Ertia - the c i r c l e is now c o m p l e t e

Television! Teacher, mother, secret lover.

Sat, 29 Sep 2007 06:15:26 GMT

I've decided that this TV season I am going to be writing about the TV shows I'm watching. I may be terrible at writing about actual life, but I've managed to write a bit about TV before. So consider this me committing myself to posting more :)

In the spirit of which : Charlie Jade! I watched many many vids in the wake of Vividcon (and I'm still getting around to posting coherent responses to most of them), basically by trawling through these lists, and for some reason I downloaded gwyn_r's Charlie Jade vid I Remember. I liked it. A lot. So I "obtained" the entire series. And now me and mum have just two episodes to go before we finish the whole thing and we're both incredibly sad there isn't more.

It's an amazing, wonderful, beautiful series and I just can't believe that it never really got more attention. Or rather I can, because anything that I like is pretty much guaranteed to be incredibly unpopular with the vast majority of the population :( I think it might finally be being shown in the UK sometime in the next week or so though. I now have my fingers crossed for a UK DVD release :) It'd be rather easier for me to get a hold of than the Japanese one...

Probably my favourite thing about the series (so far, anyway) has to be 01 Boxer. He hasn't really seemed to have that much character growth exactly (which is normally one of the things I love) but there's just been this fantastic sort of slow reveal of who this character is and what motivates him and what he's working towards. He's also perfectly unpredictable and just loads of fun :D

I also love the cinematography. I really appreciate TV shows that look good, and this one definitely does. They also take a few chances with their editing. It doesn't always work, but I much rather watching a show that tries to be a bit different and fails occasionally, than one that doesn't try at all.

I haven't started watching all the new season premieres just yet because my little sister is home for the uni holidays and that means all Gilmore Girls all the time. Gilmore Girls is possibly the exact opposite of the sort of show that I like (oh no, wait, that would be Big Brother), but I am starting to appreciate that it does have some very funny dialogue. And Emily is utterly hilarious.

Little sister goes back to uni on Monday, so then it's back to parallel universes, superpowers and aliens :)

(What's lj's problem with the word "dialogue"? It's telling me I'm spelling it wrong *squints suspiciously at lj*)

University, the UK, and my Macbook

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 07:30:11 GMT

Wow, I've been gone a while, huh? Since I last posted I have actually finished my university degree! I still can't quite believe it. I am done with my education. Finally. I still haven't decided what I'm going to do with that lovely degree I've got though...

I've put off making any kind of decisions by spending the last several months in England. I was born there so I always wanted to go back. I spent most of the time in London but I also managed to get around to a whole bunch of other places in England and a bit of Wales and Scotland too. Lots of people seemed to think it was rather strange that I wanted to go travelling about all by myself, but I really enjoyed it. Didn't seem strange to me at all, but then I am perhaps a little strange.

I'm back home now, which my parents are rather happy about. I think they were a little worried I might decide to find a job in London and stay there.

Ohh, this is also the first update I've posted since I got my beautiful lovely new Macbook. The first computer I ever had was a Mac but it had a black and white screen a few inches across. I can't even remember when that must have been. 1993-ish? Maybe... Ever since that one it's been PCs. I am very happy to have made the switch though. I definitely think my Ipod has to get a lot of the credit for making me first think that I might like to get a Mac.

Anyway, let's see if I can keep up some sort of regular updating of this journal...

...but I sent you away, oh Mandy!

Mon, 16 Oct 2006 08:16:06 GMT

Can someone please, please convince me that Fraser would not have sung "Mandy" to Victoria at some point during their happy times together in Victoria's Secret? 'Cause otherwise I've got one hell of a Lord King Bad Vid on my hands. This is almost as bad as that time I got it into my head that the perfect song to express Jack's feelings about Daniel in Season 6 of Stargate was "Incomplete" by the Backstreet Boys. Scary times.

Poncho!Ray is the bested thing ever

Wed, 20 Sep 2006 13:48:20 GMT

And now to update on what's been happening since that little window to the past last post.

On the real life front - my honours year is so very nearly over. Just two months left and I will be free of uni forever. I'm a little behind my schedule for the thesis writing at the moment, but in general I'm feeling pretty good about what I've done so far. I have actual real results to report so that's always nice.

