This post has almost no connection to whedonland. BE ASTONISHED.


Have just signed up for lots20in20, Legend of the Seeker icontest.

I've seen one episode.

It's the one from yesterday, where the Action Chick (with optional Leather Gear and Blond Hair) goes to visit her Secret Relative, but the nearby Mob of Angry Locals wants to kill her. So they recruit the Pretty Girl Who Uses White Magic for an executioner, but she and the Handsome Rogue end up saving the Action Chick instead. Meanwhile, the Chosen One (with optional Being a Teenaged Boy) gets kidnapped, and the Wise Old Wizard (with mandatory Long, Grey Hair) attempts to rescue him.

Somehow this is a great show. I think it's the costumes.


Still debating if I'd rather do doctorwho20in20 or whoverse20in20 next month, 'cause I signed up for both once and couldn't do it. I think I might ask if the Cushing Doctor counts, and go with whoever says yes. This will, of course, completely undermine the anonymous round over at whoverse20in20.


Anyway, click lots of names in this post.

Made for whedonland. (Got an honorable mention, though there were seven winners counting those. Thanks to everyone who voted for me!) The version I submitted bugged me, so I made an alternate. Both are 1440x900 (should look right on any standard widescreen res).

Warning: the full .pngs are like 1.5mb. JPG sucks, shut up.



Imageshack instead of Photobucket on account of size, so tell me if you're way in the future and the pics are gone.

I'd prefer you didn't edit (though I might be willing to do that for you) or repost these.

Enjoy.

For doctorwho20in20.



( Big table of win icons. )

(Except for you, flist. I heart you guys.)

I had this idea for a comm. It would be called something like justliketheshow or itslikecanon. ([Bad username: icantbelieveitsnotcanon] is over the character limit. Alas.)

It would be for posting, reccing, and asking help finding any fan-made thing (mostly fic, but Horrible Turn would totally count) that is similar in tone to the canon it's based on. For most fandoms, that would mean plotty gen with hints of canon ships. Basically, it's a comm for people who are turning to fic because there's only so much canon and they want more.

It could possibly host a ficathon as an opening bash. That part I'm not sure about.

What I want from you: tell me if
a) This is a stupid or good idea. I know it's LJ and we're all super nice all the time, but you can in fact post "this sounds lame, I wouldn't join it."
b) This already exists (and is active).
c) You want to post your stuff, help mod, or affiliate if I make it.
d) You have an opinion on what I could call it.

Thanks, flist. And remember: you > gen > everyone else.



eta: I like how the first two totally made up usernames are okay, but LJ won't pretend that the really long one is real.

For whedonland.

But first! Sorry to anyone whose entries or comments I'm replying to now, three days after you posted them. I know LJ has this weird rule where all conversations die 36 hours (or 2 at BRBG), but I was busy playing videogames. I'm sure you understand.

Now. Music meme, from penikitty.

The person she got it from has a flocked journal :\ so I can't check, but I think this is the quoted text for the meme:

You can learn a lot about someone by the music they listen to. So here is the game! Hit shuffle on your ipod or mp3 player and write down the first 20 songs. No cheating or skipping songs that are shameful.

Obviously I won't break the rules, since the rules say not to. I challenge you to learn a lot about me from the following 20 songs:

01. The Gathering - Shrink
02. Nightwish - Cadence of Her Last Breath
03. Niel Patrick Harris - My Freeze Ray
04. YQM and Y_Q_M - Metamorphosis
05. Abney Park - Child King
06. Jonathan Coulton - Mr. Fancy Pants
07. Abney Park - The Emporer's Wives
08. Final Fantasy VII Advent Children Soundtrack: Black Water
09. Final Fantasy VII Advent Children Soundtrack: Opening
10. To-Mera - Mirage
11. Nathan Fillion - Everyone's A Hero
12. To-Mera - Temptation
13 is an episode of Astronomy Cast.
14. E.S. Posthumus - Harappa
15. Commentary! The Musical - The Art
16. The Black Mages - The Man With the Machine Gun
17. Abney Park - The Death of the Hero (sadly not the pretty violin version)
18. The Gathering - The Earth Is My Witness
19. Trocadero - Spiritual
20. Nightwish - Stargazers


...Man, why do I have almost nothing other than rock on here? Some of it dangerously near radio-friendly! I am very bad at this "I will listen to anything not on the radio" thing lately. :\

Aside from just YAY NEW CANON THERE HASN'T BEEN ANYTHING EXCEPT THAT SJA THING SINCE EASTER THIS IS SO AWESOME, obviously.

( Spoilers for The Waters of Mars. )

:D



Also, does anyone have access to Photoshop and want to help with a nerdy project? I'd need you to take two images that I give you, combine them with every layer mode except for normal (there should be 24), and save each one as a .png. And also tell me your Photoshop version. It should only take a few minutes.

Shows I am currently watching: 8
Shows I am currently watching on TV here in America: 0

I guess that simplifies things, then.

At this point, my TV is only there to plug my PS2 into. After watching the remaining nine Dollhouse episodes when they come out on Hulu, I may never see a commercial again.

