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Everywhere you look
there are stars
18 October 2014 @ 06:10 pm
General
As ever, I am entirely consistent in general tastes and previous letters are under the yuletide tags and I've stolen shamelessly from them, everything said then applies now. I'll be in #yuletide all the time as stars/hippostars (or stars of any flavour really), so feel free to come and stalk.
I am amazingly easy to please with fic, I read anything and everything from AU in space to five times and mpreg and everything in between and if you want to do that to any of the below, go for it! I read gen and slash and het (less keen on femmeslash with these particular fandoms), so if you're happier writing any of the characters I've suggested in ships or just as friends then feel free. I love angst and fluff and PWPs and cliche-fic, dark humour and silly humour and banter, kill everyone off and let the zombies decide. Focus on plot or focus on character, whatever makes you happiest to write!
I seem to have acquired a theme this year that is generally pretty bleak and end of the world so feel free to use that and go as dark as you like in any of the fandoms - but please don't feel tied to dark and twisty and if you want to fluff it all up and happily-ever-after then I would love that too. This year there's also a mix of new and previously requested and while some details are longer than others i love all of my requests equally
I don't really have any major squicks, or general fic no-nos, so go where the winds take you and don't worry about anything in that regard. If there is anything fandom specific then it's all noted down.
Lastly, OPTIONAL DETAILS ARE OPTIONAL. I'll love a story you loved writing way more than one you shoehorned into fitting my details.
The Last Ship - Tom Chandler, Mike Slattery. I picked the captain and his first officer because I want to know more about the relationship between these two, whether it's past, present or future. They've worked together for years and clearly have absolute trust and faith in each other (subject to the occasional wobble) what were they like coming up through the ranks? Have they always been friends (or something more?) or did it take time to get there? How are they coping with so many deaths? What's going to happen next? Is the vaccine and cure permanent or is the virus going to win? How does the world recover - or not? Feel free to bring in any other characters, but I'd appreciate it if the main focus was on these two. I am also fully aware just how utterly impossible most of the science is so unless you have a burning desire to make it accurate (which would be seriously awesome) then I'm more than happy if you just go with the reality of the show where a lone person can create a combo vaccine and cure for a previously unknown virus that is highly mutable on a ship lab in a matter of hours while saying primordial as much as possible.
Tigerman - Nick Harkaway -Any -This ended the way i feared it would and wished it wouldn't, despite the inevitability that suffused the whole thing. I love Nick Harkaway's writing and how he can combine the real with the surreal so well and adored the references that dotted the book despite a large portion of them going over my head. Although the minute he said leaf on the wind I started wincing and waiting for it... I nominated the three characters that I find most fascinating, but if you want to bring others in or just go for world building then that's great. Lester is broken and in trying to pick up the pieces the boy just shatters him more. Kaiko is just kick-ass and science and the boy - there's just so much there. With a world this rich there's so many directions to go in from more about the island and what it can do, the fleet and more detail of what's happening there. What does Kaiko think of it all? What's a day in the life for the boy? What happens next for Lester and how does Kaiko fit in? Is he truly gone? What happens to Bad Jack? One specific do-not-want here - please please please do not make Lester's feelings towards the boy anything other than fatherly and platonic.
Muse - Resistance -Any Apart from the fact that the music is brilliant, i just loved the (post)apocalyptic theme running through the album. Tell me all the stories about how this came about, what got the government to this point, who are the people hiding? Aliens? just your bog standard revolution? Should I be hiding in a basement? Paranoia is in bloom indeed.
Long Earth Series - Baxter/Pratchett- Any- I absolutely love the possibilities of this universe and yuletide is fabulous for getting to request things when the authors start veering off into different areas and this is one case where I don't think they're taking advantage of the universe and its wonders enough. For me the joy here is in the sense of discovery of every new world be it terrible or marvellous and I just want to press pause and stop everywhere along the way rather than flicking through the worlds in an instant. Because of that, this is a true any request. I would really enjoy reading about any and all details of the worlds you care to mention - pick one world, or show me around the high meggers, tell me about the trolls and things from their point of view. Or go for any of the characters nominated in whatever situation you care to place them. How is Sister Agnes kicking asses and taking names? What else is out there on the Long Mars and how did Sally change things? What is Roberta's future like? Have we heard the last from the Next? Is there an end to the Long Earths and does Maggie find it?
