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janie_tangerineReal post is happening tomorrow. It'll probably be long, ee. But for now..
Ask me a fandom-related question in the comments. This can be fandom specific, general, or about fandom/lj stuff/fic writing/etc. in general. Questions can be as wacky as you want. Ask me about tv shows, characters, fanfic in general, fandom issues/meta, anything about any of my stories specifically. Whatever you want.
Well, I'm game. ;)
Ask me a fandom-related question in the comments. This can be fandom specific, general, or about fandom/lj stuff/fic writing/etc. in general. Questions can be as wacky as you want. Ask me about tv shows, characters, fanfic in general, fandom issues/meta, anything about any of my stories specifically. Whatever you want.
Well, I'm game. ;)
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Date: 2011-01-19 12:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-19 12:50 am (UTC)Mm, okay, this has two possible answers:
a) or, cruel answer: he wakes up in The Vampire Diaries to find himself face to face with this guy that looks like him and is a vampire and pretty much everything that he isn't. Then he proceeds to curse his destiny for an entire season. But, that would be saying, okay, you had a sucky life in Lost, let's make it worse;
b) or, please-give-the-guy-some-good-times answer: he wakes up in Pushing Daisies in front of the Piehole possibly sometime before S2 was over, Ned hires him because they're short on personnel or something, he spends his time baking pies and relieving in the happiness that being in that show could cause and idk maybe he hooks up with Olive since she likes them tall, with dark hair and some angst.
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Date: 2011-01-19 12:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-19 01:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-19 12:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-19 01:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-19 01:15 am (UTC)I usually ship slash, dammit reminded me of something I saw that said something along the lines of 'when you've read so much slash that you think OMG there are girl parts in this!'
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Date: 2011-01-19 01:28 am (UTC)anyway if you'd rather have a SPN answer so that at least I don't pile you with stuff you haven't seen... uhm. It might seem strange now since everyone knows what I ship mainly but.. Dean/Cas, actually. XD or at least, at the beginning of S4 I was like 'uhm, this guy is pretty, could be slashed with Dean, that's an option' and I wrote it a couple times for friends rather than anything else. Then On The Head of a Pin happened and I got hit with a ton of slasher bricks, I saw the light, I realized that it wasn't an option and hi new OTP which actually stuck for three years. ;)
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Date: 2011-01-19 01:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-19 02:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-19 10:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-19 03:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-19 10:26 am (UTC)Okay, if you say 'Misha dressed as Castiel is in your bedroom' answer is YES, LIKE BURNING, AND POSSIBLY YESTERDAY.
If it's Castiel-Castiel... probably not. I'd probably give him a hug though. A lot. (mostly because I can see him being sexual just with Dean, so I'd feel awful if I took that coat off. XD)
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Date: 2011-01-19 03:19 am (UTC)from all of your years in fandom, with every pairing you've loved, which is the one that is the dearest to your heart?
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Date: 2011-01-19 10:28 am (UTC)Anyway. Roland/Eddie from the Dark Tower series. Lol now that was the easiest answer ever. But if we don't talk about obscure things (sorta) and we want to go on tv shows or stuff I actually shipped with someone else, probably Jack/Boone with Dean/Cas running close.
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Date: 2011-01-19 06:25 pm (UTC)but see, then it gets more difficult with the TV stuff. thanks for answering, was fun!
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Date: 2011-01-19 07:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-19 03:39 am (UTC)2. Jack and Boone (and whoever else) spin-off series -- go! ;P
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Date: 2011-01-19 08:42 pm (UTC)Mm, okay, one day I'll write that fic. XD
2. OMG THAT SOUNDS DELIGHTFUL.
First thing: rom-com-ish spin-off! Or at least, not like AAAANGST. So, Jack is pretty much still himself (works at the hospital, has crappy bedside manners etc), Boone works for the local Amnesty or some other nonprofit and goes to the hospital to donate blood/give out flyers/do volunteer work in his spare time/etc. They end up meeting a bunch of times and all of the hospital staff (including Juliet at least) takes bets on when the heck one of them is going to ask the other out. This also goes on at the nonprofit because whoever goes with Boone for flyers (I'd go for Charlie there) has practically told everyone including the boss (Rose or Bernard or both). We can also have the Sawyer/Miles cop show at the same time because they're in the station near the hospital and always go there to get treated or something. And Ben is something like Jack's sadistic boss who totally keeps tabs on the bets.
... I doubt ABC would air this.
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Date: 2011-01-19 04:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-19 10:52 am (UTC)Uhm. I can't go with Lost ones because whenever I lost interest in one ship it was mostly because they did things I didn't exactly agree with in canon and I lost interest in one character, but it doesn't mean that the ship wasn't valid before (IE: Jack/Juliet. and the character was Juliet btw XD). Uhm, can I cheat and say that I don't get how I managed to stick with Heroes until mid-S3? Because the more I think about it the more I'm sure I should have quit at S1. X_X
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Date: 2011-01-20 07:46 am (UTC)God knows I don't know how you stuck w/Heroes that long either! Talk about a show that went downhill fast. I still think S1 was some extraordinary TV though.
