Question meme
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-Comment with "I got drunk and bought a ton of flowers"
-I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can get to know you better.
-Update your journal with the answers to the questions.
-Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions. (If you want. Totally optional.)
My questions, fromlikeadeuce:
1. What inspired you to get into icon-making?
I started with Farscape, IIRC, because there weren't any good Farscape icons that I could find and I wanted some, and I thought, "How hard can it be?" I didn't have any cool graphics programs - I just used the editing tools on Photobucket, which is what I was using for my picspams. I was doing the Awesome Ladies meme around the same time, and I realized, "Hey, I am making square-shaped graphics. If I made them smaller, they could be icons!"
2. A female supporting character from any canon of your choosing gets their own spinoff. Who is it, and what's the pitch for the series?
Bonnie Bennett. That poor girl is just being totally wasted on TVD. She is a walking plot device, even though the character is so complex she could totally anchor her own show. The pitch? Uh, BONNIE BENNETT IS AWESOME, FOOLS. How's that for a pitch?
3. What was your best live theater experience ever? (top 5 allowed if you can't narrow it down)
Oh gosh, this is so much harder than if you'd just said favorite show.
1. Now. Here. This. at the Vineyard. Given the personal and intimate nature of the subject matter, it almost felt like eavesdropping on a private conversation/therapy session.
2. Next to Normal at the Kennedy Center. Alice Ripley, she's fierce.Hey, that's the first time I've ever said the word "fierce." That's the second!
3. Les Miserables in sign language. Okay, there was singing, too, but it was a high school production and so not the greatest thing ever. But they had a sign language interpreter and it was fascinating to watch her and match up signs to the words (which I already knew by heart, being obsessed, lol).
4. Rent on Broadway.
5. My mother and Nathan Lane in The Producers, although the best part of this experience actually took place outside the theater, lol.
4. What do you like most about the place you live?
I love my neighborhood, because it's the best of the city and the suburbs combined. I live in a residential area but within walking distance of lots of shops and restaurants (and a short driving distance from about a hundred other places just like it). In DC as a whole, the free museums are pretty cool. And, much as we complain about the Metro, it's nice to have extensive public transportation access.
5. Why DOES Joss Whedon rock/suck so much?
LOL, you know, I actually stole that tag fromgabrielleabelle, except I think hers was "why does s2 [of BtVS] rock/suck so much?" Anyway, Joss rocks because he creates complex, layered stories populated with fascinating characters and witty dialogue. He sucks because he's frequently ignorant of his privilege and uses a lot of problematic tropes - sometimes unintentionally, sometimes in a failed effort to subvert them - which I'm willing to overlook when the general quality of the writing is so high, but still definitely bother the crap out of me. Also, he wrote S8.
-I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can get to know you better.
-Update your journal with the answers to the questions.
-Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions. (If you want. Totally optional.)
My questions, from
likeadeuce:1. What inspired you to get into icon-making?
I started with Farscape, IIRC, because there weren't any good Farscape icons that I could find and I wanted some, and I thought, "How hard can it be?" I didn't have any cool graphics programs - I just used the editing tools on Photobucket, which is what I was using for my picspams. I was doing the Awesome Ladies meme around the same time, and I realized, "Hey, I am making square-shaped graphics. If I made them smaller, they could be icons!"
2. A female supporting character from any canon of your choosing gets their own spinoff. Who is it, and what's the pitch for the series?
Bonnie Bennett. That poor girl is just being totally wasted on TVD. She is a walking plot device, even though the character is so complex she could totally anchor her own show. The pitch? Uh, BONNIE BENNETT IS AWESOME, FOOLS. How's that for a pitch?
3. What was your best live theater experience ever? (top 5 allowed if you can't narrow it down)
Oh gosh, this is so much harder than if you'd just said favorite show.
1. Now. Here. This. at the Vineyard. Given the personal and intimate nature of the subject matter, it almost felt like eavesdropping on a private conversation/therapy session.
2. Next to Normal at the Kennedy Center. Alice Ripley, she's fierce.
3. Les Miserables in sign language. Okay, there was singing, too, but it was a high school production and so not the greatest thing ever. But they had a sign language interpreter and it was fascinating to watch her and match up signs to the words (which I already knew by heart, being obsessed, lol).
4. Rent on Broadway.
5. My mother and Nathan Lane in The Producers, although the best part of this experience actually took place outside the theater, lol.
