Presenting... The Lost/Gilligan's Island icons, utilizing the Season 2 promo pics for Lost!

( 5 under cut )

The fact that the Battlestar Galactica miniseries is going to be arriving in my mailbox Saturday via Netflix is all your fault.

If I get sucked into this fandom, there will be consequences.

Stealable. Comment and credit. *thanks liz_marcs for pointing out the Kitchen Confidential photos*

permalink

( Spoilers )

Tonight's The Inside is brought to you by Jane Espenson. Share and enjoy.

Doctor Who fans on the flist should check out this vid by doyle_sb4 - everything through The Doctor Dances set to The End of the World (As We Know It) by REM. Here's where to go for viddy goodness.

It's amusing as hell.

1) Total number of fandoms I like: Good golly. Um, I'll list 'em. * means I write fanfic there, + means I've been meaning to write fanfic there.
Buffy *
Angel *
Veronica Mars +
Alias *
Lost +
Farscape +
Firefly *
Josie and the Pussycats movie (shaddup) *
Wonderfalls
The Prisoner +
Doctor Who (new series)

With the exception of Josie, I've never really understood movie-based fandoms. It's just not my thing, I guess.

2) My first fandom ever: To read, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, actually. To write, probably Buffy (although I dimly recall some Ghostbusters fanfic back in my wee years).

3) My most recent fandom: Veronica Mars. I love this show so much.

4) Five fandoms that currently mean a lot to me:

Buffy - the first show I was ever well and truly obsessive about. I have an obsessive personality, so I'd had some intense flings before -- Star Trek: TNG being the most notable -- but this was the first show that started mucking about in my life. The first show where I found compatriots who I liked and respected. Home, in short.

Angel - If it had been just Buffy, I might have let go many moons back. However, this deepening of the philosophy and mythos of the Buffy universe has ensured that Whedon has me in his demented grasp for what promises to be the rest of my life.

The Prisoner - Most brilliant television show ever produced. One of TV's only true masterpieces.

Firefly - This is the fandom that I share with my mother. We'll call each other after having seen an episode and gab about the implications or the arc or just the clever dialogue. I hooked her on it and now she's actively hooking others in an attempt to make Serenity a box office smash, one person at a time.

Veronica Mars - I can't tell you how many cool people I've met through this show.

5) Tag 5 people to put this in their journal: airawyn, qkellie, hjcallipygian, invisionary, sadiekate

The Undiscoverd Country is not nearly as good as I remember it being. desertwillow came over so we could finish it (we started Saturday night, but she got a headache and went home).

( Brief semi-spoilery commentary )

Also watched some Trigun for the first time. Suffers from one of my main problems with anime, which is a seeming inconsistency of characterization for the sake of a laugh. Vash, for instance, is a cool-headed peace-loving gunman, until it suits the plot for him to be a total spaz.

Otherwise, it was pretty cool. desertwillow will probably be foisting more on me, and I certainly don't mind. Wolfwood rocks me, fer instance.

- Post a list of ten shows you watch/watched.
- Friends guess my favorite character from each show. I'll edit when one is correct.
- I'll say why once it's guessed.

1. Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Oz (kittycat22)
Oz is, admittedly, too cool to be real, but that's why I like him. He's the guy I'd want to be if I could shut up. He's in a band, he's funny, and his every word is well-chosen, studied. His sense of humor is bizarre and lightly sarcastic. Also, there's just not enough good Oz-fic around.

2. Angel - Wesley (invisionary)
Much as I love Scruffy!Wes, my preferred is stilly Geeky!Wes from Seasons 1, 2, and half of 3. Still, my favorite character in every season is Wesley, because at the heart of him, he's a man who desperately desires to do the right thing. He may not always get it, and he might dirty some hands, but his intent is almost always pure even when his actions aren't. He's badass and he's geektastic, all in the same show.

3. Firefly - Book (kittycat22)
We didn't get to learn about his mysterious past, but I love Book because he's a huge contradiction. A pacifistic man of cloth who finds himself being inexorably drawn into a world of violence. I think that Book was, in many ways, Joss's commentary on religion and how he believed it couldn't salve all wounds. If Mal and Zoe were ever incapacitated, Book has my vote for ship's captain.

4. Farscape

5. Alias - Marshall (powerof3)
I swear this guy's the only one making the show bearable this season. Marshall Flinkman, tech genius extraordinaire, he who wonders if his co-workers saw the thing about the monkeys the other night while debriefing them on insanely complicated spy tech. Pair him with love-of-his-life Carrie Bowman or man-love-of-his-live Michael Vaughn, and it's wacky-tastic. He's really the heart of the show - affable, good-natured, innocent.

