I'm All Over the Place Today
Aug. 24th, 2006 10:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
itsallovernowOnly two more novel classes!! Cries. I'm so loving this group and my instructor is just such a character, with really great insight (and he's not being cheesy when he says of our work, "I'm really diggin' it." Trust me on this. It sounds perfectly natural coming out of his mouth).
Dammit, Pluto is so still a planet. Poor Pluto. Bastard child of astronomy, and finally disinherited.
I read an article on Yahoo!News (yeah, yeah) about someone releasing two rattlesnakes in and near a theater showing "Snakes on a Plane." And my theory that I can't see this movie in a theater is now proven, because I will NEVER get the fear of the real snakes crawling around out of my head. Never. I freaked out during the "Honey, We Shrunk the Kids" thing at Disneyland with the little puffs of air on your heels like mice, and I'm not even afraid of mice.
For the SG-1 folks out there, if I did want to put these little plot free drabbles somewhere (and most of them are either Gen or Cam/Vala, where would I go? What communities on LJ would you recommend? I don't even know what my options are. Rolls eyes at self).
And finally, the 25 TV characters meme, because I liked it and wasn't sure I could come up with 25 if I didn't use everyone from every show (but I reserve the right to use cartoon characters! I can use puppets, right?).
So, 20 rational choices, and 5 irrational cannot be held accountable for the follies of my youth choices:
1. Aeryn Sun (Farscape) - Okay, it's a cheat to start with Aeryn since she's a given. But, there are just so many things I love about her. She has this remarkable trajectory of growth (both forward and backwards), going from a stone killer to a parent, a wife and a friend and yet she never looses that inherent strength or grace or intent. She never becomes less than she was, and I find that beautiful. I love that she's not perfect, that she makes bad decisions, but that she becomes the center of this family that evolves on Moya because she's still the most rational of all of them. I love that she gives her whole self to what she does, that she's got this dry wicked sense of humor, that she'll kick your ass without thinking about it, that she loves John Crichton and that she loves Pilot and Talyn, and finds compassion for Crais but never regrets putting him in the chair. I like that her practicality sometimes lacks mercy, and that she learns about compassion, and it too has an utterly practical bent. She takes care of those who can't take care of themselves, and expects the rest of the universe to look after itself. Gah, I could use all my space on why I love Aeryn, but I've done that before, so I'll go on.
2. Toby Ziegler (West Wing)- He's prickly and pissy and loves words and is this battered, beautiful idealist who finally does crash and burn for his idealism and I loved him for it. Toby broke my heart, and he broke Bartlett's heart and CJ's heart, and they're all, at the end, kind of glad he did.
3. Dana Scully (X-Files) - She believed in science and rational thought, and still wore ridiculous shoes. As she bought more and more into the X-Files, she started to dress more and more like an adult to be taken seriously (along with the dominatrix shoes) and I liked watching her strip off the protective covering of terrible suits so that when she got a second chance at life she was sleek and winnowed and ready to stand up to anyone. I loved that as well, this tiny little woman never, ever afraid to stand up. She refound her faith, and she believed in Mulder, even when she didn't actually believe him.
4. Laura Holt (Remington Steele)- Sometimes I wanted to be Laura because it was cool to be young and pretty and smarter than everyone else around you and have your own detective agency, and sometimes I wanted to be Laura because she got caught in a trap of her own making, and later, I wanted to be Laura because she had to figure out how to keep what she wanted.
5. Buffy Summers (Buffy) - Because she realized that, at the end, she has herself. She will only ever have herself, and that's gotta be enough.
6. John Crichton (Farscape) - He loses everything - his mind, his heart, his home, his sense of perspective, his temper, and almost his soul. And he never gives up hope. I don't even love John for his leather clad ass, although it doesn't hurt. I love John for the fact that he's a scientist, and a GUY, and a dork - often, and the kind of friend that you'll do pretty much anything to keep around even when he pisses you off so much you want to drown him. I love him because he fell in love with Aeryn, and because he changed and it hurt and was sometimes awful and sometimes beautiful and that he got possibly the universe's most deserved happy ending.
