swim through the fires to stay in this world

Okay, I'm finally going to finish up this meme!

Ever felt like you should revoke your shipping credentials? Because you like the strangest ships and/or parts of your ship? Well TELL US MORE. Answer the questions with ships you love like burning.*

*I have comparatively few pairing that I could accurately say I ship like burning, so I qualify this as ships that I a.) really like and b.) would be interested in reading and/or writing fanfic about.


(masterlist of prompts)

(past answers)


( BtVS | LoTS | Push | Avatar | DC Comics | The Avengers | OUAT )

For her 700th post, stainofmylove decided to list her ten favorite male and ten favorite female characters from television and movies. IN ORDER.

Challenge accepted.

via stainofmylove: "A favorite character is an interesting thing. Sometimes it's aspirational, sometimes it's about feeling a deep kinship, and sometimes the character is just so fucked up and funny and smart and weird etc. etc. that I just find them fascinating."


Discuss.

I don't know about you, flist, but I am thrilled the holidays are over. I mean, yes, it's technically Christmas for another fifteen minutes, but all my familial obligations are over, I have the day off of work tomorrow, and while 75% of the people I work with are still going to be on vacation on Tuesday, at least I'm not going to be dealing with the stress of them trying to do five zillion things before they leave. Also, I downgraded my New Year's Eve plans from 'huge group of people go to The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo' on Friday plus find a party for Saturday to 'huge group of people go to The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo' on Saturday, thus giving my weekend WAY MORE 'curl up with my computer and my internet friends' time. (I am considering doing a comment meme - anyone else interested?)

So, in the spirit of getting this livejournal back into fandom shape, what follows is my fannish year's-end post.

First of all, this was THE YEAR OF KATNISS EVERDEEN: MOST AWESOME.

Seriously, one of my first posts of 2011 was me flailing about The Hunger Games and the flail just continued all year long. MAY THE ODDS BE EVER IN YOUR FAVOR. ALSO, CONGRATULATIONS ON EVERYTHING YOU CHOOSE TO BE, KATNISS EVERDEEN. (Random tangent: when I went to go see Sherlock Homes: A Game of Shadows a.k.a. twenty-six dollars I will never see again, while in the theater I saw a huge display of THG posters and gasped, shouted 'The Hunger Games!' and flailed my hands, causing an entire family to turn around on the escalator and stare.)

Top Five Characters of 2011:

Katniss Everdeen, The Hunger Games.
Boyd Crowder, Justified.
Gail Peck, Rookie Blue.
The Evil Queen/Regina Miller, Once Upon A Time.
Cameron, The Sarah Conner Chronicles.

Top Five Ships of 2011:

Katniss/Peeta, The Hunger Games.
Tyler/Caroline, The Vampire Diaries.
Sif/Loki, Thor.
Boyd/Ava, Justified.
Daenerys/Jorah, Game of Thrones.

ETA: When I looked closer at the dates on some of my entries, I realized that it was 2010 when I first read The Hunger Games and Katniss was one of my top five characters of last year. Well, she's fucking well going to be on this year as well! And likely will make the top 5 of 2012 to boot! That is just how awesome she is!

I would love for someone to make a Boyd Crowder vid to this song:



And once all three Hunger Games movies have been released, I would love an ensemble vid to Slow Down Ghandi.

Title: Life Is Uncertain
Author: redbrunja
Wordcount: ~300
Rating: PG
Pairing: Tim/Rachel
Spoilers: N/A.
Author's Note: written for the 5 Acts meme.
Summery: There is a corner of Tim's mind already phrasing how to report that shooting the witness they were tasked to protect was justified; if Rachel pulls, he's got her back.

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In fandom, we have a tendency to hate the networks (DAMN YOU, FOX! DAMN YOU!) And while it's understandable (RIP TSCC, Wonderfalls, Firefly) there are also some times when I think executive meddling has made a show better.

For example:

–The tone of Firefly - the mix of drama and humor and pathos existed because the network wanted the show to be funnier. That blend was something I adored about the series and I disliked Serenity the movie largely because of the bleak tone that was created when Whedon had his head.

–In the Justified pilot, the scene with Winona and Raylan at the end was added because the network wanted the pilot to be "darker." Now, part of me is rolling my eyes going, 'did you WATCH the pilot? ( Read more... )

–The Dollhouse original pilot. Thank god the network told Whedon to redo it because frankly, the unaired pilot sucks. It's long, it's boring, it doesn't have a good narrative through-line, and it doesn't explain the Dollhouse in any kind of concise way. The actual pilot they went with both explains what the dollhouse is in about eight minutes and then has an awesome profiler vs serial killer story for the rest of the episode, which is a narrative I am on like white on rice.

So what are your examples of time exec meddling made things more awesome instead of less?

Things that are making me happy:
( Justified, True Blood, Haven, & The Sarah Conner Chronicles )

The Raylan Givens portion of this episode was so intense and so perfect that I really felt it deserved its own post but there were a couple of other things that I wanted to mention.

( Justified 2x12 )

And in case you couldn't tell, I want to state for the record that this is one of my top-five episodes.

Stolen from stainofmylove :

Talk about five of your favorite fics you've written, based on a category of your choosing: favorite fics for a certain ship, fics with your five favorite lines, fics set in a certain season, fics featuring a kumquat - anything you like! Just so long as you choose a category with five fics in it and you tell us why you like them.



( Rated NC-17 Like Whoa )

• Here is a grab-bag of fandom things:

 

• The LA Times wrote an awesome article about the ladies of Justified. How is it that such a male-dominated show has such great women, actresses who love their characters so, AND has male writers/actor/producers being all like, 'oh our ladies? Yeah, they're awesome.' Graham Yost, you keep doing what you're doing - and teach Hollywood how to follow your lead.

•  I started watching Fringe again. I just finished up the first season and am starting on the second - and is it wrong that the person I really ship Olivia most with is Charlie?

• And now, a meme gacked from penny_lane_42 :