lirazel | i just have a lot of feelings

Tell me about why you love apocalypses. Also, I rewrite my interests from scratch about once a year, and it's always really satisfying :).

Dangit, I do not know. But I have this obsession with them, aesthetically and narratively. I guess my main thought is that I have this thing for small groups of people banding together in an us-versus-the-world type of situation, especially if not everyone likes everyone else? I also like seeing what matters to characters when the trappings of society and its obligations and responsibilities are stripped away. I like survivalism. I like angst. So all of those things kind of combine together in this glorious soup of wonderfulness in apocalyptic situations.

Apocalypse soup. The name of my new band. That I am going to have despite not playing any instruments. You heard it here first.

I wish I could just start from scratch, both with my icons and my interests, but I am so incredibly attached and hate change and giving things up that I just do this really painful thing where when I gain a new interest I go slowly through the list and cull out things that I can bring myself to erase and then plug in new things. I am always right at the 150 mark because of this. It's traumatizing.

Hehe I totally feel you on the trauma factor. I love what you say about apocalypses. I'm trying to think about my favorite ones. Well, I really like the Epitaph episodes of Dollhouse, not least because they contain my darling baby Felicia Day.

THE EPITAPHS ARE SO EXCELLENT I WANTED THE ENTIRE SHOW TO BE ABOUT THEM.

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YES.

Now I want to go watch Children of Men thirteen times in a row.

Oh man, Children of Men is awesome. And I love Clive Owen.

ALL YOUR BROKEN WORLD THOUGHTS. I could have written your entire first paragraph.

I really need to write another chapter of Faith and Giles in the winterpocalypse.

They just suck me in like I can't even tell you.

Winterpocalypse is excellent.

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Mine, too!

Despite the fact that I live the world's most conservative life, I have a fascination with 60's and 70's counterculture. And I'm a big classic rock fan. i think part of what I'm interested in is the idea of being part of something exclusive and limited and that is gone now, if that makes any sense? And Almost Famous makes you feel like part of that. Roger Ebert (who loves the movie as much as I do) describes it as drawing this time in shades both grey and yellow, which I think just about nails it. Plus: best soundtrack in the whole entire world.

What I love about the "Before..." series (and we NEED another film in a few years--we MUST have a trilogy!) is the it lets actual human interaction be the entire focus of the films. There's no plot AND THAT IS OKAY. It shows that some of the best drama can come from two people just interacting with each other, talking, sharing some things and not sharing others, getting to know each other. There's no forced plot twists or high stakes: it's just two people talking, and there's so much in that it can never be exhausted.

Talk to me about mutual adoration! :D

I am in love with my flist. And one of the things I most love about fandom is that A) everyone accepts effusive emotion instead of being weirded out about it, B) it's one of the few places where I can be sure that people really do like me and aren't just being polite by putting up with me. Part of my social anxiety issues is never believing real life people actually like me. But in fandom, you can pretty easily avoid people you dislike, or at least not talk to them. So I know that if people put in the effort here, they actually care. I feel secure in friendship here, if that makes sense? Secure enough that I can make it clear just how wonderful I think my online friends are. This makes me happy. :D

So, in short: I like you and think you're swell!

Awwwwwww, so true! ♥ I was just thinking earlier how the sense of community and support online can be so wonderful; I was looking at an ontd_political post and someone mentioned how they'd had a terrible day, and it's just awesome to see so many people (who, presumably, don't even know each other) offering comfort and support. It is so lovely!

It so annoys me too, like why can't I love more things? IS THAT NOT ALLOWED? I AM IN A GLASSCASE OF BAD EMOTION

I KNOW RIGHT????

List all your interests, separated by commas, to allow other users to find you using the Interest Search.

LIES!

Then again, you do have some tags as interests there ;) But to each her own.

Tell me why Donna Noble is cooler than me :D

HAHAHA! I actually don't need anyone else on my flist--it's big enough! So I don't feel the need to make myself find-able like I used to? Instead I use the interests to say I AM OBSESSIVE AND LIKE TO LIKE THINGS.

Donna Noble is cooler than EVERYONE. I love that she's kind of loud and brassy and could be seen as annoying, but the text loves her enough not to present her that way. I like that she gets to call the Doctor on his issues and be RIGHT and it be okay that she called him on things. I love that she is interested in things that most people think of as shallow (another word for "feminine" in a lot of cases) and yet she also gets to be the most important woman in the universe sometimes. I love that she grows and matures but remains herself. I love that she cares without being a bleeding heart (said the bleeding heart).

