{"id":"urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:fan_eunice","title":"it's all beer limbo until someone loses a leg","subtitle":"it's all beer limbo until someone loses a leg","author":{"name":"it's all beer limbo until someone loses a leg"},"link":[{"@attributes":{"rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html","href":"https:\/\/fan-eunice.livejournal.com\/"}},{"@attributes":{"rel":"self","type":"text\/xml","href":"https:\/\/fan-eunice.livejournal.com\/data\/atom"}},{"@attributes":{"rel":"service.feed","type":"application\/x.atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/fan-eunice.livejournal.com\/data\/atom","title":"it's all beer limbo until someone loses a leg"}}],"updated":"2020-02-27T20:51:51Z","entry":[{"id":"urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:fan_eunice:353454","link":[{"@attributes":{"rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html","href":"https:\/\/fan-eunice.livejournal.com\/353454.html"}},{"@attributes":{"rel":"self","type":"text\/xml","href":"https:\/\/fan-eunice.livejournal.com\/data\/atom\/?itemid=353454"}}],"title":"Dear Equinox Vidder","published":"2020-02-27T20:51:51Z","updated":"2020-02-27T20:51:51Z","content":"Hello my equinox vidder! I love you already!

Let me start by saying what I really, really, want is a vid you feel passionate about making. If that means ignoring everything below? Feel no qualms about it. I trust your vision, and even if we see a source differently we both love the thing itself and I always find different perspectives interesting. If you are looking for direction, and an idea of what I like and what comes to mind as what I\u2019d want to see in a vid for these sources read on!


Masterchef Junior<\/b>

They are so tiny! And talented! I would love to see something adorable and upbeat that highlights that these are itty bitty children in dinosaur shirts and sparkly bows (some of whom can\u2019t even see over the mystery box or reach the counter without a step stool) making ridiculously complicated and sophisticated food. And how much fun they are having doing it and supportive they all are of each other as well.

I won\u2019t say don\u2019t use tears because I see how that could work (and even help build) a positive narrative...just don\u2019t center the whole vid around heartbroken children, please.

I\u2019ve pretty much loved every season and child on this show so use whatever works for you!

Star Wars: Jedi: Fallen Order<\/b>

So, this game made me cry a LOT over Order 66 and the traumatic aftermath in ways I hadn\u2019t before. I would love to see a vid that focused on that and the process of dealing with and trying to move past it for any or all of the characters. Please feel free to hurt me as much as you want with this one.

That being said I *also* had a stupid amount of fun swinging a lightsaber around and using all the force powers so if you want to make a high energy action vid that\u2019s all about style points? Please do! I will enjoy the crap out of it.

Also, also, I would nod sympathetically and laugh until it hurt over a vid focusing on such moments as \u201cso you thought you could beat Oggdo Boggdo without dying 100 times?\u201d And \u201cremember all those times a space goat knocked you off a cliff?\u201d

Basically, vid me this game in any fashion and I\u2019ll be thrilled

Horizon Zero Dawn<\/b>

I love everything about this game. Everything. I\u2019d tell you how many hours I\u2019ve played but that would just be embarrassing.

I love Aloy and her journey. I love her anger and defiance of tradition and her determination. I love her curiosity and thirst for knowledge and answers. I love her connection to Elisabeth Sobeck and the exploration of what that is and what it means over the course of the story. I love the father daughter bond with Rost. I love all the chemistry she has with everyone she meets and the connections she forms along the way. I love her so much.

I also think just the world building alone, with all these amazing environments and stories that exist as ruins and bits and pieces of a past that no longer exists and destroyed itself would be so cool to explore in vid form.

Just, have fun! Take whatever aspect of the game appeals to you if I haven\u2019t talked about it here and run with it. I promise I will love it.

WarGames<\/b>

Would you like to play a game?

Hello, I am a child of the 80s and this movie was basically designed to directly appeal to my pre-adolescent self. Did I think computers and computer games were so cool, and desperately wanted to have one? Yes, yes I did. Was I terrified that we were all going to die in a nuclear apocalypse? Yes, yes I was. Was I totally fascinated with the concept of AI and computers gaining self awareness? You betcha. Did I think Matthew Broderick was adorable and all but not quite understand why I got a funny feeling in my tummy about Ally Sheedy instead? That absolutely happened.

My childhood. Please vid it.


Ink Master<\/b>

I am obsessed with this show. Obsessed. I am regularly astonished by the art that is created, both in the flash challenges and the tattoos.

Like. What these people can do with weird materials and limited time is magic. What they can do on human skin is extraordinary. Also I find the entire process of tattooing so fascinating. The planning and stencil making, the tools, the actual tattooing of ink in someone\u2019s skin, all of it. And while I do find all the drama and posturing hilarious, it\u2019s not really what I come to the show for (it\u2019s just a ridiculous side bonus). I mostly just want to watch people make really cool art in non-traditional mediums.

This entry was originally posted at https:\/\/fan-eunice.dreamwidth.org\/348286.html<\/a>. (\"comment comments) Comment wherever you want.<\/span>"},{"id":"urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:fan_eunice:353166","link":[{"@attributes":{"rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html","href":"https:\/\/fan-eunice.livejournal.com\/353166.html"}},{"@attributes":{"rel":"self","type":"text\/xml","href":"https:\/\/fan-eunice.livejournal.com\/data\/atom\/?itemid=353166"}}],"title":"fan_eunice @ 2016-11-10T09:47:00","published":"2016-11-10T16:11:28Z","updated":"2016-11-10T16:32:26Z","content":"I keep reading over and over that most Trump voters aren't really<\/i> racist\/sexist\/homophobic. They were just voting for this other thing (usually economic concerns, which...well, I won't get into that right now but wtf), and if we just took the time to understand<\/i> them and listen<\/i> to them they wouldn't have voted for Trump. They think that is both comforting and a way forward.

It isn't.

Let me respond with an analogy. For this analogy we will be using a puppy, on account of unlike when it comes to women, people of color, and the LGBT+, people have actual empathy to spare for puppies.

Here is a hungry man. He genuinely hasn't eaten in a week and has every right to be upset and angry about that and he's miffed at those he perceives are responsible for his hunger. Before him stands two candidates. One offers him a turkey sandwich for his vote. The other offers a steak dinner, and also he will be kicking the shit out of this puppy. The man votes for the steak dinner and then watches as a puppy get the shit kicked out of it. You say, \"Okay, but he's not a bad person<\/i>. He was hungry. If you had just focused on how a sandwich isn't a filling meal the puppy would have been safe.\"

Yes. Yes he motherfucking is<\/i> a bad person who needs to goddamn feel bad. And ashamed. And he's just told me that he believes the safety of that puppy rests not in it's inherent right not to get the shit kicked out of it, but how full his stomach is. Fuck you.

And if you think for one second that when he sits down to eat his steak and discovers it is actually a shit sandwich that he's going to blame anyone but the puppy for it, you're wrong. You're so very, very wrong. That puppy is dead.

You can \"reach out\" to these fuckers all you want. I don't care. Fuck them. Seriously, fuck them. Fuck their issues. Fuck their wallets. Fuck their concerns. It is NOT reasonable to hold someone else's basic human rights<\/i> hostage for...well. Anything. Ever.

If all you are offered is a crust<\/i> of bread against a steak and puppy kicking, you choose the crust of bread. If all you are offered is starvation against puppy kicking, your last ounce of energy before you pass out should be spent putting your body in front of that puppy to protect it. Anything less does, in fact, MAKE YOU A BAD PERSON.

Note: not you guys. The wider internet. I'm just posting this here because...howling scream of frustration into the wind?

