Wow. MAJOR nostalgia fit.
I have no idea what got me onto this train of thought, either...
I think it was obsessing over the Gargoyles DVD I got for Christmas. I'd forgotten how much I love(d) the show until recently.
(Random side note: I also really, really want the second season DVD.)
Anyway.
Naturally, since LiveJournal has basically taken over my life, I went and clicked on "gargoyles" in my interests list on my userinfo, just to see what I'd come up with.
Basically, I found three awesome comms:
brooklynfans, because Brooklyn is my favorite character and he pwns;
And also, gargoyle_clan and stone_by_day, both of which seem to be really awesome fancomms - not so active they'll rape my flist like fm_alchemist, but active enough that they're worth joining. Which I did.
This led me to discover disneyafternoon. I don't know how many of the Haremers will remember this...I know kousuke_blade does, since we SQUEE'd over it together, and karmaside probably will, too. Dunno who else. Anyhoo - it's basically a fancomm for the Disney Afternoon, the after-school block of cartoons that ran on the Disney Channel when I was a kid. Among my favorites were Darkwing Duck, Tale Spin, Chip 'n' Dale's Rescue Rangers, Duck Tales, Goof Troop, and, of course, Gargoyles. The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, and Hercules were also in there somewhere, though I'm not sure if they ran on the Disney Afternoon or not. I don't think they did. Point being, I suddenly felt very nostalgic and also missed my DirecTV at home a lot, since at home we have Toon Disney, which is glorious and has on it a bunch of those old shows.
All my Gargoyles exploration also led me to remember that at one point, a loooong time ago, I stumbled across some really fabulous 'scripts' fans had written for Gargoyles episodes following the second season (beacause, as any good fan knows, Goliath Chronicles mostly just pretty much sucked ass). So I went treasure hunting...and found it!
Gargoyles Fans is just pretty much a really badass website with all sorts of awesome stuff on it. The Gargoyles Saga was the home of the scripts I remembered. So that's probably what I'll be reading for the next couple of weeks instead of my usual shitload of FMA, Harry Potter and Avatar fics (excepting, of course, stuff from my flist. Ex dee). A while back, I did actually get pretty far into the Timedancer series a while back and loved it. Highly recommended to any Gargoyles fan, especially fellow Brooklyn lovers like myself. Fascinating and beautifully-written stuff.
'Course, it occurred to me a few minutes ago that it was entirely possible that torrents of season two and the Goliath Chronicles (which I'd probably end up watching, too, just for old times' sake) probably exist. Then I remembered that uTorrent hates me right now, and also that I don't have enough room on my hard drive for an entire 'nother show, and also that the cord for my external hard drive is missing. Fammit.
Anyway, my nostalgia fit pretty much ends there. But dang. I really wish it were 1994 again. Life pwned when I was eight.
Apologies for the two massive updates in one day. XDDD
...okay, I lied. I have to do this.
One thousand years ago,
Superstition and the sword ruled.
It was a time of darkness.
It was a world of fear.
It was the age...of gargoyles.
Stone by day, warriors by night,
We were betrayed by the humans we had sworn to protect,
Frozen in stone by a magic spell for a thousand years.
Now, here in Manhattan,
The spell is broken, and we live again!
We are defenders of the night...
...We are Gargoyles!
...And yes, that comes straight from memory.
Okay, now I'm done. XDD
*goes to look for external cord*
-EDIT-1:30- omg nostalgia is everywhere. I gacked a 90s meme from demon_wolf and...wow. XDDD
Copy and paste this in your journal and whenever there is something true, put it in bold.
You've ever ended a sentence with the word "PSYCHE!"
You can sing the rap to "The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air" I never liked that show, actually.
You've worn skorts and felt stylish
You yearned to be part of the Baby-Sitters club
You use to love playing with your MY Little Pet Shop
You know that "WOAH" comes from Joey from "Blossom" and that "How Rude!" comes from Stephanie from "Full House"
You remember when it was actually worth getting up early on a Saturday to watch cartoons.
You wore a ponytail on the side of your head and had fluffed bangs
You got super excited when it was Oregon Trail day in computer class at school. That game still kicks ass, yo.
You wanted to change your name to "JEM" in kindergarten
You remember reading "Goosebumps"
You know the profound meaning of "Wax on, wax off."
You have pondered why Smurfette was the only female smurf.
You took plastic cartoon lunch boxes to school.
