- take me back to:Footlocker: Midlands branch.
- feeling so:
crazy - playing tonight:The Boots are Made for Walking
Basically I was making a sort of crack commentary on Legend of the Seeker, like all the cool kids are doing, and then I had a typo. It was embarrassing, it was awesome, it screamed at me 'YOU MUST MAKE THIS OMG'. So I did. IDEK.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you: Legend of the Sneaker:
( In the name of the BLING OF TRUTH )
- take me back to:Late late late at night
- feeling so:
IDEK - playing tonight:Should should should be asleep
So it's christmas eve :D :D And there are christmas movies, and one of those is, every year, The Greatest Store in the World. No one has ever heard of it but it is a favourite in my family and dammit if I didn't then immediately have to write fanfiction! So I wrote a drabble about my favourite scene.
Brian is the security guard of a big department store who discovers that a homeless family is hiding in the store over christmas. I wuv this film, mainly because Brain is played by Peter Capaldi and Geraldine (the homeless mother) is played by my lovely Dervla Kirwan <3
Title: Story
Fandom/Source Material: The Greatest Store in the World
Rating: G
Summary: Brian fell in love with the story first. Drabble (100 words).
Merry Christmas everyone :D
Also, I am writing Jane/Joanie femslash. For realsies. I might actually finish this one!
- take me back to:snowy london
- feeling so:
chipper - playing tonight:lots and lots of christmas songs!
So I went for a walk in the snow. Did I mention there is snow? THERE IS SNOW. I went out in it because 1) THERE IS SNOW and 2) There is very, very little snow and it will probably have gone by the morning :(
Plans to make a tiny snowman in the garden were scuppered by minus temperatures so instead I bought mince pies at the 24hr Tescos and came home to nom on them.
Is there anything more christmassy than going out in the snow to buy mince pices? Ho ho ho:D ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
lil_fangirl has got snow as well and may be facing a snow day. She has been teasing me all week with texts like 'We have snow! Do you have snow?' and 'It's snowing! Is it snowing there?' and I hated her but now HURRAH snow yay snow yay.
water12 , after which there was christmas shopping. This day, I dub thee christmassiest ever :D WHY HAVE I NO XMAS ICONS?
- take me back to:snow tottenham :D
- feeling so: giddy
- playing tonight:christmas songs
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OMG
SNOW
- take me back to:SNOW
- feeling so:SNOW
- playing tonight:SNOW
aprivatelibrary Once a Year, Every Year
Fandom/Source Material: Being Human
Rating: PG-13
Summary: I never imagined myself here… Living is full of sacrifices for Fleur in the wake of Bernie’s new life; lessons are hard learnt and the most terrible acts are those of survival. One-shot, creepy monologuish POV piece. 1500 words.
Spoilers: Up to 1.04
Notes: I have no idea where this came from. I wrote it ages ago and decided to let it sit for a while before posting it. And seeing as the new series is just around the corner, now seemed as good a time as any to get it posted.
- take me back to:Cold room in silent house
- feeling so: chipper
- playing tonight:Everyone's gone home for xmas but me :(
The Real Merlin and Arthur Icons
[24] Illustrated quotes
[11] Illustrated extremely suggestive quotes
[2] Colin Morgan
[1] Bradley James
[8] Bradley/Colin
[2] Random
Teasers:
( It's the length of Wales! )
Phew. Now, didn't I have some massive research folder to work on? Where did that get to?
- take me back to:...where am I?
- feeling so: excited
- playing tonight:Coldplay: Fix you
Title: She's a Rebel!
Fandom: Merlin
Song and Artist: She's a Rebel by Green Day
Summary: Morgause just has that effect on people. (Episodic for 2x08)
Pairings: Can be read as slightly Morgana/Morgause
Rating: U
DOWNLOAD: Mediafire HERE 42.9mb wmv
( Embedded Video Beneath the Cut )
- take me back to:where I am
- feeling so:
complacent - playing tonight:she's a rebel - green day
So I've got a sore throat and achey-jointy-ness, plus I couldn't get up this morning and had very vivid, confusing dreams all night.* This is probably a mild whack of flu and it sucks. Considering I've had a migraine the last couple of days as well, this makes for the double suck.
On the one hand: I'm sick and it hurts, wah. No fair.