7. Leo McGarry (West Wing) - Because they said a good man couldn't get elected and Big Block of Cheese. And what are you all still doing in my office. He was elegant and lovely and bright and conflicted and had more grace than anyone. And because he punished Sam for dating his daughter:)
8. Jack Bristow (Alias) - Because my introduction to Jack was him putting a man's head in a vice. And he never got less bad-ass.
9. Teal'c (SG-1) - if y'all had told me about Teal'c, I'd have started watching this show ages ago. (Okay, that's a lie, it took Cam having a fanboy crush on Teal'c for me to start loving him, but seriously, best stoic warrior alien ever.)
10. D'Argo (Farscape) - because he could have been a Klingon rip-off, he could have been another stoic warrior alien. Instead, he's a booty-loving, dancing fool with some anger management issues who finds this really beautiful friendship with an alien and they are pissy and drunk and supportive of each other. And because he can knock people out with his tongue. And because he finds himself, man, he lives up to his own expectations, finds this calm center and makes a damn good captain.
11. Earl (My Name is Earl) - because he's what would happen if all my useless but well meaning cousins found karma. And because he's got Randy. It's the white trash meats Buddha aspect that I just love.
12. Rupert Giles (Buffy) - because he's both father figure and friend. Because he's a sexy librarian. Because he can sing, and he never, ever lets Buffy down.
13. Vala Mal Doran (SG-1) - Vala is irrepressibly herself, in all the incarnations she can manifest. She's not sorry about anything she's done, she's sexy, she's hysterical, she's smart and competent and she will so, so steal your stuff. And she knows how to push your buttons faster than anyone and will exploit that mercilessly but with much glee.
14. Lorelai Gilmore (Gilmore Girls) - I love Lorelai because in many ways, she had to grow up so quickly, and in others, she never did. As much as I disliked seeing her sort of... reduced this season (and as much as I disliked the writers for making me not like Luke), I kind of think it was inevitable because Lorelai's idea of relationships gets stuck somewhere in that adult/child dynamic and here, in trying to be the adult, she got lost. And she deserves so much better.
15. Paris Geller (GG) - PAris is a nightmare. And I absolutely love her - intensely bright, terrible social skills, and growing all the time. From adversay to best friend to Rory, Paris has had a hell of a ride.
16. Fox Mulder (X-Files) - Because he believed so passionately, and didn't care (really) when he lost his golden boy status. Because he found himself when he found a real partner, and his love for her (and his mistreatment of her due to his own selfishness) shaped him into someone better, and sometimes someone worse. But mostly, because he believed. I thought it was brave to have a hero be unsympathetic, and I still do, because it didn't make him any less vulnerable to being broken.
17. Dan Rydell (Sports Night) - Danny was bright and clever and kind of fucked up and deserved so much better than Casey, and always felt second best and I just loved him.
18. David Addison (Moonlighting) - Because he could talk so very fast, and charm so very well, and because really, who wasn't a little in love with David?
19. The Ninth Doctor (Doctor Who) - Because of his manic energy, and his intensity and because he gives everything over to the universe, to save it. Because he made Who sexy, he made risk and adventure and seeing the universe at any price sexy.
20. Zoe Washburn (Firefly) - because Joss does women warriors very, very well. Because Zoe deserved better than what she got. Because we never doubted that she loved Wash, and that she'd serve her captain, and at the end, Zoe would always do what she thought was right. And because she was beautifully, beautifully terse.
5 Irrational Choices based largely on lust:
1. Cameron Mitchell (SG-1) - I cannot help it. Cam has just utterly endeared himself to me, partly because it's Ben Browder with his sleeves rolled up, and partly because I just love the sort of dorky energy he brings to the SGC, his enthusiasm and his pretty self.
2. Mr. Big (Sex and the City) - He's an asshole, and I always liked him better than Aiden and he's got such a fabulous arc.
3. Original Starbuck & Apollo (Battlestar Galactica) - yes, Kara Thrace is a better character, but I looooved these two. Loved their brown pants and tall boots and earnestness and fortunately I know better than to go back and watch and squirm at the awful.
