le surrealisme c'est moi

nai_is_not @ 2009-11-29T00:20:00

2009-11-29T05:20:18Z

Title: It's All About Perfection
Fandom: A Clockwork Orange
Word Count: 3323
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Mentions of rape, violence.
Summary: Here before me stood the veck that had caused all my problems, the veck that landed me in the rookers of those scientists who made me watch those horrible horrible films and tried to pit me against good old Ludwig Van.
Notes: Oh God, so, part of my job this vacation was to clean out my old computer, where I found a healthy amount of fanfiction I had written ages ago but never posted. Here we go.

What I had signed, O my brothers, in that hospital after the Governer had ittied off to do whatever that sort of veck does, was a like consent sheet. I did not pony this until the nurse told me I should get ready because I had signed this document and that another very important chelloveck was coming to visit me. I asked why this visitor needed a document to see me, since everyone else came without one, but the nurse just went 'Oh oh oh' and crossed her arms like nadmenny and told me to finish my chai. I wanted to keep my gentlemanly behavior and cal, so I obeyed and drank the rest of it real skorry, lifting my glazzies every so often and viddying the door so that this veck couldn’t like sneak up on me.

A malenky bit later, someone knocked on the door thump thump thump, and the nurse got up and dusted herself off, even though she wasn’t grazhny at all, and then she gripped her rookers around the handle and opened it up. In walked a veck, quite starry, with a pair of otchkies resting on his nose and an ordinary tie and platties, but they were real clean like they were owned by a bugatty veck, which I guess they were, this visitor being supposedly important. He had a briefcase which he placed by the door, and he viddied me with his glazzies, and they were cool cool cool, and probably, O my brothers, as sharp as my britva and they like viddied me up and down. I started to open my rot, to get a word in or say hello, but he said:

‘Hello, little Alex. I trust you are well today?’ His goloss was all smooth and I said:

‘I am, sir.’ I started to use my real polite goloss, wanting to impress him because his govoreeting made me feel a malenky bit poogly. All his slovos came out like aah and not a-a-ah or a-aah and he sounded very firm and maybe a little like those political chellovecks who made like droogs until they decided to drive me bezoomy with music and poor poor Otto Skadelig. But that was in the past, so I said ‘What business do you have with me, eh?’

This veck nodded to the nurse and she picked up her purse and left and I thought oh Bog, why does he want to speak with me, Your Humble Narrator, all by his lonesome? I was starting to feel a bit suspicious of this chelloveck because of the document I had to sign and his goloss, but I was determined to not look poogly or anything, so I said, finished with my gentlemanly act, ‘Who are you? What grazhny slovos need a veck like you speak to me, eh? They must be real horrorshow baddiwad for you to tell that ptitsa to itty away. So, come on with it, brother. Who are you and what have you to say?’

He viddied me for a moment, his litso scrunched up all puzzled like, and then he went ‘Hmm, interesting,’ sort of like I was an animal in a zoo that had just made a real queer shoom, and then he said ‘Well, if I understand correctly, I take it you think I've come to tell you something vulgar?’ He had a malenky smeck at this, and then he said ‘No no no, I wouldn’t do that. I've heard you've faced some trouble recently, hmm?’ I said:

‘Oh yes, a whole mess of trouble. These scientist lewdies made me watch these films, real bolnoy, blasphemous films they were, and then these like political vecks tried to make me snuff it, and here I am.’

He skriked his chin with a finger. ‘I really am sorry for everything that has happened to you, Alex,’ he said with his smooth smooth goloss. ‘I hope you're willing to accept my apology.’ I said:

‘Your apology? But why, eh? What wrong have you done me? I’m awfully tired of all these lewdies coming in and saying ‘Sorry sorry sorry’ like it was their fault that I jumped and that all these government and political vecks keep dragging me around like a merzky trophy. But it’s no matter. I’m all cured. I’m in real horrowshow condition, I am.’

‘I can see that,’ said the veck. 'I suppose that, before we have a little chat, I should introduce myself. It's only polite, hmm? I do believe so, yes. My name, little Alex, is Bernard Ludovico. As you can probably guess, I'm the man who came up with the premise of the Ludovico technique that seems to have caused you so much trouble. That, I suppose, is why I find the need to apologize to you.’

I could not believe what I had just slooshied. Here before me stood the veck that had caused all my problems, the veck that landed me in the rookers of those scientists who made me watch those horrible horrible films and tried to pit me against good old Ludwig Van. I was real razdrez and he was starry, so I knew that I could tolchock him in the rot a few times and punch out his zoobies, or maybe ticklewickle both of his rookers wide open and viddy the red red krovvy flow down his wrists, but Your Humble Narrator, although cured mentally, still hurt and felt pain owww when he tried to move, his back being injured so recently.

‘Oh?’ I said real calm like, trying to make like I wasn’t razdrez. ‘You want to apologize, do you?’ Since I couldn’t drat him with my britva, being sick and cal, I decided that I should use another like method to come out all victorious. I figured that this chelloveck felt real baddiwad about what he did to me, so that if I played polite and maybe cried some boohoohoo, I’d be more certain to get something special, compensation like. After I got better, I could like hunt him down and find his house number 17 18 19 and knock 1 2 3 and open the door and whip out my britva and show him that nobody gets the best of YHN. ‘Do you know,’ I said, still playing it calm like, ‘how much you hurt me? How much I suffered?’

‘I do,’ said the Ludovico veck. ‘And that is why I’m apologizing, is it not? But no no no, this was all a horrible mistake. A most terrible one. I figured you should hear a bit about why I did this, hmm? About why I was willing to try this technique out?’

‘If you wish,’ I said, leaning back on my elbows, giving him a like pitiful look with my glazzies like a lost puppy or a veck who’d just been beat up real horrorshow with lots of ultra-violence. ‘If you think it’ll make me feel better.’ He said:

‘I don't know. We'll see. But I'll start from the beginning-- that makes the most sense, correct?’ He paused and pursued his goobers. ‘I'm not a, what are those called? I'm not a control-freak as you have probably been led to believe. I'm an average man with a family—two daughters and a wife. Yes, yes, it's a very nice life. My youngest daughter, Marlene, is having my grandchild in oh, perhaps a month. But I'm wandering off topic.’ He had a good smeck at this, which I found to be a malenky bit queer, him not taking himself very serious like. ‘In short, I'm just like you. I've grown up on this Earth, I've breathed the same air. Of course, there is a slight generation gap, however—’

‘Excuse me, sir,’ I interrupted. ‘I don’t understand what you mean when you say ‘I’m just like you,’ because you’re not. We're two very different people.’ He smiled and said:

‘Oh, but you are, Alex. We are the same. But enough about particulars-- I'll get to the point. I am not ignorant of the news. I am not ignorant of the daily reports of violence and rape in these cities. In my lifetime, I have watched this world,’ he paused, ‘steadily decline, what have you. I have seen the cities disappear into a spreadsheet, into reports and statistics of murders and kidnappings.’ He closed his glazzies and let out a long sigh. ‘It's very unsettling, you must understand, to realize that the good days are over, and that the only thing on the horizon is lawlessness and chaos.' I didn't quite pony all this talk about 'good days,' because my life had been real horrowshow up until I got locked in the Staja, but I didn't say anything since this Ludovico veck seemed real intent on finishing his story, and I didn't want to seem rude because he might not give me any like compensation. He continued:

‘As you might expect, Alex, I didn’t want my two daughters and future grandchildren living in a world like this. I wanted them to live in the world of my youth because it was so much more pleasant and safe, you see. Anyway, many years ago, my family and I went over to my wife’s sister's house to watch a game of football. Marlene, who was seven at the time, was running around the family room with her sister, despite our protests for them to settle down. She slipped and banged her head on the coffee table, which gave her a nasty concussion. However, when she recovered, she stopped running in the house. We no longer had to threaten her with grounding or time-outs that had originally only proved to postpone her rough-housing. No no, Marlene was quite content to behave on her own accord. Anne, she’s our other daughter, noticed Marlene’s behavior and followed suit. Marlene, you see, could no longer stomach the idea of running indoors.

‘You’ve already helped me recognize that failing with the technique. The human mind isn’t so easily manipulated by one action and one action alone. It absorbs all of it’s surroundings, which is why you felt an aversion to music.’

I started to feel razdrez again, because this chelloveck was the reason I could no longer slooshy Ludwing Van or J.S. Bach, but then I remembered that I was cured from that, and that when he left I could put Saint Saëns’ ‘Danse Macabre’ into my real horrowshow new stereo and slooshy away and viddy myself with some creeching ptsisas, giving them the old in-out-in-out, and goolying around the Moloko bar with my droogs and dratting the first veck I viddied with my britva, getting at their litsos and glazzies and rookers and viddying the krovvy go sploooosh and drip down. I had a good smeck at this, and the Ludovico veck must have found me to be quite queer, it looking like I was smecking at his story.

‘Is there something that amused you, Alex?' he said looking a malenky bit perplexed. I said:

‘No, not at all, sir. Please go on with your story.’

