Who Says Inanimate Objects Don't Have Feelings?

[itsallovernow]

My car, bless it's ghetto plastic heart, is either trying to gaslight me or sending out a desperate plea for help. Either is possible.

Yesterday, I get into it to drive to rehearsal and it won't start. I've been pushing the car to the limit of it's gas mileage, so I speculated (with a vain, false, so knows better hope) that it could be out of gas. Finding, to my amazement, a gas can in our possession, I trecked on down the hill, buying gas and oil for good measure. Trekked back up, filled the tank. Nothing. Went to rehearsal, came back, called AAA. The mechanic arrived.

"It's your battery," he said. That same false flickering hope reappeared. He looked some more. "Oh, wait, not your battery." I turned the key. Nothing. He turned the key. Nothing. We did this repeatedly.

"I'll have 'em come get the car in the morning," he said.

"Okay," I said.

I get into the shower. I get out of the shower. There are two new voice messages from AAA saying they came to tow the car, but I was nowhere to be seen. I called AAA. We set up a time for them to come collect the car this morning. I got up. I went out to meet AAA. The guy got in the car. The car started. I screamed. Loudly. He turned off the car. He turned it back on. He got out of the car. I got in the car. I turned the key. The car started. The AAA man left. I screamed some more. I drove the car to work, and am currently praying for my sanity, and it's survival.

On a fannish note, sdwolfpup informs me that Jacob has a TWOP update for "DNA Mad Scientist." That's like the hostess cupcake cream filling of me day. It's just out there waiting for me and I know it and I don't know how long I can wait before eating the icing off the top.

I love the five things meme. Love it. So, to further encourage it, I will offer random prompts: (Well, not so random, I've thrown them out other places, but so far, no takers:)

1. Five things upon which Aeryn and Chiana agree entirely.
2. Five things that Aeryn and or D'Argo wish they had said or done to John the first cycle on Moya.
3. Five conversations that Aeryn and Vala would never have. Or alternately, that we really wish they would have.
4. Five things Cameron Mitchell would do if there were no consequences.
5. Five things that Fox Mulder would have asked Crichton upon his return to Earth, if given the chance.
6. Five things that Sam Carter would really, really like to tell Vala. And Teal'c. And Mitchell. And Daniel.

Comments

[monanotlisa.livejournal.com]

ad 6. Off-the-cuff, and remember I watched only the Vala eps:

Vala

1) "Half the time, I wish I could say the things you tell the boys. The other half, I desperately, desperately wish for earplugs."

2) "I was, while perfectly willing to give you a chance, pretty damn sure you'd be in the wrong place at the wrong time, here with us. But it seems I wasn't right."

Teal'c

3) "I'm so proud to have deciphered your 32 different flavours of 'indeed.' And afraid that you'd tell me there are in fact 64."

Mitchell

4) "You'll never be Jack O'Neill. That's a good thing when it comes to these pants, of course; you have a much nicer butt."

Daniel

5) "You know I love you, but by now I'm convinced that if they took the words 'Ascended,' 'texts,' and 'understand' out of your vocabulary, you'd be unable to talk at all."

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Hee! Oh, I loooooove these.

[monanotlisa.livejournal.com]

*g* Glad I could amuse.

(Have I mentioned I love your Cam/Vala series? *HINTHINTHINT*)

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Hee:) Thank you. I think, given proper motivation, that there could be another one.

[raithen.livejournal.com]

Motivate....

BOOT! Butt! ;)

[sid]

These are wonderful! :-D

[monanotlisa.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[fialka.livejournal.com]

6. Five things that Sam Carter would really, really like to tell Vala.

1. "Lose the pigtails."

Brain's still not working, so I only have the one. I'll update should it, like your car, decide to randomly start tomorrow morning.

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

I know, by all rights, that I shouldn't love the pigtails. But I so, so do:)

I have even higher hopes of your brain restarting than I do of my car:) Just so you know.

[elliejane.livejournal.com]

Five things Cameron Mitchell would do if there were no consequences.

Cameron sits on his bunk, bored, and counting off on his fingers five things he'd do if there were no consequences. Things he'd do if he wouldn't get his ass kicked or his balls handed to him on a plate.