4. What do you like most about the place you live?
I love my neighborhood, because it's the best of the city and the suburbs combined. I live in a residential area but within walking distance of lots of shops and restaurants (and a short driving distance from about a hundred other places just like it). In DC as a whole, the free museums are pretty cool. And, much as we complain about the Metro, it's nice to have extensive public transportation access.
5. Why DOES Joss Whedon rock/suck so much?
LOL, you know, I actually stole that tag from
gabrielleabelle, except I think hers was "why does s2 [of BtVS] rock/suck so much?" Anyway, Joss rocks because he creates complex, layered stories populated with fascinating characters and witty dialogue. He sucks because he's frequently ignorant of his privilege and uses a lot of problematic tropes - sometimes unintentionally, sometimes in a failed effort to subvert them - which I'm willing to overlook when the general quality of the writing is so high, but still definitely bother the crap out of me. Also, he wrote S8.
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Date: 2013-03-12 05:38 pm (UTC)Word, word re: Bonnie.
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Date: 2013-03-12 05:44 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2013-03-12 05:47 pm (UTC)I got drunk and bought a ton of flowers
Date: 2013-03-12 07:38 pm (UTC)So basically, ask me some questions.
ANYWAY. Duuuude, theatre experiences question rocks. I saw Nathan Lane in the Producers on Broadway (in previews. That was, like, in 2000. SO LONG AGO.), and it was just a highlight. There are few shows where I think it really, really matters to see the original cast (obviously it helps, but good shows should stand by themselves), but no one can beat Nathan Lane at that role. Amazing.
ALSO. I clicked on that link to read your story about your mom and Nathan Lane (adorable, btw), and WHAT IS THIS about a performance class in London? This sounds like pretty much everything I've ever wanted, and I am already wildly jealous. Tell me absolutely everything.
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Date: 2013-03-12 07:57 pm (UTC)So, the class was called Theatre in Performance, and we had a list of shows to see, generally one each week, but it was flexible and so you could go to whatever shows you wanted, really, as long as you had something to talk about. Anywho, our only assignments were to write a review of something we saw (I gleefully tore Brighton Rock to shreds) and do a presentation (I compared different stagings of Hamlet). Otherwise it was a total bullshit class but the BEST KIND of bullshit class because it involved GOING TO SEE SHOWS.
Your questions, madam!
1. Tell me more about this flower debacle. Where did you go? Who did you meet? How did you weird them out with your fake activism? Make it good.
2. What is your dream theater role (let's assume you have the talent to do it)?
3. Which fictional character would you most like to see gender- and/or raceswapped, and who would you cast as them?
4. Who is the dumbest person on TVD and why?
5. I was going to go on your LJ and question you about one of your interests, but LJ is not working again. WITH THAT IN MIND, how do you like this whole DW business?
I got drunk and bought a ton of flowers
Date: 2013-03-12 08:34 pm (UTC)Re: I got drunk and bought a ton of flowers
Date: 2013-03-14 06:21 pm (UTC)2. What was your first fandom, and how did you get into it?
3. If someone were to write a book/make a movie about you, what would the title be?
4. Which fictional character would you most like to see gender- and/or raceswapped, and who would you cast as them?
5. Where in the world IS Carmen Sandiego?
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Date: 2013-03-13 02:54 am (UTC)I liked reading your answers. :)
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Date: 2013-03-14 06:34 pm (UTC)2. What are your feelings on Freaks and Geeks? (I saw not too long ago that you were watching it.)
3. Who's your favorite Doctor Who companion and why?
4. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?
5. How's the weather? :)
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Date: 2013-03-14 01:13 pm (UTC)Can account-less lurkers play, too?
Dude, our Metro is one of the cleanest most efficient transit systems in the world, thus complaints are strictly reserved for the tourists unfamiliar with metro etiquette – or the Twitter account of the same name. lol
-Chris
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Date: 2013-03-14 06:51 pm (UTC)The tourists who stand on the wrong side of the escalator are the WORST, though.
1. Tell me your BtVS story. How did you get into the show? When/how did you get into fandom?
2. What is your dream job?
3. What's your favorite thing(s) to do in DC?
4. Why haven't you just gotten a DW account already, you accountless slacker-lurker, you?
5. Which state has better DC suburbs, Maryland or Virginia? (FYI, there is a correct answer here.)