Happy Birthday Tesserae!

Wishing the Happiest of Birthdays to tesserae_ and hoping it's a very special day indeed. ::hugs you::

It's cold here; I think I'll bake you a virtual chocolate lava cake; they're nicely warming :-)

Can I just say...

I really, really, hate the relationship/dynamic between Gibbs and Jenny.

Really, really much.

Gack.

It makes both of them look immature and unprofessional.

::breathes::

Okay, I just had to get that off my chest.

Everyone else, I like, and I adore McGee, but keep Gibbs away from the director so he can be his proper Gibbs-y self, for the love of God.


(Watching 3.19; nearly caught up. Gibbs stroked Tony's hair! Aww.).

Gah. People.

Just did about ten seconds of searching on LJ-seek and found out that jabri, who was discovered to have been doing a nice little game of 'change the names and maybe people won't spot I copied it' has stolen more than one fic. God, I just don't get people sometimes.

She took this fic written by loopy_1981:

Afterglow

http://loopy-1981.livejournal.com/59725.html

Posted Feb 21 2005. The fic opens like this:

Laying here in his arms, feeling his skin against mine, my body curled into his, resting together. sedated.

My head tilts up so I can see his face, "do you think they know?"

"Know how could they? Why would you think that?" His hands run down my bare shoulder blades and rests at the small of my back.

and renamed it, changed the pairings, tweaked it here and there:

A Moment in Time

http://jabri.livejournal.com/1777.html

Posted Feb 20 2007. Her fic opens like this:

Laying here in his arms, feeling his flesh against mine, my body curled into his, resting together. Slave to this bliss.

"Do you think they know?"

"Hmmm? Why would you think that?" Lazily, his hand runs down my shoulder and rests at the small of my back.

I suppose she thinks the odd change of wording here and there makes it okay but it seems like a lot of hard work to me.

Wasn't hard work spotting it, though...

I'll just get back to writing my fic (all mine, just mine, typos and all, they're my words, mine) and finish rolling my eyes and shaking my head later.

ETA: The full details are in the post on stop_plagiarism here.

ETA2 LJ deleted. Oh, well. No loss.

Richard Burgi alert

He's about to be on in tonight's episode on Las Vegas, just about to start (and the next two, as well). Not sure how much of him we'll see (take that how you like;-)) and I've never seen it so I don't know what it's like but off I go.

And Cheryl Ladd is on it, too! It's a One West Waikiki reunion!

ETA OMG, he doesn't show until 35 mins in but he is looking good. ::fans self::

ETA2 You know, the show was kind of fun. Definitely going to be watching the next two.

It's amazing how RB can play Jim with such integrity and be the total hero and then play slightly sleazy characters like Karl and the guy tonight with such conviction.

Okay, yes, actor; I know that ::g:: It's just that most have a genre and stick to it; he's nicely versatile; and that short independent feature where he was a workman who changed to voiceovers, he was just as good doing Average Joe.