an update. or something. tifah is a whirling dervish.
YAY OMG VVC NEXT WEEK WOOO.
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Well, lots of stuff going on, huh? Oh hey, look at that, one of my Yuletide stories is one of the stories of the day today. Neato. :D
First of all, I feel like I need to comment on this LJ/6A strikethrough business that's going on. My actual thoughts and opinions run along closely to elynross's (not surprisingly) and from my own experience working in a rather knee-jerk/litigious industry with somewhat disturbing trends (uh, hi, hello mr. murdoch buying the wall street journal!!! this is not good, people, not good at all), I gotta say I'm not surprised. I'm as upset about it as most of you all, but feel that it's more an indication of the current atmosphere in this country than anything regarding Six Apart in particular -- they live in this country, too. just my opinion.
Regarding migrating to other journal services -- um, won't they be just the same? And if you all do hare off, could someone please tap me on the shoulder and let me know where to go? thx.
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I watched the Star Trek: TOS episode Galileo Seven the other day. I honestly forgot this episode existed. And when I started watching it I was like, OMG LOOK AT THE SHUTTLECRAFT. It's this strange, boxy waiting room of a ship, everybody sitting in airport chairs. So Strange. Man, shuttlecraft sure have come a long way, since.
Also, I realized I needed to forgive Star Trek: Enterprise for its portrayal of human animosity towards Vulcans because OMG I forgot how everyone in this episodes crawls up Mr. Spock's butt and gives the man a hard time (ew. and also heeee). Granted, he walked right into it, for the most part, and makes it easy for them to get angry at him, and then there was that amusing (for me) moment where he's all bewildered because obviously irrational beings reacted irrationally. And need I go into the GIANT clumsy spears being tossed around (I could totally picture the props people for this episode waiting off camera, trying to artfully throw a big fake spear) or that scene where the alien creature bangs on the shuttlecraft....
BUT STILL. I rather liked the episode, by the end of it. It's actually quite tense throughout, what with Kirk having that random dude breathing down his neck to stay on schedule and leave, and the Scotty doing his best to get the shuttlecraft airborne, and not being able to by the time the Enterprise has to leave -- no sensors, no way to communicate. It actually builds drama rather well, and it has every one at odds at the beginning, and then learning to work together by the end. Typically, I wanted to smack McCoy. Sometimes he really bothers me with his totally unhelpful way of showing Spock up, but they had some interesting moments. And I loved Kirk throughout -- totally torn between duty and his need not to leave his people behind.
YAY STAR TREK!
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But I forgive you anyway. I'm 6 episodes in and have determined that Alva Keel is deeply in love with Paul Callen. :D
It's totally scary in a rather subtle way, unlike say, Supernatural or even the X-Files. Not a terribly actiony kind of show, but it's subversively creepy. I sort of love how these guys, Alva and Paul, really aren't cops -- certainly not literally and definitely not in spirit. Not prone to carrying guns and beating up bad guys... or spirits. Not even the ex-cop with them is like that. They're studious. *g*
I'm already sad there's only 12 episodes. :(
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I've never done a Fannish 5 before! Don't know why. Sometimes I see them and start to figure out how I would answer them, and then only have like 3 of the 5 or something, and give up. Anyway, this one stuck. Maybe I'm in a melancholy mood.
Fannish 5: Five deaths that really affected me --
-- Dallas Winston: I start with the oldest wound. I don't think I can comprehensively describe what it was like to read The Outsiders at age 13 and cry like, well, a 13-year-old. *g* Actually, the part that got me more than Dallas's death was the moment in the hospital after the fire when Ponyboy runs after Darryl, who still thinks Ponyboy is mad at him. Anyway, Dallas's death really affected me. I was a mess for days after finishing that book.
-- Sonny Steelgrave: You know, I think I'm still stunned. *SOB* I was just shocked and shocked again. And the sad thing was that I had even been told what happened, but had forgotten, and I was still left babbling like an idiot for hours after watching NOGOOHA.
