Minor victory thread
- Thread starter Thread Necromancer
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for now?
I don't mind it, but honestly anything I watch on the computer gets its opening skipped after I've seen it once.
That was a big "oooohhh, that's where it comes from" moment for me and Julie too.
I could look at those guys all day! I hope there are also marmosets.
Whedon has a thing for impalings. I'm not sayin', I'm just sayin'.
Supposedly in an interview, perhaps with Nathan Fillion, the subject of one of the themes in Joss' work came up - namely, the repeated murders of female characters in his shows. Fillion says something to extent of, "Yeah, how many young women /have/ you killed?" and Whedon goes, "I thought we were going to leave my personal life out of this!"
I forgot my badge for work today so I went to security to get a temporary badge for the day. They asked me for my work ID number so I gave it to them adn tehy told me it was the wrong number. I was surprised but I figured it was early morning and I must be saying the wrong number so I gave them my drivers license so they could look me up in the computer. After they looked me up they were surprised and said I did give them the correct ID number but they didn't think it was the right account at first cause I didn't look much like the picture. So apparently I have lost enough weight that my picture from 3 years ago looks like a completely different person.
Now imagine what would've happened if you didn't have your goatee? I say it stays!
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makare
will that result in a happy ending?
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Supposedly in an interview, perhaps with Nathan Fillion, the subject of one of the themes in Joss' work came up - namely, the repeated murders of female characters in his shows. Fillion says something to extent of, "Yeah, how many young women /have/ you killed?" and Whedon goes, "I thought we were going to leave my personal life out of this!"[/QUOTE]
This whole "women in refrigerators" thing bugs me. It's statistically true, but it's often explained stupidly. It's not some woman-hating ritual in print. It's just a symptom of an overabundance of male heterosexual writers. Who do you kill for emotion? The one who would effect you as the writer the most. If you (the general you) want to blame anything, blame the hiring practices of movie/book/comic companies.
I actually thought that trope was beautifully subverted in Firefly...
...in the very first episode.
Kaylee was introduced to the audience immediately as a very innocent and adorable female character, the type that Whedon tends to target. When she was shot in the first episode, I messaged the friend who loaned me the DVDs and said "knew Kaylee would be killed eventually but this seems too soon, totally called it though".
Mal even seemed to confirm Kaylee's death to Simon, who rushes to the infirmary to see that she is still alive and actually doing pretty well. Mal and the crew laugh it up in the bridge, trope averted.
I laughed my ass off because it was pretty great to have Whedon play me like that, using my expectations of his previous work against me.
Kaylee was introduced to the audience immediately as a very innocent and adorable female character, the type that Whedon tends to target. When she was shot in the first episode, I messaged the friend who loaned me the DVDs and said "knew Kaylee would be killed eventually but this seems too soon, totally called it though".
Mal even seemed to confirm Kaylee's death to Simon, who rushes to the infirmary to see that she is still alive and actually doing pretty well. Mal and the crew laugh it up in the bridge, trope averted.
I laughed my ass off because it was pretty great to have Whedon play me like that, using my expectations of his previous work against me.
Little sad that I haven't had time to do much posting around here, or other places, but I'm having a lot of fun doing this Video Blog thing, and I can see clear improvement in recent videos over my first few.
Also, this Nepal thing is coming together very nicely, so that's really exciting.
I just finished watching my seventh episode of Doctor Who, which is very good. I cannot believe it's taken me this long to get into it.
And I'm waiting for a pot of curry to finish cooking, which promises to be delicious.
Also, this Nepal thing is coming together very nicely, so that's really exciting.
I just finished watching my seventh episode of Doctor Who, which is very good. I cannot believe it's taken me this long to get into it.
And I'm waiting for a pot of curry to finish cooking, which promises to be delicious.
I agree. The thing with Whedon is he is completely merciless in what he does to characters he knows people like. Hell, in the last season of Buffy...
...look what he does to Anya. She just gets gutted and there's no mourning period. You see her take the hit, see her fall, see her dead as Xander's dragged out. Each shot added up equals maybe a minute of screen time.
But he manages to play you pretty hard a couple times in Firefly.
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Tomorrow's pay day, tomorrow's pay day, tomorrow's the day that I am getting paid, yay!
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rabbitgod
Well after a nice stint of unemployment I got into a grad program that starts in January and a terribly low paying job in my field so that's a minor victory for me.
That means I'll have more time to come around here and post, which is an Epic Victory...for Halforums.
That means I'll have more time to come around here and post, which is an Epic Victory...for Halforums.
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Finally, my life is getting back into some semblance of order after that thing that finally ended that I can't talk about. I feel like I can think clearly again. I applied for two grants in one week, organized my grad students into weekly meetings, and got my grades up to date. This thing had me as a half-person. There's still some residual nastiness and depression, but it's fading.
The woman I'm making the chainmail and scale for is over the moon about the progress so far and is already talking about other pieces she's interested in having me do. I'd sent her a paperweight sample of some kingsmail (a pattern of mail) which she apparently liked so much that she sent me "something" in appreciation. Guess I'll find out when it gets here.
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rabbitgod
If it's not a picture of her in a chainmail bikini she already owns I'll be pretty disappointed.
Or cookies, that's probably good too. Any sort of pastry really.
If it's not a picture of her in a chainmail bikini she already owns I'll be pretty disappointed.
Or cookies, that's probably good too. Any sort of pastry really.[/QUOTE]
GIVE ME PASTRY OR GIVE ME TITS!
I think I heard that yelled in New Orleans, in Creole, at Mardi Gras one year. I do know that I overheard two girls discussing the uses of a cookie scoop during sex. Strange town.