Teng Vienna - Works - Whatever you Want - When I first heard this song I didn't properly listen to the lyrics, it was just a pretty and catchy melody. Then I actually paid attention to what was being said and fell in love even more. There are possibilities and interpretations here that I would love, dear writer, for you to explore. Is this the story of the rotten CEO, his ignored wife and accountant running off together and telling the press about the CEO's misdeeds? Or is it a co-incidence that the wife and the accountant leave at the same time? What exactly is going on in the files? What new and amazing life does the wife have?
06 October 2013 @ 03:00 pm
Dear wonderful writer,
You may notice that this letter is startlingly similar to that of other years. Happily, I am entirely consistent in general tastes while fandoms flip around so please feel free to reuse or take anything from them.
Previous letters are under the yuletide tags and I've stolen shamelessly from them, everything said then applies now. I'll be in #yuletide all the time as stars/hippostars (or stars of any flavour really), so feel free to come stalk.
I am amazingly easy to please with fic, I read anything and everything from AU in space to five times and mpreg and everything in between and if you want to do that to any of the below, go for it! I read gen and slash and het (less keen on femmeslash), so if you're happier writing any of the characters I've suggested in ships or just as friends then feel free. I love angst and fluff and PWPs and cliche-fic, dark humour and silly humour and banter, kill everyone off and let the zombies decide. Focus on plot or focus on character, whatever makes you happiest to write!
All of my fandoms are short and very easy to acquire so I hope that there's something in there that makes you happy to write.
I don't really have any major squicks, or fic no-nos, so go where the winds take you and don't worry about anything in that regard.
Lastly, OPTIONAL DETAILS ARE OPTIONAL. I'll love a story you loved writing way more than one you shoehorned into fitting my details.
The Rosie Project - Graeme Simsion - any
This book made me laugh more than I have in a long time, the humour and the matter of factness of it was so perfect, not least because I was made to read the book because my sister saw so much of me in Don. The standardised meal plan does have an awful lot to recommend it!
I'd love to see more in this universe, what do Rosie and Don get up to next? How does he deal with the chaos of raising children? Tell me more about a failed experiment in the vein of the infamous ice cream tasting project, what are the ideal qualities in a jacket or for that matter a pair of shoes?
extra bits - I love the humour here, so something in the same mood would be awesome rather than anything particularly angsty. While I'm sure you wouldn't, please also shy away from anything thats open mockery of Don.
Resistance - Muse (album) - any
Apart from the fact that the music is brilliant, I just loved the post apocalyptic theme running through the album. Tell me all the stories about how this came about, what got the government to this point, who are the people hiding?
extra bits - I'm really interested in the universe of the music and not rpf from the band members, so if you could steer away from that it would be great. Given the themes, go as violent as dark as you'd like. If you want to link Exogenesis and the alien theme there then go for it! (link to listen here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySD2D4
White House Down (2013) - James Sawyer John Cale
I saw this movie the day nominations closed and am so so glad that I made it back from the cinema in time to get a nomination in. What I'd really love to see here is post-movie fic, be it the next morning and how everyone's coping, the next week and how the rebuilding is starting, the next month and the lasting repercussions or 10 years down the line and how Cale and Sawyer's lives evolved. Slash more than welcome here.
extra bits - I'm not certain that all of the bits I found funny in this were entirely intentional, namely Cale taking the time to remove his shirt in the middle of a gun battle, but I really love it whole-heartedly. I did enjoy the humour a lot, but if you want to, go as dark as you like, AU where they don't make it also much appreciated and if you want to cross this over with the other attack on the white house, go right ahead
Olympus Has Fallen (2013) - any
There is a theme going on with these requests in the sense that what I'm really interested in is the fallout and the rebuilding. I've picked any here because I'd be thrilled with anything. I'd love to see something with Ruth and Lynn being badasses, how Connor is affected, do Banning and Asher reconcile permanently? Slash more than welcome here.
extra bits - While it's a very similar plot to White House Down, I like how the two movies are totally different and love the realism (within a movie sense) of this, that they used a real country and specific motives, that they went all out on destruction and didn't shy away from hard scenes. Given that, I also love the black humour of Banning and how resolute Asher is. Again, go as dark as you like, AU where they don't make it also much appreciated and if you want to cross this over with the other attack on the white house, go right ahead
You may notice that this letter is startlingly similar to that of other years. Happily, I am entirely consistent in general tastes while fandoms flip around so please feel free to reuse or take anything from them.
