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In this post: Heroes. Mag7. Venture Brothers. Movies. Writing. TMI. Plus much much more!
1) Heroes. Rewatched S1 with sis. She actually fell asleep the first time I tried to pimp the show to her way back when. She found the pilot incredibly boring and gave up. Then I hooked her onto Profit. Pasdar will own your motherfucking soul. So we ended up burning through most of S1 during the weekend, up to the second last episode. It's funny to rewatch the show after getting massively burned by S2. I'm only so very very bitter because I really loved the show. Now that the shine is off my eyes, I can see a little better. Hindsight is 20/20 and all that, but I didn't need hindsight to know how much pacing sucked on this show even in S1. But seriously, man. We skipped SO MUCH. We skipped all of Niki/Micah/DL and most of Mohinder. There is SO MUCH bullshitting around and totally useless crap. S1 Heroes could've been told FAR more effectively in 12 episodes. Thanks for affirming my faith in the 12-ep season. I have no patience for dragging shit out anymore, not after getting into Showtime/HBO shows like Dexter and Burn Notice. Frivolous bullshit is kept to a minimum. Everything onscreen needs to fucking matter. Which is why I don't really hold out much hope for S3. Bah. Plus the whole Milo/Hayden thing really soured me. I know it's none of my business, but still. Ew. Didn't help that S2 did Claire and Peter no favors. But Pasdar owns my soul.
2) TMI. There is this teller at my bank. O. M. G. He's like a puppy. He's tall and lanky, dark hair, dark eyes. 20 years old. In a way, he reminds me of a young Milo V. in his Gilmore Girls days. His name is Max. MAX, for crying out loud. I want to take him home. On a leash. This is notable because I really don't like lanky, I really don't like guys who are younger than me, and I love blue eyes like crazy. I like thick, I like broad, I like manly men. So this is a huge deviation. But dear fucking god, he pings my dom side like crazy. Which... hardly ever happens, because I'm into toppy guys. But something about him, man. I'm just like... a;fdjkljfd;lkajfldkjal;fkd. Any minute now, Chris Hansen is gonna tell me to have a seat. T___T
3) Me and yesdrizella have been flailing over Venture Brothers. I think one_more_cherry is the only other person on my FL who watches it. Anyway, I hate yesdrizella forever for making me FLAIL over Rusty's voice. Save for JJ, I don't actually like any of the Ventures. I think VB would be a better show without said brothers, which is LOL, I guess, but god, Hank and Dean are fucking ANNOYING. I hate them. They are incredibly fucking stupid. Rusty is a failure, and I know the whole POINT of the show is failure, but competence is a turn-on, so therefore incompetence is a turn-off. But yesdrizella clued me onto the fact that Phantom Limb and Rusty are voiced by the same guy. She was all like, "dude, Phantom Limb's voice is basically Rusty's voice... with a British accent." AND NOW I CAN'T UNHEAR IT. I didn't know! And I fucking LOVE Phantom Limb. Cries.
4) I didn't know there's gonna be a Transporter 3!!! YAYAYAYAYAYAYA! I love Jason Statham. I love his ridiculous movies. I love the gratuitous shirtlessness of the Transporter movies. I wholly support shirtless Jason Statham. Maybe it's time to bust out that fic I wrote two years ago that I never posted.
4a) And on the topic of fics for movies without fandoms, I still need to write one more fic for Vantage Point. It's a two piece set in my brain, so I can't post the one without the other. Which vexes me.
4b) And on that similiar vein, I still wanna write that fic for Poseidon. T___T
4c) Note to self: STOP WANTING TO WRITE FICS FOR MOVIES WITHOUT FANDOMS.
4d) I'm super joyful to see somebody writing Cross/Wesley for Wanted, except they took the key element out of it, which I won't say, since that'd spoil. Either way, I'll take what I can get. But I, too, wish I can somehow write fic for it. Like, I can't find any conceivable way in which it'd work. But the urge is there.
4e) STOP WANTING TO WRITE FICS FOR MOVIES WITHOUT FANDOMS
5) But writing fic for a show that HAS a fandom is hard shit. Writing is hard shit. Meh. Writing for Mag7 again is fucking daunting, man. I finished "Simple Thing," which is currently on stand-by for posting. But I don't know, man. I feel like I shouldn't be posting that as my comeback fic. It's a futurefic, the context is weird, it's asking for a lot of trust, which I don't have any right now. I keep meaning to write up this meta about the trust between author/reader, inspired most recently by something opera142 said to me about "Somehow," the last fic I posted, the Cena/Punk fic. My summary is pretty bland. Punk doesn't know why he likes Cena. And Opera said that a summary as such, on somebody else's fic, is usually an indicator of crap, which I agree with. It's not just an issue of summary. You gain currency in a fandom the more and better you write. I know I have currency in wrestlefandom. I know I can take a certain amount of risk. I don't have any currency in Mag7.
Ideally, what I wanted to do is finish "Four Crimes" and have that be my comeback fic, with fingers crossed that it's good enough to earn me said currency so I can post stuff like "Simple Thing," which is more risky. But man, have I mentioned that writing is hard shit? I've bitched before that I'm no good with plot. Well, I had a few details to work out. I told myself, "I'll cross that bridge when I come to it." I hit the edge, and I got no bridge. >.< I have to hit my outline and work shit out again. The devil's in the details. Plus, the motivation front is a hurdle every single time. But motivation is my problem in just about everything.
