Meme answers
More 5-question-meme answers.
euclase asked:
1-ten years from now, you're the producer of a popular show. what's the show about, and who's in it? and how awesome is it? :D
2-what writers, apart from rtd, have had the most influence on you?
3-what qualities make the best/sexiest/most interesting characters, in your opinion?
4-you've just experienced the most relaxing, wonderful day of your life. what happened?
5-which places or experiences in the us were your favorites?
1-ten years from now, you're the producer of a popular show. what's the show about, and who's in it? and how awesome is it? :D
Hmmmmmm. A while back, I talked show concepts to mind_the_tardis, and she came up with the idea of random normal John-Doe people being part of a Torchwood-like secret organization. Meaning, say, that geeky kid who works in the comic shop next door actually doesn't miss work so often because he's a lazy bum, but because he keeps being called on secret missions with the Torchwood-like alien fighting organization he works for. I really, really liked that idea, and would love to expand on it and make an actual show concept out of it. Maybe they're not just random average people from all over the world, maybe they're random average people from all over time. Meaning you'd get the prissy Victorian gentleman working with the free-thinking, polyamorous 21st century woman. It would be awesome.
I want Damian Lewis to be in it. He has interesting eyes, and I loved his character in Life. I would love to find a spot for Dame Maggie Smith, because she kicks ass in anything she's in. David Morrissey could be my villain. He always plays good characters whom I almost like, but who I disagree with too much on an ethical level to actually approve of. So if he were my villain, that would take care of that problem. Of course, I'd try to cast David Tennant--but maybe only as a cameo. He could get a brilliant death; I don't think I've ever seen him in a really good death scene. (Except in Hamlet.) Lesley Sharp! Because her acting skillz are magnificent; she could be the ambiguous character nobody quite knows which side they're on. And of course, Russell T. Davies would have to come in as a guest-writer for at least one episode.
Yes. This. How awesome is it? It's too awesome for words.
2-what writers, apart from rtd, have had the most influence on you?
Stephen King. He was the first writer I actively went and sought out by name, and he didn't disappoint. He can ramble somewhat horridly in his books, but he's one of the most honest writers I've ever come across. Reading his books is a bit like reading his id. Which can be a tad uncomfortable, but it does make for magnificent story telling.
Other writers I've learned stuff from are Neil Gaiman--he made me realize that it's okay to use short sentences; sometimes short sentences are what you need for a scene to be effective--and a writer called Diane Carey, who writes, or used to write, Star Trek TOS novels. Horrible, horrible Star Trek TOS novels. Whenever I want to be reminded how not to write, I pick up one of her books and read a paragraph or two. And now I'm trying to think of a female writer who's had a positive influence on me, but the truth is, all my favorite authors are male. :| Oh, L. A. Graf. She used to write Star Trek novels as well. They weren't particularly good, but you could tell that she was writing what she loved, and I think that's immensely important.
Oh, and then there's you, of course, Licia. Having you beta my stories and tell me to FUCKING LOSE ALL OF THAT DESCRIPTION has helped me refine my style so much.
3-what qualities make the best/sexiest/most interesting characters, in your opinion?
An absolute truth. Give a character something they believe in, with all their heart, soul and mind, and you have a character who will always have a mission, and who will always be wonderfully easy to fuck with. Which, you know, is what story telling is all about. Taking a character and fucking with them. If someone believes in something, you sympathize--because everyone wants to believe in something, and make a stand for it, and go down fighting, etc etc. Most people never get the chance, but they will always sympathize with and relate to a character who does get the chance to fight and sacrifice for a cause they believe in.
4-you've just experienced the most relaxing, wonderful day of your life. what happened?
I was hanging out with Jasper in a sunny Boston graveyard(*) for most of the day. We had Dunkin Doughnuts for lunch, and took ages wandering around the city in the evening, looking for the perfect restaurant to have dinner at. We finally found a little Malaysian place, and when the waiter brought my food it was ON FIRE OMG, which I didn't realize it would be when I ordered it. Afterwards, we went back to the place we're staying at, and had a nice romantic couple's evening. And I realize I'm sounding like an absolute twat, but you asked. ;)
(*)I'm probably sounding absolutely creepy here. But the thing about Boston graveyards is that they're in the middle of the city, usually rather quiet because, you know, graveyard, and full of really old and interesting graves and gravestones. And they have buck-eye trees and grass everywhere and you can hang out and climb up the fire escape ladder at the side of one of the buildings next to the graveyard and sit up there and watch the tourists be tourists and the Bostoners be Bostoners, and, yeah. Boston graveyards are sort of awesome.