Previous letters are under the yuletide tags and I've stolen shamelessly from them, everything said then applies now. I'll be in #yuletide all the time as stars/hippostars (or stars of any flavour really), so feel free to come stalk.
I am amazingly easy to please with fic, I read anything and everything from AU in space to five times and mpreg and everything in between and if you want to do that to any of the below, go for it! I read gen and slash and het (less keen on femmeslash), so if you're happier writing any of the characters I've suggested in ships or just as friends then feel free. I love angst and fluff and PWPs and cliche-fic, dark humour and silly humour and banter, kill everyone off and let the zombies decide. Focus on plot or focus on character, whatever makes you happiest to write!
All of my fandoms are short and very easy to acquire so I hope that there's something in there that makes you happy to write.
I don't really have any major squicks, or fic no-nos, so go where the winds take you and don't worry about anything in that regard.
Lastly, OPTIONAL DETAILS ARE OPTIONAL. I'll love a story you loved writing way more than one you shoehorned into fitting my details.
The Rosie Project - Graeme Simsion - any
This book made me laugh more than I have in a long time, the humour and the matter of factness of it was so perfect, not least because I was made to read the book because my sister saw so much of me in Don. The standardised meal plan does have an awful lot to recommend it!
I'd love to see more in this universe, what do Rosie and Don get up to next? How does he deal with the chaos of raising children? Tell me more about a failed experiment in the vein of the infamous ice cream tasting project, what are the ideal qualities in a jacket or for that matter a pair of shoes?
extra bits - I love the humour here, so something in the same mood would be awesome rather than anything particularly angsty. While I'm sure you wouldn't, please also shy away from anything thats open mockery of Don.
Resistance - Muse (album) - any
Apart from the fact that the music is brilliant, I just loved the post apocalyptic theme running through the album. Tell me all the stories about how this came about, what got the government to this point, who are the people hiding?
extra bits - I'm really interested in the universe of the music and not rpf from the band members, so if you could steer away from that it would be great. Given the themes, go as violent as dark as you'd like. If you want to link Exogenesis and the alien theme there then go for it! (link to listen here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySD2D4
White House Down (2013) - James Sawyer John Cale
I saw this movie the day nominations closed and am so so glad that I made it back from the cinema in time to get a nomination in. What I'd really love to see here is post-movie fic, be it the next morning and how everyone's coping, the next week and how the rebuilding is starting, the next month and the lasting repercussions or 10 years down the line and how Cale and Sawyer's lives evolved. Slash more than welcome here.
extra bits - I'm not certain that all of the bits I found funny in this were entirely intentional, namely Cale taking the time to remove his shirt in the middle of a gun battle, but I really love it whole-heartedly. I did enjoy the humour a lot, but if you want to, go as dark as you like, AU where they don't make it also much appreciated and if you want to cross this over with the other attack on the white house, go right ahead
Olympus Has Fallen (2013) - any
There is a theme going on with these requests in the sense that what I'm really interested in is the fallout and the rebuilding. I've picked any here because I'd be thrilled with anything. I'd love to see something with Ruth and Lynn being badasses, how Connor is affected, do Banning and Asher reconcile permanently? Slash more than welcome here.
extra bits - While it's a very similar plot to White House Down, I like how the two movies are totally different and love the realism (within a movie sense) of this, that they used a real country and specific motives, that they went all out on destruction and didn't shy away from hard scenes. Given that, I also love the black humour of Banning and how resolute Asher is. Again, go as dark as you like, AU where they don't make it also much appreciated and if you want to cross this over with the other attack on the white house, go right ahead
08 October 2012 @ 11:47 pm
Dear hippo,
Some general stuff up-front, previous letters are under the yuletide tags and I've stolen shamelessly from them, everything said then applies now. I'll be in #yuletide all the time as stars, so feel free to come stalk.
I am amazingly easy to please with fic, I read anything and everything from AU in space to five times and mpreg and everything in between and if you want to do that to any of the below, go for it! I read gen and slash and het (less so with femmeslash), so if you're happier writing any of the characters I've suggested in ships or just as friends then feel free. I love angst and fluff and PWPs and cliche-fic, dark humour and silly humour and banter, kill everyone off and let the zombies decide. Focus on plot or focus on character, whatever makes you happiest to write!