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Date: 2011-01-19 04:22 am (UTC)2) What is your dream crossover pairing? Like a it's cruel these people don't exist in the same universe pairing?
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Date: 2011-01-19 10:46 am (UTC)2) Dean/Boone, because that'd be too much pretty. ;) Or Jack/Cas. Pick either, I'm totally okay with it.
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Date: 2011-01-19 09:13 pm (UTC)Mmm...those are both wonderful answers.
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Date: 2011-01-19 09:47 pm (UTC)Thanks! ;) I wouldn't mind either of those people sharing a universe, that's for sure...
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Date: 2011-01-19 04:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-19 10:41 am (UTC)Soo... Daniel Faraday. (I know, I know, sounds not very much like me but Christ Boone had a much better send-off than his.) So, instead of dying the most lame death in the history of ever and getting shot by his own mother who had known all along and whom I couldn't stand since ages therefore pretty much ruining a) the season b) half of the show for me.. after someone whacks Eloise from behind before she can kill him, he explains the whole thing and they believe him and they go after the bomb. Outcome #1: he volunteers to detonate, the bomb explodes and he dies in the process, but WITH A FREAKING SENSE and everyone gets safely to their regular timeline and The Incident as it was never happens. Outcome #2: he volunteers to detonate, he doesn't die even if the bomb explodes, he gets back to the regular timeline and Frank gives him bone-crushing hugs when they meet again. And possibly he gets off the island.
Lol sorry for the novel but I think that my enjoyment of Lost started to be more frustration than enjoyment since he died. XD
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Date: 2011-01-19 10:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-19 10:35 am (UTC)1) Eddie Dean. Lol like that wasn't obvious.
2) Larry Underwood. Apart from the obvious, he'd be awesome for the entertainment.
3) Chris from The Body, mostly because he was my first King crush and he was also utterly awesome.
4) Carrie White because we need a girl and I kind of wanted to hug her. Well, not when she was busy killing everyone, but.
5) Uhm, yeah, I was trying to make everyone come from different places but screw it, Roland is invited too. After what he went through in VII he deserves at least a nice party.
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Date: 2011-01-19 02:04 pm (UTC)#2 Okay, what's so fascinating about Faramir? It's not that I don't like him, but I really like many of the other LotR characters, and am, for the most part, curiously neutral to him. Although, to be fair, I still kinda sorta maybe haven't finished TTT. (Actually, FotR seems to be the only book I really, truly almost read years and years ago, and really, truly really read last month. *cough*)
#3 Okay - because apparently that's a good way to start asking questions - what do you think about BBC!John Watson? *whistles innocently, because there's no way she's at all biased, being a, well, John!girl (no, not that John who also had a surname starting with W; I never particularly liked that John on that one other show, sorry to say!)*
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Date: 2011-01-19 07:43 pm (UTC)2) Premise: the best of Faramir is in the books and not the movies, and TTT-The Movie utterly fucked him up for pretty much the entire length of the movie, because in the book Faramir never tried to take the ring and he never really even wanted it. I ended up liking the treatment overall especially considering ROTK (movie), but book!Faramir >>>> everything else.
That said. So I'm reading the books and being like 'Jesus but EVERYONE is after this ring? Isn't there like SOMEONE not affected by it?' not all the time but a fair amount. Also beware that I had just seen the first movie which was just out and I had no idea what happened next. Also I was fairly sure that after Rohan all the major players were introduced, so I wasn't expecting another one to turn up. Anyway so Faramir shows up and I'm like 'wait, this guy is actually SANE and wants to TALK to them before anything. NICE!'. Then he starts talking and he actually makes sense. Then we find out he's Boromir's brother and I'm like 'OH GOD PLEASE LET HIM BE DIFFERENT'. Then he's like 'wait, the Ring? Nope. Not interested, dnw, and by the way can I help you? Sure thing' and I'm like 'WAIT THERE'S SOMEONE SANE WHO ISN'T TEMPTED BY THAT THING.' I tend to like sane people. Then we also find out that he's a pacifist at heart (or well, for LOTR levels) and I'm like 'oh god YES a guy who doesn't necessarily like fighting'. Then we find out that he has a bunch of unresolved sibling issues and that his dad is an idiot. Cliché #392738 that will make me like a character: no one sees his potential and he gets talked down by people he loves all the time. And I go like 'OMG POOR YOU'. Then in ROTK (book) he was pretty much awesome until he basically killed himself because of that idiot that was Denethor, and I was like 'NOOO I'M ATTACHED WHY DOES HE HAVE TO DIE'. Then I might have half-cried when he and Eowyn got together because she was my favorite of the girls and I really wanted her not to be miserable, and of course I didn't want him to be either and then I was like 'OMG MADE FOR EACH OTHER SO MUCH, PLEASE WIN HER OVER' and he does even if he's really nothing like Aragorn. I think I have a thing for sane people who are overlooked because they don't fit the general standard, which it's pretty much him. He probably won me over when in TTT book he flat out refused to have to do with the Ring, which according to Peter Jackson was boring but according to me was the reason he was so different from everyone else. <3 uhm. I might have written you a novel. Sorry, he's my favorite. XD
3 I like BBC!John a lot! With the premise that my interest perked a lot when I realized that Rupert Graves was in it therefore as usual I'm mostly in for the character that I'll see less, but John is awesome. I like what they took from canon and re-used, and I kind of might want to hug him most of the time because if I was in his place I'd go crazy. That said the actor doesn't really do much for me on the 'omg attractive' side (
then again neither does Benedict Cumberbatch, which is why if I wrote Sherlock/John it'd be the feast of platonic) but I think that he's excellent at the part. (Same for Benedict Cumberbatch. I just wouldn't want to ravish either of them differently from 99% of my friends who watch Sherlock. XD)no subject
Date: 2011-01-20 12:53 pm (UTC)But gen! You know you want to write it!
