So, there were these questions...
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minim_calibre. And, as she said in hers, if you want, you can comment to this post and I'll ask you five questions.
1. Better Solo Artist Potential and Why: Justin or JC?
Justin.
Honestly, neither of them is my favorite (though Justin is higher on my personal list) and I like both of them better in the group than out, but if I had to bet on a horse, it would be Justin. Although I do believe that JC is the better singer, Justin is the better performer. I've never seen anyone work a crowd like that man (although Stephen Hawking is pretty good). He talks sometimes about how he thinks that he was destined to be a singer and I do think that he's right. Because I can't imagine him anywhere else. You can see him soak up the love of the audience and send it right back to them. He's a born performer (kid won a beauty pageant at, like, 12 or something).
2. How did you get into fandom?
Well, I was sorta born into it. My parents were huge Trekkies (my mom was one of the people who wrote in to stop the original series from being cancelled). I grew up knowing that it was okay to be into a show enough to wear dorky clothes and rearrange your schedule around it. We played D&D, read fantasy, and watched Trek.
My first independent fandom was Buffy. I was the only one in my family who liked it back then (though my dad got into it a couple of years ago and my mom watched the seventh season with me). I would watch BtVS and then Dawson's Creek, and wonder about possibilities.
The first show that I wrote fanfic for was actually Hercules. It's embarrassing and I refuse to show it in public or private. Also, I have never truly recovered from that young crush on Kevin Sorbo.
The first show where I wrote fanfic, posted it, and was proud of it? Buffy. I Don't was probably my first BtVS fic. It relies heavily on dialogue from the actual show and tells more than it shows.
But Buffy is where my unapologetic personal fandomness started, which is probably one of the reasons that I adore it so. It's the main reason that I started looking for like spirits online, since I couldn't find any in 'real life'.
3. Would you take omniscience and immortality if you had to exist in the form of a stuffed paisley frog and could only communicate with two out of three people?
*giggles*
No. But that's a really hilarious image and would make a funny premise for a sitcom.
Most of the things that I enjoy most in life would be hard to enjoy as a stuffed paisley frog - reading, writing, and just plain living. Also, I suspect that I would get bored quickly, and with forever to look forward to? Not the best thing.
4. You can jack into the muse of any one writer, from any time period, and learn his or her tricks. Who do you choose, and why?
Oh, wow. So many choices. Joss Whedon. Shakespeare. Frank Herbert. Jane Austen. Tolkien (if only to understand why he's so impossible to me!). Judith Tarr.
Still, if I can only choose one...
R. A. Salvatore, who created my favorite fictional character ever, Drizzt Do'Urden. I haven't talked about him on lj. But, yeah. More than Buffy or Xander or Frodo, Drizzt is the character that I admire most. He's compelling, conflicted, complicated, and just damn cool. He went against his family, his society, because he knew it had to be wrong. And R. A. has some of the most beautiful descriptions of place that I've ever read. I'd love to be better at description.
5. Is the family you're born with more important than, less important than, or equally important to, the family you make?
Not afraid to ask the tough questions, are you?
Family is such an incredibly complicated thing. When I was young, my family was my whole world. My mom, dad, and brother were the only ones that I knew would be there in a month, in a year. Friends and places changed, but they stayed.
Security.
Then the facade crumbled and I found out that my mom'd been miserable for most of her married life. And my dad wasn't someone I wanted to spend time with and all I ever did with my brother was fight. And it was lonely.
So, I found the online community, but back then, it wasn't family. Before lj, I didn't really share my life with anyone. Didn't know how. Not with my family, where it's easy to yell about the little things and so much harder to talk about the important things.
The family that you're born with shapes you.
The family that you choose reflects who you are.
The people that I choose to surround myself with online are the type of people that I think are intelligent and enjoyable. People that are open-minded.
I would say that born family is more important early in life, chosen family later, but that ideally, they should balance.
Or, to be totally honest, I haven't the faintest idea. Emotional intimacy, born or chosen, scares me half to death.
On a totally different note, is it widely understood that the first/second season of due South are better, quality-wise? I mean, I probably shouldn't take TWoP as that serious a source, but even the people there who enjoy third/fourth season more seem to think that the earlier ones were higher quality. I think that they had a different sensibility, partly because of the exec. producer change, but quality is such a subjective thing at times. Certainly, I'd argue that the supporting characters (especially the women) were given much more depth in the later seasons, which I think speaks highly of the overall quality of those seasons. And I do think that Fraser was wearing a bit of a protective mask in the earlier seasons, because the Fraser we see in the later seasons (especially Call of the Wild) very much resembles the Fraser of the pilot movie.