5-which places or experiences in the us were your favorites?
Um. See question #4? Ahem.
I really enjoyed my entire stay there. I mean, Boston gets extra points, but that's cheating, because it was the first time I was spending time alone with Jasper, and we could probably have been hanging out in a junk yard for a week and I'd still get all gooey-eyed about it. There was also the Cave of the Winds at Niagara Falls, which was awesome, because we all got soaking wet and it was hilarious and I still have the freebie sandals they gave you so you wouldn't get your shoes all wet. There was meeting you, which was such a nice experience--hanging out with a bunch of fangirls who all seem to speak the same language always is. There was New York, and DC with its super-creepy but in retrospect hilariously absurd hostel, and, yeah. I can't really pick. And anyway, this is just the one trip. I adored California when I went there in 2001. I've never really been let down by a vacation in the States.
mind_the_tardis asked:
- What does marriage mean to you?
- What way would you least like to die? Think common death reasons: car accident, cancer, old age with senility, heart attack, etc. Not "I would least like to be eaten by a shark after being shot several times by mob bosses and dumped in a bay."
- Really, where would you most like to live, once you get out of school?
- What episode by RTD did you like least? (And, if I can cheat, what episode by Moffat did you like best?)
- Will your Cas muse call the Master an 'assbutt' if he threads with him?
- What does marriage mean to you?
For me personally, it means commitment. I think it's not really marriage so much as it is the rings. I don't really need the ceremony and the paperwork and the family gathering--but when you get married, you exchange rings, and wearing a ring that another person gave me on such an occasion would mean very much to me. It's a constant reminder that there's someone that you've promised to share your life with--which is a big thing, for me, since I'm really bad at sharing anything about my own person. I keep to myself, and I very rarely let others into my life--which is not always something I enjoy about myself. So being married and wearing a ring would remind me that I've committed to sharing, and that, even if I may not feel like sharing right at that moment, I know that I should, and that I'll ultimately want to share.
It also means going "public" with my relationship. This is another aspect of me being someone who doesn't like to share the details of her life with others. Most people in my life know very little about me; when I'm in a relationship, my family and friends might not even find out until months after the fact, and they won't know how serious I am about it--because I don't really talk about these kind of things, and come across as not very approachable when it comes to my personal life. Marrying someone is a good, official way to let the people in your life know that hi, this is my significant other, and she's going to be around for a while. That's another aspect of why wearing an engagement/wedding ring would be important to me--it's a symbol that is recognized by most people, and it lets me express something about myself and my life that I would have a hard time putting into words.
Then there's marriage on a general level, which is something entirely different. It's an institution, a tool to be used in things like immigration or other bureaucratic, law-related things. It can be a bad thing, trapping people in a commitment they maybe didn't want to make in the first place--but then, I think relationships in general can do that; I didn't have to be married to my first boyfriend to end up feeling trapped in the relationship. Marriage is what people make of it; it can be used in right as well as wrong ways, and in my opinion, the institutional, legal side has very little to do with the personal side.
- What way would you least like to die? Think common death reasons: car accident, cancer, old age with senility, heart attack, etc. Not "I would least like to be eaten by a shark after being shot several times by mob bosses and dumped in a bay."
Any form of slow-moving cancer. Mostly brain cancer, but you know, if you've had other types of cancer long enough, they'll metastasize and rot away your brain eventually. I've watched people die of cancer, and it's a painful, nasty, and completely merciless disease that I hope will never ever happen to me or any of the people I love. I'm quite lucky with my genetic disposition--there's a little bit of a history of bowel cancer on my maternal grandmother's side, but that's it. So here's to hoping.
- Really, where would you most like to live, once you get out of school?
Hm. I'd have to do some research into American health care to be able to answer that question. I wouldn't want to live in a country that makes me jump through hoops and pay insane amounts of money for basic medical supplies that I need to survive. If, however, my research proved that my condition would be manageable on American health care without too much hassle and expenses, I'd love to live in the States. I don't really care which part--I wouldn't mind trying New York for a while, or maybe the south west; New Mexico, that area. Simply because I've always wanted to live in the desert.
