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ozmissageI’m unspeakably bored today and working on a very trippy Jack/Claire fic. Distract me?
Name a character from one of my fandoms and I'll give you (a) three facts about them from my personal canon/fanon, (b) a reason he/she sucks, (c) a reason he/she is awesome, (d) five things that never happened to that character or (e) five people that character never fell in love with and why. You pick the character. I pick the letter.
Fandoms: Lost, Supernatural, Being Human, Doctor Who, Torchwood, Community, BTVS, Angel, Dollhouse, Firefly, Gilmore Girls, Mad Men, The Office, The Big Bang Theory, HIMYM, 30 Rock, Parks & Rec, Psych, Chuck, Fringe, and Flashforward.
Name a character from one of my fandoms and I'll give you (a) three facts about them from my personal canon/fanon, (b) a reason he/she sucks, (c) a reason he/she is awesome, (d) five things that never happened to that character or (e) five people that character never fell in love with and why. You pick the character. I pick the letter.
Fandoms: Lost, Supernatural, Being Human, Doctor Who, Torchwood, Community, BTVS, Angel, Dollhouse, Firefly, Gilmore Girls, Mad Men, The Office, The Big Bang Theory, HIMYM, 30 Rock, Parks & Rec, Psych, Chuck, Fringe, and Flashforward.
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Date: 6/7/10 06:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 6/7/10 06:30 pm (UTC)Mitchell (BH)
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Date: 6/7/10 06:55 pm (UTC)Hee. This meme is awesome.
Sam Winchester.
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Date: 6/7/10 07:05 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 6/7/10 08:06 pm (UTC)Emily, Gilmore Girls
Adelle, Dollhouse
Janis, FlashForward
Leslie, Parks and Rec
Heh, I assume it is okay that I pick more than one!
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Date: 6/7/10 08:56 pm (UTC)I feel like I should feel bad about fangirling Alpha (cause of his tendency to kill people and all) but I really don’t. The thing that I love about him is how delightfully unstable he is and how that manifests itself in ways that are both amusing and disturbing.
He’s a witty monster and I appreciate that. I like that I’ll be giggling over his fear of steps with open backs one second and then be terrified of him in the next because by then he’s whipped out a knife and used it on poor, pretty Victor’s face. That combination of humor and danger makes him unpredictable and so much fun to watch. He’s the perfect big bad really.
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Date: 6/7/10 08:58 pm (UTC)a. Three Facts About Mitchell:
1. Mitchell loved his life with Herrick for longer than he hated it. There was a time when he found it thrilling, when it was all blood and sex and booze.
He would sit in the middle of a room full of vampires and feel like he was the king. It was intoxicating.
His deepest, darkest secret is that it wasn’t guilt that finally did him in (although he was guilty, still is, and he knows deep down that no amount of atonement will ever change that) it was boredom.
Herrick had grand plans about changing all of humanity into vampires, taking over the world, blah, blah, blah and that just didn’t interest Mitchell.
He likes the world as it is and he could only sit through so many meetings about a brave new world he didn’t want to be part of before he said fuck it and went looking for a new life.
2. Mitchell goes to the cinema at least once a week, has for as long as there’s been one to go to. He loves movies, the older the better. There’s something about sitting in a darkened theater watching Humphrey Bogart and Bette Davis and Lauren Bacall that makes him feel completely and utterly alive.
He’s always liked stories. Watching them, telling them, it doesn’t matter. They connect him to the people around him, they force him to remember they’re real living breathing humans with lives and families and crap jobs.
The only thing he doesn’t like about the cinema is how they’ve banned smoking inside. The Maltese Falcon always went down easier when he had a cigarette in his hand.
3. Sometimes Mitchell thinks about leaving George and Annie. It’s not because he doesn’t love them, but because he does. He knows that eventually he’ll fall off the wagon, he’ll go back to being a monster and they’ll hate him or worse they won’t. They’ll try to save him and he’ll hurt them and he doesn’t want to see the disappointment in their eyes, doesn’t want to know he’s the cause.
So every now and then he thinks about walking out. Then he wakes up and finds Annie at the stove scrambling eggs she can’t eat and George fussing over the sheer amount of spoons they use in a days time and they’re both a little bit annoyed with each other but they still grin when they see him and he knows he won’t leave. Knows he can’t and feels like a selfish bastard for it.
