Revelations (AKA: whoa, Lucy won't shut up in this post, huh?)

[luciazephyr]

1. Netflix on the XBox is what is known in the technical community as fucking awesome. Its got so much up for stream, and lucky for me the old cult telly hits are more often up for streaming than the new shiny shows, so I can gouge myself on all those series and movies I've been meaning to watch but haven't got around to finding.


2. Meaning I just got to finally see the pilot of "Dead Like Me", which I've been wanting to watch for months now and only got my ass in gear about because the bloody EDA fandom is awesome squared (subnote: you ever notice I use awesome way too much? I do.). George is so relatable, it hurts to watch, as she is me if I actually voiced my inner thoughts instead of keeping them locked up. THE PRETTY BLONDE CLOUDCUCKOOLANDER IS HILARIOUS AND I ADORE HER EVEN IF I HAVEN'T CAUGHT HER NAME. And Mason... well. He walked into shot for the very first time and I said out loud, oh my god, it's Fitzgerald Kreiner, because it IS. And then he opened his mouth and I fell head over heels in love with him, and hard. I am so gonna be watching this show for him and George. The two of them are so fabulous, IDEFK man.
   
   Also, this show is my kind of comedy. From the very first opening narration and that The Origin Of Death As Told By Neil Gaiman On Happy Pills, and "god, lower case G"- ffffff. ♥ ♥ ♥ Oh look another Too Good To Last Show for me to be in love with. Why can't I like the massively successful shows?


3. Eater of Wasps is continuing the big gay married in space adventures of Eight and Fitz, but this time with added love for Anji. I'm starting to see why people adore her. She's a very good counter to the other two TARDIS denizens and has as much of a solid, recognizable personality as Compassion did, which makes me tres happy. Yay for a female POC being a fully-realized character! That's so rare for me to read about. I am now mentally casting her so I may continue to mentally write The Televised Adventures Of Eight, Fitz, and Anji (Guest Starring Compassion Maybe?) in my head, which I've been doing for days now. I should jot these ideas down, because I think the canon show could really, really make this all work. Start with a one-off episode in Eleven's run where The Doctor and Amy meet Fitz and Anji, who have misplaced the Doctor and need their help finding him... Actually, I have a whole concept laid out about this. Maybe I will post it later.


4. Also, Eight's remark about having a tattoo during their moonlit walk to go rob some bloke was so flirtatious, holy shit, just ask Fitz out on a date, Doctor, you know he'll put out after a couple of drinks.


5. If I do post about the TAoEFaA(GSCM), I think I will also have to post about Fitz himself and why I believe he is the result of a secret British plot to get me tangled inside the DW fandom by creating the companion that hits every single narrative and characterist button I have so I will love him eternally. I'm making a list of all these buttons, because frankly this is getting ridiculous. WHY IS HE PLAYING PIANO ALL OF A SUDDEN? ANSWER: BECAUSE I HAVE A FETISH FOR PIANO-PLAYERS AND MULTI-INSTRUMENTALISTS.


6. Today is Mothers Day in our house. I love my mother and feel I should say she is the most amazing mother possible. She's genuinely my best friend and there are very, very few things I won't talk to her about and that list grows shorter and shorter as time goes on. She's always made a very solid effort to keep up with my fandoms and hobbies and I've talked more meta with her than I ever have with you lot on LJ. She MST3Ks my video games when I play them, she waxes poetic about the hotness of Brad Pitt, John Barrowman, and Angie Jolie, and on long car rides, we often end up discussing things that I look back on and go, "wow, she is phenomenal". One time, we spent an hour discussing Sony's tactics with their PS3 launch and how maybe it wasn't such a failure like we assumed, going over what happened and how it affect the gaming and film industry.
   
   My mother is brilliant and I love her. ♥

Shutting up now to go make Mother's Day breakfast.

-Lucy

Comments

[moonlitsiren.livejournal.com]

Dead Like Me is totally awesome and amazing~ I know you'll love it. :D

[lucia-tanaka.livejournal.com]

MASON IS MESSING WITH MY GAYNESS THOUGH

THIS IS UNCOOL OF HIM

perhaps he should try being less eccentric and gorgeous and from London and grey eyes omg

[sarken.livejournal.com]

I am so glad to hear you love Dead Like Me -- it's just a wonderful show that didn't have the life it deserved. Or, sadly, the fandom it deserves. I could read fic about it forever, I think, if only quality fic existed.

[lullabee-lj.livejournal.com]

Dead Like Me is totally awesome. The second episode is alarming, though. You will see it and you will know what I mean.

And that bit about the tattoo was such flirting. And the list of other people Eight flirts with not merely to annoy them can probably pretty much be counted on your thumbs.