On the other: I stayed up til four am last night again. I can only really blame myself for the double suck.
I'm now going to watch Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, and mope, which I have been planning to do for months (the film, not the moping)
*Meaning I was kidnapped by a cliff-leaping cult and had to flee across Menorca on a hovercraft powered by imagination. And that was just the beginning.
- take me back to:sick
- feeling so:
sick - playing tonight:sick
[13] David Mitchell
[12] Goth Detectives (Noel Fielding/Russell Brand)
[14] Calamity Jane
[15] Deadwood (mostly Jane/Joanie)
[19] S1&2 Doctor Who (mostly Rose)
Teasers:
( Perfectly Unperfect - Patriotic - Sing! )
- take me back to:the darkness
- feeling so:
busy - playing tonight:Terry Pratchett - Diggers
aprivatelibraryTitle: Boy Gods and Birds
Fandom:/Source Material: Irish Mythology / Nameless
Rating: G
Characters: Aengus / The Boy
Deviant Art Link: HERE
Notes: 'Glass' style painting of two boy gods and their birds.
Fake Cut: ( Aengus/Boy - Sping/Winter - Past/Present )
In other news: I actually ate vegetables this weekend! My mother forces them upon me when I visit her. We had leeks, carrot, swede, mushrooms and beans. It was amazing. I also ate roasted vegetables at uni last week! It was yummy even though I hate aubergine, courgettes and olives, which it was entirely made up of.
Although today I've just eaten bread and jam and nutrigrain bars and smoothie.
I have pretty much got as much of the Calamity Jane mood theme as I want and need (I LOVE IT SO MUCH) but not enough to really post it anywhere, so watch this space on that.
Also: I just finished Unseen Academicals. It was yay.
- take me back to:here there and everywhere
- feeling so:
artistic - playing tonight:Doris Day - Secret Love (HOW RELEVANT)
Lookit me being all productive!
For one of my projects last year I wrote songs, which was awesome, and made a few 'official' music videos for them. They're going up on youtube now! Haha. I shall beat my apathy yet! So here's the first song I ever wrote:
Title: Every Side of You
Artist: Amy's Summerhouse (me!)
Rating: PG
Summary: Whatever they decide of you, they won't like every side of you.
Download Link: Megaupload Here - wmv 31mb
Embedded:
- feeling so:
productive - playing tonight:Pete Morton - The Busker's Song
Ah yes. It's five in the morning and I've had nothing but cake, noodles and vodka since lunch at twelve thirty yesterday.
Silly me.
People said I was cool this evening. I... wish I knew how to agree with that. I baked cake at three a.m. and it was good! It was burnt and didn't rise, but these things are solvable. I just had a gay guy in my bed enthusing about my artwork. My life is weird.
- take me back to:my bed
- feeling so: chipper
- playing tonight:at this time of the night?
Feeling a lot better with a couple of days at uni under my belt. Well, feeling better today, at any rate. Yesterday was... not good.
I wrote a few lines of a song yesterday, they're awful but 1) that's what redrafting is for and 2) I am recording them for posterity.* Today's emotions are tomorrow's journey.
( Cut for emo... )
You know that vid I spent three days slaving away at? It won't save. It simply doesn't work. Nothing I can do, I think. I went looking for answers, but the only option seems to be restart from scratch.
My reaction in my soul is ARGH DIAF ARGH HELP ME ARGH WHY ME? but, honestly, ignoring the existential panic, I'm just sort of fed up with the whole thing. Work my ass off and get nothing? Why not. Bah.
I am actually feeling happy today! I found a huge bunch of vids for this and that (no Deadwood, boo) and therefore I am learning new music! Which is good, because recently I've only been listening to High School Musical, the new Mika album, The Mighty Boosh songs and Calamity Jane songs. I need a little seriousness in my life!
Oh, and I'm writing a little bit of Deadwood fanfic. And I made a couple of icons! Which I may or may not ever share; it is dangerous to make promises on this blog :) Calamity Jane as my new default, however, I am very pleased with. I love that sequence :D I totally have to make a CJ mood theme. ilu (so much) Assumpta, but you look funny on my new layout!
* I was so suprised then I discovered this also means 'descendants'. It puts too much posterior in there for my mind.