-- Tony Almeida: 24 is so full of deaths of characters I love, it's almost hard to choose. *g* Curtis' death was shocking and horrific; Palmer's death was unexpected, shocking and horrific; ditto Michelle; Assad's death was tragic and wasteful beyond description; George Mason's death was strangely heroic and redemptive; Ryan Chappelle's death was just wrenching. But Tony's death breaks my heart more than any of the others. ETA: ahahahaha -- Almeida Is God. hee. and awww. sad again. :(
-- Connor MacLeod: I love Connor. I didn't want him to die. However, almost as painful as his death, and the *why* of his death, was what it did to Duncan.
-- Sirius Black: I didn't cry at the end of OotP or anything. I was more heartsore then tearful. I'm still heartsore, especially after watching the movie version of OotP and seeing Gary Oldman do such a fantastic job, so sweetly tragic and doomed. Sirius was/is my favorite character in the Harry Potter series, even though I adore just about all the characters almost to distraction. Why him in particular? I dunno. I always have a soft spot for characters like him: good looking, tragic, arrogant, loyal and heroic. I was a tad angry when he died, but after reading the entire series, it really worked, imo. The Harry Potter books are full of tragic deaths of characters with shunted lives, who made bad choices along with amazingly brave and incredible choices, characters who are flawed but flawed in simple, real ways. Say what you will about JKR, but she sure hit on something with her characters.
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No one need worry that I've gone completely over the edge with HP, or anything *g*, but I find myself still pleasantly preoccupied with Deathly Hallows. I'm rereading it at a much slower pace, and maybe might read it a third time before I'm ready to let it go. I'm *trying* to read some fan fiction, but I mostly just recoil away. I think I'm rather alone in this fandom since I prefer the canonical pairings to any that dominate the fandom, and those canonical pairings seem to be in short supply in fan fiction (although lord knows I'm not really looking that hard).
I find myself mulling over silly things like: where does an animagus's clothes go to when they change? And are the Parvati twins pureblooded? Is Cho, for that matter? *g*
Anyway, it's fun to poke around on the very very far outskirts of the fandom. heh. *g*
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And in conclusion, VVC IN 7 DAYS OMG YAY. I have to be good while at VVC and do some writing on the $l%^l!!&k! thesis, annoyingly, but I shall still have fun. wheeeeee.
~~~
Well, lots of stuff going on, huh? Oh hey, look at that, one of my Yuletide stories is one of the stories of the day today. Neato. :D
First of all, I feel like I need to comment on this LJ/6A strikethrough business that's going on. My actual thoughts and opinions run along closely to elynross's (not surprisingly) and from my own experience working in a rather knee-jerk/litigious industry with somewhat disturbing trends (uh, hi, hello mr. murdoch buying the wall street journal!!! this is not good, people, not good at all), I gotta say I'm not surprised. I'm as upset about it as most of you all, but feel that it's more an indication of the current atmosphere in this country than anything regarding Six Apart in particular -- they live in this country, too. just my opinion.
Regarding migrating to other journal services -- um, won't they be just the same? And if you all do hare off, could someone please tap me on the shoulder and let me know where to go? thx.
~~~
I watched the Star Trek: TOS episode Galileo Seven the other day. I honestly forgot this episode existed. And when I started watching it I was like, OMG LOOK AT THE SHUTTLECRAFT. It's this strange, boxy waiting room of a ship, everybody sitting in airport chairs. So Strange. Man, shuttlecraft sure have come a long way, since.
Also, I realized I needed to forgive Star Trek: Enterprise for its portrayal of human animosity towards Vulcans because OMG I forgot how everyone in this episodes crawls up Mr. Spock's butt and gives the man a hard time (ew. and also heeee). Granted, he walked right into it, for the most part, and makes it easy for them to get angry at him, and then there was that amusing (for me) moment where he's all bewildered because obviously irrational beings reacted irrationally. And need I go into the GIANT clumsy spears being tossed around (I could totally picture the props people for this episode waiting off camera, trying to artfully throw a big fake spear) or that scene where the alien creature bangs on the shuttlecraft....