‘My story is over, Alex; however, I have not yet explained it all to you.’ He used one finger to push up his otchkies which were starting to slip down on his nose. ‘Those radicals who were trying to use you as a tool against the government, they believe what I do is immoral, against human nature. They say ‘how dare he play with the human mind!’ I say to myself, are they so blind? Humans, like my daughter Marlene, are constantly affected and altered by events in their life. We are not born from the womb with fears or goals; we form them as we grow older. Such a change is not a manipulation-- it is simply life.’

‘But what you did,’ I started, finding it harder and harder to hide my anger, ‘is drive me bezoomy-- crazy, that is. You made me miserable and sick and unable to defend myself against my former droogs. You screwed up my gulliver real baddiwad-- I mean, I couldn’t like think right or anything.’

‘And that was a mistake on my part, and I apologize. Clearly the technique still had a few bugs. I was not trying to destroy your free will, no no, not at all. My aim isn’t to create a society full of robots, it’s to create a society in which people can actually live and be happy. Certain things, such as violent impulses, need to be curved in order for our society to actually function. I’m afraid that if this lawlessness continues, our society will turn into a world in which might is right. Forget scientific and medical progress, oh no. People who are unable to stand against a pistol would die. Arguments would be solved through sheer strength. It would become a sort of Dark Ages. Art would be destroyed, libraries burned, women raped, and children taught to wield a knife. I’d rather...’ He closed his glazzies and inhaled. Then he opened them again, looking a malenky bit pale, and said ‘I’d rather not see that happen. I want this world to be set right, and in order for that to be accomplished, we need my technique. A few sacrifices along the way is nothing compared to the lives it will save in the future.’

I couldn’t help but be amused like, because I wouldn’t mind so much living in a world like he said. It would be real horrowshow to viddy the Public Biblio go up in flames and smoke, and to do all this ultra-violence without the millicents caring, since they’d be part of that society too, and I wouldn’t have to lie to pee and em anymore about what I was doing late at night. It would be a fine society, it would. This gloopy Ludovico veck said that we were the same, but how can he say that when his perfect world is so different than that of YHN’s? But I decided to play along, all concerned like, and I said ‘That’s awful.’ He nodded his head, looking real distressed, like the buildings were actually burning to the ground and ptitsas were getting raped and cal, which I guess they were, now that I think about it. ‘But, Mr. Ludovico sir,’ I continued, ‘It isn’t so great to be one of those sacrifices.’

‘No, Alex,’ he said, ‘I can’t imagine that it is. You must understand, however, that in order to save this society from complete collapse, I need your full cooperation. You’ve already agreed to undergo more testing, which is a step in the right direction, but we still-’

‘Yarbles! Bog bleed you, you grahzny bastard! Who govoreeted that I wanted to be tested again, eh?’ I said, clenching my goobers real tight so that it felt like they were about to break, about to go ’crack’ and collapse all over the inside of my rot. ‘Who govoreeted that I was willing to be your pawn, your merzky lab rat?’ The Ludovico veck said, looking quite a bit surprised:

‘Why, you did, Alex. You signed the form a couple of days ago, claiming that you’d be willing to undergo an altered form of the procedure. You see, we’ve done some experimenting, some trial and error, and discovered a few mistakes in the conditioning that can easily be fixed. Removal of the music from the films, for one, as well as self-defense training. Of course, it’ll take a little longer than two weeks this time, but the results should be much more satisfying.’

‘You’re bezoomy if you think that I’d go through that again. You bolnoy sod, you vonny bastard. There’s no way, no way that you’ll do this to me again.’ I made to get out of my bed, but this sort of pain shot up my back which made me creech before like slipping back down. I couldn’t get away, I couldn’t, my body being not quite healed.

‘Calm down, Alex,’ he said, sounding a malenky bit concerned. ‘I don’t want to hurt you. The revised technique shouldn’t have those nasty side-effects. You’ll be able to listen to music when it’s through. I promise you that.’ But I creeched:

‘I don’t sodding care! I won’t let you put me back in the rookers of those scientists!’ I shot my rooker out to like tolchock him in the litso, but he was quicker and moved, and then he said, real calm in that smooth goloss of his:

‘The doctors told me that I may take you unwilling if need be.’ He removed a like hypodermic from his briefcase. ‘Now, I wouldn’t worry about this. It’s just a mild sedative. You know what a sedative is, right? It makes you sleepy.’

I creeched and sort of made to roll out of the bed, but the veck was on top of me and pinning me down real tight before I could get too far, him being strong despite his age. He had the hypodermic ready to go into my plott, but I jerked away and sank my zoobies into his arm. He didn’t make any shoom, but just like grimaced and pulled away from me, though one of his rookers still held me down. I could see a malenky krovvy trickle down to his rooker, but he remained like calm and reached to put the hypodermic in. I creeched, which made him stop where he was, the hypodermic centimeters from my plott.

‘You say that you’re doing this for the good of society, eh? What about me, Ludovico? I’m a part of society, aren’t I? Is this helping me at all? Is it?’ I like jerked away my arm, and was surprised when he didn’t try to stop me. He got up from the bed, his plott dead pale, and then he rearranged his otchkies which had slipped a bit in the middle of pinning me down. He sort of muttered, real quiet like:

‘Oh dear me. Oh dear, dear me.’ He started to put away the hypodermic, still mumbling ‘dear dear dear’ and then he picked up his briefcase. He took a long breath, and then he goolied to the door, and then he said ‘Good day, Alex.’ Without another slovo he opened the door and ittied away, and Your Humble Narrator was left my his lonesome, partly tangled in the bed sheets because of the like struggle.

I took a minoota or two to catch my breath, and then I rolled over and put on Saint Saëns’ ‘Danse Macabre’ on the highest volume level and closed my glazzies and viddied my like perfect world, while Ludovico goolied through the hospital hallways trying to find his.

nai_is_not @ 2009-11-15T10:42:00

2009-11-15T15:42:21Z

Hello. :> First of all, I want to thank you advance. I'm super excited to see what you'll write me! I hope my oodles and oodles of text in the requests didn't intimidate you - I'm a pretty chill person, so you shouldn't feel constrained to anything in the prompts. Write whatever you feel you do best!

Now, for the prompts:

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
I tend to believe that the universe of Rosencrantz & Guildenstern repeats itself for as long as the play is performed, remaining relatively stagnant while Rosencrantz and Guildenstern have the faintest idea they've been there before, and yet-- What happens when one thing in the universe changes? What happens if Guildenstern is suddenly in the play without Rosencrantz? Or what happens if there are suddenly -two- Rosencrantzez instead of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern? What if Hamlet isn't there anymore? Which characters notice? Which characters don't notice? Does the play of Hamlet change, or does it charge on relentlessly even with these disturbances? If you can keep up the mood of a tragicomedy, I will love you pretty much forever. I'm easy to please, though - if this prompt doesn't do anything for you, feel free to run into another direction! :3

tl;dr: What happens when one thing unexpectedly changes in that universe?

You don't need to use all my ideas! You don't need to use any of these ideas. Choose one thing you think changing might rock their universe, and tear it out of there. I said here that I'd like the mood of the play to be kept, but you don't need to write it in script format by any means. I'm entirely fine with prose, script, whichever.

I know a lot of people write Rosencrantz/Guildenstern, because the subtext is there (oh, how it is there), but I always have a hard time imagining them actually acting on that subtext, their lives being what they are. That being said, slash is fine but not preferred over gen, and I'd rather not have any steamy sex scenes in this one. Essentially, keep it Stoppard-esque and I'll love you forever. :D

Fight Club
Okay, pretty much anything will please me here, but it would be interesting to see something post-movie. The end of the movie had always felt a little too neat to me - has shooting himself -really- eliminated the Tyler personality, or has it merely repressed him until the next emotional crisis? Bring Tyler back. Make the Narrator's life difficult. Knock yourself out. 8)

Go wiiiild! I'm fine with violence, cursing, sex, and ridiculous vandalism, as per that canon. Narrator/Tyler is fine, as wildly narcissistic as that is, as is Narrator/Marla or highly improbable threesomes. Humor is also excellent, but like with Rosencrantz & Guildenstern, I'd prefer if it's kept within the mood of the canon.

Scream
I'd really like something pre-first movie, actually, with Billy and Stu being CRAZY together with all their charged homoerotic subtext, deciding that obviously the best thing to do is to Kill Them All. How does this come about? Is it a group effort, or has Billy always been in the brains? Are they afraid? Do they hesitate making this choice? Or do they never look back? I'll be fine if they're the only two characters, but appearances of Sidney and Tatum would be great too, as would Randy showing up to look startled and suspicious and babble off movie tropes, as he does. No need to force it, though – no need to force anything! Write what comes naturally.

I think I probably have the least to say here - like I said before, violence, cursing, and sex are all fine, as long as they fall within the natural realm of the story. Billy/Stu slash is also cool, but by no means required, and I am always more than happy with gen.

As I said before, don't feel constrained by my prompts! I don't want anyone to feel like they're being pressured and can't enjoy what they're writing. I'm ridiculously easy to please. Take care, don't stress out, drink plenty of fluids (wait), and have a fun time. I'm sure I'll be very pleased with your results. :>

Thank you again!

Best,
Nai

and we failed to step down hard enough

2009-10-20T16:05:07Z

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So I saw The Plan last night!

