I Knew DivX Was Evil...

Pretty pissed about this - divx.com is direct linking to every single video on our site. Permission was never once asked or granted by me, Dawn or Lum. This is ultra-annoying. Also - I'm late for work.


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Here's Luck Pizza and Bad Crossover Ideas

I just found out how to render as I go in Premiere. Damn this is a convenient step! Wish I'd known about this while making "Closer" - would have saved me months. Normally I vid for a while, stop - export as a movie and look at what I've done.

So I was going to make tacos for supper tonight but I needed tomatoes and lettuce. So I decided to go to the store. Since I had to go to the store, I decided to not make tacos cause it didn't really sound that good. Not that tacos aren't good and the food of the gods, but just not tonight. So I decided to make a pizza. Not just any pizza, but a heres_luck Pizza. What makes a pizza not just a pizza, but a heres_luck Pizza, you ask? Apparently vegetables. That is what I decided. Except I didn't put much thought into how I was combining the vegetables. I pretty much put every vegetable on it. It got kinda heavy - I had to have help from Dawn to put it in the oven. Oh! I forgot pizza sauce so I used ricotta cheese instead and that actually turned out really good. I'm gonna do that again. That and the zucchini. The zucchini was yummy. Next time I will also put the fresh basil on the bottom so it doesn't burn up. When Dawn was helping me put the pizza in the oven she got excited.

Dawn: I didn't know you could put lettuce on pizza!

Me: That is not lettuce, it's basil.

Dawn: Oh. Well, I'm glad you told me, otherwise I'd be putting my ceasar salad on a crust and popping it in the oven. Are you sure here's luck doesn't put lettuce on some of her pizzas? Cause I bet if she does, it is good.

Dawn should be tired. She spent today looking for quality QaF fanfiction. So far she has really earned her pizza. She found a lot of Brian/Michael - which isn't what I want to read. Oh!! She found a time-travel fic where Justin has to go back in time to 1990 to teach Brian how to love!! I shit you not. I want to read the one where Brian and Justin time travel to turn of the century Egypt and Justin needs help getting dressed because the clothes are all complicated...and that won't work with this ship, will it?

Oh - I saw a summary of a series that was Season One QaF retold with vampires. I'm fairly certain I don't want vampires in the mix, I have enough to worry about without the possibility that Brian will lose his soul. Seriously.

I just want a few vignettes - missing scenes, told well and not in first person because when I am new to a fandom and just starting to read fic, first person squicks me. Later on I can deal - but not right away. It feels too "inserty" and not in a good way. But there are things that happened on the show that were not seen and I need the blanks filled in. Like - remember when Justin comes home drunk after he drops out of IFA and Brian tries to show him the computer and Justin gets all upset and tells Brian that it is just false hope and you can literally see Justin starting to crack, and then he tells Brian, "Now, why don't you come fuck me before I pass out" and the scene ends with Brian looking at Justin going into the bedroom? Uh...well, what happened next? Dawn says, "Well, Brian went in there and fucked him." but somehow her explanation falls short. Maybe because it lacks poetry, or perhaps I just want more details. Poetry or details - I'd take either at this point.

Also - Dawn has decided that we should write a Quantum Leap/QaF crossover where Sam leaps into Brian's body toward the end of season one. Al can tell him it is because Brian Kinney dies on his 30th birthday or some shit like that - I don't know - just work with me here. Anyhow, Sam realizes he is in this guys body and he is at the loft and shirtless and there is a knock at the door and it is this random trick. Who Sam, because he is all that is good and pure in the world, sends away. And that is pretty much the fic - just Sam trying to be Brian and everyone thinking Brian has gone around the deep end. Cause he is all nice to people - you see. Oh, and he is all upset that Justin is at Babylon. Oh - and Dr. Dave thinks that Brian is up to something, acting all nice and is just furious. I had some other stuff as well, but I seem to have forgotten it all now, so it is just as well. But if anyone wants to write QL/QaF fic, I'd probably read it. So long as Brian doesn't learn an important lesson and confess his love to Justin/Michael and use the phrase "I have always loved you, I've been a fool for so long." cause there is only so much this poor gal can take, yo. Although - if it was Sam as Brian saying those things I think it would crack my shit up.

Sam-as-Brian - Next I Vid "Bring Me to Life"

So the idea takes shape.

First time Sam looks in the mirror as Brian he says, "God, I'm Beautiful."

Sam says his "Oh, boy" line when he opens the door to the loft and the trick is standing there.

Sam believes that Brian commits suicide on his 30th birthday. I'm not really sure why - let's just say that Ziggy is malfunctioning and lines get crossed and there is an outcome where Michael doesn't go to see Brian that night. So Brian never becomes Rage and never saves the city. So Sam-as-Brian decides that this is an obviously deeply disturbed man and this theory is compounded by his view of Brian's shallow as fuck life. So he sets about "fixing" Brian's interpersonal relationships.

Wacky Hilarity Ensues.

Dawn wants Michael to be totally oblivious. He loves Sam-as-Brian. Dawn wants there to be a confrontation between Michael and Dr. Dave where Dr. Dave is going off about Brian being up to something and Michael is all super-defendy:

Michael: Brian is doing really well. He just spent an hour with me discussing how David Boreanez is going to play Captain Astro in the movie. And look [Michael pulls a piece of paper out of his jacket]Brian photoshopped me this picture. [hands printout of David Boreanez's head on Captain Astro's body]

Dr. Dave: Wait...there isn't going to be a third season of Angel?

Michael: No - obviously we don't even care about the same things, Dave. And besides, Buffy is dead. It's over. Time to move on.

Dr. Dave:[solemnly] Well, you can say that Michael. But I don't believe it. I refuse to accept that.

Michael: Well whatever, but Brian is handling turning 30 better than anyone expected so just drop it. Even if he is being devious and manipulative he is my friend and he isn't being devious and manipulative. At least not now. [Michael shakes his head and walks out of room. Dave watches him leave].

Okay - We think Emmett will be the one to figure it out. I just haven't figured out how. And I want Lindsey to be seriously freaked out by Sam-as-Brian, but the Sam-as-Brian/Melanie interactions are where the money is at. Just Imagine...ahh

So Sam decides that the Justin relationship is inappropriate and tries to break up with him, but Justin won't let him because Brian has been trying to do that all year. Actually - Justin probably won't notice much of a difference - except I don't think Sam-as-Brian will be able to have sex with him. Yeah - Justin would notice that.

Sam-as-Brian tries to work with the people at the Gay and Lesbian Center and even he is exasperated by them.

Oh - and at some point Ziggy comes back online and Sam finds out that all of the repairs that he is doing to Brian's personal life will eventually lead to nuclear war. Because Brian Kinney has to be an asshole or Hell will freeze over. Brian has to twist and turn Michael every which way about moving - telling him to go one minute and that it is a mistake the next or Michael will never go to his apartment that night. And if Michael never goes to the apartmentand never tells Brian that he is Beautidul -that he is Brian Kinney - then Brian can't got to Prom. And if Brian does not got to Prom, he will never be Rage. And without Rage we are all doomed. Doomed I say.

Now I'm tapped.