All of my fandoms are short and very easy to acquire so I hope that there's something in there that makes you happy to write.
I don't really have any major squicks, or fic no-nos, so go where the winds take you and don't worry about anything in that regard.
Lastly, OPTIONAL DETAILS ARE OPTIONAL. I'll love a story you loved writing way more than one you shoehorned into fitting my details.
1) The Long Earth - Pratchett/Baxter - any
Optional details: I honestly cannot narrow down my request for this as I need to READ ALL THE FIC. I'd love to see anything about Joshua's and Sally's continuing travels (romantic or entirely platonic), the history of Sister Agnes or more of Monica's story. Alternatively just go for pure worldbuilding and pick an Earth and tell me its story, write about the elves or the trolls and their POV of all these people stepping in and out and the trials and tribulations of setting up a new society from scratch. Or, how about Earth zero and the chaos of those left behind?
Extra bits- I think I want fic for this because I found the ending... unsatisfying in many ways. It built for so long and then poof, resolved and everyone lives happily ever after (ish). It also felt in parts that the book needed to be longer, it just skimmed over all these amazing worlds and then wham, on to the next, tantalizing and leaving me wanting more. I'd be overjoyed with fic that stayed on one world, but equally if you want to write snippets from a couple of places that pass through, then that would be just as fabulous. If you do want to include any other characters then feel free, however neither Lobsang or first person singular top my list of those I'm burning with desire to read more about, so would be happy if they stayed more background.
2) Deep Impact, any
I'd really love future fic (or really in between) for this as there's just so much to write about and the movie sort of glosses over the year between the speech and the impact. I'd love to see more on the reconstruction of the cities, how the asteroid changes (or doesn't) people's world view and attitudes. Sarah and Leo raising the baby and any other additions to their family or perhaps they don't even stay together. What life is like for those who went into the arks, or even go wild and write something in the world but with your own characters. Even though the movie had a 'happy' ending and I would be more than pleased to get something that carries on that optimism, if you want to go dark and twisty, feel free!
extra bits - This movie is one I go back to again and again and cheers me up despite the content. I adore the bits of science they got right (quiet in space!) enough to let me gloss over the bigger errors, and if you want to explore any of the geeky bits I will adore you forever. (Which I'll do whatever you write actually). I think the potential for worldbuilding here is huge and if you just want to play in the really messy sandpit of almost-destroyed-Earth then go ahead. I'd really like a fic that focuses more on Earth and the whatnext parts rather than something that's set during the film, and while I do love the crew of the Messiah, for the first time I'm my life I'm more interested in the ground based parts rather than the in space ones.
3) Political Animals- Elaine, Margaret, Susan
I picked this fandom because I love the strength of the women and how they still remain human and not caricatures. I love Elaine's competence and her conflicted feelings about Bud. I love Susan and how you see her falling and yet still doing what she needs to get what she wants, I love Margaret's unapologetic and uncompromising behaviour and how it fits with the love of her family. I haven't picked them for this request, but I also really like the way that Bud and Garcetti were written despite their flaws, so would also be happy if they were included as long as the women stay centre stage.
extra bits - I'm not sure I have that much more to say on this one (but it doesn't mean I like it any less than the others!), I just don't have any particular ideas to fling around. Saying that, given how unlikely this is to get another season (woe), I'd love a view on what happens next with the campaign and its family implications or the fallout of the crash and its political ones. Does Elaine win? What sort of president is she? Does Susan get her Pulitzer? How does the country cope without Garcetti?
Some general stuff up-front, previous letters are under the yuletide tags and I've stolen shamelessly from them, everything said then applies now. I'll be in #yuletide all the time as stars, so feel free to come stalk.
I am amazingly easy to please with fic, I read anything and everything from AU in space to five times and mpreg and everything in between and if you want to do that to any of the below, go for it! I read gen and slash and het (less so with femmeslash), so if you're happier writing any of the characters I've suggested in ships or just as friends then feel free. I love angst and fluff and PWPs and cliche-fic, dark humour and silly humour and banter, kill everyone off and let the zombies decide. Focus on plot or focus on character, whatever makes you happiest to write!
All of my fandoms are short and very easy to acquire so I hope that there's something in there that makes you happy to write.
