Land of ahs

Meme from freakykat: Post a snippet of whatever fic you're writing right now. You can give context or not. Just give a couple of lines of whatever you're working on currently.



“You okay? You do look tired.” The pad of Brian’s thumb touched just under Justin’s left eye for a second, sparking the skin, then the hand was gone.

“Want to lend me some of your concealer?” One corner of Justin’s mouth quirked slightly.

“I do not wear makeup. It’s just cream.”

“It’s tinted.”

“Fuck you.”

Day 22: Most Favorite annoying character
Janice Litman Garelnick (nee Hosenstein), Friends

I am still finishing the TV meme! I think I stalled on this one and then just got used to not doing it. I stalled because I didn't know how to answer "Most annoying character." Way too many ways to go with it. There are annoying characters you love and ones you hate. Ones you hate to love, love to hate. Ones you just kind of hate and ones you want to DIE slowly and painfully. Ones you once loved but the writing ruined and became annoying and you then hate, hating them even more somehow because you used to love them! lol... Too complicated. So I changed it to favorite annoying character and had to go with Janice from Friends. She's completely annoying and you love her so much. I totally bought it when Chandler genuinely fell in love with her in S2, and also totally understood all the years where (as Monica said) the sound of her voice made his balls jump back up inside his body. She, as played by Maggie Wheeler, is a comedy treasure. Here's a medley of her catchphrase! :)

Day 20 - Favorite ship
Brian Kinney and Justin Taylor, Queer As Folk (US)

No contest. I could not love them more. They are beautiful and forever and inspire me and... YAY!!!!!!! What the heck, here's my B/J "Love Is A Battlefield" vid again. It's only S1, but I plan to do many more!



Second place is Sonny and Carly from General Hospital. Loved them deeply through three incarnations, three actresses, from 1999 to 2005.
S&C with Sarah Brown: http://www.sarahbrown.net/sonnycarly1.htm
S&C with Tamara Braun: http://soapoperadigest.com/features/guiding-light/2003/Sonnycarly2003L.jpg
Here's the only video of mine for them I have online. S&C with Jenny Bransford. A goodbye to them.



Third is Lois and Clark, from... Lois and Clark, lol.
http://picasaweb.google.com/LaneKent08/LoisClarkTheNewAdventuresOfSuperman#5398675777238073570
Sadly, I haven't made a vid of them yet! But I have the DVD's, so I shall have to fix that! ;)

I've loved many couples, but these three were/are my true obsessions.

Day 18 - Best TV Show Cast
Drama: Queer As Folk (US)/Buffy the Vampire Slayer (tie)
Comedy: NewsRadio

Linds is making the face at me in my icon 'cause I couldn't make up my mind, lol.

Well, I decided to pick one for drama and one for comedy... nod to the Emmys, and it just makes sense... but I still ended up picking two for drama :-b Getting ready to post, I thought for sure that I had picked QAF, but when I checked my list where I'd written some choices down previously, I had Buffy. So, they both get honored. The actors on both shows are just tremendous. And NewsRadio - even with the brilliance of the Friends bunch considered - had the best sitcom cast I think possibly ever :)

Day 16 - Favorite mini-series:
Pride & Prejudice (1995)
Alice in Wonderland (1985)

At first, I didn't think I could come up with anything for this, and then I realized I had two, lol.

The BBC version of Pride & Prejudice starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle is just... delicious! It doesn't even matter that you don't see them kiss until the very end when they're married, lol! DARE you not to fall in love with Colin's Mr. Darcy!! I liked the Keira Knightley movie, but this is my version. I love it - all 6 parts! Although, I'll admit a particular fondness for part 4. Especially, this scene :)



My second choice, I always think of as a TV movie, but it did air in two parts, so I guess it would be a mini-series. The 1985 Alice in Wonderland is my favorite Alice. Had it taped off TV and watched it lotslots! It was a musical and it was filled with wonderfully old and random stars! Carol Channing as the White Queen! Red Buttons as the White Rabbit! Steve & Eydie as Tweedledum and Tweedledee! Ringo Starr as the Mock Turtle! Oh, Scott Baio and John Stamos show up, too! lol

Here's one of my favorite parts... Sammy Davis Jr. as the Caterpillar, doing a song and dance with the marvelous Natalie Gregory, who played Alice. Magic :):)

Day 14 - Favorite female character
Jessica Tate, Soap

(Psst, I didn't have a Jessica icon, so my icon is for my honorable mention, Illyria from Angel. Of course, Illyia was in a female body but was actually a god and didn't have a gender, so... :-b)

Soap (1977-1981) was a sitcom that parodied soap operas and is absolutely one of the most brilliant shows ever on TV. It's in my personal all-time fave top ten.

