time and relative dimension in space

I am rewatching The Chase today because I'm off work and why not, and here are some things that are sadly underappreciated:

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Also, something that isn't technically unappreciated but should still get more attention:
- Barbara and Ian's montage of ridiculous photographs upon arriving back in London <3 Not to mention "What's two years amongst friends?" and "Where've you been, on the moon?" "Er, no, but you're getting warm!"

You know, LJ, this whole extremely-delayed-notifs thing is a pain in the ass. Fix it, pls and thank you.



30 Days Of TV:

Day 28 ♥ First TV show obsession

The X-Files.

There were other shows, before The X-Files, that I enjoyed, that I made a point of watching, whatever. Ghostwriter, for example, probably has a decent claim to being my first TV obsession. But if we're being honest here, it's The X-Files. This started in...middle school? Probably? and continued until the last season, at which point I quit watching because it was so far away from the show I loved.

TXF was the first to get me seriously into online fandom and fic and everything else that goes with it. The XF RPT remains one of my favorite memories of fandom. This is the point at which I picked up my username, a username that has persisted to this day despite occasional thoughts that I should change it to something less specific-fandom related; I always wind up concluding that I've just got too much history invested in this name to change it.

Mulder and Scully were my heroes back in the day, yo. And I desperately wanted to be one of The Lone Gunmen.

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30 Days Of Who:

Day 21 ♥ Your Doctor Who OTP

Strictly speaking, I don't have a Who OTP. There is no couple I love together enough not to ship them with other people as well.

That said, the closest I have to a Who OTP has to be Barbara/Ian.

(Because, you see, with Barbara and Ian I can totally ship them with other people, but at the end of the day I have to believe that they wind up together. Possibly in an open relationship, but together.)

Also, if you need proof that they were totes ~doing it~, just watch "The Romans". For serious.

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My brother decided that I needed to learn how to use Ubuntu so he installed it so I could dual-boot it.

Running it caused my computer to shut off.

Twice.

After the second time, trying to restart my computer resulted in a loop where it would get to a certain point in the startup sequence and then go back to the beginning.

We shut down for a while, until the processor had cooled some, and then were allowed to startup in Windows and uninstall Ubuntu.

But then my Internet wouldn't connect.

Some time later, we discovered that my brother had accidentally hit the wireless switch and turned off my card. :|

WAY TO FREAK ME OUT, SALLY.

Anyway, all problems have been fixed now, but I'm thinking it's going to be a while longer before I try to learn Linux again. OR MAYBE I will just steal my brother's computer and learn it on his and let Sally stay safe just running Windows.



30 Days Of TV Meme:

Day 12 ♥ An episode you’ve watched more than 5 times

There's a lot of possible answers to that. *should probably be ashamed of her TV rewatching habit*

However, I'm going to offer up a M*A*S*H episode. Because I watched it today.

Specifically, the M*A*S*H episode "A Night At Rosie's".

This might be my favorite M*A*S*H episode. And that's saying a good bit, because I grew up on M*A*S*H, my dad owned 90% of the series on VHS tapes (I'm still trying to transition his collection into DVDs, which will take up much less space). But "A Night At Rosie's" ranks, if not first, then in the top 5.

It's the episode where Hawkeye and BJ decide, in a fit of drunkenness, to secede from the union to get out of the war. And then they get most of the camp in on it. And it's fantastic.

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30 Days Of Who Meme:

Day 05 ♥ Your Favorite Companion

This is another one of those where if you're surprised by the answer you haven't been paying very close attention.

I firmly believe that sometimes, to this day, the Doctor stops and asks himself, "What Would Barbara Wright Do?"

She's kickass, tough, compassionate, handles things that would wreck most people, calls the Doctor out... She runs over Daleks with a truck. She impersonates an Aztec goddess and pulls it off through sheer attitude. She bluffs the hell out of the Dalek overlords with her leet history skillz and a mishmash of every historical reference she happens to think of. She stalks a student to a junkyard because she's worried (and madly curious!). She wears cardigans and sensible shoes.

She cares about people even when it's not the most sensible thing to do. Even when she knows better.

And quite honestly the first two seasons of the show are really "The Barbara Wright Show", with supporting characters The Mentor (The Doctor), The Love Interest (Ian), and The Student (Susan).


