You know what? I liked it. I went into the theatre biased by reviews that it would royally suck and I came out having enjoyed it and totally fallen in love with a character I didn't think I'd like.

I can understand where those expecting a certain something from the animation were disappointed (as the scenery was beautiful, but the character movements left something to be desired and I don't think some characters looked enough like the actors that portrayed them while others were very good translations into a drawn media, non-motionwise) and I can understand how canon purists are annoyed at it as they were with 1-3 (as there are characters and plot elements here that will need to be taken care of quite specifically before the end of the TV show run and I too was a little "ugh, really?" when I first heard about the additions).

I think the animation could have been better and I don't think it will ever be epic as 4-6 obviously are, but I think it's thoroughly enjoyable and it recaptures the humor we see in 4-6, which was something I really loved about it. I think the crucial element of my enjoyment was character dynamics, rather than animation itself or specific plot, because there was definitely good back and forth in this movie.

( where I get specific, so SPOILERS )

( youtube bits of movie and 'behind-the-scenes', so DEFINITE SPOILERS )

ganked from lily_cdj because this was not only hilarious (it's a 20-second morpher, some of these images are bound to be made of visual LULZ), ITWASSOMUCHFUN.

These go girl/boy in order unless I say otherwise.

I have more than a few for Wash & Zoë as the first two choices of images didn't seem to be registering features entirely - I thought the children had most of Wash's features, as far as facial structure.
( Wash/Zoë )


And I made more than a few for Sarah & Peter too >.> not because the images weren't working, but because I was curious as to what would keep generating.
( Sarah/Peter )
The first child I generated for them was WEARING A DUCK COSTUME. *slain* Apparently this generator liked the idea so much, I ended up with that little girl twice.


Even though they HAVE adorable kids, I couldn't resist doing this for Nathan & Heidi too, as both their children are boys and heck, this is fun.
( Nathan/Heidi )
And clearly this pair needed a kid in a duck costume too? AWW, MATCHING.


And, as they are Twilight vampires, they will never have children of their own, BUT I did this for Alice & Jasper ANYHOW. However, could they? IT WOULD BE THE THIRD. She is too freaking cuuuute.
( Alice/Jasper )


And I have to say, when switching the photos out, I was really tempted to make crack babies between the mismatched pairs. As I couldn't resist, here is Wash & Peter's daughter AHAHAHAH:
( *dies* )
Alice & Zoë's son:
( hee )
Aaaaaand Nathan & Jasper's daughter
( *dies again* )

PROMPT: Proposal Meme: Zoë/Wash
AUTHOR: Jessi, princessjessia (Disclaimer)
FANDOM: Firefly
CHARACTERS: Wash, Zoë
SUMMARY: "Somethin' about him bothers me."
RATING: PG-13 for indirect adult themes
WORD COUNT: 841
NOTES: for dyaniera, with much ♥

( not a second I would change // not a touch that I would trade  )

D'aww, I need some adorable or crack in my life.

Something borrowed, something blue...something like that. Give me one of your characters and one of mine and I will write you a short drabble (around 100 words) of what a marriage proposal could be like for them! Feel free to pick a current ship, complete crack, or even one we've played or discussed that out and I'll do a variation of sorts.

Crossing out the word limit, as we all know I'm unlikely to be that concise. Feel free to suggest more than one pairing, but I may not write them all. Characters past and present here.

Does anyone else besides me look back at past RP - scenes, journal exchanges, profiles of characters, etc - and go "who wrote this, as it certainly wasn't me!"? Not in a bad 'ugh' way but a puzzled sort of "I don't write like this now" way.

I've always done that. For as much as there are the typical parts of my RP history that make me cringe and squirm, there are the scenes or exchanges where characters just mesh in loving or hysterical or impressively combative ways that I'm just stumped as to how I had a part in that. I usually have plenty to critique and agonize over when I'm writing/posting, so memory tells me what I'm looking back on (the parts that I wrote) should actually suck.

Take the characterization for Gibbon I created earlier this year and used in two games. When I made him, I was certain he was going to tank spectacularly, as he was nothing like the 'truly loyal DE' character I originally set out to create. He was definitely loyal, but everything else about him was unexpected. Now I read back and laugh at how ridiculous he was, but enjoyably so, and I don't think I could bring the muse back that well now. But damn do I want to. I know I couldn't dredge up an entire character history like his now if I prayed for days for the inspiration.

I think multi-fandom and mini-app processes are making me disgustingly lazy. :/

Though this should go without saying, CUT YOUR BREAKING DAWN SPOILERS, PLZKTHX.

