speaking of fandom

[thirty2flavors]

Haven't made a public/fandomy post in a while so here goes!

Has anyone ever watched that show "The Moment of Truth"? I just saw about ten minutes of it and I can't get my head around how stupid it is. For those who are unaware, here's what I understand the premise is: someone agrees to answer X number of obscenely personal questions while connected to a lie detector. The show then "randomly" selects 1/2X of those questions to ask them on air. If they answer everything honestly (and basically don't chicken out by refusing to answer or lying) they get half a mill. Questions include "have you cheated on your current girlfriend?" and other life-shattering inquiries. I just... I don't get it. Okay, so you could win half a million (before taxes) -- but you also potentially destroy all your interpersonal relationships. Why? Why? And of course the audience boos angrily whenever someone answers "yes" to a bad question, and of course there's a woman who goes "THAT ANSWER IS ... [insert unneccessarily long pause for dramatics].... TRUE..." and of course the show picks all the questions where the answer was embarassing.

Did I mention I hate reality TV and game shows?

Except The Mole. Fuck yes, the Mole was so awesome.

What else? For anyone who's seen Hairspray or had to listen to the credits music constantly for five months and watches Doctor Who: this is so comically appropriate.

Also the first chapter of Breaking Dawn is failtastic. All I want from Breaking Dawn now is for Jacob and Tanya to hook up and be totally awesome, leaving Edward and Bella to wallow in their failure marital bliss. And lawl, northern Canada. Sup Jake?

Whatever muse I once had has apparently died a violent death. It's like pulling teeth to write five coherent sentences, I swear. It's basically to the point I don't even want to write. I don't know, but it sucks. I also fail at writing commitments because of it -- I didn't finish anythingbutgrey's birthday fic on time, I've owed pirate_smile a letter for like ninety years, and I only just finished the letter I've owed latine for one hundred years. Not to mention Silly Love Songs is rolling in a pit of failure, haha.

I also mean to write a Harry/Hermione fic for afterthree's "someting unexpected" challenge, because coming from me there's nothing more unexpected than an uncanon shippy fic about the Trio, wtf.

Anyway, in the spirit of attempting to kick myself into gear, here's a meme:

Reply with a character or pairing i'm familiar with and i'll write a few sentences of fic.

Note the "few sentence" part; I promise nothing complete or whole in any form, I just kinda wanna... force myself to write stuff. Yeaah. And if you happen to give me a Twilight pairing, please note that I have never, ever written Twilight before because that would mean I'd have to actually put thought into Smeyer's characters.

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The Master was completely hilarious. I'm kind of inclined to rewatch those episodes just for his sheer badassery, because at the time I think I was too distracted to appreciate it fully. The video itself just never fails to entertain me -- I was lost 'till I heard the drums then I found my way? Awesome.

[traceria.livejournal.com]

The boardroom scene before he gasses them always puts me in stitches! It's a little scary how little I care that those people (fictional or no) died thanks to his antics. XD

Definitely give them another watch. ;]

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I tried to youtube the part where he watches Teletubbies because I remember it being fantastic, but youutube let me down. Quite disappointing, really.

Yeah I think I will. I'll probably end up rewatching Last of the Time Lords/Sound of Drums and Human Nature/Family of Blood soon because a) the Master is badass, as discussed and b) I reeeally liked Human Nature/Family of Blood.

[traceria.livejournal.com]

The little girl with the balloon alone - creepy. *good shivers*

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I mostly liked it because David Tennant's acting was wicked, but the Family was creepy too and I kept being like "hee! Love Actually boy!"

And I liked that thing about the girl in the mirror. Neat. And this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsGzSz0KyNI).