Poor Charlie Monkey
I’ve had a monstrously awesome day filling out that monstrously awesome 7 Things meme. You know the one…
Comment to this post, and I will list seven things I want you to talk about. They might make sense or they might be totally random.
Then post that list, with your commentary, to your journal. Other people can get lists from you, and the meme merrily perpetuates itself.
torigates asked…
Haha, I hope you guys all get that when I say TERRIBLE, I mean, the subject of my every fantasy these days.
But to be specific, what makes Tom Hardy so terrible is his voice, not his face, but I will get back to that.
Let's take a look.
He's got the kind of face I love, of a handsome, rough-and-tumble bruiser with a good Roman nose, but really what makes his face so terrible?
So you see, his face used to be even *more* terrible, but then he or Hollywoor or his agent or something decided to 'fix' his teeth. Unnecessary. But he can't hide. He's got this crazy, crooked, snaggletoothed smile and it is the most amazing thing ever. YES I said EVER.
Now, what REALLY makes him so terrible?
His voice is incredible. (Sidebar, that first clip is from The Take, and while it's a brilliant piece of television [it's one of those 4 episode British tv 'shows'], I give a MAJOR violence warning, and I have a strong stomach for things like that.)
Also, as I kind of can’t help doing, I usually end up shipping these beautiful boys with one of their co-stars, and I was *blown* away with the chemistry he had with his Wuthering Heights and The Take co-star, Charlotte Riley. (More for the former than the latter.) And what do you know? They’re engaged.
*I basically die when English guys call their girlfriends 'my missus'
Also? He wears a suit incredibly well.
Also? He wears *less than a suit* incredibly well.
Okay, now I’m done.
I kind of don’t know what to say, because this was me and GH this week, kind of.
Seriously, that is how I feel at the end of all my time with GH.
When I was doing NaNo this fall, I started meeting with a group of other writers, and we did talk a little bit about our novels and plots, and when it came to me, I kind of never knew what to say, because I had a cast of like, fifty-seven characters, so I just said, “Like a soap opera in the Victoria era.” And people were like, ooh, with amnesia? And back from the dead? And lots of affairs? And I kind of laughed, but…no. That’s not what soap is. I mean, yes there’s a lot of sensational storytelling, but there is (was) a reason that these shows were on the air for 40+ years. My novel had characters from six years old, right up through seventy.
But that’s not what the question was, so back to General Hospital. Okay, I guess I can’t avoid talking about this any more.
Robin Scorpio.
She was horribly, needlessly killed off this week in the worst way possible, I can’t even talk about it.
But this was a woman who had grown up on this show, played by the same actress since she was six years old (she’s almost 34 now). She was the lead of the groundbreaking HIV/AIDS storyline in the 90’s, she’s now a doctor, a mother, she was raised by international spies…and she’s also had storylines like playing with aliens when she was a little girl, getting in trouble for sneaking out her uncle’s car when she was a teenager and having karaoke nights with her girlfriends as an adult. We have watched it all, her whole life…and there is no other storytelling medium that does that.
Oh, this is going to be a horrible answer to a very straight-forward question. I’ve been on some wonderful trips, but I’m really kind of a terrible traveller. I stress out about luggage (and with my hair, there is no way for me to be a light packer, and I’m only 5’ tall so hefting around a lot of heavy suitcases isn’t a picnic either), transportation, and everything that one can stress about. Get ready, here’s another Woe Is Me, I’m Single moment…
I kind of don’t want to do any more big travelling until I have someone to travel with.
And even then…I have found that the vacations I enjoy the most are the of the Rent A Beachhouse and Relax variety, rather than spelunking or something.
Does that answer your question? Probably not.
Should be no surprise…
Sigh. I wish all more of you watched it. I don’t know what else I can say to convice you all though. I guess it’s just one of those quirks that only appeals to me. Sigh.
I think I’m pretty comfortable calling Julie this, these days. I related to her on an almost scary level. And when I’m writing original fic, Aimee Teegarden’s perfect face comes up as my default heroine, almost on reflex.
A dentist! Yes, seriously. Probably because my dad is a dentist, so it was, like, a job that I knew.
It’s not something I ever seriously considered past the age of, oh- ten. And I get completely disgusted and skeeved out even when my father cleans my own teeth. I am not comfortable with it.