This entry was originally posted at http:\/\/fan-eunice.dreamwidth.org\/348038.html<\/a>. (\"comment comments) Comment wherever you want.<\/span>"},{"id":"urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:fan_eunice:352872","link":[{"@attributes":{"rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html","href":"https:\/\/fan-eunice.livejournal.com\/352872.html"}},{"@attributes":{"rel":"self","type":"text\/xml","href":"https:\/\/fan-eunice.livejournal.com\/data\/atom\/?itemid=352872"}}],"title":"The birthday that isn't","published":"2016-10-30T15:04:35Z","updated":"2016-10-30T15:04:35Z","content":"I know I have sucked at posting, but I wanted to today. Because it would have been Zen's 50th birthday. And for as long as I knew her, she told me she wouldn't live to see it. And for nearly 13 of those years I told her that was nonsense. I had all the sense and logic on my side to back that up. Not even two years ago several of us were actually starting to plan a big 50th bash in defiance of that prediction. We were going to give her so much grief for outliving it.

We were wrong. I hate that so much today. I want to be at that weekend bash right now. Or even just where I have been more Halloween weekends than not over the years, finding hokey decorations to make her laugh (as far as I know the glitter spiders are <\/i>still<\/i> strategically placed all over her house from where they went up years ago and never came down), curled up on the smaller couch watching horror movies together and going to pick up a cake. Halloween kind of sucks now.

This entry was originally posted at http:\/\/fan-eunice.dreamwidth.org\/347793.html<\/a>. (\"comment comments) Comment wherever you want.<\/span>"},{"id":"urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:fan_eunice:352521","link":[{"@attributes":{"rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html","href":"https:\/\/fan-eunice.livejournal.com\/352521.html"}},{"@attributes":{"rel":"self","type":"text\/xml","href":"https:\/\/fan-eunice.livejournal.com\/data\/atom\/?itemid=352521"}}],"title":"fan_eunice @ 2016-03-01T09:45:00","published":"2016-03-01T16:49:40Z","updated":"2016-03-01T16:49:40Z","content":"I started a long post but it just went super negative so I deleted it instead of posting. I am completely overwhelmed right now. The long and short of it is that the last year has brought into sharp relief just how unhappy<\/i> I have been for a very long time, and how much of it is to do with how dependent I am, and now that I am back in my old situation it is becoming intolerable. Life, as I have learned, is far too short to spend it miserable.

I need a job. I need a job I can do from home because I still have the mental illness and physical disabilities that got me in this predicament in the first place. I need a job that will hire a 43 year old with no real work experience and an unerring habit of freezing like a deer in the headlights at the thought of filling out a job application or resume or anything remotely resembling 'selling' oneself. And it needs to pay enough to live on. Not well or anything. I have no objection to living poor if it's on my own dime. I just need to get out of here. I need to get out of here soon, and on my own steam, before it crushes me back into submission.

I am so fucked. Yes, this is the less negative post. I said to my therapist last year before all this started that I felt like I was fading away and disappearing entirely. As horrifying as the last 10 months have been, I have also been here<\/i>. Present in the world. And now every day I can feel myself slipping away. It's terrifying. And worse, it's an insult to my best friend who grabbed on to every last second of life to the very end.

This entry was originally posted at http:\/\/fan-eunice.dreamwidth.org\/347627.html<\/a>. (\"comment comments) Comment wherever you want.<\/span>"},{"id":"urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:fan_eunice:352352","link":[{"@attributes":{"rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html","href":"https:\/\/fan-eunice.livejournal.com\/352352.html"}},{"@attributes":{"rel":"self","type":"text\/xml","href":"https:\/\/fan-eunice.livejournal.com\/data\/atom\/?itemid=352352"}}],"title":"fan_eunice @ 2016-02-13T15:26:00","published":"2016-02-13T21:51:59Z","updated":"2016-02-13T21:51:59Z","content":"I haven't really posted in the last 9 months because I haven't been sure of what to say, really. I'm still not. I keep starting and stopping this post because. IDK. My best friend died. But she also lived. Every last minute. Guys, right after she told the doctors to cut it out with the doodads and medicines because she was done, she sent me down to the gift shop to get her chocolate. The last thing she drank was a Pepsi with more gusto and appreciation than I've seen foodies with a 5 star meal.

And it was also hard. Like being born, dying is hard work, I didn't realize how much. She wasn't in pain or distress in the way you might think, she was also heavily on the good drugs and not particularly conscious or coherent for most of the afternoon (her choice), but the body struggles to live even after you've told it that it's okay not to. Her body caught up with her choice about a half hour before she went and in the end it was so chill and so Zen, I can't even quantify it.

I thought I was okay, IDK, I think maybe I am. I learned more about embracing life and not fearing death and being grateful for every moment this year than I could have thought possible thanks to Zen being who she is. But when the arrangements were finalized for them to come take her body last night I realized I couldn't go with her. How is that possible? That is my job<\/i>. To make sure she never, ever has to be alone in a scary new medical place, that someone who knows her and what she wants and where she keeps all the info they might need can speak for her when she can't, and remember things so she doesn't have to. And last night I had to let her go without me. I'm not sure I know how to do that yet.

So I don't really know what to say. Soon I will pick myself up and live like she wanted me to. Soon. Not today. Today me and Waffles are just gonna hang out under the blanket here wishing we could be doing our jobs.

This entry was originally posted at http:\/\/fan-eunice.dreamwidth.org\/347273.html<\/a>. (\"comment comments) Comment wherever you want.<\/span>"},{"id":"urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:fan_eunice:352018","link":[{"@attributes":{"rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html","href":"https:\/\/fan-eunice.livejournal.com\/352018.html"}},{"@attributes":{"rel":"self","type":"text\/xml","href":"https:\/\/fan-eunice.livejournal.com\/data\/atom\/?itemid=352018"}}],"title":"well, that blows","published":"2015-06-08T13:22:22Z","updated":"2015-06-08T13:22:22Z","content":"So anyway. Those of you who are friends with both of us already know that I am in Chicago staying at Zen and Pete's for I'm not sure how long. Obviously until they no longer need or want me here. Those of you who don't know, Zen is in the hospital right now facing a likely diagnosis of small cell lung cancer. She will get to come home soon (knock wood), and the business of tackling this bullshit will begin.

On the upside, Zen is still Zen and while everything about this sucks, there has been no shortage of laughter and fun and cookies and watching our reality shows and movies with appropriate commentary and doing what we do (good thing our mutual hobbies don't revolve around running marathons).

I keep trying to figure out what to say about all this, but it's mostly incoherent profanities. I guess I could tell you I quit smoking? I always wondered what it would take for that to happen since my own cancer didn't even manage it. But I cold turkey quit the second I heard about zen's chest x-ray and made a deal with the universe never to pick it back up again if it turned out to be nothing. I have incredibly angry words for the universe for backing out on that deal (I'm a superstitious<\/i> atheist, okay). But even though the universe is a lying asshole, the quit remains and likely will forever because any time I even see a cigarette my reaction is intense loathing at the thing that is trying to kill my best friend even though she kicked it to the curb over three years ago, and even more rage at the people who make them. I want nothing to do with that bullshit. I wish I could feel more triumphant about finally quitting, but mostly I'm just sad.



So yeah. Fuck cancer with a rusty nail.