I would love to live in Vancouver. I would love to live in Cardiff. I would love to try something entirely new, like, say, New Zealand. I don't settle well, so I don't think I would want to stay anywhere for longer than a maximum of five years. I've been here in the south of England for two years now, and I'm already getting itchy feet again--so I guess when I get out of school, all I know is that I don't want to live here. I've done this part of the world. Time to move somewhere else.
- What episode by RTD did you like least? (And, if I can cheat, what episode by Moffat did you like best?)
RTD: The Long Game. Mostly, probably, because of Adam. He was a very random character, and I never quite understood his purpose. I can never really get into the feel of the episode, meaning I find it hard to relate to any of the characters, which normally never happens to me, with RTD episodes. And the villain was rubbish. Sorry, Simon Pegg.
Moffat: Blink. It cannot be denied that this episode is really, really cleverly done, nicely set up, and brought to a clean conclusion. The Doctor isn't in it very much, which is a good thing, because Moffat's Ten makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up. And while I always found Sally Sparrow to be a bit bland, she's fully rounded enough to function as a protagonist in this story. I have a thing for cleverly done time paradox plots, so, yes. Blink gets my approval. (All the more's the pity that Moffat had to go and fuck up the concept of the Angels in Time of the Angels/Flesh and Stone.)
- Will your Cas muse call the Master an 'assbutt' if he threads with him?
That entirely depends on the Master, and whether he manages to piss Cas off enough to provoke this insult. Cas doesn't just call anyone an assbutt, you know. You'll have to earn it.
allaroughdraft asked:
1.) For any or as many characters as you'd like to answer -- what's five things you always try to keep in mind while playing [x character]? (Apparently I'm just going to ask everybody this.)
2.) What does being married mean to you?
3.) If your life was a television show, what would your fandom be like? What would people ship? What sort of cliches would pop up in the fic? What sort of fan would you be, if you were in that fandom?
4.) If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be, why would you change it, and how do you think the loss of it/the difference involved would change you overall, for better or worse?
5.) What five shows/movies/books would you never touch, short of someone paying you a million dollars to watch/read them, and why?
1.) For any or as many characters as you'd like to answer -- what's five things you always try to keep in mind while playing [x character]? (Apparently I'm just going to ask everybody this.)
Hm. I'm not going to do my human!Ten muse, even though he's the one I play the most, because, well, the way he thinks is very similar to the way I think, so when I play him, I don't have to think about his characterization all that hard. So I'll do . . . Christina. (That's Christina de Souza from Planet of the Dead.)
- Christina loves to pretend that she knows everything about life there is to know, but really, she's only in her mid-twenties. She's educated, yes, and has had quite a turbulent life so far, but she's also young, angry, and excitable. I have to be careful not to play her too smooth and experienced.
- Christina, in my fanon for her, is the descendant of French/British nobility. She spent her childhood in France, before she was sent away to boarding school in England when she was about eleven. So her background and cultural conditioning is not typically British, or typically American, which makes her different from most other characters I play.
- Christina is brilliant at manipulating people. She has a bit of a sociopathic streak; there is no-one in her life whom she would sacrifice for, and she has no problem breaking rules as long as she can be sure she won't get caught. She's selfish, and very, very good at getting what she wants, by any means necessary. She's killed once before, and she would do it again if she couldn't see any other way out. This makes her different from most other characters I play as well--I usually tend to play somewhat white-hatty muses.
- The character traits described in the previous bullet point were at least to a degree shaped during her childhood. In my fanon, Christina grew up without a mother--she only had her father and two older brothers. Her father abused her, her oldest brother was a success-driven cutthroat bastard who sucked up to her dad for the heritage, and her other brother had mental issues and committed suicide in a mental institution at the age of 22. Her father ended up going senile eventually, and it fell to Christina, as the only woman in the family, to care for him--which she did. However, even after having lost all cognitive abilities and motor functions, he refused to die, so she eventually euthanized him, grabbed her part of the inheritance, and ran. So her sociopathic tendencies are mostly a rebellious reaction to the rigid system of the aristocratic family structure at the hands of which she suffered for most of her life. Meaning if she were to meet the right person, and if the right things were to happen to her, she might change, or at least mellow a bit. Or she might end up crossing a line that she would recognize herself shouldn't have been crossed, which could be a bit of a wake-up call to her. Which also makes her different from my other characters, who are often a bit more self-aware than that.