One - Vala. Hot, sexy alien chick. What's not to like?

Two - Sam. Hot, sexy, brainy - can make toys that go boom.

Three - Jackson. Linguist. Good with his tongue, right?

Four gives him pause for thought, but heck, he goes with it anyway - Teal'c. Though Cam might get a bit broken in the process, he's talking 'no consequences', so yeah, go for it, he thinks.

Five...hmm. O'Neill is the only other member of SG1 Cam knows. Cameron shivers. He's not sure he has the balls to do number five.

[cofax7]

Hah!

[denyeverything1.livejournal.com]

Double hah!

And a hee.

[sid]

Hee! Jack scares him more than Teal'c!!

[annakarrennina.livejournal.com]

Jacob has a TWOP update for "DNA Mad Scientist."

I didn't think I could love him more, but there's a section in this one that I have now read about a hundred times and it still blows me away. It's so damn beautiful.

Five things upon which Aeryn and Chiana agree entirely.

1. It's so much easier when they don't want to talk. Kiss the boys or kick them. Sex or violence. It's words that make it complicated. And real.

2. It's easier to keep running. Easier to need no one but yourself. But it's never that simple, and by the time you feel him slipping through your defences, it's already too late.

3. If you hurt him, he will make you pay. And pay. And pay. Guilt only lasts so long; eventually you will want to hit him.

4. John Crichton is hot.

5. If you love someone, need someone, and you lose them, no amount of Raslak can help.

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Yeah!! Those are fabulous:) And I'm still saving up the recap for this evening, when I'll need it, particularly if the car won't start.

[denyeverything1.livejournal.com]

Five things that Fox Mulder would have asked Crichton upon his return to Earth, if given the chance.

If Chrichton returned during Season 1: "Please look at the picture again, Commander. She's got blue eyes and curly brown hair. Ever seen her out there? No? Look, this is stupid. Just tell me how it works and I'll go back out there myself."

If Chrichton returned during Season 3: "Big and orange? Not little and gray?"

If Chrichton returned during Season 5: "Who's paying you to make this crap up? And while you're at it, Commander, why don't you tell me what brand you smoke?"

If Chrichton returned during Season 7: "So you're telling me your ship will fit two adults? For sure?"

If Chrichton returned during Season 9: "Do I look like I'm joking, Commander? Does the phrase 'frying pan into the fire' mean anything to you?"

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Oh, these are fabulous:) (And HAPPY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!)

[denyeverything1.livejournal.com]

Thank you sweetie!

[pellucid.livejournal.com]

A little late to the party, but what the hell:

Five things that Sam Carter would really, really like to tell Vala.

1. I've gotten used to being "the girl." I've never been good at having girlfriends, and I'm not sure I'd know how to be your friend anyway, at least not in the gossipy, chick flick watching sense. But sometimes it's lonely being "the girl," and even if we never understand each other, I'm glad you're here.

2. I, too, have had power over men, though it has had little to do with leather bustiers or physical domination or seduction. But men have loved me; some are dead because of me.

3. Daniel used to be my best friend, but I lost him, somewhere around the time we lost count of how many times we'd saved the world, and how many times we died and didn't, somewhere between that first and second time he ascended. I love him, but I don't know him very well anymore. And I don't understand the relationship that the two of you have, but I'm glad he has you. But I'll still kill you if you hurt him.

4. I know the rules are often restricting and pointless. And I know my government's military often makes bad decisions. But the Air Force taught me how to fly, and most days that's the only thing that keeps me from falling.

5. Everyone thinks it was profit and self-interest that motivated you to continue to play Qetesh after she was gone, and maybe that was a factor. But the symbiote becomes part of you, and I know how hard it is to let go, even when you never wanted it, even when you're so glad to be free.

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Oh, those are fantastic!!

[agent-dark.livejournal.com]

Oh, Number 5 was just spot on. Why can't we have that in the show? :(

[pellucid.livejournal.com]

Thanks! And yeah, I also get frustrated at the lack of ex-host fallout on the show--but it's not as though the Stargate folks are big into consequences.

[monanotlisa.livejournal.com]

These are lovely and resonant. Thank you.

[not-sally.livejournal.com]

gorgeous. Really loved all of them.