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sisabetI am still AWOL from LJ. Heh, I haven't even checked my email in 2 days. My inbox is probably over the limit. This makes me nervous and even less likely to check my email. I'm all caught up in a vidding fever and it really isn't fair of me to update my LJ and not read anyone else's, but I can't help it. The power of High Holy Day of Teh Eval Slash compels me!
In other words: New Smallville and Angel tonight guys. Set your tivos/VCRs/DVD-Rs/Bittorrent/NewsGroup/However Else you stay connected. I expect great things from AtS tonight especially.
Since I am still incoherant from Smallville, last week, it gets a free pass this week. As long as the episode is not All-Lana, All the Time, I am cool. It could be about Lana and her new boyfriend and I'd still be cool. I like him. I hope he sticks around forever and ever. I hope, even if it turns out that he is a mutant and he killed his parents, that he still gets to stick around forever and ever and never go away. Ever. Like never. He is certain to be dying, y'know? My luck is not that good. He'll probably be dead before the credits roll tonight.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
undercoverbro should probably come spoil me now.
Even if tonight's episode is All Lana, I forgive it. I forgive it because last week they gave me something that you just can't underestimate. They gave me something that can not be measured, something that touches me. Deep inside. They gave me...Lex!Torture.
::falls hard::
I am so predictible. Show me pretty and I go "Ohhh" and then I go do something else. Show me puretruelove and I am intrigued and maybe my throat closes a little and the tiny sentimental piece of my heart melts a bit more, and then I go and do something else. Show me fine acting and a compelling, well written story and unless the scene sparkles, or there is a vampire or someone time traveling, I am already doing something else. Show me man-pain and I will be your bitch for life.
Mmmm...Chickenwire!Mulder, Holywater!Angel, Aurorachair!Crichton and now Electro!Lex. It all started with Carbonite!Han (at least for me - imprinted at an early age for type). I'd add Spike-On-A-Cross, but I think that would be overdoing it. I am hoping that at some point in season 4 QaF US, Brian Kinney is captured during a trip to [insert name of fictional country] by guerilla leaders and kept in a bamboo cage suspended above hot coals. My eyes actually gleam a bit maniacally when I think about this. The best thing I have for Brian torture now is the first episode of season 2 and really, that is just not keeping up with the rest of the boys. There is a precedent and it has been set and I expect everyone to adhere to this schedule. Maiming must be afoot.
So, the Angel/Spike vid has been placed on hold (and awaiting further inspiration/season 5 source) and all things Lex has taken over my brain. Want to talk to me about the Iowa Caucus? Sure bet, as long as we can work Lex into the conversation. I love this initial rush of obsession/fannish/slavish Devotion. It is all things good and pure and heady. It is like a few summers ago, after BtVS season five, when every conversation I had with my sister started with her asking me, "So, do you think Spike can be redeemed?" Seriously. I'd say something about being out of detergent and she would look up and nod distractedly and then ask, "So, do you think Spike can be redeemed?"
I'm not that bad yet, but I am riding the wave. Since that wave brings vidding fun, I am over the top ecstatic. Also sleepy. In this instance, I, like the Beatles before me, get by with a little help from my friends. I've already ropedrenenet into watching SV with me. tzikeh jumped me and sent me song ideas. Hysterical song ideas and then one that made me cry.
sockkpuppett is keeping me in enough source so that the shakes don't start (you know - when you MUST vid a part of a song and you don't yet have that episode? So you shake? I know is not just me that does this). She is also helping with the handholding and general angst of vidding a show that I do not know - not even a little. Vidding Buffy was automatic - I knew where everything was and where it all falls into place. Angel is almost like a second skin. QaF was a bit different, not as comfortable, but I was at least learning the source before I ever ripped a DVD. This is totally different. This is jumping in and hoping everything works out okay. It is a lot of fun. Highly addictive. I hope I am not becoming a new fandom slut - always on the prowl for something new and in pain. Of course, there is an "Invisible Man" marathon planned for February (squee) and I am fairly certain that there is mucho torture to be found there and by February I will probably be looking for my next big thing.... Or I could just hang with Angel.
I probably need some Lex!pain icons. In keeping with Tradition.
ETA: in talking to Lum and Wendy in the comments I am reminded that my list of tortured fannish souls is lacking - I was remiss in not mentioning both Capn Mal and his missing ear and Captain Picard and his brush with the Borg. Torture - it is not just for Earth Boys anymore. This makes me think about Kirk Torture - which is not something that would really involve me. Spock torture - that would be upsetting. Hell, that is upsetting. Kirk is kinda like Spike.
In other words: New Smallville and Angel tonight guys. Set your tivos/VCRs/DVD-Rs/Bittorrent/NewsGroup/However Else you stay connected. I expect great things from AtS tonight especially.
