RANDOM OPINIONS WHICH MAY OR MAY NOT BE UNPOPULAR, ABOUT RANDOM FANDOMS:

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This list may be added to as I think of other things I have Opinions about. Or not. Feel free to agree, disagree, argue, and offer your own Opinions.

( Psych 3x16: An Evening With Mr. Yang -- at the halfway mark )

ETA: Post-episode thoughts. ( further discussion )

Still improving. Took a decongestant for my nose. It fixed most of the snuffliness problem but now I'm dizzy and a little afraid to try walking upstairs.

Baww. I'm sick of talking about being sick. I'm also sick of being sick, so if someone would like to fix that for me, have at.


I have things to say about this week's TV because I was not coherent enough to talk about it at the logical time.

Very brief thoughts!

( LOST 5x04 The Little Prince )



( Psych 3x14 Truer Lies )

Fun episode with some great one-liners, plus an adorkable episode tag that I am totally taking as Gus/Juliet even though I think the writers probably intended Shawn/Juliet, but all of that pales next to the awesomeness that is the episode title. Seriously. Best title of any TV show episode ever, or best title of any TV show episode ever?

( brief thoughts on Psych 3x10 Six Feet Under The Sea )

I missed this show so much. ♥

From...everybody, pretty much:

Put your MP3 player/playlist on shuffle, and write down the first line of the first twenty songs. Post the poem that results. The first line of the twenty-first is the title.

When You Were Young

Someday I'm gonna be famous
If you live around here
Break of day, the dawn is here
My eyes are fully open to my awful situation

I can't feel nothin' at all
Hey, Stephen, I know looks can be deceivin'
In passing glances
Whenever I see someone less fortunate than I

Each night you show up about a quarter to two
This step is one again our first
I solve my problems and I see the light
Hey ho, let's go

She's not a girl who misses much
A young cowboy named Billy Joe grew restless on the farm
How glad the many millions of Annabelles and Lillians
Let me set you straight

How the world can change
Little shop
Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak
They came from near, they came from far



From fandom_memes:

For each of your fandoms, list the 5 things in that fandom you're most grateful for (not counting the fen!)

Uh. Let's do a selection of main fandoms, here, 'cause if I do all of them that will just kill the Internet.

( under here )

And, also, because I can never pack too much into one post (?):
♪ CHRISTMAS MUSIC SHARING MEME ♪
'Tis the season to be jolly, fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la!

Aww, come on. December starts tomorrow.

So, whoever my Secret Santa is, they are AWESOME. Because they realize that I am actually six years old. (Gifts so far have included a bouncy ball, a Super Bubble Gun, and an Etch-a-Sketch. See? Six years old. Gifts have also included the DVD of Sabrina and a bar of 83% dark chocolate. BEST SECRET SANTA EVER.)

We have one gift exchange left, this Thursday. *bounce*



Um.

Most recent Psych! Slightly belated and not as comprehensive as my usual, but whatever, right?

( spoilers for 'Murder? Murder? Anyone? Bueller?' )



An'a meme!

NAME A SERIES AND I WILL TELL YOU THE CHARACTER(S) I WOULD:

* bake cupcakes for:
* trust with the keys to my car:
* put thumbtacks on the chair thereof:
* have a crush on:
* pack up and leave if they moved next door:
* vote for President:
* pick as my partner in a buddy movie:
* pair up:
* vote off the island and into the volcano:
* wheedle into fixing my MP3 player:

( SPOILERS for Psych 3x01 Ghosts )

Overall: Powerful episode. Psych does emotional drama, and does it well. James Roday gets a chance to remind everyone that he can do genres besides constant comedy. And it still feels like Psych, it's still got the humor and the buddy elements and everybody's there even if for only about twelve seconds (Jules, what happened to you? Working a case without any backup or what?) A great start to the season.


( story from real life and related ponderings that got longer than I thought they would )

Today is the first exchange of our Secret Santa. I am...slightly nervous about delivering my first gift. Um. (I told our dresser I didn't know how I was going to smuggle it in without my recipient -- or any of the cast, since they have a cultural aversion to secrets apparently -- seeing it. She said "Bring it in a bag!" Then she said "Oh, wait, you never bring a bag and everyone will immediately know why you brought one." So, yeah.)


