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Thursday, June 10th, 2010 06:53 am

Just a quick memory entry to store stuff done for [livejournal.com profile] m7land .

I'm really enjoying the game.  I had this sort of epiphany early on that "Hey! It doesn't have to be good to get participation points." and that's helped me get over some inhibitions on the creative side of things.  Between that and this sort of "what the hell, just post it" attitude I seem to have developed since my birthday, I think I'm in a decent mindset for hc_bingo, anyway. :) 

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Wednesday, May 26th, 2010 09:00 am

Gifting myself with permission to vent a gratuitous little fight scene that's been nagging me for a couple months, without fretting over all the run-on's and parenthetical bits I'm prone to.  (Or, you know, having a plot.)

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Monday, February 22nd, 2010 09:37 am

[livejournal.com profile] kaethe  has put up the Mag7 story she wrote for my [livejournal.com profile] help_haiti  bid, and it is *made of awesome*.

If I were to rattle off a list of my Top 10 favorite authors across all fandoms, Katie would definitely be near the top of the list.  I was pretty sad when I first got into Mag7 and found out she'd already been and gone, so I'm incredibly psyched that she was willing to revisit the boys for this story.  :)  And she did a fabulous job with them!  My request was for an h/c story focusing on Ezra & Chris working together with a back-to-back, enemies closing in on all sides sort of vibe, and I am *so* squishily happy with the results. :)

Go read!
 


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Thursday, November 12th, 2009 09:44 am
I watched Anthony Starke's episode of "Cold Case" for the first time last night, and... am still achy and depressed more than 12 hours later.

I've been known to wallow in a good tearjerker from time-to-time, but I don't think I'll be watching that again any time soon.  Anthony was fantabulous, of course (and pretty pretty pretty!) but...

Ow. 

Just.  Ow.
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Friday, October 2nd, 2009 06:03 pm
From [livejournal.com profile] fannish5:
What 5 series would you resurrect if you could?

I'm blithely ignoring issues of actors having aged or moved on. 

1.  Weiss Side B
No contest.  The way this manga puttered out and then got dropped with barely a whimper of closure is going to stick in my craw for a good long while.  There were so many things I was *hoping* to see that may not have happened, but now it will forever feel like that longed-for arc was *just* around the corner, if only...    I'm left without any epic reunion arc (even a temporary one) with Yohji and Omi coming to the forefront.  No reveal that everything was some grand conspiracy by Rosenkreuz.   Barely a dent in the whole Interleukin-whatever plot that was the whole *point* of the series.  No big flashback to "Side A".  Argh! Not fair.

2.  Magnificent Seven
Obvious choice is obvious.

3.  Gabriel Knight
Who ends a *video game* series on a cliffhanger?  Seriously.  Despite having only three games to their names, Gabe and Grace and the whole schattenjaeger mythos are so amazing, I'd give anything to go back to that well one more time for some closure.

4.  Moon Over Miami
Gotta stick a wildcard in here.  No one else has even heard of this show, I'm sure.  It starred Billy Campbell (*swoon*) and Ally Walker as a bickering-detective duo a la Moonlighting or Remington Steele.  The episodes that managed to air were definitely rough around the edges, but the chemistry between the two leads was faboo, and the show had this jazzy quirkiness all its own.  It's always the first show I think of when talk turns to late, lamented shows that never got off the ground.  So, I'd just *have* to use my godlike powers to revisit it if I could.

5.  Firefly
It was actually a toss-up between this and Earth 2, but E2 would've been a nostalgia pick, and I already covered that in #4.  There's no question that Firefly deserved a longer life.

Runner-Up:  SG:A.  I can't say the show ever made it to must-see-TV status for me, but the cast and characters are some of the most likeable and just plain fun-to-watch out there.  They got shafted.
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Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 03:16 pm
Just some bullet-pointy rambling.
  • Mag7 fandom, I love you so! All the fic and videos that have come across the comms lately have made me ridiculously happy. :)
     
  • I've also gone rather goofily happy over Jim & Pam's upcoming wedding on The Office. Which is particularly weird if you consider that I've only seen maybe five complete episodes of that series. Some sort of cultural osmosis, I guess.
     
  • I sat down and did my first official recording session for my PodBang audiofic last night. Listened to it on the way to work this morning, and it seemed to come out all right! I've had such a hard time with the Mag7 podfics I've been working on lately that I was afraid doing a longer story for PodBang was going to be a nightmare. Yay! that this is not the case.
     
  • I went to a new dentist over the weekend. She was suggesting I get my wisdom teeth out for no real reason except problems that "might" crop up in the future. Their general policy seemed to be "Well, they don't serve any purpose, so you might as well get them out." Which I think was dentist-speak for "Yay! More money for me!"

    Next up on my agenda: Elective surgery to get that pesky appendix out... might as well head that sucker off at the pass, too. :P
     
  • Almost time for this year's IF Comp. I'm looking forward to it... though I'm a little overbooked for October, so I'm not sure if I'll be able to play too many games.

    It's always fun to read the various reviews anyway. One of my dream-projects, if I could ever develop any ability to write fanfic, has always been to create an Interactive Fanfic. Not the traditional puzzles-and-mazes sort, but maybe something along the Photopia model... where interactivity is used to immerse the reader in the story and provide different avenues of exploration, even if each of those avenues ends up in the same place in the end. Could be wicked cool with the right story to tell.
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Tuesday, September 8th, 2009 02:04 pm
Hee!  I perpetrated something that resembles an actual fic! 

http://community.livejournal.com/mag7_fic/82107.html


Somebody mark the date. 
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Thursday, August 20th, 2009 09:41 am

Just a quick personal-use thing, so I don't have to keep emailing this back and forth to myself at home/work as I add new ones.

I've had a scene stuck in my head that involves the Mag7 boys in the SG:A universe.  This is just me brainstorming a bit on that theme, using a prompt-set from the [livejournal.com profile] 1sentence  comm as fodder.   How they'd interact w/SG:A characters, plotbunnies and character backgrounds, etc.

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