Since I am still incoherant from Smallville, last week, it gets a free pass this week. As long as the episode is not All-Lana, All the Time, I am cool. It could be about Lana and her new boyfriend and I'd still be cool. I like him. I hope he sticks around forever and ever. I hope, even if it turns out that he is a mutant and he killed his parents, that he still gets to stick around forever and ever and never go away. Ever. Like never. He is certain to be dying, y'know? My luck is not that good. He'll probably be dead before the credits roll tonight.
undercoverbro should probably come spoil me now. Even if tonight's episode is All Lana, I forgive it. I forgive it because last week they gave me something that you just can't underestimate. They gave me something that can not be measured, something that touches me. Deep inside. They gave me...Lex!Torture.
::falls hard::
I am so predictible. Show me pretty and I go "Ohhh" and then I go do something else. Show me puretruelove and I am intrigued and maybe my throat closes a little and the tiny sentimental piece of my heart melts a bit more, and then I go and do something else. Show me fine acting and a compelling, well written story and unless the scene sparkles, or there is a vampire or someone time traveling, I am already doing something else. Show me man-pain and I will be your bitch for life.
Mmmm...Chickenwire!Mulder, Holywater!Angel, Aurorachair!Crichton and now Electro!Lex. It all started with Carbonite!Han (at least for me - imprinted at an early age for type). I'd add Spike-On-A-Cross, but I think that would be overdoing it. I am hoping that at some point in season 4 QaF US, Brian Kinney is captured during a trip to [insert name of fictional country] by guerilla leaders and kept in a bamboo cage suspended above hot coals. My eyes actually gleam a bit maniacally when I think about this. The best thing I have for Brian torture now is the first episode of season 2 and really, that is just not keeping up with the rest of the boys. There is a precedent and it has been set and I expect everyone to adhere to this schedule. Maiming must be afoot.
So, the Angel/Spike vid has been placed on hold (and awaiting further inspiration/season 5 source) and all things Lex has taken over my brain. Want to talk to me about the Iowa Caucus? Sure bet, as long as we can work Lex into the conversation. I love this initial rush of obsession/fannish/slavish Devotion. It is all things good and pure and heady. It is like a few summers ago, after BtVS season five, when every conversation I had with my sister started with her asking me, "So, do you think Spike can be redeemed?" Seriously. I'd say something about being out of detergent and she would look up and nod distractedly and then ask, "So, do you think Spike can be redeemed?"
I'm not that bad yet, but I am riding the wave. Since that wave brings vidding fun, I am over the top ecstatic. Also sleepy. In this instance, I, like the Beatles before me, get by with a little help from my friends. I've already roped
renenet into watching SV with me. tzikeh jumped me and sent me song ideas. Hysterical song ideas and then one that made me cry. sockkpuppett is keeping me in enough source so that the shakes don't start (you know - when you MUST vid a part of a song and you don't yet have that episode? So you shake? I know is not just me that does this). She is also helping with the handholding and general angst of vidding a show that I do not know - not even a little. Vidding Buffy was automatic - I knew where everything was and where it all falls into place. Angel is almost like a second skin. QaF was a bit different, not as comfortable, but I was at least learning the source before I ever ripped a DVD. This is totally different. This is jumping in and hoping everything works out okay. It is a lot of fun. Highly addictive. I hope I am not becoming a new fandom slut - always on the prowl for something new and in pain. Of course, there is an "Invisible Man" marathon planned for February (squee) and I am fairly certain that there is mucho torture to be found there and by February I will probably be looking for my next big thing.... Or I could just hang with Angel. I probably need some Lex!pain icons. In keeping with Tradition.
ETA: in talking to Lum and Wendy in the comments I am reminded that my list of tortured fannish souls is lacking - I was remiss in not mentioning both Capn Mal and his missing ear and Captain Picard and his brush with the Borg. Torture - it is not just for Earth Boys anymore. This makes me think about Kirk Torture - which is not something that would really involve me. Spock torture - that would be upsetting. Hell, that is upsetting. Kirk is kinda like Spike.
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Date: 2004-01-21 11:56 am (UTC)So, so true. And yay! Can't wait to see what you come up with, vidding-wise. :)
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Date: 2004-01-21 01:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-21 12:01 pm (UTC)Hey -- what about 1x08, when Justin's dad shoved him down and kicked him in the ribs over, and over, and over? *That* was fun...
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Date: 2004-01-21 12:44 pm (UTC)As far as torture goes, that really didn't go far enough. I mean, Brian was really that *affected* by Justin's Dad beating him up - he didn't have nightmares or anything.
No to count it has to be both horrific and long-lasting - like Captain Picard getting over being assimilated into the Borg Collective. That was cool. Intense physical ramifications are also nice - like a tremor or cold sweats.
So far, the only character on QaF that has even come close to torture is Justin and since he is a woobie, I don't want him hurt (much). Scalping is fine. Scalping really isn't that bad - it just sounds bad.
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Date: 2004-01-21 12:11 pm (UTC)And what do you mean Invisible Man marathon? Do you mean you're doing that with friends who have source? Or are they rerunning somewhere? That's another show I need to watch, thanks to that vid Rache & Sandy(?) did.