Then Annie sets a plate down in front of him and George tells him about some stupid program he saw on the telly last night and Mitchell doesn’t care if he’s selfish. This is his family and he’ll stay as long as they let him.
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Date: 6/7/10 08:59 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 6/7/10 11:37 pm (UTC)How about River.
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Date: 6/8/10 01:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 6/8/10 01:45 am (UTC)1. No one ever found out about the whole fake degree thing. Jeff’s kind of smug about that fact actually. He goes to court every day and represents a bunch of really awful people that he wouldn’t bother speaking too if they didn’t pay him so damn much. He knows that he’s a really awful person too. His three ex-wives tell him so on a regular basis, but he likes to think he’s at least 45% less awful than his least awful client. Sometimes he wonders if he should be doing more with his life than representing low-lives and writing alimony checks and driving an admittedly kickass car. He wonders but he doesn’t wonder enough to actually doing anything about it.
2. He sits next to Starburns that first day of Spanish class and the guy is clearly a douche, but he has a friend who is actually Spanish and Jeff Winger knows an opportunity to get out of writing any Spanish essays ever when he sees one. So he joins Starburns’s study group and files his plan to seduce hot blonde girl in the back of his mind.
3. He was living in his car, okay? Living with Pierce was preferable to showering with a water hose outside the gymnasium. Had he known that Pierce would force him into wearing matching outfits so he could live out some sort of bizarro old guy father/son fantasy he would have stuck with the water hose.
4. Jeff does stupid things when he’s drunk. This is a fact. But there’s a difference between stupid and making out with am eighteen year old, movie obsessed kid in his dorm room as some sort of weird ass Brokeback Mountain reenactment.
To his credit Abed doesn’t kick Jeff out. He does however draw the line at sniffing his coat. But Jeff thinks maybe he did that too sometime after the making out but before the drunk dialing. Abed really can’t resist a good reference.
5. Britta Perry says she loves him. At a dance in front of the lamer half of Greendale that actually cares about going to things like dances.
And he…says it back.
Because he does. A little bit. It’s not epic, okay? He’s not fucking Ross Gellar. Or Pacey. Or Sawyer (okay, he’s a little bit Sawyer.) He just kind of wants to see her hello kitty underwear again and meet her poor, old cat and wake up next to her once to see if she looks that hot at six in the morning.
So he kisses her and the music actually, literally swells. Fucking DJ.
He has to admit it’s nice though. In a terrifying, oh God, oh God, what am I doing kind of way.
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Date: 6/8/10 01:58 am (UTC)1. Esau doesn’t believe he is evil. He doesn’t believe in evil. He does believe that the woman who wasn’t his mother was unspeakably cruel and ignorant.
He does believe that if he let her live she would have continued to spread her ignorance, her poison to everything she touched. So he killed her. And it broke his heart.
2. He loves Jacob almost as much as he hates him. Jacob’s his brother and he damned him. Esau wants nothing more than to leave the island. To see the world beyond the ocean, to visit the home his true mother came from. He’d like to walk among ruins, buy food from a market, ride in a car or on a plane.
He would like to bring Jacob with him, to do these together. But his brother believes that Esau has no soul, that he must be contained or destroyed. After awhile Esau begins to think his brother is right.
3. When Jack hit him and Esau tasted blood on his lips, he almost wept with joy. For the first time in a very long time he felt solid and real. Like a man again. Even if the body was not his own, it was a body with a heart and bones and blood. It was good enough.
Esau felt something like hope stirring in his chest. Hope that he might finally go home.
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Date: 6/8/10 12:14 pm (UTC)Also, I kind of really want to say Miss Patty. You know what? You pick.
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Date: 6/8/10 02:24 pm (UTC)1. Kate Austen. Look, she’s hot. And she’s got this dangerous; I could kick your ass vibe going for her that Miles actually finds really appealing, but the baggage, man. Between her exes, her rap sheet, and her fake kid, the lady has too much on her plate for Miles to even think about involving himself in all that crazy.
