I've recently decided that I'm insane.

Anyway, the Farscape mini starts on the 17th of October, yes? I'm going to try to watch the rest of the series before that. I only have, um, about three seasons to watch.

First, I need to watch Deep Space Nine. Luckily, I can skip past anything not related to O'Brien and Bashir. Unless I get distracted by the shinyness of Sisko's 'skeptic to believer' arc, Jake's growth to manhood, or Garak's scales.

Then, I'm going to rewatch the Buffy/Xander scenes in Buffy.

And then I'll watch all of Firefly (that one's short, at least. *weeps*) and make sure to pay attention to Mal and Inara (Their love is so based on cliche and yet full of unexpected depth! Just like the characters! And the show! And all of Joss' shows! Their love is so a metaphor for Joss' approach to life!).

Then, I'll try to watch Farscape. Chiana's hot. A lot (incidentally, I've seen clips of CB in the Nebari make-up (edit: Apparently Unrealized Possibilities or Prayer, don't know which) and it didn't do anything for me. But I do not find Claudia as wow bang hot as most seem to.).

Again, I'd like to note my total insanity.

On the plus side, I'll be having fun as I essay myself to death.

(I love, like, every couple in existence right now, though. Yes, including Buffy and Riley (his love was so doomed!). I even love John and Aeryn (their love is so fucked up! And hot when they have guns! Yay for John/Aeryn/guns!).)

Name a couple and I can tell you why their love is so cool! Because they all are! Even Jack and Sam (their love is so against regulations and fucked up! Yay!).

I may be a little tired at this point in time. I may have also had a touch too much sugar at the Fair.

Molly Weasley -- Not My Mother

Just read sistermagpie's essay on The Mother of All Mothers.

I'm another one of those people who Don't Get the Molly Weasley thing. Rather, my mom is nothing like her and thus I don't understand what's appealing about her, because it's the very things that separate my mom from being a Molly that make me appreciate her so much now. My mom has always been intensely supportive, but not controlling -- she's let me make my own mistakes (and boy, wow, some of them have been) but she's always there if I ask for help. All I have to do is ask and she will be there for me. To me, that's what a mother is and I can't imagine living a with a Molly Weasley.

In some ways, my mom has other things in common with Molly -- she was the one in charge of the house, when she was married to my dad. She took care of the bills and the taxes and the meals (but she didn't harp on how she did all these things -- she did them because she wanted them to get done, because she loved her family and wanted them to be taken care of, because she could).

The worst feeling in the world, or so it seems at the time, is to hurt and disappoint your mom. But in another direct contrast to Molly, my mom would never have dreamed of doing anything other than stand by me in public -- she'd only let me know how wrong whatever I'd done was when we were alone. She never tried to embarrass me in front of anyone and with very few exceptions, she never did, even when I was a teen and thus very sensitive to any sort of embarrassment.

And Molly Weasley reminds me of another mom that bugs me -- Debbie on the US QAF. She's pushy and controlling and did more to keep Michael a child than Brian ever did. As a direct contrast, I always liked Hazel, Vince's mom (QAF UK), who loved Vince more than anything but was right when she accused Stuart of being the one to encourage Vince to stay dependent. Hazel wanted her son to grow up and learn that he mattered, too, while Debbie wanted hers to always be her little boy.

I love my mom and I respect her. She's funny and fannish and incredibly sweet. She wants me to be able to stand on my own two feet and be my own person.

That's my mother.

Deep Space Nine 1x01 -- Emissary

Random thoughts:
( some spoilery things for the entire series run )

In retrospect, I love this pilot so much. There's so much there to be seen.