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| 2008-05-10 18:38 |
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Hey, ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) selenak! I saw Julie Be-enz, I saw Julie Be-enz!
...very briefly, because I didn't have enough money for an autograph and she didn't look very happy to be there anyway, but I still saw her.
Yes, I was at Emerald City Comicon, and I didn't actually do much there besides briefly see Julie Benz and grab a few books (the new Courtney Crumrin collection--damn, they certainly took their time with that one--and a couple Wondermark books; Malki! himself was there, and he was very sweet and self-effacing) and a Master action figure--ahahah, it is horrible, and it only comes with the laser screwdriver, but I had to get it. Alas, I didn't have enough money to get Jack (in his Empty Child attire) or the Weeping Angel, and I would've liked to get K-9, but he only came with a Rose I already had...when are they going to make a Donna figure? They need to make a Donna figure. And a Sarah Jane figure. And a Jack figure in something other than his Empty Child attire, although I suppose that would be a Torchwood figure.
You know, I'm far too interested in things that I never use for anything other than decorative purposes. I know that other people have it far worse--I confine my madness to Doctor Who, for the most part--but it's still a bit odd to realize that I've just spent $50 on action figures. (Not today. Today was only $12. Last year at Comicon proper, however...)
I am not going to put my Ten and Master figures in a compromising position. I am not. That would be crude. But if I did, Martha, Rose, and the TARDIS would get to watch. It's only fair.
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Re: the crossover-snippet meme: I will get back to it, I promises, it is just that there are so many and not all of them have River in them. (Apparently, they are much easier to write if they have River in them.) Just to make y'alls aware.
Also forthcoming: Due South in Fifteen Minutes and A Comprehensive Character Analysis of Ray Kowalski; I don't know when they're forthcoming, exactly, I just know that they are. In case you were wondering. You probably weren't, but that's okay.
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| 2008-04-04 22:41 |
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It gets easier.
Well--sort of. There's a reason I find it hard to read Buffy or Angel stories; even if they're happy, they make me think about things, and maybe it's been months since I saw their respective finales but I still don't want to think about those things. I downloaded an Angel vid, an absolutely brilliant one that summed up the whole series, that made me cry my eyes out, and I kept it on my hard drive but I don't think I'll be watching it again any time soon. And I can't really think of Firefly the same way after I saw Serenity. Joss, honey, you're brilliant, but you frequently make me want to curl up in a corner. Thankfully, you're probably one of a kind. I sure as hell hope so.
I've told you all my story about the two hours between hearing about the second season finale of Heroes and seeing the second season finale of Heroes, and it's actually quite a good story, but unfortunately it does not really apply in this case, because, y'know, the reason it's a good story is because I explained some very good reasons as to why the Heroes writing staff could not possibly be that stupid. Which is great and all if you're talking about Heroes, but I'm not actually talking about Heroes, and, unfortunately, the show that induced me to talk about this...well, it doesn't have that great a track record of "not being stupid". Alas.
It is a well-documented fact that it is a peril to watch a currently-running TV show if the show is prone to large amounts of drama. Again, see Heroes. And Lost, and Battlestar Galactica, and anything by HBO or Joss Whedon. (He's got a new show in development, did you hear? I'm already afraid.) At least with shows that have already ended, well, you know, or you have some idea; you don't live quite on the same edge of your seat. Although I did mention the Buffy and Angel thing. Okay, so it's kind of crap whether or not the show is still running; my point is, you love drama, you have to be prepared to get burned, because drama does not love you. Drama likes to watch you suffer. Sometimes, of course, it makes you ecstatically happy, and sometimes it's so jaw-droppingly brilliant that you know you could never stop watching, but one must always be aware that loving a dramatic TV show is akin to an abusive relationship. And you can't distance yourself from it to numb the pain, either; if you do, you've missed the entire point of a drama. Drama should affect you. If it doesn't, why watch? And if it does, why can't you stop?
