Party time ahead!
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wiseheartWell, yes, dear folks, it's this time of the year again. The big, one-week virtual party from today to the 9th of October starts here. Come on in, be welcome, make yourself comfortable, and post a comment. May we have many collapsed threads again!
Last year we had 559 comments on 4 pages, which is an impressive record to break. But I have an excellent apple pie in the oven, and offer a virtual slice to every party guest.
Let's party!
Addition: someone asked for the apple pie recipe. Here it is, behind the cut.
400 gr wheat flour
200 gr butter or margarine
200 gr sugar
1/10 litre sour cream
1 pinch of salt
ground peel of 1/lemon
2 gr baking soda
For the filling:
2 kg apples
sugar,cinnamon, cardamom, vanilla and ground lemon peel as you like
One eggyolk for painting the top.
How to make it?
1) Make a dough from abovementioned ingredients.
2) Cut it in two equal pieces. Roll out one piece, lay it into a baking tin (baking paper under it is helpful).
3) Spread some dried bread crubms all over it.
4) Peel and plane (slice???) the apples, press out the juice with your hands (it shouldn't be too dry, though) and mix them with the spices.
5) Spread the apples over the dough.
6) Roll out the other half of the dough. Cover the apples with it.
7) Paint the top with eggyolk and bake it in a pre-heated oven, on 200°C for twenty minutes.
8) Cut it when it's cooled down.
Sorry, but I had to use the metric system. My brain doesn't work in cups and pounds and that stuff. I hope you can still figure out how much you need from the ingredients.
Addition: I also wish to gift upon my dear party guests a birthday-present, Hobbit-style: Chapter 03 - Puer Natus Est Nobis of my Cadfael fic "Sparrows" has just been posted to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
hiddenrealms and to FF.Net. Enjoy!
And the end results are: 735 comments on 6 pages! It's more than I could have dreamed of, and I thank you - all of you - who contributed to this record. It will be a hard one to break next year indeed, but I hope you'll be back. :)
Thanks again, I had a fantastic time and met great new people - it was fun!
Last year we had 559 comments on 4 pages, which is an impressive record to break. But I have an excellent apple pie in the oven, and offer a virtual slice to every party guest.
Let's party!
Addition: someone asked for the apple pie recipe. Here it is, behind the cut.
400 gr wheat flour
200 gr butter or margarine
200 gr sugar
1/10 litre sour cream
1 pinch of salt
ground peel of 1/lemon
2 gr baking soda
For the filling:
2 kg apples
sugar,cinnamon, cardamom, vanilla and ground lemon peel as you like
One eggyolk for painting the top.
How to make it?
1) Make a dough from abovementioned ingredients.
2) Cut it in two equal pieces. Roll out one piece, lay it into a baking tin (baking paper under it is helpful).
3) Spread some dried bread crubms all over it.
4) Peel and plane (slice???) the apples, press out the juice with your hands (it shouldn't be too dry, though) and mix them with the spices.
5) Spread the apples over the dough.
6) Roll out the other half of the dough. Cover the apples with it.
7) Paint the top with eggyolk and bake it in a pre-heated oven, on 200°C for twenty minutes.
8) Cut it when it's cooled down.
Sorry, but I had to use the metric system. My brain doesn't work in cups and pounds and that stuff. I hope you can still figure out how much you need from the ingredients.
Addition: I also wish to gift upon my dear party guests a birthday-present, Hobbit-style: Chapter 03 - Puer Natus Est Nobis of my Cadfael fic "Sparrows" has just been posted to
hiddenrealms and to FF.Net. Enjoy!And the end results are: 735 comments on 6 pages! It's more than I could have dreamed of, and I thank you - all of you - who contributed to this record. It will be a hard one to break next year indeed, but I hope you'll be back. :)
Thanks again, I had a fantastic time and met great new people - it was fun!
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Date: 2010-10-05 09:36 am (UTC)2. Name one character of each fandom you particularly like. Tell us why.
3. Name one character of each that you don't like. Tell us why.
1. I've only got two fandoms: Tolkien and Harry Potter
2. My Tolkien favourite is Finrod, mostly because he stubbornly sticks to his vow even though he knows it's going to end badly and because he has some endearing bad qualities despite seeming such a Nice Guy. Plus, he's the friend of humans and he plays the harp.
