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[jade_sabre]

1) Like, did I ever post my observation that Avatar contained more shirtless old people than shirtless young people? Like seriously. Zuko doffs his shirt occasionally, Bumi spends entire episodes parading around without one. Like, all the old men are shirtless. There's just an overabundance of old people in the show, and I love how they emphasize that.

Also, I'm pretty sure all the old people are crazy, but that's a point for another discussion.

2) ORION ROOMMATE IN STAR TREK, WHAT IS YOUR STORY. My whole family is like, uh, pheremones? (Although the "I promised my roommate I wouldn't bring any more boys back to the room./Wait, how many guys have you brought back--/Just get under the bed" exchange was made of epic lulz and win.) Seriously. WHAT IS YOUR STORY HOW DID YOU ESCAPE YOUR SLAVE BONDS DO YOU HAVE TO TAKE INJECTIONS DID YOU SURVIVE THE ATTACKS I WANT TO KNOW.

also, oops I just remembered another abandoned fanfic but come on no one really wants me to write Enterprise fanfic do they? Also I would have to rewatch the show. ...I mean I did love that episode with the Orions it was made of shippy win oh God shipping for that show was ridiculous and also the only reason I watched the last two seasons. Also I never watched the finale, yay.

3) Speaking of Enterprise, PORTHOS SHOUTOUT! Scotty's line about Admiral Archer's prize beagle was basically subtexted, "Okay, for the three Trekkie fans in the audience who actually stomached some of Enterprise, here's a reference for you" and I can tell you those three five Trekkie fans in my family audience greatly appreciated it.

also the IMDB goofs-and-trivia pages on the movie are fairly entertaining.

4) I NEED ICONAGE OF STEPHEN COLBERT WITH ND PAINTED ON HIS CHEST STAT. Actually here just watch the whole debate it is hilarious and awesome.

The Colbert Report	Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
Formidable Opponent - Pragmatism or Idealism
colbertnation.com
Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Keyboard Cat

...I realize I could have finished that sentence with "Stephen Colbert debating himself" or even just "Stephen Colbert" and it would have meant the same thing. Mm.

5) I SEE LONDON I SEE SAM'S TOWN HOLDS MY HAND AND LETS MY HAIR DOWN SOMETHING SOMETHING SOMETHING the point is that album was made for Avatar. Go forth and give me suggestions, minions, for how to adapt the show to its brilliant lyrics. Also I would just like to say I love The Killers. Also I love their song "Leave the Bourbon on the Shelf" for its awesome intro ALSO I HATE THAT STUPID KID ROCK "SINGIN' SWEET HOME ALABAMA" SONG BECAUSE IT IS MADE OF SUCK AND FAIL ALSO ALSO I HATE THE COUNTRY REMAKE OF "WALKIN' IN MEMPHIS" ALMOST AS MUCH THE HATE, IT BURNS.

6) Has anyone played KOTOR II? Do they get the whole echoes thing? Do they have awesome fanfic recommendations that explain the whole echoes thing? IS THERE ANY ATTON = DUSTIL FANFIC or am I just going to have to sit in my corner dreaming it up.

7) Do any of my other writer friends ever have their characters have reactions in their heads to things said or done about them? Like, I dunno, let's say you're working on a story or something and talking to a friend about it and the friend suggests something and it's not just you in your head going "no, that's wrong," it's the character going "WUT NO." Or is it still just you manifesting your disapproval through your character? Like, how does that even work?

8) Oh shit I've just spent like twenty bazillion minutes watching clips from The Colbert Report since I never watch it at school WELL I GUESS THAT'S IT FOR THIS POST NIGHT EVERYONE.

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[philia-fan.livejournal.com]

3) I got the beagle reference, even though I gave up on Enterprise fairly early on. Wasn't sure if it was Porthos or some future beagle of Archer's.

7) Haha! Yep. Here's where it usually comes up for me: there's one guy in my critique group who persists in giving me back my manuscript with entire pages where he's rewritten the dialogue, despite the fact that I've told him repeatedly that this is a good way to both piss me off and get me to COMPLETELY IGNORE any suggestions he makes, even if I would have considered them had they been presented in a different fashion. He WILL NOT SEE that it's insulting to rewrite someone else's sentences (also, can I just say, his dialogue sucks? And mine is rather good, so ?????) and that he only thinks it's better because it now sounds like HIM, not like me. Gives me the shivers. Anyway, he keeps doing this, with accompanying notes about how he knows I hate it but he just HAS to show me how the scene "should" be -- and he rewrites Bettine's lines and she sits there in my mind with her eyebrows raised, saying, "I am NOT saying that, ever, and if you make me say it I will run from this book and never come back." Arg. I think a lot of it stems from his belief that Bettine should be a Tamora Pierce style kick-butt heroine, or his wish that she be one, and that's not who Bettine is AT ALL.

....uh, sorry. You brought it up, though.

Wait, there's a country version of Walkin' In Memphis? That would seem to defeat the point of the song.

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

3) Again, the only reason I kept watching it was because I shipped Trip/T'Pol, which was the ship that drove my mother crazy. IMDB tells me that it is probably not referencing the original Porthos but some future beagle, but hey, I can dream. :-b

7) GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH I feel your pain it is like Clayton's edits on my stories because he was always "why didn't you tell this story" while I was always answering BECAUSE THAT'S NOT THE STORY I'M TELLING, so most of his comments would be like "this story sucks tell the other one." NOT HELPFUL. It also happened a few times in high school, when we were cowriting stuff and sometimes my friends would write dialogue that was just wrong and Thaddie would start throwing fireballs in my head (they bounce around it is v. painful).