FANNISH STUFF. In bits and pieces. BECAUSE.
So, Dr. Horrible. Why, yes, I am a sucker for lonely-loser villains. Who sing their feelings. Add Dr. Horrible/Billy to my list of fannish crushes, gais. And one of my spot ops and I spent much of yesterday quoting it at each other.
But. I'm really not happy about Penny. She had absolutely no agency throughout, barely had a personality, and totally failed to subvert any of the genre tropes I was hoping for. JOSS. I EXPECT BETTER OF YOU. You could have told the same awesome story in a much more awesome way by giving Penny some real personality and letting her make some active choices.
However, I do have a Dr. Horrible icon now.

[title of show] has made it to Broadway, that magical street of dreams (or that shameless commercial whore, depending). Have I talked about this on here yet? No, I don't think so. Anyway, I'm very very happy about it. And would kill to go see it. Now I just need Zanna Don't! and Evil Dead: The Musical to make it to the Great White Way. And a decent Chess revival. And a trip to New York with a lot of cash.

My daddy is buying tickets for me and him and my mom to go see the touring cast of Spamalot this November. Like, right after my work contract ends. *bounces* My daddy's so cool. (And, he's vaguely alluded to possibly taking me and my mom to see Wicked when the touring cast passes through the area next May. Yespls?)

I'm dying to see the new XF movie, and I know next to nothing about it having somehow totally failed to find any decent spoilers. But MULDER. SCULLY. MY FIRST REAL FANDOM. OMGYAY.

I really want to write fic, but am totally failing to. All I can get is tiny, nonsensical bits and pieces. I've tried a couple 1sentence attempts because that's usually a pretty good writer's-block breaker for me, but I keep stalling out about halfway through every couple I try. *flail* Any advice?

...On the "accomplished!" side, I have a Lost Desmond/Penny vid finished that just needs to be uploaded and pimped out. Unlikely to happen today, though. On the grounds that I need to leave for work fairly soon. But soon? Hopefully. I like it. It's kind of a darker take on the pairing than I usually go for, and we all know screwing up the couples I love is like a drug to me. And I think it turned out pretty well, for being a study of the pairing rather than a straightforward story.

...oh, that just reminded me I have to hit up LVI and make sure no one else used that song for Des/Penny. Athough I doubt it. It's...not obscure, exactly, but neither is it what I expect most LVI vidders to be drawing upon for music choices? ...okay, that sounded all music-elitist and that's really not how I meant it.

...shutting up now before I offend anyone further.

Besides, it's INTERNATIONAL DAY OF FEMSLASH! ...I would use a femslash icon here, but I kind of already committed myself to the Dr. Horrible one, didn't I? I'll try and do a picspam or something else to celebrate after work. But for now, I'm going to go feed. Because I'm hungry.

Most awesome-tastic thing heard in a while: The Pogues covering "Do You Believe In Magic?" *laughs*

Close second: The radio-friendly version of "Boys From The County Hell", mainly because the lyrics stop making sense when you replace all the profanity. "We got him out the back and we beat him 'til he bawled"? Really?



Some old fannish5 entries, just because:

( cut to spare your flist )


And, fandom_memes!

Pick 10 characters from whatever fandoms you like -- and pick LJ usernames for them. Don't peek at the questions until you've made your list!

1. Martha Jones (Doctor Who/Torchwood) - walkedtheearth
2. Spot Conlon (Newsies) - spot_the_con
3. Alfredo Aldarisio (Pushing Daisies) - losingatmo
4. Seamus Harper (Andromeda) - supergenius
5. Joanie (The Black Donnellys) - junkie_girl
6. Florence Vassy (Chess) - worldcitizen01
7. Toshiko Sato (Torchwood) - tw3techie
8. Desmond Hume (LOST) - yourwonderwall
9. Tobias (Animorphs) - lonelyhawk
10. Karen Vick (Psych) - interimchief

( questions! )


And
You ever write a fanfic where you think certain lines are just fantastic, but nobody seems to have noticed or commented on them? Comment on this thread with a link to your fanfic, and I'll give you a full-fledged line!post with at least 5 of my favorite lines from that fic.