My HP favourite is Remus Lupin, the tortured werewolf who want so much to be Good but is making life very different for himself and others because of his pessimism, self-pity and lack of moral spine.
3. One Tolkien character I really can't stand is Manwe. Too lofty, and not interested enough in the problems of Ilúvatar's creations. Thingol's a good second, thinking only of what he wants to 'own' - either his daughter or a Silmaril.
In the HP books, I can't stand Hagrid. Being a big child is all very well, but children learn, and Hagrid never does, nor does he seem willing to.
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Date: 2010-10-05 09:45 am (UTC)Thingol is a somewhat twisted character, true, but we must also be take under consideration that we aren't really told the things he actually did well... assuming there were such things. I wonder how much the fact that he was married to one of the Lesser Powers distorted his veiw on the world in general.
I find Harry Potter as a fandom boring, but you're right about both Remus Lupin and Hagrid.
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Date: 2010-10-05 12:53 pm (UTC)That should be difficult. But Lupin's life would indeed be different if he shed the self-pity.
Finrod's bad qualities: being too fond of baubles, keeping the truth from Thingol (probably because he knew Thingol was prone to overreacting), overestimating himself.
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Date: 2010-10-05 03:55 pm (UTC)Finrod
Date: 2010-10-05 04:13 pm (UTC)Re: Finrod
Date: 2010-10-05 06:19 pm (UTC)Re: Finrod
Date: 2010-10-05 08:38 pm (UTC)The stories, should you manage to load the site, are "Elf, Interrupted I & II" and "The Finderato Diaries".
Re: Finrod
Date: 2010-10-05 09:07 pm (UTC)Re: Finrod
Date: 2010-10-05 09:19 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-10-05 02:55 pm (UTC)I love Moldau. *happy sigh*
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Date: 2010-10-05 03:53 pm (UTC)1. Name 3 of your most favourite fandoms.
Crusade
2. Name one character of each fandom you particularly like. Tell us why.
Lt John Matherson - I think he is a very interesting character, and very underused in the show. He is clearly good at what he does, given events in the show and background (eg he seems to have been promoted quickly, especially given the fact that there wasn't a war going on, despite being a telepath), and there are so many hints at his background but not much stated outright - it is interesting that he seems to have come out of Psi Corps relatively sane.
3. Name one character of each that you don't like. Tell us why.
As a person: Max Eilerson - his lack of morality, the way that he condescends to everyone and the fact that he thinks he is better than everyone else. Although he does get a bit better over the course of the series (at least in my version of the episode order - which doesn't agree with either the dvds or the official order, both of which have serious problems to me). However, these things make him fun as a character.
As a character: Sarah Chambers - because she is so under developed. I feel like she has hardly anything to do and most of it could have been done by any doctor. It really feels like she has less depth than any of the other main cast. However, if I end up writing more in the fandom, at least it is possible to fix this.
4. If you can, recommend a piece of fanfic to each of those fandoms.
I think I have read some good fic in this fandom, but I don't seem to have any bookmarked.
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Date: 2010-10-05 04:17 pm (UTC)I so love John Matheson... although I do wish JMS didn't have the unfortunate tendency to give so many characters names ending with -son or -sen, especially black and Asian ones. In B5, too, are bunches of minor characters who pop up for an episode or two and have names like that.
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Date: 2010-10-05 05:17 pm (UTC)I have a half written piece from her point of view - trying to get into her head - but I need to re-watch, because it felt off characterisation wise. I started it because in thinking about what I might write in that fandom I realised how little idea of her as a character I had and thought that trying to write a vignette from her point of view was the way to fix that...
I so love John Matheson... although I do wish JMS didn't have the unfortunate tendency to give so many characters names ending with -son or -sen, especially black and Asian ones. In B5, too, are bunches of minor characters who pop up for an episode or two and have names like that.
I hadn't noticed that (linguistics isn't an area that I pick up on things in very much (except for noticing uses and misuses of Latin)). I wonder if it is supposed to suggest something about the backgrounds of the characters.
B5 characters
Date: 2010-10-05 09:17 pm (UTC)Sarah Chambers definitely isn't an easy character to write. Someone with so little personal information and basically none background at all (save from having a sister) is very hard to keep IC.