6) Writing is haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaard. /whiney pants
7) I lied about the much much more. This is it. :D
1) Heroes. Rewatched S1 with sis. She actually fell asleep the first time I tried to pimp the show to her way back when. She found the pilot incredibly boring and gave up. Then I hooked her onto Profit. Pasdar will own your motherfucking soul. So we ended up burning through most of S1 during the weekend, up to the second last episode. It's funny to rewatch the show after getting massively burned by S2. I'm only so very very bitter because I really loved the show. Now that the shine is off my eyes, I can see a little better. Hindsight is 20/20 and all that, but I didn't need hindsight to know how much pacing sucked on this show even in S1. But seriously, man. We skipped SO MUCH. We skipped all of Niki/Micah/DL and most of Mohinder. There is SO MUCH bullshitting around and totally useless crap. S1 Heroes could've been told FAR more effectively in 12 episodes. Thanks for affirming my faith in the 12-ep season. I have no patience for dragging shit out anymore, not after getting into Showtime/HBO shows like Dexter and Burn Notice. Frivolous bullshit is kept to a minimum. Everything onscreen needs to fucking matter. Which is why I don't really hold out much hope for S3. Bah. Plus the whole Milo/Hayden thing really soured me. I know it's none of my business, but still. Ew. Didn't help that S2 did Claire and Peter no favors. But Pasdar owns my soul.
2) TMI. There is this teller at my bank. O. M. G. He's like a puppy. He's tall and lanky, dark hair, dark eyes. 20 years old. In a way, he reminds me of a young Milo V. in his Gilmore Girls days. His name is Max. MAX, for crying out loud. I want to take him home. On a leash. This is notable because I really don't like lanky, I really don't like guys who are younger than me, and I love blue eyes like crazy. I like thick, I like broad, I like manly men. So this is a huge deviation. But dear fucking god, he pings my dom side like crazy. Which... hardly ever happens, because I'm into toppy guys. But something about him, man. I'm just like... a;fdjkljfd;lkajfldkjal;fkd. Any minute now, Chris Hansen is gonna tell me to have a seat. T___T
3) Me and yesdrizella have been flailing over Venture Brothers. I think one_more_cherry is the only other person on my FL who watches it. Anyway, I hate yesdrizella forever for making me FLAIL over Rusty's voice. Save for JJ, I don't actually like any of the Ventures. I think VB would be a better show without said brothers, which is LOL, I guess, but god, Hank and Dean are fucking ANNOYING. I hate them. They are incredibly fucking stupid. Rusty is a failure, and I know the whole POINT of the show is failure, but competence is a turn-on, so therefore incompetence is a turn-off. But yesdrizella clued me onto the fact that Phantom Limb and Rusty are voiced by the same guy. She was all like, "dude, Phantom Limb's voice is basically Rusty's voice... with a British accent." AND NOW I CAN'T UNHEAR IT. I didn't know! And I fucking LOVE Phantom Limb. Cries.
4) I didn't know there's gonna be a Transporter 3!!! YAYAYAYAYAYAYA! I love Jason Statham. I love his ridiculous movies. I love the gratuitous shirtlessness of the Transporter movies. I wholly support shirtless Jason Statham. Maybe it's time to bust out that fic I wrote two years ago that I never posted.
4a) And on the topic of fics for movies without fandoms, I still need to write one more fic for Vantage Point. It's a two piece set in my brain, so I can't post the one without the other. Which vexes me.
4b) And on that similiar vein, I still wanna write that fic for Poseidon. T___T
4c) Note to self: STOP WANTING TO WRITE FICS FOR MOVIES WITHOUT FANDOMS.
4d) I'm super joyful to see somebody writing Cross/Wesley for Wanted, except they took the key element out of it, which I won't say, since that'd spoil. Either way, I'll take what I can get. But I, too, wish I can somehow write fic for it. Like, I can't find any conceivable way in which it'd work. But the urge is there.
4e) STOP WANTING TO WRITE FICS FOR MOVIES WITHOUT FANDOMS
5) But writing fic for a show that HAS a fandom is hard shit. Writing is hard shit. Meh. Writing for Mag7 again is fucking daunting, man. I finished "Simple Thing," which is currently on stand-by for posting. But I don't know, man. I feel like I shouldn't be posting that as my comeback fic. It's a futurefic, the context is weird, it's asking for a lot of trust, which I don't have any right now. I keep meaning to write up this meta about the trust between author/reader, inspired most recently by something opera142 said to me about "Somehow," the last fic I posted, the Cena/Punk fic. My summary is pretty bland. Punk doesn't know why he likes Cena. And Opera said that a summary as such, on somebody else's fic, is usually an indicator of crap, which I agree with. It's not just an issue of summary. You gain currency in a fandom the more and better you write. I know I have currency in wrestlefandom. I know I can take a certain amount of risk. I don't have any currency in Mag7.
Ideally, what I wanted to do is finish "Four Crimes" and have that be my comeback fic, with fingers crossed that it's good enough to earn me said currency so I can post stuff like "Simple Thing," which is more risky. But man, have I mentioned that writing is hard shit? I've bitched before that I'm no good with plot. Well, I had a few details to work out. I told myself, "I'll cross that bridge when I come to it." I hit the edge, and I got no bridge. >.< I have to hit my outline and work shit out again. The devil's in the details. Plus, the motivation front is a hurdle every single time. But motivation is my problem in just about everything.
6) Writing is haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaard. /whiney pants
7) I lied about the much much more. This is it. :D