Um, I hate to say this, especially to the beforetv mod, but I, like, seriously have not read in the past six months. At least not anything new. I’ve flipped through my Harry Potter and Lisa Kleypas books, but that’s it. I did get an advanced copy of Lisa Kleypas’s new contemporary, which I have to say, I didn’t like all that much (and I felt bad, because I never win contests like that).
And cashewdani asked…
Most seriously, My So-Called Life, especially as Angela and Jordan would be 33 and 35 now, and I would love to know how they might have flitted in and out of each other’s lives throughout the years.
Okay, so plot? Winnie Holzman has said that if the series had gone on, Graham and Patty would have gotten divorced, and if it had gone on long enough, Graham would have had some health problems (as Patty’s father did). I see Angela coming home for a healthscare to help out her family, and I feel like Danielle would have stayed local, and maybe been a mom herself at this point, and Angela has been off, probably in New York, living life. (I always thought that the character Claire Danes played in The Family Stone was so exactly like Angela Chase would have grown up to be.)
Jordan would still be a townie, and I can see him with maybe a kid and an ex-wife.
I don’t know that there would be a way for Brian to be back. I think, if he did not have continuing ties to Angela, that he’d be off living in some city, probably as a doctor (a surgeon). The only way I could see him coming home is if Graham died, and I don’t know if I’d want that.
Rickie is Angela’s roommate in New York, so maybe he’s there throughout, via phonecalls, and comes in at the end, when things look bad, and Angela really needs him.
Rayanne is kind of the wild card in all of this, because I know I *want* her to get her life together, but I don’t know if Winnie would have ever let that happen.
To clarify, this question was to describe an off-camera or pre-series Gossip Girl moment that I’d love a flashback to.
I’m sure this would make a lot of people angry, but I would love, sometime in the last few episodes, for Kristen Bell to breeze onscreen, and she’s Lily’s stepdaughter (the daughter of Claus or Klaus) who has flitted in and out of their house over the years, but Lily is so bad at keeping track of her children, she just slipped her mind.
And then we get a *verybrief* series blow-by, where we see KB has been just offscreen this whole time, chronicling the life of her hated stepsister and her friends.
It’s highly unlikely that Gossip Girl is one person (not only can she see through walls, but also inside of people’s thoughts sometimes)- but I would love for it to be so.
My favourite Chris Lilley character is probably Nathan Sims, because he did so much with that character, and I totally got that this sort of bad little kid was really lonely, and loved his brother (his whole family) and missed his dad, and felt always just a little left out of things and that he didn’t really belong in Dunt.
But I loved Daniel too, and Gran, and I would love for Chris to consider doing a movie on just the Sims family.
See my answers to torigates, but when I do find that perfect travel partner, I’d love to take a cold weather European vacation (i.e., see Paris at Christmas time, or the Irish country side, or the moors).
I guess I first discovered fandom with NSYNC (yes, go me), and those were the days when ff.net allowed rpf, and I used to read story-upon-crap-story of Justin meeting some high school girl after a concert and falling in love with her. But that wasn’t very participatory for me in those days.
My first online fandom, I suppose, was General Hospital, and that was a message board beast. Looking back on it now, I don’t know how I kept up with it, a separate message board for each character or couple.
My first lj fandom (and here’s where I’ll answer the and what I learned from it portion of the question) was Veronica Mars, and so, so much. I learned to dive right in- I was kind of a fearless writer in those days, in that I felt comfortable writing everything and anything and never second guessed myself. I was far from exceptional, but at least there was output. I learned *manners*, guess I had to as I was in the vast minority of that fandom. Yes, that’s what I learned. Confidence and manners. And met a lot of cool people.
When I was in elementary school, definitely the Baby-Sitters’ Club, Sweet Valley Twins and the American Girl books. When I was in middle school, I branched into S.E. Hinton , The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Bridge to Terabithia…and I probably started reading romance novels when I was like 12. (That explains so much.) Oh, there was this one I loved about a freshman girl in high school, dating a junior boy, it was called Winter Dreams, Christmas Love by Mary Francis Shura. Oh, and this other one, it was about a fifteen-year-old girl with HIV and her boyfriend had leukemia, it was called, like, Goodbye To David or something. I thought it was by Lurlene McDaniel, but I can’t remember now.
I could have a really lofty answer like, me and Tami Taylor would change the world!, or a sexy answer, like I would do boy-girl things with Hastings Ruckle, but really I think I would most enjoy having margaritas with Mindy Collette-Riggins and the ladies of the Landing Strip.
