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[11 Nov 2009|05:02pm] [ mood | sick ] No. Just no. Ughhh I feel sick. I haven't been sleeping and I've ingested so much sugar and caffeine today I feel like terrible and I have so much homework to do and fuck it all Dollhouse is canceled. BUT IT IS STILL COMING BACK ON THE AIR TO FINISH ITS SECOND SEASON RUN. WATCH IT ON FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4TH ON FOX 8/7c AND 9/8c. And then once it's over in January, assuming all hope is indeed lost and it does not somehow magically come back for a season 3 due to the awesome ratings it WILL get in December because we are going to advertise the piss out of it (RIGHT GUYS? YEAH, I THOUGHT SO. DO IT, DO IT NOW)... once it's over, IF it's over, I will never ever watch a show on FOX again. Ever. In my life. 3 comments|post comment

Other glorious and completely necessary creations. [11 Nov 2009|03:31pm] [ mood | epic ] http://notabanana.ytmnd.com/ and http://anyarose.net/Anna.swf Your lives are now complete. And now I must resume writing my screenplay. 2 comments|post comment

Sure sign of the anti-christ: I wear my sunglasses over my glasses. [11 Nov 2009|01:22pm] [ mood | predatory ] 7 comments|post comment

If you don't like cats and science ficiton in some variety, you're right out. Lulz. [07 Nov 2009|03:44am] [ mood | sleepy ] In general, do you find yourself more attracted to people with similar or different interests, life experiences, political beliefs, and religious backgrounds? Do you think having some common interests/goals is essential for a successful relationship? View 510 Answers I prefer a solid foundation of similar interests and beliefs and yes I think it's absolutely essential. Similar experiences and backgrounds not necessarily, though. I find it easier to love someone I have interests in common with because it provides ground for interesting and enjoyable conversations that both of us will be genuinely engaged in. All of our interests obviously don't have to be the same, but there must be at least a couple big things we share. The only relationship I've ever been in where this was not the case failed because of it - she didn't understand the attention I devoted to my obsessions and got mad at me for it, which in turn drove me further away from her. I like obsessing over or at the very least mutually appreciating movies, shows, books, artwork, science, et cetera with my significant other. I also love the process of showing each other the fixations we don't happen to already share - nothing's more exciting than cuddling up and playing your special someone one of your favorite series for the first time and then getting to watch something they enjoy in return and experience their excitement when you start to get into it. It's both a fabulous bonding experience and a means of reliving that obsession as it was for you the first time around. Same thing goes for beliefs - not all of mine and theirs must align perfectly, but at least a couple of them should. It's fun to dig into the details of an issue and debate it out with someone, but not constantly and not so much with your significant other. If you're serious about the relationship they're probably going to wind up being the person you come home to every day and the person you confide in most regarding proceedings of said day. At that point in time I usually want someone who will at least somewhat sympathize with what I have to say, or will simply listen and contribute intelligent commentary -- not someone who would be liable to want to argue about it on the spot. That would become stressful and unpleasant really quickly and would make home not feel like a safe place to relax. What's not essential are having similar experiences, backgrounds or personalities. Yes if you share the same interests and beliefs you've going to share some personality qualities, but I actually find it's a better dynamic if a lot of this is different: someone high strung should be with an easy going partner, someone shy should be paired with someone fairly outgoing, et cetera. This helps ground you and balance you out as a person. And with that foundation of similar interests and beliefs, I find I'm more likely to trust them and to step outside my comfort zone or vice versa situationally. And of course, these are all base-state qualities I'm talking here, because when you're with someone long enough you tend to configure yourself to correspond to them and you each become a bit more like the other and start to fill each other's specific needs. I know that I certainly came out of my last relationship with a good deal of my significant other's qualities and he also definitely came out with several of mine. Serious healthy relationships are super dynamic, life changing experiences. post comment

IT'S 6 IN THE MORNING AGAIN WHAT THE FUCK. [05 Nov 2009|06:16am] [ mood | exhausted ] What is your all-time favorite, romantic movie scene? What about it speaks to you? View 1015 Answers MY FAVORITE IS ANIMATION STUDENTS STAYING UP FOR 769471053 HOURS AND STILL NOT GETTING THEIR HOMEWORK DONE DESPITE IT ALL. BY OUR POWERS COMBINED, WE MAKE HAIR. 9 comments|post comment

