elisi's humble abode

It's the Cherub's birthday today (She's 5! How did that happen? Although to be honest it feels like more than five years since she arrived...). Anyway, I'm very busy, but I've seen a lot of comics related posts the last few days, and thought about writing my own.

And then I decided against it. Because the thing is: I don't care. My emotional investment is literally zero. Or, to be more specific, my investment in the story is non-existant. (Not that I ever considered them canon, but the comics have literally gone out of their way to make sure that I'm incapable of accepting them as anything except crack-fic. Although, taken as crack-fic, they're pretty awesome, and I'm very happy that others can enjoy them. Plus I still think that the Spuffy-stuff is fun. I always like Spuffy.)

Anyway, where was I? Oh yes. Any emotions come from my anger/disappointment in the writers. (I could go on at length about this, but I won't. I just hope the whole thing will be resolved with as little fail as possible!)

And now I shall go sort out the house and pretty-fy it with balloons and banners for later. :)

ETA: The Cherub has (obviously) been looking forward to her birthday for a long time, waiting for it to be autumn so it'd arrive. Which led to this declaration yesterday: "And tomorrow it's my birthday and also it's going to be autumn and there'll be conkers EVERYWHERE in the whole world!"

So now you know.

solitary_summer has written an extraordinary essay examining RTD's Who-era (Death, life, and what it means to be human in RTD's Doctor Who and Torchwood). Very long, very in-depth, absolutely worth your while!


Or, if you feel like something completely different, you could go read angearia's interview with Scott Allie. I am not going to comment on it, since I'm still stuck in WTF-mode. No really. At least it explains very well why the comics (and everyone's characterisation, Angel's especially) is in such a shambles. Many thanks to Emmie for her excellent questions btw.

ETA: Re. Angel, let me pimp the_royal_anna's exquisite Angel’s Life in Five Acts. Excerpt:

The girl with the golden hair held out her hands. "If you turn over the child," she said, "You can save the world."

But he shook his head, and stood firm.

"I'll save the child," he said, "If I have to turn over the world."

Happy Belated Birthday to fotada, garfpooky, lilachigh, mgal, jenjojen, arclevel and spikesgurl.

And Happy Birthday today to gabrielleabelle and katjs11.

Hope you've all had/are having a fabulous day! *sends many hugs and good wishes for the future*

I don't have anything in the way of presents, but I did make a macro... ;) (Free to good homes btw. Credit would be nice, but is not necessary.)



ETA: OMG! Miniature Art on the Tip of Pencil by Dalton Ghetti. Unbelievable!

Via this page of Joss Whedon quotes:

It’s better to be a spy in the house of love, you know ? . . . If I made ‘Buffy the Lesbian Separatist,’ a series of lectures on PBS on why there should be feminism, no one would be coming to the party, and it would be boring. The idea of changing culture is important to me, and it can only be done in a popular medium.

On the whole, I'd greatly have preferred the lectures.

ETA: Since I'm here, this vid is very, very good at showing the problematic nature of some of Joss' work:

My Medea by yunitsa. Many thanks to rm for helping me find it again.

Had a thought the other day, re. the current story lines in s8 and AtF. Spoilers for everything under the cut.

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But... someone should make an icon of Twangel (WITH SPARKLES!) that says:

"What if I'm not the hero? [dramatic pause] What if I'm... The Bad Guy?"

Or maybe it should be:

"What if I'm not the hero? What if I'm... [dramatic pause] The Bad Guy?"

Not sure how you'd make a pause in an icon though. (ETA: Of course you could make a .gif, but having thought about it I'd (also) love the words 'dramatic pause', just because it's be funny. *g*

ANYWAY, just throwing it out there.

(Am watching channel 4 btw. 'Tis funny!)

I'm not going to say anything about s8, except that THIS is the greatest thing EVER!

Well, maybe except for this. Watch, and be amazed!

Look what a lovely icon dtissagirl made for me! Have a feeling I'll be using it a lot...

Was supposed to *do* stuff today, but I swear I can not get anything done with husband + three kids around ALL THE TIME. (I love them. Dearly. But I might go insane.)

Anyway, was browsing amazon, and discovered that two of the items I've had on my wishlist were suddenly on sale, so bought them before I could think twice, and am now eagerly waiting for S4 of DW (70% off!!!) and Children of Earth (64% off!!!). \o/

Also tonight's gonna be a good night, because the girls are staying at their grandparents for a sleepover, and Darcy is taking me to the theater. Might still be insane, but at least I'll be happy. ;)

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Have read a lot of reviews of #34, and really it's just awful on all levels. I mean, if you're going to do 'porn', make it either hot, or funny. Or both, like Torchwood did... ( THAT clip from Adrift under cut, because I love it to pieces )

2maggie2 has The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of #34. Happy Bangel!Boinking!Day y'all, and try not to despair. (It really is boinking day, btw. Joss appears to be doing Torchwood in reverse... Starting out with OMG!Awesome, and now ending up with 'Look! They're shagging! Wow, we're being really *adult* now! ::snicker::')

BUT! gabrielleabelle wrote 15 Reasons Why Buffy's My Homegirl, which made me cry and laugh! :)

And for the Whovians, I uploaded Hamlet's Speech: The End of Ten (.flv file, plays beautifully with VLC) if anyone wants it. :)

Reading through the Sunday Times Culture magazine, I came across this review of Lloyd Webber's 'Love Never Dies' - his new sequel to The Phantom of the Opera... A few choice snippets for those of my flist who're feeling down:

The Phantom of the Opera is the biggest entertainment phenomenon in history [...] Now comes the non-awaited, sorry, long-awaited sequel, Love Never Dies, and its legions of passionate "phans" are incensed, seeing this as a cynical add-on to a timeless masterpiece.
[...]
Yes Christine really did love the Phantom, and Raoul turned out to be a cad. [cue examples] None of this villainy was remotely hinted at in Phantom. It's one of the many excruciating ways in which the original characters have had to be deformed to fit this childish and cheesy melodrama. (Babybelodrama, possibly.)
[...]
It's not only that this is implausible. The original Phantom, after all, featured a deformed genius who lived on a secret candlelit lake under the Paris Opera House, which hardly suggested the stern realism of Emile Zola. The trouble is, you have two completely different stories, ineptly yoked together and still audibly kicking and screaming in the traces.

Apparently it's been dubbed 'Paint Never Dries' by disgruntled fans. *g* At least we've only got badly drawn comic books to deal with, not some big screen abomination.