My book won't arrive until the 6th and I'd like to remain spoiler-free because the lulz will be lulzier that way.

♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

*goes back to reading Good Omens*

I realized I was actually too worn out from vacation for many days to update, then forgot, as typical for me. So, go me? But the trip was nice in parts, and crappy in other parts and it was really good to be home. This is typically my response to vacations to see this group of people, because as much as I love this part of my family, they can often be the most infuriating people in my existence. My sister did not go, but as I know why she didn't, the blame is laying elsewhere, for the most part. She and her husband were here until the end of the week, so it was nice that we had the time together, we were able to have some real fun (going to the zoo, stopping to walk on Presque Isle, etc) and Zoey really took to her, which made me happy.

And meme time!

Pick one of my characters, and I will tell you...

1. Who their favorite person (character) is in the game.
2. Who their least favorite person is in the game.
3. Who I ship them with in game.
4. One of their deep, dark secrets.
5. The answer to a question of your choice.

Present and past, public and private games all work here! List. And if someone nabs the character you want, you can still ask a question.

ETA: I'm excluding significant others from 'fave people' for those with them because there is also the ship question. Consider S.O. the implied favorite for them unless I say otherwise. :D

The puppy mod objects to the chat colors assigned to him:

[21:58] Ryan: STOP CHANGING MY COLOURS
[22:00] princessjessia: I now feel compelled to copy that and post it to my journal in a RAINBOW

And so I did. :D

I logged in today with every intent to read all the goodbye/20 years later posts going up at FT, possibly even do my own, and didn't get more than a few posts in without starting to cry.

I AM SO LAME, SO SO SO LAME.

Someone hold me.


ETA: Done. *is still lame and weepy*

→ So, my sister is now up from Florida. She was supposed to be here in July, they kept changing plans, then finally settled on one - but everyone forgot to tell me, so I only found out it had changed on the day before she arrived. This is the end of Zane's work week, so I haven't seen her yet, but I guess I'll being doing that this weekend/next week. My house is a mess, so it'll likely all be at my parents house until I clean. I've missed my sister, but I'm just not prepared at all for this visit. >.<

→ I wanted my hair cut before my anniversary and no later than my birthday, it needs definitely length chopped and I want long layers again so it doesn't lay so damned flat. As my anniversary is tomorrow (Saturday), Father's Day is Sunday and my birthday is on Monday, I doubt this will be occurring. WAH. Maybe I'll just get it cut ON my birthday and totally tempt fate.

→ I'll be out of town Friday the 20th through Sunday the 22nd while we visit my mom's family in New York (upstate, not NYC). This was planned all along. I haven't seen Nonie in way too many years because she couldn't make trips anymore, and Zoey's never met her great-grandmother, so we're rectifying that now. And my sister better come, considering she'll be up here still, or there will likely be a sisterly throwdown. The only internet I will have will be via mobile, so while I will not be COMPLETELY desperate, my damn phone freezes or misbehaves too much to make this entirely reliable and relaxing. When I'm back, the damn thing is going to get fixed (likely, as in-store techs 'assure' me it's not the phone model, just my phone, and thus I need to call the tech hotline instead) or replaced because I am heartily sick of it. Zane has his and it does work, so there will be ways to reach me. I'll post closer to then about that.

→ I am growing cucumbers in a plantbox on my porch. This is the first vegetable I have ever grown, so this should be interesting. Apparently I'm doing something right, as I've only had it a week and the thing is already latching on to the porch post and anything else it can get its vines or little green tendrils around in the process. Apparently the other plants my mother-in-law started are all not doing so well, but to be fair, I'll I'm doing is watering it and even then the rain was taking care of that for a time. I think I'll keep taking a picture a week or something, I did today because the teeny tendrils are gripping the excess line from the dog's run line like little fingers and it was amusing to me.

→ Creatively, Parabolical is eating up much of my brain and I have absolutely NO REGRETS. I love private RP, but it is wonderful to be in such a good public game with so much opportunity to really develop characters. It's actually what my newest icon *points* references - well, a part of the whole experience, but still. There is not enough ♥♥♥♥ in the world for this place.

→ I am likely going to have a brand new house by the end of next summer. I will talk more about that once these plans are actually WE ARE DOING THIS OMG, rather than just likely. Therefore, no squee yet.

→ And my thoughts are with those already under attack today. I'm going to wish I'd been as prepared all along as the_wanlorn has been, I know it.