Writer's Block: Seeing stars [27 Oct 2009|02:55pm] [ mood | amused ] Which character from any film, television show, or book would you most like to take on a date and why? Submitted By blue_mariposa88 View 2251 Answers Oh, why the hell not: I'm torn between Topher Brink or Kara Thrace (Starbuck). Hmm. Adorable man-nerd or a bad ass woman who could knock me off my feet? vs. In a fight, Kara would without a doubt kick Topher's ass, so it wouldn't be fair to decide via a death match. Both are incredibly flawed individuals, but I like it that way. Would I prefer someone arrogant about their brain or someone arrogant about their skills with a gun? Topher would most likely loose interest in me in favor of his work. Kara would most likely sleep around, because that's how she is. Your call, friends. Vote on it! Which would you rather go out with? 22 comments|post comment

Dollhouse: 2.4 "Belonging" [23 Oct 2009|11:08pm] [ mood | ecstatic ] OH MY GOD. OH. MY. GOD. THIS SHOW, WHY IS THIS SHOW SO AMAZING. OH MY GOD I AM COMPLETELY... GUH. I CANNOT FORMULATE COHERENT LANGUAGE RIGHT NOW YES. 3 comments|post comment

Dollhouse tonight - "Belonging" - watch it! [23 Oct 2009|07:51pm] Dollhouse TONIGHT - 9/8c on FOX. Screeners report this to be the BEST episode of the show yet. The episode was written by Maurissa Tancharoen and Jed Whedon, who previously brought us "Haunted" and "Epitaph One". It is directed by Jonathan Frakes of Star Trek: The Next Generation fame (good ol' Number One). Tune in or you'll have missed out big time! East coasters, one hour to AWESOME. 1 comment|post comment

Breathing space. [23 Oct 2009|07:16am] [ mood | sleepy ] Really pretty vidding always makes my day. Not the sort of fan videos that just mash clips together willy-nilly and throw Evanescence or something over top, but vids that really try to take the visuals and the sound scape and mesh them to produce an emotional effect. Timing is extremely crucial. Amazing case in point of vidding done right is this piece by ditzypie: The whole thing feels so fragile - in a good way! The wispy, blurred and faded appearance of each clip appears in perfect time with the gentle, sparse piano music accompanying the video. Jump cuts and frame blending are also used to great effect in keeping the timing synced with that piano. The reverb added to the dialogue sound clips layered over top combined with the momentary pauses and total fades to black give the video a real three dimensional space (probably their goal considering they've entitled it "Breathing Space" - well played indeed). And of course, the choice of clip/dialogue pair ups is brilliant, almost making the lines into internal monologues rather than shared moments. Altogether, watching this video I simultaneously felt the vulnerability of the characters and like I was standing in a large, enemy room looking at a small glass trinket sitting abandoned in the middle of the floor. And that's just friggin' cool. Kudos! 6 comments|post comment

FOX benches Dollhouse during the November sweeps... [22 Oct 2009|03:17am] [ mood | annoyed ] SADFACE. MY SADFACE. DO YOU SEE IT? IT IS EXTRA SAD. :((((((((((((((( I think the month of November would probably now be unbearable were it not for my frakking awesome new Dollhouse roleplay with the most excellent tinkerbell_hips to tide me over. It may still be unbearable anyway because gorrammit I wanted to see those Summer Glau episodes they sounded so awesome ahhh wtf. On the other hand, you can bet your bums I will be advertising the hell out of Dollhouse's December 4th return. You should all do the same. I hope they stick to this plan so that we can advertise, y'know, the correct information. I still have an animation to finish due at 9 AM tomorrow at it is 3:30 AM. Sigh. Best be returning to that. Just had to take a moment to be appropriately surly and shout a bit. ETA: 6:30 AM: ANIMATION CONQUERED. Next, Fox. Then, THE WORLD. 6 comments|post comment

