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Jul. 20th, 2010 06:18 pmUgh, it is too hot and I am going through my third (fourth?) cold of this year, so the last couple of days I've taken pretty gently. I think it's time for a nice, relaxing meme update and then some smokin' hot Kaidan romance (in Mass Effect!).
Day 02 - A show that you wish more people were watching
Day 03 - Your favorite new show (aired this TV season)
The Good Wife
The Good Wife is an American legal drama starring Julianna Margulies. She plays a woman who returns to lawyering after many years away raising her children and homekeeping because of a scandal her important husband gets into. For me, this show has a perfect balance of plot-arcs, character-arcs and legal-case-of-the-week in every episode. It does not pass the Bechdel test so much as run it over with a monster truck filled with awesome ladies and their awesome non-men-centric conversations. I can't go on about how much I love this show and how excited I am to be watching it. When there is content that could be uncomfortable for me, I trust this show to handle it right, and I haven't been disappointed yet.
( Cue monster truck of Bechdel-passing: )
♥
Day 04 - Your favorite show ever
Without an ultimate cagematch as the decider, my favourite show is a joint win between Star Trek: Voyager and Farscape. I watched both from an early age, had huge conscious crushes on male leads (John Crichton and Tom Paris - woah, one is much more badass than the other). Kathryn Janeway was and is one of my biggest inspirations and heroes, and OMG Aeryn Sun is just the supreme hotness (she was my big subconscious crush).
Voyager and Farscape have pretty much defined a lot of my media intake for a long time, shaped how I viewed other media, and (especially with Farscape) shaped my writing and my creativity. ♥, you two shows. Ultimate ♥.
Day 02 - A show that you wish more people were watching
Day 03 - Your favorite new show (aired this TV season)
The Good Wife
The Good Wife is an American legal drama starring Julianna Margulies. She plays a woman who returns to lawyering after many years away raising her children and homekeeping because of a scandal her important husband gets into. For me, this show has a perfect balance of plot-arcs, character-arcs and legal-case-of-the-week in every episode. It does not pass the Bechdel test so much as run it over with a monster truck filled with awesome ladies and their awesome non-men-centric conversations. I can't go on about how much I love this show and how excited I am to be watching it. When there is content that could be uncomfortable for me, I trust this show to handle it right, and I haven't been disappointed yet.
( Cue monster truck of Bechdel-passing: )
♥
Day 04 - Your favorite show ever
Without an ultimate cagematch as the decider, my favourite show is a joint win between Star Trek: Voyager and Farscape. I watched both from an early age, had huge conscious crushes on male leads (John Crichton and Tom Paris - woah, one is much more badass than the other). Kathryn Janeway was and is one of my biggest inspirations and heroes, and OMG Aeryn Sun is just the supreme hotness (she was my big subconscious crush).
Voyager and Farscape have pretty much defined a lot of my media intake for a long time, shaped how I viewed other media, and (especially with Farscape) shaped my writing and my creativity. ♥, you two shows. Ultimate ♥.
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Jul. 17th, 2010 12:37 pmThe last couple of weeks have been...a bit hectic, to say the least. I graduated from my teacher training course, saw my parents in the same room as each other for the first time in five years after a messy divorce. Family stuff is bizarre and makes me feel vaguely uncomfortable.
On the writing front, fear not; I shall post about the ongoing drafts of my current work soonish, with accompanying maps. I love maps. But for now, the 30-day Television meme, snagged from![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
kay_brooke.
( The full list of questions )
Day 1 - A show that should never have been cancelled - the BBC TV series Strange
It's a shame I can think of so many shows I would have preferred to get cancelled but find it so hard to think of ones that I miss, but Strange is definitely one of them. It involved Richard Coyle, who I liked from early watching of Coupling, being an ex-priest demon hunter and trying to clear his name of some mysterious murders. It aired in 2003, and I remember so very little of it except for the fact that the main character was angsty, had nightmares on the sofa and the main female character was really cool. If it hadn't gotten cancelled then there might have been more of it and I would find it easier to buy/find now, and I might remember it more.
On the writing front, fear not; I shall post about the ongoing drafts of my current work soonish, with accompanying maps. I love maps. But for now, the 30-day Television meme, snagged from
kay_brooke.( The full list of questions )
Day 1 - A show that should never have been cancelled - the BBC TV series Strange
It's a shame I can think of so many shows I would have preferred to get cancelled but find it so hard to think of ones that I miss, but Strange is definitely one of them. It involved Richard Coyle, who I liked from early watching of Coupling, being an ex-priest demon hunter and trying to clear his name of some mysterious murders. It aired in 2003, and I remember so very little of it except for the fact that the main character was angsty, had nightmares on the sofa and the main female character was really cool. If it hadn't gotten cancelled then there might have been more of it and I would find it easier to buy/find now, and I might remember it more.
meme time!
