I AM HOME! (What I Did, Who I Met, Recs and Assorted Lunacy)

[beccatoria]

I'M HOME! Honestly, it's somewhat depressing cus now I'm exhausted and jetlagged and have to go to work tomorrow. BUT, I had a fantastic time on holiday and while I was away, while things did not go as awesome as they might have, nothing exploded which given the state of some things when I left them, was a minor miracle.

Anyway! What follows is a lot of personal type stories, so feel free to skip over - I've tried to highlight various recs in individual LJ-cuts so they're obvious. I know this is a hell of a tangled mess of a post, but I kind of want to get it all out and on here and most of these recs are tied in with the story of my hoilday.

It was really nice to see my family after FOREVER of not seeing them due to financial issues and then living in Korea for six months. Honestly, my family is small and sadly I didn't really see my cousins, and deliberately avoided seeing my grandpa's girlfriend (OY DON'T ASK) and step-cousins by arranging to be in a different state. But my aunt and uncle came out especially to see me and it was great hanging out with my grandpa. I love that dude. He's so weird. And frustrating. And probably autistic. He made me go down to the basement to help find small blocks of wood (don't ask). We eventually found them west of the boiler (yes, WEST of the boiler, this is how directions are given in this household; don't ask) in a box labelled, "irregular small wooden blocks, 1982". DON'T ASK.

My mother dragged me to a succession of her friends houses to, I dunno, prove I still existed or something, that and to show off my wedding ring because it was my grandmother's (my mother's mother) and therefore she feels somewhat proprietory over it. Which I understand, I mean, you know, she gave it to me when I didn't know what I was gonna do about a ring cus I was flat broke (Kev's we got for free because surreally he won his office raffle that he didn't know he'd entered and got lots of expensive gift vouchers which were valid at, among other places, a jewellers). And then everyone made me feel terrified that I didn't have this thing insured. Which to be honest, I really should do cus it's probably worth...well, I'm sure it's not worth a fortune as far as rings go because dude, some of those things are worth more than ENTIRE HOUSES, but it's platinum and has nine tiny diamonds channel-set across the top, the result being a) it's appealingly understated in terms of physical appearance cus I wander around in T-Shirts and anything more ostentatious would overwhelm me and b) it's...probably worth more than anything I've ever owned before, pathetic as that truth is. THUS. Insurance...probably a good plan.

PEOPLE WHAT I MET!!

Okay, so, on to the really fun bits - I got to meet a bunch of people from my flist which was both terrifying and pretty fucking awesome as I didn't really think I'd ever get that chance, living across the Atlantic from most of you.

First I hung out with chaila43. We went to a nifty Italian restaurant which had POTATO PIZZA WHAT and good desert and then I stayed over at her apartment and we got to talk about VIDDING. IN PERSON. Although not as much as either of us would have liked cus, well, I know I didn't want to leave, cus she is awesome and smart and it's so fun to be able to like...be with you all in person and explode about awesome geekery and vent about stupid show stuff and glee about awesome show stuff with SOMEONE WHO UNDERSTANDS. And okay, I have very infrequently met flist-members before (heyiya and grav_ity and hmpf for instance) which has always had that sense of OMG SOMEONE WHO UNDERSTANDS! But...it's still such a rare occurence for me that the notion hasn't gotten old, and probably never will. So thank you, chaila, for being SOMEONE WHO UNDERSTANDS and also being a fantastically fantastical person at the same time. Plus this was the first time EVER I got to speak in person to someone about vidding. Which, EEEEEEEE!

I'm still scared of Sony Vegas, but seeing you actually using it was awesome and I'm kind of sad I didn't cart out my laptop so our two laptops could reject each other in person. Although we seem to be moving past that since your latest vid didn't glitch for me at all! Also discussing metatxt's and cyborganize's HILARIOUS ROMANCE from our parallel sideline perspectives was awesome and wildly informative. As was watching them vid-chat, about which more later.

Your mom's hot chocolate is awesome and everything about you is awesome and I wish I'd been able to hang out with you for longer.

