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| 2008-07-03 09:28 |
| and now i want to read all of these, dammit |
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Ship meme? Ship meme! It's better than being productive. (Note: is not actually better than being productive.)
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So I guess there's a girlcrush meme going around? And I figured, hey, why not. (This appears to be my response to all memes.) So, in no particularly save for the last one who really kcomes first:
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YOU KNOW, WHAT I REALLY NEED IS AN ICON THAT SAYS "HOLY FUCKING SHIT", BUT I'M KIND OF TOO FLAILY TO MAKE ONE RIGHT NOW
...and it's almost done.
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So, uh, they're not going to kill her, right? I mean, they only killed Astrid because she was a one-shot character anyway, they needed an excuse to get her out of the picture, and they only killed Adric because he was unpopular, and admittedly I've no idea why they killed Katarina and Sara but they were basically only one- or two-shot characters anyway, and Donna is not a one-shot character and decidedly not unpopular so clearly they have no reason to kill her, right?
...you know, over the past couple months, I've started to grow very apprehensive of weekends. Gee. Wonder why. But there's only two more to worry about, and then, gah. Gah.
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So I guess there is this meme? And, hey, why not.
You know how sometimes people on your friend's list post about stuff going on in their life, and all of a sudden you think "Wait a minute? Since when are they working THERE? Since when are they dating HIM/HER? since when???" And then you wonder how you could have missed all that seemingly pretty standard information, but somehow you feel too ashamed to ask for clarification because it seems like info you *should* already know? It happens to all of us sometimes.
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Adventures in Watching Almost Every Damn Episode of Doctor Who That is Possible to Find, part ten, special "Exits and Intros" edition:
I'm going to put Three away for a while, I think, until I finally decide to watch Inferno (and probably one of the other Liz episodes, too); I've been sidetracked long enough, and shall now head back to Four, Romana, and the Key to Time, until I go back and watch The Seeds of Doom because I haven't seen nearly enough Four-Sarah Jane and that was the last regular appearance of UNIT anyway. Allons-y!
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| 2008-05-19 17:17 |
| i know, you know, that i'm not telling the truth; i know, you know, you just don't have any proof |
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Late, late, yes, I know, it's my thing. *grumbles*
In other news, a conversation with ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) vanitashaze inspired me to create this.  Wee bit illegible, I know, but I had fun. In other other news, I've acquired a taste for Five/Ainley!Master without having seen any of their episodes; I think it's pretty well-established at this point that I'm a special person.
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| 2008-05-10 18:38 |
| i also bought a muffin, but i don't think any of you care about that, and rightfully so |
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Hey, 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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You know, the reason I waited to make this post was because I wanted to make an icon for it first. It's true. Shut up.
House tonight, and the weather forecast is reading MOAR GAY. Oh dear. JUST LET ME STICK WITH SOMETHING, I SWEAR TO GOD. *flails at the fandom gods*
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| 2008-04-26 11:35 |
| i am solving my 'i need an icon for this show' problem by, in fact, making an icon for each show |
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You know, I was going to say "man, that actor looks a lot like Sam, doesn't he", but then I remembered which show I was talking about and I had to clarify Sam Oliver; there are way, way too many damn Sams. (And all of their names end with -er. No, seriously. Oliver, Winchester, Tyler, Carter...it's a conspiracy of something, I'm sure.) Also, AHAHAHA I CAN'T BELIEVE THEY DID THAT.
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RAMBLE TIME.
I keep having these moments where, say, I'll be making lunch, and it will suddenly occur to me: in five months, I'll be doing this with food I paid for myself, or I read a fic that mentions a routine of a morning run, and I think: in five months, I'll have access to a fitness center I can use any damn time I want, or I look at an action figure in my room, and I decide: in five months, I'm going to take that with me, because it's cool and I want to have a tangible representation of who I am, and it's getting to the point where this is a near-constant buzz under my skin: Savannah, Savannah, sun and mid-day classes and East Coast TV feeds and auditioning for plays that PAY and more people with dyed hair than you could shake a stick at. Five months. Two months--less than, now--until I graduate, and then (less than) three months until I hop a cross-country plane and move in in a state I've been to once, a state where I don't know anybody (except the endless hordes of other people's relatives who, as they have been telling me, apparently live there, not that I would care, because I don't know them), a state where my mom says she's going to get me my own credit card, a state where I'll have to fill in an absentee ballot in November because my vote belongs here, dammit, a state where it won't be cold when you step outside at night, a state where it will not snow four inches in April, WTF. (It's mostly melting now.)