...I have to go in to work for Kinetix in, like, an hour and a half. *makes face*

( Psych 2x15: Black And Tan: A Crime of Fashion reactions )

In summation: YAY SHIP VALIDATION. AND KAREN. YAY KAREN! AND PEOPLE BEING MEAN TO SHAWN. AND KAREN!

Next week is season finale. *sadface*

fandom_memes time!


Choose five series (no peeking before you choose them), list them, and then answer the questions behind the cut.
1. LOST
2. Doctor Who
3. Pushing Daisies
4. The Black Donnellys
5. Andromeda

( don't talk to me if you ain't got the answers i need )


Choose 10 characters (preferably from the same fandom) and answer the questions that follow. No peeking until your list is done!

Same fandom is no fun. Here's different fandoms!

1. The Arbiter (Chess)
2. Alfredo (Pushing Daisies)
3. Claire (LOST)
4. Rommie (Andromeda)
5. Toshiko (Torchwood)
6. Barbara (Doctor Who)
7. Angel (RENT)
8. Tank (Zanna, Don't!)
9. Molly (Dresden Files)
10. Gus (Psych)

( yeah, i got problems, can't you see i'm tryin' to solve them )

( Spoilers for Psych 2x13 Lights, Camera...Homicidio )

Final verdict: GLEE. And KAREN LOVE. And GLEE.

Yes. I fail. I've been off LJ for way too long. I haven't been commenting. I know.

And instead of, y'know, finding people's posts and commenting, here, have a userpics meme!

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...why do these always manage to come out so lopsided? *blink* Anyway, you can find credits for all those icons on my userpics page. Because I'm lazy.

( spoilers for tonight's episode of Psych which I can't be bothered to find the name of )

In short: I enjoyed it, and will probably watch it again soon.


Was tagged by ladyfiresprite!

Ten Things I Love

1. nikiness...well, duh. Obviously. She's my nonsexual life partner and bestest friend ever!
2. Shane MacGowan. Specifically, Shane MacGowan's music. It just makes me happy, even when it's angry- or sad-making songs.
3. My cat, Thomas, who spent today apparently thinking that the best way to cure my vague illness was to lie on my chest with his head buried in my eye socket. Uncomfortable? Yes. Ridiculously cute and makes me love him even more? Yes.
4. New books!
5. Broadway and Off-Broadway and West End musicals. Yes, all of them. Yes, even that one.
6. Chess, which is technically a West End musical, a Broadway musical, and an Off-Broadway musical, but whatever, it deserves its own notation just for the sheer amount of glee it instills in me.
7. Fandom in general, even when it pisses me off by being stupid.
8. Being able to write. Which, I can't seem to right now, but when I can, it makes me so incredibly happy.
9. Opening night.
10. Clever writing in television/movies -- Pushing Daisies is winning on this score right now, but I can point to almost all my TV/movie fandoms for examples.


...in other news, I'm dying to see Cloverfield. J.J. Abrams + Michael Stahl-David + monster flick = Chica's idea of an awesome movie. And pretty much my entire friendslist is squeeing about it right now. So, yeah, I gotta get to a movie theatre and see this.

Iiiiii feel like I've been run over by a truck. Good times. I hate being vaguely sick. I'd almost rather be blatantly sick, because then at least you know what's wrong and people sympathize and let you stay in bed all day and not wonder out loud why you're curled up in a tiny ball on the couch. *flail*



fandom_memes time, bitches!

1) The Fanfic Pairings of 2007 Meme

List all Pairings you wrote/posted in 2007 (whether they are blatant or implied pairings)
( list of pairings )


( funnest, crackiest, hardest, etc. )


2) Year-End Fanfic Meme

( favorite, best, most fun, etc. )

--

3) Year-End Fanfic Wrap-up

Name the fics you've written this year, a little bit about them and what inspired you to write them. Provide a link if you wish.

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YAY! The Joyce/Yeats essay is done! Finished! It's five pages of BS and a really awful conclusion, because really what I had to say could be said in maybe three pages but I had to stretch it out, but anyway it's done and I can stop thinking about it!