I don't really have any major squicks, or fic no-nos, so go where the winds take you and don't worry about anything in that regard.
Lastly, OPTIONAL DETAILS ARE OPTIONAL. I'll love a story you loved writing way more than one you shoehorned into fitting my details.
1) The Long Earth - Pratchett/Baxter - any
Optional details: I honestly cannot narrow down my request for this as I need to READ ALL THE FIC. I'd love to see anything about Joshua's and Sally's continuing travels (romantic or entirely platonic), the history of Sister Agnes or more of Monica's story. Alternatively just go for pure worldbuilding and pick an Earth and tell me its story, write about the elves or the trolls and their POV of all these people stepping in and out and the trials and tribulations of setting up a new society from scratch. Or, how about Earth zero and the chaos of those left behind?
Extra bits- I think I want fic for this because I found the ending... unsatisfying in many ways. It built for so long and then poof, resolved and everyone lives happily ever after (ish). It also felt in parts that the book needed to be longer, it just skimmed over all these amazing worlds and then wham, on to the next, tantalizing and leaving me wanting more. I'd be overjoyed with fic that stayed on one world, but equally if you want to write snippets from a couple of places that pass through, then that would be just as fabulous. If you do want to include any other characters then feel free, however neither Lobsang or first person singular top my list of those I'm burning with desire to read more about, so would be happy if they stayed more background.
2) Deep Impact, any
I'd really love future fic (or really in between) for this as there's just so much to write about and the movie sort of glosses over the year between the speech and the impact. I'd love to see more on the reconstruction of the cities, how the asteroid changes (or doesn't) people's world view and attitudes. Sarah and Leo raising the baby and any other additions to their family or perhaps they don't even stay together. What life is like for those who went into the arks, or even go wild and write something in the world but with your own characters. Even though the movie had a 'happy' ending and I would be more than pleased to get something that carries on that optimism, if you want to go dark and twisty, feel free!
extra bits - This movie is one I go back to again and again and cheers me up despite the content. I adore the bits of science they got right (quiet in space!) enough to let me gloss over the bigger errors, and if you want to explore any of the geeky bits I will adore you forever. (Which I'll do whatever you write actually). I think the potential for worldbuilding here is huge and if you just want to play in the really messy sandpit of almost-destroyed-Earth then go ahead. I'd really like a fic that focuses more on Earth and the whatnext parts rather than something that's set during the film, and while I do love the crew of the Messiah, for the first time I'm my life I'm more interested in the ground based parts rather than the in space ones.
3) Political Animals- Elaine, Margaret, Susan
I picked this fandom because I love the strength of the women and how they still remain human and not caricatures. I love Elaine's competence and her conflicted feelings about Bud. I love Susan and how you see her falling and yet still doing what she needs to get what she wants, I love Margaret's unapologetic and uncompromising behaviour and how it fits with the love of her family. I haven't picked them for this request, but I also really like the way that Bud and Garcetti were written despite their flaws, so would also be happy if they were included as long as the women stay centre stage.
extra bits - I'm not sure I have that much more to say on this one (but it doesn't mean I like it any less than the others!), I just don't have any particular ideas to fling around. Saying that, given how unlikely this is to get another season (woe), I'd love a view on what happens next with the campaign and its family implications or the fallout of the crash and its political ones. Does Elaine win? What sort of president is she? Does Susan get her Pulitzer? How does the country cope without Garcetti?
12 July 2012 @ 08:03 pm
In oslo airport waiting for the plane to longyearbyen. Polar bears here I come!
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22 April 2012 @ 06:08 pm
For many, many years now I have been obsessed with the polar regions - with the endless nights and the endless days, with the aurora, with bears and penguins and birds nesting endlessly on cliffs.
I've looked longingly at photos others have taken and sat in front of nature documentaries with my heart aching at the beauty of it all.
Four years ago I went to Iceland for the first time and was immediately smitten. In January I made it back and had the most wonderful time (with wonderful people) and since then I have not been able to stop thinking about landscapes of snow and ice.
I've found myself constantly refreshing spaceweather and the aurora forecasts, treating frozen planet like it was porn and visiting polar trip travel agencies in an almost masochistic fashion.