Question Meme. [20 Oct 2009|03:26pm] [ mood | awake ] Yeah ok, so I stole a meme thing: The problem with LJ: We all think we are so close, but really we know nothing about one another. So I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. Ask away. I wouldn't say we know nothing, I mean, I know that you're all retardedly awesome. Like waffles. Maaaybe even Star Trek waffles smothered in chocolate sauce. Although that's a tough call, because that's pretty damn awesome. But ASK ME SOME SHITE BITCHEZ. Then repost and I will ask you junk too. <3 And now for something completely different, allow me to nab your attention with a hot picture of Amy Acker. Hey, HEY. It worked, didn't it? 41 comments|post comment

FFFFFFFF KITTY SPAM. <3 [16 Oct 2009|07:59pm] [ mood | bouncy ] AHHH THE CUTE LOOKIT MY BABIES OMG: GUH. I think my cute sensor overloaded. ♥ And look how much bigger Phantom has gotten! My goodness, by the time I see her and Lucky again they will be HUGE. Also, awwww Mr. Baby Cat. So much love. SO MUCH LOVE. I can't wait to see you guys. Thanksgiving can't come soon enough. ♥ ♥ ♥ ( Speaking of Lucky, here's him being a dorkus. ) Seriously, that kitten finds the most uncomfortable looking positions to sleep in possible. 6 comments|post comment

Rest in Peace, Miska. [15 Oct 2009|09:43pm] [ mood | lonely ] As you probably already gathered from my post yesterday, my baby Miska slipped from this life yesterday afternoon. She was fifteen years old. Miska started life as "Doright Durango", racing in Florida until the age of five. She found her forever home with us in the summer of 2000. When we went to the kennel where the Greyhound Adoption of Ohio kept their charges, she was markedly different from the other greys. She was loud - barking, whining and carrying on, and ran around the other dog's crates stealing treats and other bits of food. (Greyhounds are known for being generally quite quiet, laid back dogs.) My mom even wondered aloud, "Who would want that dog?" Long story short: I did. ( More pictures and stories about Miska under here. ) 6 comments|post comment

Rest in Peace, Shadow. [13 Oct 2009|01:02pm] [ mood | sad ] From my mom: Shadow was peacefully laid to rest yesterday. We buried him in the spot where he had his 'hole'. We put Tiger's ashes in with Shadow since he started that hole. Planted a mass of tulips and daffodils above them. Shadow lounging in the hole in question - it was a nearly lifelong project for him and was impressively deep, despite our very best efforts to fill it in now and again to keep him from hurting himself when they ran around outside. Shadow started life as "Clean Runner", a racing dog in Iowa, and came into our lives at six years of age named "Manner". He had been retired from racing at five years of age, was adopted by another family for one and when they decided they didn't want him anymore, he found his forever home with us. We changed the name to "Shadow" and so he remained for the next seven years in our household. ( Many more pictures and stories about Shadow. ) I'm sad that I didn't get to say good-bye in person, but I know he's much more comfortable now. So... good-bye. 12 comments|post comment

