Monday i saw a woman with a t-shirt that read "Mind closed until further notice" and was confused.

[hermionesviolin]

I keep writing up pieces of an update, but bugger, tired.  (I now have sympathy for people who skim over my long LJ entries.)  So the basics are: I'm settling in, it reminds me a lot of my SCMA job, people seem nice, various stuff is frustrating, i'm front desk and don't know anything but i have a computer and lots of free time.

I'm getting lots of reading done on the commute, so there will probably be book reviews forthcoming.

I'm all caught up on my flist, though i've been crap about commenting.  Apologies.  Consider yourselves to all have open invitations to poke me about anything you want a reply to.

Firefly cast picture (from here).  So many of them look so little like their characters.

dorri6 has a silly fun fic challenge.

Love the banners here and here.  (Really must figure out how to do a fanart recs page.)

Snippets from the recent EW:

Whedon dreamed up Firefly six years ago after reading Michael Shaara's Civil War novel, The Killer Angels. He pictured a gritty drama about the rigors of frontier life — ''but on a spaceship, because I'm me,'' says Whedon, who saw Firefly as a scruffy Star Trek minus the noble causes and aliens.

[...]

'I was a Whedon stalker,'' laughs Mary Parent, Universal's now-outgoing vice chairman of production, who dug Whedon's vision and no-surrender passion. She also recognized a potentially marketable Cinderella story. A modestly budgeted film, Parent believed, was a gamble worth taking, and in September 2003, Universal optioned the rights from Fox. ''I thought this band of underdogs could make for a cool movie,'' she says. ''But I did want to see a script first.''

So Whedon wrote. And wrote. And wrote. And wound up with an unfilmable, only-for-the-fans 190-page epic — ''basically the second season of Firefly,'' he says.

*wants to read that we does*  When do we fans get this?

And since i foresee boredom at work tomorrow, memes:

- Name a pairing or character (that I'm familiar with, in a fandom I'm familiar with), and a one word prompt if you want, and I will write one* line of a story for it.
*for various values of "one" as the mood strikes me.

- Ask me my opinion on any character from any fandom, and I will say. If I do not know the fandom, I will say what I think I know based on fannish osmosis. (and no, I will not be counting lj or other lj users as a fandom.)

Comments

[scrollgirl.livejournal.com]

Dawn and Tara, preferrably gen: motherhood.

So what's your opinion on Dawn? Feel free to expound on any aspect of her character ;)

Also...

[scrollgirl.livejournal.com]

I don't bother trying to read on my commute. I probably could get a lot of reading done, since I have over an hour both ways, but mostly I doze or daydream. It's my time for letting my brain decompress. Good luck with the job!

Re: Also...

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

Oh, i'm such a whore for text. If i'm tired enough i doze on the train, and i've been making some attempts at cultivating prayerfulness, but reading a story just brings me so much joy -- engages my mind and pulls all of me along, and i don't have words for how much i love it. And especially if i'm spending a lot of my day doing rote stuff like answering phones and filing, the prospect of diving into a book fills me with tremendous excitement.

Dawn

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

The summer before S5 i heard that Joss was giving Buffy a younger sister, to bring in a younger viewing audience. I had no faith in his ability to pull off this cracktastic idea. And yet he did, and he totally sold me on it. Dawn was far too often written as whiny, which seemed to defeat the purpose of attracting a demographic that would identify with her. The uneven writing made me sad, because i thought she had such potential. She was surrounded by incredibly powerful people, had no superpowers herself, was treated like a little kid, loved learning and knowledge. That Buffy died instead of her in "The Gift" was the writers' valiant but unsuccessful attempt at writing themselves out of a corner, and she continued to be written unevenly in Seasons 6 and 7 (and way to go ME dropping the ball with giving us no Kit&Carlos post-Lessons), but i continued to love her. I think she's a lot more grounded than many of the Scoobies, and i think she'll make a great Watcher-type. I think Tara was a wonderful influence on her, and i loved their relationship. I femslash Dawn possibly more than any other character, but i also loved her relationship with Spike and was sad that the writers chose to step back from that relationship because of the sexual undertones of it. I love grownup!Dawn fic but also 'shippy stuff set during canon (pairing her with Tara, Spike, Cassie, Kit -- two of which are very difficult to do post-canon). And that's all i can think of at the moment, but feel free to question further.

And i'm still trying to come up with something for your prompt that isn't a lame cop-out.

prompt (3 lines)

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

"Do you think you and Willow will ever have any kids?"

Tara looked up at Dawn, startled.

"I just think you'd make a really good mother."