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[snowystingray]

When did I become such a facebook whore? I used to keep such a strict LJ = fandom / FB = real life divide that basically ensured that I never used FB because... well, we all know my fandom >>>> RL priorities; but somehow I migrated all of my TV talk over there and I'm not sure how it happened. WILL BE REMEDIED SOON. Also, this possibly makes me a total bitch, but am I the only one who gets so annoyed when people make completely boring facebook updates? "____ went to work all day, then the grocery store to pick up paper towels, and now I'm going to bed. Tomorrow I'll stop by the post office." UMMM SORRY, NOBODY CARES. (Haha, this is probably how 95% of the people I'm friends with who don't watch Lost have probably felt about me for the past week or two, but... whatever. I demand to be entertained. How dare my friends expect that I be interested in their lives. Psssht! ...Yeah, all right, this does make me a total bitch.)

lalumena gave me some interview questions that I have been stalling on answering because they are just so hard-hitting! I am anguishing over choosing the perfect response for them! Girl, journo has made you positively ruthless.

1. What costume would you love to make if you had the time and money?

This answer brought to you straight from my purely instinctive knee jerk inner seven year old girl reaction:





2. Favourite Marian quote.

Too, too many to choose from! So... I will categorize my top choices.

The cheeky response:
Edward: What did you say to [Gisborne]?
Marian: I said I would marry him and have his children.
-1.06
(KIDDING, KIDDING. ...Kind of.)

The Guide Me, O Wise One response:
Marian: Everything's a choice, everything we do. Grow up. [...] What is it with men and glory? Glory above sense and above reason?
Robin: It is principle--
Marian: Principle is making a difference, and you can't do that if you're dead.
-1.02
(Marian is such a pragmatist AND idealist, which is why I will always love her. And I love that HER words -- "Everything is a choice" -- became such a running tagline for the series [way more inspirational than "WE ARE ROBIN HOOD," just saying.])

The YOU ARE SO ADORBZ response:
Robin: What are you doing here?
Marian: ...Hiding...?
-2.09
(I DON'T EVEN KNOW, but her delivery of that line is the cutest fucking thing in the universe and I will cherish it always.)

The Obligatory Guy/Maz response:
Guy: This isn't a game, Marian. When the Sheriff returns, you're going to die.
Marian: Don't you have the courage to finish this yourself? After all my so-called betrayals, you should be glad to do it.
Guy: This is not my decision.
Marian: Then perhaps it should be.
-2.11
(It is a sign of how deeply this show/ship has twisted my heart and soul that I picked this one. But, guhhh, the "perhaps it should be" is one of the most powerful lines she ever spoke to Guy in the entire series. That challenge -- that "TAKE RESPONSIBILITY" urging -- that vocalized desire to see Guy's choices and unmask who he truly is, now that he has unmasked her -- goddamn. Good stuff.)

3. Would you rather fight off one bear-sized duck or five duck-sized bears?
YOU WOULD NOT EVEN BELIEVE HOW LONG I THOUGHT ABOUT THIS. I... I... man. I've gotta go with the duck-sized bears, because...? Ducks scare me, no matter what size they are? And at least I could take the tiny bears on one at a time, instead of battling with a Gorn-esque duck giant? I worry that this choice will come back to haunt me in the next life, though. D:

4. What is your guilty pleasure movie?

SO MANY. WHERE TO START. There are plenty of movies that I know are dumb/cheesy/horrid and yet they delight me anyway (FLASH GORDON, PRIME EXAMPLE). There are also movies that aren't really that bad, but I feel embarrassed by how emotionally invested I get in them? (PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, PRIME EXAMPLE. If you're ever thinking about defriending me and need something to convince you that I'm a weirdo you would be ashamed to be seen associating with on the internet -- just click my "phantom of the opera" tag and you'll be good to go.) Also add to this basically anything on Disney Channel. GOOFY MOVIE, ANYONE?

Pretty much the best scene of my tweens, right there. I will still watch this every time it's on TV and cry at the Possum Park DON'T JUDGE ME. Okay, let's stop before we get into things like The Parent Trap (LiLo flavor) or the American Girl TV movies or, heaven help me, DCOMs.

5. You can replace any fictional character for up to a month. (Preferably books, but TV and movies are also open.) Who do you choose, how long for, and why? (You can change the ending of their fiction, but only if supported by very good reasoning! Or ridiculous manips.)

Gosh, this is hard! I guess it depends on how you approach it, too -- would it be me taking over their lives, or would I literally become that person and their thoughts/feelings/attitudes? If the latter, I'd think I'd go for one of my badass ladyloves (Cutthroat Bitch, Scarlett O'Hara, any Katharine Hepburn character ever) just to know what it feels like to be LARGE AND IN CHARGE with nerves of steel (clearly this is something I will never experience in my own life, haha). If the former, though... hmm. HMMM. I want to say someone from Star Trek, just so I could have awesome space exploration times.