You remember the craze then the banning of slap bracelets and slam books.
You still get the urge to say "NOT" after (almost) every sentence...Not...
You knew that Kimberly, the pink ranger, and Tommy, the green Ranger were meant to be together.
You remember "I've fallen and I can't get up!"
You remember going to the skating rink before there were inline skates
You ever got injured on a Slip 'n' Slide My parents wouldn't let me have one. XDD
You wore socks over leggings scrunched down I seem to recall that the school wouldn't let me. XD
"Miss Mary Mack, Mack, Mack, all dressed in black, black, black, with silver buttons, buttons, buttons, all down her back, back, back. SHE ASKED HER MOTHER MOTHER MOTHER FOR FIFTY CENTS CENTS CENTS TO SEE THE ELEPHANTS ELEPHANTS ELEPHANTS JUMP OVER THE FENCE THE FENCE THE FENCE He jumped so high high high, he touched the sky sky sky and he didnt come back back back til the forth of july ly ly. He jumped so low ow ow, he stumbed he's toe oe oe and thats the end end end of the elephants show ow ow"
You remember boom boxes vs. cd players
You knew what it meant to say "Care Bear Stare"
You remember Alf, the little brown alien from Melmac and Vicki the Robot from "My Little Wonder"
You remember New Kids on The Block when they were cool
You knew all the characters names and their life stories on "Saved By The Bell" Another show I never liked.
You played and or collected "Pogs"
You used to pretend to be a MIGHTY MORPHIN Power Ranger and you owned a Skip It
You had at least one GigaPet or Nano and brought it everywhere
You watched the original Care Bears, My Little Pony, and Ninja Turtles
All your school supplies were "Lisa Frank" brand.
Yikes pencils and erasers were the shit.
You remember when the new Beanie Babies were always sold out.
You used to wear those stick on earings, not only on your ears, but at the corners of your eyes.
You remember a time before the WB.
You've gotten creeped out by "Are You Afraid of the Dark?"
You thought it would be so cool to be Alex Mack. The actress was also in the Baby-Sitters Club movie. XDDD
You know the Macarena by heart...
"Talk to the hand."
You thought Brain woud finally take over the world
You always said, "Then why don't you marry it!"
Wow. Life was awesome in the 90s.
I think it was obsessing over the Gargoyles DVD I got for Christmas. I'd forgotten how much I love(d) the show until recently.
(Random side note: I also really, really want the second season DVD.)
Anyway.
Naturally, since LiveJournal has basically taken over my life, I went and clicked on "gargoyles" in my interests list on my userinfo, just to see what I'd come up with.
Basically, I found three awesome comms:
brooklynfans, because Brooklyn is my favorite character and he pwns;
And also, gargoyle_clan and stone_by_day, both of which seem to be really awesome fancomms - not so active they'll rape my flist like fm_alchemist, but active enough that they're worth joining. Which I did.
This led me to discover disneyafternoon. I don't know how many of the Haremers will remember this...I know kousuke_blade does, since we SQUEE'd over it together, and karmaside probably will, too. Dunno who else. Anyhoo - it's basically a fancomm for the Disney Afternoon, the after-school block of cartoons that ran on the Disney Channel when I was a kid. Among my favorites were Darkwing Duck, Tale Spin, Chip 'n' Dale's Rescue Rangers, Duck Tales, Goof Troop, and, of course, Gargoyles. The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, and Hercules were also in there somewhere, though I'm not sure if they ran on the Disney Afternoon or not. I don't think they did. Point being, I suddenly felt very nostalgic and also missed my DirecTV at home a lot, since at home we have Toon Disney, which is glorious and has on it a bunch of those old shows.
All my Gargoyles exploration also led me to remember that at one point, a loooong time ago, I stumbled across some really fabulous 'scripts' fans had written for Gargoyles episodes following the second season (beacause, as any good fan knows, Goliath Chronicles mostly just pretty much sucked ass). So I went treasure hunting...and found it!
Gargoyles Fans is just pretty much a really badass website with all sorts of awesome stuff on it. The Gargoyles Saga was the home of the scripts I remembered. So that's probably what I'll be reading for the next couple of weeks instead of my usual shitload of FMA, Harry Potter and Avatar fics (excepting, of course, stuff from my flist. Ex dee). A while back, I did actually get pretty far into the Timedancer series a while back and loved it. Highly recommended to any Gargoyles fan, especially fellow Brooklyn lovers like myself. Fascinating and beautifully-written stuff.