Goodness gracious! [13 Oct 2009|01:05am] [ mood | chipper ] Fox: We will air all 13 'Dollhouse' episodes Ahem -- AHHHHHH HOLY SHIT YES YES YES YES THE AWESOME YES FRAKKING YESSSS. Also, the closing statements made me laugh: "Beckman also humorously characterized deciding the show's fate as a bit of no-win situation when it comes to dealing with Whedon's passionate fans. "If you cancel it, you're an asshole; if you renew it and then don't put it back on, you're an asshole," he said. "I'm still paying for 'Terminator.' 'Dollhouse' has a small rabid fan base that in the world of social media seems bigger than it is. We gave them another season knowing full well we were going to burn in hell if we pulled it."" I approve of this scheduling chief guy and his sense of humor. Or sense of self-preservation. The two are hard to distinguish in this instance. ;P So ten more episodes are, FOR SURE, coming our way on live television, assuming they stick to this promise. There is however some subtext there about putting the show on hiatus during the November sweeps if the ratings aren't high enough to be profitable then and of course the unlikelihood of nabbing either a back 9 or a third order of 13 episodes unless ratings drastically improve and catch their attention. So what does these mean? Do not become complacent! The viral fan advertising campaigns must continue. The first rule of Dollhouse is, tell everyone you know about Dollhouse. The second rule of Dollhouse is, tell everyone you know about Dollhouse! Via Dawnfire87 on Whedonesque: "Trick now is to not become complacent. If we can really keep up the promoting and continue to advocate for the Save Dollhouse campaigns, than we might be able to get those ratings up to the modest levels Fox was hoping for. I know a lot of people haven't been thrilled with the first 3 episodes this season, but it's still early in the game. I don't think we've seen nothin' yet. (Personal aside: pfft, I was thrilled with both "Vows" and "Belle Chose"! In fact, I've already watched them both more times than is remotely healthy, ahaha. "Instincts" was a bit lack luster to me but still good.) Getting 13 episodes of a second season was a miracle, and I must admit I'm even sort of surprised that all 13 episodes are going to air. They are being very fair. I don't think those back 9 are out of the question yet, and neither is the possibility of a 3rd season. In addition to fan generated influences, these upcoming episodes may be good enough to draw in some audience on their own accord, ala Man on the Street. I certainly think Summer Glau's appearance will help, maybe pull in some of the Terminator fans. But even if 13 is all we ever get, I am extremely thankful to the people at Fox for giving us what I believe is shaping up to be an excellent second season. Last seasons finale was not in any position to give me a sense of closure. Had that been the last episode, I would have been devastated. But Joss knows where things stand, and as he has guaranteed enough closure to account for the real possibility of the end, I can at least stop worrying. And just stick with Hoping." Dollhouse resumes Friday, October 23rd. Watch it or Adelle and Topher will judge you. Harshly. And then they won't share their inappropriate starches with you. 3 comments|post comment

We are amazing. [10 Oct 2009|02:23pm] [ mood | ecstatic ] Ratings for last night are in - Dollhouse scored a 1.0 this week! That's up from 0.8 last week. Trends had indicated it was going to go down to a 0.7... so you know what this means? It means the fan advertising campaign is probably working. Hell. Yes. WE ARE AMAZING GUYS. LOVE YOU ALL. It's by no means safe though, so don't drop the ball yet! Watch last night's episode on Hulu and Fox on Demand today and buy it in iTunes! Last week we took the rating from 0.8 in the demo and 0.9 in the final - if we could make this week 1.1 in the final think how awesome that would look? If the ratings stay 1.0 and above we'll probably get the rest of the ordered thirteen-episode season. And of course the ultimate goal is to get the ratings up and stabilized around 1.3 by December, which would mean we get a back 9 (order for 9 more episodes to bring the season to 22 episodes in length)! GO TEAM DOLLHOUSE. <3~ Ahahaha. 1 comment|post comment

Dear Internet, [09 Oct 2009|10:51pm] [ mood | energetic ] IT'S CAPSLOCK TIME! DOLLHOUSE WAS MIND BLOWINGLY AWESOME THIS WEEK. IF YOU DIDN'T WATCH IT YOU MISSED OUT, SO GO CHECK IT OUT TOMORROW ONCE IT'S UP ON HULU. 5 comments|post comment

[08 Oct 2009|12:43am] [ mood | blank ] My mom informed me that apparently our greyt babies aren't doing so well. Shadow especially not (the black male above), but Miska (the faun brindle female) is having difficulties too. They have lead long, comfortable lives (13 and 15 years, respectively) but I hope they hang in there awhile longer. Please keep them in your thoughts. 2 comments|post comment

"We don't see things as they are. We see things as we are." [07 Oct 2009|01:49pm] 2 comments|post comment

From the Bureau of Super Important Updates. [07 Oct 2009|02:05am] Which Dollhouse Character Are You? More on Dollhouse. Created by BuddyTV Yep. I'm down with that. I think I should go to bed, I have class in the morning and all - but I don't really feel like it at the moment. I'd rather get something done. Sleep is for the weak. post comment