2. James Ford. His boss is not an unattractive man. He’s a wiseass, loud, and irritating as hell. He’s also the best friend Miles has ever had. And yes he knows how sad that is. So he loves the guy, but he’s not going to let himself be in love with him because he kind of needs a buddy more than a fuck buddy right now.
3. Naomi Dorrit. Miles isn’t going to lie; he had really been looking forward to being stuck on an island with Naomi. She was totally his type. Hot accent? Check. Kind of scary? Check. Hot? Definitely. So maybe he could have loved her if she hadn’t gotten herself killed so damn fast, but he’ll never know for sure and yeah, that’s always going to drive him a little bit nuts.
4. Charlotte Lewis. Look Miles knows he can be an asshole sometimes, but he liked Dan and Dan liked Charlotte and she was more like a really annoying big sister anyway, so no, he didn’t think about crossing that line. Okay, maybe he thought about it once. But nobody’s perfect.
5. Daniel Faraday. He could have loved Dan. Broken, screwed up, genius that he was. Miles was halfway there to tell you the truth, but then Dan left. Just got on a sub and left. Miles tried not to take it personally, but secretly he totally did.
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1. Richard Alpert. Richard needed someone to take care of him and Miles just needed someone. Seemed like a good idea at the time. Funny thing is it was more than a good idea, it was the best idea Miles Straume ever had.
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Date: 6/8/10 02:44 pm (UTC)1. Charlotte used to get high and listen to old, scratchy Geronimo Jackson albums. She’d wait until the house was empty and then stretch across her bed and crank the music and let the drugs make her head all foggy and relaxed.
Sometimes she’d invite a friend over or whatever grungy, shop boy she was dating at the time and they’d laugh and talk about stupid things that they wouldn’t really remember later. Her Mum would come home and shake her head in disappointment and
Charlotte would just giggle.
She was sixteen, it was just a phase.
In the end, the pot was but she never did outgrow her Jackson albums.
2. Charlotte always fancied herself an adventurer. Her step father used to bring her fistfuls of pulp comics about men traipsing through jungles and deserts. It didn’t bother Charlotte that there were never any women in these comics (unless you counted the dames and mistresses and Charlotte never did.) By the time she was six she knew exactly what she wanted to do with the rest of her life.
And yes her mother tried to dissuade her, to put her on a more practical path, but Charlotte Staples Lewis didn’t want to be practical. She wanted to be an anthropologist.
3. The day Charlotte found that collar in Tunisia was the happiest day of her life.
It meant she wasn’t the nutter some of her colleagues whispered she was behind her back. It meant there was an island, a crystal clear blue ocean, an ancient well…a home to return to.
She went out that night with her best mate and they drank and Charlotte told her a story about a little girl with her own private wonderland.
She went to sleep with a smile on her face that night believing that Alice would finally be given a reprieve from her exile.
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Date: 6/8/10 03:12 pm (UTC)d.) Five Things That Never Happened to Sam
1. Dean comes calling, another family crisis, another monster to fight. Sam says no. And then Jess dies. He went out that night, just to grab some beers with his buddies. He wasn’t gone that long. But it’s long enough. She dies, just like his mom and somehow Sam knows it must be his fault.
By the time the news makes it to Dean, Sam is long gone. Disappeared into nothing as far as he can tell.
2. He graduates at the top of his class and gets a job at a tiny law firm in the middle of nowhere.
Sometimes he hears rumblings about strange deaths and normal family men loosing their minds, but he ignores it all. He has a life and Jess and it’s everything he ever wanted.
Dean sends him a postcard once year, each one simply says I’m good.
Sam keeps them in a shoebox under his bed, next to a rifle he never loads. The only reminders of who he used to be.
3. He dies. And it’s kind of permanent. But then something brings him back. He thinks it must have been Dean and the thought breaks his heart, but there’s this palm print seared into his skin and when he shows up on Bobby’s doorstep he pulls a gun on him.
Later, he meets Castiel and he begins to understand.
4. The woman comes into the bar and orders a glass of rum. Drinks it in one gulp, barely winces at the burn. She’s beautiful, long, blond hair and the saddest eyes Sam has ever seen. She’s older than him, but he doesn’t care.
“Want to tell me your troubles?”