So I see the greater Cylon Plan is pretty much just Cavil repeatedly smashing his head into the wall while absolutely everyone around him has second thoughts. :'D

Things I didn't like: Tory not doing anything. Come on, guys. :[ This really makes me unhappy. I guess now I'm going to need to write a fic where she does more than hang around being a one-dimensional, unsympathetic villain. Another thing was that a couple of the edits were really awkward in the beginning (when Cavil meets Caprica Six, for instance, what was that - also, the "there are only twleve Cylons" note scene. so clumsy. just borrow James Callis for the day), though they mostly did a pretty good job of keeping it seamless.

Things I liked: Pretty much everything else! CGI for the destruction of the Colonies was amazing and chilling, oh my god. I actually had a semi-nightmare about it last night, it was that intense. They obviously had a bigger budget this time around.

Oh, Simons! Oh, Simons! I loved that we got more into their personalities, because I've been waiting the whole series for them to actually do something. I love how one of them has a wife and a kid and intentionally misses Cylon meetings because they make him uncomfortable, while Cavil glares at him from across the room. I love how, in contrast, Caprica!Simon is actually more motivated than Caprica!Cavil, who meanwhile really only wants to hear Sam's confession, shh shh, we can't massacre the humans just yet, maybe some of them will die if we do this. (I love how Simon is all, "Wait, maybe some of them will die? :|") I love Simon and Cavil playing chess. I love Simon making innuendos about Kara and Sam while they're having sex. ("She's beneath him!" "...Not necessarily :)") He's such a friendly, smiling Cylon who's totally willing to kill you all (...90% of the time). I love him.

Speaking of Cylons who need more love, HA HA HA HA, Dorals. I think I was pretty much in tears of laughter the entire conversation he has with Cavil about how the last Doral had a burgundy suit, and how his suit is teal. And Leobens! Instructing yoga! Leobens! I adore how he's recorded clips of Starbuck saying that "everything will be okay" (oh, bb ♥), and how he tells Cavil that she's made him see that God can still love the humans. There's also an amazing exchange about plucking things out of the stream and puppies, which, you know, if you saw I'm sure you'd remember. Also: fingerpaint.

Shellllllllly! Shelly, I love you and your eagerness and your very obvious attraction to Gaius, but also that you airlock yourself without any fanfare because you're just that hardcore. Nameless brunette Six was absolutely hilarious ("Dr. Baltar and his ~*dreamy*~ hair!" "Your plan sucks and everyone's incompetent! brb, taking your booze!"), but I wish she did more than apparently sleep with Cavil 24/7. Thoooooough I'm entirely sure that's why he doesn't ask her to kill herself. (An amazing drinking game for this movie would be 'did Cavil ask someone to die? take a shot!')

I kind of love the whole sleeper agent deal. The show itself was a little vague about sleeper agents - were they created specifically for the mission? Did they volunteer? Did they ever know they were Cylons? I really enjoy, actually, the identity crisis Boomer goes through as she willingly takes on human life and shuts down the machine part of her mind... only to try desperately to turn off her human side for the sake of her mission. She's essentially driving herself crazy for the cause, and that she's able to come out with a love for Tyrol all the same makes me ship the two of them even more than before. I can also understand why she turns to Cavil - he's her only contact to her "real" self, and he represents everything she's being pressured to become. (That doesn't mean it's not unfortunate, though. Acks)

I am actually unreasonably fond of the Cavils (writing one for C&C doesn't help), so I absolutely loved how most of this movie involved getting into their messed up heads. My friends and I pretty much called it from the start that the little kid he kept running into was going to be named John and represent his woobie desire to be loved, but I was so convinced he was going to be a hallucination/angel thing until Cavil "snapped the miniseries baby's neck," so to speak. I think my face was like this "D:" that whole scene. IN ANY CASE, yeah, I'd buy that he'd kill him. After all, he was starting to relate to a human. All of the other Cylons around him screwed up because they were in love with humans (Simon and his wife, Shelly and Gaius, Boomer and Tyrol), and the idea of going down that same path genuinely freaked him out. Not too mention, lawls, killing his human side like he's always wanted to - the kid even looked like baby Dean Stockwell, not to mention the whole "unwanted child" deal. I just love the scene where Boomer's telling Cavil that she pretended to be a fully metal machine in order to shoot Adama, and how Cavil looks sort of wistful and goes "That would be wonderful."

I mentioned this earlier a bit with the Simons, but I love that the two Cavils in this movies have different opinions based on their life experiences. Eights have had different opinions. Sixes have had different opinions. You wouldn't think there'd be Ones like this, and the fact that there is adds a layer of dimension to their character, that one of them could realize they've made a mistake. The other Cavils are totally going to box the shit out of him once he gets back to the resurrection ship because That is Unacceptable ("...I don't like you."), but I adore that it actually happened. Also, the hand-holding. hasufasfsasfa the hand-holding! They disagree with each other, but even they're able to find solidarity before death.

But yeah, so I could really ramble on a lot more about this movie (so. much. to. discuss.), but time is limited. Discussion would be super awesome. Now I need to stop myself from watching it again instead of doing my homework.

nai_is_not @ 2009-09-28T13:43:00

2009-09-28T18:00:47Z

guashfusafsa guys, guys, TV show recommendation!!!

I just saw the first episode of Flashforward, and ooooooh my god. I spent the first twenty-five minutes going "AAAAAAH!" and the last five minutes going "AAAAAAAH!" and it's pretty much amazing. For those of you who don't know (since this show is new and no one is ever talking about it), the gist of Flashforward is this: everyone in the entire world loses consciousness for two and a half minutes, bam, just like that, and see visions of their own future. There were parts of it that literally gave me chills. I mean, I was staring at my computer screen, literally shaking like a dork. So yes, I'm going to check out the next episode once it comes out.

Speaking of TV, I'm also watching Dollhouse. I'm still not enthralled by it - mostly because I find Echo boring as hell - but I'm starting to get pulled in by some of the other characters. See: Saunders and Topher and their fucking amazing scene together. If you saw Friday's episode, you'd know what I was talking about. Also, evil Jamie Bamber pistol whipping Tahmoh Penikett and then licking his lips? Haha. ha. ha. I do want Mr. Dominic back, though, because I'm an asshole loving freak and he is irrationally one of my favorite characters. Never change, self.

...I also saw the first episode of Eastwick, and we will not talk about that.

EDIT: Oh right, and I also had a post up in this meme aaaaages ago, but I never actually plugged it here because I plugged another anon meme fairly recently. Since about half my flist is posting it now, though, I might as well!

THE "i've always wanted to tell you" MEME

yoinked from bakatulip

2009-08-13T13:32:24Z

Ask me my fannish Top Five [Whatevers]. Any top fives. Doesn't matter what, really! And I will answer them all in a new post. Possibly with pictures.

EDIT: This will be posted once I get home tomorrow. :3

you come from outer space, you drive a rental car

2009-08-13T01:35:28Z

nai_is_not: hasfhhsaihfsafhsaf BRYAN SINGER IS DOING THE BATTLESTAR MOVIE
nai_is_not: THIS IS LIKE MY TWO FANDOMS MARRIED AND HAD BABIES
vorkosigan: ...
vorkosigan: AHAHA
vorkosigan: yeah, pretty much.
izzyryu: That...was an interesting mental image, let me tell you.

:D

(Haha, I am the only one in fandom not bashing my head into the wall, but I dooooon't care. Haters gonna hate *wiggle*)

me and my friends saw a platypus

2009-08-11T03:35:07Z

I spent a good deal of time yesterday screwing around with my profile, which I've never done before! I think it's sad that I can't fill it with more, but I hope I will eventually. I definitely know I need a new (and crazier) Aimee Bender quote, though all my short stories are far away at home. Oh woe.

Looking at the few stories I can finds of hers online really makes me want to write again. Her style has always of reminded me of my own - at least with the rhythm - though I will not flatter myself because she is amazing and everything I aspire to be in a writer. I hope she releases more stories soon.

Anyway, I have some Battlestar fanvid recs! Something else I've been meaning to do for a while. They're under the cut.

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obsessive24 - Slow Down, Gandhi (Sage Francis)

Kill one of ours, we'll kill one of yours.
With some friendly fire, that’s a funny term, like civil war
Not only do I love Sage Francis, but this video is amazing. I first saw it months ago, and I still go back periodically to watch it again and again. It deals with corruption and ultimately the events leading to the chaos that is Blood on the Scales. Spoilers through 4x14.

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rayruz - How Far We've Come (Matchbox 20)

I'm waking up at the start of the end of the world
But it's feeling like every other morning before
Oooooh, this is my happy BSG song! :D It pretty much goes through the entire series in three and a half minutes, and it makes me grin every time. And it's done by rayruz, who is amazing, so. Spoilers through the whole series.

Three

Roslin 14 on youtube - Mama (My Chemical Romance)

Well mother, what the war did to my legs and to my tongue
You should have raised a baby girl, I should have been a better son
An eerie, dark video about mother figures and death and war. Spoilers through 4x10, Revelations.

Four

freelancerxo02 on youtube - See 4 Seasons in 4 Minutes

Where have you taken us, Kara?
Literally Battlestar Galactica summed up in a few minutes to some kickass instrumental music. This video contains at least one clip from every episode in the show. It's sorely lacking in my favorite characters, but I forgive it, because it's epic. I had to watch it twice just posting it here.