This entry was originally posted at http:\/\/fan-eunice.dreamwidth.org\/346928.html<\/a>. (\"comment comments) Comment wherever you want.<\/span>"},{"id":"urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:fan_eunice:351967","link":[{"@attributes":{"rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html","href":"https:\/\/fan-eunice.livejournal.com\/351967.html"}},{"@attributes":{"rel":"self","type":"text\/xml","href":"https:\/\/fan-eunice.livejournal.com\/data\/atom\/?itemid=351967"}}],"title":"fan_eunice @ 2015-04-22T10:59:00","published":"2015-04-22T16:13:40Z","updated":"2015-04-22T16:13:40Z","content":"Posting every day miiiiight have been too ambitious of a goal. I'm going to keep trying, though. Anyhoo, today I talk about a thing I did not expect happening. Since you've met me, you probably know that I watch a lot of documentaries. So anyway, this morning I'm browsing around Netflix and I see this one called \"Indie Game. The Movie.\" and I'm thinking, hey, why not. So I push play expecting to see a behind the scenes sort of thing on how the indie game industry works and it's history or whatever. Figure it will be an interesting way to kill some time and learn something.

That...is not what I took away from it. I mean, there's some of that, certainly. But what it was, for me anyway, ended up being an emotionally raw exploration of the vulnerabilities that drive creation and for good and bad, how it feels<\/i> to make something and share it. I wish I were better at words to describe what I mean by that. I only know that by the time the documentary hit the 'release day'\/'demo day' part for the two games it was following I had literally started crying and didn't stop until after the credits rolled (complicated tears, positive and negative).

It is very possible that this was just the result of my current brain issues and there is nothing particularly compelling or revealing to anyone who is not me? I only know when I woke up this morning 'Full on crying at a documentary about indie video games' was NOT WHAT I WAS EXPECTING. So there you go. That's my post for today.

This entry was originally posted at http:\/\/fan-eunice.dreamwidth.org\/346706.html<\/a>. (\"comment comments) Comment wherever you want.<\/span>"},{"id":"urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:fan_eunice:351705","link":[{"@attributes":{"rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html","href":"https:\/\/fan-eunice.livejournal.com\/351705.html"}},{"@attributes":{"rel":"self","type":"text\/xml","href":"https:\/\/fan-eunice.livejournal.com\/data\/atom\/?itemid=351705"}}],"title":"fixed streaming and vid hope or whatever","published":"2015-04-15T17:43:10Z","updated":"2015-04-15T17:43:10Z","content":"Woo, I fixed it so I could actually upload vid to youtube so the post now contains a streaming version<\/a>.

Well, I say I fixed it, but really what I did was run it through the newest version of llamaenc and it magically made it 29.97 fps without fucking it up, because Ian is a genius and whatnot and 'run it through llamaenc' has sort of become my go to for 'something technical is wrong with my vid, fix it' issues.

Anyhoo, my post for today aside from the update on getting my vid to stream is a post. Hello. I am glad my vidblock finally broke and hoping it continues (well, it sort of has to continue at least long enough to let me finish the auction vid I was bought for). Who knows, perhaps the power of a former boyband star feeding a kitten will lead to some of the 8 billion projects sitting on my hard drive actually getting worked on\/finished.

This entry was originally posted at http:\/\/fan-eunice.dreamwidth.org\/346522.html<\/a>. (\"comment comments) Comment wherever you want.<\/span>"},{"id":"urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:fan_eunice:351473","link":[{"@attributes":{"rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html","href":"https:\/\/fan-eunice.livejournal.com\/351473.html"}},{"@attributes":{"rel":"self","type":"text\/xml","href":"https:\/\/fan-eunice.livejournal.com\/data\/atom\/?itemid=351473"}}],"title":"New vid!! Step By Step (The Amazing Race)","published":"2015-04-14T22:26:15Z","updated":"2015-04-15T17:33:11Z","category":[{"@attributes":{"term":"for jarrow"}},{"@attributes":{"term":"my vids"}}],"content":"Song: Step By Step
Artist: New Kids On The Block
Fandom: The Amazing Race (Jonathan and Harley)

Summary: Jonathan and Harley really<\/i> want to get to Phil...step by step. Made for \"[personal<\/a>jarrow<\/b><\/a><\/span> who I love more than the kittens in this vid but not more than Jonathan Knight, which jarrow totally understands.

Download link: Step By Step Download<\/a> (right-click the link and save as, 51 mb)




<\/a>
Notes: So you know how I missed the last few days posting? This is the reason. My last post got me and \"[personal<\/a>jarrow<\/b><\/a><\/span> talking about his crush since childhood on Jonathan Knight (FOR GOOD REASON) and I was, like, I should vid something by NKOTB to make up for my snotty teenage self and...so I made \"[personal<\/a>jarrow<\/b><\/a><\/span> a prezzie. And in the process got even MORE squishy about Jonathan to the point where...like, you guys, I seriously want to put posters all over my wall and go back in time so I can subscribe to whatever Teen Beat type magazine in the 80s had features on what his favorite cereal is and stuff. *facepalm*<\/a>

This entry was originally posted at http:\/\/fan-eunice.dreamwidth.org\/346122.html<\/a>. (\"comment comments) Comment wherever you want.<\/span>"},{"id":"urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:fan_eunice:351193","link":[{"@attributes":{"rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html","href":"https:\/\/fan-eunice.livejournal.com\/351193.html"}},{"@attributes":{"rel":"self","type":"text\/xml","href":"https:\/\/fan-eunice.livejournal.com\/data\/atom\/?itemid=351193"}}],"title":"A Day Happened","published":"2015-04-12T00:57:22Z","updated":"2015-04-12T00:57:22Z","content":"Today I spent my time playing Peggle and am now catching up on Amazing Race. This does not make for an interesting post, but I had a goal, so there you go. But, I guess I can now say this after several eps of TAR.

Dear New Kids On The Block,

I am so, so sorry for every time I made fun of you when I was a snotty teenager. I didn't know<\/i> Jonathan Knight was too precious for this world and that one day I would want to smother him with cuddles and go on vacation with him and his equally adorable boyfriend. Can we just rewind time and smack snotty teenage me and forget that whole thing happened, please?

Love,

grown up me

This entry was originally posted at http:\/\/fan-eunice.dreamwidth.org\/345941.html<\/a>. (\"comment comments) Comment wherever you want.<\/span>"},{"id":"urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:fan_eunice:350849","link":[{"@attributes":{"rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html","href":"https:\/\/fan-eunice.livejournal.com\/350849.html"}},{"@attributes":{"rel":"self","type":"text\/xml","href":"https:\/\/fan-eunice.livejournal.com\/data\/atom\/?itemid=350849"}}],"title":"Adventures in Python and Pi(e)","published":"2015-04-10T21:00:05Z","updated":"2015-04-10T21:02:13Z","content":"Goal:<\/b> post daily, even if it's just a 'yup, still here' message.

I warn in advance, the way I am coping with a lot of my brain stuff is super random so if there is subject matter it is likely to be all over the place on any given day. Also, probably boring. Sorry? I plan to (subject to change, because who knows when a long whiny post about being crazy might suddenly seem like a good and cathartic idea) not post about the brain stuff itself, though.

Today it's programming. Specifically that programming has been added to my list of 'stuff I'd like to learn'. That's a long list, which I tend to jump around a lot on, getting obsessive for awhile and then jumping to something else on the list for awhile and then jumping back and ending up with a lot of 'knows a little about a lot' rather than a lot about anything, but anyhoo. I like to learn stuff?

Python is my starting point, and so far I'm having fun even though I have not progressed much beyond \"Hello, world!\". Current observation on learning materials for beginning programmers: oh my god, y'all, not all of us want to learn programming because we are also math geeks. Some of us enjoy logic and problem solving but loaaaathe math.