I HATEHATEHATEHATEHATHEHATEHATEHATEHHATE what happened to her and I will not speak of it further.

All our interests? It only wants 150. My flist is plenty full though too, but sometimes I forget my interests change. I recently went back and updated the interests for my writing journal and my personal journal just because my fandom list has a continuous growth rate.

YES TO ALL THAT.

If we talk about what happened I'm going to cry. Let's not.

Yeah, I have to pretty continually update mine. Mine change a lot. I just keep finding new things to love!

If we talk about what happened I'm going to cry. Let's not.

I make it a policy not to let myself think about it.

BWAHAHAHAHA! Did you just add "Aldis Hodge is my other future husband"? Because I love it. I need to add that to my interests.

Tell me about the ship that invented the word ship.

And also personifications of death.

Yes I did! Because Enver just isn't enough for me. I MUST HAVE ALDIS, TOO. You should definitely add it to your interests.

The ship that invented the word ship is Mulder and Scully, and even though I'm still sludging my way through the show (that makes it sound like I don't enjoy it. I do. But it's long!), they've definitely captured my heart. I love ships where the characters are completely tangled up in each other to the point where life without each other is inconceivable and they really don't know how to operate without each other. The first season or two I didn't really understand the big deal about them. I mean, I liked them as a ship, but I didn't understand the fuss. But the more they relied on each other, the more I fell for them. I really love how they make each other stronger and balance each other out.

I have an obsession with personifications of death which I entirely blame on reading too much Faulkner at a formative age. The Little Italian Girl in Quentin's section of The Sound and the Fury really won me over when I figured out that she was supposed to be death, and I never looked back. I love Death in The Book Thief and I already know I'm going to be a fan of Death when I read Sandman, which I will do eventually. I know there are some others that aren't coming to mind right now. And I fully intend to write a personification of death of my own one day.

Death in SPN is wonderful. He is so wonderful I cannot even tell you. I can tell you exactly the eps to watch if you want to meet him... (hint, hint!)

DEATH in Discworld is also wonderful; he likes cats and humans and is trying to develop a sense of humor. (He speaks in all caps.)

I've seen a few episodes where Death was a hot lady? Or were those reapers? I don't remember. Is there one specific Death that is awesome? I would like to hear about this.

likes cats and humans and is trying to develop a sense of humor. (He speaks in all caps.)

THIS IS EXCELLENT. *still meaning to get into Discworld*

You're thinking of a reaper. Reapers come in various human guises. Death, however, is always the same guy. He likes greasy all-American food and he wears a long black coat. Of all the SPN characters and Anthropomorphic Personifications (that's a Discworld thing *g*), he does the best job by far of coming across as ancient and elemental and entirely beyond our petty human concerns.

Oh, okay. He sounds great!

I just looked him up and he is definitely striking/creepy enough for such a role.

I think the actor looks like the guy Uriah Heep grew up to be.

Death's entrance on SPN. He gets his own SONG, and he rides a 'white horse':

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEKv2-zBRR8

And here's his next scene, meeting Dean:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X2QHlz2xNg&feature=related

Ooooh! I will check these out when I get home tonight!

Those are both from 5x21, the end of the Apocalypse.

Here are Death's scenes in 6.11. Not sure how much you know about S6, but the clips are pretty much self-explanatory.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4c0BaolRQw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfj4gqWKtxU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LwQzvzJBcw
All this talk about how to get into Hell, and Death is all "BRB" and then bamfs down there.

And his last scene (so far) in 7.01, a story I particularly hated (but then, I've given up on S7), but Death classes up any story he's in. Dean binds Death like Lucifer did in 5.10.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reOrcfUVz1c

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Okay, first, I'd forgotten what a fabulous intro he got. Dude. And second, I'd forgotten the song entirely, which also appears in O Brother, Where Art Thou? doesn't it? Is it the one the KKK sings? Or possibly the gravediggers? I forget.

Gah, I need to watch that movie again.

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Death's intro is only eclipsed by Castiel's bamf entrance. But each are appropriate. Cas needed to be showy to make a point to Dean, but Death doesn't give a fuck. He parks his car, walks down the sidewalk, and still manages to be badass while doing it.

Okay, just watched, and that was BADASS.

Death pwns all.

I love ships where the characters are completely tangled up in each other to the point where life without each other is inconceivable and they really don't know how to operate without each other.

Yessss. Your conversion to Mulder/Scully shipperhood is complete!