It’s a stupid line, but he’s only been a bartender for three days. She smiles faintly.
“You wouldn’t believe me if I told you.”
“Try me,” he shoots back.
She doesn’t. But she does push him against the bar later after everyone else has left and his hands run over a mark on her back. Raised and strange, like a brand.
“Who are you?” he mutters against her neck.
“No one,” she whispers. “No one at all.”
5. Sam is five years old and his mother takes him to the park and pushes him on a swing.
He asks her to make him go higher and she does, until he feels like he’s flying, but then his heart is beating too fast and he’s getting scared, but he can’t stop.
His mother slows the swing down and laughs, presses a kiss to his cheek.
“Don’t worry, I’ve got you Sammy.”
Sam smiles and wraps his arms around her neck, feeling safe and content.
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Date: 6/8/10 04:16 pm (UTC)... ;____;
Okay, I think I'm able to comment now.
1. Gah, that is so painful. Paaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiin. Yes, the first two paragraphs already made me cry. This meme is supposed to be fun! This is not fun. This is amazing and heartbreaking. (And you know? You should be writing more SPN fic. I need people on my flist who do that. The fandom scares me and I'd rather stick with the people I already know and adore. jsyk ;))
2. Again: pain. But much less pain than the first one, so I forgive you. You know, as much as I want the boys to be together (not
justin a Dean/Sam shippy way, just ... in a 'normal' brotherly way), I just want Sammy to be happy. Oh, Sam. ;(3. This is awesome. Awesomeawesomeawesomesauce. Really, really cool. :D
4. Oh no you didn't! *dies, is dead, is revived and dies again* Holy crap. No, you didn't. There I was, having almost recovered from the first one, and then you go and slay me with this one. I'm squeeing and crying and I can't even. AMAZING. Within a few minutes, you made me ship them so hard that I can't even function right now. I'm pathetic and I don't care. ;)
5. Awwwwwwwwww. *cries some more* This is so lovely and wonderful. ♥
This made my day. Thank you. Also: I'm really, really looking forward to your Jack/Claire fic. Weird things that almost don't make sense own my soul. I'm sure it's awesome. :D
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Date: 6/8/10 06:31 pm (UTC)1. Castiel is fascinated by clothing. He isn’t used to moving around with a second skin. And that’s how he thinks of it, as a second skin.
He likes it though, the feeling of the material against the vessel. The cotton pants, the silk shirt. There’s a safety in clothing. The coat is his favorite bit. It’s unnecessary in most places, impractical in some, but it gives him a sense of self. It grounds him, makes him feel almost human.
2. Dean Winchester is the best thing that’s ever happened to Castiel in what has been a rather long existence. The boy is infuriating, but also intriguing. There’s something about the way he turns his words, how he’s both flippant and brave. Castiel listens to Dean and later when he’s alone he’ll mimic the cadence of his friend’s voice.
He’s learning from Dean; about this world, about life, and quite simply about himself.
3. He was always a doubter.
Deep in his heart, there were questions even when he was supposed to be devout. He loves his heavenly father, but he’s always watched the world below with a curiosity that frightened him. He is supposed to be a soldier, but he can not bring himself to dismantle the world his father built.
To see it end would be a great tragedy. And for this he’s willing to betray his own kind.
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Date: 6/8/10 06:41 pm (UTC)I love how much Betty has grown over the seasons. In the beginning she was so adrift, so unwilling to rock the boat where Don’s concerned. To see her confront him over his affairs and his secret life, to even have a secret life of her own was incredibly rewarding and made me respect her in a way I didn’t back in season one.
I’m not sure I entirely agree with her hopping into another marriage, I don’t think it’s going to end particularly well, but I admire her for having the courage to leave Don, who much as I care for him is probably never going to change.
She’s grown into a confident woman who doesn’t necessarily always do the right thing, but who always does something. I think her complacency in season one was killing her. This isn’t the life she wanted for herself and it seems like she’s finally going to do something about it. Watching her evolution over the past three seasons has been like watching an awakening.
(Although I’m terrified of what it might mean for the kids. One thing I don’t like about Betty or Don is their parenting skills. I know they love their kids, but I’m not sure they know what to do with them.)