we have canon!

omg, I have seen McKay and Sheppard move and talk. I managed to download an ep (thank you, thank you, o nemeless darling!), and then I couldn't see it, of course, despite new wizardry, but then I cleverly managed to download some sort of codec application and then something called a Doctor (Doctor Who??) and then, magically or anciently, my avi file transmorphed itself into a movie file and at first I could only hear voices but then I rebooted and now I'm seeing all of it,omg, it's fanfic come to life.

I am totally (and some might say, disturbingly) excited by this. It is Trinity, recced by all and sundry, and I will watch it over lunch!

I am so happy! Although I tormented poor old Draco earlier on today by writing some horrible pages about him, i.e. about horrible things that happen to him. But as David Mitchell said, there is nothing that gets plot going quite as much as inventing a character that the reader likes and then making horrible things happen to that character, preferably of the crime sort. I, of course, don't have to 'invent' the character; I just get to invent the horrible things, *gg*.

omg, I am a computer genius, I converted avi to mov, I can now LICK MY SCREEN. Except, argh, no, this is pristine LED and I am not having it licked or even breathed upon. *lightly passes FlyLady duster across surface of ibook in reverent awe*

the canon of sga

Well, here's the weird thing: Rodney and John did not kiss or even hug once. It was very perturbing. They were larger than life, they were fanon come to life, but they behaved so strangely and in such a restrained fashion, it was like seeing it all out of focus. Also, how somewhat spooky is it to see a show you've never seen before yet know all the names, all the backstories, all the meanings of all the gadgets, all the characterisations, all the places.

But goodness, slashers are truly alchemists: we turn shit into gold, and I love it. I love all SGA fic writers with even greater love after having seen the somewhat meagre material they have worked with. And oh, how they have wrung those interstices dry! Marvels upon marvels!

I did see Rodney's nipple! (omg liek wtf 111 &£@) And this is what slashers thrive on: such slim pickings! But I could just see all those fans who've been following this show going 'oooh err his NIPPLE', and had to laugh and rewind.

It was a clothed nipple. But still. Shit into gold, shit into gold!!

I can see now, though, why everyone's been going apeshit over the McKay/Sheppard pairing. I can totally see it.

The downside is that I faffed und fuffed and watched the SGA episode and wrote HP instead of marking the rest of my essays and finishing my article and writing my book!

So now I feel annoyed with myself and in a dejected, irritable mood. I shall print out some of the recced fic, retire to bed and go to sleep early for a shiny new start tomorrow. Unless the fic are of that variety that keeps me reading until 1 a.m.... !!

techie question nr one zillion and two

On my present operating system OS8.6, limping along but still standing, I always copy and paste fic from LJ straight into Word (Word 98). It formats without problem and I print it out.

On the new ibook, OSX, I did this and pasted into Word 2000 and whoa, all the formatting was lost. There was not a single paragraph break!

What to do??