(Runners-up: Martha, Amy, Mickey, Romana, Peri, Liz. Listed in no particular order.)

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Grabbed from kawaiispinel and allfireburns.

1. Reply to this post with 'Icons!', and I will pick five of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will - allegedly - create a never-ending cycle of icon glee.


Keywords: cookies!
by nikiness
Once upon a time there was a metaquotes post that involved the phrase "We're having hot lesbian sex. And by lesbian sex we mean tea. But it's still hot." This amused a great many people and inspired a great many icons. Teh Niki and I were discussing it, and we were both amused by the phrase, and one or the other of us said, "It's totally about us! Except neither of us drinks tea!" So at some point in this conversation I suggested the substitution of cookies, and she made the icon, and lo, you have our relationship in a nutshell.
Also, the cookies are chocolate chip, if there was any doubt.

Keywords: The X-Files - chicafrom3
by fandomfrom3; don't take, plz!
There's another story behind this one, and again it's weirdly convoluted. My first solid introduction to online fandom was the official X-Files message board, way back in the day when I was very young. I needed a screenname, thought about it for a while, and finally impulsively decided to name myself after Kristen Kilar, the vampire wannabe Mulder hooks up with in the second-season episode "3". Rather than actually try to register a variant of "KristenKilar" or the like, I called myself chicafrom3. The name stuck, and still does, as you've noticed. This icon's really nothing more or less than a nod to the origins of my screenname -- Mulder and his vampire love interest.

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> Today we cleaned house. Sort of. Ish. My mom cleaned out her room and I cleaned out the living room and made a dent in the mess that is my room. I even threw some stuff away, be proud of me. Also I reorganized my library and discovered that I can no longer find my copies of So You Want To Be A Wizard and Men At Arms, and am going a little bit crazy trying to track them down again.

> I watched The Aztecs on DVD while cleaning. ILU, Barbara Wright. Marry me, pls?

> I want this shirt.

> I also want new ARD:U. UPDATE THE SITE NAO PLS GAIZ?

> What's the lolcat spelling of guys? I think I do it a different way every time, which probably isn't right.

> As of today I own Turn Coat! I'm very excited, people have told me that it's a major game-changer, and something about Thomas, idk. But I bet it'll be an awesome read. Yay Dresden Files!

> The Tony noms are going to be announced May 5th! *flail* Do want to know. [tos] better be nominated for some awards, I'm just sayin'. Also Lin-Manuel will be one of the people announcing the nominations, so that's just plain awesome.

>I always have things to say listed in my head and then I sit down and make these lists and forget half of them. Sorry?

>If you would like some further reading, feel free to click the link in the subject line.

Random Doctor Who thoughts/beliefs/bits of personal canon! Lots of stuff about sexuality and romance contained within.

( you can't change history )

From...everybody, pretty much:

Put your MP3 player/playlist on shuffle, and write down the first line of the first twenty songs. Post the poem that results. The first line of the twenty-first is the title.

When You Were Young

Someday I'm gonna be famous
If you live around here
Break of day, the dawn is here
My eyes are fully open to my awful situation

I can't feel nothin' at all
Hey, Stephen, I know looks can be deceivin'
In passing glances
Whenever I see someone less fortunate than I

Each night you show up about a quarter to two
This step is one again our first
I solve my problems and I see the light
Hey ho, let's go

She's not a girl who misses much
A young cowboy named Billy Joe grew restless on the farm
How glad the many millions of Annabelles and Lillians
Let me set you straight

How the world can change
Little shop
Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak
They came from near, they came from far



From fandom_memes:

For each of your fandoms, list the 5 things in that fandom you're most grateful for (not counting the fen!)

Uh. Let's do a selection of main fandoms, here, 'cause if I do all of them that will just kill the Internet.

( under here )

And, also, because I can never pack too much into one post (?):
♪ CHRISTMAS MUSIC SHARING MEME ♪
'Tis the season to be jolly, fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la!

Aww, come on. December starts tomorrow.