- take me back to:hereabouts
- feeling so: optimistic
- playing tonight:Tanglewood Tree by ??
So. Mania?
I've just spent three days making a video. Three days as in; get up, make video, go to sleep. Nothing else and I'm including eating more than one meal a day in that. The less said about the toilet the better.
My housemates probably think I've died or something.
I'm so wired and so exhausted and so confused. It seems I can't shut my eyes for thinking about the design of an ergonomic bicycle seat or a Calamity Jane mood theme or a novel-length fanfic or a plan to prevent global warming or a deep understanding of a friend's psyche or something. I think I'm sleeping only because I'm so tired from staying up til five.
Yesterday I ate:
8 Nutrigrain Bars (1 box)
2 slices of bead with philadelphia cheese
3/4 can of sweetcorn.
Today:
2 packets of instant noodles
6 slices of bread with philadelphia cheese
1 nutrigrain bar
I don't know. I get this in cycles but this is pretty intense.
Which bodes well for the downturn I'll no doubt be getting in, ooh, a week? Should be fun.
Ack.
- take me back to:tottenhamness
- feeling so:
worried - playing tonight:Natlie Merchant - My Skin (ARGH)
I made a fanvid! Ok, ages ago, but I keep making them and either never finishing them or failing to show anyone them and seeing as this one is quite good... :)
Title: Who We Are
Fandom: Ice Age 1
Song and Artist: Who We Are by Lifehouse
Summary: Three friends, three journeys, one story.
Download: Megaupload HERE 29.6 mb wmv
Embedded:
- take me back to:Cold!
- feeling so:
cheerful - playing tonight:Who We Are - Lifehouse
So I'm kinda everywhere at the moment, but mostly I'm in Deadwood. No seriously. I haven't slept properly in a week, I've been mainlining Deadwood in every direction. I want to be there. I feel like I have been. I watched the whole thing with the same feeling I used to have about BSG (before it betrayed me by becoming just a TV show). I feel like what I'm watching is real. Oh, I know that it's not, I'm not delusional, but the direction, the writing, the way I feel about the characters, I feel like I'm watching a world inside the screen.
Instead of thinking 'I wish they would write more Jane into this episode,' I'm thinking 'I wish we could see what Jane is up to.'
Did you know there's no fandom? No fandom. Well, a scattering of Seth/Sol fics and a couple of Alma or Trixie-centic vids and a few nice icons here and there but no fandom now and no Jane or Jane/Joanie fandom which is the problem. Because that's all that I want, really.
Did nobody else love Jane like I did? Am I the only one for whom the Jane/Joanie stuff was heartbreaking and beautiful and overwhelming and... ONLY 15 MINUTES LONG. Omg. The last season is about ten hours long. You can fit all of the Jane/Joanie relationship, fist kiss to cancellation, into two short youtube videos. I hate this.
I hate being a shipper. I wish I could live and die by something other than fictional romances.*
But when you get right down to it... I've developed a weird thing for Calamity Jane.
Not just the Deadwood version, also the Doris Day Calamity Jane musical one. Which is femslashy up the whoa. I'm very tempted to recut my own version of that film so that Calam and Katie end up together... although I really dislike Katie and actually like the Bill/Jane dynamic. But I would have to take out all the condescending 'Look how real women behave! You silly jealous female.' stuff, because that's horrible.
I include the real Calamity Jane in my love for her.
I'm going to make videos. I really, really need to make a general Deadwood vid to 'The Deadwood Stage' from Calamity Jane. Just so I can have footage of Al slittin' throats against the line 'just as busy as a fizzy sasprilli'.
Sorry for the long, rambly post. I'm kinda a hooplehead :P
*But not actual honsest-to-god genre Romances. I have no idea why, but the mere ideas of those really bores me. Scares me, in fact!
- take me back to:Deadwood, South Dakota
- feeling so:
indescribable
- playing tonight:Andy Kerr, Tonight <3
Tonight I went to a radio play at the BBC radio place off'f Oxford Street, which was HILARIOUS. It's called Child's Play and our episode (I think the first episode, but perhaps not) airs on the 29th September at 11pm. Awesomely, it has Olivia Colman in it (making tonight the second time I've seen her in the flesh, after walking past her on London Bridge once) and a lot of other cool people.