And that is all. :3

THIS ARE BATTLESTAR POST

2009-07-26T02:47:43Z

I have been meaning to do one of these for ages, so most of the things I'm saying are actually a little late. Whoops.

1) You guys should join twelvecolonies! It's a Battlestar challenge community where the members are divided into three different groups (I'm on Team Basestar \o/) and complete little challenges like answering trivia and making graphics for points. It's all terribly exciting.

2) I did a picspam/recap for bsg_refrak!

That's right! It's for 2x3, Fragged! You should check it out because there are lots of pretty pictures and it took me hours and hours to do. I actually want to do a lot more BSG picspams (not just episodes!) because it was ultimately very entertaining. What else should I do, you guys?!?

3) EDWARD JAMES OLMOS IS GOING TO MAKE MORE BATTLESTAR TELEMOVIES?!?! REALLY?!?! :DD

4) CKR is apparently going to be in The Plan! Also apparently there's going to be a huge plot twist? I can't find the link to the interview where I read it, but apparently it's going to shake up our view of the Cylons/the show/everything. I don't know how I feel about this! I love plot twists to death (just look at my taste in movies and books), but the show's already over in a sense - should there really be a huge turn at this point? Or, I mean, who knows, maybe it won't be so huge. I hope it's good, though!

(Also, apparently, we're going to learn how Shelly Godfrey got off the Galactica way back in Season 1. I bet you a million gazillion dollars that it involves Cavil shoving her out of an airlock while the soundtrack swells, just you wait.)

[/END SMALL SPOILERS]

5) In December before the start of season 4.5, I made a list of nine things I wanted to happen before the end of the series. Let's review, shall we?

1) Shelly!Six, Galactica!Doral, Farm!Simon.
I feel a sort of irrational glee whenever they bring back characters we think we'll never see again. It's probably one of the main reasons why I loved Downloaded so much, because it had never occurred to me that Boomer and Caprica Six would stick around. So yeah, I think even a cameo of one of the earlier, forgotten Cylons would be awesome

Nope! This is okay, though, because it looks like they're definitely doing this in The Plan. Mmmmmmm yes.

2) Someone else to see Head Six.
How badass would that be? How wildly unexpected and crazy? I think it's been implied that Hera sees her, but gosh darn, I would love POV proof. Or someone like Roslin seeing her, or Kara, or one of the other Cylons.

Caprica Six saw Head Six and it was epic! \o/

3) Baltar revealed to be already dead.
I know, I know, this is a ridiculous thing to wish on a favorite character, but I've been entirely convinced of this since season 1. Every time I watch the miniseries, someone is like "...wait, how did he survive that explosion?" and I wonder the same thing. Of course, it could easily be artistic license (it's a beautiful shot, which is probably why they use it for the opening), but I still think it's possible he didn't survive the blast. The fact that Starbuck went asplode in Season 3 and then came back to life with visions and a shiny destiny further convinces me that this is the case. Also, it fits nicely into his Christ imagery package. (But what happens to him and Starbuck in the end if they're both already dead?)

Nooooooooo. I guess I should be okay with this because at the end of the series he got to walk off into the sunset with Caprica Six (and presumably create beautiful, slightly crazy half Cylon babies) instead of tragically disappearing into thin air (and presumably argue with Starbuck for the rest of eternity). I still think this would have been an amazing, perfectly believable plot twist, though, and I'll always be a little disappointed it didn't hapen.

4) The Fifth Cylon knowing who the Final Five are from the beginning (and perhaps manipulating everyone all along?)
I think one of the reasons why I was wary about the Fantastic Four is that the characters' ignorance of their true nature made the Big Reveal feel like it was out of the blue. I really want the Final Cylon-- whoever they are-- to walk up to the main characters, go "yeah, I'm a Cylon and I've been screwing you all over from the beginning," and for it to actually make sense based on their previous actions. But here's me, The Usual Suspects fan, so.

Okay, no, but Cavil got to be all wiggly wobbly ~I'm a shadowy puppet master~, and so all is well. :3
(Also, this wasn't in that entry, but something else I wanted to have happen was for Cavil to have really known who the final five were all along. Aaah yes.)

5) Roslin and Adama to get married.
...what?

;o; this haaaaaapppened.

*runs off to cry into a box of tissues*

6) Baltar and Caprica Six to acknowledge their relationship again.
Even if it's only to go "we are too dysfunctional to ever work out," I at least want to see them in the same room again, having a conversation. I want resolution. Ideally, I want Baltar to put aside his ego and Caprica to deal with her distrust and for both of them to confess their love to each other and not their head-versions. They can have wild makeouts while their hallucinations look on, approving. (...Yeah.)

HAHA YES, I LOVE HOW THIS IS EXACTLY HOW IT WENT DOWN. I actually blogged about it in the middle of the finale, I was that excited. They could have acknowledged each other before the second to last episode, though, goodness, you guys.

7) Baltar to do A Good Thing.
It happens once a season, amiright?

He did many good things! \o/ Actually, as the half season progressed, I really wanted him to do more not good things because I love remembering that Gaius is still Gaius no matter how much of a conscience he gets. This is why I loved him screwing up all over Islanded in a Stream of Stars. It also provides a nice contrast for when he, for example, volunteers to go on a suicide mission. The dear.

8) Tyrol and Boomer to get together.
Alternatively, STOP DOING STUPID THINGS, BOOMER.

...I don't know if I want to laugh or cry. :'D

9) Gaeta to get a happy ending.
Ten bucks says Baltar's going to be forced to kill him or something tragic like that, but I'll be so happy if he makes it out alive and psychologically in one piece.

Hahahahahhaah

haha

ha.

:'''''D

But no, I'm okay with this not happening. Gaeta's tragic arc was my absolutely favorite part of Season 4.5, and I still have to fight not to cry while watching Blood on the Scales. Oh, Felix.

6) ...there is no six! I was going to do this long tl;dr about my favorite and least favorite episodes, but I'll save that for another time. This entry is long enough as is, hoboy.

Sim update!

2009-06-29T01:49:36Z

Last time, there were copious amounts of babies. Now, there are copious amounts of couples! We'll start on the canon side of things, I figure, and then generally progress into stranger territory.

I know, I know. Big surprise, right? But this is not as simple as it appears! In a sudden fit of absentmindedness (the same fit that gave Bill brown hair, I guess), I forgot to make them married. I didn't realize this until I was checking out their relationship meter and noticed that they were both listed as "Old Friends" and nothing more. Obviously, I got on that likewhoa. D:

Believe it or not, the above picture is their very first kiss. :3

Must be an Adama thing.

...Bill, make-outs with Laura are not an appropriate time to thinking about the military, unless we're using, like, a Galactica metaphor. (At least his hair is appropriate, now!)

Tigh and Ellen. :D :D I actually messed it up before - Tigh isn't a flight instructor, he's a wingman. Meanwhile, Ellen is... a professional burglar, I think.

HE'S TELLING HER ABOUT STARS AND SPECIAL DESTINIES. I HAVE BEEN WAITING ALL GAME FOR THIS. Okay, so they aren't a couple, like, at all, but whatever. (Also, that's a teenaged Kacey in the last shot. Hi.)

Tory and Zarek, everyone! I'd say they were going strong, but that would be a huge lie. They may be flirting like crazy, but they're not officially dating, and Zarek turned down a first kiss from Tory pretty much immediately after that hug. A few minutes later, Roslin walked on by, and I realized that because Tory was miserable, she had the option "Cry On Shoulder" AND SO I CLICKED IT FRANTICALLY OH MY GOD but then Roslin left the lot. :(

Another wacky couple that popped up was Jammer and Kat! They aren't officially dating, but they're both crushing hard. When Jammer invited her over to his house, he was jumping up and down, he was so excited!

Jammer, asking Kat if she's single.

First kiss!

I'm under the impression that canon!Kat would have absolutely zero patience for Jammer because he's a Wimpy McWimpster, but they're cute enough in the game! I won't crush their happiness ~~unless it makes for awesome plot~~.

By far the weirdest new couple, though, is Gina and Romo. ONCE AGAIN, I DID NOTHING TO START THIS MONSTER. I was doubly surprised, since they were actually dating as opposed to romantic interests (like Tory and Zarek, Jammer and Kat, and Kara and Lee) and Gina had the trait Unflirty. But no. They are seriously, genuinely dating. It's a very chaste relationship, though, so they mostly spend their time giving each other hugs and shy kisses.

That about concludes the couple business! D'Anna has a crush on some random female NPC, though I've yet to take any pictures of them, since NPCs are less exciting. No matter how many times I try to move them out and make a purely BSG neighborhood, new ones move in! *shakes fist*

CAVIL AND CAPRICA BEATING THE SHIT OUT OF EACH OTHER D:

RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE BABY

D:

I started the game the other day, and this is literally the first thing that happened, Christ. Cavil ended up winning, Lauren started sobbing, and then Caprica promptly declared him a nemesis. Quite frankly, I'm surprised no one else has done that to Cavil.

Boomer (in white) and Athena. It's about time, you guys. Your improbable politeness was really starting to weird me out. (Hi, Helo's head.)

Cavil making fun of Simon. Pffffffff.