And as far as tv shows are concerned (so much more interesting) - Due south is still ridiculously entertaining. And Benton Fraser is still ridiculously attractive. I took a short break just before the end of season 2, because I couldn't stand the thought of losing Ray. Despite the fact that I knew I would adore the new Ray just as much, if not more. In the end I bit the bullet and went ahead and watched the end of season 2 and started on season 3. And I do miss Vecchio, not having him there has made me realize just how great he was. But that's not to say I don't love RayK. Because I really, really do. A lot. But he's a very different Ray, and it's a different dynamic and it makes the whole thing a slightly different show. But still totally fantastic. Speaking of totally fantastic - I just started watching season 4 last night and Poncho!Ray may just be the bestest thing ever. Check out my icon! What could possibly be better than that? And while I'm speaking of speaking ofs...

Speaking of Callum Keith Rennie, the other main show that is currently dominating my every waking thought is Battlestar Galactica. I got the season 2 DVDs as soon as they came out here in Australia, but then I decided I'd wait and watch them with my mum, since she had really enjoyed the first season when it was on here. So now we're rewatching season one because it's been so long since it was on neither of us could really remember much of what had happened. But back to the "speaking of CKR" bit - several weeks ago, before I had started on season 3 of Due South and before all those spoilers about season 3 of BSG, I was hit with a sudden and inexplicable love of Leoben. He is now my very favourite cylon, quite possibly my very favourite character, as I've never been particularly madly in love with any of the others. I have no idea why. Anyway it finally resulted in a Kara/Leoben video, and I am now spending my time trying to make icons out of truly terrible caps of various season 3 trailers.

As for SG1 and Atlantis, I am now finally all caught up. I am feeling strangely ambivalent about SG1's cancellation. On the one hand I think one more season would have been fantastic, and on the other I think ten seasons really is plenty. And it's not like it'll be totally over - as long as Atlantis is still on the air the storylines and the characters can still continue. In a way it's quite a similar situation to how Buffy ended. It also had quite a good run, it had in some sense come to an ending and there was still a show in that universe on the air. And I coped okay with Buffy ending. Hopefully it won't mean the same thing for Atlantis as it did for Angel, because I am still not over that :(

I cannot believe I missed Talk Like a Pirate Day. Every single year I realize the day after.

Wed, 20 Sep 2006 13:09:29 GMT

I'm frustrated. I wrote an entry weeks and weeks ago, and then LJ ate it just as I was about to post. I've been so annoyed I haven't wanted to post since. But I just found a draft version of what I was going to post, so I'm posting it now.

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Due South has taken over my brain. There has to be some sort of limit to the number of fandoms I can have, doesn't there? I'm sure I can't fit too many more tv shows in there. But I'm happy for now. And Due South has brought me yet another tv boyfriend - Benton Fraser - so that makes me very happy indeed. He's just too lovely for words.

And this brings me to my other latest obsession - Slings & Arrows. I've just finished off the first season of that one. Canadians + Hamlet + Paul Gross = the perfect show. I have always loved Hamlet so so much though that I worry seasons 2 and 3 can't possibly be as good as season 1 was for me. I like Macbeth a lot too but I don't go all crazy fangirly about it like I do Hamlet (and while I'm on the subject, why on EARTH isn't Kenneth Brannagh's version available on DVD anywhere?! I so wanted to rewatch that :( ). And I've never even seen or read King Lear so I have no idea how that will be. Still, who the hell cares as long as there's Geoffrey! :D Speaking of which, in a crazed fit of creative activity I made a whole bunch of Geoffrey Tennant icons the other day. I think I rather like them, for the moment.

One downside of having far too many fandoms is that I really wish I had more icon spaces to properly represent them all. I know I could just buy myself a paid account, but I seems a little foolish considering I almost never post. I don't think I would post anymore if I did pay, I'd just have a large collection of incredibly beautiful icons made by people far more talented than me, which I would update and switch around at every opportunity :)

On the Stargate front, me and my mum are rapidly approaching the end of season 9 and season 2. I'm not sure what we'll do once we catch up. Going from about 2 episodes a night to 2 a week could be fairly difficult. I'm still finding the lack of Jack on sg1 a little odd. It's not so much that I miss Jack - I do, but not so much that it ruins the show for me. I just miss the people that the rest of the team were when they were around him. I'm not sure if that makes sense. In particular Daniel simply doesn't feel like Daniel without Jack there, and the same for Sam. Teal'c, however, is always Teal'c :)

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And I was going to finish off the post with some vid recs but I didn't finish writing that bit and now I can't be bothered :) Maybe next post...

