and i won't stand around forever

this is who i am (and this is where i stand)

The most important thing to remember is that drunks are far more intelligent than non-drunks... they spend a lot of time talking in pubs... exploring the insides of their head.

Shane MacGowan

~^~

He saves worlds, rescues civilizations, defeats terrible creatures and runs a lot. Seriously, there's an outrageous amount of running involved.

Doctor Who

~^~

The first casualty of sliding is dignity.

Sliders

~^~

Life was winning the race against death. Good was outrunning evil.

Animorphs

~^~

"Don't be afraid to make corrections," Picchu said. "Don't be afraid to lend a hand." She fell silent, seeming to think for a moment. "And don't look down."

Young Wizards

~^~

You don't even know what you're running from.

Lost

~^~

Took cover. In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.' It's alot more heroic.//Right. I took cover.//It's fun, taking cover. I take cover all the time.

Dresden Files

~^~

Is this the part where we bravely run away?

Andromeda

~^~

When you can't run anymore, you crawl, and when you can't do that, well... Yeah, you know the rest.

Firefly

~^~

You always remember what you kill, don't you, Jack?

Torchwood

~^~

The answers are there, you just have to know where to look.

The X-Files

~^~

If I'm pathological, every guy in my neighborhood is a case study.

The Black Donnellys

~^~

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

~^~

Sometimes a crime of passion is not realizing the passion in time. While other times the crime is not seeing the world as it is. But most crimes of passion are actually a crime.

Pushing Daisies

~^~

I'm not broken.

Dollhouse

~^~

Did it ever occur to you that maybe I don't have a plan any more than you? Maybe just having this conversation means we're lost.

xkcd

~^~

It's true you sold your guitar and bought a car?

Rent

~^~

Johnny has no guide. Johnny wants to hide. How do you soar if you're nailed to the floor? ...Johnny can't decide.

tick, tick...BOOM!

~^~

Something has changed within me. Something is not the same.

Wicked

~^~

We climbed an escape grown from trees that you planted. You slew all my giants, ignoring your own.

bare

~^~

I want you to love who you want to love, if it can't be me.

Zanna, Don't

~^~

So I bailed on my hometown and became a college theatre dork. I was eastbound and out, moving to New York. I crammed my life in a UHaul to find my part of it all!

[title of show]

~^~

And one day, I'm walking to JFK and I'm gonna fly! It won't be long now...any day...

In The Heights

~^~

Running for my life and never looking back in case there's someone right behind to shoot me down and say he always knew I'd fall.

Chess

Page Summary

And GOD said "Let there be light. Lock that. No cuts." [+8]
Plan Gamma acknowledged. The meerkats are in the bag. [+28]
monday in bullet points [+15]
inspired by a fanficrants post, randomly enough [+19]
and that's the thing, cousin...I'm part of the fire. [+8]
how did the perfect girl land the housewares employee? [+2]
"You said you knew a shortcut!" "This is a shortcut! Look how fast we got lost!" [+18]
Though your lips are tempting, they're the wrong lips [+31]
so here they come, the sound of drums... [+36]
stage managers do it on schedule [+12]
k:-O [+6]

28 June 2009 @ 04:52 pm

And GOD said "Let there be light. Lock that. No cuts."

Me, joking around about not bringing on lights for the pianist: "She'll have plenty of real light, just no fake light. Uh."
The sound designer: "What?"
Me: "It's all real light. None of it is fake. I mean she'll have plenty of natural light, just no...stage light."
SD: "Right. No artificial light."
Me: "Right! Artificial light. Manmade. Except not like fire."
A confused pause.
Me: "Well, like fire, yeah. Only...not."
Another pause.
Me: "My metaphors always get away from me."
SD: "No, I understood you. Stage lights, they're like fire, only not at all like fire."

I am so awkward omg.

But anyway. ( job stuff yo )

OKAY NON-WORK-RELATED STUFF FOLLOWS 'cause I left work early today and 'cause I've been kind of a shitty LJ friend recently.

This is going to be my only comment on the current warnings debate (hopefully) 'cause I've been reading the metafandom posts and getting pissed off by both sides:

( the warnings debate! )

Okay, ana meme to close this post on a slightly lighter note:

List 10 of your favorite characters from different fandoms, and ask people to spot patterns in your choices, and if they're so inclined, to draw conclusions about you based on the patterns they've spotted.