Then, of course, there is the quiet joy of watching a show you know will not break your heart; casting shake-ups aside, nobody's ever going to die on House, and while Pushing Daisies may be entirely about death, it's never actually going to kill anyone we care about. In Chuck, the only actual hey-this-character-is-intriguing death, well, he's feeling better, he thinks he'll go for a walk...the Winchester brothers are proven to be immune from permanently kicking it, soul-selling aside (and what, you think that's actually going to do the trick?). I'm not even going to mention the Stargate universe. How high's the count on Daniel again? Seven? Eight? One of the best things about watching Due South is that, well, it's been over for over a decade, I already know how it ends, and I already know it's basically the happiest, slashiest ending ever. Although Due South actually does have its moments of drama and did kill a character and kick two other characters out, but I didn't really care about the dead guy, both of the absentees got appropriate send-offs, and one of the absentees actually came back, so basically I'm just rambling at this point.
And since I'm rambling, I'd like to point out that Doctor Who is starting up again this week, and that is possibly the show most notorious for ripping your heart out without actually killing anyone, which is surprising given the sheer amount of NPC deaths it manages to rack up every episode. Stupid Whoniverse. At least the Sarah Jane Adventures isn't ever going to go dramatic, right? Right? Oh god please tell me I'm right, I don't think I could handle it if I'm not. They're kids, for Christ's sake! Keep your melodramatic claws off them, Russell T Davies!
Anyway, to get back to the very original point of this post: it gets easier. Well--sort of. Rambling helps, actually. Why else did you think I was doing this? To entertain you lot? Yeah, right. I wanted to do that, I'd get back to writing lots of Heroes fic again. Or writing at all again. No, it's my journal, its contents are subject to my whims. So I don't actually need to have a point to all this, because it's late and I'm not sure I've entirely processed some stuff yet and I'd like to get back to my Canadian happy place. So goodnight, y'all, and if you still have no idea what I'm talking about, consider yourself lucky, you bastard. futuresoon out.
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| 2008-03-29 21:19 |
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Speaking in a purely theoretical manner, mind you, were there to be some sort of ridiculously large picture featuring all the major slash pairings I can think of, 1) would femslash be included, because really I can only think of Buffy/Faith and they'd be very lonely if they were the only ones, and 2) would Captain Jack Harkness have to be there with Ianto, or could he just be there on his own? I mean, I wouldn't really say Jack/Ianto is one of the largest pairings out there, but it would be unforgivable to not include Jack.
(This is about 80% theoretical, mind. I'm not nearly comfortable enough with my art abilities to do it yet, and also I've kind of never drawn, oh, almost all of them. Still, I've actually got quite a good list so far: Kirk/Spock, Starsky/Hutch (let it never be said that I cannot go old-school), Jim/Blair, Fraser/RayK, Mulder/Krycek, Angel/Spike, Jack/Daniel, John/Rodney, Doctor/Master, Clark/Lex, Sam/Gene, Sam/Dean, Nathan/Peter, House/Wilson, and wasn't there some Highlander pairing or another? I would prefer not to leave things out just because I'm utterly unfamiliar with them. It must be comprehensive. So, if there's anything I've missed, feel free to chime in.)
Oh, and: no, I haven't forgotten about the latest episodes of Torchwood; I've been a bit incredibly busy, so I haven't bothered to write anything up about them, but I shall make a post combining all of them probably sometime in the following week. Let me just say that I loved 'A Day in the Death', was pleasantly surprised by 'Something Borrowed', thought 'Out of the Rain' had so much more potential than what they gave it, don't actually have very much to say about 'Adrift' at all, and am torn between quite liking some parts of 'Fragments' and narrowing my eyes at others. Don't you fucking do that to UNIT, Chris Chibnall. I barely know them and I'm still defensive of them.
Right. Off to go read more porn about a character I haven't met yet. Ta!
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It looks as if you will not get your Valentine's Day present from me today, especially considering that the day is already over for most of you; as it turns out, my old laptop is very much remaining a bitter hag, and maybe tomorrow she will let me save the damn thing as a proper movie file, but tomorrow is not today. I think she knows that this will be the last thing she'll ever do, and she wants to put it off as long as possible, but all things must come to dust, dear. I just wish you could undust yourself for half an hour so you could save the culmination of weeks of work. ...I so want to make an icon of nerd!Owen working on something, but I'm not sure what it would say and I don't want this to be another thing like Glitch where I make a bazillion icons and never use half of them.
Also, Tosh, Owen does not look like a rodent; he looks like a frog. I'M SORRY BUT IT'S TRUE.