So making so many of your beginning examples with the assumption that I either already know how to do shit like calculate the angle of a polygon on paper, or would ever want<\/i> to is a bit counterproductive. If you're me. Because the actual concept you're trying to teach me has nothing to do with calculating the radius of a circle and everything to do with being able to translate 'thing I know I want the computer to do' into 'the language I use to tell the computer so it understands to do the thing'.

If I don't know how to do or understand the thing you want me to want the computer to do, I'm going to spend half my time trying to figure out what doing that thing looks like so I can then tell the computer to do it, and that leads to me crying into my variables whimpering 'No seriously, I only care about pi when it's being used as a a joke about Dean Winchester and snacks' and then it takes me twice as long to get to the part where I understand how to tell the computer to do a thing. So:
\ndef dean_wants_pie(tasty_treat):\n    if tasty_treat==\"pie\":\n        print(\"No more single manpain tears, PIE FIXES EVERYTHING\")<\/blockquote>\n    else:\n        print(\"Dean hates you now\")\n\ndean_wants_pie(input(\"What kind of tasty treat do you have?\"))\n\n<\/pre>
Makes TOTAL sense to me if it was an example (it...actually works when I run it through the interpreter, though I'm sure I did something wrong or I could make it much cooler if I knew more, and as it stands if the hypothetical user typed in 'blueberry pie' instead of just 'pie' at this point Dean would erroneously be hating on them.  But you notice how there's NO MATH, and yet I made the computer do a thing?  I wish more programming resources embraced this concept.  Perhaps with less manpain tears.  But definitely more pie.    

Anyhoo, this is your random ramble on my adventures in learning to program today.<\/a>

This entry was originally posted at http:\/\/fan-eunice.dreamwidth.org\/345713.html<\/a>.   (\"comment comments)  Comment wherever you want.<\/span>"},{"id":"urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:fan_eunice:350702","link":[{"@attributes":{"rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html","href":"https:\/\/fan-eunice.livejournal.com\/350702.html"}},{"@attributes":{"rel":"self","type":"text\/xml","href":"https:\/\/fan-eunice.livejournal.com\/data\/atom\/?itemid=350702"}}],"title":"fan_eunice @ 2015-04-09T19:42:00","published":"2015-04-10T00:49:11Z","updated":"2015-04-10T00:49:11Z","content":"Is journaling even still a thing?  Are y'all still out there?  Anyhow, I have been having very bad brain for quite some time which has almost entirely disconnected me from the fannish community at large and left so much distance from so many people I care about...I miss you guys.  I really have no point to this post except to make it, I guess.  And say hi.  HI!  It really, really wasn't you.  It was me.  It still is me, but maybe I want to try being a little more present when I can at least.

This entry was originally posted at http:\/\/fan-eunice.dreamwidth.org\/345590.html<\/a>.   (\"comment comments)  Comment wherever you want.<\/span>"},{"id":"urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:fan_eunice:350328","link":[{"@attributes":{"rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html","href":"https:\/\/fan-eunice.livejournal.com\/350328.html"}},{"@attributes":{"rel":"self","type":"text\/xml","href":"https:\/\/fan-eunice.livejournal.com\/data\/atom\/?itemid=350328"}}],"title":"fan_eunice @ 2014-09-24T10:43:00","published":"2014-09-24T16:17:24Z","updated":"2014-09-24T16:18:55Z","content":"Opinions please!  Yes, I'm still neck deep in Sims 4.  In fact, I need your help!  I've got John and Rodney leveled up exactly where I want them to be (kept meaning to update, but short version is their antics are still hilarious to me) and am comfortable enough playing them\/familiar with the new game mechanics that it's time to move the rest of the team in the house and start populating the rest of the town with various atlantis and sg-1 people so I can rotate and watch the madness unfold (I have plans<\/i> for a Genii house on the same block as AR-1, so I can play the evil\/mischief aspirations with Koyla in particular and torture John....shut up, I only do it because I love him). 

ANYWAY.  My issue is that I have no idea what to do with Ronon.  Even though there is currently not a politician option for Teyla, there is the Friend of the World aspiration and it is traditional that I give her gardening as a hobby in my Sims games (which will also bring in enough money that she won't need a regular job and give her a second aspiration once she's Friend of the World).  But for Ronon I'm sitting here looking at the options for both aspirations\/hobbies and careers and I can't quite get a handle on how to play him.  Career and\/or aspiration goals?  I'm STUMPED.  Can't give him the fishing aspiration because NO ONE gets that until I have played Jack O'Neill through it.  None of the tech options are appropriate.  Space Ranger only goes to SGC military personnel IMO, and Space Smuggler doesn't feel like the right fit either so I think astronaut is out.  Help me choose, y'all.  

These are the aspirations I currently have to choose from<\/a>

These are the career options<\/a>

I don't necessarily have<\/i> to have both.  Rodney has no official career except for briefly when he needed to level up in the tech career for the computer whiz aspiration after he finished Nerd Brain (he does make a butt ton of money now that he's leveled up freelancing\/programming from home).  I can either give him a throwaway aspiration and ignore it in favor of concentrating on entirely on a career.  Or I can have him be a stay-at-home sim and focus solely on an aspiration.  Or a combination of the two.  

So, I dunno.  Secret Agent who does woodworking in his spare time is I think where I'm leaning? HELP ME OUT.

This entry was originally posted at http:\/\/fan-eunice.dreamwidth.org\/345251.html<\/a>.   (\"comment comments)  Comment wherever you want.<\/span>"},{"id":"urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:fan_eunice:349971","link":[{"@attributes":{"rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html","href":"https:\/\/fan-eunice.livejournal.com\/349971.html"}},{"@attributes":{"rel":"self","type":"text\/xml","href":"https:\/\/fan-eunice.livejournal.com\/data\/atom\/?itemid=349971"}}],"title":"fan_eunice @ 2014-09-17T16:42:00","published":"2014-09-17T22:09:22Z","updated":"2014-09-17T22:09:22Z","content":"Trying to post more often even though I'm still feeling rather disconnected from the world at large :)  

Not Sims related:  I took a long break from Who pretty much as soon as I heard Eleven was leaving because I was not ready to say goodbye to him yet (did the same thing when I heard the Ponds were going).  I wanted my goodbyes to be bittersweet but not resentful, with the edge of excitment that comes from goodbye always meaning 'hello' in the Whoverse.  Finally felt ready and marathoned up through The Time Of The Doctor.  Cried buckets<\/i>.  Oh Eleventy<\/i>...you will always be my<\/i> Doctor in a way I'm not sure can ever be replicated, much as I may love your other selves.  I will try to be in a headspace to actually post about it soon, and before I start Twelve (I need a bit to collect myself, though I am indeed ready to say hello).  

Sims related:  Wow, the various sims forums\/boards make the worst of fandom look like a puppy playground<\/i>, y'all.  I wouldn't participate with a ten foot pole, but just skimming them is like drowning in toxic waste.  Would not recommend.  Was curious in the wake of the epic wars going on with the release of 4, and decided to play 2 and 3 again today after having spent so much time in 4 to form comparison.  2 is still everything, and I immediately got sucked into losing my entire morning and had to make myself stop.  I think 4 may overtake it eventually (more on that in a second), but until it does 2 remains the reigning champion, making up for it's limitations and what it lacks on pure WTF charm<\/i>.  