[Aside -- my sister just called me in the middle of me writing this to talk about Lost, which somehow turn into talking about show finales I Have Known and Loved/Hated, which turned into me spending way too long explaining Paul/Echo, which turned into me spending WAY WAY WAY too long explaining Guy/Marain (Her: "So... why did Guy kill Marain, exactly?" Me: "OH MY GOD I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHERE TO START OKAY SO THERE'S THIS STUFF WHERE HE LOVES HER BUT THEN HE STABS HER ONCE BUT DOESN'T KNOW IT'S HER AND SHE LIVES BUT THEN HE FINDS OUT LATER BUT THEN THEY KISS AND MAKE UP AND WAIT I LEFT OUT THE PART WHERE HE RAN INTO A SOON-TO-BE-BURNING BUILDING FOR HER AND AND AND--"). Yeah, that conversation took about AN HOUR, and now I've completely lost my train of thought.]

Right! Me being a Trekverse character! HMMM. I think I should either be... toss-up between Uhura and Quark. Uhura because -- YYYYEAH BUDDY, YOU KNOW WHY:



...and also communications/linguistics is probably one of the few things in Starfleet I would be remotely (like, 1% remotely) qualified to do. I refuse to switch places with anybody in engineering. And then I would have Uhura's vocal cords and could serenade everybody in the rec room.

But I don't really want to wear a miniskirt to work every day for a month, which is why Quark is my other pick. He gets to be in the hub of activity, but he doesn't have to wear a uniform! He gets to see people from all over the quadrant (TWO quadrants, even) popping in and out every day! What better way to hear awesome stories and meet awesome people than by being the friendly neighborhood bartender? Granted, I've never worked food service before so I probably wouldn't be all that good at it, but I would just make Rom do all the work anyway while I tried out new holosuite programs to "test for quality" because, you know, I wouldn't want to offer anything to my customers that I hadn't personally inspected. Plus, I mean, scope out this sexy beast:



Who wouldn't want to have that hot bod for a few weeks? Ziyal approved!

(Sorry, that was probably the worst possible answer to this question. To be honest, I'm too timid to be a fictional character! They're all so... active! And motivated! My fictional character soulmate is actually Dean from Big Wolf on Campus.)

(ETA: Also, I just realized that I think I misinterpreted this question. Do you mean, like... I would step into the fiction and take over as my own person? Like a Lost in Austen thing? WHOOPS. Actually, no, I'd probably still want to take over Quark's anyway, haha.)

Comments

[lalumena.livejournal.com]

The sleeves on that Labyrinth dress are craaaazy huge, but the overall effect is pretty stunning (in a good way)! Bet it'd be a mission to make, though.

Girl, journo has made you positively ruthless.
Haha, YES. That made my day better, seriously!

But I don't really want to wear a miniskirt to work every day for a month
I HEAR YOU. My gosh, but those original skirts were SHORT.

Marian: Principle is making a difference, and you can't do that if you're dead.
Haha, it's lines like these that make her a great character. Snarky but right. I really like the quotes you chose! Some of them weren't ones I remembered, so that was nifty to be reminded of them.

Including:

Edward: What did you say to [Gisborne]?
Marian: I said I would marry him and have his children.
-1.06

I HAD TOTALLY FORGOTTEN THAT. ♥ I call that Freudian. ;) Do you think it would be possible to edit together clips that did make her look like she was totally crushing on Gisborne and ended up marrying him? I know that sort of sounds like most fanvids, but I feel like most go along with the canon storyline. It could be pretty wicked...especially if the sound clips made it more believable!

would it be me taking over their lives, or would I literally become that person and their thoughts/feelings/attitudes?
I totally didn't make that clear, so let's just say it could have been either! I think I was more thinking about you swapping places with the person a la Lost in Austen or Thursday Next, rather than actually being. But your answer was interesting too!) And Quark is totally a hottie, I don't know how anyone could say otherwise.

WAIT I LEFT OUT THE PART WHERE HE RAN INTO A SOON-TO-BE-BURNING BUILDING FOR HER AND AND AND
Say what now? Maybe I be trippin', but I have totally forgotten this bit? Oh wait - unless you're talking about 2x10 aka Helm's Deep? I STILL REALLY LOVE THAT MOMENT. Siiiigh.

[snowystingray.livejournal.com]

Do you think it would be possible to edit together clips that did make her look like she was totally crushing on Gisborne and ended up marrying him?
I HAVE THOUGHT THIS SO MANY TIMES. Surely that line exists for no other purpose but for one of those out-of-context audio manips. I should look into that...