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| 2008-01-15 21:30 |
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Having just seen the first episode of Psych: yeah, so, I'm doomed. At least this one has comparatively short seasons. Also, hey, it's Cutthroat Bitch! She's pretty. Her partner is not so pretty. Shawn is very pretty, even if he has a big nose. Actually he kind of looks like angsty Wesley, only without the angst. And the accent. And pretty much everything else that made Wesley Wesley, except for the tendency to know stuff that comes in handy for saving the day. I have decided, for entirely understandable and possibly prescient reasons, that Psych is the anti-Dead Zone; instead of a psychic who lives in Maine and works with the police and his black best friend, all of whom trust him absolutely, we have a guy who pretends to be a psychic and lives in California where he works with the police and his black best friend, none of whom trust him at all. Also so far Shawn has very few vendettas against political candidates destined to destroy the country, and he seems pretty happy. Also: no illegitimate children. These are very important things, I am sure.
In addition to kind-of-accidentally watching the first episode of Psych (I put the first season on our Netflix queue a long time ago, because I couldn't find a torrent for it, but I forgot about it, until the first disc came in the mail today and I decided what the hell), I've been getting rather heavily into the Sarah Jane Adventures, because it is like Doctor Who only with less dying and more middle-aged ladies kicking ass. (It helps that the episodes are only 26 minutes long and there are only ten of them.) It is nice to see a show in which one does not have to place a great deal of emotional involvement; I can just sit back, relax, and enjoy the cheesy kids-show dialogue. Plus the middle-aged lady kicking ass. And the occasional references to UNIT. I hear tell that UNIT will be involved in the fourth season of Doctor Who, and Sarah Jane actually mentions calling the Brig, so: I need to watch more classic!Who episodes featuring that particular gang, which is of course why I have started acquiring episodes from well before that; I've got The Very First Episode of Doctor Who Ever, and another one from One, and I think one from Two. My education: impending.
I've also got the pilot of Sarah Connor Chronicles waiting for me, and I am hearing vaguely good things about it, even though this is the show that yanked Zach away from Heroes (damn you, Fox, and your dislike of the gay), so I am sure I will get into that. Plus the latest episode of SGA, and Lost is going to start up soon, and there's a couple more episodes of House lurking on the horizon, and at least one or two more episodes of Chuck, plus the rest of SGA, and the return of Torchwood and Doctor Who, and...well, let it suffice to say that the writers' strike is not actually helping to curb my wild and crazy lifestyle.
(I should probably finish the rest of Entourage at some point, too.)
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Oh my god, I'm talking about pro-fic: you know you've got an interesting story when you realize that a problem that has been plaguing you for some time can be solved quite neatly by merely changing the gender of one of the characters involved.
The problem being, actually, that there is this tendency in media to make it so that No Gay Couple Is Allowed To Remain Both Alive--see: Brokeback Mountain, Rent, Buffy--and I sort of wrote myself into a corner where a certain character has to die to kick off the ultimate dramatic impact of the story, but he's half of a gay couple, so...hey, let's make the other guy a woman! This also stops it from being too like Rent--this is not Rent In Space, dammit, and I've already got one (adorable, and completely death-free) gay couple plus a pair of characters who kind of fall into their own category when it comes to gender and sexuality, so I needed to het it up a bit anyway. (There is some already--and all of this makes it sound like the story is all about romantic entanglements, which it really, really isn't. Dad says the best way to pitch anything to a Hollywood executive is to say that it's X meets Y, and this is a comic, not a movie, but it's still a very convenient way of making things sound interesting, so: it's The Truman Show meets the fall of Rome, in space. Well, not that much in space. In Earth orbit. Which is still space.)
(I'm going to bed now.)
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Stolen from shizuka_blooms, even though I will probably spend most of these staring at the screen and wondering exactly why I chose to make myself Think about stuff: pick a fandom, and I will tell you:
1. The first character I fell in love with:
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now:
3. The character everyone else loves that I don’t:
4. The character I love that everyone else hates:
5. The character I would shag anytime:
6. The character I’d want to be like:
7. The character I’d slap:
8. A pairing that I love:
9. A pairing that I despise:
10. Favorite character:
11. What are your five favorite things about your fandom?
12. What are your five least favorite things about your fandom?
13. Who are your five favorite characters?
14. Who are your five least favorite characters?
15. What are your five favorite pairings?
16. What are your five least favorite pairings?
17. Which character are you most like?
18. What is your deep, dark fandom secret?
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| 2007-12-29 11:40 |
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As promised, the final answer sheet (plus extras) for the meme.
