Sooo many things...well, three...PROMPTS?...
Hey, LJ, play nice would you? I have things to say.
Ok, so most important things first, as LJ apparently is letting me post things now (though weirdly I still can't comment. Do not understand.)
I am going on holiday for two weeks tomorrow, and I intend to spend my time sitting in the sunshine drinking Orangina and reading ALL THE BOOKS, and writing.
I've got a few things I'm working on, but I also thought it might be fun to get some PROMPTS to take away with me, because sometimes my brain fails me and it's always good practice to write things that you haven't come up with yourself. So.
DOES ANYONE WANT TO GIVE ME PROMPTS? I will be very grateful if you do, and they can be anything you like, this is an exercise in writing to request, so I will take anything and everything you give me and try to do something with them.
So prompt me please, if LJ will let you. I am leaving at 8pm Friday British Summer Time, so if you have any, and are able to comment, do it tonight :D
Now onto other things:
I just finished the second season of The Good Wife, have you guys been watching? Because if not, I feel that you should, and aside from the fact that it will bring the exquisite Julianna Margulies and the wealth of talent that is Josh Charles back on to your screens where you know you want them,
1) Matt Czuchry is the most adorable thing on the planet. I kid you not. Look at him.
Look how cute he is with his little smile and his hair all combed. And look.
Look at his little dimples on his adorable little face.
I'm in love with him. Which was surprising for me because my only previous experience of him was his stint on Young Americans when I kind of just wanted him to shut up and go away. I don't know how much of that was his character/the writing, but I didn't expect to enjoy him. But he's just so gentle and brooding, and he does this kind of grumbly thing with his voice right before he talks, and I love his character and want only good things for him.
2) Alan Cumming is wonderful in it. I'm always surprised by how much I like Alan Cumming in things because as a personality I find him a bit much, he's always wearing strangely patterned leather pants or making peace signs at cameras, which is something I am never in favour of, or having exxaggerated facial expressions like this one
But what he's doing on this show is just dazzling. He has all the bite and cynicism and general sharp wit of your standard tv political operative, but he also has just so much heart that you can't help but really warm to him as a character, to always hope that he does the right thing, and to rejoice when he does.
Plus he just looks sharp.
3) MARTHA PLIMPTON IS IN IT!!!
Seriously, she's in I think four episodes and she is clearly one of my favourite things in it.
She always looks awesome, she is incredibly funny, and I have a secret wish for her and Will to actually be really good friends who go out drinking together and he whines and she tells him to stop being a baby and he tries to tell her how pretty she is and she makes him have another drink so he'll feel extra awful in the morning before she puts him into bed. I don't know how much of that is dictated by the fact that she and Josh Charles always look like they're having a really good time together
but I REALLY WANT IT. So if someone wants to write me fic about that, that'd be awesome, please and thanks.
Also, I saw Harry Potter this week, and it is the MOST beautiful.
I am generally a fan of the films, and I understand why a lot of people don't like them because of the ways in which they deviate from the books, but it has never bothered me that much. So I went into this film, having been incredibly impressed with the last one, looking forward to something special. And I really wasn't disappointed.
The whole thing just filled me with emotion, and I wasn't expecting it. I wasn't amazingly sad, I was just really emotional in the face of the end of an institution that I have grown up with (and yes, I am of the generation that claims Harry Potter as it's own - the first book came out when I was about 9 I think, and the last when I was 19,) I lived my life alongside these characters and so saying goodbye to it is, in many ways, like bidding farewell to the last vestiges of my childhood.
I started welling up when McGonagall woke the statues, and from then on I was on the edge, I was tremulous, and by the way, how wonderful is Maggie Smith? I mean, I've been watching her in films my whole life, but her face in this film is just so expressive, so beautiful, I feel like I have to go back and rewatch everything she's ever been in because I haven't been appreciating her properly.
And NEVILLE!! Neville Longbottom! My poor, neglected darling of a boy, the bravest, most valiant, most noble, most honorable of men, the Other Boy Who Lived, I have never been more in love, more proud of a character than I have when Neville stood forward and declared the battle still raging, declared Harry Potter's heart that beat for every one of them should not be wasted, should not be lost because the beating had stopped. Neville is legitimately my favourite character in this series of books, and I love that he finally got his moment to really shine and be important in the way that he IS important, in the way that they are ALL important because each person is important. My heart quite literally swelled to twice the size.
Neville Longbottom. With all of my heart. Forever.
And SNAPE!! Dear GOD Snape!! If I thought the books made me feel a million different things for him, they have nothing on the effect that Alan Rickman's FACE can do to me. His VOICE. His EYES. I make fun of him a lot for always playing the same character, but by the power of greyskull he made me bawl. SNAPE!!!!
And there was something really interesting in the way that Ralph Fiennes played Voldemort in this one as well, and yeah, ok, he's Ralph Fiennes, but I generally find him less brilliant than everyone tells me he is, but he made me think different things about Voldemort than I did when I was reading the books, added another level to it somehow and I was really intrigued by it.
In short. LOVE. I can't wait until the dvd comes out so I can watch both films back to back.
And finally, I am rewatching The West Wing, for about the gazillionth time, and it just doesn't get any less wonderful. If you haven't watched it, WATCH IT. You will not regret it even for an instant.
Alright, I'm bugging out now, hopefully some of you will leave prompts, but if not, I'll talk to y'all in two weeks.