And, haha, yeah -- like I said at the end of the post, after I hit "post entry" it suddenly dawned on me that, wait, I think I answered that question in the wrong way...! But I was kind of too lazy to go back and change it. I guess I do still stand by my Quark answer (even though it wouldn't be quite as awesome if I didn't get to become a Ferengi in the process).

unless you're talking about 2x10 aka Helm's Deep? I STILL REALLY LOVE THAT MOMENT.
YES YES, THAT MOMENT. I tried to relate the "and without her, my world may as well turn to ash" line to my sister but there was no way for it to come out without sounding like the cheesiest thing on Earth, so I just kind of tried to explain around it, and... yeah... I'm sure my sister was on the other end and just set the phone down and went to do dishes for twenty minutes or something while I rambled on. IT IS IMPORTANT THAT PEOPLE KNOW MY FEELINGS ON THESE MATTERS, THOUGH. I think I might have to spam her with appropriate YouTube clips now.

[hulamoth.livejournal.com]

I cried when I first saw the Goofy Movie. I was also like, 8. Holy shit, when did that come out??

That challenge -- that "TAKE RESPONSIBILITY" urging -- that vocalized desire to see Guy's choices and unmask who he truly is, now that he has unmasked her -- goddamn. Good stuff.)
nnnrg YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW actually mostly during that scene my brain is on, "Is she really trying to seduce her way out of this?" and then he moves in and she's like, "Woah woah not ready!" and I laugh heartily but you're so right. I need to watch that again.

these answers are all so awesome.

(plus duck sized bears. Is it so wrong that I'd try to hug them? Probably. They'd try to eat me. But still. DUCK SIZED BEARS!)

[snowystingray.livejournal.com]

1995. I KNOW. MY GOD. I was just thinking about this with Toy Story as well -- like, what the hell, the target audience of Toy Story 3 WAS NOT EVEN BORN when Toy Story came out. Or Toy Story 2, even. :/ (Also, no, I AM STILL NOT OVER THE FACT THAT TIMMY DALTON IS DOING TS3. HECK TO THE YES. I AM SO THERE.)

This is probably relevant to your interests...

[hulamoth.livejournal.com]

hey! are you online? could you look at something for me?

[snowystingray.livejournal.com]

Yeah, sure. (Well, I'm watching Strike Back right now, but I keep getting bored and checking my e-mail every six minutes.) I'll get on AIM...

[hulamoth.livejournal.com]

thank you! (also is Strike Back really that lame? that's lame.)

OMG TIM D. Now I have to see Toy Story 3. Even though I hate that series. Gosh damnit, Dalton.

(oh, that accopello group! go with the spelling I'm tired. I think they did Bad Romance too?)

[arcadiaego.livejournal.com]

I find it weird when people write mini blogs about their day as their Facebook status because to me that's just not what you're supposed to use it for. But half the time I don't have anything to update with at all so I can't really talk.

Can you interview me? *bats eyelashes* I feel like my LJ is horribly neglected lately.

[snowystingray.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I feel like I don't have much room to criticize because I certainly know that my life is pretty much a string of unremarkable mundanities... but I just never put those sorts of things on my status, then? It just confuses me because -- okay, before I say this I already know that it's going to sound like all of my internet activities are just fishing for comments, haha -- but to an extent that kind of is the purpose, you know? If you put something out there, presumably it's because you want people to read it and have a reaction to it, and potentially to respond as well. I always feel awkward when reading the "going to Wal-Mart for paper towels" updates precisely because I don't know how I'm suppose to respond to/interact with that. It's the internet equivalent of pointless small talk with strangers in the check-out, and it always seems out of place to me because, right, isn't fb supposed to be a network of your FRIENDS, not random strangers? But then I guess that also speaks to the larger issue of the shifted paradigm for "friendship" on facebook, sooo... okay, I will stop psychoanalyzing social networking sites now!

Interview questions!!

1. I was rewatching Star Trek: XI earlier this week which, as usual, led to a phone conversation with my sister in which we both bemoaned the lack of any new Trek shows on TV right now, followed by our brainstorming for what a new show should be. So! I pose the same question to you: if the Trek franchise were to return to the small screen, how would you develop the new series? (It doesn't have to be a full seven-season outline or anything; but what sort of characters would you like? A return to Enterprise adventures, or something stationary a la DS9? More Starfleet, or a shift to another organization/race/culture? Anybody in particular you would like to cast in a Trek show? Etc. etc.)

2. The Lost finale gave us a heaping dose of character closure, and yet there are still some gaps of 2007-?? open for speculation. Have you started forming any personal canon for what happened to certain characters post-show timeline? If so, what?

3. What's one song that always cheers you up?

4. What's one technology that you hope we have within the next twenty years?

5. What item of clothing in your wardrobe have you had the longest? Extra bonus points for photos!