Re: B5 characters
Date: 2010-10-07 02:17 pm (UTC)Re: Character names
Date: 2010-10-07 03:22 pm (UTC)Adama, the Patriarch isn't quite the same as his bespectacled starship commander. And Lee Adama isn't quite Apollo! The gender-bent Starbuck and Boomer, of whom the latter even became an evil Cylon monster, I won't begin to speak.
Re: Character names
Date: 2010-10-07 03:55 pm (UTC)Re: Original BSG
Date: 2010-10-07 04:35 pm (UTC)It had such actors in the main cast as Lorne Greene (from Bonanza), Dirk Benedict (of The A-Team), Richard Hatch (from The Streets of San Francisco), George Murdock, John Colicos, and so on. The female regulars weren't all that great, but they had guest stars like Jane Seymour in it!
The writing was extemely uneven, but it had a unique charm, especially since it was completely independent from any Earth-related politics. People were devoted to it after 20 years still, without any sequels and movies, and very few series could say that.
Then came Ronald D. Moore and pulled it through the sh*t, raping beloved characters into something they were never supposed to be and turning the whole thing one depressing soft-pr0n dreck.
Sorry for the rant, but I feel really strongly about this.
Re: Original BSG
Date: 2010-10-07 08:07 pm (UTC)I could make a list of films etc that are appalling from books I like, but I can also list some that are enjoyable despite the changes (and some that are actually good). :)
Re: Original BSG
Date: 2010-10-07 09:47 pm (UTC)I could have accepted all that. After all, ST: TNG was quite different from the original Trek, and DS9 even more so. But the raping and gender-bending of beloved characters is something I can't forgive. Because it was a slap into the face of devoted fans who kept the fandom alive for 20 years for him to rape it, and because it wasn't necessary. He could have had his cake and eaten it, without dragging the original characters through felgercarb.
Re: Original BSG
Date: 2010-10-07 10:18 pm (UTC)There are usually things that could be done to make it better and it often seems that these decisions make very little sense, and then they are surprised when people object.
Fandom meme
Date: 2010-10-05 04:05 pm (UTC)1. Name 3 of your most favourite fandoms.
Hmmm, tough question, as I have at least a dozen of them... or more. Anyway, let's exclude the glaringly obvious like Tolkien, Star Trek, Stargate and the likes, and choose from the smaller fandoms, right. So we have:
- Brother Cadfael
- Kindred: The Embraced, and
- Space: Above and Beyond, which is one of those "fanfic made me like it" fandoms, as fanfic is a lot better than the actual show.
2. Name one character of each fandom you particularly like. Tell us why.
- Brother Cadfael fromThe Cadfael Chronicles because he's simply awesome. An ex-crusader, a herbalist and a monk, happily tonsured for a decade and a half when we first meet him, and still a human being with compassion and the occasional mild character flaws. Plus, he reminds me of an old Benedictine monk I used to know and like a great deal.
- Julian Luna from Kindred: The Embraced. It's partially due to the excellent acting and captivating personality of the late Mark Frankel, I guess - I never saw a man dripping with so much sexual magnetism and playing it so understated. Such a pity that he had to die so young and so the series was cancelled.
- Colonel T.J. McQueen, as played by James Morrison. Again, the actor added a great deal to an already interesting character - that show really was another example of wasted possibilities.
3. Name one character of each that you don't like. Tell us why.
- I'm not sure I can name a Cadfael character I'd actually dislike. Yes, there are very unsympathetic characters, but even those are so excellently written that I enjoy every appearance of them. Like Prior Robert or his little weasel, Brother Jerome.
- For that, I have two in Kindred: Lillie Langtry, who could have been so much more interesting if not for the wooden acting of Elena Haiduk, and Archon Raine. Unfortunately, Patrick Bauchau tends to play just himself; plus, the character wasn't really well-conceived, IMO.
- I absolutely, passionately hated Shane Vansen. She's one of those completely unbelievable characters TPTB for some reason like to force upon us. Come on, a silikon-breasted, Botox-lipped girl as a US Marine? And one in space, at that? Oh, please!
