In the face of the monster, be more than part*
My dad sent me a link for the job Species Programme Manager for the WWF, paying 38,000 pounds. You can clearly see why I think my dad has absolutely no idea whatsoever about anything, in particular to things having to do with a recent graduate with no work experience and no PhD and their chances of being made Manager of the "Let's Save This Species From Extinction (And Pay Them Lots)" program. I couldn't be a McDonald's manager, for fuck's sake.
He also sent me the link for the classified ads of The Economist Again, can you not see what is wrong with this picture? Me here *points to the ground*, job requirements here *points skywards* I can't even think about applying for things like Manager and Director and Specialist and Dean and Associate and this is not me being stupidly humble or whatever, I can't because it's stupidly and massively way out of my reach. Like the moon.
...I seem to be frustrated with the whole "Does not have a job and is fucking sick of it and of feeling like a failure and not having anyting to do or any friends and just can't bloody take it anymore so help me gods on high". Yeah, that's shit.
In other news, you can has Dreamwidth invite code! R3QEXWGM56SQXAAALUHP
30 Days of Doctor Who: Day 23 - A Who-Related YouTube Video
Because I simply can't post the The Sounds of Marriage dub three times in a single meme, here's the second dub, Straws and Rhinos:
And my favorite deleted scene, 3x08. Oh, Tennant ♥
Coming Up
Day 24 - Whatever Tickles Your Fancy
Day 25 - Favorite Who Actor
Day 26 - Favorite Who Actress
Day 27 - An Episode You Wish Hadn’t Been Made
Day 28 - An Episode Idea You Created Yourself
Day 29 - Who You Think Should Be the Next Doctor
Day 30 - Whatever Tickles Your Fancy
30 Days of Supernatural Meme: Day 23 - The character that is most like you
...one of those poor chicks that doesn't make it past the teaser? I don't know, I don't see myself in any of them. Although, I guess College!Sam and I have a bit in common, what with the trying to make a life and fit in and the geekery and the grr argh of family. Although he had way more of a social life than I did at Uni.
Coming Up:
Day 24 - An episode you wish never happened
Day 25 - Something that you wish happened but didn’t
Day 26 - Your favorite SPN fanvid
Day 27 - Your favorite season intro episode
Day 28 - Your favorite season finale
Day 29 - Your favorite SPN fanfic
Day 30 - Anything SPN related?
40 Days of Supernatural Meme: Day 23 - Your favourite Monster of the week?
The shape-shifter of Skin, pretty much hands-down. I loved how it was into psychological warfare with the brothers, how it took on the memories of the people it was impersonating, and how all it wanted was to belong.
Shapeshifter!Dean: See, deep down, I’m just jealous. You got friends. You could have a life. Me? I know I’m a freak. And sooner or later, everybody’s gonna leave me.
It brings to mind the following excerpt from RStallman's The Orphan, which I love to pieces:
"It says in both stories that the monster was so unhappy it want to kill other people. [...] But it doesn't say why the monsters are so unhappy they have to kill people and eat ‘em up and things like that," Charles said, flipping through the pages of the Beowulf story.
[...]
"They, I mean the Beast and the giant Grendel, are wicked, and that’s why they’re unhappy," she said, very certain of her ground.
[...]
"Well," Charles said, thinking, "maybe so, but which came first? Where they unhappy and got wicked, or were they wicked that that made them unhappy? Either way, it looks funny that they would just sit around being unhappy and wicked all the time. Looks like they were just waiting for some hero to come along and knock ‘em over."
"Did you all notice," Miss Wrigley said, "that both the Beast and the giant Grendel were different from other people? And that they didn’t have any friends to talk to, not a single one? Maybe they were unhappy and wicked because they weren’t like other people and had no one to love them. [...] Even if we say that the monsters are unhappy because they are different and not loved by anyone, it is puzzling because they do seem to be waiting," she paused in genuine thought and ended the sentence as if to herself, "for disaster."
Little Joe Ricci had been following the discussion but not the argument. "They’re just monsters," he said, "and monsters do bad things because they’re monsters, and they’re monsters because they..." He stopped, perplexed by the circle he had created. Then his round little face broke into a grin again. "Anyway, if I were a monster I’d have lots of fun!" And everyone laughed.
Coming Up:
Day 24 - Character from another show you'd most like to see guest on SPN
Day 25 - Favorite kiss/love/sex scene?
