shit kenzi says

So, I recently renamed my lj. While Imaginary Batman still does make a lot of sense, I just had to replace it with "turgid supernatural soap opera." And, yes, it makes me laugh because SPN does occasionally have soap opera tendencies (*snorts* occasionally), but the name change really stems from that episode of Angel where Gunn goes to steal something with Gwen Raiden and that's how he explains what his life had recently been like. So now everytime I look at my lj I get to think about Charles Gunn, who is so totally awesome and I love him.

Also, I've been thinking about the end of Buffy and ( do spoilers even count anymore? ) It made me wonder about disabled women who become Slayers. We know that becoming a Slayer is no kind of "cure" for anything and we've seen how being a Slayer can exacerbate certain conditions, like schizophrenia. And I would bet good money that it would exacerbate a condition like fibromyalgia as well (because holy crap, making the nervous system even more overactive would not be a good thing).

But we haven't seen a lot of that consideration in the source or the comics (at least, I hadn't seen anything by the time I stopped reading the comics) and I can't think of any fanfictional consideration.

Anyway, I think it would make for an interesting story. Heck, it kind of begs for a ficathon, and if I had more time and ambition I would totally run one. Because there are all kinds of women in the world and they all kick ass.

There you go, there are my deep BtVS thoughts for the day.

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I kind of love Joe Biden. Trufax.

Which reminds me, this crazy SPN idea popped into my head one day. So, the ghost of Warren G. Harding (or some random president like that) is wreaking havoc in the White House (and by "havoc" I mean stealing soaps from the Lincoln Bedroom and making Malia cry, the bastard). Cue Rahm Emmanuel calling John Winchester's cell phone (because of course Rahm has the number) and getting the boys instead. Sam&Dean head out to the DC and hunt the ghost blah blah blah. And there would be a running gag about how Rahm needed to keep quiet about the ghosthunting because they didn't want Joe Biden to know because Joe has been threatening to call his "expert" and everyone's kind of nervous about who that expert might be.

Of course, the expert would turn out to be Bobby or someone like that, because Joe Biden is nobody's fool.

Also, baylorsr and I like to talk about Joe Biden's crowbar (named 'The Biden') and how people have to keep restraining him from using it to cram health care reform up the Senate's ass. And Rahm is standing by to let loose on the House if only the President would give the word.

Because it's about time that the Dems stopped worrying about getting bipartisan support on Health Care Reform and just started FDR'ing this bitch up.

You know, I really need an icon that says 'FDR this Bitch Up.' That would be awesome.

I had a couple icons I could use for the obligatory post-HP viewing but I decided to show some house pride. Because did you all notice that there was not one Hufflepuff student shown in the movie? My people are chronically under-represented and belittled! Cedric Diggory was not an anomaly! Ours is an awesome house and is in no way the waste bin for all of the kids that the other houses rejected!

So there. *sticks out tongue* [Plz to note that the preceding rant was made with tongue very firmly in cheek and should not be taken entirely seriously.] Hufflepuffs RULE!

With that said, let's get on to specifically discussing ( Half-Blood Prince )

While watching the movie last night this idea for a character/story popped into my head. ( I'll spoiler cut, just in case )

There you go. There's all of the stuff HP6 shoved into my brain. Now hopefully I can finish that damn Jo-Kat story that I promised myself I'd write this weekend. Come on brain, don't fail me now.

OMG, there's a crappy Sam Raimi/Rob Tapert sword&sorcery show on my television right now. It's filmed in New Zealand and everything! I suddenly feel like I'm back in college with the Xena/Hercules block in the middle of the day on Saturday. Am ridiculously amused over the fact that John Shiban wrote the pilot and Craig Parker is apparently the bad guy.

Am not really watching it, have only been flipping to it every half hour or so for the lulz. And to remind myself about why I stopped reading crappy sword&sorcery books because OMG so bad.

Know what? I would love to write a book that took a lot of the cliche from books like that and stood it on its head. You know, a chosen one who's not so much chosen as targeted by a cult of fanatics. And who is, of course, a girl rather than a boy because the last thing the fantasy genre needs is another speshul boy of prophecy. And the people who show up to protect her (because you need someone around to spout exposition) aren't fighting for truth or justice but are just people doing a job, kind of like glorified federal agents or something. And since there'd have to be some sort of plot maybe there'd be some malarkey about choosing your own destiny and the Chosen Girl would decide to save the world by going into politics, or whatever.

Or something. ;-) It's just kind of sad that there are writers out there who read Tolkien and then decided to write novels that were supposedly like LotR but completely missed all of the qualities that made Tolkien's work meaningful and interesting. And then go on to publish books and make lots of money. But, hey, at least they're keeping all of those Australian/Kiwi actors in work.

Gah. Have to go to class tomorrow. Still don't feel so hot, but on plus side Mom sent over apple pie and meatloaf for dinner. mmmmm delicious apple pie. And am not in so much pain that I'm lying in bed wishing for death so, you know, all in all not so bad. =D

Thank you cheesy, awful television for bringing the lulz. And now I'm going to watch the end of Practical Magic. In a perfect world witchy!Stockard Channing and Dianne Wiest would be all of our aunts.

BTW, what do you give the Boy King who has everything on the anniversary of the day he was infected with demon blood and his mother and girlfriend burned alive on a ceiling? It's a conundrum.

The post-holiday blahs are upon us. Or, rather, they were upon me for most of Friday until I snapped out of it with an injection of fangirl straight into my veins. I blame it all on Thanksgiving recuperation and finishing The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. It's a great book but boy is it depressing. Sammy Clay pretty much tore my heart out. I might have over-identified just a tad.

Ahem, but it did start me thinking about my own Great American Novel again. I have most of it worked out, the setting, the characters, the emotional arcs, the journeys. The only problem is that I don't have a plot. There's no reason for the characters to leave point A and end up at point Zed. Though maybe I don't need a reason. Maybe the journey is the whole point. Maybe the fact that, in the end, there is no earth-shattering reason for anything is the plot. That life is enough.

Holy crap. Just, holy crap. Sometimes a dream is just a dream. And maybe I'll actually have something to show for this epiphany in a decade or whenever I have the time to sit down and write it. It's funny, I used to never think that I would ever have the patience to be a writer and now it's all I want to do.

BTW, I'm at that point where it feels like law school is never going to end. I have so many story ideas bouncing around in my head, both fic and non-fic alike, and it never seems like I have half of a chance to sit down and do anything about them. It's most frustrating.

However, there are many things that are not at all frustrating and my friends are amongst them. My dearly beloved birthday twin!Erin has tagged me to do the Seven Random Facts meme and I am nothing if not her's to command.

( Seven More Things You Never Needed to Know About Me )

You know, I should probably go to bed. This whole staying up till 3 in the morning thing has got to end.