[07 Oct 2009|12:23am] [ mood | amused ] Sci-fi club went well again tonight. By request of one of the members, we watched the "naked Mal episode of Firefly" (aka "Trash", but I must say her name for it is much more descriptive!) and ate candy. These two events alone would already mean we were awesome, BUT WE DIDN'T STOP THERE. OH NO. We proceeded to have a GEEKY DANCE PARTY using the five lightsabers I just happen to have on hand in my dorm as glowsticks. The playlist included essentials such as the Picard Song, Do You Wanna Date My Avatar? and The USS Make Shit Up. While listening to the music I put up slide shows of geeky things on the television screen (which was hooked up to my laptop right then). This eventually devolved into watching videos of cute kittens fighting - with geeky techno still untzing along in the background, of course. WHY ARE WE SO AWESOME. 5 comments|post comment

Dollhouse Graphics Pool. [06 Oct 2009|03:51am] [ mood | chipper ] Fan of Dollhouse? Want to help promote the show? The Dollhouse Graphics Pool on Flickr is your one-stop source to all manner of fan-made banners, icons and posters that can be used freely to advertise the show. Have you made some Dollhouse advert graphics of your own? Willing to share them with the cause? Then please join the pool group and submit all of your relevant graphics to the pool as well! Thank you! :) post comment

The time has come. [04 Oct 2009|03:49pm] [ mood | anxious ] The need for a fan-lead campaign has struck. It's time to mobilize. gossi has informed us that the higher-ups at FOX are no longer supporting the show, and that it might be pulled mid-season: "There's a possibility FOX are going to pull the show off air. Just a heads up. If you see a wall today, imagine me banging my head against it. The promo on the show has been fucking awful, the lead ins are crap, which results in fail ratings. It's going to take a week or so to find out what is going to happen. If FOX had the slightest fucking clue they would do a big promotional push the week after the baseball - episode 4 is a great Sierra-centric episode, then plaster the airwaves with Summer the week after. But the problem is the support for DOLLHOUSE at the network appears to have disappeared. The plan seems to have been to do fuck all proper advertising and to leave it like that. I'm annoyed. You might be able to tell." WATCH DOLLHOUSE on television this Friday. If you know anyone who is a Nielsen viewer, convince them to watch Dollhouse this Friday and record it via DVR or TiVo. Then go online and buy the episode on iTunes, watch it at FOX.com and rewatch it at Hulu. If you don't feel like seeing it that many times within one night, just mute your computer and let the episodes run at FOX.com and Hulu. If you're interested in the show but not caught up yet, do the same. If you're not caught up yet and want to watch this show, you can buy the entirety of season 1 and 2 thus far on iTunes, Amazon or buy the season 1 DVD set. Do not get caught up through illegal means. FOX only cares about legal means. If you want to watch it but can't afford to do either of those things, ask me. I will for serious consider buying it for you. Lastly, if you're already a Dollhouse fan, join the campaign. Paste banners and icons and video clips everywhere you can think of. Tweet them, blog them... whatever you can do, do it. The above links to where I got all of my banners. They have a wide variety there you can use; redirect the hotlinks to whatever you think will be most helpful - Dollhouse on Hulu, on Amazon, on iTunes, on FOX on demand, back to the blank_dolls mobilizing post... I really, honestly care about this show. It's full of cerebral, thought-provoking writing delivered through fascinating, flawed characters who force me to really stop and think about life for a change. My roommate and I had a three or four hour discussion about philosophy and what it means to be alive and real after finishing watching season 1, if that gives you any indication. Besides, what the hell will I have to look forward to every week if this goes the way of Firefly? :[ It's pretty much the thread that's keeping me cheerful right now. I apologize to all you LJ friends who may or may not being annoyed by my onslaught of Dollhouse posts over the past couple weeks. It really is my lifevest at the mo. So please, even if it's just posting one banner somewhere or another or telling one friend about the show or watching it on Hulu, do something. GO GO GO. 2 comments|post comment

Dollhouse fanfic. [03 Oct 2009|03:26pm] [ mood | awake ] Title: Decisions Pairing/Characters: Claire/Topher, Topher&Adelle, Boyd. Rating: PG Spoilers: Up through the first two episodes of season 2. Word Count: 961 Summary: Set between "Vows" and "Instincts", Adelle realizes they are missing a doctor. Notes: I've been working on a much longer Claire/Topher epic but I took a break from that last night to write this one-shot, since a certain gap from last night's episode was begging to be filled. :P Also, Joss is boss, none of these characters are mine and I'm just playing with them, et cetera. ( Neither Boyd nor Topher informed Adelle DeWitt that Dr. Saunders had vanished from the premises of the Dollhouse... ) 16 comments|post comment