- Sex, to her, is a tool. She uses it on men, to get what she wants. She's never experienced sex as an expression of love or affection. This doesn't necessarily make her all that different to my other characters--all my characters like sex, a lot--but it's something I try to keep in mind especially when I play her off male muses.
2.) What does being married mean to you?
See above.
3.) If your life was a television show, what would your fandom be like? What would people ship? What sort of cliches would pop up in the fic? What sort of fan would you be, if you were in that fandom?
If my life were a television show, it wouldn't even make it past the treatment stage. ;) Seriously, my life isn't all that interesting. It's entertaining enough to me, but it lacks plot and action and coherence. I have no clue, for example, who people would ship. Me/Jasper, I hope? As for fic tropes, well, I hope there would be lots of H/C, because I love H/C. And darkfic and stuff, except not, because that would mean all of that would have to first happen to me, and, um, no thanks. I like my life boring. . . . hm. I guess I'd kind of love to have a fandom like X-Files, except without the slash hate. But, yeah. Awesome female character, lots of torture and H/C fic, lots of old-school longfic. I could live with that.
I'd be the same fan in that fandom that I am in any fandom--a lurker, a bit distant, keeping it to my journal and f-list. I might run a ficathon. I used to run a smutathon in House fandom, which was good fun, and recently I've been thinking that I'd like to do something like that again, at some point.
4.) If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be, why would you change it, and how do you think the loss of it/the difference involved would change you overall, for better or worse?
I would lose my inability to motivate myself. I have a really hard time making myself do things that some part of my brain has decided are pointless or unnecessary, and I will always try to cheat my way out of doing them. Sometimes to the point where the things I have to do to avoid my work are more work than the work itself. And it's not just work, it's everything. Writing, grocery shopping, losing weight, staying in contact with my family, you name it. I can be really good and efficient at things if I manage to make myself do them; it's just the getting myself to do them that's hard. I give up very easily, because it's simpler, and I have little ambition. I'd like to change that. Having some self-discipline would be nice. I think it would make me a more efficient and accomplished person.
5.) What five shows/movies/books would you never touch, short of someone paying you a million dollars to watch/read them, and why?
- The second and the third Lord of the Rings book. I read the first one, and it was so damn boring. I don't want to waste any more of my life on those books, not if I can simply watch the movies. (Not that I've seen them more than once. I don't know, LotR is simply not a world I feel drawn to.)
- The Diana Gabaldon Outlander series. I read the first half of the first novel of that series, and oh my God it was so bad. She had a scene where the heroine was getting one of the big nice Scottish blokes to comfort her after a long day, and Gabaldon wrote something in the way of "now I realized why he was so good with horses. If I were a horse, I'd let him ride me all day." At that point, I just kind of wanted to stab my eyes out, so I stopped reading. Those really aren't my kind of books.
- Any funny-hah-hah movies in the style of . . . well, there's a German movie series called Ballermann, but you wouldn't know them. Suffice to say they're disgusting and sexist and I would never watch them voluntarily. A million dollars might do it, but I wouldn't enjoy it.
- True Blood. >_> I saw the first episode, and oh my fucking God, it was so, so bad. I realize that the show tries for vampire cheese on purpose, but . . . no. Thanks. It just makes me cringe. I'm not a vampire fan, on no level, not even the tongue-in-cheek one.
- Big Brother. I hate reality television; I think it was the worst thing to happen to the TV business since, well, ever, and Big Brother is the epitome of everything I think is wrong with the genre. I wouldn't want to watch even only one episode because that stuff is designed to suck you in--you'd keep watching out of trainwreck syndrome. It's a waste of everybody's time, the audience's, the contestants' and the production team's, as well as a waste of money. By pretending it's "real", it sets standards that are neither desirable nor appropriate, and it creates the idea in people's heads that if you act like the worst attention whore ever, you'll end up making the most profit. Reality TV is stupid television, and Big Brother was the show that set the precedence for the genre. So, yes. I won't watch it. Thus ends my rant on reality TV.