4. If you can, recommend a piece of fanfic to each of those fandoms.
I have loads of recommendations on
On our way to Page 4 - remember, the ultimate goal is 600 comments on 5 pages. I'm tentatively optimistic about the number of comments but worried about the number of pages. ;)
Re: Fandom meme
Date: 2010-10-06 07:28 pm (UTC)Re: Fandom meme
Date: 2010-10-06 08:36 pm (UTC)It's okay to disagree, though. That's what makes fandom-related conversation so interesting.
BTW, there's a great deal of excellent McQueen fanfic out there. I've got an unfinished crossover piece myself, in which he ends up on DS9 at the end of the show, makes the fantastic experience of a better future - and has to be sent back or else that future would be lost.
I really ought to finish that story one day!
Re: Fandom meme
Date: 2010-10-06 10:46 pm (UTC)I did read a bit of S:AAB fanfic at one point but found that it was far too focused on romantic relationships between Vansen and Hawkes/Nathan/McQueen to hold my interest. Maybe I should give it another try, seeing if I can find some good general stories.
Re: McQueen fanfic recs
Date: 2010-10-07 03:25 pm (UTC)"Moments of Joy" is a McQueen/OFC romance, but one of the very few that I can buy without any second thoughts. "Literary Giants" follows Kylee's fate after she's been freed from Chig captivity, and McQueen's, after returning to Earth, a leg shorter.
Re: Fandom meme
Date: 2010-10-06 10:56 pm (UTC)Settles in:
1. Tolkien. Such a decision, listing a favourite amongst all the characters. Reading the trilogy, Glorfindel first caught my eye, one of the wise who could scare away the Nazgul. Haldir too, with his lovely description of Lothlorien and the his sad death in PJ's movie version. But then I read the Silmarillion and there were so many more to choose from. At the moment, Ecthelion has my fancy. There is something so tragic about him dying in the fountain of his house. No, he did not slay as many Balrogs as Tuor nor die as heroically as Glorfindel, but what is not to like about a musical warrior, beloved of all his people. It does help that he is good friend to Glorfindel, my first favourite. Sorry, I cannot pick just one.
As to a Tolkien character I am not so enamored with, hmmm. Can the movies count? I loved Elrond in the books but was not thrilled with the way Hugo Weaving played the character in film. Too many arched eyebrows and Elven rages. He just did not fit my idea of a wise ruler. Yet, even Hugo has grown on me and I am appreciating his portrayal more. In the books, the obvious would be Morgoth or Sauron, but they are so delightfully evil, what would the tales be without them. Ok, if I truly have to pick, Bill Ferny. How could he mistreat his pony? People who abuse children and animals make me see red.
2. Cadfael. Thanks to Soledad introducing me to Ellis Peter's books, I have a second fandom to list. There is something about the medieval ages and the crusades that is fascinating and I have always loved reading about cloistered life, not too mention mysteries. With the Cadfael series I get all of the above in one package. Cadfael is my favourite character. He is pious without being stuffy, intelligent and level-headed. He also has a wonderful sense of humour. What's not to like about a early age forensic scientist sort of monk?
I have only read the first four books of the series, so really have not come across a character I did not like. So I will pass on part two for now.
Those are the only two fandoms I am reading at the moment. Time to mingle and refresh my pie and wineglass. Again, a Happy, Happy birthday. Wonderful celebration so far.
Mirasaui
Re: Fandom meme
Date: 2010-10-06 10:59 pm (UTC)Re: Cadfael fic
Date: 2010-10-07 03:28 pm (UTC)Re: Cadfael fic
Date: 2010-10-09 03:20 am (UTC)Re: Cadfael fic
Date: 2010-10-09 11:57 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-10-05 07:02 pm (UTC)I also love Sibelius, Chopin, Rachmaninoff and the rags of Scott Joplin. Plus Abba and some Beatles songs...
LJ hickups
Date: 2010-10-05 08:41 pm (UTC)At first I thought it was because this entry has so many comments. But then I checked out
Then I thought my old PC is ailing. But then I came over to the laptop, and it doesn't go considerably faster. What the heck could be happening?
Re: LJ hickups
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Date: 2010-10-05 09:54 pm (UTC)Also, this should be comment #450, if I'm not mistaken. Still only 9 first-level comments on this page, though. I must think of something new.
Re: LJ hickups
Date: 2010-10-06 07:56 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-10-05 09:35 pm (UTC)Happy birthday week!