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Sigh. And even an hour left to go. What shall I do now?
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Comment to this post, and I will list seven things I want you to talk about. They might make sense or they might be totally random.
Then post that list, with your commentary, to your journal. Other people can get lists from you, and the meme merrily perpetuates itself.
torigates asked…
Haha, I hope you guys all get that when I say TERRIBLE, I mean, the subject of my every fantasy these days.
But to be specific, what makes Tom Hardy so terrible is his voice, not his face, but I will get back to that.
Let's take a look.
He's got the kind of face I love, of a handsome, rough-and-tumble bruiser with a good Roman nose, but really what makes his face so terrible?
So you see, his face used to be even *more* terrible, but then he or Hollywoor or his agent or something decided to 'fix' his teeth. Unnecessary. But he can't hide. He's got this crazy, crooked, snaggletoothed smile and it is the most amazing thing ever. YES I said EVER.
Now, what REALLY makes him so terrible?
Click to viewHis voice is incredible. (Sidebar, that first clip is from The Take, and while it's a brilliant piece of television [it's one of those 4 episode British tv 'shows'], I give a MAJOR violence warning, and I have a strong stomach for things like that.)
Also, as I kind of can’t help doing, I usually end up shipping these beautiful boys with one of their co-stars, and I was *blown* away with the chemistry he had with his Wuthering Heights and The Take co-star, Charlotte Riley. (More for the former than the latter.) And what do you know? They’re engaged.
*I basically die when English guys call their girlfriends 'my missus'
Also? He wears a suit incredibly well.
Also? He wears *less than a suit* incredibly well.
Okay, now I’m done.
I kind of don’t know what to say, because this was me and GH this week, kind of.
Seriously, that is how I feel at the end of all my time with GH.
When I was doing NaNo this fall, I started meeting with a group of other writers, and we did talk a little bit about our novels and plots, and when it came to me, I kind of never knew what to say, because I had a cast of like, fifty-seven characters, so I just said, “Like a soap opera in the Victoria era.” And people were like, ooh, with amnesia? And back from the dead? And lots of affairs? And I kind of laughed, but…no. That’s not what soap is. I mean, yes there’s a lot of sensational storytelling, but there is (was) a reason that these shows were on the air for 40+ years. My novel had characters from six years old, right up through seventy.
But that’s not what the question was, so back to General Hospital. Okay, I guess I can’t avoid talking about this any more.
Robin Scorpio.
She was horribly, needlessly killed off this week in the worst way possible, I can’t even talk about it.
But this was a woman who had grown up on this show, played by the same actress since she was six years old (she’s almost 34 now). She was the lead of the groundbreaking HIV/AIDS storyline in the 90’s, she’s now a doctor, a mother, she was raised by international spies…and she’s also had storylines like playing with aliens when she was a little girl, getting in trouble for sneaking out her uncle’s car when she was a teenager and having karaoke nights with her girlfriends as an adult. We have watched it all, her whole life…and there is no other storytelling medium that does that.
Oh, this is going to be a horrible answer to a very straight-forward question. I’ve been on some wonderful trips, but I’m really kind of a terrible traveller. I stress out about luggage (and with my hair, there is no way for me to be a light packer, and I’m only 5’ tall so hefting around a lot of heavy suitcases isn’t a picnic either), transportation, and everything that one can stress about. Get ready, here’s another Woe Is Me, I’m Single moment…
I kind of don’t want to do any more big travelling until I have someone to travel with.
And even then…I have found that the vacations I enjoy the most are the of the Rent A Beachhouse and Relax variety, rather than spelunking or something.
Does that answer your question? Probably not.
Should be no surprise…
Sigh. I wish all more of you watched it. I don’t know what else I can say to convice you all though. I guess it’s just one of those quirks that only appeals to me. Sigh.
I think I’m pretty comfortable calling Julie this, these days. I related to her on an almost scary level. And when I’m writing original fic, Aimee Teegarden’s perfect face comes up as my default heroine, almost on reflex.
A dentist! Yes, seriously. Probably because my dad is a dentist, so it was, like, a job that I knew.
It’s not something I ever seriously considered past the age of, oh- ten. And I get completely disgusted and skeeved out even when my father cleans my own teeth. I am not comfortable with it.
Um, I hate to say this, especially to the beforetv mod, but I, like, seriously have not read in the past six months. At least not anything new. I’ve flipped through my Harry Potter and Lisa Kleypas books, but that’s it. I did get an advanced copy of Lisa Kleypas’s new contemporary, which I have to say, I didn’t like all that much (and I felt bad, because I never win contests like that).
