'you mean that much to me and it's hard to show, gets hectic inside of me when you go...'
RL: I feel like the technology age is leaving me behind. This is my generation and yet I’m hopelessly out of my depth. >_< For example? I’m in the market for a new phone, and I want one similar to the one I have now, but it seems to be a dying breed, almost virtually extinct! All the phones these days have qwerty keypads or touch-screens! Which just pisses me off because they’re teensy little things, so wtf with the qwerty arrangement when I can’t exactly use both hands to type out messages? And ugh, touch-screens, neat in theory but so damn annoying and finicky in practice. I weep for the sensible old keypads. ;_;
Fandom: Shiny new icons! From reflexive_verb:
And thanks to this round of awesomeness, I have a new default icon! *bounces* I’ve had the same one for several years, so it’s absolutely wonderful and thrilling to have a change, especially to someone so cute! ♥
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New seasons! Thoughts on episode one of:
I DIED INSIDE. It was heartbreaking like whoa.
I didn’t expect Olivia to escape, so kudos, show, for that surprise. I’ve seen way too many eps where they were allowed to get only so far before being reined in as some sort of experiment or to make them breakdown. So I was pretty cynical about her chances and then she actually did get away, lol!
Also, thank you, writers, for not killing the cabbie! I really liked him, he was so sweet and funny, treading that line between ‘let’s humor the crazy lady’ and ‘wtf is this BS, I’ve had enough!’ And then he actually began to care about her and feel concern at what would happen to her, isn’t he just so awesome? She takes him hostage and threatens him and his family and waves a gun around to make him act as her chauffeur (losing out on cab fares and wasting his gas!) but he actually feels some affection for Olivia!
I was so excited when she managed to get away from her pursuers at the gas station, but as soon as the cabbie praised on her how well she could shoot and she was like, ‘I don’t’ and all baffled at how proficient she was, I started getting afraid- which was confirmed when Walternate crowed over how only one person could’ve made that shot. >_< I was flailing so hard, like, Olivia has super-powers, okay, she’s been experimented on, it’s not beyond belief that she could pull off something that cool! Remember when she shot blindly into a van or something and got an incredibly accurate headshot? SO IT’S TOTALLY PLAUSIBLE SHE PULLED THAT OFF ON HER OWN.
But of course, no, the show has to go and smash my heart to itty bitty pieces. Fauxlivia’s memories take and Olivia forgets who she is and compliantly heads back to work. *SOBS* (I’m still hoping she can somehow fight off its effects and regain her own memories, or that this is all an act and she still knows who she is- maybe she can compartmentalize the two different personalities, like Dollhouse’s Echo when she composites?)
Not content with that overdose of mind-frakkery, the writers decide to viciously crush my soul by returning to our own universe in time to show Peter oblivious to the VIPER THEY’RE NURSING AT THEIR BREAST as he kisses Fauxlivia. *collapses*
If he makes it past the next few eps without realizing that’s not his Olivia, he will be dead to me. DEAD, PETER, YOU BASTARD, FIGURE IT OUT.
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I really, really can’t stand the canon pairings in Glee. I mean, Rachel/Finn. God, where do I start? The problem is that they never show us the happy times for this pairing ,which makes it hard to enjoy them when we just see the parts where he’s making her miserable and putting her down, or when she’s being controlling and frustrating him.
I just think it’s a huge cop-out that they begin the second half of season one with them having gotten together and not being happy and breaking up- so after all the build-up and annoying unreciprocated ~feelings~ and epic drama, we don’t even get any little hint of satisfaction, it’s just straight into feelbad mode. And then the second season begins with them again having been a couple, but the first sight of them shows the cracks in their relationship with Rachel being oblivious and desperate for attention while Finn stews in the background.
This show is just incapable of showing good, fulfilling relationships! Like, they have Artie and Tina set up throughout the first season; granted, they’re not main characters, so we barely see them interact, but we’re supposed to root for them, right, and then in the first ep, oh, Tina and Meaningless Mike are together! This dude hardly ever gets a line in the script, we don’t see them interact, ever and then all of a sudden, it turns out their insane physical chemistry got the better of them and they mauled each other in front of little kids and wound up an item over the summer. Right! Yay! Er. No. I DON’T CARE. The show doesn’t put any effort into the interactions between these characters, and I’m supposed to give a damn that they’re together? Don’t think so!