1. Claire Littleton (LOST)
2. Seamus Harper (Andromeda)
3. Barbara Wright (Doctor Who)
4. Martha Jones (Doctor Who)
5. Michael Dawson (LOST)
6. Horatio (Hamlet)
7. Karen Vick (Psych)
8. Alfredo Aldarisio (Pushing Daisies)
9. Carmela Rodriguez (Young Wizards)
10. Joey Ice Cream (Black Donnellys)

Tags: fandom, list of unrelated things, meme, meta, theatre, work

mood:

lazy

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07 May 2009 @ 10:43 am

Plan Gamma acknowledged. The meerkats are in the bag.

So is everybody reading this week's xkcd series? Because if not you should be. Because it's AWESOME.

More to the point, does anybody know if Nathan Fillion is reading it? I know somebody on the RSS feed claimed to have tweeted him a link, but I don't know if he actually saw said link or is reading it. If not he should be.

Also, "no, that's the opposite of true" and "things are rarely just crazy enough to work, but they're frequently just crazy enough to fail hilariously" are awesome lines and I'm going to be ~~stealing~~ borrowing at least the first for my Better Than It Sounds 'verse because it's exactly the sort of thing Liam would say to Kyle.

Speaking of.

( cut 'cause it's long and probably not of interest; rambling about worldbuilding and original fiction and why I rarely have any actual writing to show for the hours I spend on it )

Tags: better than it sounds, meta, original fiction, tv tropes will ruin your life, webcomics, worldbuilding, writing

mood:

contemplative

music: Taylor Swift - You Belong With Me

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16 March 2009 @ 01:52 pm

monday in bullet points

I made fudge! It's currently cooling on the counter. I'm looking forward to it.

Today's mail brought the concert tickets! *celebrates* This Friday, the House of Blues, kids. Shane fuckin' MacGowan.

...sometimes I feel bad about how much I fangirl Shane without stopping to note that, yes, I am a fan of the band as a whole, and, no, Shane-minus-the-Pogues wouldn't be quite as awesome. So take this as a note that when I fangirl Shane, fangirling the rest of the band is implied to be part of it. ...but I really am a huge fan of Shane himself.

On a different note, vidders on my flist, could you offer any help? I've been trying to render a vid in Windows Movie Maker (yes, yes, I know) for about three days now. Every time, the actual rendering seems to go fine -- it'll hang for a couple seconds, then continue on -- but when I play the video the image will freeze at a certain point. The audio will continue on fine, but the picture will be frozen -- and it's at a different point each time I try rendering. I have no idea what's going on. Any advice?

metafandom is covering RaceFail09. I wish I had something enlightening to say here, or a good way of summing up the whole thing, but I don't and I can't. So I'm just gonna say that there's a lot of intelligent, eloquent people saying a lot of things that a lot of people -- me included -- ought to listen to. Also, there's a lot of fail in fandom. Well, in the world in general, but I like to think fandom slants towards more intelligent, accepting people, and it's always sad when that belief is proved wrong.

This is another one of those "I'm sure I had other things to talk about but I don't remember what they were" bullet points. Sorry.

Tags: boston, fandom, list of unrelated things, meta, my brain works in odd ways, shane fangirling, vidding

mood:

moody

music: Girlfriend - The Pigeon Detectives

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12 December 2008 @ 05:10 pm

inspired by a

fanficrants post, randomly enough

Random Doctor Who thoughts/beliefs/bits of personal canon! Lots of stuff about sexuality and romance contained within.

( you can't change history )

Tags: barbara wright best of them all, doctor who, fandom, meta, rambling, torchwood

music: Pushing Daisies OST

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02 November 2008 @ 05:05 pm

and that's the thing, cousin...I'm part of the fire.

So this is one of those totally random fandom-musing posts that comes out of nowhere.

Any and all Andromeda fen on my flist are probably quite aware that I'm very in love with one Seamus Harper and his various character/story arcs. Also probably very aware that I have severely mixed feelings for the episode "Bunker Hill" -- I love the Harper, I love the Harper/Rommie, I love Boston and the Boston kids and Mark Hildreth as Brendan and the whole human/Dragan war in general, and this is also the episode that got me to completely hate Dylan with a passion.

This musing is on "Bunker Hill", but it's not on the above part...no, as mixed as my feelings are for the episode, they make sense. However, the following quote always throws me off whenever I rewatch it, and I will explain why:

Harper: "Well...It's a place you love, it's, you know, a good feeling. Until you have to see it all torn down around you."
Rommie: "And there's nothing you can do to stop it."