Last week I decided that I have wanted this long enough and I booked a trip. In 82 days I am leaving to travel up to Longyearbyen, Spitsbergen in the Svalbard archipelago where I will board an ice-reinforced scientific research vessel and cruise around the islands for a little over a week. The cost is, quite frankly, ridiculous and I that's even though I managed to get a very good deal on flights and am in a quad-share cabin. I don't care if I have to live off noodles for the rest of the year/decade, I am so excited to be doing this.
Now, I just have to take a step back and stop researching, buying probably unnecessary equipment and fretting over weather patterns, not being able to see polar bears, dropping my camera overboard etc. My biggest concern at the moment (and this says so much about me) is that I've always been terrible at sleeping in moving vehicles of whatever sort because I'm petrified that I'll miss something awesome out of the window while I sleep. It's why I have to have a window seat on planes or I get all antsy and stressed and why 6 weeks travelling around Australia on greyhound buses led to some pretty impressive sleep deprivation. I'm really not sure how I'll cope on a ship in the most spectacular location imaginable where the sun never sets and the light at night is the best for photography. You know what though, it's a problem I couldn't be more thrilled to have to work out a solution to because it means that I'm going to be at 80degrees north and only 500 miles from the north pole.
Ice Ahoy!
I've looked longingly at photos others have taken and sat in front of nature documentaries with my heart aching at the beauty of it all.
Four years ago I went to Iceland for the first time and was immediately smitten. In January I made it back and had the most wonderful time (with wonderful people) and since then I have not been able to stop thinking about landscapes of snow and ice.
I've found myself constantly refreshing spaceweather and the aurora forecasts, treating frozen planet like it was porn and visiting polar trip travel agencies in an almost masochistic fashion.
Last week I decided that I have wanted this long enough and I booked a trip. In 82 days I am leaving to travel up to Longyearbyen, Spitsbergen in the Svalbard archipelago where I will board an ice-reinforced scientific research vessel and cruise around the islands for a little over a week. The cost is, quite frankly, ridiculous and I that's even though I managed to get a very good deal on flights and am in a quad-share cabin. I don't care if I have to live off noodles for the rest of the year/decade, I am so excited to be doing this.
Now, I just have to take a step back and stop researching, buying probably unnecessary equipment and fretting over weather patterns, not being able to see polar bears, dropping my camera overboard etc. My biggest concern at the moment (and this says so much about me) is that I've always been terrible at sleeping in moving vehicles of whatever sort because I'm petrified that I'll miss something awesome out of the window while I sleep. It's why I have to have a window seat on planes or I get all antsy and stressed and why 6 weeks travelling around Australia on greyhound buses led to some pretty impressive sleep deprivation. I'm really not sure how I'll cope on a ship in the most spectacular location imaginable where the sun never sets and the light at night is the best for photography. You know what though, it's a problem I couldn't be more thrilled to have to work out a solution to because it means that I'm going to be at 80degrees north and only 500 miles from the north pole.
Ice Ahoy!
21 February 2012 @ 11:45 pm
So, you may not know that I am a bit of a musical reality tv obsessive. It's a failing, I know. I'm also an insane theatre geek. Today these two collided.
I have been watching The Voice since the very first episode and loved the concept. Last season was excellent and while I'm not a fan of Dia Frampton's album, I still adore her voice and love the talent that the show threw up.
This season is even better, some really unique voices and I want to draw sparkly hearts around Adam and Blake - actual quote (Blake talking to Adam about a performer). "I think she just got emotional, and you do that to me. You make me giddy; you make me fall apart. I lose my voice when you're around." (Someone write me fic? Fren, I'm looking at you)
Anyway, last week was Jordis Unga, who I watched when she was tiny and wee and be-dreadlocked in Rockstar:INXS and performing alongside Mig Ayesa who I know from We Will Rock You in London. I only know Mig because of Tony motherfucking Vincent, who turned up on the show this week.
I think I can state conclusively, that Tony Vincent has, indirectly, had the biggest influence on my life outside of my family. I saw him in WWRY for my 21st birthday, many, many, many moons ago. There was something utterly magnetic in his performance, and for the first time in my life, went on the internet to search for more information about a person and getting involved in a fandom as more than a lurker. That cascaded a chain of events that led to me making (and losing) a group of friends < full tl:dr story here.
