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So I kinda didn’t make a deliberate post last week because I’d already whined about my executive dysfunction.

(Side note: I like that there is a term because it sums up in two words what I mean. On the other hand I hate using that term because it feels like an excuse. Like intellectually I know that I literally couldn’t do it even though I wanted to, but that little voice in the back of the head won’t shut up about being lazy).

Anyway, to be honest I nearly didn’t make a post this week because #same

There are 7 days in a week right? So how do they do this disappearing act thingy? Like thinking about the upcoming week and each day there seems to be a lot of them and then BAM, looking back I feel like I blinked and it’s Friday again.

I would love to say I don’t have the time but I totally do. This week was just a total loss in terms of getting anything done. I had an essay due in today and I submitted it with about 10 minutes to spare because I didn’t start writing it until 2 hours beforehand. What had I done all morning? Nada, zip, nothing.

It’s been that kind of week.

I want to write. I think about writing in every minute when it’s impossible for me to write. Then the moment I sit down TO write *crickets*

This is not the kind of status post I wanted to be writing. Honestly I was hoping to give some concrete progress. Like I outlined this story, and wrote x amount of words, and this chapter is drafted etc. etc. Yeah … nope.

Maybe next week.

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Just watched Black Lightning Season Two premiere and everytime I think this show couldn’t get more real it’s “wow they did that.”

This show is a gift honestly.

And it makes me want to write so much Lynn meta. I’m just enthralled with what they are doing with her character. It’s like they are taking every … ugh I can’t think of the words but you know how they often portray partners of superhero as “unsupportive” or “weak”. Well it’s like they take that and turn it on it’s head.

It’s like watching a masterclass in someone taking a trope I dislike and turning it into something wonderfully complex and with proper reasons and nuances and just …

I did not realise how much I had missed this show until the new season started. It’s just so intelligent and the core of it being family is so good. I suppose they weren’t very subtle with the theme of consequences but then there is a lot to deal with – and they are actually dealing with it!

It’s not “next plot point please” it’s “let’s resolve the mess we already got”.

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I just had to have a nap in order to have enough energy to watch TV *side-eyes self*

Anyway I have watched so much Warehouse 13 in the past week I really don’t feel like it BUT I really want to watch Jaime Murray. Hmm I don’t want to spoil myself but when I have finished the show I am totally going to see if YouTube has a compilation of all HG Wells scenes. Best part of the show I’m telling you.

Until then back to the start – better put on Hustle 🙂

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fuckyeaheliotspencer:

So I know this blog is fuckyeaheliotspencer, but I was thinking about making a list of best episodes for each character. For now, what are your favorite Parker episodes?

Omg I love Parker.

Erm the one with the psychic, which also has the awesome Eliot moment when Parker says something like “Can we kill him?” and Eliot is like “yeah I could arrange that” because dammit nobody upsets Parker.

The Broken Wing job in season 5 obviously with Parker’s broken leg.

The one where we meet Archie and go after that wheat company “no but it’s what we do”

Oh and the Girls Night Out Job! Where Parker asks Sophie for advice and says it would have been more fun with Hardison. Plus how caring she is with “Alice’s friend” which reminds me ofc of The Juror Job which started the whole thing.

Oooh the chocolate episode when she is hyper on chocolate, talks crazy fast, and has it all round her mouth and grins at the camera.

The Christmas episodes! Man Parker and Christmas. There is the scenes with Santa, and the one where she thinks Hardison can make it snow, the one where she gets money for a gift. I forget whether this was all one episode or more than one.

Oh and I definitely have to mention the one where she gets to jump off a building which is like 10 buildings stacked on top of one another.

I could go on all day.

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I was really looking forward to Jaime Murray’s introduction on Warehouse 13 and she hasn’t disappointed.

Can I resist googling? No I can not.

15 episodes? 15! 🙁 what a shame as there are 52 episodes left of the show.

I swear Jaime Murray is like, ugh I can’t think of the word, it’s been said about Robert Carlyle, how they used Rumple sparingly as somehow they thought less was more?

Less is never more.

More is more and there should always be more of the good stuff.

But seriously this character of HG Wells is inspired. In terms of the show up until now my favourite character was probably Claudia, followed by Mrs Frederick, then maybe Artie.

Pete is too much of an immature frat boy, who I don’t buy as a secret service agent to be honest, and Bering comes across weak. I know I shouldn’t say that but it feels like she mostly screams “Pete!” and does very little ass-kicking. I don’t dislike them so much as I just don’t find them at all compelling. I know they are the main characters but this would hardly be the first show where the supporting cast were the best bit (Alias I am looking at you).

Plus clearly I have a thing for the “artifact collecting trope”. I really like the National Treasure movies despite the fact that I generally can’t stand Nicholas Cage, The Librarians is currently one of my favourite things ever, and now this.

I really hope there is awesome HG Wells fanfic otherwise I’m going to get plot bunnies and as the old writing machine is a little broken, that is not a good thing.

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See, knowledge isn’t old or gnarled or knotted.It’s young, always growing. That’s the thing about knowledge. No matter how much you think you have, there’s always room to grow.

Flynn Carsen (The Librarians)

#I love this quote#their enthusiasm for learning is just one of the infinite reasons I have for loving this show so much#this is my 10000th post on tumblr the big 10k#and I thought I’d pick what it was#this quote just really resonates#tumblr milestone

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I’m watching Warehouse 13. It has been on my list for a really long time but the similarity to the Librarians convinced me to go for it.

The really funny thing is how excited they were at “two-way video communication”

I guess this show pre-dates the iPhone *sniggers*

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timelordthirteen replied to your post:
My brain right now… “You need to do the thing” …

Happy Executive Dysfunction day! #relatable

Oh yeah definitely. I spend most of my life going

“I want to do the thing!”

Why are you not doing the thing?

“I don’t know *cries* I really want to!”

But. you. are. not ??

*insert untold frustration, self-loathing and anger*

To be honest when I half-celebrated yesterday that I’d had a reasonably productive week that’s because it’s my first week in what feels like forever where I actually got on with stuff, rather than just spending my time yelling at myself for not doing stuff … which I’m kinda doing this morning.

Guess the holiday in productive land is over /slaps self *rolls eyes*

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I was just thinking to myself that maybe, definitely my problem with focusing today is that I’m waiting for a delivery. It’s like my entire brain is just trained on listening for the door, and there’s no room for anything else.

Buuuuut the package literally just arrived so no more excuses 🙂

Of course now I have the “ooooh new shiny” to resist hehe (it’s a DVD) but TV is for night-time, day is for productivity, or so I tell myself.

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My brain right now…

“You need to do the thing”

“But I need to do all these other things”

“You can only do one thing at a time. Do the thing.”

“But what about all these other things?”

*does nothing*