What surprised me is that upon booting up 3, I had...absolutely no desire to play it.  None.  Surprising because 3 has the most stuff to do and places to go, and I love stuff and things to do with my sims.  But I realized that actually I had spent most of my 'playing' time in it building stuff.  And rearranging stuff.  And setting stuff up.  And very little with the actual sims.  Because they are cold.  I'm all for projecting on to my sims (obviously), and half the fun of the game is what you bring in your imagination to the party.  But 3 lacks intimacy in a way I'm not sure I can put my finger on, other than I didn't realize just how much it was a one way street until I was away for a bit.  Felt like I was pushing around dolls instead of forming a relationship with them.  The world is great<\/i>.  The stuff is great<\/i>.  And...I realized I don't much care if I don't feel like my sims are playing with<\/i> me, rather than me playing them if that makes any sense at all.  

Which is why I will firmly plant my flag in the 'fuck the haters' camp regarding 4.  It lacks stuff, yes.  It even lacks stuff that isn't excusable even for a base game, and it's a bit buggy in places.  I don't care<\/i>.  These sims are so full of life and charm and personality, and the way the world is set up puts me up close and personal with them in the same way they are in 2, only with even better<\/i> sims themselves.  Stuff can be added.  Places to go and things to do can be added, and no doubt will be in the billionty expansion packs I'll probably go broke buying.  A sim who gets me emotionally invested is priceless.  And the mere thought of what it's going to be once it's expanded beyond the base game.  I really, honestly, and truly think it could not just reach but surpass the epicness that is 2.  And quickly.

This entry was originally posted at http:\/\/fan-eunice.dreamwidth.org\/345021.html<\/a>.   (\"comment comments)  Comment wherever you want.<\/span>"},{"id":"urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:fan_eunice:349573","link":[{"@attributes":{"rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html","href":"https:\/\/fan-eunice.livejournal.com\/349573.html"}},{"@attributes":{"rel":"self","type":"text\/xml","href":"https:\/\/fan-eunice.livejournal.com\/data\/atom\/?itemid=349573"}}],"title":"fan_eunice @ 2014-09-13T14:22:00","published":"2014-09-13T19:51:02Z","updated":"2014-09-13T19:51:02Z","content":"*facepalm*

A lot has happened in the lives of Sim John and Rodney, which I might write up later...some of it good, some hilariously bad, and some what hell (seriously, John and his unicorn).  Also they are accidentally engaged now (I know it's too soon for that, but John was sad and jealous and Rodney and I panicked, okay...it'll be a long engagement).  BUT JUST NOW.  I.  They've had a really active couple of days and today I was like, you know what I want?  I want some boringly fluffy domestic curtain fic for a little while.  And John just got promoted and had a space mission go really well<\/i>, and Rodney leveled up in the observatory so I thought it might be nice reward for them too (shut up, I've become emotionally attatched).  I SHOULD'VE KNOWN BETTER.



He gets up earlier than Rodney because of his work schedule (and Rodney stays up late to study the stars).  But, he likes solitude and excercise.  So I had him start the coffee and go off for a nice early morning jog while the neighborhood was still asleep, which put him in a great<\/i> mood.  He was singing in the shower and everything.  And we thought, John and I, you know what would be nice?  If when Rodney woke up there was not just coffee but pancakes!  A nice leisurely breakfast together before a cozy day at home playing chess and telling dumb jokes and perhaps a bit of woohoo in the rocket ship later.   We were looking forward to it!  John was humming<\/i> while he was making pancakes, Rodney was just waking up.  I was sitting here like a big dork with hearts in my eyes, like, AWWWW THIS SIM DAY IS GOING TO BE SO CUTE.

So of course John lit his face on fire.  OF COURSE HE DID.  I have been so careful letting him near the stove.  I made him read cooking books to level up, and practice enough that I thought he was beyond this.  But, no, it is not the Sims if John doesn't light himself on fire.  So light himself on fire he did.  And the nice cozy domestic morning I'd planned turned into a panic filled scream fest, and instead of waking up to find coffee, pancakes, and a boyfriend in a great mood, Rodney had to leap out of bed half asleep and save John's on fire ass.  I was too busy trying to keep John from dying<\/i> to get caps during.  But I got this one right after along with his current mood,

<\/a>

This entry was originally posted at http:\/\/fan-eunice.dreamwidth.org\/344497.html<\/a>.   (\"comment comments)  Comment wherever you want.<\/span>"},{"id":"urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:fan_eunice:349301","link":[{"@attributes":{"rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html","href":"https:\/\/fan-eunice.livejournal.com\/349301.html"}},{"@attributes":{"rel":"self","type":"text\/xml","href":"https:\/\/fan-eunice.livejournal.com\/data\/atom\/?itemid=349301"}}],"title":"fan_eunice @ 2014-09-11T19:09:00","published":"2014-09-12T00:09:39Z","updated":"2014-09-12T00:09:39Z","content":"Day 2 in the life of Sims 4 Sim!John and Sim!Rodney...mostly for my own benefit because I want to be able to come back and remember this, because what the hell is this game, OMFG.  I'll put it under the cut, because warning THIS GETS LONG.



Was it just yesterday they were happily playing unicorn and robot on the living room floor and joint trolling the forums while flirting?  Did I really think anything with these two knuckleheads would be that easy?  And, okay, the sequence of events that follows is *partly* my fault (both intentional and...not) but NOT ENTIRELY, OKAY.  

At last we hit the option to become 'best friends' (I enthusiastically click option on pie menu), and because John had been autonomously flirting with Rodney their romance bar already had a pretty good head start when I decided it was time to send them on a date.  IT WENT AWESOME (that is the last time this phrase will occur for that definition of awesome).  I did wonder where that bowl of cereal John was eating went, but I didn't realize it would come back to haunt both of us.

But yes, a most excellent date that opened up the 'ask to be boyfriend' option (enthusiastic clicking on option ensues).   In fact, this date went well enough to buy a double bed for the woohooing they were both clamoring for by the end of it.  John left Rodney in a very<\/i> good mood when he went to work the next morning if you know what I mean, and I'm sure you do.  

...too good a mood.  Because yes, the option to make flirty heart cookies was pretty dang cute but by the end of the sim day, Rodney was starting to creep me out with how pleasant<\/i> he was being.  When he autonomously hugged John<\/i> when he came home from work, I...could not take it anymore.  But, look, when I was playing my other Sim family one<\/i> single insult generally brought about a brief negative reaction and some grumpiness but not...I did not take into account the first rule of any sim game I put John Sheppard in.  If he can find a way to ruin everything<\/i>, he will.  Because he massively overreacted and started a huge fight that just...went downhill rapidly until they were both deeply in the red zone of anger and the insults were flying faster on both sides than I could even catch what all of them were in the socials queue.

And since I generally don't interfere with autonomous socials, just add to them occasionally when the conversation needs a nudge...it took me a second to remember I could stop the argument and by the time I did, Rodney had already queued up 'denounce friendship' and managed to go through with it before I could get the mouse over to cancel it.  Now John is both crying *and* furious, Rodney's still yelling, and everything is going to hell.  Sending John off to the punching bag and Rodney to calm himself down in the mirror didn't help much.  

And then when searching the socials for something<\/i> to help is when I noticed that being angry had opened up a bunch of shit on the romantic socials menu like 'compliment sarcastically', and 'frenzied kiss' and...basically the lead up to angry woo hooing.  WELL OKAY THEN, GAME.  Then they both passed out and woke up the next morning in a better mood but...their friendship bar had dropped by half<\/i> (romantic was still full, I guess the angry woo hoo went well?  which is good because ...well, you'll see in a moment).   

