An Ode To Sugar... and a link!
May. 10th, 2005 10:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sisabetSo far today I have consumed:
1 Diet Mountain Dew
2 cups coffee with real sugar and creamer
1 Krispy Creme filled donut
and I am currently sipping on a Sunny Delight.
In other words? I cannot sit still. I AM OUT OF MY MIND! I think my cubicle walls are shaking.
I feel incredibly great, though - right at this minute. Ask me how I feel in an hour and I can't guarantee the same anwer.
I am also useless right now for anythng at all. Good thing the Big Boss is taking us out for ribs for lunch. Yeah, ribs. Ribs will wake me right up.
::headdesk::
Fascinating discussion going on over in![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
julad's LJ about differing interpretations in slash as far as emotional openness. She defines the differing readers as "Cold Pricklies" and "Warm Fuzzies" and it was very interesting to think about.
I guess I am a Cold Prickly even though I adore and want and need warm fuzzies... it is just I can't feel like I am being handed the sweetness because, well for starters most of my BSOs are pretty much beyond clams and UberClams. These are men who are models of restraint and isolation. It is not that they don't experience emotion, it is that they do not show it, at least not easily.
If I am reading a story and all of sudden Angel is crying, and I haven't just been through the absolute wringer with him and I myself started crying ten pages back and he is just now only squeaking out a tear and leaving the room? I just can't buy it. I buy his voice cracking and then that he would absolutely lose control and start trashing things or killing people. I buy that. Hell, I watch that. But part of the fun of Angel is seeing him attempt to cope and reach out when he is so very inept at it. The drawback to that is when he experiences these huge significant emotional moments he has to shut down*. Well, I guess that is only a drawback if you don't find this type of response interesting.
And you can break Angel down and the show does this several times and I just love it so much when it happens.
So, um - discussion over in Julad's LJ -- she frames it with vague references to SGA, but really - it is a universal thing: http://www.livejournal.com/users/julad/71396.html
*Or people could die!!! And while with Angel this is quite literally true, in the other characters that I define as "Angel" on any given series you know - when I pipe up about Sheppard or or Darien or Aeryn or Brian Kinney and am all "OMG he/she's Angel!" and it is because, for these characters, while experiencing these deep emotions might not literally kill other people, or themselves, it sure feels like it might.
And that makes the stakes of letting down the guard even a little tiny bit tremendous and tremendously dramatic. And that is pretty much what gets me. Other stuff gets me, too. Hell - if you want to put Angel in a cave-in and make him cry? I am so there. I'd even buy the crying if you put Spike in there with him.
1 Diet Mountain Dew
2 cups coffee with real sugar and creamer
1 Krispy Creme filled donut
and I am currently sipping on a Sunny Delight.
In other words? I cannot sit still. I AM OUT OF MY MIND! I think my cubicle walls are shaking.
I feel incredibly great, though - right at this minute. Ask me how I feel in an hour and I can't guarantee the same anwer.
I am also useless right now for anythng at all. Good thing the Big Boss is taking us out for ribs for lunch. Yeah, ribs. Ribs will wake me right up.
::headdesk::
Fascinating discussion going on over in
julad's LJ about differing interpretations in slash as far as emotional openness. She defines the differing readers as "Cold Pricklies" and "Warm Fuzzies" and it was very interesting to think about. I guess I am a Cold Prickly even though I adore and want and need warm fuzzies... it is just I can't feel like I am being handed the sweetness because, well for starters most of my BSOs are pretty much beyond clams and UberClams. These are men who are models of restraint and isolation. It is not that they don't experience emotion, it is that they do not show it, at least not easily.
If I am reading a story and all of sudden Angel is crying, and I haven't just been through the absolute wringer with him and I myself started crying ten pages back and he is just now only squeaking out a tear and leaving the room? I just can't buy it. I buy his voice cracking and then that he would absolutely lose control and start trashing things or killing people. I buy that. Hell, I watch that. But part of the fun of Angel is seeing him attempt to cope and reach out when he is so very inept at it. The drawback to that is when he experiences these huge significant emotional moments he has to shut down*. Well, I guess that is only a drawback if you don't find this type of response interesting.
And you can break Angel down and the show does this several times and I just love it so much when it happens.
So, um - discussion over in Julad's LJ -- she frames it with vague references to SGA, but really - it is a universal thing: http://www.livejournal.com/users/julad/71396.html
*Or people could die!!! And while with Angel this is quite literally true, in the other characters that I define as "Angel" on any given series you know - when I pipe up about Sheppard or or Darien or Aeryn or Brian Kinney and am all "OMG he/she's Angel!" and it is because, for these characters, while experiencing these deep emotions might not literally kill other people, or themselves, it sure feels like it might.
And that makes the stakes of letting down the guard even a little tiny bit tremendous and tremendously dramatic. And that is pretty much what gets me. Other stuff gets me, too. Hell - if you want to put Angel in a cave-in and make him cry? I am so there. I'd even buy the crying if you put Spike in there with him.
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Date: 2005-05-10 03:34 pm (UTC)Did you know there are people who DO NOT know of your vids?
I've been sending them your way.
*hugs*
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Date: 2005-05-10 03:47 pm (UTC)I should hope so! Honestly, what I do has a *very* limited audience and I kinda like that. But thank you!
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Date: 2005-05-10 03:54 pm (UTC);)
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Date: 2005-05-10 04:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-05-10 04:32 pm (UTC)I really, really miss American Mt. Dew. Curse Canada's silly rules about caffiene and carbonated drinks! Curse them! *shakes fist*
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Date: 2005-05-10 05:55 pm (UTC)::flees::
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Date: 2005-05-10 05:54 pm (UTC)I am just... yeah - I can't take it when apparently the fact that McKay is emotional translates into weepy.
When have we seen him cry on the show? We've seen him disgusted and horrified and frightened and amazed and he has been through any number of trauma and will talk about some of it (and I think it is key the things he will just go on and on about and the things that he keeps close to his vest) but we haven't seen him cry. Not even when he is giving his final words did he cry.