I'm walking around in a skirt!
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apocalypsos*twirls around*
I am such a girl sometimes, I swear to God. One seventy-degree day with not a cloud in the sky and I go racing for the pink swirly skirt. Granted, I didn't bother ironing it, but then again I'm not going anywhere anyway. Whee! *spins and gets dizzy*
Okay, so! Onto fannish things. :)
*****
Okay, I already knew dorky Dean was my weak spot. I knew that.
But he has a thing for crappy horror movies! And he knows the actors down to the least recognizable bit player! I so do that with bad disaster movies. It's sad, really.
And he likes being a part of a team, which just ... something about that makes me want to hug him or write fic where he spent his high school years wanting to join a team and just kept getting his heart broken just a little because they have to go hunt or move or something. And John really tries instead of being an oblivious dicksmack and can see for once that Dean really wants something, and he keeps trying to give it to him by not moving and letting Dean stay home from hunts and even making him stay sometimes, and there are some parts of that that are so sadly out of character and yet I waaaaaaant.
And the food! Whoever said it was funny seeing Jared stand next to free food and not inhale all of it totally read my mind. Heh. I do have this mental image now of Dean at some event with free food like another movie set or a charity event or something and running into Rusty from the Ocean's Eleven movies. And the two of them talking about the food for the entire story. It's lame and it's crack and again, I waaaaaaant.
Yeah, this episode gave me plotbunnies. What of it? ;)
Granted, I have some problems with the episode. I didn't like the way Madison was just a throwaway line, although as throwaway exposition goes it was decent enough. Something about the tone was off, and I just did not like Tara at ALL even as a one-episode slampiece for Dean. I feel like I'm one of those Dean fans who's all, "If he can't have me, he can't have anyone!" but seriously, there are times I prefer the skanks he picks up at bars to the ones he develops relationships with during the course of episodes. I hated Cassie with a passion, I like Dean and Jo as friends and hunters but not in a romantic relationship, and for the most part it feels as if the writers don't know what kind of girl works with him. Of course, most of my problem with Tara is that I don't get why Dean would find her hot, but whatever.
However, there's some genre tropes I adore and the meta-heavy shows are SO up towards the top of the list. So, you know.
*hugs show*
Now go write me silly fics about dorky Dean.
Ooo, ooo! You know what I should write? An normal lives!AU where Sam or Dean writes books or creates a TV show or something about two brothers driving around in an Impala fighting ghosts and demons, and then the Demon shows up and threatens them and then they start hunting. Or something. I don't know, but LOOK! PLOTBUNNIES! *scampers after them*
*****
Okay, see, what really bothers me about the way the whole George/Izzie thing is progressing is that they're doing it at the expense of Callie. Callie, who has this potential to be this great character, which you can see when she's hanging with Addison. She's not feeling jealous, she's being a friend. She plays video games, she dances around in her underwear, she's a gorgeous woman with amazing curves. She's awesome.
But instead they're turning her into The Other Woman, because God forbid Izzie and George fall in love without someone else being around to provide tension.
They can't just have problems because this is their best friend, and it's weird, and they don't want to screw up their friendship, and not only that but they work together in a VERY stressful environment. I mean, isn't it hard enough for these two people to fall for one another just because they're THEM?
No, let's add acts of adultery and the trust issues to the mix, because it's something this show has NEVER done before, right?
*headdesk*
Okay, having said ALL of that, THIS is the Izzie I like (even though she's going through something terrible right now). The one that I sympathize with, the one that is a person I want to hang out with and hug and stuff. She's a person. She's not a bitch who tells her best friend his marriage was a mistake while her other friend is clinically dead two doors down, she's not acting like a delusional lovesmacked idiot following a drunken mistake, and she's not making catty remarks out of some baseless jealousy. I've missed this Izzie, damn it.
Meanwhile, I worship at the altar of Miranda Bailey, but then again who doesn't?
The only thing I can come up with to say, aside from Cristina's hilarious attempts to act like a real girl, is that the writers need to get Alex and Ava together yesterday. I just ... he's the only person she's got. And maybe I really desperately want Alex to not have a skank. And also hold a newborn and have someone call him "Daddy," because it makes me warm and fuzzy in my tummy.
