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unamaga ([personal profile] unamaga) wrote2008-05-12 06:33 pm

do dodo doooo do dodoooooo

Metric - Calculation Theme, a song that I'm really enjoying today. :>

Yesterday morning, while waiting for the train on the platform with about twenty people clustered around me in a big knot, I was struck by an idea for fic. The only thing I had with me was my Stargate Atlantis tie in novel. I ended up writing smut on the inside covers, leaning on my own thigh while standing up, as a few interested parties tried to peer over my shoulder discretely. Oh, zany life.

Last night, Julie and I watched Indiana Jones. I am a heathen and had never seen it before (let's not even talk about my lack of Star Wars, because I think someone will actually stone me). It was fantastic fun, though, and I now understand the Harrison Ford thing, even though I'd always gone, "Ummm," when people talked about him before. And, well, because Julie and I are...Julie and I, the conversation inevitably turned to John Sheppard.


Take a minute to breathe. Shhh, shh, it's okay. In and out.

Now, alright, John is obviously pointier in the nose and chin because he's half elf, but LOOK AT THEM. The proportions are almost exact. I'm pretty sure we don't even need to mention the personalities or the propensity for getting in and out of life threatening situations with alarming regularity. Also Marion, if you switch a few letters around, delete a few more, add some, COULD POSSIBLY BECOME MEREDITH.

So I guess my real point here is: why hasn't fandom provided me with a John that carries a whip and wears a fedora?

[identity profile] drkquail.livejournal.com 2008-05-13 06:24 am (UTC)(link)
While you have never seen Star Wars, I have never seen any of the Indiana Jones movies in full. While everyone around me seems pretty excited, I'm a little 'meh' on spending $10 to see Harrison Ford explain to Shia Leboeuf, "In my day, we didn't have these fancy televisions and that crazy Rock and Roll to distract us. We had to make our own fun, with rocks and Nazis and things."

Pure curiosity, which Atlantis tie-in are you reading? I LOVE LOVE LOVE the two novels by Martha Wells, but Halcyon was awful. I couldn't make it through the second chapter, the characters were so OOC. Now I don't want to go to the trouble of ordering the others if the rest are garbage. :/

[identity profile] unamaga.livejournal.com 2008-05-13 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm re-reading Reliquary, which was in my bag randomly - I think I must've brought it with me to the doctor's office or something; it's such a comfort read to me. :DD