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[silveryscrape]

All righty, let's give this another go.

I always find my way by circling in on things, sometimes even when I know where I'm going, so usually I know to leave extra time for driving until the way has settled in so deeply that my conscious mind can't fuck it up. So, yeah, House of Flying Daggers today, and maybe if I leave at 10 am for a 1 o'clock

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[mickeym]

Dude, I've started poking around some at the DitB website...and whoa. There are some scary things in the XF fandom that have nothing to do with XFiles. Or maybe some of the fic could be XFiles in and of themselves...

*ponders*

I need me a Mulder icon, I think.

[silveryscrape]

There's still an Xfiles fandom?

I haven't really gone back and looked at the old archives and such, they scare me. Is the Basement still around? But no, not going. All that old Xfiles stuff, it still kind of hurts to read, the show's death was so dishonorable and drawn out. I couldn't even read the 4th part of Logan's Second Grace series, that I'd been waiting for for months and months and months! It was just, ow.

Although, maybe reading M/K now, it would exorcise some of those old demons... no, nope! Out of the house! Heh.

[mickeym]

I don't have any idea if there's still an XF fandom *g* But I'm happy as a pig in shit right now, watching my eps. I'll be starting on Season 5 as soon as it gets here. I understand the quality of the show disintigrates considerably after that, so we'll see. As for the archives--beyond the two links hammerhead22 gave me, I got no clue, man. But here, have a link: The Basement. I have the one for TER/MA too, if you want ;)

[silveryscrape]

Oh, I still have all the old links, although I never go in that folder anymore. :) But, thanks.

I liked season 6 quite a bit, in fact it contains a few of my favorite eps, brilliant eps, like Milagro and The Unnatural. Season 7 has a few goodies and an interesting fey vibe, over all, but it's clear that David Duchovny was moving away in his mind and heart, and the writing is not quite there in many of the eps.

Season 5! Love it so much! Bad Blood and Post Modern Prometheus, two of the best eps EVER. God, I love that season. The Red and the Black. Kill Switch. Folie A Deux. Pine Bluff. Oh, yeah.

I have to go buy a dvd player right this minute. Heh.

[buddleia]

There is a good little Helen fic with JC and Joey studying Eng. Lit. and JC surprised because Joey is good at it. You'd hate it because Joey gets some.

I bet JC thought The Celestine Prophecies was the best thing evah.

[silveryscrape]

Ahahahaha! JC's still waiting for his real family to come and get him from outer space. Although in his case, that's sort of poignant and perhaps not to be made fun of.

I love Helen, but yeah. Not so much with the Joey getting some. It's weird. I can happily read porn in fandoms I know nothing about, but as soon as I discover their canon, I'm done. Fanon Joey is way hot, because the authors clearly love him so. But the real Joey Fatone? I wouldn't even turn my head. So sad.

[buddleia]

See, you should come over to the embarrassing 'pure fanon' side, where you would scream and drop your MP3 player if any actual *NSYNC suddenly started playing on it and Justin's videos make you cringe.
I know. I will never be a good Popslasher. I'm all about the consumption.

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Alas, I'm doomed then, because I really like Nsync's music. And luckily, not all popslash is based on the hotness factor of the guys. Shocking, I know. I could hardly believe it myself. But then I'm just a good little consumer, too.

[charlidos]

Damn you! Now you made me want to read those X-files stories too! Grrr.
I so love Anna S (or whatever you feel like calling her) and Sylvia.

Justin only read those self-help books, I'm sure. JC buys difficult books but never reads them, just leaves them lying around so he'll seem deep (just like someone reported on talking to him about paintings he had and how he knew nothing about them but pretended he did! Very upsetting). Chris reads when he's on Valium. Joey, well... I have no idea!

[silveryscrape]

Chris reads when he's on Valium.

HA!! You made me snort and clap my hand over my mouth. Because I'll betcha you're right.

About that chick who said JC was fronting on his art: consider the source. Clearly a poseur art student snob, clearly delighted to be so much better than a wanna-be pop star. I have no doubt JC wants to appear to be all that when it comes to art and wine and whatever else, because fundamentally (deep inside, even though the conscious JC knows he's hotter than hot) JC knows he doesn't belong.

[charlidos]

Oh yes, I thought that chick sounded incredibly annoying and patronising. I hate that kind of people. You always feel small and inadequate with them. And yes, I can indeed imagine JC feeling a need to overcompensate when it comes to certain topics. Then again, I often think I know stuff and may not know that I know very little until someone who knows more comes along.

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But you can't learn until you put it all out there and risk seeming stupid, which is why people like that chick REALLY annoy me. The arrogance of assuming everyone should be experts before they speak! Although, to be fair, there's nothing worse than someone who pretends to know everything, like she claimed JC was doing, and I do tend (minutely, hardly at all) to valorize JC (a little, not much).

On the third hand, I feel for him, making his living making small talk with utter strangers when he's supposedly near paralyzingly shy. ;) Bound to be a few missteps, there.

[trixiesfic]

Dude, you're totally right about the reading. Justin's a reader when he has time, he just doesn't read high literature. I bet he also reads lots of mysteries and tries to figure them out before the end.

I agree with the person who said JC buys books, but doesn't actually read them, but not because he's trying to *look* intellectual. I think he imagines himself as a thinker and reader, its just that he never gets around to actually reading them. Cause hey, there's always a party or new club or song idea to work on.

I'm not sure about Chris. I think he's probably the best read of the group, but only because he did most of his reading before the group.

Lance and Joey don't read. They had pets and porn on their bus, not books. Heh.

[silveryscrape]

its just that he never gets around to actually reading them

Yes, right on, exactly. I think he does actually imagine himself a thinker, but his standards for what constitutes "thinking" have been drastically affected by his lifestyle and the people arround him. Probably he gets a bit nostalgic for the shrooming conversations him and the guys used to have on the bus, where he'd try to explain linear time, because it was so clear in his head, and Justin would nod with his mouth hanging open and Chris would snort, but he secretly thought JC might be on to something, and Lance smiled fondly, but Joey was arguing. Fiercely, because he felt like kind of a tool.

Hee! Fun.

[lilysaid]

Lance reads because once he was at a party where people were talking about some things he'd never even heard of, and they just laughed off because he's in a boyband, after all. But he's MORE THAN A PRETTY FACE, damn it! So he buys every book he sees mentioned and reads the first twenty or so pages, just enough to get minimal knowledge of the subject.

But he got the nose job, just in case. :)

Also, it comes in handy to use that knowledge to lord over people who read even less than he does so he can make exasperated sounds and seem world-wise and brilliant. He hangs around with models, after all.

/offensive stereotyping of the beautiful people.

[silveryscrape]

Well, yes, he likes to impress the models, certainly. But it's the PR people and the execs and the lawyers who make him read to page 30 instead of only 20, and make him feel like he's being dismissed, ultimately... especially when the PR people and the execs and the lawyers slap his shoulder and smile and tell him how great he's doing, really, because it's just so great that he tries!

Lance really wants to be taken seriously. The models are such a relief.

/me, too