Decided to have one post for banners I collect, instead of putting them at the bottom of icon dumps. (Which works fine as long as they're not for fic, buttons, etc..)

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(Or if you prefer, Brother Cavil: The Movie.)

Five: What's the plan?

Cavil: The plan is, everything blows up a week ago. All humans are dead, and we cylons all download, and the universe basks in justice. However--

Six: It didn't frakking happen.

Cavil: Exactly.

It was a trainwreck, but the rest isn't worth listing.


P.S. For those interested (if you haven't seen it already anyway), Tahmoh Penikett is only in it for about 20 seconds total, all in footage from earlier episodes. You will literally spend more time looking at other women's breasts than looking at Tahmoh if you watch this movie.

An unapologetic picspam about the multitude of references to the big spoiler from Act III, throughout the musical.

For whedonland.

( everything you ever )

He stopped the world. With his freeze ray.

Stuff from ct_lims, dw_epicontest, and whedonland.

1x Serenity (Zoe)
1x Catherine Tate
10x Doctor Who S4 (mostly Donna)


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remixthedrabble's Round 7 Masterlist, with author names revealed. Big thanks to joking and lilfluffykitten! I loved them both.

I guess at some point I'll be reposting the two I did here. I love them less than the ones I got.

Link at Hulu, as encouragement for non-Dollhouse flist people.

( Spoilers. )

My final thoughts on this episode: VICTOR/SIERRA :D !!!


I just decided to look up who wrote some episodes. It turns out that Epitaph One, the epitome of Dollhouse awesomeness, Stage Fright, the epitome of the boringness that is the Amazing Echo Show, were written by the same people. And they were also half the writing team of Dr. Horrible. AND they did this one, which is where I get really confused. They did not, as I previously guessed, write Instinct (3x02).

There is an upcoming episode (also by them) called The Attic. WHY IS IT NOT DECEMBER YET?

Joss, a BSG fan, is entirely responsible for writing the Apollo vs. Helo fight. No big surprise, just cool. The person who wrote Needs is coming back two episodes from now, which is promising.

3x04 was directed by Commander Riker. Neat.

For doctorwho20in20.

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remixthedrabble! Remixes are like, my third favorite Internet holiday. And also they happen three or four times a year.

I did two: one for Doctor Who, and one for something else that hasn't been posted yet. The top post in the comm right now is list #1: Doctor Who and Torchwood.

I also got remixed twice: Upside-Down and Upside-Down II got remixed into A Matter of Perspective (The Disorientation Remix) and Upside Down (The Abyss to Hope Remix), respectively. AND BOTH ARE COMPLETELY AWESOME.

At this point, I think everything I've ever posted has been remixed by someone. I mean, not actually, but some crazy high percentage. I am really going to have to start finishing my own original fics before I sign up to be a remixee again.

Yes, I know, I post too much lately. This is important though. If you don't care enough about Dollhouse to read all this, just go watch it on Hulu. I don't even care if you actually watch it as long as your computer thinks you did. Hulu has ratings. But if you do like it, buy it on iTunes! iTunes also has ratings. Then tell all your friends. Especially the ones with broadband and American IPs.


So apparently, Dollhouse does not have great ratings. Cue preemptive save-the-show campaign. As long as the slogan is "watch Dollhouse" rather than "save Dollhouse," it probably does a lot more good than harm. So even though I personally refuse to join another save-the-show campaign ever again (this whole thing is giving me Fifth of Farscape flashbacks that, aside from the Ratscape posters and the 1812 vid, I don't want), I thought I'd point Dollhouse people on the flist in the right direction.

The right direction is: Activate Dollhouse.

It's got a lot of people from LJ over there, but while their LJ efforts seem to be limited to flocked avatars and rants, the forum is down to business. There is literally a post where you can do something useful just by watching the show on TV and taking a couple of notes during the breaks, so whatever your skillset is, they'll find a use for you. Also, Why I Watch is really cool, though I should warn you that I think it starts playing audio on load.

Oh, and to save you the trouble, here's what you'll see if you join that Dollhouse-saving comm you may have seen advertised at Whedonland: the exact same stuff as dollhouse_tv has un-flocked (icons, reaction posts, links to interviews, I think I saw some caps), plus scattered posts about how random Internet people imagine the TV industry might work, as a reason to panic. And calls to spread publicity...by locking your posts. So yeah, don't let the fact that their navigation and few public posts all link to flocked content fool you into thinking that's where the party's at.

Seriously, I cannot tell you how much I hate flocked comms. It's way up there with stuff like canceling my favorite shows, and lens flares in graphics.

Anyway, go check out those forums. They're collecting graphics, testimonials, lists of sponsors, all sorts of things you could do if you want to help them try to boost those ratings. At the very worst, looking around the forums beats starting an Internet petition or mailing a random food item to strangers.


P.S., some people are collecting Dollhouse-related essays for a book and giving $1000 to the best one. Here, if you're interested. Don't know much about it but it looks legit.

I would just like to point out that on the daily, the new Doctor Who logo got most of the news links and 21 different discussion links. And then there was a section called "not the logo or costumes" and it had one.

We desperately need new canon.

Somebody not afraid of spoilers want to click around and find the date for Waters of Mars? Thanks.