6. Lost - Hurley (airawyn)
"She says hey." Hurley is... oh, dammit, did I use the "heart of the show" thing already? Hell. I like my characters as goofy, affable loners apparently. Desperate mirror reflecting from pop culture icons? Who knows. I just know I like Hurley a whole bunch, and he adds a bit of "dudes!" levity to any scene he's in.

7. The Prisoner - Number 6 (powerof3)
Duh. Like, the only character on the show with any real consistency. Other than the Butler. Still, McGoohan is harsh, yo.

8. Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Tom Servo (powerof3 and darkestlily)
Joel/Mike were wry. Crow was a wisecracker. But Tom was the overconfident voice of joy, blaring out from the theater seats wacky slogans and exclamations of disgust. His trademark "SLEEEEEEEP!" during any hypnosis scene never fails to crack me up. Plus, he has a gumball machine head. I mean, c'mon, who doesn't love a gumball machine head?

9. Monty Python's Flying Circus (favorite Python)
10. Veronica Mars

hpcallipygian has already rec'd this, but I know that there are other Veronica Mars fans on my flist that aren't on his.

booster17 is working on a Buffy/Veronica Mars x-over called California Screaming and it's pretty rad. I'm not a big VM fan, and already I'm double-checking why, because this is intriguing, intelligent, and hilarious. And you don't even have to be a big VM fan to get into it - booster17 gives you all the info you really need right up front in a rather charming fashion.

Fair warning, though, it's a WIP, and this is only the first chapter.

I'm coming in late on this whole appreciating the fanfic thing, but I have two authors that I'd like to shout out to, and some of their more brilliant works.

First off is Yahtzee, who does some fabulous work in all sorts of fandoms, but I mainly appreciate her work in Angel and Alias.

As Time Goes By (NR, Angel) - Casablanca through the lens of Angel futurefic. It's a thoughtful, well-told story, and it's easy to see how our characters would retell this classic tale while still remaining themselves. Who plays which parts is a surprise and a pretty cool one at that.

Splinter (R, Angel, co-written with Rheanna) - The Fang Gang takes a detour when trying to get home from Pylea... and lands in an alternate LA where nothing is as it seems, but one thing appears painfully clear - Angelus and Darla rule the night.

Soap Opera (NR, Alias) - Everybody should know that I'm a sucker for Syd/Weiss, and so, apparently, is Yahtzee. This is a sweet story of Weiss trying to get the girl even though he knows he probably shouldn't.


Next is Liz Marcs, who writes the best Xander ever. This is Xander as I know him - cute, funny, dependable, but closed-off and deeply flawed. The nice thing about Liz is that even though she has obvious favorites (Xander and Faith), she still writes crackin' ensembles where nobody is left to the wayside.

Living History (PG-13, Buffy) - This is her epic. Even though her current WIP is looking lengthy, it's still a much tighter story than this sprawling epic about visitors from the future shaking up the Scoobies' new situation in Cleveland. The story is, amongst other things, about destiny and how we have to fight it even if we are bound to it, because that's how we become who we will be.

Contrite Spirits (PG-13, Buffy) - Xander, Faith, and the Catholic Church. On a mission to track down a new Slayer, two comrades discuss matters of, ah, faith. Brilliant writing and example of the author's precise characterization.

Cuckoo in the Nest (PG-13, Buffy) - Tony Harris is a serious serious asshole and Lizbeth Marcs has the guts to write it. It's an almost painful read, because the man is so obviously pathetic and deluded, and there simply can't be a truly happy ending for a dick like this. Although somewhat related to her current WIP, this fic stands on its own.

I always feel weird making icon posts anymore, because I know so many talented icon artists, whereas I just screw around in Photoshop when I can't get my brain to jumpstart.

Anyway, two completely new icons, and two remakes of older ones.

( 1 each of Alias, Dead Like Me, Buffy, and Angel )

Signs that you're enjoying liz_marcs's fic "Living History" far too much?

You ask somebody where the "futch" something is.

*amused sigh*

Be Seeing You.

:D

ETA: Decided to shorten the main journal content box and stick an overflow:auto attribute on there, so the design looks a lot more compact. Unfortunately, it does tend to fuck with the fact that I write hugeass entries (and usually without cuttags) - but I'm designing to be at least readable in 800x600 - so I can't really expand the backing image that much. Hmph.