BUT STILL. I rather liked the episode, by the end of it. It's actually quite tense throughout, what with Kirk having that random dude breathing down his neck to stay on schedule and leave, and the Scotty doing his best to get the shuttlecraft airborne, and not being able to by the time the Enterprise has to leave -- no sensors, no way to communicate. It actually builds drama rather well, and it has every one at odds at the beginning, and then learning to work together by the end. Typically, I wanted to smack McCoy. Sometimes he really bothers me with his totally unhelpful way of showing Spock up, but they had some interesting moments. And I loved Kirk throughout -- totally torn between duty and his need not to leave his people behind.
YAY STAR TREK!
~~~
But I forgive you anyway. I'm 6 episodes in and have determined that Alva Keel is deeply in love with Paul Callen. :D
It's totally scary in a rather subtle way, unlike say, Supernatural or even the X-Files. Not a terribly actiony kind of show, but it's subversively creepy. I sort of love how these guys, Alva and Paul, really aren't cops -- certainly not literally and definitely not in spirit. Not prone to carrying guns and beating up bad guys... or spirits. Not even the ex-cop with them is like that. They're studious. *g*
I'm already sad there's only 12 episodes. :(
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I've never done a Fannish 5 before! Don't know why. Sometimes I see them and start to figure out how I would answer them, and then only have like 3 of the 5 or something, and give up. Anyway, this one stuck. Maybe I'm in a melancholy mood.
Fannish 5: Five deaths that really affected me --
-- Dallas Winston: I start with the oldest wound. I don't think I can comprehensively describe what it was like to read The Outsiders at age 13 and cry like, well, a 13-year-old. *g* Actually, the part that got me more than Dallas's death was the moment in the hospital after the fire when Ponyboy runs after Darryl, who still thinks Ponyboy is mad at him. Anyway, Dallas's death really affected me. I was a mess for days after finishing that book.
-- Sonny Steelgrave: You know, I think I'm still stunned. *SOB* I was just shocked and shocked again. And the sad thing was that I had even been told what happened, but had forgotten, and I was still left babbling like an idiot for hours after watching NOGOOHA.
-- Tony Almeida: 24 is so full of deaths of characters I love, it's almost hard to choose. *g* Curtis' death was shocking and horrific; Palmer's death was unexpected, shocking and horrific; ditto Michelle; Assad's death was tragic and wasteful beyond description; George Mason's death was strangely heroic and redemptive; Ryan Chappelle's death was just wrenching. But Tony's death breaks my heart more than any of the others. ETA: ahahahaha -- Almeida Is God. hee. and awww. sad again. :(
-- Connor MacLeod: I love Connor. I didn't want him to die. However, almost as painful as his death, and the *why* of his death, was what it did to Duncan.
-- Sirius Black: I didn't cry at the end of OotP or anything. I was more heartsore then tearful. I'm still heartsore, especially after watching the movie version of OotP and seeing Gary Oldman do such a fantastic job, so sweetly tragic and doomed. Sirius was/is my favorite character in the Harry Potter series, even though I adore just about all the characters almost to distraction. Why him in particular? I dunno. I always have a soft spot for characters like him: good looking, tragic, arrogant, loyal and heroic. I was a tad angry when he died, but after reading the entire series, it really worked, imo. The Harry Potter books are full of tragic deaths of characters with shunted lives, who made bad choices along with amazingly brave and incredible choices, characters who are flawed but flawed in simple, real ways. Say what you will about JKR, but she sure hit on something with her characters.
~~~
No one need worry that I've gone completely over the edge with HP, or anything *g*, but I find myself still pleasantly preoccupied with Deathly Hallows. I'm rereading it at a much slower pace, and maybe might read it a third time before I'm ready to let it go. I'm *trying* to read some fan fiction, but I mostly just recoil away. I think I'm rather alone in this fandom since I prefer the canonical pairings to any that dominate the fandom, and those canonical pairings seem to be in short supply in fan fiction (although lord knows I'm not really looking that hard).
I find myself mulling over silly things like: where does an animagus's clothes go to when they change? And are the Parvati twins pureblooded? Is Cho, for that matter? *g*
Anyway, it's fun to poke around on the very very far outskirts of the fandom. heh. *g*
~~~
And in conclusion, VVC IN 7 DAYS OMG YAY. I have to be good while at VVC and do some writing on the $l%^l!!&k! thesis, annoyingly, but I shall still have fun. wheeeeee.