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Just...GIP.

It's shareable. If you want it, snag it. No comment or credit necessary.

If you could spend a full day -- breakfast, lunch, dinner, and all the time in between -- with someone on the front lines of the movie biz (an actor/actress, director, screenwriter, etc.) just talking to them, who would you spend time with? List your Top 10.

Here's mine, in no particular order:

1. Elijah Wood (well duh; actually make that the hobbits as a group)
2. Johnny Depp
3. Dave Foley
4. Eric Idle
5. Kevin Smith (the director)
6. Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio (they come as a set *g*)
7. Ian McKellen
8. Peter Jackson
9. Sam and Ted Raimi (again, a set)
10. Joss Whedon

*looks at list*

There are no women there. I wonder if that's because the industry is so weighted against women, or whether I'm just too focused on the boys.

Okay, I almost never do memes. I gakked this one from disc_sophist.

1. Enter your LJ name only into Google.
2. Click the Images tab.
3. Post your favorite picture from the first page.

I'd mainly followed the instructions for my own edification, but when the page of images came up (for Sinful Words, as nothing is going to come up for quettar_ucareo unless Google has suddenly started searching in Quenya), I knew I had to post.



Sooo appropriate!

I promise this'll be it for a while. *g*

This one's mine:



This one's up for grabs:



Just comment if you're taking it. Credit's nice, but not necessary.

Sometimes I just can't wrap my head around the LotRiPS fandom.

The "sane" portion of the fandom parades around, shouting at the top of their lungs that "it's not real; we don't believe any of this is truly going on; we're not like the crazies over there with their conspiracy theories; we know it's just fiction," and then as soon as someone writes something edgy or dark or otherwise "unsavory," these same folks are up in arms, complaining that the actors wouldn't do that, or that it's sick or depressing or ruining their fandom....

What happened to "it's just fiction"?

Isn't this just one big game of "let's pretend" in the first place? So how is it somehow worse to write stories where Elijah abuses Dom than to write stories where Elijah buggers Dom? Because, let's face it, neither one is likely to be true and the majority of mundanes would find both ideas equally disturbing. Technically, both are fictional stories about non-fictional people, made up by fans for the consumption of other fans; they're the result of a writer wondering "what if" and exploring a situation that, by definition, is not reality.

Yeah, so maybe it doesn't hit your kink. Maybe it disgusts you, even. You know what? You're obviously not the intended audience, and you don't have to read it! This isn't A Clockwork Orange.

And yeah, it's a bummer that people aren't writing what you want. That sucks and I can feel your pain. But I'm not whinging on in my LJ about how there's not enough of a certain flavor of Orlijah out there, because I know it's not the universe's responsibility to cater to me and my desires -- much as that sucks, too.

Honestly, in the end all I can think of to say is to quote Denis Leary: "Life's hard, get a helmet. Shut the fuck up. Next."

So, while I had ImageReady up, making a Sparrington icon for laylah_r, I decided it was time to make a series of icons that I've had in mind for a while.

These are all shareable; enjoy!

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Dear Subconscious:

Thank you for paying attention!

May I make one further little request? In future, when you're going to give me a sexy dream, can it please be about literal sex rather than metaphorical sex? Because while it was interesting to watch Elijah wax his surfboard, I'd rather have been participating in him "waxing his surfboard," if you know what I mean.

Also, did you ask vegetariansushi before you included her in teh sexeh dream? Because I'm not quite sure she'd appreciate being involved.

Thank you.

Sin

Dear Subconscious:

Just in case you've forgotten, it's Elijah that I have a thing for. I only mention it because for the past two nights you've given me lovely, sexy dreams about Dominic, and before that it was Sean A. Now, I hesitate to complain--the dreams have been very, very pleasant--but I'd really like some Elijah tonight. Okay?

Thank you.

Sin

Thank you so much for the paid LJ time! I [heart] you.

Love and kisses,

Sin

Okay, I'm home now, and sober (and no longer hung over) and can regale people with the rest of the stuff that happened on the trip.

( cut-tagging for teh ramble )