I'm trying really hard to like Stargate SG-1. For one, my dad loves it, and it's always nice to have a show to share with him, considering that television has been our main form of bonding since, like, age 3 when I started watching Star Trek (yes, it's sad, but outside of sci-fi, we have basically no common interests). I got a bunch of episode recommendations from people and watched them, but at the end of the day, I just find it...boring. And annoying. Which is weird, because I am passionately in fandom love with SGA, and I don't know what quality that show has that SG-1 lacks. It's just weird I'm so head over heels for the spinoff when I can't stand the original. Ah, well. Not that it matters, I just think it's funny.

(Although I really like Jack/Daniel fanfic, especially when they're on Atlantis. Happily, I've watched enough SG-1--like homework--to understand the fanfic.)

In wisdom teeth news, mouth is killing me. Somehow, it hurts worse than yesterday. I kind of want to kill myself (although that's the vicodin talking, I know, vicodin makes me sooooo depressed). I am a huge baby. Though my dad did save my teeth for me, which is really cool! I haven't decided what to do with them yet.

Holy shit, people.

(Okay, in case you need me to draw you a map, here, I am not at all appalled by Katie Cassidy's behavior. It would be the reaction that caused me to bang my head against my bedroom wall for the last five minutes.)

Sigh.

I made this poll mostly to try and keep track of my fleeing flist, but anyone is welcome to participate.

Poll #1036098 LJ Exodus
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

Right now, I...

You can find me at...

I'm leaving because of...

In your opinion, will the current LJ situation change fandom? (Clarify in comments, please.)

Are people...

IT'S SHARK WEEK!!!

It's like Christmas. ::snuggles TV:: One week out of the year where there is no arguing over what to watch. Discovery channel 24-7, baby!

Also, skipping along on my fandom induced journey to hell, I have discovered nfl_rps and fallen in love. It's so embarrassing.

PS: For those of you who pray, if you could pray for Shamika, a woman in our church, I would really appreciate it. She's been in the hospital for about a week with pneumonia. It's resistant to antibiotics and she isn't getting any better. She's a single mom with an adorable three-year-old, and it's a very hard, scary situation. I told her I've got some great pray-ers on my flist, and I'd put the request out there. Thanks!

ETA: Shamika just lost her job. Her boss said: "Everyone has a sad story." WTF??? Shamika is VERY upset, understandably. Just spent a couple hours w/ her in the hospital, and she is extremly depressed. :(

Okay, I have a question for the fanfiction writers out there:

Of the fanfics you've posted online, what fic of yours are you most proud of, and what fic makes you cringe? Why?

If you want to play along, post the question, along with your answers and links to the fics, on your LJ.

( My answers. )

I can't wait to read everyone's responses! :)

I was curious about why people have OTPs and favorite characters, so I thought I'd make up a poll on the subject while I still have the ability to do so. Feel free to pass this along to other folks, as I'd love to get a larger base then my limited (but lovely) flist.

( Longish poll about OTPs, favorite characters, and why we have them. )

(Disclaimer: I'm not active enough in the Harry Potter fandom to be directly affected by this, or even understand this.)

1st thought: Wow, some people have way too much time on their hands. This is not directed solely at msscribe.

2nd thought: Wow, that is some pathological bullshit. Again, not solely directed at msscribe.

3rd thought: Why is Harry Potter fandom so fucked up? sistermagpie pointed me to a Ursula Le Guin interview where she calls Harry Potter "ethically rather mean-spirited." (Scroll down a ways to see it.) I don't know if you can blame the dubious ethics of the Harry Potter books for its batshit fans, but I figure J.K. Rowling is as good a person to blame as any. Hell, we could have avoided the whole problem if Harry and Snape ran off together in book 6.

4th thought: Fandom_Wank is really not funny anymore. Seriously, read through the whole thing. Notice how many time f_w comes up, shit-stirring and basically making what could have been a small, private matter a huge wanky thing.