It isn't long before D'Anna joins the conversation...

...to make fun of Cavil. I love these guys. I don't even need to do anything to them.

Lauren grew up! I was really expecting her to be blond (probably because the game gave her the last name Six), but she totally takes after daddy. Daddy, who is... totally taking that piece of cake in the most sketchy way imaginable. Gaius, why.

A trip to the park! Gaius's expression signifies something like "Ha ha yes, I am totally eating this hotdog!" Caprica and Lauren remain unimpressed.

Caprica, teaching Lauren how to talk politics, are you do. Immediately after this, she taught Lauren the word "prayer" AND I TRIED TO SCREENSHOT IT, BUT I MISSED IT. :< :< :<

Ladies and gentlemen, I present William Adama. BRUSH THOSE TEETH, BILL. BRUSH THEM LIKE YOU MEAN IT.

Kara and her spontaneous baby, Luther.

The famous Adamahug!

Roslin, Adama, and Lee, hanging out in the kitchen.

TIGH AND ADAMA DANCING!!! I really need to establish their BrOTP. I've been a failure in that department.

Nicky grew up into a teenager relatively un-scarred! He has the traits Loves the Outdoors, Absent-Minded, Clumsy, and Flirty. (Kacey, meanwhile, is Friendly, Excitable, Charismatic, and a Light-Sleeper. Hera is Genius, Artistic, Vegetarian, and Hates the Outdoors.)

And oh right, Romo's kid!

Totally. Screwed. Up. I mean, not entirely, probably, but he needs some discipline something fierce. Despite the fact that he's a kid in this shot, he's already a teenager in game. He has the traits Loner, Slob, Inappropriate, and Perfectionist.

Hera and Kacey are best friends, but the guys totally need to start hanging out with them! Second gen drama! Woohoo!

Oh hey, who's this over here? Why, it's Gaeta and Zarek!

DUN DUN DUN.

I'll end this post with Kacey's birthday party, because everyone there is obscenely happy.

YAAAAAY.

</end>

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nai_is_not @ 2009-06-26T22:14:00

2009-06-27T02:15:14Z

Sims!

First of all, I added a lot of new guys! I don't have pictures of everyone yet, but.

Shelly Motherfrakking Godfrey.

Seelix, Racetrack and Kat (and Caprica).

Doc Cottle. :>

The other new sims are Billy, Crashdown, Natalie, and Sweet Eight. :D There are other new sims as well, though these aren't ones I chose to create. That's right.

They're babies.

Lots of babies, actually, and I have no idea where most of them came from. Some of them are kind of terrifying, too. For instance, Romo Lampkin has a kid!

Let's sit back and absorb this.

His name is Irfan Lampkin, and I have no idea where he came from. I was in the park, saw that Romo had a small child, went oafiashgiasgsaga, and checked in on his house. There is no mother listed. He either adopted or this is a weird, immaculate conception mpreg baby. Romo seems happy, though, so, uh?

Billy also managed to get a baby, despite being in the game for, like, two hours. Unfortunately, I don't have any screenshots of this. The most surprising person to suddenly have a baby, though, is Kara Thrace.

You heard me.

Starbuck has a baby.

Not with Lee. Not with Anders. Just a random baby. While I wasn't looking, she moved out of the Adama household into the tacky house Hoshi, Gaeta, and Dee used to live in and now has a baby. And a small army of babysitters.

The baby's name is Luther Thrace and he has the traits Artistic and Brave, so he's totes mommy's little boy, but what. What. Checking in on the Adama household reveals that Bill Adama and Roslin live there alone now, with Lee nowhere to be found. He still exists in the game, granted, but I can't figure out where he's living! I've looked everywhere! Is he out of town? Is he sleeping under a bench? Lee! Lee!

You'd think this would ruin Lee's relationship with Kara, but he can still visit. Really, they're going to be okay.

...Really.

But in any case, it's really annoying that I can't figure out where Lee is living, because this means I have no control over him anymore. :| I've tried following him home, but I can't keep up with the CGI of the car. How is he going to have awesome conversations with Zarek and Romo? Huh? How is he going to meet Dee?

Oh wait!

Theeeeere we go. Thank you, Lee, for staying at that restaurant all day. Now all we need is Anders and Leoben to meet Kara, and then it'll be all uphill from there \o/

There's one more baby, though!

Duh.

Caprica: I'm going to have a baby! Yay babies :D
Roslin: Yay babies! :D :D :D

*watches Deadlock*

Her name is Lauren Six (...thank you, game) and she is Brave and Excitable and ickle. Aw.

Getting off the subject of babies... ALL OF YOU REMEMBER MY LAST POST, RIGHT? GAETA HAS A SUPER SEKRIT MISSION TO SPY ON BILL ADAMA.

He gives Hoshi a kiss goodbye before he leaves.

Gaeta outside, waiting for Bill to answer the door. The little thought bubble means that he's thinking about crime. That's right, Gaeta. You're a criminal.

Bill lets him inside, and...

THE THING. HE'S DOING THE THING.

Gaeta spies on him quite nicely and learns that he's in the military, Brave, Athletic, and a Technophobe (of course). Mission accomplished! His boss is happy, and the next morning, has him drop off some money to bribe city hall. Oh, Felix. Oh, Felix.

(By the way, is there any way to change hair/features/clothing once they've been created? Because Bill's not-grey hair is still throwing me for a loop. D:)

...What makes this more awkward is that Hoshi is a cop. Their relationship doesn't seem to be suffering, though! Ye...t.

Gaeta actually has a few accomplices at this point, and they're D'Anna, Tory, and Ellen. D'Anna, Tory, and Ellen. This is the most awkward bunch of professional criminals in the world, but I can almost buy it.

Speaking of Tory:

Tory and Zarek, everyone. I did nothing to make this happen. I'm not even sure if they've kissed yet, but they flirt with each other all the time, and the little Sim relationship meter tells me that they're romantically interested in each other.

PS: Still adorable.

Gauis is always at the mirror. Even in the park, he goes to the bathroom to look for the mirror. Mostly, he is in love with his face. Meanwhile, Caprica is on the computer. Hacking.

Saul Tigh, looking wonderfully military. He's a flight instructor.

Kacey is older, and has a healthy relationship with Simon. Aaaaaaaaaaaa. (If you squint, you can see Leoben looking military in the back, holding a teddybear. Idk.)

Hera and Kacey are friends now, so Hera also thinks its acceptable to hang out with Simon, Doral, and Cavil. JIFHAIUasigsagasgaga.

I visited the gym at one point, and ran into Roslin, Adama, Tyrol and Ellen!

Yes, Roslin is doing jumping jacks.

Here's the deal: the reason why I don't have formal head characters yet is because since Gaius has the trait Insane, he can talk to himself on command. I like to think he's having a lot of nice, healthy arguments with Head-Six. (Meanwhile, Roslin and Cavil watch TV.)

Gaius and Roslin debating politics, pffff. Whenever he talks to her, I also have the option Insult Politicians. >_>

Gaeta and Gaius are good friends at this point. Whenever Gaeta talks to Gauis, I have the option Enthuse About Science. So. Here they are, enthusing about science.

...Gaius, what are you even.

Zarek is practicing a speech!

Gaius and Gina, dancing. She has the same outfit as Roslin because they're both city council members. Gina's good friends with both Caprica and Gaius, so they all like to hang out.

Caprica and Shelly, talking about computers. Hilariously, before this, the little notice box said that they were "discussing shared traits." Pffff.

Romo Lampkin: classy, always.

TO BE CONTINUED.

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nai_is_not @ 2009-06-25T23:01:00

2009-06-26T03:05:31Z

A quick update about BSG sims before the real one:

While playing Felix Gaeta:

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH.

(He accepted, of course)

+Onto the next adventure.
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more sims

2009-06-24T05:41:44Z

Oh my god. Eventually, someone will have to pull me away from this game.

Iiiii don't even know where to start. A lot of extraordinary things have been happening!

Let's first take a trip to the Cylon household!

D'Anna teaching Kacey how to walk while Cavil waits patiently to steal candy from her. What a villain. Boomer, meanwhile, jogs to the central park where she runs into Athena.

(dun dun dun)

As you can see, Athena looks like she's afraid Boomer's going to bite her. Even Hotdog's concerned! They calm down, though...

...and promptly have a calm, civil conversation about Hera.

With time, the conversation fizzles out, as it does, and Boomer happens to see Caprica chilling by the movie theater. They talk for a few minutes, all is going well, yadda yadda yadda, when someone else approaches.

Wait. Is that a Six?? Is that seriously a Six?? I didn't put anymore Sixes in! I-- I-- what?

AAAAAAAAH.

Rolling over her actually gives me the name Caprica Six. This other sim is another Caprica Six. This other sim is literally another Caprica Six. Except I didn't give her those clothes, and she works at a coffee shop, and my Caprica Six works at the morgue. What.

Boomer goes home and puts Kacey to bed.

Well, I say! I can't imagine a worse person holding onto a small child!

...wait, yes I can.

Speaking of Simon, Gaius got a job tending to carnivorous plants for the sake of science. You would never guess who his boss is. Nope. Never.

They have about as good of a work relationship as you'd expect.

Anyway, after all this excitement, I moved the CIC folks to a new home.