THAT WERE A LOT OF WORDS THAR. Kudos to everyone who got through all of that.
euclase asked:
1-ten years from now, you're the producer of a popular show. what's the show about, and who's in it? and how awesome is it? :D
2-what writers, apart from rtd, have had the most influence on you?
3-what qualities make the best/sexiest/most interesting characters, in your opinion?
4-you've just experienced the most relaxing, wonderful day of your life. what happened?
5-which places or experiences in the us were your favorites?
1-ten years from now, you're the producer of a popular show. what's the show about, and who's in it? and how awesome is it? :D
Hmmmmmm. A while back, I talked show concepts to mind_the_tardis, and she came up with the idea of random normal John-Doe people being part of a Torchwood-like secret organization. Meaning, say, that geeky kid who works in the comic shop next door actually doesn't miss work so often because he's a lazy bum, but because he keeps being called on secret missions with the Torchwood-like alien fighting organization he works for. I really, really liked that idea, and would love to expand on it and make an actual show concept out of it. Maybe they're not just random average people from all over the world, maybe they're random average people from all over time. Meaning you'd get the prissy Victorian gentleman working with the free-thinking, polyamorous 21st century woman. It would be awesome.
I want Damian Lewis to be in it. He has interesting eyes, and I loved his character in Life. I would love to find a spot for Dame Maggie Smith, because she kicks ass in anything she's in. David Morrissey could be my villain. He always plays good characters whom I almost like, but who I disagree with too much on an ethical level to actually approve of. So if he were my villain, that would take care of that problem. Of course, I'd try to cast David Tennant--but maybe only as a cameo. He could get a brilliant death; I don't think I've ever seen him in a really good death scene. (Except in Hamlet.) Lesley Sharp! Because her acting skillz are magnificent; she could be the ambiguous character nobody quite knows which side they're on. And of course, Russell T. Davies would have to come in as a guest-writer for at least one episode.
Yes. This. How awesome is it? It's too awesome for words.
2-what writers, apart from rtd, have had the most influence on you?
Stephen King. He was the first writer I actively went and sought out by name, and he didn't disappoint. He can ramble somewhat horridly in his books, but he's one of the most honest writers I've ever come across. Reading his books is a bit like reading his id. Which can be a tad uncomfortable, but it does make for magnificent story telling.
Other writers I've learned stuff from are Neil Gaiman--he made me realize that it's okay to use short sentences; sometimes short sentences are what you need for a scene to be effective--and a writer called Diane Carey, who writes, or used to write, Star Trek TOS novels. Horrible, horrible Star Trek TOS novels. Whenever I want to be reminded how not to write, I pick up one of her books and read a paragraph or two. And now I'm trying to think of a female writer who's had a positive influence on me, but the truth is, all my favorite authors are male. :| Oh, L. A. Graf. She used to write Star Trek novels as well. They weren't particularly good, but you could tell that she was writing what she loved, and I think that's immensely important.
Oh, and then there's you, of course, Licia. Having you beta my stories and tell me to FUCKING LOSE ALL OF THAT DESCRIPTION has helped me refine my style so much.
3-what qualities make the best/sexiest/most interesting characters, in your opinion?
An absolute truth. Give a character something they believe in, with all their heart, soul and mind, and you have a character who will always have a mission, and who will always be wonderfully easy to fuck with. Which, you know, is what story telling is all about. Taking a character and fucking with them. If someone believes in something, you sympathize--because everyone wants to believe in something, and make a stand for it, and go down fighting, etc etc. Most people never get the chance, but they will always sympathize with and relate to a character who does get the chance to fight and sacrifice for a cause they believe in.
4-you've just experienced the most relaxing, wonderful day of your life. what happened?
I was hanging out with Jasper in a sunny Boston graveyard(*) for most of the day. We had Dunkin Doughnuts for lunch, and took ages wandering around the city in the evening, looking for the perfect restaurant to have dinner at. We finally found a little Malaysian place, and when the waiter brought my food it was ON FIRE OMG, which I didn't realize it would be when I ordered it. Afterwards, we went back to the place we're staying at, and had a nice romantic couple's evening. And I realize I'm sounding like an absolute twat, but you asked. ;)
(*)I'm probably sounding absolutely creepy here. But the thing about Boston graveyards is that they're in the middle of the city, usually rather quiet because, you know, graveyard, and full of really old and interesting graves and gravestones. And they have buck-eye trees and grass everywhere and you can hang out and climb up the fire escape ladder at the side of one of the buildings next to the graveyard and sit up there and watch the tourists be tourists and the Bostoners be Bostoners, and, yeah. Boston graveyards are sort of awesome.