I love Sue. I know she’s evil, but she’s delightfully evil, and such a great villain. Best one-liners, brilliant scathing delivery
Everyone blames Rachel for scaring off Sunshine. Which, okay, what she did was bad. But how about Will? He screwed them over by bullying Beiste- if he hadn’t been picking on her, she wouldn’t have thrown Finn off the team and she wouldn’t have intimidated that Justin Bieber look-alike into steering clear of their club. >:[ Does he get pilloried for bullying another character? NO.
Why does douchebag Will get off scot-free for frankly unsympathetic behavior- there’s no justification for what he did, out of selfishness and an arrogant sense of entitlement- and Rachel get lambasted for what I find to be awful but understandable behavior? She did what she did not out of love but out of deep insecurity. The only worth she has to the Glee Club is her vocal talent- that’s the sum of the value she has in their eyes. They openly tell her to her face that the only reason she’s worth having around is because she has a damn fine voice. And along comes the aptly named Sunshine, cute as a button, perky and adorable, and kick-ass voice to boot. Of course Rachel’s going to feel threatened! I don’t condone what she did at all (though I lol’d at the ‘it’s not an active crackhouse’ bit, hehe) but I do feel that it’s not just her fault; if the rest of Glee was actually nice to her and treated her as a valuable team-mate instead of forever rolling their eyes and dismissing her statements and putting her down, she wouldn’t be as neurotic and clingy.
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Shiny banner made by woodchoc_magnum. *SUPERSQUISH*
OMG, SQUICKY UNSUB SALIVA. How brave of that little girl- I know Tim Curry’s not really a psycho killer, but letting someone smear their saliva on her face, ugh!
Emily- CLEAVAGE RAWRRR
Humor!
JJ: How many cops are there in LA?
Reid: City or county?
JJ: *laughs wryly* You actually know the answer.
Derek’s such a drama queen whiny baby. First being all scowly and dismissive with JJ, then dissing Garcia behind her back- ‘She needs to be more professional’- before snapping at her for not making a breakthrough. >:[
And I hate that he’s so overemotional, being pissy with everyone, acting like he has a personal stake in the case instead of being professional (hypocrite!) and getting all aggro and vengeful, stomping around everywhere with a black cloud over him, grr!
JJ is badass! ‘I’m not going to explain this all over again to another mid-level bureaucrat, put me on the damn phone to someone who can give me what I need!’
JJ: I’m not a hostage negotiator.
Hotch: You are today.
His faith in her is incredible, ‘What if I screw up?’ / ‘You won’t…you’ll do fine.’ And it’s awesome that the first thing he does is call her to tell her that she succeeded, even as they were rushing to deal with the UNSUB.
I hate that Morgan is such an entitled guilt-tripping asshat. Hotch rightfully holds him back to determine whether letting him walk into the house is a good idea, and Morgan’s all, ‘I always had your back, so let me do this’- um, remember that time Hotch walked into a hostage situation with a crazy armed guy? You were the douchebag that called his abilities into question and said he’d lost his game!
Morgan: Shoot me, go ahead, shoot me.
Mother: WHY DOESN'T MORGAN SHOOT HIM FIRST?!
Me: PLEASE, UNSUB, JUST SHOOT HIM ALREADY.
Bonus randomness.
This pic makes me giggle for some reason.
PS. Thanks to halfabubble for showing me how to use the sparkle!text. *glees* What a great excuse to use it for the first time, too... :P
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Meme:
Harry Potter Meme- Day 6: What House would you want to be in?
Tricky. Because I always sort as Slytherin in the quizzes, which is great, because Slytherin in theory? I’m totally there! But if we’re going by the houses as per canon…um, hmm. I’d rather be in Ravenclaw, at least they’re not in-bred retards/ perentially bashed underdogs like the Slytherins or disposable red-shirts like Hufflepuffs or idiotic reckless brainless Gryffindors.
Writing Meme- 7. Do you listen to music while you write? What kind? Are there any songs you like to relate/apply to your characters?
I don’t often write, but when I do, I don’t have music on, usually, it’s a distraction. But I do often get inspired by songs and listen to certain songs to get me in the mood before I write, and I enjoy including relevant lyrics at the top of my fic, or even using a line from a song I love as the title.
TV Meme- Day 15: Favourite female character.