...holy crap, I just spent two and a half freaking hours on this, I need to go and do something productive now. *goes to do that, or to attempt to do that*
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| 2007-12-28 10:11 |
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In response to the previous meme, here are the ones that have already been guessed:
1) Heroes - Nathan. I am surprised that some of you thought it was Peter--have I been raving on about Milo Ventimiglia when I'm not looking?
2) Doctor Who - The Master. I actually feel vaguely guilty about this one; I harbor secret tendencies towards the belief of If It's Popular, It's Not Good--yeah, yeah, shameful, I know. Also I feel vaguely guilty because this is based entirely upon the new series and I barely know his older counterparts at all, but that's pretty much constant with this show anyway.
3) Pushing Daisies - Ned. Oh, Lee Pace, you can bake my pies any day...
4) Chuck - Bryce. Of course, I think this is largely based upon my personal canon of him--I'm not really big on the whole Still Wants Sarah thing--but that does not change the Zork and the Klingon and the You Can't Have Chuck, He's Too Good For You, so what the hell.
5) Reaper - No, it's not the Devil, surprisingly enough. Keep guessing.
6) Torchwood - And no, it's not Captain Jack. I said this one was tricky.
7) House - Kutner hasn't been around long enough, and besides, I've stuck with one guy since season one. Wilson.
8) Lost - This one's a bit tricky too, actually...now that I think of it, I have two. One of them's Charlie. Dammit.
9) Stargate Atlantis - Nobody's going to guess this one. Seriously, nobody. Even people who are extremely familiar with the show and my personal tastes will not get it. I suspect I shall have to throw this one in as a freebie once all the others are guessed.
10) Profit - No, not Profit; Profit's a gimme. We're actually going with my Favorite Character Who Is Not Profit, here, who is...Gail. She likes cars.
11) Angel - Wesley! Man, I loves me some Wesley. I loved him the moment he showed up on Buffy and I didn't even know why. I loved his transformation throughout Angel--well, okay, actually I kind of hated how he had to transform into an emotionless bastard separated from the gang and thus the chemistry that made him even cooler, but at least he got better from that. And then came the finale. Dammit.
12) Supernatural - John! Dean's a sexist pig and Sammy's a whiny emo with a weird-lookin' face (not that this stops me from liking them, of course, but it kind of puts them out of the running for this particular position), but John is Mysterious and Dramatically Interesting and Really, Really Hot. mmmm, John.
13) Entourage - Really, how could it not be Ari? Runners-up: Shauna and Mrs. Ari, because they are 1) awesome and 2) the only good female characters in that show, which is a good thing because there are no other female characters. Well. Sloane, I think that was her name? I haven't seen much of her, but I've already developed a seething dislike of her. My god, does she even have any flesh on that body of hers, or is it all just tightly-wrapped skin?
14) Dexter - Dexter's cool and all, but like Profit, we're going with Favorite Character Who Is Not Dexter. Keep guessing.
15) Carnivale - Yay, some people have heard of it! But none of them got it right. Keep guessing.
So, the ones still needing guesses--Reaper, Torchwood, Lost (well, half), SGA, Dexter, and Carnivale. Feel free to guess again; it's not like there are Rules about this.
ETA: Ahhahaaha we just got a phone call from SCAD, and FIFTEEN THOUSAND DOLLAR SCHOLARSHIP, BITCHES, I am motherfucking awesome. Well. Awesome at taking tests. Yeah, yeah, top 5% of the nation, your criteria aren't exactly the most thoughtful and creative of things...
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| 2007-12-27 23:07 |
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Nabbed from shizuka_blooms.
a. post a list of 15-20 tv shows you love (current or cancelled)
b. have your friends list guess your favorite character from each show.
c. when guessed bold the line and write a little bit about why you like that character, or your favorite quote. (include a picture if you want!) (I will do a full post for that once the majority of them are guessed.)
1) Heroes. Yeah, yeah, that one's easy.