5-which places or experiences in the us were your favorites?
Um. See question #4? Ahem.
I really enjoyed my entire stay there. I mean, Boston gets extra points, but that's cheating, because it was the first time I was spending time alone with Jasper, and we could probably have been hanging out in a junk yard for a week and I'd still get all gooey-eyed about it. There was also the Cave of the Winds at Niagara Falls, which was awesome, because we all got soaking wet and it was hilarious and I still have the freebie sandals they gave you so you wouldn't get your shoes all wet. There was meeting you, which was such a nice experience--hanging out with a bunch of fangirls who all seem to speak the same language always is. There was New York, and DC with its super-creepy but in retrospect hilariously absurd hostel, and, yeah. I can't really pick. And anyway, this is just the one trip. I adored California when I went there in 2001. I've never really been let down by a vacation in the States.
mind_the_tardis asked:
- What does marriage mean to you?
- What way would you least like to die? Think common death reasons: car accident, cancer, old age with senility, heart attack, etc. Not "I would least like to be eaten by a shark after being shot several times by mob bosses and dumped in a bay."
- Really, where would you most like to live, once you get out of school?
- What episode by RTD did you like least? (And, if I can cheat, what episode by Moffat did you like best?)
- Will your Cas muse call the Master an 'assbutt' if he threads with him?
- What does marriage mean to you?
For me personally, it means commitment. I think it's not really marriage so much as it is the rings. I don't really need the ceremony and the paperwork and the family gathering--but when you get married, you exchange rings, and wearing a ring that another person gave me on such an occasion would mean very much to me. It's a constant reminder that there's someone that you've promised to share your life with--which is a big thing, for me, since I'm really bad at sharing anything about my own person. I keep to myself, and I very rarely let others into my life--which is not always something I enjoy about myself. So being married and wearing a ring would remind me that I've committed to sharing, and that, even if I may not feel like sharing right at that moment, I know that I should, and that I'll ultimately want to share.
It also means going "public" with my relationship. This is another aspect of me being someone who doesn't like to share the details of her life with others. Most people in my life know very little about me; when I'm in a relationship, my family and friends might not even find out until months after the fact, and they won't know how serious I am about it--because I don't really talk about these kind of things, and come across as not very approachable when it comes to my personal life. Marrying someone is a good, official way to let the people in your life know that hi, this is my significant other, and she's going to be around for a while. That's another aspect of why wearing an engagement/wedding ring would be important to me--it's a symbol that is recognized by most people, and it lets me express something about myself and my life that I would have a hard time putting into words.
Then there's marriage on a general level, which is something entirely different. It's an institution, a tool to be used in things like immigration or other bureaucratic, law-related things. It can be a bad thing, trapping people in a commitment they maybe didn't want to make in the first place--but then, I think relationships in general can do that; I didn't have to be married to my first boyfriend to end up feeling trapped in the relationship. Marriage is what people make of it; it can be used in right as well as wrong ways, and in my opinion, the institutional, legal side has very little to do with the personal side.
- What way would you least like to die? Think common death reasons: car accident, cancer, old age with senility, heart attack, etc. Not "I would least like to be eaten by a shark after being shot several times by mob bosses and dumped in a bay."
Any form of slow-moving cancer. Mostly brain cancer, but you know, if you've had other types of cancer long enough, they'll metastasize and rot away your brain eventually. I've watched people die of cancer, and it's a painful, nasty, and completely merciless disease that I hope will never ever happen to me or any of the people I love. I'm quite lucky with my genetic disposition--there's a little bit of a history of bowel cancer on my maternal grandmother's side, but that's it. So here's to hoping.
- Really, where would you most like to live, once you get out of school?
Hm. I'd have to do some research into American health care to be able to answer that question. I wouldn't want to live in a country that makes me jump through hoops and pay insane amounts of money for basic medical supplies that I need to survive. If, however, my research proved that my condition would be manageable on American health care without too much hassle and expenses, I'd love to live in the States. I don't really care which part--I wouldn't mind trying New York for a while, or maybe the south west; New Mexico, that area. Simply because I've always wanted to live in the desert.