ETA: I have now been attacked by a zombiefied dana_shulps@LJ, via the interwebs. OM NOM NOM, F-LIST. OM NOM NOM.

I think I want a James Potter now. AND THAT T-SHIRT.

Note-card prequel transcribed here by the lovely karma_apple

I demand icons of this thing, people. CHOP CHOP.

Things amusing me today:

♥ Fictional characters playing MASH - Sarah is one of mine (as is Nathan) and she decided to start MASH today. In the past, characters have played word association and Hangman via that in-game message board. God, I love Parabolical.

♥ My default icon - actually this is every day, but still. I capped an image of what's amusing me and didn't get to post before, but it's still funny to me so I'm going to do it.

Explanation: I set a new default icon last week in the process of uploading icons (which is still occurring) and I didn't think anything about it at first until I saw it in my layout.



My icon is SEDUCING ALL OF YOUR ICONS.

Have you ever felt, or currently feel, that there was something that makes or breaks an RPG for you? Or perhaps not breaks it, but possibly detracts from the experience for you? I don't necessarily mean negative things (as who likes OOC drama, etc) - just anything really. It doesn't even have to be something bad to anyone, just something that makes you uncomfortable or you disagree with or whatever.

( here's mine )

I'm actually seeking honest answers here - what the thing or things are for you, how you've dealt with them and so on. And, if anyone has it, feedback on what I personally addressed based on your own experiences. I'm open to looking at this another way - in fact, it would be incredibly helpful considering it's a direct issue for me now.

LOLOMG Abridged Yu-Gi-Oh icons + video.


Your pointy hair is no match for my coattails of DOOM

I seriously cannot breathe. I haven't even watched most of this series and this is hysterical. There are nods to all kinds of things in it, and songs like the Transformers theme and "We Are The Champions". It's 30 minutes long but it was totally worth it for me. And HAHAHA the Esher-esque backdrop in the one scene is personally v. amusing to me.

In other news, I have a huge batch of icons to upload because I nabbed a bunch of the comedy themed ones from various posts there that I didn't have yet. I should really finish reuploading the dead icons in all my rp journals.

LJ retracts several policies.

No, seriously. Ganking these two highlights from furiosity's post:

→ They've revoked the Nipplegate decision: it's no longer a violation of ToS to have a breastfeeding (or, indeed, any non-sexualised nudity-containing) icon as your default.

→ The policy on Non-Photographic Images of Minors is being removed. What this means is that we will no longer be requiring the removal of this content, or suspending people who have posted it.

You know what, it's not even worth ranting about it. Nevermind.

INSTEAD: I need someone associated with Novus to be my task master/cheerleader for Thursday/possibly Friday. I want to get Scorpius in the game by weekend, so I need someone to poke me and ask my progress and generally pester me so I finish it. It's been in-progress too long, dammit.

So apparently the whole "IJ eats random comments" thing is not actually over for everyone, as I just discovered one of my RP tags from several days ago had vanished. I log everything in docs when I'm threading anyhow, so thankfully I still had the tag, but w. t. f. IJ.

Between this and the continued daily timeouts, I'm starting to get a little grr.

1. Pick up the nearest book.
2. Open to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people, and acknowledge who tagged you.

Then one of her own arrows hit a man, and another hit a Narnian wolf, who had, it seemed, joined the enemy. But she had been shooting only for a few seconds when she had to stop. With a flash of swords and of the Boar's tusks and Jewel's horn, and with a deep baying from the dogs, Tirian and his party were rushing on their enemies, like men in a hundred yards' race.

→ The Last Battle, C.S. Lewis

I TAG EVERYONE.

Technically, the closest book was Eclipse, but vivier@LJ said no Twilight. :D

My DSL is being such a whore. It's gotten me behind on stuff and I'm cranky. Added to my current bummed feelings re: onlineish things, I am just very BLARGH.

In other news, finished all three Twilight books this weekend and will likely detail my love/hate later when I have more time. Alice is my favourite character, hands down, though second would have to go to Carlisle. Despite everything I could say I dislike, I ultimately could not resist buying my own copies of them (though I don't like getting hardbacks and only the first was in paperback).

Saw Prince Caspian yesterday, which was an excellent, gorgeous movie I think anyone can enjoy and that, ultimately, I loved, but it wasn't my Prince Caspian and I wish I had known they changed so much before I went into the theatre.

MA, I'd like to thread something, if you're game? I was thinking maybe a Voldie summons/Dark Mark burn situation that would given people something to react to when those with the Mark felt it? I need something to get them going since I've sucked bad there lately. :/