Wild Wild West blather

I'm making my way through season 2 now. I'm not sure how I feel about the shift to colour between seasons. On the one hand, really pretty costumes in colour (I do love a man in a brocade waistcoat, it may be a thing, and the cravats/neck cloths certainly don't hurt either, not to mention Artie's frilly shirts - damn, these men are clothes-horses), on the other, there's a certain je ne sais quoi about black-and-white westerns. Heh. Perhaps I should just settle on liking both.

There's an episode in S2, though, that kinda illustrates the difference between Jim and Artie's styles when it comes to getting things done. They spend the whole epsiode fighting a gang of six international criminals (seven, but one was killed by internal strife as they got there, and eight including the boss-lady). By the end of it, they've each taken out three apiece. Jim, he takes out all of his three in straight-up physical altercations (rather handily, at that). But Artie, Artie takes out two of his three by manipulating their fellows into killing them for him, without ever lifting a hand towards them himself. If the person he was impersonating hadn't shown up, he might have winnowed them down even further. *whistles*

*grins* Is it bad of me to admire low cunning over physical mastery? *shakes head at self* I really do have this thing for tricky, devious people, don't I?

Oh! Also, I've finally seen the episode where Artie plays 'Pierre Gaspard', thrown out of the French Foreign Legion 'for the good of the service'. *grins at him* Oh, he does play an utter scoundrel so well. *grins* I love watching con-men and master-of-disguise characters. It's watching an actor playing a character playing a character, and it's awesome. Artie's going right up there with Faceman, and Rollin Hand, and the Leverage crew. *grins, bounces*

You know, I think I love this show. *beams*

Prompt me?

Okay, it's 4am right now, so in a minute I really have to go to bed, or I'm going to fall over where I sit. Before I go, just putting this up. Usual story:

Fandom, characters/pairing, prompt

Not sure how many I can guarantee, but we'll see what happens. Heh.

Fandom-wise, I will caution, I'm not so much for Supernatural these days. I've missed all of S6, and haven't been liking what I've heard about it. But if you want something, try me anyway, and we'll see. Heh.

Request Ficlet 1

Wild Wild West first, because that's where my mind is today. Heh. The boys went all established-relationship on me. *grins*

Title: Negotiations
Rating: PG-13
Fandom: Wild Wild West (TV)
Characters/Pairings: Jim/Artie
Summary: A new waistcoat leads to some heated negotiations
Wordcount: 815
Warnings/Notes: For bradygirl_12, prompt 'waistcoats'
Disclaimer: Don't own

( Negotiations )

Rather Random Norse Myth Question

If you were Sleipnir, would you consider Loki to be your mother or your father? Considering that he was biologically female when he gave birth to you (also biologically a horse, but that's neither here nor there), but is now/usually biologically male, and personality-wise has pretty much always been male? *muses* I'd lean towards 'father' myself, but technically speaking ...

Edit: Changing 'personality-wise' to 'identity-wise', because a personality is not a gender, and I think the phrasing is confusing people -_-; My apologies.

Further Edit: Can I just say? One of the reasons I adore mythology so is that it leads you into some fascinating discussions. *grins happily*

Request Ficlet 2

Helen, this time. Sort of randomly turned into a tag for 3x16 Awakening, and equally randomly turned vaguely Helen/Nikola-ish. *shrugs sheepishly*

Title: Picking Up The Pieces
Rating: PG-13
Fandom: Sanctuary
Characters/Pairings: Helen Magnus, Nikola Tesla, mention of more-or-less everyone. Vague Helen/Nikola
Summary: In the wake of Awakening, Helen looks back
Wordcount: 1255
Warnings/Notes: For grav_ity, prompt: picking up the pieces
Disclaimer: Not mine

( Picking Up The Pieces )

Random

*growls* I've some strange fascination with adverbs, you know that? For some bizarre reason, any time I type a word that ends in -ible/-able/-al, my fingers automatically turn it into -ibly/-ably/-ally. And I don't know why. So it becomes 'casually', 'actually', 'capably', 'impossibly', etc. *grumps* And I never catch it, either. Neither does the spellchecker.

Damn weird mental auto-complete, bloody thing ... *grumbles*