I would love to live in Vancouver. I would love to live in Cardiff. I would love to try something entirely new, like, say, New Zealand. I don't settle well, so I don't think I would want to stay anywhere for longer than a maximum of five years. I've been here in the south of England for two years now, and I'm already getting itchy feet again--so I guess when I get out of school, all I know is that I don't want to live here. I've done this part of the world. Time to move somewhere else.
- What episode by RTD did you like least? (And, if I can cheat, what episode by Moffat did you like best?)
RTD: The Long Game. Mostly, probably, because of Adam. He was a very random character, and I never quite understood his purpose. I can never really get into the feel of the episode, meaning I find it hard to relate to any of the characters, which normally never happens to me, with RTD episodes. And the villain was rubbish. Sorry, Simon Pegg.
Moffat: Blink. It cannot be denied that this episode is really, really cleverly done, nicely set up, and brought to a clean conclusion. The Doctor isn't in it very much, which is a good thing, because Moffat's Ten makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up. And while I always found Sally Sparrow to be a bit bland, she's fully rounded enough to function as a protagonist in this story. I have a thing for cleverly done time paradox plots, so, yes. Blink gets my approval. (All the more's the pity that Moffat had to go and fuck up the concept of the Angels in Time of the Angels/Flesh and Stone.)
- Will your Cas muse call the Master an 'assbutt' if he threads with him?
That entirely depends on the Master, and whether he manages to piss Cas off enough to provoke this insult. Cas doesn't just call anyone an assbutt, you know. You'll have to earn it.
allaroughdraft asked:
1.) For any or as many characters as you'd like to answer -- what's five things you always try to keep in mind while playing [x character]? (Apparently I'm just going to ask everybody this.)
2.) What does being married mean to you?
3.) If your life was a television show, what would your fandom be like? What would people ship? What sort of cliches would pop up in the fic? What sort of fan would you be, if you were in that fandom?
4.) If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be, why would you change it, and how do you think the loss of it/the difference involved would change you overall, for better or worse?
5.) What five shows/movies/books would you never touch, short of someone paying you a million dollars to watch/read them, and why?
1.) For any or as many characters as you'd like to answer -- what's five things you always try to keep in mind while playing [x character]? (Apparently I'm just going to ask everybody this.)
Hm. I'm not going to do my human!Ten muse, even though he's the one I play the most, because, well, the way he thinks is very similar to the way I think, so when I play him, I don't have to think about his characterization all that hard. So I'll do . . . Christina. (That's Christina de Souza from Planet of the Dead.)
- Christina loves to pretend that she knows everything about life there is to know, but really, she's only in her mid-twenties. She's educated, yes, and has had quite a turbulent life so far, but she's also young, angry, and excitable. I have to be careful not to play her too smooth and experienced.
- Christina, in my fanon for her, is the descendant of French/British nobility. She spent her childhood in France, before she was sent away to boarding school in England when she was about eleven. So her background and cultural conditioning is not typically British, or typically American, which makes her different from most other characters I play.
- Christina is brilliant at manipulating people. She has a bit of a sociopathic streak; there is no-one in her life whom she would sacrifice for, and she has no problem breaking rules as long as she can be sure she won't get caught. She's selfish, and very, very good at getting what she wants, by any means necessary. She's killed once before, and she would do it again if she couldn't see any other way out. This makes her different from most other characters I play as well--I usually tend to play somewhat white-hatty muses.
- The character traits described in the previous bullet point were at least to a degree shaped during her childhood. In my fanon, Christina grew up without a mother--she only had her father and two older brothers. Her father abused her, her oldest brother was a success-driven cutthroat bastard who sucked up to her dad for the heritage, and her other brother had mental issues and committed suicide in a mental institution at the age of 22. Her father ended up going senile eventually, and it fell to Christina, as the only woman in the family, to care for him--which she did. However, even after having lost all cognitive abilities and motor functions, he refused to die, so she eventually euthanized him, grabbed her part of the inheritance, and ran. So her sociopathic tendencies are mostly a rebellious reaction to the rigid system of the aristocratic family structure at the hands of which she suffered for most of her life. Meaning if she were to meet the right person, and if the right things were to happen to her, she might change, or at least mellow a bit. Or she might end up crossing a line that she would recognize herself shouldn't have been crossed, which could be a bit of a wake-up call to her. Which also makes her different from my other characters, who are often a bit more self-aware than that.