For the meme, please tell me how Dana Scully is better than me.

Also, Death was my favorite character in Sandman.

It doesn't matter who you are, Dana Scully is better than you. Except maaaaaybe if you're Buffy Summers. Then you're probably tied.

But Scully is so competent. I love competent characters, especially women. She's good at what she does and committed to it. And part of what she does is keep Mulder from dying every fifteen seconds, because he may be pretty, but he is dumb. He would be so dead a thousand times over if it weren't for Scully.

And I like that she is very self-contained but at the same time she feels like it's okay to complain when she isn't being treated right. (It's not about the desk, Mulder. How are you so stupid?) And she has a sense of humor, too, and it's great and kind of subtle and sly most of the time. And nobody rolls their eyes better than she does.

And I love her commitment to the truth. She has to always err on the side of skepticism in order to balance out Mulder, but she wants to know the truth as much as he does, she just thinks it's something different than he does.

I don't relate to Scully at all (I relate to Mulder, unfortunately), but I admire her so much.

And part of what she does is keep Mulder from dying every fifteen seconds, because he may be pretty, but he is dumb.

I laughed out loud at this, because it is SO TRUE.

I don't relate to Scully much myself, aside from the fact that she is so self-contained, but even as early as the first few episodes of the show I wished I was more like her. I find the mixture of competence and resilience and compassion that makes up the character to be so inspiring.

So, tell me about Chiwetel Ejiofor. I only know him from the BDM and from Children of Men. Has he does fabulous things elsewhere of which I am unaware?

Oh, yes! He's fantastic in everything! Obviously he's like a Shakesperian-level villain in the BDM and gets a few good scenes in the Children of Men. He's terribly entertainingly evil in Four Brothers. He's absolutely flawless in Dirty Pretty Things (which is rough but excellent). He's just a great actor in everything I've seen him in. And I would kill to see him as Othello. Apparently he was the Best Ever.

all-the-awesome-ladies-of-mystic-falls

Is this one there to save space? Which awesome ladies in specific would you put in there if you had more space?

I enjoy that you have three Enver interests.

It's partially there as shorthand for all of the ladies but it's also there because I enjoy them as a unit and even though the show has its weak points (*coughracecough*), it does really offer some excellent ladies. If I was expanding it, I would have Elena, Bonnie, Caroline, Anna, Katherine, Rebekah. I wouldn't include (but still love) Grams, Sheriff Forbes, and Jenna too. Because there are just SO MANY awesome ladies.

I am *ahem* interested in Enver. You know.

I'm a weirdo, I have no interests listed. Possibly because I would obsess over it and try to list every little thing?

It is so hard to limit yourself. Yours is probably the wiser way.

This is a good meme.

Tell me about this: everything-is-spuffy-and-nothing-hurts. ;)

That is my go-to tag on tumblr for my Buffy/Spike stuff. I use it so much over there that I thought it would be a good way to encompass all of my Buffy/Spike feels over here. I don't feel the need to be searchable via "buffy/spike" or "spuffy" or anything because I figure the people who are interested in that stuff are going to find me eventually either because A) I'm friends with everyone in this fandom or B) participation in things like

seasonal_spuffy. So I wanted one short thing that summed up all my Buffy/Spike feelings, and that's what I picked. Even if I hate the word "Spuffy" (which I still do. But I still use it!)

A) LOL!

I feel your "Spuffy" pain. But it's more unwieldy to say "everything is Buffy/Spike and nothing hurts"... Shipping is hard.

I'm always agonizing over editing my interests! It's unfair!

Tell me about:
being an oratorical snob
shosanna-dreyfus-has-a-message-for-germany
theirloveissocanon
mason mason mason

I should do this meme too because I have weirdo sentence interests as well.

I'm actually not all that much of an oratorical snob? But I just loooooove that scene in the West Wing so much that I needed to have it listed on my interests.

shosanna-dreyfus-has-a-message-for-germany

I have mad love for Inglourious Basterds and 97% of that love comes from Shosanna. She's one of my very favorite movie characters ever and when her face pops up on that screen and she says that she has a message for Germany, I get chills. She should be in ALL the movies!

theirloveissocanon

Because sometimes I canon ship! And it makes me so happy when my ships are canon and I get to see them on the screen!

mason mason mason

Mason from Dead Like Me! Rumpled British slacker madly in love with a girl who thinks she's too good for him and bffs with the world's most adorably apathetic office worker! He's so lovely! I just want to glomp him!

[eta] You should definitely do this meme! I would play!

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