Yuletide (Shocking!) Reveal

[fantasticpants]

I fic, therefore I post.

*cleans rust off journal*

...*removes cobwebs*

>_>

:D!

So, I signed up for Yuletide to flex my writing muscles a little, and ended up writing The Stand fic for some peregrina person, which is... yeah, straight out of the Twist Machine, yet awesome.

I wrote Runnin' with the Devil -- it's Flagg/Lloyd, heavily Lloyd-centric;

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[fantasticpants]

Mrrf... well, TR basically grew stale so me and a couple of friends decided to jump ship. I don't miss it, but I do miss RPing in a multifandom game (there's a character from the Shield I'm considering apping somewhere), so I might try out another one once this semester is over.

Yeaaaah, Ziggy was a mess, but a lovable mess. The Wire isn't exactly the most cheerful series out there, is it? :D

I'm in mid season 4 of the Sopranos and just finished marathoning The Shield... I can't say I can recommend it 100%, but not because it's not good, but because it's SOUL CRUSHING AND WILL CHEW, NOM AND SPIT YOU OUT. More so than the Wire, for me. DX I watched the finale last night, and I just couldn't fall asleep afterwards. Especially since my favorite character (i.e. the resident fuckup >_>) got the most haunting ending. I'm used to my favorites being killed off, but this was waaay beyond that. Waaaaaaaaah. .__.

Re: bad year, it's just health stuffs and family stuffs... I hope it'll sort itself out, because it's a little zombifying. :'|

*paws* I'd love to chat sometime if work unpwns you!

[indyhat]

Stale RP environment FTL! D: Presumably there are other multifandom games going on elsewhere. (She says, having no idea about these things)

Ziggy was just epically fucking tragic. I loved him (and his duck) but yeah, possibly not most cheery thing ever. Although one of the things I love about The Wire (and GK, for that matter) is that no matter how bleak things are, there's always at the very least some gallows humour going on, always some levity somewhere. Mostly.

I hear very good things about The Shield; it's something I can imagine inhaling over the course of a month or two. And I still haven't seen The Sopranos all the way through (it was always on too late). Sorry you got broken by The Shield though D:

And eh, sorry things aren't great for you. UR ZOMBIE PANTZ R SHOWIN.

Definitely, to the chatting! I saw you online earlier, actually, but was speaking to my husband, who's overseas at a conference, and then you dropped offline again. I'll be away for a few days but hopefully can catch up soon and talk nonsense at you until your ears bleed :D UR BL00DZ, LET ME SPEAK U IT.

[fantasticpants]

loooooooool yeah there are other multifandom games! 'cept most of them are flooded with anime characters, and I have slight animephobia okay. >_> lastvoyages is a game I've been stalking for a while and the concept is really neat, so if I app, there's a good chance it'll be there.

The Wire had a great balance, yeah. Though the seasonal ending montages tended towards depressing anyway. XD I felt worse for Frank than for Ziggy, honestly, but it's not like there wasn't enough woe to go around.

The Shield also had a good dark humor quotient to offset the horrible stuff, only it's more of a tragedy overall, while the Wire is bittersweet. I'd say still watch it (SO I CAN HAS SOMEONE TO SHARE THIS DAMN SERIES WITH Dx), but have a valium nearby for the finale. For srs, it's one of the hardest things I've ever had to watch.

DON'T U BE STARRIN AT MY ZOMBIE PANTZ THEY'RE RLY SHY. ALSO THEY BIET.

I'm online most of the time! Ocasionally uni-pwned anyway, but gimme a poke and I'll probably answer. MY BL00DZ AWAITZ U.

[indyhat]

Animephobia! Heheh. I know what you mean though, that's not somewhere I've ever felt the need to go.

I was sooooooo sad for Frank in The Wire. Really, I think I liked him best out of all the characters. Not that I don't love McNulty and Bunk and everyone, but seriously, I just quietly bonded with Frank and his sad hound face in a way that just destroyed me at the end of s2.

Maybe I'll look into The Shield ... I have some Amazon vouchers burning a hole in my pocket!

UR ZOMBEH PANTZ R BLUSHIN! HAHAH PINK ZOMBEH PANTZ FTW. AIII!!1! UR ZOMBEH PANTZ HAZ BITED ME! D:

I need to throw myself offline right now so I can get shit done, but I'll try to find you later in the week. I'm going to need a break from grading papers! D:

[fantasticpants]

I've watched Trigun! And Avatar, which is anime-esque. :D But yeah, I dunno, I have a hard time grasping the anime tropes, for one, and there are a lot of artistic sub-styles that bug me in it, like the ones with HUGE EYES, NO NOSES and EMOTICONS FOR FACES. ._.

I was traumatized by Pokemon as a child, okay. D: It usurped my favorite cartoons. Classics such as this one.

God, yeah, poor Frank. I think he was my favorite, too (him and possibly Stringer, heh, but for entirely different reasons), and I'm kinda glad I spoiled myself about what happens to him, because it was hard to take as it was. Hound face, so true. XD His last name actually kinda reminded me of the Russian word for hound (sobaka)...

I've seen the full Shield DVD set on Amazon UK relatively cheap (relatively for 7 seasons and compared to Amazon US, that is... it's still pretty moneyful x_x) -- am sorta considering asking for it as a bday present, just for the ~speshul features~. Obtaining the actual episodes hasn't been much of a problem. >__>

HA SRVS U RITE FOR MOCKIN P00R SHAI PANTZ0RZ!!1 >8D

Next three days or so I'll be projectin' for uni so my availability might be on the crappy side, but poke me and I'll try to take a break! :{

[indyhat]

HUGE EYES, NO NOSES and EMOTICONS FOR FACES. ._.

LOL! Indeed. And about the tropes, I'm just not that into them. They have a lot in common with the regular tropes in fandom that annoy me (maybe 'cause I've been guilty of some of them in the past ... *COUGHemasculatingoneofthemenCOUGH*)

I've barely seen Pokemon. I'm okay with this :)

Classics such as this one.

MAKE IT STOP! MY EYES! IT'S LIKE INSECT CARE-BEARS IN THE FOREST!!!

God, yeah, poor Frank. I think he was my favorite, too (him and possibly Stringer, heh, but for entirely different reasons), and I'm kinda glad I spoiled myself about what happens to him, because it was hard to take as it was. Hound face, so true. XD His last name actually kinda reminded me of the Russian word for hound (sobaka)...

See, I knew it wasn't just me! A couple of days after I'd finished watching s2, during which time I was thinking about Frank a lot, it finally hit me that it must, surely, be a deliberate joke, little hound, basically a diminutive for sobaka. Right? Of course, I've never acquired any evidence for this theory.

Hope you get The Shield for your birthday! I'll look into it.

MAI PRIDEZ IZ BRUIZD D:

I'll try to look for you sometime over the next few days; last couple have been a bit insane and today I've just been totally useless. (Procrastinating over my marking.)