2) Doctor Who. Less easy, I hope.
3) Pushing Daisies.
4) Chuck.
5) Reaper.
6) Torchwood. It's trickier than you think.
7) House.
8) Lost.
9) Stargate: Atlantis.
10) Profit. (47_trek_47, this one's for you.)
11) Angel. (Not Buffy, because for Buffy I honestly have no idea.)
12) Supernatural. Go on, I dare you. It is something I have never mentioned.
13) Entourage.
14) Dexter.
15) Carnivale, because I live in the vague hope that someone out there will have seen it.
Also, having just watched Doctor Who's Voyage of the Damned, here are some things:
1) They really, really don't like angels, do they.
2) The first thing my mom said was (before the whole futurething was revealed) "The real reason the Titanic sank was because of the weight of all the time travelers." I love my mom.
3) Actually, my mom's name is Astrid, which might be a sign. And Astrid is an anagram for TARDIS, which might also be a sign.
4) Can it be Donna now plz? Am tired of seeing people leave/die. Also, Donna.
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There is a bit in Buffy the Vampire Slayer where two characters who pretty much hate each other get in each other's faces during an argument and then they pause and the music swells to a purposefully ridiculous degree and they make out like mad things. That is basically exactly what I picture whenever I think about writing a scene with first-time make-outs in it.
This is, of course, something I felt you needed to know.
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This is my comforting post; it is comforting. It talks about some other stuff, too, but its primary purpose is for comfort.
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The Reaper story is finished--4000 words in three days wtf--so, as promised to harena, here is a convenient and well-timed summation I have decided to call Reaper in 15 Minutes. I don't think it'll actually take that long, but it might if you have dial-up, because beyond this point lie many, many images. None of them are really huge in filesize, but added up, they might be a bit distressing. You have been warned. It is perhaps worth mentioning that when I first heard of this show, I was under the impression it was something of a Buffy/Angel clone--and not happy-Buffy/Angel, either. I expected angst and broody woe-is-me-in-my-broody-trenchcoat, perhaps with a side of blood and violence.
I think it is entirely possible that I have never been quite as wrong in my entire life.
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Having acquired the DVD of the first season of Supernatural--
No, wait, there's a bit before that. Okay. Got a friend-ish-person named Megan. Megan's generally pretty cool. She's a big anime fangirl, but she seems to have some taste in that respect. Actually she doesn't, but she's not annoying about it. Anyway. Fangirl, like I said. Maybe a week ago, at school we're eating lunch together, and this other girl I guess Megan knows walks up and asks her if she'll take a look at this story the girl wrote. Megan says yes, the girl thanks her, gives her a notebook, and walks off. Megan reads a bit of the first page, looks at me despairingly. Thus follows a brief conversation on the nature of young fanfic writers, because that girl indeed was one and the story was indeed a product of such. Inu-Yasha, apparently. Anyway. I'd known for a while that Megan read and probably wrote fanfic, but I hadn't thought about it lately (only really got in touch with her again a couple weeks ago, when school started). It reminded me, that's all.
The following week, which would be this week, Megan mentions that she's really looking forward to the DVD release of the second season of Supernatural. I tell her I've been wanting to see that show for some time now, and I forget if I asked her or if she offered, but however it happened, she said she would let me borrow the first season, and she brought it to me today. Happiness! Today at lunch, I looked over the back of the DVD and remembered that she read fanfic.
ME: You read fanfiction, right?
MEGAN: Yeah.
ME: Do you read Supernatural fanfiction?
MEGAN: Sometimes.
ME: ...do you read what the majority of Supernatural fanfiction is about?
MEGAN: You're talking about Wincest, aren't you.
ME: I really, really am.
The conversation continues and it turns out that she's completely okay with the concept and does, in fact, read it; she says it's 'too easy'. We start talking about slash in general, and other shows and things that make it 'too easy'; she mentions a lot of anime I've never heard of, I mention House, she mentions Harry Potter (not just Remus and Sirius, but the two newest and most random pairings in the fandom--which, ah, well, you'd have to read the epilogue to Deathly Hallows to meet them, so I won't go into that), she mentions Ouran High School Host Club and we spend a little bit squeeing over how terribly amusing that one is, I mention Doctor Who and Torchwood and Ocean's 11 and Lost, she mentions Fire Emblem and Kingdom Hearts...you get the picture. Eventually, I mention Heroes, and the subject spins back to where it started, which is to say: brothers. Totally brothers.