Nooo! Um…god, this is so hard…I’ll go with- Teresa Lisbon! Because she puts up with so much crap from Jane and doesn’t let it bring her down. I love that she’s gone from being straight-laced to more snarky and sassy as the show’s gone on. ♥
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Vidspam: I've been looking for crossover vids and found quite a few decent ones. This combines HP, LotS, Merlin and Robin Hood in a touching friendship vid. <3
Fandom: Shiny new icons! From reflexive_verb:
And thanks to this round of awesomeness, I have a new default icon! *bounces* I’ve had the same one for several years, so it’s absolutely wonderful and thrilling to have a change, especially to someone so cute! ♥
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New seasons! Thoughts on episode one of:
I DIED INSIDE. It was heartbreaking like whoa.
I didn’t expect Olivia to escape, so kudos, show, for that surprise. I’ve seen way too many eps where they were allowed to get only so far before being reined in as some sort of experiment or to make them breakdown. So I was pretty cynical about her chances and then she actually did get away, lol!
Also, thank you, writers, for not killing the cabbie! I really liked him, he was so sweet and funny, treading that line between ‘let’s humor the crazy lady’ and ‘wtf is this BS, I’ve had enough!’ And then he actually began to care about her and feel concern at what would happen to her, isn’t he just so awesome? She takes him hostage and threatens him and his family and waves a gun around to make him act as her chauffeur (losing out on cab fares and wasting his gas!) but he actually feels some affection for Olivia!
I was so excited when she managed to get away from her pursuers at the gas station, but as soon as the cabbie praised on her how well she could shoot and she was like, ‘I don’t’ and all baffled at how proficient she was, I started getting afraid- which was confirmed when Walternate crowed over how only one person could’ve made that shot. >_< I was flailing so hard, like, Olivia has super-powers, okay, she’s been experimented on, it’s not beyond belief that she could pull off something that cool! Remember when she shot blindly into a van or something and got an incredibly accurate headshot? SO IT’S TOTALLY PLAUSIBLE SHE PULLED THAT OFF ON HER OWN.
But of course, no, the show has to go and smash my heart to itty bitty pieces. Fauxlivia’s memories take and Olivia forgets who she is and compliantly heads back to work. *SOBS* (I’m still hoping she can somehow fight off its effects and regain her own memories, or that this is all an act and she still knows who she is- maybe she can compartmentalize the two different personalities, like Dollhouse’s Echo when she composites?)
Not content with that overdose of mind-frakkery, the writers decide to viciously crush my soul by returning to our own universe in time to show Peter oblivious to the VIPER THEY’RE NURSING AT THEIR BREAST as he kisses Fauxlivia. *collapses*
If he makes it past the next few eps without realizing that’s not his Olivia, he will be dead to me. DEAD, PETER, YOU BASTARD, FIGURE IT OUT.
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I really, really can’t stand the canon pairings in Glee. I mean, Rachel/Finn. God, where do I start? The problem is that they never show us the happy times for this pairing ,which makes it hard to enjoy them when we just see the parts where he’s making her miserable and putting her down, or when she’s being controlling and frustrating him.
I just think it’s a huge cop-out that they begin the second half of season one with them having gotten together and not being happy and breaking up- so after all the build-up and annoying unreciprocated ~feelings~ and epic drama, we don’t even get any little hint of satisfaction, it’s just straight into feelbad mode. And then the second season begins with them again having been a couple, but the first sight of them shows the cracks in their relationship with Rachel being oblivious and desperate for attention while Finn stews in the background.
This show is just incapable of showing good, fulfilling relationships! Like, they have Artie and Tina set up throughout the first season; granted, they’re not main characters, so we barely see them interact, but we’re supposed to root for them, right, and then in the first ep, oh, Tina and Meaningless Mike are together! This dude hardly ever gets a line in the script, we don’t see them interact, ever and then all of a sudden, it turns out their insane physical chemistry got the better of them and they mauled each other in front of little kids and wound up an item over the summer. Right! Yay! Er. No. I DON’T CARE. The show doesn’t put any effort into the interactions between these characters, and I’m supposed to give a damn that they’re together? Don’t think so!
I love Sue. I know she’s evil, but she’s delightfully evil, and such a great villain. Best one-liners, brilliant scathing delivery
Everyone blames Rachel for scaring off Sunshine. Which, okay, what she did was bad. But how about Will? He screwed them over by bullying Beiste- if he hadn’t been picking on her, she wouldn’t have thrown Finn off the team and she wouldn’t have intimidated that Justin Bieber look-alike into steering clear of their club. >:[ Does he get pilloried for bullying another character? NO.