I just paid for another six months of lj. Mostly because I liked being able to have and change icons. And I just changed about 20-30 of my interests. I didn't have Connor on there!
minim_calibre. And, as she said in hers, if you want, you can comment to this post and I'll ask you five questions.1. Better Solo Artist Potential and Why: Justin or JC?
Justin.
Honestly, neither of them is my favorite (though Justin is higher on my personal list) and I like both of them better in the group than out, but if I had to bet on a horse, it would be Justin. Although I do believe that JC is the better singer, Justin is the better performer. I've never seen anyone work a crowd like that man (although Stephen Hawking is pretty good). He talks sometimes about how he thinks that he was destined to be a singer and I do think that he's right. Because I can't imagine him anywhere else. You can see him soak up the love of the audience and send it right back to them. He's a born performer (kid won a beauty pageant at, like, 12 or something).
2. How did you get into fandom?
Well, I was sorta born into it. My parents were huge Trekkies (my mom was one of the people who wrote in to stop the original series from being cancelled). I grew up knowing that it was okay to be into a show enough to wear dorky clothes and rearrange your schedule around it. We played D&D, read fantasy, and watched Trek.
My first independent fandom was Buffy. I was the only one in my family who liked it back then (though my dad got into it a couple of years ago and my mom watched the seventh season with me). I would watch BtVS and then Dawson's Creek, and wonder about possibilities.
The first show that I wrote fanfic for was actually Hercules. It's embarrassing and I refuse to show it in public or private. Also, I have never truly recovered from that young crush on Kevin Sorbo.
The first show where I wrote fanfic, posted it, and was proud of it? Buffy. I Don't was probably my first BtVS fic. It relies heavily on dialogue from the actual show and tells more than it shows.
But Buffy is where my unapologetic personal fandomness started, which is probably one of the reasons that I adore it so. It's the main reason that I started looking for like spirits online, since I couldn't find any in 'real life'.
3. Would you take omniscience and immortality if you had to exist in the form of a stuffed paisley frog and could only communicate with two out of three people?
*giggles*
No. But that's a really hilarious image and would make a funny premise for a sitcom.
Most of the things that I enjoy most in life would be hard to enjoy as a stuffed paisley frog - reading, writing, and just plain living. Also, I suspect that I would get bored quickly, and with forever to look forward to? Not the best thing.
4. You can jack into the muse of any one writer, from any time period, and learn his or her tricks. Who do you choose, and why?
Oh, wow. So many choices. Joss Whedon. Shakespeare. Frank Herbert. Jane Austen. Tolkien (if only to understand why he's so impossible to me!). Judith Tarr.
Still, if I can only choose one...
R. A. Salvatore, who created my favorite fictional character ever, Drizzt Do'Urden. I haven't talked about him on lj. But, yeah. More than Buffy or Xander or Frodo, Drizzt is the character that I admire most. He's compelling, conflicted, complicated, and just damn cool. He went against his family, his society, because he knew it had to be wrong. And R. A. has some of the most beautiful descriptions of place that I've ever read. I'd love to be better at description.
5. Is the family you're born with more important than, less important than, or equally important to, the family you make?
Not afraid to ask the tough questions, are you?
Family is such an incredibly complicated thing. When I was young, my family was my whole world. My mom, dad, and brother were the only ones that I knew would be there in a month, in a year. Friends and places changed, but they stayed.
Security.
Then the facade crumbled and I found out that my mom'd been miserable for most of her married life. And my dad wasn't someone I wanted to spend time with and all I ever did with my brother was fight. And it was lonely.
So, I found the online community, but back then, it wasn't family. Before lj, I didn't really share my life with anyone. Didn't know how. Not with my family, where it's easy to yell about the little things and so much harder to talk about the important things.
The family that you're born with shapes you.
The family that you choose reflects who you are.
The people that I choose to surround myself with online are the type of people that I think are intelligent and enjoyable. People that are open-minded.
I would say that born family is more important early in life, chosen family later, but that ideally, they should balance.
Or, to be totally honest, I haven't the faintest idea. Emotional intimacy, born or chosen, scares me half to death.
On a totally different note, is it widely understood that the first/second season of due South are better, quality-wise? I mean, I probably shouldn't take TWoP as that serious a source, but even the people there who enjoy third/fourth season more seem to think that the earlier ones were higher quality. I think that they had a different sensibility, partly because of the exec. producer change, but quality is such a subjective thing at times. Certainly, I'd argue that the supporting characters (especially the women) were given much more depth in the later seasons, which I think speaks highly of the overall quality of those seasons. And I do think that Fraser was wearing a bit of a protective mask in the earlier seasons, because the Fraser we see in the later seasons (especially Call of the Wild) very much resembles the Fraser of the pilot movie.
I just paid for another six months of lj. Mostly because I liked being able to have and change icons. And I just changed about 20-30 of my interests. I didn't have Connor on there!