And cashewdani asked…
Most seriously, My So-Called Life, especially as Angela and Jordan would be 33 and 35 now, and I would love to know how they might have flitted in and out of each other’s lives throughout the years.
Okay, so plot? Winnie Holzman has said that if the series had gone on, Graham and Patty would have gotten divorced, and if it had gone on long enough, Graham would have had some health problems (as Patty’s father did). I see Angela coming home for a healthscare to help out her family, and I feel like Danielle would have stayed local, and maybe been a mom herself at this point, and Angela has been off, probably in New York, living life. (I always thought that the character Claire Danes played in The Family Stone was so exactly like Angela Chase would have grown up to be.)
Jordan would still be a townie, and I can see him with maybe a kid and an ex-wife.
I don’t know that there would be a way for Brian to be back. I think, if he did not have continuing ties to Angela, that he’d be off living in some city, probably as a doctor (a surgeon). The only way I could see him coming home is if Graham died, and I don’t know if I’d want that.
Rickie is Angela’s roommate in New York, so maybe he’s there throughout, via phonecalls, and comes in at the end, when things look bad, and Angela really needs him.
Rayanne is kind of the wild card in all of this, because I know I *want* her to get her life together, but I don’t know if Winnie would have ever let that happen.
To clarify, this question was to describe an off-camera or pre-series Gossip Girl moment that I’d love a flashback to.
I’m sure this would make a lot of people angry, but I would love, sometime in the last few episodes, for Kristen Bell to breeze onscreen, and she’s Lily’s stepdaughter (the daughter of Claus or Klaus) who has flitted in and out of their house over the years, but Lily is so bad at keeping track of her children, she just slipped her mind.
And then we get a *verybrief* series blow-by, where we see KB has been just offscreen this whole time, chronicling the life of her hated stepsister and her friends.
It’s highly unlikely that Gossip Girl is one person (not only can she see through walls, but also inside of people’s thoughts sometimes)- but I would love for it to be so.
My favourite Chris Lilley character is probably Nathan Sims, because he did so much with that character, and I totally got that this sort of bad little kid was really lonely, and loved his brother (his whole family) and missed his dad, and felt always just a little left out of things and that he didn’t really belong in Dunt.
But I loved Daniel too, and Gran, and I would love for Chris to consider doing a movie on just the Sims family.
See my answers to torigates, but when I do find that perfect travel partner, I’d love to take a cold weather European vacation (i.e., see Paris at Christmas time, or the Irish country side, or the moors).
I guess I first discovered fandom with NSYNC (yes, go me), and those were the days when ff.net allowed rpf, and I used to read story-upon-crap-story of Justin meeting some high school girl after a concert and falling in love with her. But that wasn’t very participatory for me in those days.
My first online fandom, I suppose, was General Hospital, and that was a message board beast. Looking back on it now, I don’t know how I kept up with it, a separate message board for each character or couple.
My first lj fandom (and here’s where I’ll answer the and what I learned from it portion of the question) was Veronica Mars, and so, so much. I learned to dive right in- I was kind of a fearless writer in those days, in that I felt comfortable writing everything and anything and never second guessed myself. I was far from exceptional, but at least there was output. I learned *manners*, guess I had to as I was in the vast minority of that fandom. Yes, that’s what I learned. Confidence and manners. And met a lot of cool people.
When I was in elementary school, definitely the Baby-Sitters’ Club, Sweet Valley Twins and the American Girl books. When I was in middle school, I branched into S.E. Hinton , The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Bridge to Terabithia…and I probably started reading romance novels when I was like 12. (That explains so much.) Oh, there was this one I loved about a freshman girl in high school, dating a junior boy, it was called Winter Dreams, Christmas Love by Mary Francis Shura. Oh, and this other one, it was about a fifteen-year-old girl with HIV and her boyfriend had leukemia, it was called, like, Goodbye To David or something. I thought it was by Lurlene McDaniel, but I can’t remember now.
I could have a really lofty answer like, me and Tami Taylor would change the world!, or a sexy answer, like I would do boy-girl things with Hastings Ruckle, but really I think I would most enjoy having margaritas with Mindy Collette-Riggins and the ladies of the Landing Strip.
*
Sigh. And even an hour left to go. What shall I do now?
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