I'm participating in yuletide this year! (Hence the mood. Besides, I haven't used moods for the longest, but then the Chuck/Sarah .gif theme set is pretty much perfection and epic, so I can't not use it. Anyway, ahem.) I offered to write for some pretty predictable fandoms on my end, so you know my usual suspects -- although I'm not without surprises!

(Also how sad am I that Power Rangers as a franchise isn't up for yuletide?! There are seasons I would love to write for, like Time Force and In Space! Most of the tens of thousands of fics at Fanfiction.net are either from MMPR/Dino Thunder or Jungle Fury, along with the handful of all-seasons fics. Sad face! Not that I don't love the MMPR/DT fics, because I do, obviously -- and I don't really care for JF either way, heh -- but let me put it this way. Good PR fics are hard to get by!)

But anyway, I'm excited to be writing for something and (hopefully) making somebody happy with their requests! As with getting my own request filled, so without further preamble:

( Dear Secret Santa! )

CHUCK IS COMING BACK JANUARY 10!
THREE EPISODES IN TWO DAYS!!
NO BREAK THROUGH THE OLYMPICS!!!
(S2 DVDS ON JANUARY 5TH DON'T FORGET GUYS)
http://ausiellofiles.ew.com/2009/11/19/scoop-chuck-returns-january-10/
http://www.thrfeed.com/2009/11/chuck-premiere-date-.html
http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/entertainment_tv/2009/11/chuck-sets-season-3-return-date.html

ETA: LOL FOREVER CHUCK SEASON 3 KEY ART
ETA2: CHUCK SEASON 3 PREVIEW FOR NON-US PEEPS

• Things I want to talk about today, in the order the episodes were aired this week:
-- ( How I Met Your Mother 5x07: The Rough Patch )

-- ( The Big Bang Theory 3x07: The Guitarist Amplification )

-- ( Glee 1x09: Wheels ) Also, Mike Chang is my homeboy. Someone get him more screen time, stat. xD

-- Bones was okay but not memorable this week, so was The Office. (PS, I'm sad that Erin/Ryan won't get anywhere, because that would be interesting to see, no? He's such a creepy douchebag, hahaha. But I love BJ Novak, sigh.)

-- ( Flashpoint 3x08: The Good Citizen )

And congratulations to Flashpoint for winning the Gemini Award for Best Dramatic Series, and Enrico Colantoni who won Best Actor in a Dramatic Series! He was up against Hugh Dillon, heh. Sad that Amy Jo didn't win Best Actress, but hey, at least we can hold in our comfort what a long way she's come since Kimberly Hart, the first Pink Ranger. ;)

• I'm liking my Yuletide assignment! As per the rules I can't say what it is, but I'm really excited to write it - even have an idea what it'll be about, too. :)

• Zachary Levi could have been Fandral the Dashing, CRIES! Then again, he couldn't be in the Thor movie because Chuck got picked up for six more episodes, so I'm all DILEMMA, FLAILS. (He could have been Thor himself, as the producers have asked him to audition for the lead!! But he turned it down because he wanted to keep the integrity of the comic intact because he doesn't feel he's as big and beefy as Thor should be!!! I LOVE THIS MAN, I REALLY DO.) My heart weeps... and soars for extra Chuck, I don't know. I'm torn. ( Spoilery talk for Season 3! ) So all I'm really saying is that the last six episodes better be kickass and chock-full of Charah shippery goodness, or I will cry for the lack of Zachary Levi in Thor when I watch it.

Guys, I'm watching Season 1 of The Big Bang Theory and I am loving. it. I watched the pilot maybe a year ago but it didn't like, jump up and down for me to continue it, but then today (while procrastinating, what else) I started the second episode, and now I'm on 1x07, and I literally laughed out loud without realizing that I was going to laugh out loud, and I never usually really do the HAHAHAHA thing offline (I'm more of a giggly, hehehehe softly person) but I definitely did just do that from this exchange:

(While playing Halo:)
Leonard: Penny, you're on fire!
Penny: Yeah, so is Sheldon!

LAUGHING. OUT. LOUD. Now I need TBBT icons! And also, I think I'm shipping Penny/Sheldon, even if I think the show's pushing for Leonard/Penny (are they? Spoil me, I don't really mind!), and Penny/Sheldon are sizzling.

ALSO, Chuck being ordered for 6 more episodes and Trauma being canned is pretty much the best news ever yesterday. Sorry if you watch and like Trauma (I didn't watch the pilot >.<) but that means a highly probable chance of NBC bringing Chuck back on air in January alongside Heroes again, so. Exclamation points!!

(And thinking of picspamming all Chuck/Sarah scenes, or just my top 15. Which, guys? :D)