Day 26 - Show you'd most like Dean or Sam to guest star on?
Day 27 - Favourite writer/director?
Day 28 - what other supernatural creatures you would like to see Dean and Sam to deal with?
Day 29 - Would you rather prefer the idea of separate not so many hunters or large branched net of them existing just from the beginning of times developed in the show later?
Day 30 - What else might be added (developed or gifted) to the brothers skills of hunters if we speak about them as hereditary hunters from one of the most famous family of hunters in America?
Day 31 - Your ideal SPN ending?
Day 32 - Favorite death/body explotion (bad guy/zombie/demon)?
Day 33 - Favorite Dean eating moment?
Day 34 - Favorite hug?
Day 35 - Favorite Castiel scene? Favorite Bobby scene?
Day 36 - Favorite con?
Day 37 - Favorite Jared movie/other show?
Day 38 - Favorite Jensen movie/other show?
Day 39 - If you were a director who you would like to direct (Jared or Jensen) and what kind of movie?
Day 40 - What kind of movie/tv show would you like to see Jared and Jensen star in after SPN ends?
Links of the Day:
Supernatural:
leonidaslion's Fic Fumbling in the Dark: Wire (Nightshifter)
egg0721's Fanvid With What We Had (Promise)
Lost:
ack_attack's Photos Filming Locations in Hawaii
True Blood:
trueblood_lj's flocked Jessica's Blog: A Dead Girl's Guide (Source)
Other Fandom:
Nic Cage As Everyone - Oh gods, my eyes, my eyes!
Wiki's Buffverse Villains and Supernatural Beings
Random:
lucylou's The Burrow's Studio
Very Good Taste's Tales from the Deep Fat Fryer
ABC's
Stieg Larsson Silent as Real-Life Lisbeth Raped: Swedish Author Wrote 'Girl With Dragon Tattoo' Out of Guilt; Victim Never Forgave Him
Ohio.com's Racial divide shows up on Walmart book shelves: U.S. store chain segregating titles by subjects' skin color - *spits*
Short Story Cover Letters:
EHow's How to write... - Useless, as it's mainly concerned with business letter format.
Associatedcontent's How to write... - Good suggestions on masthead lists and author bio.
Kith's How to write... - Things NOT to do.
Fictionwriting's How to publish stories - All the steps.
SFWriter's On Writing, by Robert J. Sawyer (Cover Letters)
* Robert Stallman, The Orphan
He also sent me the link for the classified ads of The Economist Again, can you not see what is wrong with this picture? Me here *points to the ground*, job requirements here *points skywards* I can't even think about applying for things like Manager and Director and Specialist and Dean and Associate and this is not me being stupidly humble or whatever, I can't because it's stupidly and massively way out of my reach. Like the moon.
...I seem to be frustrated with the whole "Does not have a job and is fucking sick of it and of feeling like a failure and not having anyting to do or any friends and just can't bloody take it anymore so help me gods on high". Yeah, that's shit.
In other news, you can has Dreamwidth invite code! R3QEXWGM56SQXAAALUHP
30 Days of Doctor Who: Day 23 - A Who-Related YouTube Video
Because I simply can't post the The Sounds of Marriage dub three times in a single meme, here's the second dub, Straws and Rhinos:
Click to viewAnd my favorite deleted scene, 3x08. Oh, Tennant ♥
Coming Up
Day 24 - Whatever Tickles Your Fancy
Day 25 - Favorite Who Actor
Day 26 - Favorite Who Actress
Day 27 - An Episode You Wish Hadn’t Been Made
Day 28 - An Episode Idea You Created Yourself
Day 29 - Who You Think Should Be the Next Doctor
Day 30 - Whatever Tickles Your Fancy
30 Days of Supernatural Meme: Day 23 - The character that is most like you
...one of those poor chicks that doesn't make it past the teaser? I don't know, I don't see myself in any of them. Although, I guess College!Sam and I have a bit in common, what with the trying to make a life and fit in and the geekery and the grr argh of family. Although he had way more of a social life than I did at Uni.
Coming Up:
Day 24 - An episode you wish never happened
Day 25 - Something that you wish happened but didn’t
Day 26 - Your favorite SPN fanvid
Day 27 - Your favorite season intro episode
Day 28 - Your favorite season finale
Day 29 - Your favorite SPN fanfic
Day 30 - Anything SPN related?
