Livejournal Questions

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This actually has nothing to do with the recent drama.

I have a confession to make. I'm a genius. But I'm really tragically stupid also.


-how to put on a header. And why everyone can figure it out but me.
-what a DDoS attack is. Looked it up on Wikipedia. Still really don't understand.
-where everyone gets the equipment to do all the icons and everything they do. Seems to me that stuff costs a fortune.
-how to write short fanfic.
-who Rodney is.
-Henry Jenkins.
-GIP.
-how NOT to hotlink some images. I can do it if the image is in a format Photobucket will upload, otherwise I don't understand.
-how people keep up with their flists.
-how people keep up with stuff like which new cat macro is funniest.
-how anyone keeps up with anything.
-why seraphcelene can't be here RIGHT NOW, I dunno, making pie with me.
-how people find out people are talking about them when said people are not talking to them. It's not that I don't like gossip. It's that I don't understand it. I literally seem to have trouble paying attention to anything not aimed straight at me with a missile launcher.
-why I like Harry/Draco.
-flangst.
-how people not being able to post really isn't connected to the Great Strikethrough.
-how to play most online videos, or dl the equipment.
-birthdays.
-why I didn't find a plane ticket to NYC for an earlier day so I could watch DB with a2zmom.
-Spike.
-betas.
-most emoticons.
-who Jo is.
-what Due South is.


In other news, The Sound of Music in Sparta. (link courtesy imnotacommittee.)

Comments

[tkp.livejournal.com]

I read that soon after it was posted.

...that's when I realized once and for all I didn't understand Spike.

[elisi]

...that's when I realized once and for all I didn't understand Spike.
Hmmmmmm. Interesting. I'm not sure how to tackle that one. Although I do think that Spike is probably the most complex of all the characters in the whole 'verse... *runs off to find another link*

From Hunter Maxin's review of 'Benetah You' (written when the ep first aired and *highly* recommended. I do love enthusiatic fanboys!):

My friend, Jack Blair, who was watching with me, said it best – Spike has become the greatest vampire in all of movies and television. His character is so evolved, so complex, so, for lack of a better word, real, that to dissect him...to say that this is what he means and this is what he is offends.

People – real people – can’t be explained so easily. Only characters can.



And on a completely different subject, then VLC is a downloadable thingy that will play videos in pretty much any format (including DivX) - it's v. easy to use. (I have a Mac, and I quite simply right-click on a video file and choose 'open with VLC'.)

[tkp.livejournal.com]

Interesting to read something written before all was known (I came into fandom quite late.)

I feel the need to mention that I don't find Spike difficult to understand because I think he is intensely complicated. Maybe he is intensely complicated, but I believe Angel is just as much or more so (I should also mention you're talking to a die hard Angel fangirl here). But on that note, Connor and Willow and Wesley and Buffy and Xander and Darla and Faith and Holtz and more, I'm sure, are very complex as well. I'm not about to impose a heirarchy of complexity on these series' characters.

I tend to go with the idea that Spike is difficult for me to understand because of who I am, the way I think. I identify with almost every main character on the show at one point or other. I hardly ever did with Spike, and most times I did it was after he got his soul. That's not to say I don't have *sympathy* with him, all the time--often I wanted Buffy to love him just so he wouldn't keep breaking his heart and I wanted to wrap him up and feed him sandwiches and tell him, It's okay! *I* love you!

But, as I understand it, one of the reasons people love Spike so much is they identify with him. And I just plain don't.

[elisi]

I'm not about to impose a heirarchy of complexity on these series' characters.
No, that would definitely be silly. :) *loves all the characters*

(Oh and I'm a total Angel fangirl too! I adore him, if in a very different way to Spike. Actually most of my fic is Spike&Angel centric!)

And I just plain don't.
No that there's no cure for... *g*

[tkp.livejournal.com]

Oh, and thanks for the VLC link! Sounds like just what I need! I'll definitely try it.