Also my aunt was talking about a girl named Bettina that she's sponsoring in Romania and I thought of you because the name is similar and I got v. excited. :-b

See currently the problem is that Quark made me a beautiful BEAUTIFUL picture for my characters, but the guy character is going "if you even think about displaying that I will KICK YOUR ASS" because it is fairly mushy and that would RUIN HIS COVER. I mean granted, he couldn't actually kill me, and what am I supposed to do, protect his privacy? Frickin' characters. I luff them.

And yes, there is. D: What's worse is that most of the people I talk to are like, "wait, you mean this one's a remake?" So I have been passing the Marc Cohn love around campus. (So much love.)

[philia-fan.livejournal.com]

Wildcat is very big on Marc Cohn. Also Richard Shindell, Mark O'Connor, Crooked Still, and the Wailin' Jennys -- and she's just discovered James Taylor. My but we are raising a retro folkie geek! (Must check out the remake so I can rail against it!)

Actually I get this problem with the picture, too. It's like a while ago when I submitted my love scene to EE, and I had to change the characters' names, because Bettine and Ruven were not comfortable with having their names all over the internet.

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

Wooooooooooo I think she and I would get along v. well during roadtrips. :-D

Man I feel so much better about random overreactions I have to things. (What's worse is that technically I'm done writing these two kiddos--like, their story's done, over with, except that they still live in my head because their lives continue past the story. So I'm not even writing them anymore! They just...are there.)

[chaos-harmony.livejournal.com]

Do any of my other writer friends ever have their characters have reactions in their heads to things said or done about them? Like, I dunno, let's say you're working on a story or something and talking to a friend about it and the friend suggests something and it's not just you in your head going "no, that's wrong," it's the character going "WUT NO." Or is it still just you manifesting your disapproval through your character? Like, how does that even work?

YES. One of my friends and I have this theory that characters aren't really ours, per se - they're just imaginary people that occasionally wander into your brain and deign to make a home there, and then proceed to make you crazy.

[loquaciousquark.livejournal.com]

re: 7, not exactly? i mean, i guess you could say each character has a "voice" in my head, but i'm always very aware that the character's something i created. honestly, i've never really been able to cope with the whole character-as-a-separate-being since i read an agatha christie book in which poirot encounters an author who does exactly that; he claims that the hero in his head refuses to allow him to write him a certain way. And poirot was pretty disdainful/dismissive of him for that exact reason, and ever since, i haven't been able to separate the creation into its own...self, i guess.

also it reminds me of people who call their cats their children. which squicks me.

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

ah-hahahahahaha. Well, Poirot is a detective, and they're all about logic and deduction and empirical reasoning. The only reason I would ever truly think I could really order a character around was because I was only ordering them to do something they would've done anyway. If you try to make them do something they wouldn't do, well, it just gets stuck and goes wrong. Which isn't a very empirical process, unless you count slamming a car into a brick wall multiple times as logical.

...well I'm not calling them my children per se. or really separate beings. This is what intrigues me--the fact that in my head they (let's say, Aurore when Katy was trying to make Charles a betrayer) are so vocal in their voice about something, but really in the end, it's all in my head, so it's just me, right? Maybe it's like, this is the part of my brain that is devoted to being that person (or alternatively, this is the aspect of myself that manifests itself this way--but that's not how it works. Aspects of myself end up in my characters, yes, obviously, but they tend to end up going in very different directions than they do with me, because the characters are different people).

Although the "part of my brain devoted to being that person" part is less comforting when in this case it's "the part of my brain devoted to being Bishop," which can mean anything from "snarky sarcastic asshole" to "sarcastic brooding murderous angry asshole" and neither of those are something I particularly want to be. But it's just so definitively him in my head (and hell, I didn't even create him).

CONFUSION IS NOTHING NEW.

*muses more*

[styromgalleries.livejournal.com]

5) The Killers are love!!

7) That's never happened to me. I mean, I've been like "Ew, no! That totally wouldn't work for *character name here*" but my characters have never done that to me. I see interviews with published authors all the time saying that, but it's never happened for me. I love my characters, and they're dear to me (some of them anyway :D), but they don't ever talk for themselves. They're my biatches!

P.S. Look at my shiny new icon! It's from a screencap from this movie called Bright Star about John Keats and his lady-love Fanny. It's starring Ben Whishaw (Brideshead Revisited, Perfume). I haven't seen it or anything (don't even know how I would, or if it's actually out), but Ben Whishaw is kind of adorable and I fell in love with this cap as soon as I saw it. Like, she's just sitting reading in this ginormous field of blue flowers, and OMG! I want to be there so bad!

And I just thought I'd mention it to you since you like poetry, but I don't know whether you're a Keats fan or not. :)

[styromgalleries.livejournal.com]

Link to some scenes from the movie. I reeeeaallly want to see it! It just looks like it could be pretty.

It was apparently just at the Cannes Film Festival, so it'll be a while before it makes it here, I'm sure.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0afEOtb-mM