Thank you (Mwah, Mwah, Mwah)
Jun. 6th, 2003 10:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
itsallovernowFirst of all, thank you so much to everyone for the birthday wishes, presents, and enabling.
(Oooh, and speaking of presents -![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kernezelda made the icon. She said she'd modify it for me, although it's distracting enough as is. I think I'd like it to say, Leather free but still damn sexy. (I'll just think that in my head!) So thank you, thank you!
I had a great birthday and got not a damned thing done at work. (I am studiously not looking atcrankygrrl who was yesterday's prime enabler, but we had a rollicking good online time:) And she has new fic on the way, so yeah to that.
I had wine and banana wontons with rich chocolate sauce at Bar Marmont last night, and avoided the L.A. scene by getting there before 10, which was lovely.
The birthday party is tonight, and the house is clean, and I've been promised wings and a tiara.
My mom is home from the hospital, and we are almost ready for Cairo Carnivale on Sunday.
If anyone has the insane urge to see a boatload of bellydancing, this is a giant two day event held at the Glendale Civic Auditorium. It is a very big deal for dancers because everyone is there and you dance mostly for your peers - because trust me, only other belly dancers would want to be there. It's a lot of fun, but overwhelming and very stressful.
Finally, and I blame this entirely onsearose, it took me an extra half an hour to get home last night because I was plotting out porn in my head and missed the turn to the freeway. I was a good mile down the road before I realized it. I hesitate to put a due by date on it, but I think there will be porn by early next week. Those plot bunnies are going in the roaster I tell you.
And because SIW I and II are comfort viewing for me,
The only thing I remember about seeing part one the first time was being devastated that Moya was going to die. I loved the D'Argo/Aeryn interaction, really wanted someone to hit Jool, and just knew that Rygel was going to extract some sort of payback upon John.
Then Wait for the Wheel aired, and it shifted my perspective completely. Sabotage is a whole new ballgame, and while the Pathfinders were destructive, I'd imagine that the threat of the deaths of their families was pretty inspiriational to them. They expressed regret, and sadness, and I do think Neeyala, arrogant as she was, believed that Moya would die anyway.
All of the intertwining storylines begin to coalesce here - Zhaan's sacrifice, D'Argo's ship, his regrets about Chiana and his honesty with his role in that situation, the blame they all seem to place on John. The UT's are not a place where your obsessions are safe, he simply cannot afford them, and while I don't see all of this as John's fault, he did play a role in the decision making.
The initial bull pen meetings, intersplicing the two, bouncing the words back and forth between the two groups, everything in tandem. Aeryn trying to get Zhaan to say that her life wasn't worth Zhaan's decision. Aeryn's absolute competence. She has come into her own here. And wants to give herself up when the time comes, and is refused. Zhaan is at peace with her decision, and as long as it was, I was so happy that she was able to say goodbye to everyone (yes I know the ship would have probably blown up by then).
All that sadness and pain, and John Crichton in a tux and Harvey in a tux, the dumpster flapping on it's own like a hungry mouth, the images on the drive in screen, and finally wait for the wheel. Second chances are possible. Chiana sums it all up, "If you want someone to like you, invest in a mirror. If you want to keep up, get better shoes."
(Oooh, and speaking of presents -
kernezelda made the icon. She said she'd modify it for me, although it's distracting enough as is. I think I'd like it to say, Leather free but still damn sexy. (I'll just think that in my head!) So thank you, thank you!I had a great birthday and got not a damned thing done at work. (I am studiously not looking at
crankygrrl who was yesterday's prime enabler, but we had a rollicking good online time:) And she has new fic on the way, so yeah to that.I had wine and banana wontons with rich chocolate sauce at Bar Marmont last night, and avoided the L.A. scene by getting there before 10, which was lovely.
The birthday party is tonight, and the house is clean, and I've been promised wings and a tiara.
My mom is home from the hospital, and we are almost ready for Cairo Carnivale on Sunday.
If anyone has the insane urge to see a boatload of bellydancing, this is a giant two day event held at the Glendale Civic Auditorium. It is a very big deal for dancers because everyone is there and you dance mostly for your peers - because trust me, only other belly dancers would want to be there. It's a lot of fun, but overwhelming and very stressful.
Finally, and I blame this entirely on
searose, it took me an extra half an hour to get home last night because I was plotting out porn in my head and missed the turn to the freeway. I was a good mile down the road before I realized it. I hesitate to put a due by date on it, but I think there will be porn by early next week. Those plot bunnies are going in the roaster I tell you.And because SIW I and II are comfort viewing for me,
The only thing I remember about seeing part one the first time was being devastated that Moya was going to die. I loved the D'Argo/Aeryn interaction, really wanted someone to hit Jool, and just knew that Rygel was going to extract some sort of payback upon John.
Then Wait for the Wheel aired, and it shifted my perspective completely. Sabotage is a whole new ballgame, and while the Pathfinders were destructive, I'd imagine that the threat of the deaths of their families was pretty inspiriational to them. They expressed regret, and sadness, and I do think Neeyala, arrogant as she was, believed that Moya would die anyway.
All of the intertwining storylines begin to coalesce here - Zhaan's sacrifice, D'Argo's ship, his regrets about Chiana and his honesty with his role in that situation, the blame they all seem to place on John. The UT's are not a place where your obsessions are safe, he simply cannot afford them, and while I don't see all of this as John's fault, he did play a role in the decision making.
The initial bull pen meetings, intersplicing the two, bouncing the words back and forth between the two groups, everything in tandem. Aeryn trying to get Zhaan to say that her life wasn't worth Zhaan's decision. Aeryn's absolute competence. She has come into her own here. And wants to give herself up when the time comes, and is refused. Zhaan is at peace with her decision, and as long as it was, I was so happy that she was able to say goodbye to everyone (yes I know the ship would have probably blown up by then).
All that sadness and pain, and John Crichton in a tux and Harvey in a tux, the dumpster flapping on it's own like a hungry mouth, the images on the drive in screen, and finally wait for the wheel. Second chances are possible. Chiana sums it all up, "If you want someone to like you, invest in a mirror. If you want to keep up, get better shoes."
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Date: 2003-06-06 11:18 am (UTC)Moi? *looksinnocent*
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Date: 2003-06-06 12:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-06 12:13 pm (UTC)Just expressing my lustful appreciation.
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Date: 2003-06-06 12:49 pm (UTC)regarding Zhaan's sacrifice
Date: 2003-06-06 01:00 pm (UTC)Sorry about that. Been thinking about this a bit since last nights re-run.
Re: regarding Zhaan's sacrifice
Date: 2003-06-06 01:41 pm (UTC)I'm not sure I agree that it John's burden is guilt so much as responsability. John doesn't get rooted down, immobile from guilt, but he does accept responsability, which leads to the same expectations of himself and others.
And I completely agree, John saying wait for the wheel was that final permission for Zhaan. She knew he understood, and respected her decision.