Comment on this post. I will choose seven interests from your profile and you will explain what they mean and why you are interested in them. Post this along with your answers in your own journal so others can play along.

morgeil asked me about:

speculative fiction -- or, in other words, science fiction, fantasy, alternate histories, horror, superhero fiction, and all that other awesome stuff. The kind of fiction that asks "what if?" I've always been fascinated by this, in a way I tend to sum up as "I'd like some escapism in my escapism pls" although that doesn't do the full awesomeness of the genre any justice at all.

chess -- the musical, not the game. Not that I don't like the game, I do, although I'm not very good at it. But no, I love the musical much more. It's my favorite musical, I collect it obsessively, I'm in love with all the characters and the music and the utterly cractastick nature of the seventeen million different scripts. (Sydney Chess? CRACKIEST THING EVER.)

catholicism -- I was raised Catholic, I went to a Catholic college, I still identify as Catholic even though I kind of fail at the going-to-mass thing and don't actually recall when I last went to confession. I'm very interested in the history of the Church and doctrine and the way things have changed and how spirituality and religion differ from each other.

crack pairings -- a good portion of my fannish love comes from shipping pairings that make no logical sense, the "you'd have to be on crack to see it" kind of pairings. Like Michael/Shannon (LOST). Or Ignatius/Maru (Andromeda). Or Babs/Martha/Tosh (Doctor Who). Or Kevin/cereal/sandwich/jacket (Black Donnellys). I could go on for a while but I'll shut up. I do, in point of fact, ship based on personalities and possibility as much as chemistry, so it's very easy for me to go from "these two characters have such and such in common" or "huh, you know, this canon relationship could be seen as a parallel for this other totally untouched-upon and cracky pairing" or "hi, awesome and hot characters who are not appreciated enough" or "wow, he has amazing chemistry with inanimate objects" to "OMGLOVESHIPPINGTHISNOW".

theme parks -- I work for one. Yes, it's just that simple.

nipple erectors -- notable for being Shane MacGowan's first band (and we all know how I love my Shaney Mac) as well as having the hit single "Gabrielle" and only one officially-released album. They recently had a reunion concert with Shane! I wish I'd been there. :(

bad movies -- the campier and worse the writing and special effects, the better. This specifically refers to the sci-fi/horror/Bruce Campbell end of the spectrum although I can on occasion be persuaded to particularly bad examples of other genres. Fun on both the "point and mock" level and the "I could do this better!" level. And usually full of comedy gold.



And another meme from a few different folks on my flist:

Name any character from any of my fandoms and I'll tell you...

(a) three facts about them from my personal canon/fanon
(b) a reason he/she sucks
(c) a reason he/she is awesome
(d) five things that never happened to that character and/or
(e) five people that character never fell in love with and why

Happy Beka Day, Singles' Awareness Day, Valentine's Day, Ingest Your Weight In Chocolate Day, February 14th, or whatever else you celebrate. Or don't, as the case may be.

Now on to the good stuff: last night's Torchwood episodes! And tons of capslock abuse!


MISS MARTHA JONES!

I finally managed to watch both episodes, and now my Martha glee threatens to make me forget everything I wanted to say about them, but I'll try, k?

( spoilers for Torchwood 2x05 Adam )

( spoilers for Torchwood 2x06 Reset )

( non-spoilery general comments on both episodes )

I feel there are things I probably forgot to say, so feel free to remind me in the comments if you like. But MARTHA! ♥ SQUEE WITH ME! ♥ MARTHA JONES!

...also I now have two Martha tags because apparently I can never have too many. Despite the fact that I don't think I tag for any other individual character. *blink* ...I should start tagging for Babs, just to be fair, because Babs is also MORE AWESOME THAN YOU. *tags*

fandom_memes time!


Choose five series (no peeking before you choose them), list them, and then answer the questions behind the cut.
1. LOST
2. Doctor Who
3. Pushing Daisies
4. The Black Donnellys
5. Andromeda

( don't talk to me if you ain't got the answers i need )


Choose 10 characters (preferably from the same fandom) and answer the questions that follow. No peeking until your list is done!

Same fandom is no fun. Here's different fandoms!

1. The Arbiter (Chess)
2. Alfredo (Pushing Daisies)
3. Claire (LOST)
4. Rommie (Andromeda)
5. Toshiko (Torchwood)
6. Barbara (Doctor Who)
7. Angel (RENT)
8. Tank (Zanna, Don't!)
9. Molly (Dresden Files)
10. Gus (Psych)

( yeah, i got problems, can't you see i'm tryin' to solve them )