#4 Do you like icon/other graphics tutorials? That is, not making them, but following a tutorial? I think it spoils (some of) the fun if you know exactly how something was made, y/n? Actually, we can extend that argument to things other than graphics.
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Date: 2011-01-20 01:02 pm (UTC)Lol mostly I want to write Lestrade for now XD but who knows, I might. It's not that I have to do slash, but I'm half-feeling like most of the Sherlock + John related stuff is all in the text, I'm bad at fic when I have everything already at my disposal. XD
Uhm, depends. I like tutorials in the sense that if I see a cool thing and I want to learn how to make it I'll be very glad to follow one. Also I mostly never follow them to the letter, I start changing shit around when I follow them, so on that side I think that they're helpful, graphics-speaking. Mostly because then you work around stuff and come up with things yourself. What I have a problem with is psds because these days it's just that and it's like hey, serving you the whole thing on a plate, whatever. The thing with tutorials is that you actually learn how to do things, psds just erase that part. (I wouldn't know a lot of stuff about photoshop if I hadn't followed tutorials at first but I never downloaded a psd, it just confuses me anyway.) So for graphics I'm all for it. For fic I think that the only tutorials you should have around should be: a) how to put together a proper header and b) for fuck's sake BASIC GRAMMAR aka if I say Winchesters meaning two people, it's like that, not WINCHESTER'S. Which happens in half of the fics I read lately. But apart from that writing is a completely different thing and I don't think you can have a tutorial on how to write. You can be good or bad or improve, but I won't be the one teaching you. Apart from the basic grammar. And the headers. Because a lot of people would need a header tutorial lately if you ask me.
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Date: 2011-01-20 10:47 pm (UTC)#5 When did you change your userhead? Because it made me wonder whether you had just changed it when I spotted it or whether it had been there for ages and I simply hadn't noticed.
(Last one, I promise! Would've asked earlier, but I forgot what the fifth question was supposed to be.)
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Date: 2011-01-21 12:41 pm (UTC)Lol I bought it last day. XD Actually I just wanted to buy one for a friend, then I saw that there was this one with hair that is more or less my color and the cowboy hat and I was like screw it, it's awesome and I can pretend I have a female!Clint!head. ;)
(and ha lol don't worry, ask whatever. XD)
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Date: 2011-01-20 12:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-20 12:31 am (UTC)No, okay, apart from Glee (which I really couldn't care less for)... no, I need two.
1) Harry Potter. I know. I'm pretty much the one person in the history of the western universe that hasn't read it but... I know the plot, I know what happens since 90% of my friends told me and I just am not interested in reading it. I don't have anything against the whole thing, but if you tell me 'well it's about a guy who goes to magic school' I'm already like 'well fine whatever'. It's just a setting that doesn't work for me. Also it's not like my mentioned RL friends haven't told me everything that happens anyway, lol. It's just not my thing. Maybe it's because I don't care much for books with people under the age of sixteen as main characters with a couple of exceptions, but with everything I've been told I haven't found a thing that would compel me to actually read it. [might be why I'm not really interested in Glee either - so we have high school kids. So what? Don't care. It's just not my kind of plot XD]
2) Runner up: Doctor Who. Apparently everyone I know online and a bunch of people I know offline are crazy for it but it's the same of above. Apart that it took me years and three different people to explain me the plot, I'm just not interested in an immortal/possibly not but anyway with a very long life guy who travels in time. (Also I don't think that David Tennant is attractive at all but don't tell my RL friends or I'll be torn to shreds. XD) Idk I just don't get the hype.
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Date: 2011-01-20 09:31 am (UTC)...a little fairy grants youuuuuuuuuuu... let's say one day. okay... grants you one day with Damon Salvatore and he wants you bad. where do tap him?
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Date: 2011-01-20 01:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-23 09:40 am (UTC)Single Kontakt aus Thuringia
Date: 2011-02-07 03:45 am (UTC)People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.(Those who are vulnerable should not attack others).