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RANDOM OPINIONS WHICH MAY OR MAY NOT BE UNPOPULAR, ABOUT RANDOM FANDOMS:

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This list may be added to as I think of other things I have Opinions about. Or not. Feel free to agree, disagree, argue, and offer your own Opinions.

From fandom_memes:

List ten quotes from ten of your OTPs. Your flist's job is to guess which of your OTPs said the quotes and from what movie/television show/book/etc. they are from.

Most of these are high on the "obvious" list.

1. "People don't seem to look me in the eye here. I think I scare them."..."You don't scare me." LOST, Charlie/Claire, oc_pixie

2. "Then I would love you in any way I could. And if we could not touch, then I would draw strength from your beauty. And if I went blind, then I would fill my soul with the sound of your voice and the contents of your thoughts until the last spark of my love for you lit the shabby darkness of my dying mind." Pushing Daisies, Olive/Alfredo, superduperkc

3. "What's the Czech for 'Do you love him'?"

4. "It's not a great picture. In real life you look better." "In real life." Animorphs, Rachel/Tobias, atrypical

5. "I think I like the other world better." "How is it you're the only one who remembers?" "Shh. Just enjoy the music." Zanna Don't!, Zanna/Tank, allfireburns

6. "Be honest, you came all this way to see me." "Still struggling to conquer your shyness?" Torchwood, Martha/Jack, allfireburns

7. "All we really need to survive is one person who truly loves you, and you have her." LOST, Desmond/Penny, superduperkc

8. "Sir? I'd like you to take the helm, please. I need this man to tear all my clothes off." "Work, work, work..." Firefly, Wash/Zoe, superduperkc

9. "I've been hearing violins all night." "Anything to do with me? Are we a thing?" "Darling, we're everything!" RENT, Angel/Collins, oc_pixie

10. "...This relationship is going to be tricky." "There's still time to leave and find a non-crazy girl." "Not even slightly interested." xkcd, Hat Guy/Crazy Girl, melengro



And:

Six ships you're into right now
1. Desmond/Penny (LOST)
2. Spot/Race (Newsies)
3. Olive/Alfredo (Pushing Daisies)
4. Billy/Penny (Dr. Horrible)
5. Barbara/Ian (Doctor Who)
6. Ramirez/Molly (Dresden Files bookverse)

Three ships you liked, but don’t like anymore
7. Mickey/Rose (Doctor Who)
8. Jamal/Lenni (Ghostwriter)
9. Nita/Kit (Young Wizards)

Four ships you never liked
10. Doctor/Rose (Doctor Who)
11. Jack/Kate (LOST)
12. Sawyer/Kate (LOST)
13. Dylan/Rommie (Andromeda)

Two ships you're curious about, but don’t actually ship
14. Dr. Horrible/Captain Hammer (Dr. Horrible)
15. Ned/Emerson (Pushing Daisies)


( the questions )

1. Leave me a comment saying you want to do the meme.
2. I'll respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better.
3. You should update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You should include this explanation and offer to ask someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be asked, you will ask them five questions.


I got tagged by atrypical, so here are my answers!


( getting to know you... )

New layout! Because as much as I liked the Charlie/Claire one I had it for a ridiculously long time by my standards. Any opinions?

( SPOILERS for Psych 3x01 Ghosts )

Overall: Powerful episode. Psych does emotional drama, and does it well. James Roday gets a chance to remind everyone that he can do genres besides constant comedy. And it still feels like Psych, it's still got the humor and the buddy elements and everybody's there even if for only about twelve seconds (Jules, what happened to you? Working a case without any backup or what?) A great start to the season.


( story from real life and related ponderings that got longer than I thought they would )

Today is the first exchange of our Secret Santa. I am...slightly nervous about delivering my first gift. Um. (I told our dresser I didn't know how I was going to smuggle it in without my recipient -- or any of the cast, since they have a cultural aversion to secrets apparently -- seeing it. She said "Bring it in a bag!" Then she said "Oh, wait, you never bring a bag and everyone will immediately know why you brought one." So, yeah.)


FANNISH STUFF. In bits and pieces. BECAUSE.
So, Dr. Horrible. Why, yes, I am a sucker for lonely-loser villains. Who sing their feelings. Add Dr. Horrible/Billy to my list of fannish crushes, gais. And one of my spot ops and I spent much of yesterday quoting it at each other.
But. I'm really not happy about Penny. She had absolutely no agency throughout, barely had a personality, and totally failed to subvert any of the genre tropes I was hoping for. JOSS. I EXPECT BETTER OF YOU. You could have told the same awesome story in a much more awesome way by giving Penny some real personality and letting her make some active choices.
However, I do have a Dr. Horrible icon now.

[title of show] has made it to Broadway, that magical street of dreams (or that shameless commercial whore, depending). Have I talked about this on here yet? No, I don't think so. Anyway, I'm very very happy about it. And would kill to go see it. Now I just need Zanna Don't! and Evil Dead: The Musical to make it to the Great White Way. And a decent Chess revival. And a trip to New York with a lot of cash.

My daddy is buying tickets for me and him and my mom to go see the touring cast of Spamalot this November. Like, right after my work contract ends. *bounces* My daddy's so cool. (And, he's vaguely alluded to possibly taking me and my mom to see Wicked when the touring cast passes through the area next May. Yespls?)

I'm dying to see the new XF movie, and I know next to nothing about it having somehow totally failed to find any decent spoilers. But MULDER. SCULLY. MY FIRST REAL FANDOM. OMGYAY.

I really want to write fic, but am totally failing to. All I can get is tiny, nonsensical bits and pieces. I've tried a couple 1sentence attempts because that's usually a pretty good writer's-block breaker for me, but I keep stalling out about halfway through every couple I try. *flail* Any advice?

...On the "accomplished!" side, I have a Lost Desmond/Penny vid finished that just needs to be uploaded and pimped out. Unlikely to happen today, though. On the grounds that I need to leave for work fairly soon. But soon? Hopefully. I like it. It's kind of a darker take on the pairing than I usually go for, and we all know screwing up the couples I love is like a drug to me. And I think it turned out pretty well, for being a study of the pairing rather than a straightforward story.

...oh, that just reminded me I have to hit up LVI and make sure no one else used that song for Des/Penny. Athough I doubt it. It's...not obscure, exactly, but neither is it what I expect most LVI vidders to be drawing upon for music choices? ...okay, that sounded all music-elitist and that's really not how I meant it.

...shutting up now before I offend anyone further.

Besides, it's INTERNATIONAL DAY OF FEMSLASH! ...I would use a femslash icon here, but I kind of already committed myself to the Dr. Horrible one, didn't I? I'll try and do a picspam or something else to celebrate after work. But for now, I'm going to go feed. Because I'm hungry.