...Hoshi. :|

Gaeta and Dee are gossiping. Awwww, these two. ♥

Speaking of gossping, we also have Kara and Lee.

Awww.

Roslin goes to get a career in politics, where she runs into not!Caprica.

Shortly after, Zarek also gets a job there, which is when I receive that delightful notification at the top of this entry. Yeah. That's right. Roslin's his boss.

After he gets a job, he visits the park, where he meets Tigh who apparently really dislikes him.

The slapping is kind of a hint.

Also in the park are Gaius and Tory. They chat, they bond, Gaius struggles not to smack himself in the face, everything's going well, and then I realize that Gaius is unemployed.

Huh? But he has a job. But he-- was he already fired? So I followed the guy home. And got this.

BIZARRO CAPRICA. This is also the wrong house. This is also the wrong Gaius. Somehow I ended up with two of them. I don't even know. But I guess that mystery has been... sort of... solved. (Robot montage, anyone?)

Anyway, in the interest of going to bed, I'll wrap this up with one last great reveal:

FELIX GAETA BECAME A BAGMAN.

WHEN I WASN'T LOOKING, FELIX GAETA BECAME A FUCKING BAGMAN.

HE'S D'ANNA'S BOSS IN THE CRIMINAL TRACK.

OH, FELIX.

"Oh hi, Gaius, bb. I'm a professional criminal now."

YOU HAVE "GOOD" IN YOUR SIM TRAITS LIST! YOU SHOULDN'T BE DOING THIS. THIS TIME, YOU ARE PROGRAMMED TO BE A GOOD MAN, FELIX.

;o;

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nai_is_not @ 2009-06-23T10:01:00

2009-06-23T15:17:02Z

I guess I better put all my fannish babble in one entry, amiright?

First off, they released a second trailer for Battlestar Galactica's The Plan.

EEEEEEE.

I am SO EXCITED FOR THIS MOVIE. Boomer being bewildered! Sixes being awesome (HI, SHELLY)! Simon actually doing things! Doral blowing shit up! Cavil saying things like "Let's get this genocide started." :DDDDD The only downside is that D'Anna definitely won't be there, and it's also looking like there wouldn't be any Leoben. :<

(Also, I'm 99% certain the last shot is the two Cavils being airlocked in Lay Down Your Burdens! Cavils! :D)

In conclusion, my love for the significant seven Cylons will never be extinguished. (Hi, Final Five. You're... still interesting, but I hope there is decent Tory development in this movie :|)

ALSO.

I got Sims 3 the other day! The first thing I did was create a BSG cast, though eventually, I hope to do neighborhoods for other fandoms/original characters/etc etc. :>> Anyway, since a large portion of my flist follows BSG, I figured it was time for a picspam of their wacky lives!

The first Sims I created were Gaius and Caprica, but I dropped them off at their house and left them for a bit while I moved everyone else in.

A few members of the Team Cylon house! Leoben and Cavil are bonding over computers, while Gina and Simon are checking out the apartment (though it looks more like Simon is checking out Gina).

I love Sim!Doral. I'm so sorry.

I think D'Anna's facial expression and the back of Leoben's god ugly shirt are what make this picture.

Lol, D'Anna flipping out at Doral.

Boomer is uncomfortable with the number of Cylons in this room.

Now now, okay. That just about finishes up the Cylon household, right? We've got Boomer, D'Anna, Simon, Doral, Cavil, Gina, Leoben...

Oh.

Wait:

*THEME FROM PSYCHO*

Simon, Cavil, and Doral discuss robot genocide, while Leoben plays with ickle wittle Kacey.

The Final Five live right next to the Seven! The first thing Ellen did upon arriving was use a pick up line on Tyrol (who is all I Have a Beard and Glasses civvy style). Tigh is not amused.

Tory bonding with Anders first thing in the morning.

Tory and Ellen dancing together. Aw. :D

ANYWAY, I totally stole rayruz's idea and moved Gaeta, Dee, and Hoshi in together. The house I moved them into is about the most tacky thing in the universe, so I will probably move them.

Gaeta and Hoshi. Aww. (And a tacky couch.)

Everyone was hungry pretty early on, so I decided to have Gaeta make breakfast! This is a bad idea, because Gaeta is an Unlucky Sim.

WELL, AT LEAST NO ONE HAD THEIR FACE BURNED OFF ~~OR THEIR LEG~~.

ZAR-EK. ZAR-EK. ZAR-EK. o/

Romo having a conversation with his imaginary cat. His goal in life is to become very wealthy, and because I start off each game with a lot of money cheats, his Wishes level went up SUPER HIGH right away. I bought him the traits Never Dull and Very Observant.

Cally teaches little Nicky about fire and death and everything wrong with this world. (DOES IT LOOK LIKE I'M MAKING THIS UP? LOOK AT HER FACE! LOOK AT HER FACE!)

Anyway, she lives with Hotdog and Jammer, because everyone knows that Jammer really should have been the babydaddy.

Jammer (with his hair too light, left) and Hotdog (right).

I am disproportionately pleased with Sim!Roslin. :D :D With Adama, I temporarily forgot that his hair was entirely grey. Uh.

Lee and Kara live with them. They waste no time.

Agathon house! Sharon cooks dinner while Hera hangs in the background.

Helo teaching Hera how to walk. :3

Anyway, it was about this time that I decided to check in on Gaius and Caprica. When I returned, Gaius was dressed in his suit and glasses and strangling himself with his own hand.

I GUESS NOTHING EVER CHANGES, REALLY. (Also, check out the windows. Yeah. That's right. It's not a Baltar house without an absurd number of windows.)

Essentially, they're the most adorable people in the universe. Their relationship is all kinds of flawed, though. They flirt. They kiss. They make out. Gaius unintentionally insults Caprica. Caprica calls him a lunatic. Rinse. Repeat. Once again, not all that different from usual! (Meanwhile, both Lee and Kara have the trait Commitment Issues, so I can imagine their relationship will be JUST AS INTERESTING AS ALWAYS.)

The next day I took them to the park! Gina was already there, chilling with her computer.

Gaius and Caprica play chess.

And then Gina decides to have a picnic by herself in the background!

The next day, I brought Gaius and Caprica to the Cylon household to hang out. They mostly spent the entire time getting yelled at by D'Anna and Cavil, though Caprica and D'Anna were able to bond little over computers. Of course.

ANYWAY, I WOULD LOVE TO TALK MORE, BUT I GOTTA JET. More hijinks later. :D

+Onto the next adventure.

Fanmix -and- a picspam! Oh my!

2009-06-14T04:44:23Z

...I have been putting off organizing this fanmix (/picspam) for ages, but considering starting tomorrow I'm going to have less reliable file transfer access (hi, school network), I figured I might as well get it out of the way. Real updates about my life will happen later.

SO.

After Me, The Flood
A Gaius and Caprica Fanmix

Download link, track list, lyric snippets, and picspam (!) under the cut. Pictures contain spoilers through the series finale.

Tracklist
1. Regina Spektor - Après Moi
2. Jewel - Serve the Ego
3. Tom Lehrer - Masochism Tango
4. Lab - Killing Me
5. Second Person - Demons in the Scenery
6. The Dear Hunter - Red Hands
7. Oi Va Voi - Yuri
8. Stars - Your Ex-Lover is Dead
9. Puscifer - REV 22:20
10. The Dear Hunter - The Pimp and the Priest
11. Rufus Wainwright - Hallelujah
12. Charlotte Martin - Veins
13. The Airborne Toxic Event - Sometime Around Midnight
14. Regina Spektor - Us

Download entire CD here.

Après Moi
Be afraid of the lame, they'll inherit your legs
Be afraid of the old, they'll inherit your souls
Be afraid of the cold, they'll inherit your blood
Après moi, le deluge, after me comes the flood

Serve the Ego
Mirror, mirror
Do you like
What you see?
I'll dance for you
If you dance for me

Masochism Tango
Let our love be a flame, not an ember,
Say it's me that you want to dismember.
Blacken my eye,
Set fire to my tie,
As we dance to the masochism tango.

Killing Me
My my what a treat you are
Your magnetic attraction's energising me dead
Keep keep spoiling me
Keep on feeding my ego 'til I'm over the edge
My favourite enemy
I'm enjoying your lies so much it's killing me

Demons in the Scenery
I am not as destructive as that anymore
I can be surprised by joy
Never-the-less in my stress and anxiety suggest
There’s nothing left to destroy

Red Hands
With your hands maroon, so freshly red,
You'd wrap your lips around my neck.
Try and force to love the thought of me.
Simple motions make me ill.

Yuri
I'm gonna go down in history
As the man who made a difference
Call me egotistical
Well how dare you care you call me selfish
I'm doing this for mankind

Your Ex-Lover is Dead
God that was strange to see you again
Introduced by a friend of a friend
Smiled and said 'yes I think we've met before'
In that instant it started to pour

REV 22:20
Jesus has risen to no surprise
Even he would martyr his momma to ride to hell between those thighs
Pressure is building at the base of my spine
If I've got to sin to see her again
Then I'm gonna lie and lie and lie

The Pimp and the Priest
Confess, oh, confess
In the chapel
The brothel
Where we suffocate stress
We’ve got the time if you’ve got the scratch
(We'll conquer your sins while she screams on her back)

Hallelujah
Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty in the moonlight overthrew you
She tied you to a kitchen chair
She broke your throne, she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

Veins
The unshackling of the chains on my wrists
And the loyalty to pain that resists
And the greatest books are talking about this
Why must everybody die to exist?