That was way too many exclamation points!


OKAY. Hopefully tomorrow I will have time to get gifties uploaded for those of you who are awaiting gifties. Today I be selfish; I know when I posted my wishlist a handful of people asked for specific fic requests, so under the cut find a ridiculously long list of prompts for the fandoms/pairings/whatevers I have been craving most recently.

( some of these I don't think anyone on my flist writes, but oh well! )

I'm not actually expecting anything (although kawaiispinel already wrote me TOTALLY AWESOME Olive/Alfredo fic of the UTTERLY PERFECT kind), but just so it's out there, y'know?

...yeah, I'm gonna shut up and go to bed now.

Blegh. Never take a flight that requires that you be awake at 3AM. I'm serious, when at 10:30AM you're wondering why the day isn't over yet, and you still have a class and work to get through? Not fun.

Stuff!


Meme 1 (snagged from kawaiispinel):

List twelve characters without looking at the questions. Then answer the questions by replacing the corresponding number with the character.

1. Michael Dawson (Lost)
2. Peri Brown (Doctor Who)
3. Tom Collins (Rent)
4. Svetlana Sergievsky (Chess)
5. Brendan Lahey (Andromeda)
6. Toshiko Sato (Torchwood)
7. Kevin Donnelly (Black Donnellys)
8. Alfredo Aldarisio (Pushing Daisies)
9. Jeremy Darling (Dirty Sexy Money)
10. Grace Hall (The Chronicle)
11. Burton Guster (Psych)
12. Quinn Mallory (Sliders)

( questions here )

Meme 2 (snagged from trascendenza):

List 7 songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words or even if they're not any good but they must be songs you're really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your LJ along with your 7 songs. Then tag 7 other people to see what they're listening to in absolute random order.

( 7 songs )


Meme 3 (snagged from martoufmarty):

( everything about Chica you were never curious about )


...okay. I should probably do homework. Instead I'm gonna finish putting together the next article for Firefox News.

...theatre humor is so inappropriate. :D



Instead of doing homework like I should have done and like I'm still not doing after work and before rehearsal, I vegged out and watched my new Hair DVD. OMG I LOVE RAÚL SO MUCH. And him singing "Hair"? SO MUCH LOVE. If those jeans were any tighter they would cut off circulation, and grabbing his crotch on the line "Down to there"? SO MUCH LOVE. *dies*

(Major props also to Adam, Julia, Shoshana, Jai, and Lillias, but OMG RAÚL.)



Anna meme (from fandom_meme), because I am a meme whore:

Choose 12 characters and put them in a numbered list. Once you've chosen, go behind the cut and grab these questions to answer them. No peeking until your list is complete!

And because I'm in a Mood (specifically exhausted), characters I don't usually throw onto these lists!

1. Penny Widmore (Lost)
2. Doyle (Andromeda)
3. Ian Chesterton (Doctor Who)
4. Jeremy Darling (Dirty Sexy Money)
5. Olive Snook (Pushing Daisies)
6. Florence Vassy (Chess)
7. The Archive (Dresden Files)
8. River Tamm (Firefly)
9. Juliet O'Hara (Psych)
10. Quinn Mallory (Sliders)
11. Joanie (Black Donnellys)
12. Rhys Williams (Torchwood)

( the questions )


And from fannish5: What lost episodes (or lost issues, or cut scenes) would you most like to see discovered?

1. Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker
2. Doctor Who: The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve
3. Doctor Who: The Macra Terror
4. The Black Donnellys: ANYTHING EVER
5. Newsies: all those scenes that originally gave Sarah a personality

I'm not going to talk about last night's Psych because it will just make me upset again. *flails*


In any case, today has been a nice lazy day. I like lazy days. I stayed in bed 'til noon and have spent most of the day eating junk food and marathoning Black Donnellys episodes with some musical theatre interludes.

I did get some stuff for Yellow Boat done, but mostly...I've just been having fun being lazy.

...Joanie's so ridiculously adorable. There's a Jimmy/Joanie scene at the beginning of The World Will Break Your Heart that I really want to icon now.