Jessica is hard to describe. She's one of the two matriarchs of the show, and pretty much the central character, though it was an ensemble. She is... wide-eyed. Kind of innocent and daffy and sweet and weirdly wise. She would totally get what Joey on Friends was talking about with "a moo point," lol. She has this beautiful spirit and always wants to see the best in people. She says funny, sometimes seemingly not-so-bright things, but then she proves she's smarter than you think. And tougher. She loves her family ferociously and will fight for them.

Here are two classic Jessica clips that immediately come to mind: Jodie teaches Jessica some homosexual history, and Jessica exorcises Satan!

( WATCH! )

Day 12 - Favorite childhood show
You Can't Do That On Television

Anybody still reading these? ;-b

It took me a bit to figure out what this one should be. You know, how early or late childhood? Sesame Street?? Or Animaniacs? I think at one point my favorite show was The Love Boat (ahhh Love Boat/Fantasy Island Saturday nights were awesome), lol. I watched tapes of The Muppet Show, Good Neighbors, and Barney Miller (there's every kid's favorite show! lol) pretty constantly for years.

But YCDTOTV is definitely one of my favorite things I associate with my childhood. It was a Canadian show (woot!) that started in the late 70's and filmed until 1990. It aired on Nickelodeon all through the 80's and into the mid-90's. We (my parents and I) didn't have cable, but there was cable at my grandmother's house, and when we went to visit I would tape as many hours of Nickelodeon (and MTV music videos - it was actually ALL videos then!) as I could to take home. The best was the YCDTOTV and Danger Mouse hour :D

YCDTOTV was sketch comedy done by kids and teens, with a couple of adults who played a zillion different roles. RIP Les Lye, the male adult actor who played too many characters to even name. He was brilliant. His dad character was totally the original Homer Simpson. Eh, not all of the kids could act, lol, but some of the regular ones were incredibly funny. Christine McGlade (aka "Moose"), the unofficial lead "kid," was a pretty genius comedienne.

If this hasn't rung a bell, how about this?... GREEN SLIME?! Hehe, of course, the video proves it doesn't have to be green...

Day 10 - A show that disappointed you
Veronica Mars

Here, again, is my love/hate relationship with Rob Thomas. He giveth and he taketh away. Original Cupid = giveth. Cupid remake = taketh away. Veronica Mars season 1, and even season 2 = giveth. Veronica Mars season 3 = taketh away.

Veronica Mars was a kickass show. One of my very favorites at the time it was on. Season one was in all ways brilliant. Season two was perhaps less perfect but still very much great. There were things I didn't like but still thought were good writing. In S1, the lead character was a formerly popular girl turned outcast, and she was snarky and delicious. In S2, she was taken back into the popular fold, and though it was a bit frustrating watching her become someone the S1 version of her would have called a hypocrite, I still thought that writing-wise it was really interesting to have that happen. And overall, I was still very much sucked in by the whole show, its characters, its mysteries.

But by S3... eh, I don't even know. I can't really explain it except to say that she became fairly unrecognizable to me, pretty darn annoying actually, and the show itself... I just didn't care. Which is sad to me, considering how much I'd loved it.

In my icon, Logan... He's representing the show, but he didn't disappoint me. I still love him, lol.

Btw, check out my previous post again. I added a Jericho fanvid (not mine).

Day 08 - Best scene ever
A Different World, "Save The Best For Last"

Doing this one quickly! I almost just went right to the final scene of QAF 202, 'cause that is my LURRRVE, but really, nothing tops this scene. Evah. Still get chills and happy tearies! Dwayne & Whitley!!!!! (No, that's not Dwayne you see there with Whitley. That's Byron. Keep watching and he will go away.)

Day 06 - Favorite episode of your favorite TV Show
"Tempus Anyone?" (Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman)

Okay, yes, I am somewhat cheating. I had L&C down as my runner-up favorite show. But my favorite show (Friends) had 236 episodes! For L&C (only 87), there's a standout ep for me.

It was season 3, and the second episode to feature H.G. Wells and Tempus (the time-traveling villain played by Lane Davies). Lois ends up in a parallel universe where Clark has not become Superman, and she has to teach him how to be Superman to save Metropolis/the world. It breaks your heart, because you almost want her to stay there with parallel Clark, because that universe's Lois is dead (he never met her), and the Kents are dead also. And he's almost her Clark, but he's not, and she has to get back to her (fiancé!) Clark.

Found one clip! (audio's a little weird but I'll take it, lol)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3xsWVazWN4

I have realized, however, regarding Friends, looking at episode guides, it probably had the most consistently brilliant Thanksgiving episodes of any show ever, lol. I may have to do a post just about those.