So I'm spending the sim!morning trying to repair their friendship and glad John has the day off work so I have the time for it.  And it's getting somewhere when they both come on a bit flirty, so I\"m like 'okay, woohooing puts them in a good mood...I'll let them go do it in the observatory and it'll make keeping them in good socials for the rest of the day easier'.  But John.  Because he comes out of the observatory with a confident mood, strutting around like 'yeah, I'm a stud' and has a strong moodlet for satisfying woohoo.  And then Rodney follows.  With a stack<\/i> of orange bad moodlets.  Grossed out by bad hygeine, unsatisfied with bad woohoo, he's unhappy all over.  And I'm like, WTF, John's hygiene bar isn't that<\/i> low.  Which is when I discover what happened to that bowl of cereal.  Dumbass put it in his pocket and left it there until it spoiled<\/i>.  NICE ONE JOHN.  And now I can't do anything with their friendship until Rodney's mood has improved.  

So, okay.  John needs to have four friends who are not Rodney in order to get promoted for work.  I reckon I'll send them off to the bar where he can meet some people, and since I can't let Rodney take his bad mood out on John while they are still precarious, I figure I'll let him blow off some steam there as well.  But at the bar John immediately came over 'tense' and miserable because he hates people on account of his 'loner' trait.  And it's like pulling teeth to get him to actually carry a conversation with anyone.  Fine, John.  

Since I could not deal with his special snowflakeness at that moment, I sent Rodney to insult some bar patrons.  Which he was all about<\/i>.  And when it hit the point where I had to determine whether or not it was in character for him to imply someone's mother was a llama, well, you can guess what choice I made.  Rodney got beat up, y'all.  And when I click back over on John he's now tense from all the people and<\/i> upset about witnessing a fight.  And decides to deal with his discomfort by...hiding behind the bar and doing push ups?  I DO NOT UNDERSTAND YOU SIM!JOHN.

They both perked up when they got home, and were again coming on all flirty.  And look, I was extremely dubious about it because of how things had been going, but I am not an unkind sim!god so I told them to go ahead and go for it.  I should've followed my instincts, because after they both slunk away from the bed to different parts of the house with twin 'embarrassed by bad woo hoo performance' moodlets.  That happened.  

And John still needs to make friends for work.  The gym, I think (remembering his random push ups at the bar) maybe he can make friends while running on the treadmill, and I'll just leave Rodney at home.  And he's okay when it's just one sim he's talking to.  Pleasant conversation even.  Until other sims join the conversation and he clams up entirely and gets all tense again while I assume he's wishing them all into the cornfield.  And then one of them gets all flirty mood about him, which starts making me nervous enough to haul Rodney over to the gym to insult her.  Or SO I THINK.  

Because Rodney gets there, sees John on the treadmill and ignores my directions entirely in favor of talking to John while he runs.  NOW John is totally chatty...with Rodney.  And I'm trying<\/i> to get him to talk to other people, but he's like 'yeah, but I have this great joke about chicken butts I want to tell Rodney first' and suddenly his socials menu when I click on other sims include shit like 'Lie about being a criminal mastermind'.  What.  

Clearly Rodney was being a bad influence and didn't they just want to punch each other in the face not 24 sim hours ago??? And John needs to make at least a few new friends Rodney so go home<\/i>.   Which he won't.  I mean, it's sitting there in his queue alright. 'go home'.  But he keeps autonomously pushing his socials to the front of the queue to delay it so I have to keep cancelling them (no, really Rodney, you can 'share your brilliant ideas' with John when he comes home, NOW GO AWAY).  

As soon as Rodney is gone any conversation I try and get John to start turns into an 'awkward encounter', which I checked his queued up socials and was like 'I really don't think making a joke about gross food is going to make this less awkward, John'...and he was like 'Shut up, Rodney thought my chicken butt joke was hilarious, and why do I need a promotion on the astronaut track anyway when my boyfriend is already building a rocket ship in the backyard?' 

And I just...gave up and sent him home.  Where you could hear Rodney playing with his toy robot from the sidewalk.  And when John walked in and headed to the bathroom, Rodney followed him<\/i> and proceeded to sit down on the bathroom floor and wave his robot at John and crack him up.  While John peed.  

Yup.  That was my Sim day.<\/a>

This entry was originally posted at http:\/\/fan-eunice.dreamwidth.org\/344272.html<\/a>.   (\"comment comments)  Comment wherever you want.<\/span>"},{"id":"urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:fan_eunice:348963","link":[{"@attributes":{"rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html","href":"https:\/\/fan-eunice.livejournal.com\/348963.html"}},{"@attributes":{"rel":"self","type":"text\/xml","href":"https:\/\/fan-eunice.livejournal.com\/data\/atom\/?itemid=348963"}}],"title":"fan_eunice @ 2014-09-10T10:57:00","published":"2014-09-10T16:47:11Z","updated":"2014-09-10T16:47:11Z","content":"Random post is random.  Anyhoo, ever since my son came home on vacation with the news that EA had released the entirety of Sims 2 for free (the offer is now over), I have fallen into a Sims hole that doesn't appear to have any end in sight.  I rapidly acquired 3 and started playing that too, and then caved within a day of 4 being released so all three versions are on my computer now and I'm playing all of them.  Since I have nothing else going on in my life and it's been forever since I made a post, let us talk about Sims 4.  

Basically if you have read the arguments and the howling, all I gotta say is.  Fuck the haters, this has the potential to be the best Sims game of all time<\/i>, and is already a stupid amount of fun, and let me tell you why.  The new multi-tasking plus emotions features are, in a nutshell, completely fucking AWESOME<\/i> particularly when it comes to autonomous decisions by the sims.  I wasn't even going to play any of my fannish households until more expansion material came out, but I became so enamoured with how utterly charming the Sims are in 4 with my randomized family (SO CHARMING), that I went ahead and made a John Sheppard and Rodney McKay to stick in a house. 

 

Those of you who have talked to me about my Sims addiction know that I love<\/i> to play them primarily because no matter which version, or how many saved games within a version I put Sim!John in he manages to turn his life into a hot mess<\/i> in utterly hilarious ways, and also ends up taking the brunt of every randomized disaster possible.  I'm sure some of this is how I play him (though I have yet to figure out what I'm doing so different than to how I play Sim!Rodney, who always ends up being a relatively self-sufficient Sim who can be left unsupervised for more than five seconds without lighting his face on fire<\/i>).  But it's not entirely me, and I can prove that by telling you about the time I put a copy of Sim!John in a house I was building just to test the routing<\/i>.  I didn't have him do anything<\/i> but 'go here'.  He got hit by a random meteor and died less than five minutes after I plunked him on the lot. 

So yes.  Sim!John Sheppard is like my hilarous bad life choices crack<\/i>. And 4 is now adding to this experience.  So anyhow, I plunked them down into the house I built for them, filled with shit specific to the personality\/aspirations I gave them.  Given how lively the Sims 4 sims are without being directed I decided to give them some time to do what ever they wanted to get a feel for how they were going to play during the times I was hands off one or the other.  

True to form, Sim!Rodney, after a moment of contemplation, grabbed a book about programming off the shelf and happily started reading.  Sim!John...flitted about the house picking up this thing or that thing for five seconds and then putting it down like a bored ADD toddler for awhile and then wandered over to bug Sim!Rodney.  Within less than five minutes his wish bubbles included 'Flirt with Rodney'...SCORE, and I didn't have to do<\/i> anything.  When Rodney wandered off to take a nap the first thing happened that made me laugh out loud.  John went back into bored ADD toddler mode for a bit and then settled on what he wanted to do.  Go hang out at the computer next to Rodney's bed (where he was still napping) and, I swear to god, he started \"Trolling teh forums\".  