ALSO, everyone should go watch chaila43's latest TSCC vid - Somewhere Over The Rainbow. It's beautiful and creepy, just like the show and really is a song choice that is so obvious in retrospect it's shocking no one else has made it yet. Except I'm glad they haven't because now I get to see chaila's version.

THEN I got carted up to Massachussetts with my mom cus she has like...kind of a house there. Except not really. Cus there's no kitchen, or, you know, HEAT. But what I did get to do was hang out for the afternoon with frolicndetour, which was, as above, and as below, and as a recurrent theme among LJ people, awesome.

And, um, mostly I think we just yakked for HOURS and went for pizza and then I took her back to my TOTALLY CLASSY unfurnished, unkitchenned, unheated pad and we yakked some more. About...Sam Anders and Kara Thrace for an embarassing amount of time, but hey, I OWN MY BIAS.

And quite honestly, I was under the impression we left with me deciding you should write a fic about Kacey's mom dying in the New Caprica attacks and Kara getting stuck with her, and you apparently think we'd decided I should, but either way IT OUGHT TO HAPPEN. My husband laughed out loud when I showed him the Baltar pendant, and I'm totally waiting for an excuse to wear it; I can't decide whether it would be better if people did or didn't know what the hell it was. XD Thank you!

She also recced me Insanity Has Us United by merrykk. To my shame I haven't actually managed to read it yet, because it's long and I've been busy with vacation things, but I do hope to catch up with it soon and, you know, leave feedback. But frankly, it deserves reccing on the sheer fact that merrykk WROTE THIS THING. Because I am told it is COMPLETE CRACK taken DEADLY SERIOUSLY and you all know how I feel about that kind of thing.

I'm told it's Kara/Caprica fpreg which to steal from Allie's own recc sounds like it has all the genderbending hilarity of mpreg without the overwhelming EEEEEW factor. Plus, CAPRICA. Plus, apparently, it has lots of unconventional family set-ups which I am a sucker for.

And the entire justification is the frankly fantastically literal take on the "love=babies" weirdness that if Kara has the same ability to live in denial as Gaius and the same ability to drink as Tigh, IS SHE IN FACT the two men Caprica loves rolled into one person? Which just. LOL. And clearly, the answer is yes.

So, um, there you go, a rec based on not having read it at all but being in love with the concept.

After that I went to Boston and spent a few EPIC DAYS with cyborganize, which, just, everything I could say about that would be summed up with "<# <# <3 <#". I've known you for years, and it was so amazing to finally be able to see you. How physically comfortable I felt in the same space as you was incredibly comforting. You still need to send me that dissertation chapter!

Thanks to you, I now have SIX FREAKIN' VIDS TO MAKE, and yet somehow, I cannot bring myself to blame you. ;)

We had a fantastic dinner with @Hera_Agathon from Twitter and the surreal realisation that she knew a welsh-speaker who is my age from my area or thereabouts. Since I didn't recognise her name from school I imagine she lived far enough away she was to, like, Llanhari or something rather than Glantaf (my high school), but still, WEIRD. Anyway, it was amazing to get to meet the legendary twitter BSG RPG character, played hilariously and perfectly as a tiny civil rights activist - CYBRID VIGOR! I will never forget the time @Hera_Agathon and @Saul_Tigh (me) had a giant argument about which of us was a more appropriate girlfriend for @Caprica_Six.

Me and cyborganize as VID CHATTED with metatxt which was pretty awesome. Even if SOMEONE insisted on distracting SOMEONE ELSE every time I had SRS POINTS to make! Srsly, man, I was like, a soliloquy of eloquence on deep topics! Nah, in all seriousness, I'm glad you two crazy kids are working out. If nothing else, it makes my life (and chaila's life!) a lot simpler... :p

For a while we also got to vid-chat with heyiya too. Your newly-made workspace is adorable even in grainy webcam quality!