5th thought: Fandom has basically regressed to the seventh grade. Is anyone else strongly reminded of the girl's bathroom in Jr. High? I can practically smell the cheap hair product and fruity body sprays.

Edit: I mentioned this whole thing to my mom, condensed of course because she's not active in fandom. She stared at me for a couple minutes, then said, slowly, "See honey, this is why gossip is bad." She wanted to use this a sermon illustration, but realized it couldn't possibly be compressed. :)

I was thinking, there really should be an Animorphs anon meme. I mean, this fandom is too nice. Even the "I hate Tobias, he's a whiny emo boy" post didn't generate any fights. Which is so weird, because back in the hay-day (what, 2000ish?), we had brutal ship wars and character bashing up the wazoo. Gets me thinking, if fandom_wank had been big back then, would we have been Harry Potter?

I'm rambling, I know.

Maybe the reason we don't have the big fights anymore is because the fans have grown up. Or, maybe it's just because K.A. dashed all of our hopes in the last books. We're all united in hatred against 54. :)

Just kinda boring, is all I'm saying.

Ten Ways to Know You're Reading a Fic by LizzyPaul

10) Lesbians. It doesn't matter if it's two guys, or a guy and a girl, they all end up sounding like lesbians.
9) Teenagers. I've written maybe two fics with adults, and considering that they were kids in the source material, it hardly counts.
8) Declarations of undying love. It's something I'm trying to work on, but a good portion of my fics still end with some form of "I love you."
7) Fumbling virgins. I have soft spot for first time fics.
6) Unconventional/non-canon pairings. When I first started out, I was a stickler for canon pairings, (Jake/Cassie and Mulder/Scully, especially), but I haven't written a strictly conventional relationship in years.
5) Pairings! Out of all my fics, I have exactly one gen fic. I guess when I write, I'm usually inspiried by relationship ideas, not general plot ideas.
4) Humor/general light-heartedness. I have a couple dark fics, but almost all of my fics end on a high note, and even more are generally light all the way through.
3) Weird details. Especially in my sex fics, I like the character I'm writing to notice things, sensory details especially.
2) First person/limited third person. I write best through one person's eyes. I try to keep all of the description from the main character's POV.
1) It's a children's series! Digimon, Animorphs, Everworld, Harry Potter, Baby-Sitter's Club...yeah, all kid's stuff. And yet, lots of smut.

Well, we had yet another fire alarm. We have now lost microwave privileges, I shit you not. If we want to make anything, we have walk downstairs to the lobby. *eyeroll* Lucky I don't use the microwave, but the rest of our dorm is seriously pissed. There were talks of a violent uprising--viva la popcorn and all that--but people are more or less resigned, and the saner ones realize that it was our own stupid fault and it's better than a dorm-wide fine for the next alarm.

Watched Revolutionary Girl Utena last night. A couple people from my floor would wander in, watch for a few minutes, then shake their head and leave. Hee. Trying to explain it is impossible. Hell, I've watched the entire series (and the movie) several times over, and I still don't understand. It's one of the reasons I won't write fanfiction for it, even though it's arguably my favorite anime. It's hard to establish canon in a show like that--what's real, what's metaphor, what's a dream, what's character perception--and the end left me with more questions than answers. But it's visually stunning, fun to watch, and canon lesbians, so yay!. Of course, whenever I hear people say, "Our relationship is just like Utena and Anthy!" I always want to cringe and back away quickly. Kinda like the folks who compare their relationship to Romeo and Juliet, or, God forbid, Sid and Nancy.