AND THEN SHIT GOT AMAZING.  Finished trolling, John resumed his wandering and happened on the shelf I put all the kids toys on (they both have Childish in their personality traits).  OMG, y'all.  He went straight<\/i> for the pink unicorn (of course<\/i> he did) in a show of Sim enthusiasm rarely witnessed before, and I would have been cracking up regardless at his flailing around with a pink unicorn<\/i>, but then it GOT BETTER.  Because Sim!Rodney woke up, walked in, saw Sim!John and the toy shelf and practically started leaping up and down in excitement before running over to grab a toy robot (of course he did) off the shelf and plunking himself down on the floor next to Sim!John to play with it.  And then they were like, \"I HAVE A UNICORN\" and \"I HAVE A ROBOT\"...\"HEY WANNA PLAY UNICORN AND ROBOT TOGETHER?\"...\"YES, LETS\" and they proceeded to sit on the floor of their living room waving said unicorn and robot at each other playing for, like, an entire sim!hour.  I have no idea what kind of game involves both a pink unicorn and a robot?  But they were super<\/i> into it whatever it was.  I WAS DYING.  Every last penny I spent on Sims 4 was rewarded in that moment.  

Y'all, I did not tell them to do any of this<\/i>.  This was entirely undirected by me<\/i>.  As is the fact that when hungry, Rodney will go to the microwave if he's eating autonomously, because fuck cooking, and also favors heading for the coffee pot instead of sleep when his energy starts getting low, and has an unhealthy relationship with the tub that has jets in it.  And John will attempt to cook despite being horribly bad at it<\/i>, and after injuring himself several times (of course he does) will end up with a poor quality, like, salad that he doesn't want to eat, gets impatient and bored super easy, is already stalking sim!Rodney, likes to watch football\/sports on the tv, and did I mention the pink unicorn<\/i>.  He hasn't really had time to get into too<\/i> much trouble, except the part where I'm worried about him setting his face on fire (it's sim!tradition at this point that he do so at least once), but I can already tell hot mess sim!John is well in play.  

I fucking love this game and sims 4 is turning out to be motherfucking epic<\/i>.<\/a>

This entry was originally posted at http:\/\/fan-eunice.dreamwidth.org\/343818.html<\/a>.   (\"comment comments)  Comment wherever you want.<\/span>"},{"id":"urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:fan_eunice:348566","link":[{"@attributes":{"rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html","href":"https:\/\/fan-eunice.livejournal.com\/348566.html"}},{"@attributes":{"rel":"self","type":"text\/xml","href":"https:\/\/fan-eunice.livejournal.com\/data\/atom\/?itemid=348566"}}],"title":"Vividcon Premiere:  Keep The Car Running (Close Encounters)","published":"2014-08-10T19:32:21Z","updated":"2014-08-12T01:51:42Z","content":"Keep The Car Running
Song by:  Arcade Fire
Fandom:  Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Summary:  They're coming

Download (right-click, save as)<\/a>


This entry was originally posted at http:\/\/fan-eunice.dreamwidth.org\/343484.html<\/a>.   (\"comment comments)  Comment wherever you want.<\/span>"},{"id":"urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:fan_eunice:348306","link":[{"@attributes":{"rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html","href":"https:\/\/fan-eunice.livejournal.com\/348306.html"}},{"@attributes":{"rel":"self","type":"text\/xml","href":"https:\/\/fan-eunice.livejournal.com\/data\/atom\/?itemid=348306"}}],"title":"fan_eunice @ 2014-05-30T11:52:00","published":"2014-05-30T17:49:35Z","updated":"2014-05-30T17:49:35Z","content":"Been absent for reasons, but why not make a random and utterly shallow post about Arrow out of nowhere?  I can't think of a reason not to.  

I started marathoning it last week as a method of avoiding vidding and am now in the back half of season 2 (I expect I will finish catching up by tomorrow or the next day).  This show is ridiculously fun<\/i> you guys.  If you're not watching it already, give it a go. There are many, many reasons why I have ended up clapping my hands like a baby seal while watching.  Many.  Most of them related to the kind of absurd OTT superheroes\/villians and the world they live in tropes that just please me in my soul<\/i> and continually make me regret that (despite multiple efforts) the format of print comics does not, in general, work for me.  Also, everyone ever shows up on it eventually.  No, really everyone<\/i>.  You start thinking they have to run out of 'OMG that actor just showed up TOO?' moments eventually.  Except they don't, they just keep on coming.   

But I'm even shallower than that in terms of what can get me to make an actual post on the internet these days.  Yeah, shipping.  Obviously, anyone who has met me for more than five seconds would have known I'd jump on Felicity\/Oliver practically from the second they met (I did).  Brains\/Brawn is towards the very top of my 'autoship' list. Make it awkward sciency brains plus emotionally broken brawn fighting crime<\/i> and it may as well have been giftwrapped with a bow and a card saying 'For Eunice Specifically' on it.  I ship it so hard<\/i> you don't even know.   

And then.  AND THEN.  So I've been flirting with various OT3 and multishipping options all along 'cause that's how I roll, and will likely do so for as long as I'm watching (particularly when they give me so many reasons to).  BUT OH MY GOD, and now I cut because the very existence of this character is a spoiler:



Oliver\/Felicity\/Sara you guys.  *grabs internet by the shoulders and shakes it*.  YOU GUYS.  *flails incoherently at the various dynamics that exist between the three of them separately and together*.  I have it so bad.  So bad.  I can't tell you how happy it makes me.  TWO awkward sciency brains\/emotionally broken brawn parings in one OT3, and one of which is between women<\/i>. plus bonus emotionally damaged brawn hotness to the second power.  I'm just...overwhelmed by the three of them continually giving me exactly what I want<\/i> for shipping purposes as any two or all three share a screen together.  Granted, I have not finished season 2 yet, but at this perfect moment in my shipping life I am surrounded by puppies and rainbows and balloons making high pitched squeaky noises only dogs can hear at each new episode.   

And hell, if it all falls apart I still have my original OT3 leanings of Oliver\/Felicity\/Diggle, which is a dynamic I still love a lot, but provokes more AWWW BUDDYSHIP,  COOKIES AND CUDDLES FOR EVERYONE feelings in me than falling on the floor in a fit of heartclutching pointing and flailing.  Hell, I'd go OT4 in this situation, I think, but for not quite finding my way in to Sara\/Diggle.  Well, yet.  It is me, I'll probably find a way eventually.<\/a>

This entry was originally posted at http:\/\/fan-eunice.dreamwidth.org\/343250.html<\/a>.   (\"comment comments)  Comment wherever you want.<\/span>"},{"id":"urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:fan_eunice:348016","link":[{"@attributes":{"rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html","href":"https:\/\/fan-eunice.livejournal.com\/348016.html"}},{"@attributes":{"rel":"self","type":"text\/xml","href":"https:\/\/fan-eunice.livejournal.com\/data\/atom\/?itemid=348016"}}],"title":"fan_eunice @ 2014-05-13T11:37:00","published":"2014-05-13T16:49:03Z","updated":"2014-05-13T16:49:03Z","content":"It has been awhile since I have posted because reasons, but what the hey.  I shall do a meme.

Anyone who feels like it should post their ten most CRUCIAL CRUCIAL CRUCIAL-ASS movies, like the movies that explain everything about yourselves in your current incarnations (not necessarily your ten favorite movies but the ten movies that you, as a person existing currently, feel would help people get to know you) (they can change later on obviously).<\/i>

The direction I went with in picking the list was essentially movies that were deeply<\/i> formative for whatever reason in my youth\/young adulthood, because they are the roots of the tree that is me, or whatever silly metaphor you prefer.  Unsurprisingly I have actually ended up vidding several of the movies list, heh.  It was still tough narrowing, though.  I...actually have no idea what this list says about me overall as a person.  