We wandered all over loads of places with Julie trying to convince me that stuff made in the 1600s was REALLY REALLY OLD. So I took her on a google-maps tour of Cardiff and showed her that I can see a 1000 year old Castle through my office window. Like, literally we are across the street from it, it's a road, a bus stop and a dry moat's width away from us. All the emo kids hang out there. *pulls hand over one eye* MY MUM BOUGHT ME THE WRONG HOODIE! YOU JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND!

There is also a fascinating store where you can put stuff in a can for $4. Like, anything you like. Alas I couldn't come up with anything cool enough to can, so I didn't and instead just bought make-your-own-monster magnets and marvelled at how many awesome ice-cream and desert and cupcake shops Cambridge seems to have.

Also, AMERICANS, WHAT IS YOUR OBSESSION WITH SHEPPARD'S PIE? For realz, cyborganize and later nicole_anell BOTH MENTIONED IT as food they really liked. As far as I'm concerned it's the blandest bland that ever blanded, but hey, I'm the weirdo who hates strawberries, so probably I'm missing something. But it just seems so WEIRD as a point of reference for british food. o_O

And eventually I had to leave, and I didn't want to. :(

HOWEVER, blow was softened by the fact two days later I got to meet asta77. She's another person I've known for years at this point and had pretty much figured I'd probably never get to meet. I'm still so amazed and excited and happy that I got to meet you, dude. You're fantastic and I loved the whole time we hung out and I wish I could have stayed longer.

We wandered EVERYWHERE (it felt like!) around NYC, and saw this amazing high rise railroad section they'd turned into a park with wild meddow on each side of the main walkway and wooden sunchairs on railroad wheels that you can roll into position. I SAW A FIELD MOUSE.

We discussed going to a show but really there wasn't anything on that we particularly wanted to see that wasn't also hideously expensive so in the end we didn't bother and I'm happy with that choice; more time to wander and talk and see people and stuff. We did go to M&M World and I am now the proud owner of a bright yellow Peanut M&M hoodie! It's awesome. And makes me incredibly easy to spot in a crowd!

I am also the proud owner of a signed Mary McDonnell photo that asta77 got me, which I still can't really believe it's real, and just thank you. I don't really feel the magazine I picked up for you was at all a fair trade.

Asta sat very patiently through a bajillion music vids I insisted on showing her. Then she showed me two Leverage vids and completely sold me on, like, the entire show with them. So, go Leverage?

We watched the first two episodes and they were pretty fantastic, so I'll probably be catching up on that series soon. I don't think it's something that I'll want to write epic essays about like I did BSG (and the lack of a show like that was something else we discussed - actually it was a common recurring sadness for many of the people I met), but I do think I'll enjoy it.

We also watched a couple of classic Laura/Lee BSG episodes which again, so great to watch it with a fellow L/L fan. Eventually Asta's gonna write an epic Laura/Lee 4.5 semi-AU story, which is gonna be epic and amazing and have Sonja in it, and I'm just mentioning that now so when it eventually happens (BECAUSE IT WILL), you'll be prepared for its awesome. For I have appointed myself this fic's pimp.

We also got to meet up for lunch with nicole_anell who I was really excited to meet, and no_detective who I didn't know at all, and we had an awesome time at dinner and got thoroughly defeated by ENORMOUS DESERTS, and honestly, I figured we were probably scaring all the other customers with our geeky talk until I heard some of no_detective's stories about scaring other customers with geeky talk at other places and thought, noooo, we're lightweights!

I also got to chat some to Nicole about vidding which again, *glee*. And then I dragged Asta and Nicole into a candy store (or rather A SWEET SHOP DAMMIT!) where I'm sure I looked utterly ridiculously like a gleeful six-year-old, and we wandered a bit in Central Park.

Asta and I then got a bicycle-cab ride to Penn Station, which was kind of insane and amazing and a little like being strapped to the bad of a rickety and wilful gallopping donkey, but I had a good time with it and our ...driver? Rider? was classically talkative telling crazy half-lost-in-the-traffic-noise stories about his encounters with Mayor Bloomberg.