4. The Whole A-Team (because really, they were all just a big block of archetypes in a van). And dude, I hated MacGyver, but I'd happily watch the A-Team pull the same shit every week. Go figure.
5. Remington Steele - because I thought it was just so incredibly cool to be able to recreate yourself constantly, to be a foundling and a con man, to travel the world and look good doing it.
Dammit, Pluto is so still a planet. Poor Pluto. Bastard child of astronomy, and finally disinherited.
I read an article on Yahoo!News (yeah, yeah) about someone releasing two rattlesnakes in and near a theater showing "Snakes on a Plane." And my theory that I can't see this movie in a theater is now proven, because I will NEVER get the fear of the real snakes crawling around out of my head. Never. I freaked out during the "Honey, We Shrunk the Kids" thing at Disneyland with the little puffs of air on your heels like mice, and I'm not even afraid of mice.
For the SG-1 folks out there, if I did want to put these little plot free drabbles somewhere (and most of them are either Gen or Cam/Vala, where would I go? What communities on LJ would you recommend? I don't even know what my options are. Rolls eyes at self).
And finally, the 25 TV characters meme, because I liked it and wasn't sure I could come up with 25 if I didn't use everyone from every show (but I reserve the right to use cartoon characters! I can use puppets, right?).
So, 20 rational choices, and 5 irrational cannot be held accountable for the follies of my youth choices:
1. Aeryn Sun (Farscape) - Okay, it's a cheat to start with Aeryn since she's a given. But, there are just so many things I love about her. She has this remarkable trajectory of growth (both forward and backwards), going from a stone killer to a parent, a wife and a friend and yet she never looses that inherent strength or grace or intent. She never becomes less than she was, and I find that beautiful. I love that she's not perfect, that she makes bad decisions, but that she becomes the center of this family that evolves on Moya because she's still the most rational of all of them. I love that she gives her whole self to what she does, that she's got this dry wicked sense of humor, that she'll kick your ass without thinking about it, that she loves John Crichton and that she loves Pilot and Talyn, and finds compassion for Crais but never regrets putting him in the chair. I like that her practicality sometimes lacks mercy, and that she learns about compassion, and it too has an utterly practical bent. She takes care of those who can't take care of themselves, and expects the rest of the universe to look after itself. Gah, I could use all my space on why I love Aeryn, but I've done that before, so I'll go on.
2. Toby Ziegler (West Wing)- He's prickly and pissy and loves words and is this battered, beautiful idealist who finally does crash and burn for his idealism and I loved him for it. Toby broke my heart, and he broke Bartlett's heart and CJ's heart, and they're all, at the end, kind of glad he did.
3. Dana Scully (X-Files) - She believed in science and rational thought, and still wore ridiculous shoes. As she bought more and more into the X-Files, she started to dress more and more like an adult to be taken seriously (along with the dominatrix shoes) and I liked watching her strip off the protective covering of terrible suits so that when she got a second chance at life she was sleek and winnowed and ready to stand up to anyone. I loved that as well, this tiny little woman never, ever afraid to stand up. She refound her faith, and she believed in Mulder, even when she didn't actually believe him.
4. Laura Holt (Remington Steele)- Sometimes I wanted to be Laura because it was cool to be young and pretty and smarter than everyone else around you and have your own detective agency, and sometimes I wanted to be Laura because she got caught in a trap of her own making, and later, I wanted to be Laura because she had to figure out how to keep what she wanted.
5. Buffy Summers (Buffy) - Because she realized that, at the end, she has herself. She will only ever have herself, and that's gotta be enough.
6. John Crichton (Farscape) - He loses everything - his mind, his heart, his home, his sense of perspective, his temper, and almost his soul. And he never gives up hope. I don't even love John for his leather clad ass, although it doesn't hurt. I love John for the fact that he's a scientist, and a GUY, and a dork - often, and the kind of friend that you'll do pretty much anything to keep around even when he pisses you off so much you want to drown him. I love him because he fell in love with Aeryn, and because he changed and it hurt and was sometimes awful and sometimes beautiful and that he got possibly the universe's most deserved happy ending.