- Sex, to her, is a tool. She uses it on men, to get what she wants. She's never experienced sex as an expression of love or affection. This doesn't necessarily make her all that different to my other characters--all my characters like sex, a lot--but it's something I try to keep in mind especially when I play her off male muses.
2.) What does being married mean to you?
See above.
3.) If your life was a television show, what would your fandom be like? What would people ship? What sort of cliches would pop up in the fic? What sort of fan would you be, if you were in that fandom?
If my life were a television show, it wouldn't even make it past the treatment stage. ;) Seriously, my life isn't all that interesting. It's entertaining enough to me, but it lacks plot and action and coherence. I have no clue, for example, who people would ship. Me/Jasper, I hope? As for fic tropes, well, I hope there would be lots of H/C, because I love H/C. And darkfic and stuff, except not, because that would mean all of that would have to first happen to me, and, um, no thanks. I like my life boring. . . . hm. I guess I'd kind of love to have a fandom like X-Files, except without the slash hate. But, yeah. Awesome female character, lots of torture and H/C fic, lots of old-school longfic. I could live with that.
I'd be the same fan in that fandom that I am in any fandom--a lurker, a bit distant, keeping it to my journal and f-list. I might run a ficathon. I used to run a smutathon in House fandom, which was good fun, and recently I've been thinking that I'd like to do something like that again, at some point.
4.) If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be, why would you change it, and how do you think the loss of it/the difference involved would change you overall, for better or worse?
I would lose my inability to motivate myself. I have a really hard time making myself do things that some part of my brain has decided are pointless or unnecessary, and I will always try to cheat my way out of doing them. Sometimes to the point where the things I have to do to avoid my work are more work than the work itself. And it's not just work, it's everything. Writing, grocery shopping, losing weight, staying in contact with my family, you name it. I can be really good and efficient at things if I manage to make myself do them; it's just the getting myself to do them that's hard. I give up very easily, because it's simpler, and I have little ambition. I'd like to change that. Having some self-discipline would be nice. I think it would make me a more efficient and accomplished person.
5.) What five shows/movies/books would you never touch, short of someone paying you a million dollars to watch/read them, and why?
- The second and the third Lord of the Rings book. I read the first one, and it was so damn boring. I don't want to waste any more of my life on those books, not if I can simply watch the movies. (Not that I've seen them more than once. I don't know, LotR is simply not a world I feel drawn to.)
- The Diana Gabaldon Outlander series. I read the first half of the first novel of that series, and oh my God it was so bad. She had a scene where the heroine was getting one of the big nice Scottish blokes to comfort her after a long day, and Gabaldon wrote something in the way of "now I realized why he was so good with horses. If I were a horse, I'd let him ride me all day." At that point, I just kind of wanted to stab my eyes out, so I stopped reading. Those really aren't my kind of books.
- Any funny-hah-hah movies in the style of . . . well, there's a German movie series called Ballermann, but you wouldn't know them. Suffice to say they're disgusting and sexist and I would never watch them voluntarily. A million dollars might do it, but I wouldn't enjoy it.
- True Blood. >_> I saw the first episode, and oh my fucking God, it was so, so bad. I realize that the show tries for vampire cheese on purpose, but . . . no. Thanks. It just makes me cringe. I'm not a vampire fan, on no level, not even the tongue-in-cheek one.
- Big Brother. I hate reality television; I think it was the worst thing to happen to the TV business since, well, ever, and Big Brother is the epitome of everything I think is wrong with the genre. I wouldn't want to watch even only one episode because that stuff is designed to suck you in--you'd keep watching out of trainwreck syndrome. It's a waste of everybody's time, the audience's, the contestants' and the production team's, as well as a waste of money. By pretending it's "real", it sets standards that are neither desirable nor appropriate, and it creates the idea in people's heads that if you act like the worst attention whore ever, you'll end up making the most profit. Reality TV is stupid television, and Big Brother was the show that set the precedence for the genre. So, yes. I won't watch it. Thus ends my rant on reality TV.
THAT WERE A LOT OF WORDS THAR. Kudos to everyone who got through all of that.