Anyway, suffice it to say, I have feelings surrounding him. And then he went and sang we are the champions. With the hand movements that so entranced me first time round, and I... I don't know what I felt, glee at seeing something I remember clearly but haven't seen for so many years, panic as everything surrounding the group was stirred up, this terrifyingly painful nostalgia for times I can't get back and I'm just marvelling at how different a person I am now. Anyway, I sat crying, and am still tearing up as I type and I just am amazed at the power music has in our lives.
I hope he does well.
I have been watching The Voice since the very first episode and loved the concept. Last season was excellent and while I'm not a fan of Dia Frampton's album, I still adore her voice and love the talent that the show threw up.
This season is even better, some really unique voices and I want to draw sparkly hearts around Adam and Blake - actual quote (Blake talking to Adam about a performer). "I think she just got emotional, and you do that to me. You make me giddy; you make me fall apart. I lose my voice when you're around." (Someone write me fic? Fren, I'm looking at you)
Anyway, last week was Jordis Unga, who I watched when she was tiny and wee and be-dreadlocked in Rockstar:INXS and performing alongside Mig Ayesa who I know from We Will Rock You in London. I only know Mig because of Tony motherfucking Vincent, who turned up on the show this week.
I think I can state conclusively, that Tony Vincent has, indirectly, had the biggest influence on my life outside of my family. I saw him in WWRY for my 21st birthday, many, many, many moons ago. There was something utterly magnetic in his performance, and for the first time in my life, went on the internet to search for more information about a person and getting involved in a fandom as more than a lurker. That cascaded a chain of events that led to me making (and losing) a group of friends < full tl:dr story here.
Anyway, suffice it to say, I have feelings surrounding him. And then he went and sang we are the champions. With the hand movements that so entranced me first time round, and I... I don't know what I felt, glee at seeing something I remember clearly but haven't seen for so many years, panic as everything surrounding the group was stirred up, this terrifyingly painful nostalgia for times I can't get back and I'm just marvelling at how different a person I am now. Anyway, I sat crying, and am still tearing up as I type and I just am amazed at the power music has in our lives.
I hope he does well.
14 January 2012 @ 11:57 pm
I've been back from Iceland now for nearly a week, and have been putting off this post as I'm really not sure how to articulate my feelings, and once it's down, it's really over.
I had such a wonderful time with the marvellous
I had such a wonderful time with the marvellous
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I've been back from Iceland now for nearly a week, and have been putting off this post as I'm really not sure how to articulate my feelings, and once it's down, it's really over.
I had such a wonderful time with the marvellous <lj-user="emily_shore"> and <lj-user="makioka"> that I really didn't want to come home, and usually, however much I enjoyed myself, by the end of the trip I am ready for my own house.
Things I learned:
1) When it gets to -15C, all your fingernails will snap off at the slightest provocation
2) Grinning everytime Strokkur explodes is obligatory
3) Icelandic horses are awesome
4) Icelandic firework displays are a terrifying display of natural selection and the Darwin awards would have their work cut out for them there
5a) If you are properly dressed, then spending hours outside kneeling on snow and rock in -15C with windchill isn't a problem at all
5b) Until you take off gloves to fiddle with camera settings. Then it takes about 3 seconds to lose all sensation in your fingers
6) If you do 5a&b then people stare at you strangely
7) Jokulsarlon is the most heartrendingly beautiful place on Earth
8) Always stop to let geese cross the road
9) The Blue Lagoon is magic
10) Icelandic petrol station attendants are amazing
11) Standing at the top of a church tower just underneath the bells as they ring for the Sunday service is pretty special
12) Drinking tea at 1am and watching everyone else bar crawling is also awesome
13) Cambridge spies are in Reykjavik
14) Spending time with like-minded people and the giggling that ensues makes for a perfect trip
15) Reindeer has an unbelievably pervasive odour
16) Taking 56GB of photos in 6 days isn't really that hard
17) Iceland steals your heart.
If anyone can be bothered, I've put many of my favourite pictures up on flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/gengen/sets/72157628827699579/ with bonus horses, aurora borealis, lots of snowy landscapes and exploding jets of water.
I had such a wonderful time with the marvellous <lj-user="emily_shore"> and <lj-user="makioka"> that I really didn't want to come home, and usually, however much I enjoyed myself, by the end of the trip I am ready for my own house.
