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I watched Farscape tonight. John was only in this episode for like 8 minutes at the end, but for those 8 minutes my heart did break for him. No!! AERYYYYYYNNNNN!!!!


And it was such quiet heartbreak. God how I love Ben Browder's acting. I simply cannot separate him in my mind from Crichton. He is John Crichton, and no one can convince me otherwise. BB is just this silly little false identity he's constructed to hide himself in Hollywood from the evil interstellar Peacekeepers that want his wormhole know-how....

Sometimes, if I take a moment to think about it, it seriously gets me down that I hang in anxious waiting next to the VCR in anticipation of a new Farscape episode, and yet I only ended up watching the last Star Wars film when someone else rented it and left it at my house.

That series used to be great. The original trilogy was a wonder, even for its flaws.

Nowadays, Farscape could kick its pawny frelling little Jedi ass up and down the Uncharted Territories, and do so wearing hot black leather, a Southern accent, and come-fuck-me lipstick in shades of bright primary colors.

Even their froggy 2-foot-tall green alien puppet has more personality and character angst than Star Wars' froggy two-foot-tall green alien puppet.

And a lightsaber? Bah! Who needs a sword, I've got my Wynnona and I'll shoot you between the eyes before your little glow stick is even turned on.
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And that's just science fiction elements. If you want to talk quests and fantasy themes and mystical powers and wars and film trilogies-- well let's just say Peter Jackaon's latest sequel makes George Lucas look really pathetic.


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*Shaka would like to pull back and say that actually she still really DOES want a lightsaber, but only because she suffers from terminal sword envy.

so, yeah...just totally disregard my last post in the light of this one

:: how jedi are you? ::

15 first-line fics

This is a brand new meme I just got from bonibaru's journal. I think it's bitchin'. And i upp'd the number, because ten just isn't enough.

The First Lines of 15 Fics That Made Me Go Whoa:

1. She slowly became conscious of disembodied voices floating in the space above her head.

...In Wonderland by OverCastDay.LotR.
This fic is The anti-MarySue. Best description I can give.

2. So much had happened, but so little had changed. Momiji sighed, her breath forming a cloud that quickly dissipated and looked up from the stone cold lunch balanced on her lap to glance around at the empty park.

...Dreamer Awakened by Ruri Hoshino. Blue Seed.
The amount of Blue Seed fic available on line is sadly limited, but I don't care because this novel length WIP makes up for any lack just on its own fantastic merit. Characters, action, smut, plot-- what else does a great story need?

3. Xander pulled the car up near the delivery door half an hour after sunset. He knew the routine.

...Radiance by Kalima. Also titled as 'Daemons Luminati'. Buffy tVS.
Um...yeah. Like i actually need to inrotduce this. One of my favorite fics in Buffy fandom, and one of my favroite overall fanfics. Because it's B/S and Spike and Tara and fuckin' scary angels.

4. There are those who still speak of Erzsébet Báthory in hushed voices.

...COUNTESS by Scribe. Buffy tVS.
If you haven't smiled and cried and bit your nails over this fic yet... shame on you.
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Edited to Add: I can't keep to my count. So here's an extra.

16.

He'd painted the windows with black colour and left out small spots, so he could peek outside.
There wasn't anything else to do here. His days were spent reading the hundreds of books the former owner of this house had left him, and watching the sea and the mountains turn from silver and blue to gold and red.

...Southern Exposure by Jules Aello. BtVs.
I loved this because it was different from any other Spuffyfic I've read. Season 3, and yet amazingly manages to capture the kind of Spike we met after FFL, and make it sound right and perfect. And, hey, road trips guided by psychic eavesdropping are always fun.

oh I jut love his facial expression here; priceless

Congratulations! You're Gandalf!


Which Lord of the Rings character and personality problem are you?
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No poll as this is a free account, so...

For all those people bored on LJ right now... I haven't eaten yet.

I have 3 choices:

1. left-over pizza from two days ago. Pepperoni, and the good kinda pizza not the cheap Round Table stuff.

2. left over chile-verde burrito (w/ refired beans) from yesterday. from my favorite mexican restaurant. will taste very good.

3. fry chicken and cook a vegetable. will taste good, and leave extra for tomorrow's lunch, but takes a lot of work comparatively.

What should I have?


also, should I watch my recording of the last West Wing ep, or random anime, or my Buffy season 1 DVD? Or pick one of those mystery Buffy tapes that I never changed the label for during the last FX marathon and just go with whatever's there?

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So I had the burrito. It was excellent. It was only half a burrito, but these are the large kind packed with big hunks of stuff (meat, green chilis, other stuff I can't name but love anyway), so combined with the beans it's left me full. Maybe I'll have a piece of pizza if I get hungry later.

Professionally made chile verde sauce is the best. This world would not be fit for woman or man to find happiness if we didn't have Mexican food. Seriously, I'd probably die. And honestly-- how could I possibly leave the South West? To live in a far away Eastern or Northern state where the number of good Mexican restaurants per town can be counted on one hand... or be replaced with Tex-Mex. ::shudder:: It'd be hell. Pure culinary hell.

I watched Who Are You on the WB. Love that ep. Faith is such a great character. Of course, there was the classic bronze sex-tease with Spike. Turned the tv on abotu a minute before it started, so got to sit back and watch the whole scene unfold in all its glory. Spike was so hot; Faith's dialogue was so hot. Loved the bottle being thrown into the wall.

I also noticed again how damning the events in this episode were to the B/R relationship. I would argue that it was doomed from the beginning, but Faith's presence signalled the beginning of the end for B/R. In Buffy's mind, even if he didn't mean to, Riley cheated on her. With her her most personal enemy. With her sister. I'll bet she thought back to this when she found him cheating the next year with her other enemies--vampires. On top of that-- he couldn't tell.

This episode was great for all the ways that Faith's behavior allowed us to see into Buffy. When she says "I have to do this. I'm Buffy." When she yells at Riley "Dont' tell me what to do!" and then snaps "I can't use you." [in a fight] because he's being overprotective of her. So telling of B/R's future relationship problems.

Also,I know I recognized it last year, but rewatching it has really reaffirmed how much of a paralell the alley in Dead Things was to this. In both we see 'Buffy' on top, physically assualting her shadow/foil character, using the same words of being "empty", "evil", "killer", "dead inside", in violent act of self-hatred taken out on a person she's very close to.

Pretty strong irony that the first time it wasn't Buffy at all, but the second time, in almost the exact same confrontation, it was. You could even say that Buffy's being brought back to life and finding the world different and unwelcoming was comparable to Faith's coming out of the long coma and finding the world had moved on without her.