What do interglactic explorers and mounties have in common?

Thu, 29 Jun 2006 05:14:38 GMT

As of right now I am all caught up with Stargate as it has been shown here in Australia. Me and my mum got through the whole first 8 seasons in about 3 months or so. I'm really quite proud. At this rate we might just manage to get through season 9 (along with with season 2 of Atlantis) before July 14 :D

It was quite strange watching the last few episodes of season 8 again, because those were the first few episodes I ever watched, when they were on tv here back about the start of last year. Made me realise just how much of those episodes must have completely gone over my head back then. I'm kinda surprised I kept watching.

A slightly odd side effect of all this Stargate watching is that it has been making me feel all nostalgic about Canada. At least that's what I'm blaming my newest obsession on. What other possible reason could there be for why I would start randomly watching Due South? It's not like I need another tv show to obsess about. I'm getting quite annoyed now that I can't get any DVDs until August 17 and then it'll probably be months until they bring out Season 2. I looked into ordering in the Canadian or US DVDs but they both seem so dodgy. Especially the US ones. I mean, when the DVD manufacturers can't even work out that a particular actor isn't actually in that season it just makes me wonder what else is wrong with the set. Oh well, patience is a virtue I suppose.

I can't be only person who's noticed that Fraser is Carrot from the Discworld books, can I? I mean, exactly, right down to the pet wolf. Apart from the fact that he's Canadian rather than Dwarfish, of course. I think I'm going to need an icon to express this.

I friends locked a whole bunch of posts a little while back. I can't stand friends locked journals, but I started getting a bit panicky that some people I know in real life might manage to find it and that idea freaks me out a little bit. I'll probably go back and make some of the posts public again once I've looked through them and made sure I haven't said anything too embarrassing. But most of what I post from now on will probably stay public.

More House Icons

Thu, 25 Aug 2005 14:17:51 GMT

26 icons of Dr Gregory House for abc_icons:

A is for Alone	B is for Blue Eyes	C is for Canes	D is for Doctor	E is for Elevators

F is for Flashback	G is for Greg	H is for House	I is for Impatient	J is for Just weird

K is for Keep on	L is for Lust	M is for Medicine	N is for Never	O is for Obstinate

P is for Pain	Q is for Questions	R is for Right	S is for Silence	T is for Team

U is for Undone	V is for Vicodin	W is for Watching	X is for eXceptional	Y is for Yo-yo

		Z is for Zone out

24 House Icons

Mon, 25 Jul 2005 06:46:51 GMT

I'm back from holiday, and back at uni again *grumble*. Also, my internet connection seems to only work when it feels like it. At some point I'll probably post a bit about my trip (perhaps with some pictures) but for now I just feel like making icons. And mostly just icons of my brand new shiny fandom - House! It started showing here in Australia a few weeks ago and I'm loving it.

So, here's 24 House icons. As usual, just comment and credit :)

01. 02. 03. 04. 05. 06.
07. 08. 09. 10. 11. 12.
13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18.
19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24.

And a bonus Blackadder icon because I watched the entire third series last night and because I still can't get my head around the fact that the actor who uttered the words "Everbody lies" also once said "Tally ho, my fine, saucy young trollop. Your luck's in. Trip along here with all your cash and some naughty night attire, and you'll be staring at my bedroom ceiling from now till Christmas, you lucky tart. Yours with the deepest respect etc. Signed George. PS Woof, woof!". Hugh Laurie's Emmy nomination is definitely well deserved.

Icons100: Firefly 61-100

Fri, 01 Jul 2005 15:42:46 GMT

All done! It was a bit of a rush towards the end, so some of these are little bit simple/ugly. But they're finally finished, a matter of hours before I need to catch a plane to Italy :D So here are the icons100 icons for the episodes War Stories, Trash, The Message, Heart of Gold, Objects in Space, and another 10 icons of promo shots - 1 for each character plus a group shot.