The Muppet Movie
Empire Strikes Back
Valley Girl
The Right Stuff
Some Kind of Wonderful
Witness
Nightmare on Elm Street
Thelma and Louise
While You Were Sleeping
Terminator 2

This entry was originally posted at http:\/\/fan-eunice.dreamwidth.org\/342833.html<\/a>.   (\"comment comments)  Comment wherever you want.<\/span>"},{"id":"urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:fan_eunice:347435","link":[{"@attributes":{"rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html","href":"https:\/\/fan-eunice.livejournal.com\/347435.html"}},{"@attributes":{"rel":"self","type":"text\/xml","href":"https:\/\/fan-eunice.livejournal.com\/data\/atom\/?itemid=347435"}}],"title":"Festivids reveal!","published":"2014-02-09T14:45:12Z","updated":"2014-02-09T14:45:12Z","content":"Ack!!  For reasons which boil down to 'brain' I thought today was Saturday<\/i> and that I had a whole 24 hours before reveals to finish commenting and get my signed versions up.  Did you know it's not Saturday and reveals are today<\/i>?  I just put the unsigned streaming in my posts for now, but will have signed up for downloading as well as streaming later this afternoon.  Ooops?  

This year I made:

This Could All Be Yours<\/a> (Big) for \"[personal<\/a>rhoboat<\/b><\/a><\/span>

and

Teardrop<\/a> (Hard Candy) for \"[personal<\/a>goodbyebird<\/b><\/a><\/span>

This entry was originally posted at http:\/\/fan-eunice.dreamwidth.org\/342417.html<\/a>.   (\"comment comments)  Comment wherever you want.<\/span>"},{"id":"urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:fan_eunice:347165","link":[{"@attributes":{"rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html","href":"https:\/\/fan-eunice.livejournal.com\/347165.html"}},{"@attributes":{"rel":"self","type":"text\/xml","href":"https:\/\/fan-eunice.livejournal.com\/data\/atom\/?itemid=347165"}}],"title":"Festiviiiiids","published":"2014-01-27T22:17:24Z","updated":"2014-01-27T22:19:02Z","content":"So you guys.  FESTIVIDS IS HAPPENING.  I have not been great with the words and the brain of late, and I wanted to make my GO WATCH MY VIDS SOMEONE MADE FOR ME post when I had better words (and to my festividders for whom I was only able to manage random flailing capslock, I swear better comments are coming from me when I do).  But I'm not sure when words are happening so I point them to you with the flailing anyway.

So y'all.   

Stop Dragging My Heart Around<\/a> (Indiana Jones).  An Indy\/Marion vid, you guys.  I got an Indy\/Marion vid<\/i>.  On the off chance that didn't cause you to go running (not walking) towards the link, what is wrong with you<\/i>.  I'll just be over there flapping my hands in an embarrassing fashion that ends with me accidentally hitting myself in the face and then not caring that I may have broken my own nose.  

The Moment of Truth<\/a> and Tonight You're Perfect<\/a> (The Last Starfighter).  And I also got not one, but TWO The Last Starfighter vids.  TWO OF THEM.  For meeeee and<\/i> my mom.  In a circumstance where 'your mom' is the exact opposite of an insult and a thing of LOVE.  I will be honest with you now that this has happened, that I actually spent some of the run up to festivids secretly pouting a bit expecting that I wouldn't get a Last Starfighter vid at all and I really, really wanted one?  AND THEN I GOT TWO.  Both of which gave me so many feelings<\/i> y'all.  So. Many. Feelings.  I can't.  Words.  THIS MOVIE.  MY CHILDHOOD.  THESE VIDDERS.  MY MOM.

This entry was originally posted at http:\/\/fan-eunice.dreamwidth.org\/342245.html<\/a>.   (\"comment comments)  Comment wherever you want.<\/span>"},{"id":"urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:fan_eunice:347020","link":[{"@attributes":{"rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html","href":"https:\/\/fan-eunice.livejournal.com\/347020.html"}},{"@attributes":{"rel":"self","type":"text\/xml","href":"https:\/\/fan-eunice.livejournal.com\/data\/atom\/?itemid=347020"}}],"title":"Festivid:  Teardrop (Hard Candy)","published":"2014-01-25T06:37:44Z","updated":"2014-02-09T14:40:58Z","category":[{"@attributes":{"term":"festivids"}},{"@attributes":{"term":"my vids"}}],"content":"vid warning policy<\/a>

Title:  Teardrop
Artist: Jose Gonzalez
Fandom:  Hard Candy


Summary:  Teardrop on the fire of a confession

Download: Working on it!!  Will be up soon :)


Password: festivids<\/b>
 
<\/a>

Made for \"[personal<\/a>goodbyebird<\/b><\/a><\/span>, Festivids 2013<\/a>

This entry was originally posted at http:\/\/fan-eunice.dreamwidth.org\/341998.html<\/a>.   (\"comment comments)  Comment wherever you want.<\/span>"},{"id":"urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:fan_eunice:346670","link":[{"@attributes":{"rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html","href":"https:\/\/fan-eunice.livejournal.com\/346670.html"}},{"@attributes":{"rel":"self","type":"text\/xml","href":"https:\/\/fan-eunice.livejournal.com\/data\/atom\/?itemid=346670"}}],"title":"fan_eunice @ 2014-01-15T09:48:00","published":"2014-01-15T17:02:47Z","updated":"2014-01-15T17:02:47Z","content":"I'm not up to responding to comments on my last entry, but so many hugs for the support...it most definitely helps.  <3 <3 <3

I am off the mountain and back in Wisconsin for the time being which is a very good thing.

Current method of distraction remains SGA (and a little bit of SG-1).  Been reading a lot of McShep fic, old and newer that I missed over the past few years.  The best thing about it is how many of my favorite tropes end up in SGA fic.  Accidentally dating!!!  Hypothermia made them cuddle!!!  Aliens made them do it!!!  Trapped on\/in an alien planet\/transporter\/puddlejumper!!!  Sentient Atlantis is a matchmaker!!!  Thought you were dead\/ascended!!!  

But most of all.  Above all else.  PINING.  So. Much. Pining.  And y'all, no one but no one<\/i> pines like John Sheppard.  It is his gift.  He is like the perfect storm of pining.  He only wishes he was as good at blowing himself up as he is at pining.  It is a beautiful, beautiful thing (but only when he gets the boy in the end, unrequited pining is my anti-kink).

This entry was originally posted at http:\/\/fan-eunice.dreamwidth.org\/341754.html<\/a>.   (\"comment comments)  Comment wherever you want.<\/span>"},{"id":"urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:fan_eunice:346457","link":[{"@attributes":{"rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html","href":"https:\/\/fan-eunice.livejournal.com\/346457.html"}},{"@attributes":{"rel":"self","type":"text\/xml","href":"https:\/\/fan-eunice.livejournal.com\/data\/atom\/?itemid=346457"}}],"title":"Festivid:  This Could All Be Yours (Big)","published":"2014-01-11T00:40:10Z","updated":"2014-02-09T14:38:04Z","category":[{"@attributes":{"term":"festivids"}},{"@attributes":{"term":"my vids"}}],"content":"vid warning policy<\/a>

Title:  This Could All Be Yours
Artist:  Guster
Fandom:  Big


Summary:  In a blink your life could change

Download: Working on it!!  Will be up soon :)


Password: festivids<\/b>
 
<\/a>

Made for \"[personal<\/a>rhoboat<\/b><\/a><\/span>, Festivids 2013<\/a>

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