The "it's a place you love" bit makes sense. As bitter as Harper often is about Earth and growing up there, he is just as often nostalgic and clearly in love with his homeworld and its history. (Harley-Davidsons, people.) "Until you have to see it all torn down around you", however, does not make sense. Because it was all "torn down" more than two hundred years before Harper was born. He was raised in the post-apocalyptic hell, not thrust into it.

It's easy enough to write it off as Matt and Joe wanting to simultaneously give Harper and Rommie a chance to bond over their mutual loss of civilization and give the audience a sympathetic view towards Harper's Earth. That, however, doesn't hold up for an in-universe view which is what I always aim for when analyzing fandom stuff.

So, uh. Anyone have any ideas for what Harper means by that? It's possible, I think, that he means seeing his family killed off one by one; it's possible that he means some increase in Magog or Nietzschean attacks when he was a kid; it's possible he's being poetic. But none of those answers exactly works for me.

Tags: andromeda, fandom, meta

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27 September 2008 @ 12:41 pm

how did the perfect girl land the housewares employee?

Because I am random...I don't know why I suddenly felt like doing this, but whatever, it's done.

The Bechdel test as it applies to stage musicals:

Chess fails -- Florence and Svetlana have "I Know Him So Well", but as the title suggests it's a song all about the guy in their lives.

RENT passes -- because of Maureen and Joanne.

Wicked passes -- obviously. Most of the show is a conversation between two women about things other than guys.

tick tick...BOOM! fails -- although to be fair it's a cast of three, only one of whom is female, so how exactly would a girl-on-girl conversation happen?

[title of show] passes -- because of "Secondary Characters". The guys get mentioned in the song, but Heidi and Susan aren't really talking *about* them.

Zanna, Don't! passes -- because of Roberta/Kate, pre-Steve.

bare fails -- I think. Ivy and Nadia have several just-them conversations, but they're usually Nadia sniping about Ivy's boyfriends.

Brooklyn -- um. I know Brooklyn and Paradice have a couple conversations, and Brooklyn talks to her mother early on, but I can't remember if all those conversations center on Brooklyn's father or not.

Company fails -- understandably. It is a show about the relationships between men and women, and pretty much Every Conversation In The Show is about relationships between men and women.

Evil Dead: The Musical fails -- in the best tradition of B-rated horror flicks everywhere.

Altar Boyz fails -- but then, it has no female characters. At all.

Chicago passes -- "I Can't Do It Alone", "Class", probably others.

The Drowsy Chaperone fails -- while there are strictly-female conversations, they tend to revolve around relationships with male characters.

Any others?

Tags: broadway baby, fandom, meta

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14 January 2008 @ 12:09 am

"You said you knew a shortcut!" "This is a shortcut! Look how fast we got lost!"

Yo, fannish flisters.

How would you define a pairing that, in canon, has textually expressed a romantic or sexual interest in each other but not acted on it? I'm not talking "really large subtext that everyone in fandom agrees on" here, I'm talking more like an actual conversation "I think you're hot and I'd really like to get with you, but we can't for reasons a, b, and c."

Because...calling it a canon pairing seems to imply that they've actually gotten together in canon, which isn't the case. But it's not a subtext-based pairing, either because the mutual attraction is text, not subtext.

(To make this a little clearer: Er. Harry/Susan is clearly canon. They're together in the text for however long, they have an established relationship, they kiss and they have sex and they snuggle. Molly/Ramirez is clearly subtext; while they plainly have an attraction to one another, it's never come out and stated directly, and they certainly don't have a textual romantic relationship. But how would you define Harry/Murphy, where both parties have acknowledged that they're attracted to/interested in each other, but that it would be a really bad idea to act on that?)

I don't know why I'm think about this, except that I just watched a Lost Missing Pieces scene with Michael/Sun almost kissing, realizing it's not right, and walking away from each other, and now am struggling with what terminology to use for the pairing since it's no longer wholly subjective subtext but it's still not what I would call a canon pairing.

Tags: dresden files, fandom, flist, lost, meta, shipping

mood:

curious

music: Minuet - Idina Menzel

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12 September 2007 @ 11:07 am

Though your lips are tempting, they're the wrong lips

Lurking at

fanthropology, I stumbled upon this comment:

Yes, I would be put off by black stereotypes, but I am far more put off by the politics of exclusion. Case in point: the show "Psyche" has launched a fandom in which the dominant OTP is Shawn Spencer and Carlton Lassiter, rather than Shawn and the black character Gus, with whom he spends most of his time (not to mention plenty of slashy subtext). The excuse I often hear is that "I can't imagine slashing (insert the black character of choice)."
If you're that lacking in imagination...

