Stolen from sorchasilver, a TV meme!

Pick your five favorite TV shows (in no particular order) and answer the following questions. Don't cheat!

1. Supernatural
2. Friday Night Lights
3. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
4. Bones
5. Firefly

(This is kind of a "now" skewed list - I love far too many TV shows!)

( The questions! )

I do so love TV! I'm in the process of deciding what to watch next. I feel SO BEREFT without any more Bones or Big Bang Theory to watch! I finished both in the same night, after months of devouring them together. It's strange - they're completely different shows, but my emotional focal point for both is the same. An oddly matched pair (a geek meets a sexy yet semi-awkward cool person) that is obviously magnetically attracted yet cannot seem to acknowledge it themselves. Both do a sort of yo-yo of requited and not. And it's VERY FRUSTRATING. But I love them both so much. (OMG PENNY GROW A SPINE!!!!!!!!)

I am going to continue with Freaks & Geeks, because it is all kinds of charming, but I need something else as well. Generation Kill? True Blood? Legend of the Seeker? How I Met Your Mother? Help, o wise and all-knowing flist! Tell me about characters I will love (without spoilers!), because that is my key to loving any show.

In other, sad TV news, Stargate: 90210 is made of a million kinds of fail. At this point, I'm wondering how the fuck these people ever gave us Atlantis. SGA was not close to perfect, but it was deeply charming and showed real heart sometimes. I'm wondering if that was truly a result of the cast and its glorious chemistry, because I'm seeing none of that in the SGU bits we've gotten. UGHHHHHH.

In other happier news, I'm LOVING Naomi Novik's His Majesty's Dragon. LOVE!!!!!! Will Laurence, come here and be my empathetic, elegant boyfriend right now!! I fell in love with him within two pages and he has only endeared himself to me further. It's fascinating living inside his head because he is such a product of his time, but lacks any sort of malice in his prejudices. For instance, when he's shocked and appalled by a female dragonrider wearing men's clothing, and muses that riding dragons must be very trying on her slight frame, he's not repugnant, simply a fascinating example of the mindset of that time. He has no hostility towards her, merely surprise and curiosity. I love himmmmmm somuch! And Temeraire, oh Temeraire! *draws a lot of hearts*

Now I'm going to watch last week's Leverage, which I somehow forgot about!

Meme snagged from fragglebo:

What five character deaths affected you the most? (SPOILERS for Serenity, HP 5, BtVS S2, SPN S2, and BSG S3)

( Get out the tissues. )

I FINISHED FARSCAPE! :O I did a mini marathon last night, plowing through the end of S4, then Brad drove down and we watched the miniseries this morning/afternoon. It was amazing! I oddly don't have that much to say, but... I loved it. It was satisfying, fun, exhilarating, unpredictable, and all around one hell of a ride. John and Aeryn are so in love it makes me ache, and everyone is just so wonderful *squishes them all*

Brad is the adorable gay guy that I have mentioned before, and want to know what's AWESOME? He's a SLASHER! Hahaha! Specifically of Braca/Scorpius, which is HILARIOUS. He said things like "Braca was totally jealous when Scorpius and Sikozu were doing their thing" and "Look who's saving Braca now!" and many other things and oh man. I almost broke something laughing. FANTASTIC.

So, um. That's that! It was amazing, and I'm so glad I experienced it. Thank you to everyone who forced me to watch it :)

I finished Buffy season 3 with Meg tonight.

( Spoilers, I guess? Though if you haven't seen this show, YOU FAIL. Get on top of that. )

Can you tell I want Joss to have all my babies?

ETA: LOOK AT THE ICON CASSI MADE ME! NO JUST LOOK! *swoons* SO PRETTY. Thank you Cassibean! *huggles endlessly*

Today's been a mindnumbingly boring day at work. Although I did receive three packages, with different things I'd ordered for the next experiment I'm trying, so that was cool. One of them came in dried ice, so I got to dump it in the sink and pour water on it and play with the mist! \o/

In other news:

Comment in echoicons to this post with my username and I will get an icon as a reward!

Pretty please? :D

I got the max number of comments - thanks guys!

Tonight I get to watch more of Buffy S3 (Bad Girls is up soon, SCORE) and possibly Velvet Goldmine with Meg! Yay! It's been altogether too long since I've seen that movie. Like, 3 MONTHS! *gasp* Absolutely uncool. So. That will be fun! :)

Gosh I love this icon.

And gosh I have nothing to say. Shutting up now!

*FLAIL*

YAY.

Look look!!



*Does a happy dance* I submitted this vid to Zeppo Awards, a Buffyverse vid awards site, not expecting anything at all, and I get best vid runner up! *squees* That makes me so happy. And isn't the banner gorgeous?