Apr. 28th, 2010 07:59 pmWell, I really want to get into 3W4DW. I think it's incredibly awesome to see everyone celebrating and having fun. I'm currently working on my own contribution, which will come later and in the form of a 'the world is awesome' picspam, but for now we have meme time!
Post 20 anime/manga/games/films/tv shows' summaries from Better Than It Sounds. Guess them!
ar thedivinegoatthedivinegoat 4. A son saves his father's life, and they talk about baseball.
5. Uptight young man and his abuse-survivor sidekick sail high seas, commit mass murder.
6. A hero's attempts to slay a dragon are delayed when everyone makes him/her solve their problems first.
7. Nine men try to return a piece of jewelry to the factory it came from.
thedivinegoat 8. A group of dysfunctional people are chased by their pissed-off children.
9. A disastrous one-night-stand forces a recent hireling to prove hirself truly worthy of employment.
10. A sad couple drive around.
ar 12. Boy named after a mouse helps locals improve their drug-filled sandpit, despite unfriendly wildlife. The government disapproves.
13. A fighter ace tours different careers in search of his wife.
14. A bunch of historians and a medieval reenactor get stuck in the Middle Ages.
15. Siblings argue over how to inherit their father's legacy.
auguris and thedivinegoat auguris st_aurafina lettersforblood 20. Crooked Space Cop has problems with hir pre-owned vehicle.
A few of these are so damn obscure *glee!* and I love them.
There's this tabletop game, World of Darkness. It was the first ruleset that I ever played in, back in 2006, and though my proclivities extended to D&D and for a brief spell Lo5R, my loyalties never strayed far from WoD. This never made me, however, actually read a lot of the abundant information that can be found in the books. (What can I say; I'm pretty darn lazy.)
On Tuesday I'm running a Mage: The Awakening game (new WoD). One of the PCs is the leader of an area, which led me to looking at the books and what White Wolf have to say about mages and mage society, and I am Not Impressed.
( Why I am Not Happy with the state of things in the book )
So I do what I always do when confronted with gaming information that I don't like:
( I make my own. )
On Tuesday I'm running a Mage: The Awakening game (new WoD). One of the PCs is the leader of an area, which led me to looking at the books and what White Wolf have to say about mages and mage society, and I am Not Impressed.
( Why I am Not Happy with the state of things in the book )
So I do what I always do when confronted with gaming information that I don't like:
( I make my own. )
So there we go. Physical, social and mental characters all welcome in all orders, and it's not quite so easy to draw lines between 'what path are you' and 'what order do you join' as it is in the original book. There's more, all about the seats of power and what little government the mages have, how mages are elected to seats of power, but the tweaked orders was my main focus. I'm going to test run it on Tuesday, see how it goes, and tweak if necessary.
there's a lot of space junk out there
Mar. 20th, 2010 02:00 pmThere's this greasy spoon/cafe about ten minutes away from where
miss_haitch and I live. We went there for brunch, and I totally got three sausages instead of two with my MONSTER chips (fries). Zomg tasty start to a weekend.I think I just broke my record for lesson planning speed - 3 different 1-hour lessons planned in about an hour and a half. It doesn't sound quick, but it's an improvement for me!
I've been thinking a lot recently about teaching - it's hard to avoid. I've actually reached the stage that, despite freaking out because my photocopying isn't done and there's five minutes to go before the end of breaktime, despite my not knowing what I'm doing half the time, I'm:
a) actually enjoying myself;
b) doing pretty damn well at the teaching side of things.
The people at school and university whose opinions count are always at me with the things I do well. So it's pretty annoying when I can't even admit that to myself. So:
( Man, Fay can actually teach, what is up with that )
Which is why I've been freaking out and feeling bad that I don't think I want to go into teaching straightaway in September. There are plenty of other things I could do with myself in the meantime, and teaching will still be there even if I put it off for a few months. I'm just not ready right now.
To relax, I have been writing and satisfying a pretty peculiar urge: I really like to answer the question "Who would play X in a movie/TV show?" by casting all of the characters in my current writing... and yeah, all of my gaming characters too.
Since I started gaming in 2006 (I'm such a young gamer) I've had thirty-odd characters, almost exclusively D&D and new WoD. One day I was very bored and very tired of work, so I went and cast all of them.
( This is totally what I do in my spare time... )
That's totally what I do in my free time. I love all of them, though, even the made-on-the-fly-for-oneshots characters that I spent way more time on than necessary. Backstories galore!
And as a random aside:
( Map of human junk in orbit around Earth )