Oh, and I can not understand all the Akio apologists. I'm sorry, even though he didn't hold Anthy or Utena down while they screamed, he's still a rapist. Utena is in 8th grade when she sleeps with him, and she is obviously uncomfortable during the whole encounter. He's in his late 20s to early 30s (I haven't been able to find an agreed upon age). And his relationship with Anthy is too fucked up for words. He's her older brother, he has a serious hold on her, he's obviously been sleeping with her for a long time--and, again, she's in middle school. The incest doesn't freak me out as much as the power differential. I can understand liking him in spite, or even because, of his evilness, but to excuse it or try to make him out to be a nice guy is annoying. And I especially get irritated with the Akio fangirls who say, "Oh, I can't feel bad for Anthy, she gets to sleep with him all the time!" Yeah. Right. As long as your rapist is attractive...

Now I should really stop blabbering on about cartoons and do my homework.

felinephoenix posted a couple fun memes that she got from perpetual_poet and moriath. Thought I'd give it a try, too!

Tell me of a fandom you know I know of and I'll tell you:

1. The first character I first fell in love with
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now
3. The character everyone else loves that I don't
4. The character I love that everyone else hates
5. The character I used to love but don't any longer
6. The character I would shag anytime
7. The character I'd want to be like
8. The character I'd slap
9. A pairing that I love
10. A pairing that I despise

**

1. Post a list of 10 of your favorite fandoms.
2. Have your friends list guess your favorite character from each fandom.
3. When guessed, bold the line and write a sentence about why you like that character.

1. Animorphs
2. Everworld
3. Fullmetal Alchemist
4. Weiss Kreuz
5. Digimon (1st and 2nd Season)
6. Harry Potter
7. The Sentinel
8. The X-Files
9. Star Trek (Everything except Enterprise)
10. CSI:LV

Doing them together because a) I want to be felinephoenix when I grow up, and I am so her net stalker and b) it gives you a convenient list of fandoms that I'm into for the first meme!

Have you ever read a fanfic so wonderful that it defines a series for you? A fanfic that becomes more real than canon? A fanfic that very nearly keeps you from ever attempting another fic of your own, or even reading more in the particular fandom, because it is so jaw-droppingly wonderful that it eclipses anything that ever was or will be in the future?

...just me, than. Okay.

Anyway, I just finished an absolutely breathtaking Sentinel series by Lanning Cook.

True Minds
Little Company
Many Waters

It starts out as a wonderful first time fic, turns into a coming out fic, and culminates in a fic about homophobia. Also, there's a kick-ass plot and three great cases. Wow, fanfic for a cop show with actual, like, cop stuff! It's especially funny if you're a big fan of the show--inside jokes pepper all three fics--but even if you're not, it's still a great read with snappy dialog and hot sex. Cannot rec these fics enough.

Enjoy!

With one equation and a paragraph of explanation, teremala has changed my life. Suddenly, the years I spent taking math don't seem so empty and wasted.

(Seriously, teremala? You want a fic? Just tell me who and where. I suck at art and icon making--as you can well see--but a fic, an essay, whatever you want, it's yours.)

PS: And I thought all that talk about not mentioning H/Hr was exaggeration...sheesh. Sorry, teremala. I thought it was funny, and I'm hardcore cross-gen slasher. *eyeroll*

Wait, is it national "chan is bad" week and no one told me? I make one little post that I should have known would explode (bad Eppy), and suddenly I'm seeing anti-chan stuff all over my flist. The post at feminist_rage is pissing me off in particular, because I really like the group and don't want to get banned, so I can't go over and defend myself (not that I'm being personally attacked, but when someone says, "people who write/draw/look at loli/shota shouldn't be allowed around children," it's hard to not take offense). Sigh. ataniell93 makes a really good point here. I don't completely agree, but she's certainly being far more rational than some of the other posters in the fanthropology thread.

Switching tracks completely, I'm now registered for classes! And I registered early enough that I don't have to worry about availability! Double yay! And...I took enough math classes that I never have to take math again as long as I live. I'm...so happy...::weeps tears of joy::

( My schedule, if anyone's interested. )

Yeah, I'm a total addict. I went through all of Sleeps With Coyote's FMA fanfic (and her X-files fic, and her PotC fic) and fell in love over and over again. Her Roy is wonderful. My favorite so far is the "Altered States" series (Albedo, Citrinitas, and Rubedo), a Roy/Ed WIP. Very NC17...the sex is the plot, without it being a PWP. Really good, very creative...guess I have a kink for sex rituals that I didn't know I had.