Batch #3, Icons 61-100
Subject: Firefly (General TV)
Themes: Sunshine (61), Hope (62), Green (64), Wicked (66), Rain (69), Soul Food (73), Sorrow (74), Forgotten (79), Desire (80), Tears (82), Fury (86), Water (88)
Additonal Notes: Comment and credit :)

61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66.
67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72.
73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78.
79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84.
85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90.
91. 92. 93. 94. 95. 96. 97. 98. 99. 100.

Icons100: Firefly 19-60

Sat, 25 Jun 2005 14:51:54 GMT

Exams are finally over! To celebrate I made a whole bunch more Firefly icons for icons100. This post includes 6 icons each from Bushwacked, Shindig, Safe, Our Mrs Reynolds, Jaynestown, Out of Gas and Ariel.

Batch #2, Icons 19-60
Subject: Firefly (General TV)
Themes: Joy (19), Brightness (21), Alone (25), Companionship (26), Mine (27), Secrets (28), Laughter (29), So Close Yet So Far (30), Reminisce (31), Colourful (32), Red(33), Snarky (35), I've Been Bad (38), Trouble in Paradise (40), Kiss (41), My Drug (42), Embrace (43), All is Wrong (44), Beautiful (45), Hush (47), Glory (48), From Now On (49), Fire (50), Full of Regret (51), Misery (52), All is Right (53), Magical (54), Why (55), Flowers (56), Mmm Yum! (57), Time (58), Blue (60)
Additonal Notes: Comment and credit :)

19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 23b. 24.

25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30.

31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36.

37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42.

43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48.

49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54.

55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60.

57 Icons + 2 Wallpapers: Mostly Stargate SG-1 and Star Wars:RotS

Tue, 07 Jun 2005 09:30:16 GMT

Icons! 57 to be precise. Plus a couple of wallpapers. Pretty much everything I've made over the past couple of months. Some I like, some... not so much. Go ahead and grab any you like, but make sure you leave a comment and credit me in the keywords :)

Stargate SG-1

1. 2. 3. 4.
5. 6. 7. 8.
9. 10. 11. 12.
13. 14. 15. 16.
17. 18. 19. 20.
21. 22. 23.

Stargate Atlantis - I don't even watch this show, but those promo pics are just too pretty :)

24.

Angel

25. 26. 27.

BtVS

28. 29.

Firefly

30. 31. 32.
And you can find some more over here in my first batch for icons100

Battlestar Galactica

33. 34. 35. 36.

Star Wars

37. 38. 39. 40.
41. 42. 43. 44.
45. 46. 47. 48.
49. 50. 51. 52.
53. 54. 55. 56.
57.

And a couple of Revenge of the Sith wallpapers:

Resources Post

Tue, 31 May 2005 14:27:05 GMT

I'll be updating this post with all the resources I use for my icons, fanart, etc. If you see something used in some of my fanart that I haven't credited here please let me know so I can add it.

Screencaps
ishie - Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith
Can't Take the Sky - Firefly
Dark-Thoughts.net - Battlestar Galactica
crumblingwalls - Battlestar Galactica
StargateCaps.com - Stargate SG-1
jessica0042 - House
bluebear_74 - House

Brushes/Textures
inxsomniax
Hybrid Genesis
The Magic Box
The Blooming Effect
teh_indy
10000_pixels
dearest
1greeneye.net
Absolute Trouble
my_wonderful
crystalkirk
miggy
awmp

Icons100: Firefly 1-18

Tue, 31 May 2005 13:46:45 GMT

So, ages ago I claimed Firefly over at icons100, and I'm finally making my first post. The plan is to do 6 from each of the 15 episodes (counting Serenity as two) and then 10 from promo pictures and the like. So here are the icons for Serenity and The Train Job:

Batch #1, Icons 1-18
Subject: Firefly (General TV)
Themes: Smile (03), Love (05), Lost (07), All That I Am (10), A Dreamer's Dream (15), Ice (18)
Additonal Notes: Comment and credit :)

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