*****
Oh, Daniel. You dumbass. (I did see that "mother" reveal coming from a mile away, though. Heh.) Although okay, yes, Betty did kind of need to hear that. She is a little too attached -- although not that I don't normally appreciate it.
Oh, Amanda. I love it when she's being a catty bitch, but I do adore Alexis for shooting her down. And she wants to sleep with Deputy Leo! That will never stop making me giggle and roll my eyes.
Oh, Bradford. Feet? My extremely high opinion of you was already eroded quite nicely by telling Alexis he was no longer your son if he got the sex-change, but feet?! I just don't really get that fetish at all, considering how ugly I think most feet are. (And yet I write gay incest smut. Go figure.)
And ... oh, Ignacio. *hearts* He is one of my favorite dads on TV. He realizes full well how silly Betty and Hilda and Justin can all be and loves them like crazy, and he's got a level head even when dealing with someone like Constance.
*****
I just got done reading this article about John McCain making an ass out of himself this week and it leaves a really awful taste in my mouth. It's not even that it's him saying we should start another war that unsettles me (although that's pretty disgusting, too, considering our current situation in Iraq), it's making a joking statement about killing a large number of people (guilty or not, bombs don't exactly make judgment calls or try not to aim for innocent people and children) two days after the largest mass shooting in US history.
Which ... I know, one has nothing to do with the other. But something about it bothers me a lot.
EDIT: You know what I was just thinking about the other day? How much I like fictional characters who are either young women or girls with little-old-lady names like Martha or Beverly and little old ladies who have cutesy little girl names like Ashley or Tiffany. I don't even get why but something about seeing that in TV shows and book makes me smile.
I am such a girl sometimes, I swear to God. One seventy-degree day with not a cloud in the sky and I go racing for the pink swirly skirt. Granted, I didn't bother ironing it, but then again I'm not going anywhere anyway. Whee! *spins and gets dizzy*
Okay, so! Onto fannish things. :)
*****
Okay, I already knew dorky Dean was my weak spot. I knew that.
But he has a thing for crappy horror movies! And he knows the actors down to the least recognizable bit player! I so do that with bad disaster movies. It's sad, really.
And he likes being a part of a team, which just ... something about that makes me want to hug him or write fic where he spent his high school years wanting to join a team and just kept getting his heart broken just a little because they have to go hunt or move or something. And John really tries instead of being an oblivious dicksmack and can see for once that Dean really wants something, and he keeps trying to give it to him by not moving and letting Dean stay home from hunts and even making him stay sometimes, and there are some parts of that that are so sadly out of character and yet I waaaaaaant.
And the food! Whoever said it was funny seeing Jared stand next to free food and not inhale all of it totally read my mind. Heh. I do have this mental image now of Dean at some event with free food like another movie set or a charity event or something and running into Rusty from the Ocean's Eleven movies. And the two of them talking about the food for the entire story. It's lame and it's crack and again, I waaaaaaant.
Yeah, this episode gave me plotbunnies. What of it? ;)
Granted, I have some problems with the episode. I didn't like the way Madison was just a throwaway line, although as throwaway exposition goes it was decent enough. Something about the tone was off, and I just did not like Tara at ALL even as a one-episode slampiece for Dean. I feel like I'm one of those Dean fans who's all, "If he can't have me, he can't have anyone!" but seriously, there are times I prefer the skanks he picks up at bars to the ones he develops relationships with during the course of episodes. I hated Cassie with a passion, I like Dean and Jo as friends and hunters but not in a romantic relationship, and for the most part it feels as if the writers don't know what kind of girl works with him. Of course, most of my problem with Tara is that I don't get why Dean would find her hot, but whatever.
However, there's some genre tropes I adore and the meta-heavy shows are SO up towards the top of the list. So, you know.
*hugs show*
Now go write me silly fics about dorky Dean.
Ooo, ooo! You know what I should write? An normal lives!AU where Sam or Dean writes books or creates a TV show or something about two brothers driving around in an Impala fighting ghosts and demons, and then the Demon shows up and threatens them and then they start hunting. Or something. I don't know, but LOOK! PLOTBUNNIES! *scampers after them*
*****
Okay, see, what really bothers me about the way the whole George/Izzie thing is progressing is that they're doing it at the expense of Callie. Callie, who has this potential to be this great character, which you can see when she's hanging with Addison. She's not feeling jealous, she's being a friend. She plays video games, she dances around in her underwear, she's a gorgeous woman with amazing curves. She's awesome.
