Questions Post #8, Poll #2: Emo

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And save me from my real life.

Jossverse
Didn't Tim Minear (or David Greenwalt?) explicitly say in an interview that Fred was included in Connor's birth scene to fill out the role of the Virgin Mary? If so, can someone link the interview? Who?
How else is Connor's birth scene like the birth of Christ?
Why is Connor so fucked up?
What are the shower facilities like on Serenity?

Technicalities
Why does semagic close itself automagically so often?
Where on semagic does it tell people's birthdays?
Do you have to have PhotoShop to make cool graphics?
Isn't PhotoShop expensive? Did you all dl it? Isn't that illegal? Does that bother you?

Life
When I interrogated the mirror this morning I found that my hair had built a large but well fortified battlement atop my head, intent on defeating that mighty insurgent, the comb. But HAHAHAHA! The comb played the villainous hair for a fool, foiling its nefarious scheme of mischief and mayhem by not aproaching, instead retreating to the eternal peace of its crowded kingdom, the drawer. Wherefore the miscreant hair reared it's ugly split ends, as in a banner of victory, mocking the cowardly comb with wild abandon and occasional snarling.

Meanwhile, my oft treacherous jeans took the opportunity to sway the allegiance of my much beloved shirt, a shirt which I have lovingly attended with the tender ministrations of a friend and ally, the kind of ally who knows you must be kind to anything you put against your boobs. But alas, that sneaking and insideous zipper, so intent on degenercy and disgrace that it descends, drops, falls, without the least provocation, and despite my better efforts to raise it back up into the light, to Eden and to heaven and the proximity of my naval with a safety pin, that zipper connived with its foul intent to disrobe me by stealing away yet another buttor from my beloved shirt. It became, if you will, a turn-shirt, exposing my vulnerable flesh to the wanton eye.

And then, what should happen but the coffee maker, spying the way my hair had taken to with my scalp, and the way my abdomen was bared of all defenses, judged me but a weak accomplice at best, and issued the poorest, most watery of coffee... an underhanded move--not out and out villainy (decaf) but still, a blow, a crippling blow indeed.

[Poll #704339]

OMG NO I REALLY, REALLY NEED TO KNOW RIGHT NOW:

Anything going on with you? Fic bits you want to share? Stories? Jokes? Adventures in clothing, coffee, and hair? Thoughts about wearing hardware store shirts with other people's names on them? Odes to the dodo bird? Your favorite quote? Words you keep meaning to start using, but don't? Phrases? What you did last summer? How many licks it takes? The meaning of life?

I demand from each of you either one thing very clever, be it prose or verse, original or repeated -- or two things moderately clever -- or three things very dull indeed. And I engage to laugh heartily at them all.

*clings madly to lj*

Comments

[my_daroga]

When I answered that "emo is punk," what I really meant was "emo is punk in the way that punk today is punk, which is to say, not at all, except in name."

I have pigtails! Whee! My hair is easy and short because I don't mind looking 12!

I had something else to say, but then I got distracted by your sartorial difficulties and the resulting potential for nude tkp.

Oh, wait. Didja read this? Or this?

[tkp.livejournal.com]

Yeah, true. My friend was trying to convince me these chef guests on Iron Chef were punk, and I was like dude, those guys are surfers! But punk today is a lot more emo than punk used to be.

Heh. Whether my hair is short or long I've always managed to look about a decade older than I am.

bahaha my sartorial difficulties. Nude TKP ain't that distracting, actually!

I was saving up your phantom fic to read...but I've never seen the original thing the second fic you link is based on. Won't I be confused? Or can it be read without seeing the source material?

[my_daroga]

Yeah, punk is like... Blink182. Or people just wear Ramone's t-shirts and say they're punk. Yes. That one band defines an entire era, to be sure. Dead Kennedys who?

Oh. Well you don't have to read the second one; I was just hoping *someone* had seen the series and would read it. I even posted to a Mysterious Cities of Gold comm and got nothin'! Don't worry about it. My fault for wanting to sexualize my 80's cartoons.

And you're saving my phantom fic? Wow. That's... kind of flattering. I think.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

Hee. Well! When I see a fic posted on my flist, I scan the header info, and decide whether I want to read it (I try to do the same with recs people leave, but end up ignoring most unless I REEEEEALLY trust the reccer). But I rarely read the fic right then...I either post it to del.icio.us, or more often, file it in the back of my head to read later when I 1) have time and 2) feel like it. Sometimes I forget to go back, but if it's something like a POTO fic, I remember...because you're the only one on my flist who gives me a POTO fix!

I'm sorry no one who's seen the cartoon has read it! I'll give it a shot anyway. And dude, I've sexualized most of the cartoons I've seen...and I did it when I saw them, not in retrospect!...which is kinda creepy when you think about it.