40 Days of Supernatural Meme: Day 23 - Your favourite Monster of the week?
The shape-shifter of Skin, pretty much hands-down. I loved how it was into psychological warfare with the brothers, how it took on the memories of the people it was impersonating, and how all it wanted was to belong.
Shapeshifter!Dean: See, deep down, I’m just jealous. You got friends. You could have a life. Me? I know I’m a freak. And sooner or later, everybody’s gonna leave me.
It brings to mind the following excerpt from RStallman's The Orphan, which I love to pieces:
"It says in both stories that the monster was so unhappy it want to kill other people. [...] But it doesn't say why the monsters are so unhappy they have to kill people and eat ‘em up and things like that," Charles said, flipping through the pages of the Beowulf story.
[...]
"They, I mean the Beast and the giant Grendel, are wicked, and that’s why they’re unhappy," she said, very certain of her ground.
[...]
"Well," Charles said, thinking, "maybe so, but which came first? Where they unhappy and got wicked, or were they wicked that that made them unhappy? Either way, it looks funny that they would just sit around being unhappy and wicked all the time. Looks like they were just waiting for some hero to come along and knock ‘em over."
"Did you all notice," Miss Wrigley said, "that both the Beast and the giant Grendel were different from other people? And that they didn’t have any friends to talk to, not a single one? Maybe they were unhappy and wicked because they weren’t like other people and had no one to love them. [...] Even if we say that the monsters are unhappy because they are different and not loved by anyone, it is puzzling because they do seem to be waiting," she paused in genuine thought and ended the sentence as if to herself, "for disaster."
Little Joe Ricci had been following the discussion but not the argument. "They’re just monsters," he said, "and monsters do bad things because they’re monsters, and they’re monsters because they..." He stopped, perplexed by the circle he had created. Then his round little face broke into a grin again. "Anyway, if I were a monster I’d have lots of fun!" And everyone laughed.
Coming Up:
Day 24 - Character from another show you'd most like to see guest on SPN
Day 25 - Favorite kiss/love/sex scene?
Day 26 - Show you'd most like Dean or Sam to guest star on?
Day 27 - Favourite writer/director?
Day 28 - what other supernatural creatures you would like to see Dean and Sam to deal with?
Day 29 - Would you rather prefer the idea of separate not so many hunters or large branched net of them existing just from the beginning of times developed in the show later?
Day 30 - What else might be added (developed or gifted) to the brothers skills of hunters if we speak about them as hereditary hunters from one of the most famous family of hunters in America?
Day 31 - Your ideal SPN ending?
Day 32 - Favorite death/body explotion (bad guy/zombie/demon)?
Day 33 - Favorite Dean eating moment?
Day 34 - Favorite hug?
Day 35 - Favorite Castiel scene? Favorite Bobby scene?
Day 36 - Favorite con?
Day 37 - Favorite Jared movie/other show?
Day 38 - Favorite Jensen movie/other show?
Day 39 - If you were a director who you would like to direct (Jared or Jensen) and what kind of movie?
Day 40 - What kind of movie/tv show would you like to see Jared and Jensen star in after SPN ends?
Links of the Day:
Supernatural:
leonidaslion's Fic Fumbling in the Dark: Wire (Nightshifter)
egg0721's Fanvid With What We Had (Promise)
Lost:
ack_attack's Photos Filming Locations in Hawaii
True Blood:
trueblood_lj's flocked Jessica's Blog: A Dead Girl's Guide (Source)
Other Fandom:
Nic Cage As Everyone - Oh gods, my eyes, my eyes!
Wiki's Buffverse Villains and Supernatural Beings
Random:
lucylou's The Burrow's Studio
Very Good Taste's Tales from the Deep Fat Fryer
ABC's
Stieg Larsson Silent as Real-Life Lisbeth Raped: Swedish Author Wrote 'Girl With Dragon Tattoo' Out of Guilt; Victim Never Forgave Him
Ohio.com's Racial divide shows up on Walmart book shelves: U.S. store chain segregating titles by subjects' skin color - *spits*
Short Story Cover Letters:
EHow's How to write... - Useless, as it's mainly concerned with business letter format.
Associatedcontent's How to write... - Good suggestions on masthead lists and author bio.
Kith's How to write... - Things NOT to do.
Fictionwriting's How to publish stories - All the steps.
SFWriter's On Writing, by Robert J. Sawyer (Cover Letters)
* Robert Stallman, The Orphan