Things I learned:
1) When it gets to -15C, all your fingernails will snap off at the slightest provocation
2) Grinning everytime Strokkur explodes is obligatory
3) Icelandic horses are awesome
4) Icelandic firework displays are a terrifying display of natural selection and the Darwin awards would have their work cut out for them there
5a) If you are properly dressed, then spending hours outside kneeling on snow and rock in -15C with windchill isn't a problem at all
5b) Until you take off gloves to fiddle with camera settings. Then it takes about 3 seconds to lose all sensation in your fingers
6) If you do 5a&b then people stare at you strangely
7) Jokulsarlon is the most heartrendingly beautiful place on Earth
8) Always stop to let geese cross the road
9) The Blue Lagoon is magic
10) Icelandic petrol station attendants are amazing
11) Standing at the top of a church tower just underneath the bells as they ring for the Sunday service is pretty special
12) Drinking tea at 1am and watching everyone else bar crawling is also awesome
13) Cambridge spies are in Reykjavik
14) Spending time with like-minded people and the giggling that ensues makes for a perfect trip
15) Reindeer has an unbelievably pervasive odour
16) Taking 56GB of photos in 6 days isn't really that hard
17) Iceland steals your heart.
If anyone can be bothered, I've put many of my favourite pictures up on flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/gengen/sets/72157628827699579/ with bonus horses, aurora borealis, lots of snowy landscapes and exploding jets of water.
16 November 2011 @ 07:41 pm
Dear Yulegoat,
You are wonderful and have fabulous taste in fandoms.
Some general stuff up-front, previous letters are under the yuletide tags and I’ve stolen shamelessly from them, everything said then applies now. I’ll be in #yuletide all the time as stars, so feel free to come stalk.
I am amazingly easy to please with fic, I read anything and everything from AU in space to five times and mpreg and everything in between and if you want to do that to any of the below, go for it! I read gen and slash and het, so if you're happier writing any of the characters I've suggested in ships or just as friends then feel free. I love angst and fluff and PWPs and cliche-fic, dark humour and silly humour and banter. Focus on plot or focus on character, whatever makes you happiest to write!
With the exception of Justified, all my fandoms are short and very easy to acquire so I hope that there's something in there that makes you happy to write.
I don't really have any major squicks, or fic no-nos, so go where the winds take you and don't worry about anything in that regard.
Lastly, OPTIONAL DETAILS ARE OPTIONAL. I’ll love a story you loved writing way more than one you shoehorned into fitting my details.
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You are wonderful and have fabulous taste in fandoms.
Some general stuff up-front, previous letters are under the yuletide tags and I’ve stolen shamelessly from them, everything said then applies now. I’ll be in #yuletide all the time as stars, so feel free to come stalk.
I am amazingly easy to please with fic, I read anything and everything from AU in space to five times and mpreg and everything in between and if you want to do that to any of the below, go for it! I read gen and slash and het, so if you're happier writing any of the characters I've suggested in ships or just as friends then feel free. I love angst and fluff and PWPs and cliche-fic, dark humour and silly humour and banter. Focus on plot or focus on character, whatever makes you happiest to write!
With the exception of Justified, all my fandoms are short and very easy to acquire so I hope that there's something in there that makes you happy to write.
I don't really have any major squicks, or fic no-nos, so go where the winds take you and don't worry about anything in that regard.
Lastly, OPTIONAL DETAILS ARE OPTIONAL. I’ll love a story you loved writing way more than one you shoehorned into fitting my details.
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10 November 2011 @ 11:37 pm
I am going to Iceland! So so so much excitement. I've just booked for most of a week in early jan with 
emily_shore and makioka and am a bundle of awesome yayness.
This clearly means I'm going to be unbearable to be around for the next month and a half as i do nothing but read guidebooks, plan excursions and generally act like a hyperactive chipmunk with the bouncing and the squeeing.
I've been once before, but if anyone out there has thoughts on things to see and places to visit and anything else that catches your fancy, just yell.
Wheee! Aurora and snow and stars and blue lagoon in the dark and glaciers and everything wonderous and good.
emily_shore and makioka and am a bundle of awesome yayness.This clearly means I'm going to be unbearable to be around for the next month and a half as i do nothing but read guidebooks, plan excursions and generally act like a hyperactive chipmunk with the bouncing and the squeeing.
I've been once before, but if anyone out there has thoughts on things to see and places to visit and anything else that catches your fancy, just yell.
Wheee! Aurora and snow and stars and blue lagoon in the dark and glaciers and everything wonderous and good.