AND AND AND Fitz and the Doctor should do one of those piano duets. They don't seem to play music together very often, which is sort of sad but also fanfic bait.

[lucia-tanaka.livejournal.com]

The second episode is alarming, though. You will see it and you will know what I mean.

With the guy she didn't reap? Yeah, that was a bit grim, wasn't it? But good. She did the right thing eventually? (Oh wait, no she didn't, she's still looking for loopholes)

can probably pretty much be counted on your thumbs.

... Um. Karl? Heh, I've only read half a dozen so far, thus that's the only one that comes to mind.

Fitz and the Doctor should do one of those piano duets.

That would fit perfectly into a fic I'm writing. May I use it?

[lullabee-lj.livejournal.com]

With the guy she didn't reap? Yeah, that was a bit grim, wasn't it?

Yeah, that, and I was personally really freaked out by how Mason died. I dunno, I'm a wuss.

... Um. Karl?

Yeah, there's Karl, and in The Adventuress of Henrietta Street, Eight demonstrates he is not strictly homo-and-Grace-sexual. Okay, I guess you could say there are in fact three or four people he can be considered to flirt with, but he very rarely actually acts like he's chatting anyone up apart from Fitz. Mostly he just acts especially friendly.

That would fit perfectly into a fic I'm writing. May I use it?

And sure, go ahead! That would be awesome, actually. :D

[lucia-tanaka.livejournal.com]

Oh god, Mason's death! I had to pause the show just to laugh for about a minute straight. Oh, he's a special kind of crazy. HE WAS WEARING GOGGLES, AS IF THEY WOULD HELP. Oh, Mason, Mason, Mason. He steals my heart more and more every episode. Especially with his schemes, simultaneously idiotic and genius, like the drug smuggling bit. FFFF. :could go on for hours:

I'll add AoHS to my list of EDA to get to. Oh, how it continues to grow. But yeah, so far to me it seems like Eight generally acts like a Cloudcuckoolander to everyone except Fitz. I'm not sure if that's because Fitz has just been around long enough to see through the act, so he doesn't bother (and whether I think it's an act or not changes from book to book. Eight is complicated, to say the least).

Thank you kindly. If I may ask, do you know if it's okay to ask for a fic beta at henriettastreet or act_three, because this fic's gonna be a long one and I think I'll need a good beta to weed out my horrible Yank-isms.

[lullabee-lj.livejournal.com]

Yes! THE GOGGLES. Mason's death, in smiley form: ________.8^) He really, really is a special kind of crazy. Note that after forty years, he still doesn't seem to realize that he actually shouldn't have drilled his head.

And don't read AoHS, really. It's just good for skimming. If you try to take it seriously, you will want to throw things. It's this sort of faux-nonfiction thing, apparently written by a sexist thicko. It does contain Fitz playing uncle to several teen prostitutes while the Doctor and the madame flirt, and the Doctor pretty much finds a replacement Master and they go on a date to the opera, and Fitz and the Doctor have a rather romantic bachelor party, and there are generally quite a few fun bits, but it's like some kind of tour through some bizarro version of the 18th century, with tons of weird creepiness and a bad case of Fetish Retardant and tons of ~fun with colonialism~. It kind of pisses me off. Oh, and basically everyone is shippy with everyone, and some of the shippiness is fun and some will make you wish you could unread that.

I don't think anyone would mind if you asked for a beta there, although it might be better to not crosspost it. There's also dw_britglish, but that's more for specific questions. I'd offer to beta, and I'll be totally free starting Tuesday, but I'm pretty much an American, it's just that my mum is English, so that would be unideal.

[lucia-tanaka.livejournal.com]

"They explained the science to me. I'm sure it made sense at the time." I cannot get over how fabulous he is (and how he is pretty much Fitz if the books were even less family friendly).

Oh, I remember hearing the fandom word about that, the stupid OH AS HISTORY TELLS stuff, yeah no. I love a good framing device, but only if it's actually done well. I'll read the scenes you mentioned (gotta see Fitz at a bachelor party, just have to). Anti-rec is very much noted though.

oh god you use tropes as much as I do, you're awesome

I will definitely join that comm. I know HP and the like had comms like that but didn't know DW had an equivalent one. But, ah, would you be interested in reading my silly crackfic? It revolves around Fitz finding a book about interspecies dating and hijinks generally ensuing. I'm shooting for funny, but hoping for at least amusing. I do like shoving fic at people just to entertain them.

I mean, if you want. Don't feel obligated.

[lullabee-lj.livejournal.com]

I'd really really really love to read that (the premise is already kind of amusing to me), but I think I'd be grateful if you don't send it to me until Wednesday, because I have finals...