She's only a few episodes into Heroes (she just got the DVD), and she likes the show, and, if not displaying massive enthusiasm about it, seems quite accepting of this particular strain of BroYay. (That's a term. It's a good one.) I told her she'd find this really inexplicably awesome pairing around episode 15 or so, we talked about ship names and so on (Wincest is way too easy, but Rocketshipping--for Pokemon--is kind of hilarious); in general, it was deeply cool. ANYWAY. That's only part of the point.
The point is, having acquired the DVD of the first season of Supernatural, I've now seen the first four episodes, and my thoughts on it are: it is pretty much everything I was told it would be. Not particularly brilliant (though I do like the random bits of Real Mythology thrown in there, like the rock salt), but certainly good, and the writers do seem to be having fun. The acting is also good. Which brings me to the most significant thing I noticed about the show.
Now, the main actors are fine and everything, but it is the supporting casts of each episode (the two mains are, so far, the only recurring characters) that surprise me. Nothing in the pilot, but the second episode opening credits roll 'round and I go oh my god, Callum Keith Rennie (played Ray Kowalski in the third seasn of Due South); while I haven't actually seen the season he's in, I certainly know of him, and that makes me surprised and happy to see him. He hasn't aged well (Due South was ten years ago), but at least he's got work. Third episode. Opening credits: oh my god, Amy Acker. She looks and sounds exactly like she did as Fred in Angel, to the point where I had to remind myself that she was playing someone completely different and she wasn't going to start spouting off about physics. Fourth episode. I'm now expecting this. Opening credits: Jaime Ray Newman...huh. The name rang a distant bell, but I didn't really recognize anyone. The character she was playing didn't look unfamiliar, but she didn't look terribly remarkable either. So I check out IMDB. Oh my god, it's Lieutenant Cadman. From SGA. Only in a couple episodes, but she was damn good in both of'em, and the fandom likes her. (Accidental body-sharing. Initiated the series' only guy/guy kiss to date. So, yes, good.)
I don't think it's going to continue--well, I'd rather like it to, if only because it amuses me terribly--but hey, it was bizarre while it lasted. Who might be in the next episode? Perhaps That One Girl From Scrubs, You Know, The Annoying Blonde Who Died And Caused Much Sadness? Or maybe Justin Long! One never knows.
...also apparently there's some incesty subtext or something.
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Assorted things:
1. I'm getting wary of talking about things nobody else is really interested in.
2. But I need an outlet for this pent-up fannish flailing, so I'm going to keep doing it.
3. Out of deference to the rest of you, I'm going to consolidate all of the latest of it into one post, and behind a cut, so it may easily be skipped.
4. The numbers continue behind said cut.
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For those aficionados of both Buffy and Doctor Who who have not heard the news--James Marsters is going to be in Torchwood. And, oh yeah, there's gonna be gay. It is a clear sign that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
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Today I took the ACTs, and they were easy (as easy goes), and then I watched a Buffy, and then I watched another Buffy, and then I settled down and watched another episode of Buffy, which was Once More With Feeling, which was a glorious thing. Glorious. It could have used a tango--and the beginning did not transition well, I thought--but nevertheless it was a thing of glory. Musicals just make me happy. Let us be honest here, folks, I am no dancer, but afterwards, where no one could see me, I danced like a crazy mofo and damned if for the first time in my life it actually felt okay, not like a guilty pleasure where you dance like an idiot because no one's watching and you, yes, feel a little guilty because you suck at dancing but you still feel good because you did it anyway--no, it felt like it was a shame that nobody would ever see it, because it was the only time I knew I wouldn't be ashamed of it. Glorious.
And later, during dinner, my parents asked me why I looked so happy, so I told them and they asked questions and I answered them and I watched it again, with them. I explained the few plot points they really needed to know beforehand and they watched it and they thought it was brilliant. Dad asked me which season it was. I said the sixth, of course. He said, they managed to have that much energy after six seasons? I said, well, apparently it kind of dies down afterwards. He said, well, of course, they burned it all up with this one.
It was a good day.
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