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Date: 2010-10-05 10:42 pm (UTC)That's a difficult question! I have sooo many different fandoms I love.
Transformers has to be on the list, though it's not one we share, since I've been consistently active in Transformers fandom for a year.
Usually, I do a lot of fandom-hopping. It's not that I fall out of love with a show, but since my fandom activity consists mostly of reading fanfic, I feel the need for a change of scenery after a while.
I'll pick Buffy, though I haven't spent a lot of time on Buffy in a while since it's one of these fandoms I always fall in love with all over again when I get back into it. And I've been into Buffy for ages! The oldest Buffy fic I have on my computer is from 2001!
I'm torn for the third spot, tempted to go for Harry Potter since it's another long-time fandom love, but I don't think we share this one, so I'll say Torchwood instead.
2. Name one character of each fandom you particularly like. Tell us why.
Transformers: Prowl and Starscream are my favourites, but I'll tell you about another favourite instead, Rumble - you already have to read about him on your flist so often (he's the one I roleplay) so I might as well tell you why! When he is on screen, he never fails to make me smile or laugh. That's what made me fall in love with him. He has this huge spirit, such a tiny guy among giants, but he doesn't let it stop him. He isn't intimidated (and probably too dense to know when he should be afraid) no matter what, yet his arrogance isn't annoying and he takes such joy in destruction. That he is the worst and most enthusiastic poet on any planet helps, too *laughs*
Buffy: I love pretty much the whole main cast of Buffy, whether old or new. Yet if I had to choose one, just one, I would pick Xander. Because he is the ordinary guy among all these people with super powers or who are extremely smart and educated, but he's still there, still saving the world. Even when they don't take him seriously, he never quits. Xander is such an amazingly loyal friend and I don't think they could have done half the stuff they did without his emotional support (and sometimes being there to whack a baddie.) Yes, he does some pretty dumb and hurtful things, but that just makes him more human. If he was perfect, he wouldn't be Xander.
Torchwood: Harsh! I'm torn between Ianto, Toshiko and Jack. We've already discussed the awesome of Ianto and Toshiko often, so I'll go for Jack tonight (and damn, I need to shorten this or I'll be writing until morning!) I started out loathing him, grew to sympathize with him as he showed some human vulnerability (I think the fairy episode was the first time I liked him) and came to love him. I love how dedicated he is to his team and to the idea of Torchwood as he envisions it. How he has gone through so much and has neither given up (for long.) And how he still, after everything, is capable of feeling compassion and still dares to let himself care for others, though he knows he'll have to watch them die.
3. Name one character of each that you don't like. Tell us why.
Transformers: I don't really have a character I dislike. There are those who interest me more or less, but no one I actively dislike. I'll name Shockwave just because he's the most prominent of these characters I just can't bring myself to care about either way.
Buffy: Spike with a soul, although it breaks my heart to name my favourite vampire and I thought the whole idea was very interesting. Simply because I thought Spike being a good vampire with a soul took away from his choice of doing good despite being a soulless vampire. Which was really one of the problems I always had with the show, this soul = good. Because it doesn't work that way for humans and they even acknowledged it with their human villains, but they never made it an issue with the vamps.
Torchwood: For once, it's easy. Gwen. I don't have a problem with unsympathetic characters, I would have just shrugged that off, but I think the writers wasted so much potential with her character. It would have been better if they'd just decided on whether she was supposed to be a sympathetic character or "jerk but has a reason for it" like they did with Owen.
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Date: 2010-10-06 07:43 pm (UTC)I haven't seen enough of season 7 to tell what I think of Spike with a soul. The idea seems very interesting to me too, and I don't think it would necessarily have to take away from him choosing to do good as a soulless vampire; he choose to get his soul back after all. However, as I said, I haven't seen what they did with it, so I can't comment on that. It may have just been in Angel, but there they certainly add in shades of grey, showing that just because someone is a demon doesn't mean they are evil and that some vampires where evil even before becoming vampires, indeed actively choosing to become vampires to be able to do more killing.
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Date: 2010-10-06 07:54 pm (UTC)Early seasons Willow is one of my great favourites, too. As much as I love Willow as a badass witch and the wallflower who grows up into a beautiful woman, I love her even more as that geeky, shy girl. Yeah, between her and Xander, I do love my Buffy underdogs. This shows portrays the ordinary people with so much love for them, their strengths and the important role they play. Really, it's one of my favourite things about Buffy.