I can feel the slightest little bits of panic starting to creep in around the edges; none of my RL friends will be there, I won't be able to talk to my journalism teacher about Torchwood and Doctor Who, I won't be--in applied production any more, fuck, I'm actually crying now. My life is going to change. Sure, I'll keep in touch, there's email and I'm going to come back and see at least the spring show next year, drop by some old classes during my (rather long) winter break, but I won't be here. No more Lynnwood High School, no more Little Theatre, no more inexplicable ostrich in the long, fenced-up yard next to the school (there's a llama too, and a goat, and a donkey; nobody knows for sure why), no more sweet Jesus it's hailing again, I swear to God, the weather here is desperately trying to get in as much as possible before I abandon it for muggy heat in Georgia. Thunder, too. I like the sound of thunder, and, it occurs to me, I like being able to watch and listen to extreme weather from the comfort of a house; snow, windstorms, truly epic rain, what-have-you. Savannah gets rain, doesn't it? Sometimes?
Everything's going to change. Well, maybe 75%. I am pretty sure you lot will remain about the same, which is, believe me, a comfort. No matter where I go, the gay sex people will always be there! ...that's Doris Egan's phrase, not mine. No, seriously. She used it once in a Comicon panel I had the luck of going to. Although actually she ascribed it to one of her fellow writers on Smallville. The point is, life is weird, but kind of awesome, and so are you guys. Hugs all around, y'all.
...and I'm going to have to actually get a job there at some point, ye gods...
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You know, I could really get used to this 'being able to watch an episode soon enough that I'm not far behind everyone else' thing. I really could.
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| 2008-04-07 21:44 |
| i'm still waiting for an explanation on the bracelet, by the way |
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I realize most of you are probably sick of my endlessly talking about Due South--and yes, I realize I haven't talked about Heroes, since, oh, January, what with my sudden obsessions with, respectively, Torchwood, Psych, and Life on Mars, so maybe some of you have been skipping past my posts lately, which is fine, 'cause I do that too; I just want to make some vague acknowledgment that I am aware of how increasingly off-topic I've become. I have no doubt that the Heroes mojo will return in full force once the show does, it's just that there's so much other shiny stuff I've never seen before, and, well, shiny.
I could get all flaily plot-wise with Life on Mars, which is nice, because, y'know, it's cohesively good, and Heroes...somewhat less so. Psych was just fun, and Heroes never really was, except for the odd Hiro moment. (I miss those moments.) Torchwood had both fun and some surprising awesome character stuff, even if overall I think Heroes is the stronger show. Due South is fun, pretty (CKR and Paul Gross for the win, of course, but I'm kind of grooving on Ramona Milano too), and has moments that just make you stare and go "okay, I am 95% positive they would have made out in the next scene if they hadn't gotten distracted", and also it has scarily huge amounts of really great fanfiction all over the internets, which does not help at all. There's nothing quite like a ten-year-old fandom for accumulating stories. (Except, of course, for a fandom that's been around even longer than that; I'm kind of afraid of classic Trek fandom in that regard. I mean, I bet they could fill libraries.) Whereas I have read pretty much 80% of all the Heroes fanfiction I would be interested in. Also, Due South stories are happy and largely angst-free (although I have read a couple short, excellent and rather similar stories that made me want to 1. cry my eyes out and 2. write my own story along those lines, horrible person that I am), without all the problems that come from incest and all that. Why can't Heroes be happy? Oh, right. Drama. We've discussed that.
So, uh, this is my obligatory late-night rambling post; join me next time, when I dive fully over the cliff and post a comprehensive character analysis of Ray Kowalski. What, you think I'm kidding? I'm not kidding. Jesus Christ on a pogo stick. *hangs head*
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Dude, okay, I just remembered, amidst all the drama that was 'Exit Wounds', in that one most affecting scene, there was a moment that just made me sporfle (albeit in a rather "oh crap, they're being nostalgic, this can't be good" way):
(So clearly it does get easier, if I can still giggle about stuff that happened during it.)
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| 2008-04-04 22:41 |
| possibly my previous post may provide elaboration--hey, alliteration! and rhyme! |
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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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Dear Chris Chibnall and the rest of the associated writing staff,
Well, when I first made this post, the rest of it consisted of "Fuck you", but I thought about it and am now editing it to say "you know, in certain ways you could have done that better, although in certain ways it was suitable, and I may sort of understand why at least half of it was dramatically necessary, but I really don't get how the other half was necessary at all, and frankly the show would have worked just as well if you did not include either half, so basically what I am saying is: yeah, I'm not happy, but at least James Marsters was a bit cuter this time around, and hey, a few damn good episodes is better than none, although the other half never got a few damn good episodes so WTF fuck you in at least that particular regard".
Just, you know, to elaborate a bit.