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Date: 2004-01-21 12:40 pm (UTC)They tortured Lex?
Dude - that is *all* they have done for the last two episodes. Also - there is a possible mindwipe (I am also a sucker for a mindwipe) that may or may not have taken effect. Smart money is that Lex remembers some things and it keeping it on the down-low. Of course, he probably remembers the *wrong* things and misunderstands. Gah!!! Pain!!!
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Date: 2004-01-21 01:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-21 01:45 pm (UTC)::crosses fingers::
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Date: 2004-01-21 01:28 pm (UTC)And yes, those are the vids that make me want to watch IM. Guess I'll just have to wait for it to get released on DVD. It should happen some year....
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Date: 2004-01-21 01:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-21 12:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-21 01:12 pm (UTC)Oh - so Duncan/Methos? Nice choice. Also - much torturing of Duncan. I don't want to see Methos tortured. Duncan tied up and sweating - yeah. I can go there.
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Date: 2004-01-21 12:43 pm (UTC)Been thinking about this--why Spike doesn't fit. I think it's the self-torture thing. It reeeeeeks of bathos and self-indulgence. And guilt. Yeah, okay the guilt is good. But still. I like my torture to involve at least two people. Or intimate, ummmm, intimate knowledge of the tortur-ee.
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Date: 2004-01-21 12:48 pm (UTC)I am all for guilt and pain and recrimation - but the torture has to be noncon for it to really qualify. Otherwise, you are right - it is self-indulgent punishment. Punishment is fine and dandy - but torture works best when your boy is made victim - powerless and broken and then he has to deal with *that* - or - even better - when he *doesn't break*
Dear God - how did I not add Cap'n Mal to this list?? *That* was a great torture scene in War Stories. I must edit my post.
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Date: 2004-01-21 12:52 pm (UTC)*giggles*
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Date: 2004-01-21 12:56 pm (UTC)::collapses::
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Date: 2004-01-21 01:04 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-01-21 01:03 pm (UTC)Eeeexcellent.
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Date: 2004-01-21 01:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-21 01:23 pm (UTC)New Fandom whores unite!
Date: 2004-01-21 03:06 pm (UTC)A friend just exposed me to Stargate, and a few episodes ago, Daniel was kidnapped by South American anti-government rebels and tortured. There was a car battery and everything. And he *didn't* break.
I'm fairly certain it's the most beautiful thing ever.
And apparently this kinda thing happens all the time on the show. So Stargate is my new Official Best Thing Ever.
Gotta agree with Carbonite!Han, too. Mmmm...Han...
Re: New Fandom whores unite!
Date: 2004-01-22 10:53 am (UTC)I think it was here's luck who said of course I was, he was tortured for the entire vid.
Again - I am predictible.
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Date: 2004-01-21 06:02 pm (UTC)But it's OK. I am woman. I can wait. Your videos are well worth the wait.
Now, about those torture scenes - Mal torture! Brian Torture! Works for me. As long as there are nikked bodies and angst. Followed by hurt. Followed by comfort. Or sex.
Whatever.
namaste SF Nancy
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Date: 2004-01-22 10:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-22 11:22 pm (UTC)namaste nancy
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Date: 2004-01-21 08:35 pm (UTC)This is so me. *G* Although I also count mental anguish. Methos being confronted with his past. Lucas being mind-raped (though that looked like both mental and physical), Brian watching Justin lost and broken and not being able to fix it. It hits me on a slightly different level, but it hits just as hard.
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Date: 2004-01-22 10:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-25 08:54 pm (UTC)i'll take that bait
Date: 2004-01-21 11:42 pm (UTC)No Adam tonight, but never fear, he's sticking around for a while. Like Lex, I have my sources.
There was talk last year that Bruce Wayne may make a visit to Smallville, but the WB synergists (i.e. the movie people) put the kibosh on it, so Adam (last name Knight) is merely homage. Besides, does Batman get dehydrated?
Even if tonight's episode is All Lana, I forgive it. I forgive it because last week they gave me something that you just can't underestimate. They gave me something that can not be measured, something that touches me. Deep inside. They gave me...Lex!Torture.
Not just that, they gave THE HUG at the end. Touchy feely Lex?
Tonight's episode, while not All Lana, was actually Not Bad Lana. Sure, the lisp resurfaces, but her scene with curious Lex ("Who's Adam? ...you didn't answer my question.") had a nice 1st season vibe to it. We need more Lex/Lana scenes like that, or Lex/Chloe scenes period.
It all started with Carbonite!Han (at least for me - imprinted at an early age for type).
Good call. Luke never suffered man-pain 'cause he's just a boy.
Unfrozen Han: "I can't see."
See, it all comes together.
*Note: LOMIG stood for Lovers of Mulder in Glasses. Do the English.
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Date: 2004-01-22 10:48 am (UTC)