7. Leo McGarry (West Wing) - Because they said a good man couldn't get elected and Big Block of Cheese. And what are you all still doing in my office. He was elegant and lovely and bright and conflicted and had more grace than anyone. And because he punished Sam for dating his daughter:)
8. Jack Bristow (Alias) - Because my introduction to Jack was him putting a man's head in a vice. And he never got less bad-ass.
9. Teal'c (SG-1) - if y'all had told me about Teal'c, I'd have started watching this show ages ago. (Okay, that's a lie, it took Cam having a fanboy crush on Teal'c for me to start loving him, but seriously, best stoic warrior alien ever.)
10. D'Argo (Farscape) - because he could have been a Klingon rip-off, he could have been another stoic warrior alien. Instead, he's a booty-loving, dancing fool with some anger management issues who finds this really beautiful friendship with an alien and they are pissy and drunk and supportive of each other. And because he can knock people out with his tongue. And because he finds himself, man, he lives up to his own expectations, finds this calm center and makes a damn good captain.
11. Earl (My Name is Earl) - because he's what would happen if all my useless but well meaning cousins found karma. And because he's got Randy. It's the white trash meats Buddha aspect that I just love.
12. Rupert Giles (Buffy) - because he's both father figure and friend. Because he's a sexy librarian. Because he can sing, and he never, ever lets Buffy down.
13. Vala Mal Doran (SG-1) - Vala is irrepressibly herself, in all the incarnations she can manifest. She's not sorry about anything she's done, she's sexy, she's hysterical, she's smart and competent and she will so, so steal your stuff. And she knows how to push your buttons faster than anyone and will exploit that mercilessly but with much glee.
14. Lorelai Gilmore (Gilmore Girls) - I love Lorelai because in many ways, she had to grow up so quickly, and in others, she never did. As much as I disliked seeing her sort of... reduced this season (and as much as I disliked the writers for making me not like Luke), I kind of think it was inevitable because Lorelai's idea of relationships gets stuck somewhere in that adult/child dynamic and here, in trying to be the adult, she got lost. And she deserves so much better.
15. Paris Geller (GG) - PAris is a nightmare. And I absolutely love her - intensely bright, terrible social skills, and growing all the time. From adversay to best friend to Rory, Paris has had a hell of a ride.
16. Fox Mulder (X-Files) - Because he believed so passionately, and didn't care (really) when he lost his golden boy status. Because he found himself when he found a real partner, and his love for her (and his mistreatment of her due to his own selfishness) shaped him into someone better, and sometimes someone worse. But mostly, because he believed. I thought it was brave to have a hero be unsympathetic, and I still do, because it didn't make him any less vulnerable to being broken.
17. Dan Rydell (Sports Night) - Danny was bright and clever and kind of fucked up and deserved so much better than Casey, and always felt second best and I just loved him.
18. David Addison (Moonlighting) - Because he could talk so very fast, and charm so very well, and because really, who wasn't a little in love with David?
19. The Ninth Doctor (Doctor Who) - Because of his manic energy, and his intensity and because he gives everything over to the universe, to save it. Because he made Who sexy, he made risk and adventure and seeing the universe at any price sexy.
20. Zoe Washburn (Firefly) - because Joss does women warriors very, very well. Because Zoe deserved better than what she got. Because we never doubted that she loved Wash, and that she'd serve her captain, and at the end, Zoe would always do what she thought was right. And because she was beautifully, beautifully terse.
5 Irrational Choices based largely on lust:
1. Cameron Mitchell (SG-1) - I cannot help it. Cam has just utterly endeared himself to me, partly because it's Ben Browder with his sleeves rolled up, and partly because I just love the sort of dorky energy he brings to the SGC, his enthusiasm and his pretty self.
2. Mr. Big (Sex and the City) - He's an asshole, and I always liked him better than Aiden and he's got such a fabulous arc.
3. Original Starbuck & Apollo (Battlestar Galactica) - yes, Kara Thrace is a better character, but I looooved these two. Loved their brown pants and tall boots and earnestness and fortunately I know better than to go back and watch and squirm at the awful.
