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Watched the last of The Clone Wars so started on Star Wars: Rebels. It just cemented what I already knew which I love the world of Star Wars more than any particular character (though I adore several characters).

Thus far I’m not keen on Zeb or Ezra. Zeb in particular is annoying me.

I really like Hera though and I like the hints of the relationship with Kanan. The episode I just watched they described the two idiots as “the kids” which was funny. I think Sabine has potential but yeah Hera is my favourite by a mile. Chopper is a cool droid but then droids usually are cool.

Having C3PO, R2D2 and Bail Organa do a cameo in the second episode was pretty heavy handed in terms of trying to grant the new series (like a spin off I guess) some ‘legitimacy’ but as I like them I didn’t mind so much. Along with the line “this is not the Tie you are looking for” 🙂

Anyway I think Ezra is supposed to be the main character but this would hardly be the first time I wasn’t keen on a main character in a series but loved the show anyway (Alias comes to mind).

I wish I could pinpoint what makes the Star Wars universe so captivating but then I guess if I could explain it then I would be rich :p as an author I mean that’s like the holy grail hehe

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It’s past time for my annual moan so excuse me.

My uni semester starts on Monday. I happen to not have classes until Tuesday but either way it is Friday today – Friday of the week before.

The system is 3 classes per semester (it’s very tightly controlled). This time one of those classes is obviously led by an efficient tutor. Well over a month ago through the uni’s online portal access was granted to that class. There was prep work for the holidays. Since then he has put up a clear guide to how the class was going to run AND the material needed to be studied in advance for week one.

This only highlights how bloody awful it is that ON THE FRIDAY BEFORE I still have no access to my other two classes. One of those has put up a reading list through the library system so I self-assigned myself some prep work. For the other class? That happens to be my very first class of the semester – Absolutely nothing.

It is the Friday before. I know I’m repeating myself but it is literally just one working day – today! – from classes starting.

Do they not want us to prepare in advance for class? As it stands at 11am on Tuesday I will be going in completely blind.

Of course from previous years I know full well that even if admin do flip the switch so that the classes show on my profile, there is no guarantee there will be any information there as it’s up to the tutors to be organised enough to put it up.

I’m not a very good student (though I’d like to be) I’m just scared of failing (this year the marks start to count) and information is a good weapon to fight that terror.

And it is the Friday before. Not totally unreasonable right?

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Do you ever start planning a new story and then think it’s actually the same story?

Or

Is it just repeating themes because that is common, authors do explore the same topic in different ways over and over, drawn to what interests them?

#todays dilemma should I combine the stories

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killingkueen  asked:

💘 Leverage

OMG I swear you always pick the hardest ones! haha. You like to make me work for it 🙂 Thank you very much as always for the ask! I really appreciate it.

Alright *thinks hard*

Favourite – Parker
Parker means a lot to me and the more I rewatch (which I do often) the deeper I see. At first I thought she didn’t realize when she was being what most people would deem ‘weird’ but then there was that episode where we meet Archie and she says “it’s ok I wouldn’t have fit in with the real family anyway” and I realized that actually it did hurt Parker a lot and that perhaps some of her seeming ignorance was really just carefully crafted pretending aka ‘if I pretend not to care then maybe it won’t hurt anymore’.

So Parker is sometimes weird, she is detail orientated, protective of her personal space, she doesn’t understand people – she’s me basically. I mean while sometimes I have favourite characters whom I don’t identify with, the ones that get under my skin tend to be ones whom I do identify with. Leverage is such a good show for a hundred reasons (which aren’t relevant to this ask) but re: Parker. I love that they accept her unconditionally but I also love that the acceptance is realistic. Sometimes they get frustrated with her, sometimes they even get angry because they don’t understand but they are always there for her and she’s always part of their family.

Least Favourite – Nate
I was tempted to cheat here and pick a minor character but that would be – cheating so I didn’t.

I do like Nate but he’s just the one I find least interesting I suppose. I also dislike his occasional arrogance when it’s aimed at the team. I enjoy him gloating to the bad guys but when he shuts down one of the guys because he thinks he knows best, or a little bit of what happened with Sophie. Don’t get me wrong I think their romance was well-written and how it developed slowly and how Sophie always supported him but wasn’t willing to let his shit slide was a revelation compared to most TV relationships. I mean on most shows their relationship would have been used for ‘the drama’ and turned toxic or just unhealthy. Not so with Leverage. I really feel like it was proper grown-up how they handled it.

Anyway basically as you’ve forced me to choose :p Nate is my least favourite but when it comes to a quality show like Leverage that doesn’t mean much – I love all the characters. This show is well written, there’s proper character development. I will never be over Hardison saying to Parker “they are here when you want them” because he would never push her into anything she wasn’t ready for.