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Date: 2010-10-06 10:56 pm (UTC)Josh Whedon really does do geeky girls well, especially for a man! There is a speech he gave at an Equality Now benefit, which is basically him answering over-and-over again the question "So Josh, why do you write these strong women characters?". It warms my heart that he thinks it isn't a question he should be asked.
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Date: 2010-10-07 11:08 am (UTC)Here in Germany, it wasn't moved to a transcription channel, but the broadcasting was moved to so late in the night that I couldn't watch it anymore. I don't even know if they aired the last season at all.
I've been intending to watch the later seasons on DVD, too. But I just don't get around to it, since there are so many more recent interests I've been meaning to buy on DVD, too.
Buffy episodes
Date: 2010-10-07 03:31 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-10-06 08:30 pm (UTC)I liked ealy-series Willow, too - although I'd also have liked if they'd made her the big adversary of the season in which she'd gone evil. She'd have been so much more interesting than stupid Glory - plus that version had spared us Dawn, whom I hated with a passion. I'm probably unjust to Dawn, but I just can't stand stupid, annoying teenage characters. Even if they are the Mary Sue Key of the season.
Absolutely loved Xander, too - and lynch me if you want, but I adore Wesley. Early Wesley, the overcompensating little geeks from Buffy and Season 1 Angel.
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Date: 2010-10-06 08:58 pm (UTC)Willow would have made a cool villain of the season!
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Date: 2010-10-06 09:46 pm (UTC)Pathways vampire AU
Date: 2010-10-06 10:12 pm (UTC)But you're actually right, the Pathways universe is incredibly complicated, with multiple storylines, and eating up new fandoms as I go. Beside the obvious (vampire) ones, it has eaten "Criminal Minds", "QAF", "Poltergeist: The Legacy", to only mention the biggest ones.
Re: Pathways vampire AU
Date: 2010-10-07 11:14 am (UTC)Re: Pathways vampire AU
Date: 2010-10-07 03:34 pm (UTC)I'd need a secretary with all the time of the world and a real obsession for the stuff to order it. If you hear of one, send them to me, please.
Re: Pathways vampire AU
Date: 2010-10-07 04:09 pm (UTC)Maybe it'd be easier to handle if you just write one-shots or shorter stories for these new characters and different plots rather than try to fit it all into one or two big stories?
Re: Pathways vampire AU
Date: 2010-10-07 04:39 pm (UTC)Most of its existing parts *are* short stories, actually, like "Favourite Son" or "The Return of Forrest Gates" or "The Path of Wolves", which focuses on Oz (from Buffy), or, indeed, "The Road Not Taken"... and a few others, including one-shots.
The problem is that I've been writing in this alternate universe for so long that certain parts start contradicting each other and very few still match the original concept. *le sigh*
Re: Pathways vampire AU
Date: 2010-10-07 04:41 pm (UTC)Re: Pathways vampire AU
Date: 2010-10-07 09:49 pm (UTC)Re: Pathways vampire AU
Date: 2010-10-07 09:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-10-06 11:01 pm (UTC)I didn't like Wesley in Buffy, but then I don't think we were really meant to; he was so obviously a pompous ass that was displacing our beloved Giles. In Angel I really like him, but as I mentioned in a different comment, I have only seen the first season so maybe I won't like him as much in later series.
Spike & Wesley
Date: 2010-10-07 03:38 pm (UTC)Wesley, OTOH, only became himself in Angel. In Buffy, he was just the jerk of the season, mere comic relief. I loved how Angel made him a full-fledged character, with a background and a convincing motivation, including character growth and stuff.
Unfortunately, I abandoned Angel after 2/3 of Season 2 and only watched the later seasons sporadically. Didn't very much like the direction the series took afterwards, but perhaps
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Date: 2010-10-06 02:58 pm (UTC)But, I can start a new thread. May I have another piece of chocolate now? It's almost [checks watch] 11am here, so surely, the sun is high enough someplace for chocolate.