Why does douchebag Will get off scot-free for frankly unsympathetic behavior- there’s no justification for what he did, out of selfishness and an arrogant sense of entitlement- and Rachel get lambasted for what I find to be awful but understandable behavior? She did what she did not out of love but out of deep insecurity. The only worth she has to the Glee Club is her vocal talent- that’s the sum of the value she has in their eyes. They openly tell her to her face that the only reason she’s worth having around is because she has a damn fine voice. And along comes the aptly named Sunshine, cute as a button, perky and adorable, and kick-ass voice to boot. Of course Rachel’s going to feel threatened! I don’t condone what she did at all (though I lol’d at the ‘it’s not an active crackhouse’ bit, hehe) but I do feel that it’s not just her fault; if the rest of Glee was actually nice to her and treated her as a valuable team-mate instead of forever rolling their eyes and dismissing her statements and putting her down, she wouldn’t be as neurotic and clingy.
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Shiny banner made by woodchoc_magnum. *SUPERSQUISH*
OMG, SQUICKY UNSUB SALIVA. How brave of that little girl- I know Tim Curry’s not really a psycho killer, but letting someone smear their saliva on her face, ugh!
Emily- CLEAVAGE RAWRRR
Humor!
JJ: How many cops are there in LA?
Reid: City or county?
JJ: *laughs wryly* You actually know the answer.
Derek’s such a drama queen whiny baby. First being all scowly and dismissive with JJ, then dissing Garcia behind her back- ‘She needs to be more professional’- before snapping at her for not making a breakthrough. >:[
And I hate that he’s so overemotional, being pissy with everyone, acting like he has a personal stake in the case instead of being professional (hypocrite!) and getting all aggro and vengeful, stomping around everywhere with a black cloud over him, grr!
JJ is badass! ‘I’m not going to explain this all over again to another mid-level bureaucrat, put me on the damn phone to someone who can give me what I need!’
JJ: I’m not a hostage negotiator.
Hotch: You are today.
His faith in her is incredible, ‘What if I screw up?’ / ‘You won’t…you’ll do fine.’ And it’s awesome that the first thing he does is call her to tell her that she succeeded, even as they were rushing to deal with the UNSUB.
I hate that Morgan is such an entitled guilt-tripping asshat. Hotch rightfully holds him back to determine whether letting him walk into the house is a good idea, and Morgan’s all, ‘I always had your back, so let me do this’- um, remember that time Hotch walked into a hostage situation with a crazy armed guy? You were the douchebag that called his abilities into question and said he’d lost his game!
Morgan: Shoot me, go ahead, shoot me.
Mother: WHY DOESN'T MORGAN SHOOT HIM FIRST?!
Me: PLEASE, UNSUB, JUST SHOOT HIM ALREADY.
Bonus randomness.
This pic makes me giggle for some reason.
PS. Thanks to halfabubble for showing me how to use the sparkle!text. *glees* What a great excuse to use it for the first time, too... :P
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Meme:
Harry Potter Meme- Day 6: What House would you want to be in?
Tricky. Because I always sort as Slytherin in the quizzes, which is great, because Slytherin in theory? I’m totally there! But if we’re going by the houses as per canon…um, hmm. I’d rather be in Ravenclaw, at least they’re not in-bred retards/ perentially bashed underdogs like the Slytherins or disposable red-shirts like Hufflepuffs or idiotic reckless brainless Gryffindors.
Writing Meme- 7. Do you listen to music while you write? What kind? Are there any songs you like to relate/apply to your characters?
I don’t often write, but when I do, I don’t have music on, usually, it’s a distraction. But I do often get inspired by songs and listen to certain songs to get me in the mood before I write, and I enjoy including relevant lyrics at the top of my fic, or even using a line from a song I love as the title.
TV Meme- Day 15: Favourite female character.
Nooo! Um…god, this is so hard…I’ll go with- Teresa Lisbon! Because she puts up with so much crap from Jane and doesn’t let it bring her down. I love that she’s gone from being straight-laced to more snarky and sassy as the show’s gone on. ♥
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Vidspam: I've been looking for crossover vids and found quite a few decent ones. This combines HP, LotS, Merlin and Robin Hood in a touching friendship vid. <3
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