Sometime Around Midnight
Then she leaves, with someone you don’t know.
But she makes sure you saw her.
She looks right at you and bolts.
As she walks out the door,
your blood boiling
your stomach in ropes.
Oh and your friends say,
“What is it? You look like you’ve seen a ghost.”

Us
They'll name a city after us
And later say it's all our fault
Then they'll give us a talking to
Then they'll give us a talking to
Because they've got years of experience

Like what you hear? Check out When the Bombs Go Off, a Baltar fanmix that is less illustrated, but just as exciting!

*A special thanks to darksong17 and custardpringle for providing me with a few of the songs. :3

nai_is_not @ 2009-05-17T09:44:00

2009-05-17T13:49:01Z

I'm 21!

Score \o/

and we all lose our charms in the end

2009-05-14T00:46:12Z

Hey, so it looks like I'm going to be actually using my LJ this summer, huh? ~~Famous last words.~~

Anyway, I'm thinking of starting afresh with Making Things Invisible*, since every time I look back at the first chapter, I see things I want to change. I want to make this a Srs Bsns fic. I want a beta. I want to write at least 500 words a day. Goddamn. Granted, this might not last with all the crazy stuff I need to do this summer (and I'm starting work tomorrow), but I genuinely, truly want to finish a fic some time in my life. We'll see how this goes, right?

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* Making Things Invisible Simply by Concentrating (on Something Else)! It's an epic fic with a long, pretentious title I started writing this winter in which Gaius Baltar cannot wake up from his happy place and what that means for him.

Man grows small tree inside lung

2009-04-22T23:05:04Z

From The Guardian:
Before doctors opened him up, they were convinced he had lung cancer. Now, they're convinced he inhaled a seed, which sprouted inside him.

Surgeon Vladimir Kamashev at Izhevsk hospital was about to remove a large part of 28-year-old Artyom Sidorkin's lung, when he took a closer look, according to reports. He was stunned to see a 5cm-long spruce inside, the Russian news agency Pravda says.

A spokeswoman for the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, London, is flummoxed. "A seed might be able to germinate in the damp, dark conditions of a lung, but it's still bizarre," she says.

Full article.
The lung in question. (warning: lung.)

nai_is_not @ 2009-03-31T22:38:00

2009-04-01T02:45:43Z

So, I'm going to be writing pretty much the most awesome paper ever.

When we watch a film, we are not watching actual people. We are watching images of people played so fast they appear to be moving, living, and breathing as much as they are in real life. The same could be said to a stronger degree of computer animated movies or cartoons. Though we don't doubt that the characters we see are biological in nature, the truth is that they aren't - the mind is fooled through the illusion of biological motion. For my final paper, I plan to study the mirror neuron system and how it reacts to biological as well as nonbiological motion, and whether or not there are clear differences between the two. How does genuine biological motion compare to artificial biological motion? Is implied intent sufficient to activate the mirror neuron system in a nonbiological setting? Can robots activate mirror neurons? How complex would these robots need to be? Essentially, I wish to explore the line between the recognition of animate and inanimate objects and how the brain successfully manages to cross it.

This is why I love my major, you guys! :DDD

nai_is_not @ 2009-03-20T21:51:00

2009-03-21T02:06:44Z

A quick note about the BSG finale before I close my computer and get back to watching:

From an entry I made four months ago:
Ideally, I want Baltar to put aside his ego and Caprica to deal with her distrust and for both of them to confess their love to each other and not their head-versions. They can have wild makeouts while their hallucinations look on, approving.

I WAS NOT EXPECTING THAT TO ACTUALLY HAPPEN, YOU GUYS. I WAS NOT EXPECTING THAT TO ACTUALLY, LITERALLY HAPPEN.

Battlestar Galactica Finale

2009-03-20T17:54:18Z

A short (nonspoilery) TV Guide review:
"The first hour-and-a-half of the finale is so intense, you'll find it difficult to breathe. So many questions will be answered — including some you probably thought wouldn't be addressed due to time constraints. Also, if Mary McDonnell isn't recognized by the Emmys this year, it'll be a frakkin' shame. She had the crowd in tears more than once with her brilliant performance." Erin then hugged her Cylon toaster to her chest, placed a paper bag over her mouth and nose and breathed gently until it was safe to stand again.

Aaaaah!

My BSG party tonight will be a small, one-woman show. I have instant mac & cheese, fresh chocolate chip cookies, salsa, blue corn chips, and orange soda. I refuse to prepare by bringing a tissue box into the room in case I jinx myself into being Not Moved By Anything, which means I'll probably be crying into the side of the sofa if it actually gets that bad. I'm starting at 7pm with The Last Frakking Special which - by some miracle - I've managed to actually save for tonight, and then watching straight on to 11:11 when it all ends.

I've never been this invested in a TV show before! Back when I was an avid anime watcher in middle school, I never had any fanfare for the last episodes. I think the show I was most invested in was Escaflowne, and even then, I watched the last episode quietly in the family room, knowing pretty much what was going to happen since I had (willingly) read a crapload of spoilers before then. I think part of the BSG excitement is that I'm going into this without spoilers, and that most of the other viewers are as well. It's the first time I've watched something as it aired. So maybe that adds just this extra dash of excitement, the fact that I don't know what's going to happen and neither does anyone else.

Also, the characters, of course! I mean, I've only been watching since last January, but the characters have gone through years of their lives, which is something I've never encountered in the anime I got into, mostly because they only lasted one season. The characters are almost like old friends at this point, and it's a little scary that I'm going to know where they all end up in less than twelve hours.

...But rambling aside, I'm excited! I only hope that I'll find another TV epic like this someday.

nai_is_not @ 2009-03-18T22:13:00

2009-03-19T02:25:34Z

[27] Battlestar Galactica icons
Seasons 1, 2, 4.
Spoilers through 4x17, Someone to Watch Over Me
Credit goes to nai_is_not
Notes: :D

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Created with angelamaria's Icon Table Generator @ Bauble.
Textures credit to generosa, screencaps to Daydreaming.

nai_is_not @ 2009-03-14T10:24:00

2009-03-14T16:49:34Z

Gaius and Caprica Six flashbacks.
Oh my god shooooow, thank you so much! ♥ We had awesome interaction last episode (with crying) and amazing (!!!) interaction this episode. Gaius's and Caprica's first date is pretty much akin to watching a baby take its first steps, or, alternatively, watching the Twelve Colonies very, very slowly start to explode. I love how their time is cut short because Gaius's dad habitually scares off his nurses, and how Caprica's way to win Gauis's heart is to break into his house and tell him that she found a retirement home for his father, that she took him there, and that when he saw the place, he "looked happy." These two have such a wacky, screwed up love that I want them to grow old together and have lots and lots of pretty, vaguely sociopathic babies. Scratch that, actually: I want them to have a spin off show. He's a jerk with daddy issues! She's a genocidal robot who's just trying to make humanity's dying hour a little bit brighter! Together they fight crime! This show will be available on the same channel as Alessandro Julliani's Gaeta and Hoshi Save the World with Math, 8:00pm, 7:00pm central, thank you very much.

Flashbacks in general.
Another huge thank you, show! Pre-miniseies flashbacks are like my secret drug. So many of the characters have changed so much in the last four seasons that it's so refreshing to remember where they came from. I don't ship Kara and Lee nearly to the same degree as Six and Gaius, but I was thrilled to see Lee's face when he first met her. I also loved watching Kara being her snarky, early season self, and Zak and Lee actually interacting. Drunk!Lee also made me laugh, since he... still sucks at being drunk, and was totally flailing around a la Taking a Break like when he dropped his wedding ring. Ilu, Lee, never change your alcohol tolerance (and your ability to lie).

I'm of two minds about Roslin's flashback - on one hand, it was a bit melodramatic (entire family killed by a drunk driver immediately after a sister's baby shower? really?) but the fountain scene was gorgeous. I loved it. I'm also curious about who she's going to be dating - next episode, I suppose?

Hoshi spilling coffee all over the CIC.
Lawls.

ONE LAST MISSION, YOU GUYS.
Gaius Baltar, step over that line right the frak now. You know you want to help Caprica. You know you want to go down with the ship and commit that "one selfless act" Lee was yelling about. I'm becoming more and more convinced that they're setting him up for a heroic death to the point where I might... actually be disappointed if he does survive, which is something I never thought I'd say. Head-Six told him that he'll be "writing humanity's final chapter," which I think means that he's going to make a fundamental decision that will either doom or save the entire civilization. Either that, or he is an avatar of the Cylon god (read: Jesus), but either way, he's probably going to die. Maybe it'll come full circle? Maybe he'll sacrifice himself for Caprica the way she saved him back on the colonies? (That would be beautiful.)

I'm worried for everyone on this show, actually, but I want to say I've accepted the possibility their deaths. I have faith that this show will tear my heart out and I'm okay with that. Wow.