I can't tell here, as we have no sun here today and rather a lot of rain. Enough, in fact, that Mac resisted going for his morning walk. Once we got him down the driveway, he, uh, "watered" the light pole down the street, "used" the weed patch a bit further down and was turned around ready to head home before I'd even finished picking up his morning "deposit." So, we all went home again after 5 minutes outside. Who are we to refuse the dog whose ancestors come from the borders of Scotland and England?
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Date: 2010-10-06 07:55 pm (UTC)Your grandfather sounds wonderful!
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Date: 2010-10-06 08:02 pm (UTC)I used the need for screencaps to make icons from as an excuse for a Transformers G1 marathon.
Should do some fanfic editing now, but I probably won't have the discipline for it! *sheepish grin*
Entertaining guests
Date: 2010-10-06 08:43 pm (UTC)I for myself would never take any personal guests to places like that. But at least the food was good and the guests enjoyed themselves; besides, the dancers and musicians need to earn a living, too.
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Date: 2010-10-06 08:59 pm (UTC)Re: Entertaining guests
Date: 2010-10-06 09:12 pm (UTC)There was also a Greek tourist group, from which an old man (plus a young guy) allowed the dancers to drag them onto the dance floor and danced with them quite well. We cheered them up, they were really brave. And skilled.
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Date: 2010-10-06 09:24 pm (UTC)The Greeks sound awesome, it was really quite brave to join the dancers!
Re: Entertaining guests
Date: 2010-10-06 09:58 pm (UTC)The Greeks were awesome indeed. But again, they're a people who aren't afraid of trying out new things, as long as they seem fun.
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Date: 2010-10-06 10:01 pm (UTC)Re: Entertaining guests
Date: 2010-10-06 10:05 pm (UTC)Tomorrow, I'll only have one lesson, so God will, so there's hope. Unless a collegaue falls ill or my boss gets creative.
Re: Entertaining guests
Date: 2010-10-06 10:12 pm (UTC)*giggles and nods* Yeah, it wouldn't be about the smut at all, it would be about worshipping the perfection of the Nietzscheans and uh... yeah, pointing out how superior they are *grins and polishes her halo*
Good luck tomorrow, I'll keep my fingers crossed for you!
Niet smut... erm, admiring perfection
Date: 2010-10-06 10:32 pm (UTC)We could write it as a roleplay on . Or as a Round Robin. I could set up the basics and we could write the stuff as inspiration hits, in the form of comments within a single entry. ;)
Re: Niet smut... erm, admiring perfection
Date: 2010-10-07 11:13 am (UTC)Either roleplay or round robin would work for me, since I've neither seriously tried to write Tyr or Gaheris before (I might have done a few half-hearted attempts at fanfic once, don't remember, but it never turned out anything worthwile anyway.) I can't promise I can hit their voice, but I can try XD And it being crack gives more leeway anyway.
Re: Niet smut... erm, admiring perfection
Date: 2010-10-07 03:42 pm (UTC)I'd like to play/write Tyr, if it's all right with you. Would you be willing to do Gaheris. No, not that way, although you might get your turn with him during the plot.
I love crackfic. I write so much drama and deep character introspection and stuff as a rule, that crack is a real delight. I remember having hysterical fun writing "Special Unit 3", despite the fact that it was absolute crack.
Re: Niet smut... erm, admiring perfection
Date: 2010-10-07 04:18 pm (UTC)Yeah, you're welcome to have Tyr :) And I'll do Gaheris, in this way or that way *winks*
Inviting a couple people sounds good :) I'm not set on anything, really. Whatever works out! *grins*
Re: Niet smut... erm, admiring perfection
Date: 2010-10-07 04:42 pm (UTC)Are you going to create the new comm or do you want me to do it? I don't think an RPG would work on
Re: Niet smut... erm, admiring perfection
Date: 2010-10-07 04:50 pm (UTC)Since you have experience with comms, would you do it? I've never created a comm.
Well, the Andromeda has a pretty small crew, so it might be possible to get the whole crew!
Starting first so people know what they're getting into sounds like a good idea :)
Re: Niet smut... erm, admiring perfection
Date: 2010-10-07 09:52 pm (UTC)Creating a conn is pretty easy, though. I just klicked on the link and followed the instructions. You can imagine how easy it is if even I managed to do it, techno-wheenie that I am. ;)
Re: Niet smut... erm, admiring perfection
Date: 2010-10-07 09:55 pm (UTC)Re: Niet smut... erm, admiring perfection
Date: 2010-10-07 10:31 pm (UTC)I have a vague idea how to start it - actually, we can steal the idea from the fanfic "Five Things That Never Happened to Gaheris Rhade" and go on from there, with our evil, evil twists.