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| 2008-03-29 21:19 |
| the background would have to be in some kind of rainbow pattern |
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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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| 2008-03-14 09:56 |
| when she shows you all how strong she is you'll stand right up and cheer |
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And now, the obligatory Revealing of the Meme.
1) Sam Tyler - guessed by swingerzetta and cosmicavatar
2) Dean Winchester - guessed by 47_trek_47, cosmicavatar, and shizuka_blooms
3) Shawn Spencer - guessed by bats_eye and shizuka_blooms
4) The Almighty and Long-suffering Impala - guessed by cosmicavatar and shizuka_blooms
5) Angela Petrelli - guessed by cosmicavatar and shizuka_blooms
6) Juliet O' Hara - guessed by nobody, but then, I suppose she doesn't actually stand out much if you're not actively thinking of her, and she's new to my list
7) Ianto Jones, also guessed by nobody, possibly because he doesn't go much for being showy and distinctive.
8) Monica Dawson - guessed by harena, cosmicavatar, angiepenguin, and shizuka_blooms
9) Cut-Throat Bitch, also known as Amber Volakis - guessed by cosmicavatar and shizuka_blooms
10) Test Card Girl, also known as WTF CREEPY CLOWN DOLL GIRL - guessed by swingerzetta and cosmicavatar
Yeah, so, maybe a few of mine were a bit obscure. But I was running out of Heroes characters. (Someone suggested 3 might be Bela, which--ahahahaha, would be a so very interesting meeting. Poor Shawn. )
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DAD: How do you cure a zombie?
ME: How?
DAD: Stick it in the smokehouse.
And while we're talking about my family, today, I was brave enough to actually rec a Torchwood story to my mom--it's gen (yes, I know what gen means for Torchwood, but this is PG gen), it's silly as hell, and it is almost certainly the most literally lolarious Torchwood story there is. Warning: contains Internet humor (and spoilers for 2x07, 'Dead Man Walking'): Trying to Communicate, by sam_storyteller. My mom loved it, by the way.
(Also, my journalism teacher requires us to put together portfolios of whatever we did for the last issue of the paper, and then she puts a little slip of comments in them; today, I received a comment slip that for some reason or another referred to her young daughters, and it mentioned that all they do these days is watch Top Gear. Now, I did not get a chance to actually ask her about this, because it seems like the most illogical thing in the world, and I am betting I simply misunderstood or she mistyped or there is another Top Gear out there which is not a UK-only show about cars and sarcasm, or maybe her daughters are the coolest kids ever. Given that their parents watch Torchwood and Doctor Who, I am not entirely convinced that the latter option is impossible.)
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Okay, pilot for a new Brit show called Being Human: god I hope this gets picked up, I love it. It may suffer from Pretentious Vampire Syndrome and what I'm sure will be a heavy helping of boring love interests, but it's gayer than a bloody Christmas tree and totally, totally adorable. Dammit, why is there another adorable Brit named Annie with a lovely accent and cute hair? It is distinctly unfair. So, the show's about a lanky, laconic vampire named Mitchell and a nice, adorable werewolf named George who move into a flat haunted by the aforementioned and equally adorable Annie, and it's all very sweet and very, very gay if you ignore the boring vampire-society bits, of which there would probably be many if the show was continued, but it's a show about monsters trying not to kill people and it makes use of Amy Winehouse's Rehab, and it is the kind of show where the leads settle down in a pub and talk about which houses in Hogwarts they'd be sorted into (and Annie likes Hufflepuff, bless her), even if there's boring vampire drama after that. And did I mention it's very, very gay? There's one sequence that really emphasizes it, of course (and oh boy, what a sequence it is), but there's stuff beyond that, like the way Mitchell keeps defending George to the other vampires, or how they don't seem to have much of a concept of personal space between each other, or how George is completely comfortable with Mitchell seeing him naked, or how they, y'know, live together and work together and don't have much of a life or un-life outside of each other and now Annie. Plus George is played by the guy who was Midshipman Alonzo in 'Voyage of the Damned'--I knew I recognized him from somewhere--and the whole thing was created by Toby Whithouse, who wrote 'School Reunion' for Doctor Who and 'Greeks Bearing Gifts' for Torchwood, and it's just all so very adorable. And dramatic. Well, I'm sure they'd get better with the drama in time. But how can you not love a show with lines like this:
GEORGE: Right, what would you do if you won ten million pounds?
ANNIE (automatically): Buy Colin Firth.
And that is a werewolf and a ghost. ADORABLE. (Besides, I was lost the moment they used Rehab. I like shows that know how to use music properly.)
(Also it's actually got a good werewolf transformation sequence, which is not something that happens, ever, so it must be treasured when it does.)
They tried to make me go to rehab, but I said no, no, no...
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