♥
Ok, so most important things first, as LJ apparently is letting me post things now (though weirdly I still can't comment. Do not understand.)
I am going on holiday for two weeks tomorrow, and I intend to spend my time sitting in the sunshine drinking Orangina and reading ALL THE BOOKS, and writing.
I've got a few things I'm working on, but I also thought it might be fun to get some PROMPTS to take away with me, because sometimes my brain fails me and it's always good practice to write things that you haven't come up with yourself. So.
DOES ANYONE WANT TO GIVE ME PROMPTS? I will be very grateful if you do, and they can be anything you like, this is an exercise in writing to request, so I will take anything and everything you give me and try to do something with them.
So prompt me please, if LJ will let you. I am leaving at 8pm Friday British Summer Time, so if you have any, and are able to comment, do it tonight :D
Now onto other things:
I just finished the second season of The Good Wife, have you guys been watching? Because if not, I feel that you should, and aside from the fact that it will bring the exquisite Julianna Margulies and the wealth of talent that is Josh Charles back on to your screens where you know you want them,
1) Matt Czuchry is the most adorable thing on the planet. I kid you not. Look at him.
Look how cute he is with his little smile and his hair all combed. And look.
Look at his little dimples on his adorable little face.
I'm in love with him. Which was surprising for me because my only previous experience of him was his stint on Young Americans when I kind of just wanted him to shut up and go away. I don't know how much of that was his character/the writing, but I didn't expect to enjoy him. But he's just so gentle and brooding, and he does this kind of grumbly thing with his voice right before he talks, and I love his character and want only good things for him.
2) Alan Cumming is wonderful in it. I'm always surprised by how much I like Alan Cumming in things because as a personality I find him a bit much, he's always wearing strangely patterned leather pants or making peace signs at cameras, which is something I am never in favour of, or having exxaggerated facial expressions like this one
But what he's doing on this show is just dazzling. He has all the bite and cynicism and general sharp wit of your standard tv political operative, but he also has just so much heart that you can't help but really warm to him as a character, to always hope that he does the right thing, and to rejoice when he does.
Plus he just looks sharp.
3) MARTHA PLIMPTON IS IN IT!!!
Seriously, she's in I think four episodes and she is clearly one of my favourite things in it.
She always looks awesome, she is incredibly funny, and I have a secret wish for her and Will to actually be really good friends who go out drinking together and he whines and she tells him to stop being a baby and he tries to tell her how pretty she is and she makes him have another drink so he'll feel extra awful in the morning before she puts him into bed. I don't know how much of that is dictated by the fact that she and Josh Charles always look like they're having a really good time together
but I REALLY WANT IT. So if someone wants to write me fic about that, that'd be awesome, please and thanks.
Also, I saw Harry Potter this week, and it is the MOST beautiful.
I am generally a fan of the films, and I understand why a lot of people don't like them because of the ways in which they deviate from the books, but it has never bothered me that much. So I went into this film, having been incredibly impressed with the last one, looking forward to something special. And I really wasn't disappointed.
The whole thing just filled me with emotion, and I wasn't expecting it. I wasn't amazingly sad, I was just really emotional in the face of the end of an institution that I have grown up with (and yes, I am of the generation that claims Harry Potter as it's own - the first book came out when I was about 9 I think, and the last when I was 19,) I lived my life alongside these characters and so saying goodbye to it is, in many ways, like bidding farewell to the last vestiges of my childhood.
I started welling up when McGonagall woke the statues, and from then on I was on the edge, I was tremulous, and by the way, how wonderful is Maggie Smith? I mean, I've been watching her in films my whole life, but her face in this film is just so expressive, so beautiful, I feel like I have to go back and rewatch everything she's ever been in because I haven't been appreciating her properly.
And NEVILLE!! Neville Longbottom! My poor, neglected darling of a boy, the bravest, most valiant, most noble, most honorable of men, the Other Boy Who Lived, I have never been more in love, more proud of a character than I have when Neville stood forward and declared the battle still raging, declared Harry Potter's heart that beat for every one of them should not be wasted, should not be lost because the beating had stopped. Neville is legitimately my favourite character in this series of books, and I love that he finally got his moment to really shine and be important in the way that he IS important, in the way that they are ALL important because each person is important. My heart quite literally swelled to twice the size.
Neville Longbottom. With all of my heart. Forever.
And SNAPE!! Dear GOD Snape!! If I thought the books made me feel a million different things for him, they have nothing on the effect that Alan Rickman's FACE can do to me. His VOICE. His EYES. I make fun of him a lot for always playing the same character, but by the power of greyskull he made me bawl. SNAPE!!!!
And there was something really interesting in the way that Ralph Fiennes played Voldemort in this one as well, and yeah, ok, he's Ralph Fiennes, but I generally find him less brilliant than everyone tells me he is, but he made me think different things about Voldemort than I did when I was reading the books, added another level to it somehow and I was really intrigued by it.
In short. LOVE. I can't wait until the dvd comes out so I can watch both films back to back.
And finally, I am rewatching The West Wing, for about the gazillionth time, and it just doesn't get any less wonderful. If you haven't watched it, WATCH IT. You will not regret it even for an instant.
Alright, I'm bugging out now, hopefully some of you will leave prompts, but if not, I'll talk to y'all in two weeks.
♥