I remember having read a fairly outrageous smutfic, written from Tyr's POV, in which he was called Hunt Daffa-Dilly. *g*
If we're having the whole Andromeda cast, which Trance would you prefer? The annoyingly perky purple one or the sinister golden one?
Re: Niet smut... erm, admiring perfection
Date: 2010-10-08 10:36 am (UTC)*rotfl*
I think perky purple Trance would work better for crack, but golden Trance is cool, too. Eh, I love my Trance either way XD
Re: Niet smut... erm, admiring perfection
Date: 2010-10-08 07:45 pm (UTC)Re: Niet smut... erm, admiring perfection
Date: 2010-10-09 11:39 am (UTC)Sorry, not very eloquent today, the flu has me fully in its grasp
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Date: 2010-10-10 11:08 am (UTC)The robot informs you since this is a thread about admiring perfection, it must be about him anyway!
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Date: 2010-10-06 10:00 pm (UTC)Story is here http://artemis10002000.livejournal.com/237396.html While it's short, it's a bit too long to post here. It's Transformers, though. I need to rediscover my muses for the fandoms we share *pokes muses*
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Date: 2010-10-06 10:10 pm (UTC)Fickle muses, it seems like Transformers is all the fanfic I can manage anymore. Ah well, it's a start, after I hadn't written fanfic at all in years!
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Date: 2010-10-07 03:43 pm (UTC)Speaking of Colonel McQueen
Date: 2010-10-06 09:06 pm (UTC)And the ultimate McQueen fansite (http://www.spectraldesign.com/tdmcq/tdmcq.html).
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Date: 2010-10-07 03:45 pm (UTC)I find the names you've translated absolutely hysterical. Too bad I don't know the languages involved. Philological puns are something I enjoy greatly... I just can never share the ones made in my own language, obscue one as it is.
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Date: 2010-10-06 09:49 pm (UTC)*gets the trumpets ready*
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Date: 2010-10-06 10:02 pm (UTC)Checking into flight and (not) packing for trip
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Date: 2010-10-07 11:15 am (UTC)What about Poltergeist: The Legacy?
Date: 2010-10-06 10:25 pm (UTC)Me, I love Derek, although his forced love affairs with much younger women don't seem very convincing. Not even the ones with the not-so-young ones, in fact. I don't know why.
Absolutely love Father Philip Callaghan and Alex. I'm fairly indifferent about Nick Boyle.
Hate Rachel, who just never seems to get the actual point about the Legacy and what they're doing and why it's necessary. I also hate her oh-so-special daughter, that annoying little git with the Awesome Powers (baby-Sue much?)
The St. Antonius episode with the old Coptic nun. The one with the vampires where Alex almost becomes turned.
Re: What about Poltergeist: The Legacy?
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Date: 2010-10-07 04:43 pm (UTC)Re: What about Poltergeist: The Legacy?
Date: 2010-10-07 04:47 pm (UTC)Might be just the other way around and there isn't any at all, though. Worth a chance anyway!
Re: What about Poltergeist: The Legacy?
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Date: 2010-10-06 10:42 pm (UTC)Happy Birthday!
Date: 2010-10-07 12:17 am (UTC)Speaking of which, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
For the party, I made a virtual Floating Island, my favourite dessert. The photo is of one serving but there is an unlimited supply for all. A dreamy vanilla pudding with poached meringue "Islands" floating on top, made with lots and lots of egg yolk and white. For those who imbibe, rum or bourbon added make it even more delicious, but I prefer mine plain. Lovely, how I can eat all the apple pie, chocolate and sweets and not gain a pound! Sorry for posting so late, but better late than never. :0)
Re: Happy Birthday!
Date: 2010-10-07 12:25 am (UTC)Re: Happy Birthday!
Date: 2010-10-07 03:49 pm (UTC)Would you mind visit me and introduce me to your version? ;)
Re: Happy Birthday!
Date: 2010-10-09 03:27 am (UTC)Grattis på födelsedagen!
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