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Have you guys been watching Avatar: The Last Airbender? If not, you need to fix this immediately.
My love for Zuko has made me decide to compile as list of characters with Important Facial Scars/Disfigurements.
So far:
Zuko- large burn scar around left eye, received from father in firebending duel.
Erik/The Phantom, from Phantom of the Opera-born with a messed up face.
Mildmay, from Melusine-got it in a knife fight, right? Impedes his speech.
Dilandau, from escaflowne-small cut as these things go, but sends him batshit insane.
Scar, from the Lion King-it's his name so can't forget him
Help me add! Extra points if it represents/causes angst and/or insanity. Plenty of characters have ordinary scars. Extra double points if you can think of a female example.
What annoys me about the last season of Northern Exposure most is not that my OTP breaks up with finality, but the episode where Ed acts afraid of computers as if he wasn't using one in the very first episode to type up his screenplay. He clearly has more computer experience than most of Cicely.
In other news, the Coldfire trilogy by C.S. Friedman is the most amazing thing ever. It is hilarious. Mostly unintentionally.
In other other news, I'm going to Vericon, yay!
If anyone though I would ever post anything insightful and interesting here, you should probably leave now. But hey, I am posting something, which is more than I've don in a while.
I recently saw "and/or" written somewhere and the first thought in my head was conjunction slash! Fandom has officially warped and destroyed my brain...no, wait, that happened a while ago. To quote Kinetiatrue over at fanthropology, "Oh, the conflict! And loves open relationships; all Or's got to say is that if it's serious then And can have him or all the others, not both."
One of my favorite TV shows of all time is Northern Exposure. For those of you who haven't heard of it, it takes place in a small Alaskan town, Cicely, where a Jewish doctor from Queens is forced to work because he didn't read the fine print on his med school scholarship. It's quite a culture clash, and Joel spends a lot of time counting down the days until he can go home. The residents of Cicely include a millionaire former astronaut, a philosophic ex-con DJ (who I'm totally in love with), and a young Indian who's an inspiring filmmaker/shaman. The real and the fantastic exist very close together in Cicely--Ed, the filmmaker, sees ghosts, which he takes perfectly in stride. Shelley, experiencing her first pregnanacy, finds herself only able to communicate in song.
I cannot possibly express how fabulous this series is, and since the entire thing is out on DVD, you can (and should) go watch it for yourselves. Though I loved the show the first time I saw it, I was too young to really appreciate a lot of it, and am having a fantastic time wathcing it the second time around. The relationship betwee Joel and Maggie, a bush pilot who's lovers have an alarming tendency to drop dead, is the driving force behind the whole sereies. This is not to say that it is the focus of the show, or that the rest of the ensemble cast can't hold their weight, because all the characters and relationships are fabulous. Joel and Maggie are somehow different, and I ship them like crazy, even though I know how it ends (I guess I shouldn't spoil you all).
I managed to get my dear
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orangeaddict hooked, and we've spent an alarming amount of our college career parking in front of one or the other of our identical laptops squeeing over various episodes. Anyway, there's no real point to this entry, and I should be working, but I was in an unhappy mood, so felt the need to write about something that makes me happy.
I recently read Bram Stoker's Dracula, which I'd been meaning to read for a while and finally got around to because of how much I ended up loving Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian. Anyway, I spent most of the book shipping wildly. Dracula/Jonathan, Mina/Lucy, Arthur/Quincey Morris and possibly Dr. Seward/VonHelsing. Mostly though, I enjoyed Jonathan being trapped in Dracula's castle. Isn't being trapped in the villain's large spooky house usually the fate of the beautiful young heroines of gothic novels? Oh, vampires and their nearly automatic homoeroticism.
Anyway, none of the forgoing is actually the point. I want to talk about biting. See, in most vampire books/shows/etc. it seems to me that vampire bites (at least the ones that leave two puncture marks as evidence come from the upper incisors, which usually grow extra long and pointy when the vampires "vamp out." Sometiems, these fangs are more like needles. But in Dracula the evidence of a bite is two small puncture marks very close together that looks almost like a rat bite. This is because the vampires bite people by pinching a fold of skin between the upper and lower incisors. Considering the novel essentially kicked off the whole genre, you'd think that this would be a more popular biting method, but I can't think of any other examples. Thoughts?
I just finally got around to watching Spiderman 3. Does anything about this movie make sense? What is the black goo doing there anyway? Why is it looking at Peter like that? I sort of assumed that a black-suited Spiderman would be sort of evil and I was disappointed that nothing really played out with Peter's dark side. Unless Peter's dark side actually does consist of emo hair, demanding cookies from the landlord's daughter, exposing photo fakery, and swing dancing.
Title:The Adventure of the Crimson Coat
Author:
tmartian42 Recipient's name:
__marcelo Fandom: Sherlock Holmes
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson. No pairings.
Rating and Warnings: PG-13 for...a little bit of violence? Pretty mild.
Summary: Basically, pirate!Holmes crack written for the
swashbucklathon fic exchange. Pirates steal important naval documents. When Watson is captured and forced to act as ship’s doctor, he must decide if Holmes is working against the captain for the sake of Britain...or for his own benefit.Notes: This is definitely AU, with a rather vague setting and time period. Many thanks to the wonderful
orangeaddict for beta reading. All remaining errors are my own fault.( It was a dark and stormy night...well, a very foggy day, at least. )
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