Friday night routine. [02 Oct 2009|10:17pm] [ mood | awake ] Dollhouse was pretty swell. Though I was kind of underwhelmed with this episode compared to last week, it did have some great moments - ( SPOILERS YO. ) 6 comments|post comment

!!! [02 Oct 2009|01:27pm] [ mood | amused ] Awwww, my mom randomly bought me They Might Be Giant's new cd/dvd "Here Comes Science". It showed up in the mail today. What a sweet surprise, thanks mom! <33 Best care package ever, right behind the time she sent me a fetal pig apron. XD Put in the DVD and watched the animated videos to all the songs. Some of them are SO CUTE. Ffff. I think "Meet the Elements" and "Put It To the Test" are my favs. I am totally bringing this in to my Math and Science club next week. XD 1 comment|post comment

<3 [30 Sep 2009|12:37am] Sci fi club went super well again tonight! Great turn out, and I <3 our freshmen. They are all so enthusiastic and fun to be around. We watched Alien, and I was surprised by the number of them who had not seen it previously. One poor girl was scared out of her wits the whole time and requested something happy for next week to off set it - I rattled off some suggestions of things I had in my possession, and when I mentioned Firefly she endorsed that idea and specifically requested the episode where Mal winds up naked in the desert. So I agreed. ;D Next week at MICA Science Fiction club: Firefly, naked Mal and Yosafbrig antics! Tuesday @ 10:15 PM in the Gateway 6th floor lounge! Be there and tell your friends! The person who volunteered to bring Sunshine has yet to produce it, but we're going to try to get it for sure the week after next. So, that's the general game plan. ♥ post comment

[29 Sep 2009|06:14pm] Spoiler TV chart on how likely certain shows are to be canceled. Noooo. No no no. The season we're in the midst of at the moment is guaranteed, so we've got twelve more episodes no matter what -- but it needs to keep going after that! Especially because we only get Amy Acker for three episodes out of that, but if we get another season beyond the second we probably get her back moar regularly. Do want. Come on Whedonites. Ya'll literally started a campaign to save this show before it even began. Let's keep it up. Any ideas on how to spike the ratings? --- Unrelatedly, I'm in Critical Studies right now, on the internets to keep myself awake. Goddamn post modernist theory wat. The paper on Lacan was actually p. interesting though. He's like Freud only crazier and somehow more relateable, since he's less with the specific penis envy and more with the general missing of the other. --- ETA: Just read some exciting spoilers for the next six episodes. AHHH I WOULD BE FLAILING and MAKE LOUD NOISES RIGHT NOW IF I WEREN'T IN A CLASS. ( EXCITING THINGS. ) 6 comments|post comment

Best Claire/Topher vid everrr. <3 [27 Sep 2009|09:46pm] [ mood | bouncy ] Right now I'm plodding my way through drawing a storyboard - like, a storyboard done (hopefully mostly) right. I've never done one of those before. My storyboards usually consist of a mess of tiny thumbnails only I can interpret; not large, clearly drawn panels laid out on a huge piece of paper. Every couple panels I take a small break to squee and be all fangirlish, as motivational incentive. And HOLY SHIT guys... someone posted the most excellent fanvid I have ever ever seen ever to the claire_topher community (warning! spoilers for Dollhouse season 2 premiere): Ahhh holy crap so beautiful. The person who made that is my hero. Way to take vidding from something often annoying and poorly done and elevate it into an art of truly concentrating the character's feelings into a succinct clip of AWESOME. This almost compares to my favorite vid of all time which is a most excellent Wash/Zoe one I have on my hard drive (I don't think it's online anymore sadly, or I would link it too). And yeah, you bet I downloaded this one too post-haste to watch and cherish foreverrr. Ahaha, I'm such a dorkface. post comment

Ahem. [26 Sep 2009|07:24am] [ mood | fangirly ] ♥ 7 comments|post comment

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