It was mainly awesome because I'd never seen a radio play before an audience before - I saw Two Pints filmed last year, but that's TV, and I've sat in a recorded interview, but no audience. Education is awesome!
Anyway, I went with my brother Sam, who is stick thin but could eat for a small country, and after the after-radio-play-drinks we fancied some fish and chips:
We enter the fish and chip shop talking about sausages.
Lady behind Counter: Sorry, we just closed. Ten o'clock.
Me: But I want chips!
Sam: It's okay, we'll just go to Pizza Hut.
Me: But I want chii-iips! Wah!
Lady: You want chips? I can get you some chips!
Me: Awesome yeah thank you omg please!
Lady: And sausage?
Me: Yes please!
Lady: *hands us a HUGE box full of left-over chips and sausage; five sausages and at least two portions of chips*
Me and Sam: *gape*
Lady: You can have that for four pounds!
Me: *throwing money at her* OMGTHX! You have saved our evening! WAHEY!
And there goes the diet. I let Sam have three of the sausages and most of the chips and then bought him some pizza anyway, because I am a good sister and besides, owed him for the drinks. We ate while sauntering down Oxford Street feeling proud of ourselves :D
I wrote some Being Human fic, but it needs a lot of work. It's also probably not the sort of thing anyone would want to read, so I'm not sure if I'll bother polishing it...
(Oh, I also joined fanfiction.net. Didn't I mention that?)
- take me back to:Detect me!
- feeling so: content
- playing tonight:We're Breaking Free!
Just a little thoughts round-up of how my tutoring is going so far. E is the nine year old girl, J the six year old boy. Scores are out of ten - eg J7 means the task was 7/10 helpful for J.
Ideas I have tried:
1. Scrap books - successful for E especially. She is always thinking about adding more to it. J is reluctant and claims it is boring, but he has helped glue things in. I think it is too similar to school work for him, though I've tried to jazz it up. Writing E7 J4 / Ideas E8 J3 / Fun E9 J3
2. Treasure Hunts - needed a lot of encouraging to make their own, weren't particularly motivated towards the actual writing parts, though enjoyed playing them and showing off prowress in hiding places. Discussed description with J, but he was too concerned with not giving the game away. Writing E8 J4 / Ideas E8 J6 / Fun E9 J9
3. Writing Prompts - wildy differing on different days/moods/times/prompts. E generally will write a page or two, sometimes under protest, J must be practically tied down on most occasions. Because E has a lot of ideas on her own, I don't set her these a lot, so it's a shame that J always has to do them. Writing E7 J7 / Ideas E9 J7 / Fun E6 J2
4. Competetion - not actual competetion, but a sort of 'write off'. E writes a play where J hates vegetables, I get him to write a story where she hates fruit. She writes a poem in which he loses a card game, he retaliates. Working only for J at the moment. Writing J8 / Ideas J9 / Fun J4
5. Film/Drama - the opportinuty to act and film stories excites E enormously, and she loves to write them, though they can get very stilted ideas-wise. I've baulked at introducing J to the formatting needed to write drama, I'm hoping he will catch on from his sister's scripts. So far he's not shown any inclination to write his own, however. Writing E9 / Ideas E7 / Fun E10 J7
6. Storyboarding - the kids have three blank squares with lines beneath, which they must fill with a storyboard and a story. I filled in the first two pictures for J and encouraged him to come up with the words and the ending. Too easy for E; her story was too simple for what she could create. Writing E6 J6 / Ideas E6 J8 / Fun E8 J5
Ideas for the Future:
1. Mad libs - I have bought two books of mad libs junior. Hope they'll both get something out of it, especially J. He can copy out the words and with any luck will gain a further understanding into how they work. E will hopefully just find it funny.
2. 'Writing Doodle Book' - I found an awesome creative writing helper in Morrisons! Full of easy, 5+ excercises - describe this wizard, draw a robot and circle the right adjectives, fill in a wanted poster... Hope that J will appreciate.
3. Board Games - make a (giant!) story-based game and encourage them to make their own.
4. Puppet shows - especially if they make the puppets and film the show.
Will report on these!
- take me back to:bedroom, bedroomia, bedradome
- feeling so:
thoughtful - playing tonight:nighttime
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