And then I came home. And was kind of sad about it, but you were all amazing, and I wish I'd had more time and thank you all for taking the time to come see me and talk to me and remind me I'm not alone on fangirl island.

ALSO! Since I was discussing above the loss of a "One True Show" these days, I thought I'd point people in the direction of Fringe. I'm not...as enamoured of their recent revelations episode as I hoped I'd be (briefly, too much new mystery, not enough progression of the old one), but I did like it and I do continue to cautiously like the show even as I wish it would be less standalone.

However, I have found a rather high success rate in terms of at least getting people slightly interested when I tell them that:

It features a morally ambiguous middle-aged woman with a robot arm who gets to snog hot younger guys and has portentuous though somewhat infrequent (and totally slashable) scenes with the female lead that almost always pass the bechdel test. It also features a somewhat unconventional family plot re: Olivia and her sister and niece (though that's less prominent currently) and is unavoidably predominantly about Olivia. It is also - though I hestitate to jinx it because it could easily go the other way - currently presenting a rather interesting discussion on our relationship with technology.

FINALLY, asta77 showed me this ABSOLUTELY AMAZING THING, that I'm sure everyone who was within a mile of D*Con has already seen, but trust me, if you haven't you need to:

So, there was my holiday. Half of you thought I sounded massively british, half of you thought my accent was surprisingly unbritish, most of you thought I looked like a teenager but at least one of you sided with me in my puzzlement. For the record, I think asta77 looks more younger-than-she-is than I do and my accent is embarassingly changable, and I love you all and wish I hadn't had to leave. WE MUST DO IT AGAIN SOMETIME.

Also, I'm sure I've forgotten something...

Comments

[nicole-anell.livejournal.com]

YOU BRITONS JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND SHEPHERD'S PIE LIKE WE DO.

Our country struggled mightily to imitate the whole "meat in a crust" thing, and all we have to show for it is Hot Pockets.

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

I kind of like hot pockets... :p

Seriously though, this obsession with meat-in-a-crust has me baffled. Cus like, dude, MEAT IN A CRUST. But that's why I love savory PIE, not flavourless mince under vaguely crispy flavourless mashed potato. And I say this as a great lover of mashed potato... *EMO*

Um, on the bright side, you'll be the only foreigner at Starfury not complaining about british cuisine? (Hell you'll probably be the only PERSON at Starfury not complaining about the cuisine!)

Let me know about that though! I'm already heading down to London around then anyway as it turns out so depending when that is might make it easier to meet up with you for the afternoon or something and meet new people and stuff? Well, either way, have a fabulous time.

*icon used in solidarity with your fabulous Natalie icon rather than cus there's anything crap here!*

[frolicndetour.livejournal.com]

I was going to tell beccatoria that I was on her side of the shepard's pie issue, but wait. It's supposed to have a crust? What I've had is just mashed potato, creamed corn and ground meat all mixed together. Bleh.

[nicole-anell.livejournal.com]

Maybe I had the only shepherd's pie in England that was actually kind of pie-like with the flakey potato thing, I DON'T KNOW!

[frolicndetour.livejournal.com]

To be fair, I've only ever had my Mom's. And she was no doubt raised on the Irish version, so we may be talking about *entirely* different cuisines. ;)

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

Nah, what it is (at least here) is you mix the ground meat with some veg - usually peas and carrots, then you smush that into a bowl, then you put mashed potato on TOP of the meat, like a layer, then you bake the whole thing so the potato gets kind of crusty on top. But it's not like a real crust crust if you get my meaning? It's just a layer of mash with a crisp top. And sure, crisp top to mashed potato is nice. But the whole thing is still a bland stodgy mess of ground meat and veg and mashed pototo. *is stubborn*!

[nightxade.livejournal.com]

For the record, my hubby makes a lovely sheppards pie! :D

But welcome back Becca! Missed you!!! Glad you had such a grand time and OMG HOW AWESOME IS IT THAT YOU MET SO MANY FLIST PEEPS ALL AT ONCE!!!!! I've met a few, but you had like A GATHERING!