4×01 WH13 liveblog

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The flashback memory of the grappler with the you can owe me one and then the sequence with the meeting with the saving and the flying – so fucking rude I tell you!!! We’re not even 30 seconds in and I’m dead.

The tears in Myka‘s eyes and how she is obviously trying to hold it all together, such a bite in her voice and then when she thought that HG could be saved it was like flicking a switch and then she was almost pleading saying “if we ever needed an artifacts magic now would be the time” and that is of course what HG thought about the death of her daughter. All this endless wonder and it couldn’t save her.

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I think I’m actually finally going to do it. I’m actually finally going to watch 4×01 of Warehouse 13. Let me just check…

December 9th 2018

so that’s what 9 months? It has been about 9 months since I watched the season 3 finale and was so emotionally compromised by Bering and Wells I couldn’t bear to watch what happened afterwards. (I have heard that it did not, shall we say, go well). I didn’t watch though because I didn’t think I could take it.

HG sacrificed herself, it was like a redemption via death if you want to get all TV Tropes about it regarding the Warehouse BUT really it was for Myka, and Myka knew that, knew that the love of her life died to save her.

Oh man I’m getting emotional again. I just couldn’t bear to see how Myka reacted because however the writers chose to play it I would probably be destroyed (I can work with very little and extract meaning from a stone when it comes to my OTP’s).

I will try and contain my liveblog to one rambling post buuuut it is definitely going to be a thing because I will have so many feelings, oh so many feels.

In somewhat related news, I might be getting a new phone in a couple of months and I went looking on RedBubble and found an awesome Bering and Wells phone case.

Oh man ok *deep breath* here goes…

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A couple of important writing thoughts:

  1. I have been super down on my writing for ages, actually starting to despair that I could write anything worth reading and then it hit me – I still get emails from AO3 multiple times a week saying I have Kudos. I haven’t posted anything really in a couple of years now. This proves two things:
    1. Everything is always new to someone. I have said this before when I have discovered shows several seasons in/after they were cancelled, they are old but ‘new to me’ and the same applies to written works.
    2. Obviously I can’t be that bad or people wouldn’t still be reading my stuff. I know it’s free and I have the inbuilt ‘in’ of writing about someones favourite characters, rather than having to try and make them love characters I’ve invented but even so.
  2. I’m not the same person I was a few years back. Stuff has happened in my life and I’ve got older and I have new perspectives on things now – so why would I expect my writing to be the same? The answer is I can’t. The stories that fit me back then, don’t fit me now and that is ok. It’s evolution and why Chris Baty is right. He said “the novel you write at 20 isn’t the one you’ll write at 30″ and that applies to me. The one I wrote at 25 isn’t going to be the same as the one I write at 30. I need to adapt my ideas to my new outlook.

So I don’t know what to do with this yet ^^ but I felt like saying it.

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I know the Once Musical got a lot of flak but I rather enjoyed most of the songs.

I say that because I absolutely love The Descendants soundtracks, not every song but most of them, they are catchy, easy to listen to but surprisingly meaningful if I actually pay attention to the lyrics.

That made me think of Disney movies and fairytales and there is something a little inseparable about it.

Which made me think about music in general. I listen constantly, it keeps me sane and allows me to survive in public places, but more than that it does speak to me. I have thousands of songs across all genres and a hundred years of time. What I listen to depends on what I need from it. The way it can affect or reflect emotion is incredible.

Music is an art form and every now and then (like right now) I stop and think about that and appreciate it for all its majesty.

There is real feeling in music.

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There was an X-Men gifset on my dash, it made me think about them.

So I went looking for more gifsets.

Then last night I watched Days of Future Past.

It was a toss up between that and X3: The Last Stand, which yeah isn’t great for a lot of reasons, but it put my fave Storm front and center and so I like watching it for that.

Which reminded me of the frisson of potential which is what keeps me returning to Storm and The Last Stand. The idea of her stepping up, taking headship of the school and leading the X-Men. Which made me think about Mystique and how I generally prefer the OT to the soft-boot but they gave Mystique more screentime later, and there was some really interesting character dynamics, and then that made me start thinking about her character.

and just… do you ever really want to write fic because you feel the potential bubbling but there is nothing, no concrete leads to turn that buzz into words?

Don’t get me wrong I love the buzz, potential is intoxicating but I just really wish I could do something about it. I keep feeling sparks and there is absolutely no fire.

It’s frustrating.

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I really can’t be trusted with tracking information.

Intellectually I know that clicking the button “where’s my parcel” won’t make a blind bit of difference as to when I actually get it but in this matter I’m controlled by the same part of my brain that presses the divider button over and over.

To quote Joe “no matter how many times you press the button it goes up and down the same way” – but I still press the button!

It’s like I just have this itch. I want my parcel and I hate hate hate waiting /facepalm

*clicks* ‘on it’s way’ /headdesk