Another author I'm very into is Harukami. I think my favorite FMA fic of hers so far is Housewarming (co-written with WhiteCat), a NC17 Roy/Ed first time fic. I'm a sucker for first times, especially one as well done as this fic.

Roy/Ed has become one of those really obsessive OTPs for me. In most fandoms, I really don't care what the pairing is as long as the fic is good, but so far, FMA is about the Roy/Ed, and I just can't read them with anyone else. Totally pathetic. Last time I felt this way was over Mulder/Scully when I was 13. Alas. I'm regressing. Probably as I watch more of the show and branch out in the fandom, I'll get comfortable with not Roy/Ed fics...but not right now. Luckily, this fandom is very obliging. :)

Oh, for the childfree stuff...well, I left the childfree community. The idea behind it is good, and I identify with the childfree philosophy (don't want to have kids by choice), but the community is just...mean. And it takes over my entire flist with posts that are 99% stupid, selfish, or just gross. Occasionally there's an interesting discussion or link, but it's not worth the irritation I have to wade through to get to it. I guess I'm getting tired of internet bitching...why I probably will be taking fanficrants off my flist soon, too.

It should be against the law to get addicted to a new series when you're broke. *sob* Fullmetal Alchemist is eating my soul right now. I've only seen eps 1-8 and random shows on Cartoon Network, but I was up until 4 spoiling myself like a crazy person. Well, and reading fanfiction. :)

( FMA gushing )

I'm late to the FMA, which is nice because a fandom this old (OMG, two years) has a lot of established fanfiction. I'm in love with Sleeps With Coyote's fanfic...her Roy/Ed (absolutely my FMA OTP) is incredible.

Well, I'm off to waste more time surfing for fics.

While looking over the fanfic saved on my hard drive, I quickly realized that I have a lot of fic saved that, if looking at it from my normal way of critiquing fanfic, really sucks. I mean, some of my favorite fics are desperately out of character, badly written, horribly cliche, etc.

But I still love them.

So, for your reading pleasure, I present some of my favorite fics that really shouldn't be. These fics all have something seriously wrong with them, but have still managed to hold a special place in my heart. Enjoy.

( Weiss Kreuz )

( Harry Potter )

( Animorphs )

Yes, I should be working on my NaNoWriMo story, but I'm procrastinating. I cleaned up the fanfiction section in my memories to make it easier to navigate, and tagged most of my entries. Ah, the lengths one will go to in order to keep from actually doing something productive.

I took five kids to the movie, all of whom were under the age of ten (and the youngest was 4). Of course, three of them had to go to the bathroom during the movie. Then I spent the last part of the movie with a four year old on my lap, from the graveyard on. I told his mom that the movie was going to be scary. "Oh, he'll be fine," she insisted, practically shoving him out the door. Yeah. Right. But then, I guess if I had three kids I'd want to unload them if I had the chance.

Onto the spoiler-y comments.

( Recollections of the parts of the movie I did see. )

I do want to see the movie again. After all, I missed three big parts (most of the second task, first half of the ball, and the last five minutes or so). ::shrug:: That's what I get for volunteering to take my little brother and a friend...I should know that before long, I'll end up with a load of kids. Wish I could be more of a bitch and say no.

I'm going to wait a month or so to see it again, and then I'll go really late at night with someone who won't mind chatter during the movie. Jesse knows what I'm talking about. :) Nothing like watching the movie with a slashy commentary running through.

Check out Harry Polarity and the Sinister Sorcery Satire. They want you to buy in bulk and hand them out at Holloween instead of candy.