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[sab]

If there is at least one person in your life whom you consider a close friend, and whom you would not have met without being part of an online fandom, post this sentence in your journal.

That's a meme, apparently. I'm more curious if there's anyone out there for whom this isn't true. 'Fess up. Me, meanwhile, I owe everything I am to fandom. runpunkrun and wearemany and pene and _maayan, I can't, I mean, it's like weird twisty time travel to try and imagine my life without them. Without all of you, really, all you YV and Mango people and Farscape people and Babylon 5 people and readers and writers and people who draw stuff... This is who I am. I mean, this is who we are. I love you so much.

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Closer broke me the fuck up. There is, I said to _maayan, who was rubbing my back as we left the theatre, me all teary and snotty, exactly one (1) type of movie that makes me cry, and that's the one. It is, I said to wearemany over too much filet mignon chili, that dazzler of a girl, that Scarlett-Johanneson-in-Lost-in-Translation cum Kate Winslet "I am not a concept" type of pinkhaired girl that I relate to, that girl who invariably leaves ("I'm the one who leaves!") visibly unscathed, because all she was was what they wanted her to be, what they needed her to be, for them. A magic-realism pixie-ish Mary Poppins, stuck around till the wind changes, her own needs irrelevant, forgotten, not part of the narrative. Just lurking there, because she's independent enough not to share them, or because she doesn't need to, and, anyway, it was, at the risk of avoiding spoilers, that shot of her passport that set me off. As far as true blue reviewing goes: Mike Nichols knows what to do with a play, knows what to do with humans, and liars, and people. As a player/human/liar myself, I'll tell you this one was spot on, and the best movie I've seen since LiT did the same thing to me last year.

Meanwhile, I have nothing to say about House of Flying Daggers. No, wait. That's a lie. Zhang Ziyi, also known as Ziyi Zhang, is dangerously, preternaturally, attack-me-with-ly-adverbs-why-doncha, ridiculously beautiful. I thought the movie was unimpressive, overlong and totally unsympathetic. In smaller words, who the fuck CARES? But I liked the bamboo.

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I bought H:LOTS Season 4 on DVD, because the paycheck from MInc arrived and I couldn't resist. I am a sucker for Mike Kellerman, mainly a sucker for the cast arrangement in S4 and S5, with yer Lewis/Kellermans on one hand and yer Bayliss/Pembletons on the other, and Sergeant Kay lighting the way. I sped through it and sold it back to Amoeba so's I could cash in on S5, and I'm two discs in and happy as clams. If I can scrape together the money, I fully plan to keep this boxed set (Luther Mahoney! Julianna Cox! Bayliss takes a bullet for Frank! Kellerman sinks into a deep blue funk!) as part of my permanent exhibit, up there next to M*A*S*H seasons 4 and 5 and my special edition of The Abyss.

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I'm rec'ing Star Trek this month on crack_van; color me as surprised as the next girl.

Comments

[empressaurelius.livejournal.com]

Online fandom is such a beautiful thing sometimes, isn't it? I've met so many great people and made so many RL friends....


Ooh, that's right, Closer came out too. I should see that, too. God, I'm such a movie slut. LOL.

[coconutswirl.livejournal.com]

You are the first person that has made me interested in seeing Closer. I've seen previews and had a few reviews and was generally "meh".

But this could suddenly work for me.

Thanks.

[selenak.livejournal.com]

I can't imagine my life without you, either, and not just because you contribute to making me come up with this,
that and this. And also this.

Star Trek: Well, after Una's Garak-centric month, the other Scaly One certainly deserves some representation.*g* But don't forget Vedeks and Ferengi; they need love, too.

[pene.livejournal.com]

god. I mean, can you imagine me without the meeting J and you? there's a whole other girl.

miss you always and always.

[strangemuses.livejournal.com]

I'm more curious if there's anyone out there for whom this isn't true. 'Fess up.

*raises hand* I have made no friendships that I consider truly close via online fandom. I have a lot of friends, but only a handful that I consider to be close friends. Perhaps it's just semantics. The people that I do consider to be close friends are all in fandom, and the online people that I consider to be friends are also largely in fandom.

[maudelynn.livejournal.com]

Hey there,
I have one great costuming friend I met online.
Hmm perhaps I should see closer. Some of those pixies girls fly away and some drift off into the sunset like a lost balloon.


Can't wait to see your polka dotted shoes

[-happyme-.livejournal.com]

Apologies for spamming your LJ.

I've created a couple of Babylon 5 icon communities. The first is for the posting of B5 icons in general, the other for contests:

babylon5icons
babylon5contest.

You are most welcome to join them.

(PS I remembered your name from the typo icon in my set.)

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

Rock on! Have you visited iconsharingnet?

Glad you're getting mileage out of this icon -- it's one of my favorites too. *g*

[-happyme-.livejournal.com]

Thanks for responding.

I have the iconsharingnet in my comms flist. It doesn't seem to receive that many posts.

Maybe the name is putting folks off (perhaps it's not immediately recognisable at being a Babylon 5 group).

I've linked to it so I hope that it may gain more visitors. If babylon5icons remains stagnant then I may differentiate it by offering blanks etc. I'm no artist, but there must be people who could use that.

I'm trying to generate interest in the fandom because, well, I want the pretties.

:)

[svilleficrecs.livejournal.com]

What's MInc? And Fandom is awesome. You're quite right. Incredibly generous, entertaining place.

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

MInc is Measurement Inc, a company penknife graciously hooked me up with some freelance work for.

And fandom still rocks. I'm thrilled you're doin' BSG for the soldier wank!

[svilleficrecs.livejournal.com]

Thanks. :) It works really well w/ something I'm working on right now (the wanking is about to commence at this point in the writing), but I'll probably do a separate fic for the challenge. And wanking is such a bulletproof kink of mine, I'm giddy w/ anticipation over the fic that'll be coming out. :) Oh, and I like your icon. :)