Here's the rest of the winners if anyone wants to see: http://www.messyjessie.net/zeppo/Main.html

yay :)

On a side note, I never ever tire of this Faith icon. It's happy, but it also has an undercurrent of darkness (from the text) that is so Faith, and the colors are effing gorgeous. *hearts it so much*

ladylisse asked for drabble prompts, and I randomly gave her this, off the top of my head:

"something about Faith's loneliness after waking from her coma and finding that the world has gone and changed dramatically around her, perhaps? *pets Faith*"

And she wrote me this lovely drabble! Oh Faith. You poor thing.

Just to be clear, Faith is used to being fucked over. She just has a different definition of “fucked over” than most people.

She’s a Slayer, with all the ups and downs and ambiguities and self-righteous perky blondes, and she knows that there are no constants, okay? Not the way most people mean, a Middle America home-and-hearth kind of constant, the kind with families and stupid petty problems and less chance of getting fucking stabbed –

And anyway there’s her kill-or-be-killed law-of-the-jungle constant, which she gets. She knows how that goes.

She should be used to this, to the way the world twists and upends itself under her feet. She only counts on herself – but she had a father for a little while and it was nice – and this isn’t like before, this isn’t sharp edges and stakes and a new life in a new state. When she wakes up all sterile-white in a hospital gown, like some kind of Sleeping-fucking-Beauty, she has no point of reference. This is not how it goes.

Faith is used to being fucked over.

This is the first time she’s ever been lost.

This is an archive post for me to keep track of my own videos and awards in. Pay no mind :)

My first music video is called There For You. It's Harry/Hermione, set to "Poprocks and Coke" by Green Day.
Download (Right click -> Save as...) There For You

It's won ( three awards: )

Second video: Alone and Colder - Faith (BtVS), character study, with focus on her relationship with Buffy. Song: "No More Good Guys" by Skindive.

Download here (Right-click -> Save as...): Alone and Colder

My post with a detailed commentary, plus lyrics, can be found HERE.

It has won an award at Tolerable Cruelty:


and Zeppo Awards:


Thank you so much to Elena for hosting these two videos!

Third video: Blind - Supernatural, Dean POV, focus on his relationship with Sam. Song: "Blind" by Placebo.

Thank you to whosjeebus for hosting this one!

It's won two awards at Friendly Neighborhood Video Awards:





And two awards at the Art of Vidding Awards:

IfinishedIfinishedIfinished!!!! *bounces around spastically* It took me almost a year, but I DID IT! And I am very very proud of the finished product. I'd really appreciate if you all took a look at it. I also wrote up a lot of thoughts and commentary, those are optional though :P

Title: Alone and Colder
Vidder: Anne (starsouls1013)
Song: "No More Good Guys" by Skindive
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Seasons 3 and 4)
Character: Faith POV, with focus on her relationship with Buffy
Summary: Faith struggles internally between self-hate and a sense of betrayal by Buffy.
Disclaimer: Joss owns them. Obviously. I grovel at Joss’s feet for giving me this kind of material to work with.
Feedback: Is my bread and water. Seriously. I'd really love to know what you think!
A/N: I was really trying to say something about Faith with this video, about her inner turmoil and her complexity, so I think for a real understanding of this vid, you need to listen to the lyrics as you watch. It’s told from Faith’s mindset after the season four episode "Who Are You". Also, it's very important to recognize that a large portion of the video (at least half) uses footage from Faith's nightmares when she is in the coma. So if you haven't seen the show, all the times where Buffy is freaky and evil are in dreams, and Faith only gets stabbed once.
A/N2: Thank you so much to hermioneluna for a lovely beta job; she really saw the message I was trying to get across and helped me to perceive the video as a whole much more clearly. I’m not sure how many changes I actually made after talking to her (largely because this damn thing took me A YEAR and I was ready to be done with it already!) but she pointed out some really interesting things that I hadn’t even noticed. So thank you hun! :)
A/N3: A huge debt of gratitude is owed to heres_luck, whose stunning Faith video "Superstar" inspired me to start this one. Her written commentary especially taught me so many things both about the technical aspects of vidding and the complexities of Faith as a character. So lots of thanks to her, and I really recommend her vids to anyone.

Download (21.7 MB, wmv) (Right-click -> Save target as...)
(Thank you thank you thank you to Elena over at www.Cheesejoose.com for hosting me!!)
ETA: That file is a little big, so I saved a smaller version. Here is a YSI link for a 9.34 MB version: http://s60.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0HCJYZH4U67NH1DMF7IKM9SYOZ

( Lyrics )

( General analytical commentary )

( Technical Notes )

( Specific comments on moments in the video )

So I’ve rambled on far too long. I apologize. All of this was mostly for my own benefit anyway, but if you read it, thank you and I admire your patience! Please let me know what you think :)

For all Buffy fans on my flist, here's the word of the day at dictionary.com:

effulgence \i-FUL-juhn(t)s\, noun:
The state of being bright and radiant; splendor; brilliance.

Hee! :D