4. The Whole A-Team (because really, they were all just a big block of archetypes in a van). And dude, I hated MacGyver, but I'd happily watch the A-Team pull the same shit every week. Go figure.
5. Remington Steele - because I thought it was just so incredibly cool to be able to recreate yourself constantly, to be a foundling and a con man, to travel the world and look good doing it.
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Date: 2006-08-24 06:30 pm (UTC)Hee! Poor girl. But yeah, maybe DVD is the way to go with this one...
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Date: 2006-08-24 06:31 pm (UTC)DVD is so the way to go:)
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Date: 2006-08-24 06:45 pm (UTC)actual SNAKES? POISONOUS SNAKES????!! People really are fucking morons, aren't they??
and this movie? just. well. we all know where I stand on the issue of snakes. indicator species. deserve to live on this earth blah blah blah bliddycakjes. Just live out of my sight and sound, please. and that includes in films....
Which brings to mind a story. When we were in Australia, Dad and I went to the natural history museum in Sydney. There was a snake exhibit. I was 15 and yes, phobic. Dad has this thing about "facing your fears" so I was accompanying him THROUGh the exhibit. Which was, well, heart-attack inducing but the snakes were behind glass. Also, deadly in a "don't really have time to turn and kiss your ass goodbye" way, for the most part.
One particular specimen was more along the lines of a "bite/die nowish" differential. Really really REALLY deadly. Even for Australia land of if it moves it can probably kill you. It was Christmas holidays, and lots of rural Aussies were in the Big City. There was a Mom and her preteen son just behind us in the viewing line. As they got to the GonnaKillYouNow snake, the boy said, "hey, Mom? Isn't that the kind of snake that I killed in the yard at home last week?"
Dad and I just looked at one another, wordlessly agreed that Aus is nice but Canada is where we want to live, and moved on ;).
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Date: 2006-08-24 06:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-24 06:34 pm (UTC)I don't know if I even count as SG-1 folk, but I'd suggest
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Date: 2006-08-24 06:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-25 12:40 am (UTC)Pretty sure
wethey already do know, although I'm primarily slash fic link gatherer type and katie snagged meta tagging duty (poor girl, this last week, seriously...) I'll go ahead and tag most of what I see from my friends usually regardless, so you're set.I second RW's community nods, btw. That's where I'd go. For the more adult snippets, there's also
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Date: 2006-08-24 06:50 pm (UTC)I love this so much. Because oh, yes. Now I want to watch Remington Steele again but I'll just be all sad for Murphy and yet. Laura rocked.
18. David Addison (Moonlighting) - Because he could talk so very fast, and charm so very well, and because really, who wasn't a little in love with David?
*dreamy sigh* Oh, David. Yes. God, yes. Um. I may have to watch a whole lot of Moonlighting tonight...
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Date: 2006-08-24 06:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-24 07:14 pm (UTC)*considers whether or not she will need to defriend Thea*
*remembers the Porn. Realizes she can look past certain foibles, no matter how great ;)*
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Date: 2006-08-24 07:21 pm (UTC)And I just Mary Sued in the girls (though I didn't know that was what I was doing for another 20 years) ....
What can I say? Completely irrational girly tastes ;)
I've actually looked at the DVDs which are out now, and gone Huh. Because much though the theme song STILL does wonky things to me (and much though I prolly have that opening montage to blame for my fixation on a guy's hands....) I fear that rewatching could well blemish a fond memory ;).
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Date: 2006-08-24 07:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-24 10:35 pm (UTC)as for "honey i shrunk the kids" gah, i kept my eyes closed for most of that. meep.
glad the class went well. :)
and i adore your characters list. oh what you said about john, aeryn, d'argo, teal'c, cameron, and fox mulder, and vala....*bg*
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Date: 2006-08-25 01:38 am (UTC)And I admit I got a little tingly and teary reading your character loves, because yes! Especially Aeryn and D'Argo and Toby, but you make me love characters from shows I haven't even watched!
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Date: 2006-08-25 06:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-25 03:06 pm (UTC)*cough*liar*cough*
Also? beautiful
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Date: 2006-08-25 04:44 pm (UTC)ANd ahhh. Hugs you.