Hey, fellow Psych fen on my flist, is this true? Is this excuse being used a lot by Shawn/Lassiter shippers? I hadn't heard it before, but then I suppose I'm not really spending a lot of time in those circles.

The reason I don't actively slash Shawn/Gus is fairly obvious; it's because I'm actively shipping Gus/Juliet who I think are utterly adorable in their geekiness. Honestly, if it weren't for Shawn vs. the Red Phantom I would probably be shipping Shawn/Gus...or just Shawn/anyone ever. Shawn/inanimate objects. James Roday could have sexual chemistry with a rock, no kidding.

But the idea that people are justifying their not-slashing Shawn/Gus based on being uncomfortable with slashing Gus--rather than, say, preferring the antagonism of Shawn/Lassiter to the best-buddy feel of Shawn/Gus, and why is nobody slashing Gus/Lassiter anyway?--anyway, that idea is a new one to me, and surprising, and now I want to know if there are a lot of people actually doing this.

Thoughts?

Tags: fandom, meta, psych

music: Stand - Rascal Flatts

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05 July 2007 @ 05:23 pm

so here they come, the sound of drums...

So, this post on female characters in fandom by

fabu came up on

metafandom, and I read it and it's very interesting and well-thought out and inspired that thing I do every so often where I examine my own biases in fictional characters.

( warning: this gets long and, in places, dull )

I use Chronicle icon because there is NO character in The Chronicle who I do not love unconditionally. Except for very minor characters, and even then I don't often actively dislike them. Truth.

Tags: andromeda, doctor who, fandom, fandom biases, heroes, lost, meta, needs moar claire, roswell, torchwood, x-files

mood:

surprised

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26 May 2007 @ 11:25 pm

stage managers do it on schedule

Yay, I'm back!

J.P. is now an official high school graduate. It's odd and disturbs me and makes me feel old. Also I'm pretty sure I have problems because I spent most of the graduation ceremony wondering why nobody ever taught these people how to speak into a microphone properly. *pokes them*

Also Joshua's hair is somewhere between "emo kid" and "bad British rocker" and it frightens me.

I logged onto the LVI forums for the first time in a long, long time. Because I got a PM. Truth. Now I'm poking around, sticking my nose into all the things that have been posted since I last logged in so so long ago.

Well. Not all the things. But lots!

Also, to the LVI fen on my flist: do any of you know why it is apparently physically impossible for me to login to the forums through Firefox and I have to go and open Internet Explorer which annoys me?

And now memes.

Meme snagged from

kawaiispinel:
WIP Meme

If you happen to be working on some new writing project, fanfiction or what have you, post a sentence or snippet from each of your current work(s) in progress in your journal. It should probably be your favourite or most intriguing part so far, but what you choose is entirely your discretion. Mention the title (and genre) if you like, but don't mention anything else -- this is merely to whet the general appetite for your forthcoming work(s).

The WIP I've been talking about longest.

( The Trial Of Brendan Lahey, which will be finished, I swear )

Also snagged from

kawaiispinel:
1. Choose a few of your own characters/muses. Five at the most.
2. Make them answer the following questions
3. ~~Then tag three people.~~ (If you want to do it, then do it. I'm not going to tag anyone.)

( under here )

And finally, the fic census that's going around

metafandom at the moment. I don't actually think anyone will care, but here it is anyway:

( census under here )

Tags: andromeda, fandom, fanfic census, growing up is hard to do, lost, meme, meta, original fiction, vidding

location: under the weather

mood:

music: If I Ever Leave This World Alive - Flogging Molly

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15 May 2007 @ 09:25 pm

k:-O

ChicaFrom3 and Fandom As Community: A History
or: how teh chica put off thinking about her utter lack of employment options for a while longer

( long and probably dull )

Um...yeah. I might do a history overview of how my fannish activity (ficcing, iconing, vidding) has changed over the years sometime.

And to make up for that horribly self-indulgent post, I'll do a meme or something in a bit. Yes?

Tags: fandom, fandom as community, history, meta, teh niki

location: fandom

mood:

self-indulgent

music: The World - Brad Paisley

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