Other things I love:
+ Adama being a genuinely nice, understanding guy who isn't sobbing against the wall and drinking himself into a stupor the entire episode.
+ Roslin getting out of sickbay to go and kick some ass.
+ Boomer trying to be gentle with Hera. ._.
+ Hi, Simon and Doral.
+ Gaius saying that "he wouldn't trust himself either."
+ Ellen being buddy-buddy with Tory. Also, "It's not like you have anything better to do." Pfff.

BRING ON THE FINALE.

nai_is_not @ 2009-03-07T23:09:00

2009-03-08T05:24:07Z

Post a single sentence from each WIP you have (or as many as you want to pick). No context, no explanations. ~~No more than one sentence.~~ Scrapping this rule. I spit in the face of meme rules.

Anyway, this meme is kind of perfect for me, since I'm the worst person at finishing things ever, except when I have a deadline. ._.

One.
They catch him behind a stack of ropes and barrels, after he's burned the jacket and dumped the gun. His hands and legs are covered with soot and dirt. When he sees them, he starts laughing, and then he starts sobbing, and then he raises his hands in the air and asks them if there's a problem, as if they didn't already know.

Two.
“I do mean what I said earlier,” Simon said, watching the Doral struggle with his balance. “Sometimes, God has us suffer so that we can learn from it. He has us suffer so that we can become stronger. It’s part of being human.”

“I wouldn’t want to be human," he said. He took his coat from the chair and eased it on, one trembling arm at a time. “But thanks.”

Three.
The memories didn't hit him all at once. It wasn't a punch to the gut or a cold blast of ice. He just remembered pacing inside his house. His fish. The sunset. The calm drone of the anchorman's voice. He saw that he was surrounded by trees, and then he remembered Caprica Six on the baseship, just days before, talking about surrounding herself in God's creation. And then he sat up.

Four.
Bullets were a familiar enough sound that he woke almost immediately. He squirmed out of his covers and made a grab for the handgun he kept in his nightstand. There were quickening footsteps and then a BAM BAM BAM, and suddenly the world was impossibly sharp. He could feel the metal of his own gun pressed in his hand, every little groove and imperfection, the hornet-like stings in his chest and stomach, a thousand sensations all at once, and then another BAM and

floating.

Five.
People died very frequently in this world, far more frequently than in any other. Deep sleepers stopped hearing the metronomes every so often. Little babies didn’t understand the pulling sensation in their chests. Mass funerals were held for the people who lost track.

“It was understandable,” said the woman in black, staring out at the lines and lines of coffins. There was so much death that it almost stopped meaning things.

Six.
“Thanks to the government,” he told me, forehead damp with sweat, “I can only see in black and white.”

He had been waiting for me at the bus stop, one leg kneeling on the chapped, red bench and the other pulled over that leg, dangling like it didn’t even belong. His face was half-covered in plastic wrap, stuck on over his nose with brown, decaying masking tape. He looked like a cowboy. In the city, we had something I liked to call the weekend ghosts, drunken men and women with unsteady gaits and old, wet breath. I was honestly surprised. Today was a Tuesday.

Seven.
Pattern gave his arm a rough tug. Par-a-sites, she mouthed. Par-a-sites.

nai_is_not @ 2009-03-02T14:03:00

2009-03-02T20:06:04Z

ZOMG, SNOW DAY.

ZOMG, huge test postponed until Thursday! ZOMG, I... still have a lot of work to today anyway!

But that's okay! Now that it's spread out a bit more, I can work on my powerpoint presentation about attention and my play and a whole mess of other things without feeling like I'm wasting precious studying time. I think it's possible that I have more work this semester than usual, but I enjoy it likewhoa so it doesn't weigh on me like a soul-crushing boulder like Cell Biology and Organic Chemistry did this fall.

Anyway, brief thoughts on BSG and Dollhouse!

Dollhouse.
I'm enjoying it! I'm not completely enthralled, of course, but I feel like it has potential. I'm into the B plot more than the A plot, mostly because I'm more fond of the characters, though I'm admittedly worried that the 'personality-a-week' deal with Echo will prevent me from getting attached to her properly. I think that Tahmoh's character, Paul, is awesome (and strangely attractive, what) and that he always has amazing interactions with Victor, who is secretly an Active, zomg yay. I have this inexplicable fondness for Victor, maybe because he's shady and skeevy and kind of confused and I always like the characters you're supposed to want to kick in the face. No one is surprised.

Take away message: I will keep watching! I won't quite cancel any Friday plans that crop up in favor of seeing it, but I might check it out on Hulu the next day.

Battlestar Galactica.
I called it! \o/ That being said, it was a great episode. The opening montage was gorgeous. There was something about it that made it feel like Not A Fourth Season Episode, if that makes any sense - maybe it's because they were dealing with old relationships and calling back on a lot of old episodes. In any case, the episode felt like a comfy BSG blanket, even though Tyrol and Boomer's story broke my heart and the Galactica is now in deep shit. Days later, I look back on it and think "wow, what a happy episode!" ...I don't even know. D:

Also, I'm going to take the time to beg the writers to have Gaius and Caprica interact again, please! I'm less worried they'll forget the ship since they obviously remembered the Boomer and Tyrol history, but as the episodes get closer and closer to the end, it gets disconcerting that they haven't even mentioned each other. Then again, I think a lot of the Lee/Kara shippers are flailing about the same thing. Maybe the writers are holding off on the main relationships until the finale? :(

Take away message: BSG, you're awesome, but I'm afraid of how you're going to resolve things in three(ish) episodes. D:

Predictions for Someone to Watch Over Me

2009-02-26T21:22:29Z

Usually I try not to speculate too much since I don't want to spoil myself by being right (or disappoint myself by being wrong), but I've been in a restless mood lately, so I feel like channeling some of my energy into fandom meta. That being said, I do talk about scenes shown in both previews and speculate on some stuff from interviews, so if you don't want to risk spoilers, stay back!

Predictions:

Something (bad) is going to happen to Hera.
From what I can tell from the previews, Athena is flipping the fuck out, and to my knowledge, the only time she ever flips out is because of Hera. The fleet decides to use biological warfare to wipe out her race? She cries a single tear, maybe, and gives a small speech about sticking to her side. Hera's at risk? Hello throwing her head against bullet proof glass, strangling doctors, and plugging Natalie full of bullets for getting within two feet of her little girl. (Also, is she beating on Helo in the Canadian preview?? D:)

A lot of fandom seems to think Caprica's going to steal her, which'll make me very sad because oh, Caprica! If she does steal her, though, I hope she teams up with Baltar opera house style, mostly because I'm selfish and want the two of them at least in the same scene even if it involves stealing destiny babies. I think that Baltar has another date with Chekhov's gun, though, so I don't think he'll be going anywhere. And by gun, I mean, guns. Machine guns. ~~More guns! Bigger guns!~~

Part of me is a little worried that Hera'll die, mostly because fandom is entirely convinced she'll live through the end of the series and the writers love dashing our expectations. Then again, I'm pretty sure she has some fancy destiny stuff ahead of her, so maybe she'll only die at the end? Maybe she'll die and come back? Which brings me to my second prediction...

Kara's mysterious piano man won't really exist.
I'll find it surprising if the writers introduce a reoccurring character four episodes from the end! This could also mean that the character'll die by the end of the episode, of course, but I'm more inclined to believe he's a Kara Subconscious Thing since it looks like she'll be hallucinating Little!Kara and Corpse!Kara as well. Rumor has it he'll help her understand her destiny, and because he isn't Leoben, I can't imagine why else he would know this. Maybe he's a Daniel hallucination? A Head-Daniel? I bet I'm going to laugh when I watch this episode and discover he's just a regular guy, but pshah.

Another reason why I think he might not exist is because of the episode title. I'm probably dead wrong, but I've been hoping for months that this episode would contain some information about the head characters. 'Someone to Watch Over Me,' just sounds like it to me. I have another theory that Baltar and Kara are the same thing, whatever they are, and that Baltar died in the miniseries explosion and came back like Kara, which why both of them woke up with a special destiny. If Kara develops a Head-person, I'll be ten times more excited about this theory.

I'm also noticing a hellofalot of parallels with Maelstrom from these previews. Please don't fly into any planets again, Kara. :(

Also, on a non-prediction subject:

Boomer is awesome.
I am so psyched for the Boomer and Tyrol interaction, you have no idea.

Earth flashbacks are AWESOME.
I am also very excited for this. :DDD

Also, there's a rumor that Alessandro Juliani is going to be a guest star, though no one knew Gaeta was going to be dead when this information was released, so it's entirely possible that it's misdirection. From the interview all of those months ago, I remember Juliani being all "Lawls, yeah, we just finished filming episode 17 and I'm surprised Gaeta is still alive!" so he might've been doing his best to, y'know, hide that he knew his character was doomed, but who knows. I'll be pleasantly surprised if we get a flashback or a hallucination, but I won't hold my breath.

Deadlock.
Fandom in general hated this episode for what looks to be very valid reasons. I actually really enjoyed it when I watched it, possibly because I was in a room full of all my enthusiastic friends (I usually watch alone) and Head-Six was back, and Baltar was wonderfully ridiculous, and Tigh and Adama's love is so true omg. That being said, in retrospect it had a lot of problems, but I enjoyed it at the time and that's probably what matters in the end.

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