I think with Sam and Cam being equals, plus the (inferred) backstory of them being old academy buddies, they just had an easy affection and that worked for me. Also a lot of their Moments are specifically hurt/comfort-based and welp that's one of my kryptonites, so.

I wanted to read some Sam/Cam fics so I went to AO3, as one does, and there's only 155 completed works in the archive. And I wrote two of those! I've written 1.3% of all Sam/Cam fics on AO3!! Lol. I'm just sad it's such a low number of fics. Forever wanting more people to ship my ships.

Ancestry DNA tests were on sale this past prime day, so Chris and I ordered one for each of us. I should have my results in about 2-3 weeks.

I am very curious to see the results, although I know through family history generally where my roots are from. I'm Italian, Portuguese, German on dad's side, and English, Welsh, Scottish, Swedish, French on mom's side. So we'll see how the DNA results come back to compare and contrast. All told, I am a typical American mutt, so the results don't matter all that much in the scheme of things. It's just for funsies!

I'm particularly interested in my Portuguese family thread, as my ancestors were specifically from the Azores, a set of islands far off the coast of Portugal. ( Waxing poetic about my Azorean roots. )

I finished Criminal Intent a week ago, and I am still deep in the throes of it. I'm now, uh, re-watching it. Because I'm going through and taking screencaps and taking note of some of my favorite moments from throughout the show. I'm posting it all on my tumblr, specifically under the tag my stuff.

And I'm also reblogging a lot of CI stuff, all tagged. I am dredging up super old posts to reblog, because the fandom is mostly dead. There are some others out and about there, but I do seem to be singlehandedly resurrecting the CI fandom (on tumblr anyway), so I'm proud of that, lol.

I am really enjoying my main project of selecting 10 caps per episode to showcase. The first four seasons in particular (before the show underwent some shakeups) were all shot really interestingly. Hard to describe, but it's just different from modern day filming styles. If I had to put it to words, I guess I would say the filming style is more slow.. deliberate. The camera spends a lot of time on shots just lingering on faces. And there are a lot of long shots, full body or waist-up, in particular putting the characters in their surroundings. It fits, because CI is the more cerebral of the L&Os, with minimal action. And there's just a nice texture to the film; I'm not sure if they used actual film (I mean, it is an old show, they may very well have been using actual film) but it has an older look to the first 4 seasons versus later in the show when it's clearly the same digital cameras all the other shows are using. Idk I'm not a film expert but that's just how it appears to me.


I've got the first 4 eps posted, and I have a few more queued already. So far every Saturday I spend the whole day rewatching+capping+processing+making posts, lol. I have not been this deep into a fandom in probably years. And it generally hinges on the incredible relationship between Goren and Eames. I love Cop Partners and their UST, but after thoroughly watching Criminal Intent, I think CI did it almost the best (beat out only by Mulder and Scully). They are so complementary and in step with each other all the time, and the chemistry between Vincent D'Onofrio and Kathryn Erbe is so perfect, that it just works. But anyway I won't go on and on about that, my last CI post covered quite a bit of my feelings on that.

I also try to pick out at least one moment per episode that either was an interesting character beat, or just a funny moment, and showcase that quote. And also I like to single out the screencaps whenever Bobby (because usually it's Bobby) has zero sense of personal space:


Like, this is insane? My shipper heart literally never stood a chance with these two.

I am also reading every remotely readable fanfic I can get my hands on, and I'm sorry to say I've already finished going through the offerings at fanfiction.net and AO3 (barely anything on AO3). I'm now trawling through old livejournal communities, because this fandom is Old and a lot of fics were written and posted before AO3 existed. There apparently used to be an archive for CI fics called Amorous Intent but it's long since died, and the wayback machine isn't able to retrieve the fics, so that's a sad loss for the world. I'm thinking of making some kind of fic recommendation master list but that will take a long time so it's backburnered for the moment.

Anyway if you are at all interested in my silly Criminal Intent screencaps and thoughts (just keysmashing in the hashtags) then head on over to my tumblr. I've been thinking also about some meta type posts but I don't have the brainpower for it at the moment. But I am going to be containing most of my general squeeing to there.

I also did write a fic because I had to get it off my chest. I have the outlines of a few more fics brewing, so maybe I will write more, for the collected fandom of about 4 other active people, lol.


Somehow this post went on about 10x longer than I expected it to, oops.