'Course, it occurred to me a few minutes ago that it was entirely possible that torrents of season two and the Goliath Chronicles (which I'd probably end up watching, too, just for old times' sake) probably exist. Then I remembered that uTorrent hates me right now, and also that I don't have enough room on my hard drive for an entire 'nother show, and also that the cord for my external hard drive is missing. Fammit.
Anyway, my nostalgia fit pretty much ends there. But dang. I really wish it were 1994 again. Life pwned when I was eight.
Apologies for the two massive updates in one day. XDDD
...okay, I lied. I have to do this.
One thousand years ago,
Superstition and the sword ruled.
It was a time of darkness.
It was a world of fear.
It was the age...of gargoyles.
Stone by day, warriors by night,
We were betrayed by the humans we had sworn to protect,
Frozen in stone by a magic spell for a thousand years.
Now, here in Manhattan,
The spell is broken, and we live again!
We are defenders of the night...
...We are Gargoyles!
...And yes, that comes straight from memory.
Okay, now I'm done. XDD
*goes to look for external cord*
-EDIT-1:30- omg nostalgia is everywhere. I gacked a 90s meme from demon_wolf and...wow. XDDD
Copy and paste this in your journal and whenever there is something true, put it in bold.
You've ever ended a sentence with the word "PSYCHE!"
You can sing the rap to "The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air" I never liked that show, actually.
You've worn skorts and felt stylish
You yearned to be part of the Baby-Sitters club
You use to love playing with your MY Little Pet Shop
You know that "WOAH" comes from Joey from "Blossom" and that "How Rude!" comes from Stephanie from "Full House"
You remember when it was actually worth getting up early on a Saturday to watch cartoons.
You wore a ponytail on the side of your head and had fluffed bangs
You got super excited when it was Oregon Trail day in computer class at school. That game still kicks ass, yo.
You wanted to change your name to "JEM" in kindergarten
You remember reading "Goosebumps"
You know the profound meaning of "Wax on, wax off."
You have pondered why Smurfette was the only female smurf.
You took plastic cartoon lunch boxes to school.
You remember the craze then the banning of slap bracelets and slam books.
You still get the urge to say "NOT" after (almost) every sentence...Not...
You knew that Kimberly, the pink ranger, and Tommy, the green Ranger were meant to be together.
You remember "I've fallen and I can't get up!"
You remember going to the skating rink before there were inline skates
You ever got injured on a Slip 'n' Slide My parents wouldn't let me have one. XDD
You wore socks over leggings scrunched down I seem to recall that the school wouldn't let me. XD
"Miss Mary Mack, Mack, Mack, all dressed in black, black, black, with silver buttons, buttons, buttons, all down her back, back, back. SHE ASKED HER MOTHER MOTHER MOTHER FOR FIFTY CENTS CENTS CENTS TO SEE THE ELEPHANTS ELEPHANTS ELEPHANTS JUMP OVER THE FENCE THE FENCE THE FENCE He jumped so high high high, he touched the sky sky sky and he didnt come back back back til the forth of july ly ly. He jumped so low ow ow, he stumbed he's toe oe oe and thats the end end end of the elephants show ow ow"
You remember boom boxes vs. cd players
You knew what it meant to say "Care Bear Stare"
You remember Alf, the little brown alien from Melmac and Vicki the Robot from "My Little Wonder"
You remember New Kids on The Block when they were cool
You knew all the characters names and their life stories on "Saved By The Bell" Another show I never liked.
You played and or collected "Pogs"
You used to pretend to be a MIGHTY MORPHIN Power Ranger and you owned a Skip It
You had at least one GigaPet or Nano and brought it everywhere
You watched the original Care Bears, My Little Pony, and Ninja Turtles
All your school supplies were "Lisa Frank" brand.
Yikes pencils and erasers were the shit.
You remember when the new Beanie Babies were always sold out.
You used to wear those stick on earings, not only on your ears, but at the corners of your eyes.
You remember a time before the WB.
You've gotten creeped out by "Are You Afraid of the Dark?"
You thought it would be so cool to be Alex Mack. The actress was also in the Baby-Sitters Club movie. XDDD
You know the Macarena by heart...
"Talk to the hand."
You thought Brain woud finally take over the world
You always said, "Then why don't you marry it!"
Wow. Life was awesome in the 90s.