But instead they're turning her into The Other Woman, because God forbid Izzie and George fall in love without someone else being around to provide tension.
They can't just have problems because this is their best friend, and it's weird, and they don't want to screw up their friendship, and not only that but they work together in a VERY stressful environment. I mean, isn't it hard enough for these two people to fall for one another just because they're THEM?
No, let's add acts of adultery and the trust issues to the mix, because it's something this show has NEVER done before, right?
*headdesk*
Okay, having said ALL of that, THIS is the Izzie I like (even though she's going through something terrible right now). The one that I sympathize with, the one that is a person I want to hang out with and hug and stuff. She's a person. She's not a bitch who tells her best friend his marriage was a mistake while her other friend is clinically dead two doors down, she's not acting like a delusional lovesmacked idiot following a drunken mistake, and she's not making catty remarks out of some baseless jealousy. I've missed this Izzie, damn it.
Meanwhile, I worship at the altar of Miranda Bailey, but then again who doesn't?
The only thing I can come up with to say, aside from Cristina's hilarious attempts to act like a real girl, is that the writers need to get Alex and Ava together yesterday. I just ... he's the only person she's got. And maybe I really desperately want Alex to not have a skank. And also hold a newborn and have someone call him "Daddy," because it makes me warm and fuzzy in my tummy.
*****
Oh, Daniel. You dumbass. (I did see that "mother" reveal coming from a mile away, though. Heh.) Although okay, yes, Betty did kind of need to hear that. She is a little too attached -- although not that I don't normally appreciate it.
Oh, Amanda. I love it when she's being a catty bitch, but I do adore Alexis for shooting her down. And she wants to sleep with Deputy Leo! That will never stop making me giggle and roll my eyes.
Oh, Bradford. Feet? My extremely high opinion of you was already eroded quite nicely by telling Alexis he was no longer your son if he got the sex-change, but feet?! I just don't really get that fetish at all, considering how ugly I think most feet are. (And yet I write gay incest smut. Go figure.)
And ... oh, Ignacio. *hearts* He is one of my favorite dads on TV. He realizes full well how silly Betty and Hilda and Justin can all be and loves them like crazy, and he's got a level head even when dealing with someone like Constance.
*****
I just got done reading this article about John McCain making an ass out of himself this week and it leaves a really awful taste in my mouth. It's not even that it's him saying we should start another war that unsettles me (although that's pretty disgusting, too, considering our current situation in Iraq), it's making a joking statement about killing a large number of people (guilty or not, bombs don't exactly make judgment calls or try not to aim for innocent people and children) two days after the largest mass shooting in US history.
Which ... I know, one has nothing to do with the other. But something about it bothers me a lot.
EDIT: You know what I was just thinking about the other day? How much I like fictional characters who are either young women or girls with little-old-lady names like Martha or Beverly and little old ladies who have cutesy little girl names like Ashley or Tiffany. I don't even get why but something about seeing that in TV shows and book makes me smile.
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Date: 2007-04-20 11:43 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-04-20 11:55 pm (UTC)Next I'll be smoking pot and not eating cow-burgers and calling for the independence of California.
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Date: 2007-04-21 12:01 am (UTC)LIKE THE CHEERLEADERS? LULZ
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Date: 2007-04-21 12:04 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-04-21 12:12 am (UTC)It's a callous disregard for human life. People like him feel no equivalence between the deaths of American college students and the deaths of Iranian civilians.
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Date: 2007-04-21 12:18 am (UTC)And I'm not even going to get into his snotty non-apology.
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Date: 2007-04-21 12:18 am (UTC)word!,
double word!,
and word! :)
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Date: 2007-04-21 12:21 am (UTC)FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY
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Date: 2007-04-21 12:39 am (UTC)Man. Just...word. She's my breath of fresh air, no matter HOW MUCH the rest of the show might make me flail.
And UB.... WORD. Just. Feet? Really? FEET?
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Date: 2007-04-21 04:05 am (UTC)Yo, food porn? I'll DO IT. Goddamn.
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Date: 2007-04-21 05:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-04-21 09:52 am (UTC)Oh, so totally. That little throw-away line broke my heart.
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Date: 2007-04-21 10:20 am (UTC)