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

\o/ Thank you! :D

It was totally awesome to meet that many flist peeps at once (though in sequence, alas it was not like one giant con for my flist!) THOUGH YOU WERE NOTICABLY ABSENT! *hugs you* *wishes she had occasion to go to Canada*

[nightxade.livejournal.com]

When you do come to Canada, I am totally going to have matching BECCA~CON '09 tshirts for us.

[cyborganize.livejournal.com]

to weigh in on the great Shepherd's Pie Debate: how could MEAT and CARBS in the form of MUSH not be AWESOME?! I think the problem is that Becka has apparently been eating sup-par SHEPPARD'S pie (prepared by a culinarily challenged character on Stargate: Atlantis) rather than the traditional Shepherd's Pie wherein the meat and mashed potatoes independently taste good, thus creating a mushtastic taste sensation in every bite.

[metatxt.livejournal.com]

if meat-pies are a fandom war, does this mean that at one time, Addison Montgomery-Shepherd (I'm forgetting McSnotty exists) made the gastronomically superior meat-pies? and if so, couldn't she have had a spin-off onto Food Network instead of Private Practice? I mean there's a more slashable cast (Nigella, Giada, Cora, Ina, etc.) already built in!

WANT.

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

Welcome home. glad you had a great time.

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :) *hugs*

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

I need to pick your brains about battlestar galactica!

Do you by any chance have a list of all of the major storylines plots and themes that just got dumped after the Mutiny?

If not, can I email you the list I'm working on and see if you can brainstorm with me and add to it please to make sure I've got the important things?

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

Yay! I love having my brains picked about BSG!

I don't have a list like that, alas, but I would be happy to brainstorm with you.

To be honest with I felt that a lot of the stuff after the Mutiny arc wasn't so much dropped wholsale as resolved disappointingly or in a very cursory fashion. And some stuff that got introduced after the mutiny also got dropped at the end - in fact the most blatant example of this is probably the arming of Baltar's cult which was never mentioned again. And a lot of other stuff looked like it wasn't going to get dropped right until the very end when you suddenly realise there was no payoff - like Adama's drinking, Roslin's suicidalness, the human/cylon hybrid stuff, etc.

But yeah, send me what you've got and I'll let you know if I can think of anything you've missed out on?

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

Okay, here's my random list of stuff I felt didn't get properly dealt with. (can't find an email address for ya, but this will do here I'm sure.)


Themes.


Pantheism vs Monotheism.

Sons of Aries vs Baltars followers.

Integration of Cylons and Humans in the fleet.

What is God?

What was the point of the hybrids?


Themes/stories by character:


Adama

his descent into alcoholic madness.


Tigh.

His salvation and rise to command.
Tigh/Ellen/Caprica/Baby.


Baltar.

His religion. What was it for?
What happened to his followers?


Laura.

What was the point of all the visions when she turned out to have nothing to do with that resolution.
Why did she get to be just so useless at the end.


Kara.

Who was her father.
Cylon hybrid.
Resolution of her daddy issues with Adama.


Lee.

The love story with Kara.
Making some form of peace with his alcoholic mad father.


Chief Tyrol

Never confronted by the reality of the depth of his hatred for women.



Misc.

they never went anywhere with the raiders and centurions becoming
self aware did they?

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

Argh, sorry - thought I'd given you my email addy at some point - either way if you want it it's my username at hotmail dot com, or you can always LJ PM me. :)

Suffice to say, yeah, I think you got most of it there. I mean, all those things disappointed me; some I think are probably more important than others - some, like Tigh's rise command was perhaps something we more would have liked to see than was strictly ever in the text. Other things I think the show thought it resolved (like "God", Kara's father, Hera-As-Only-Hybrid) when in fact it didn't, or did so poorly. I think Tigh's salvation is probably one of those things since for some weird reason I think we were supposed to be pleased he got back with Ellen. :/ Other stuff, like Tyrol's issues with women were, I think, uninentional byproducts of the storyline that needed be addressed but weren't because the writers themselves were unaware of them. And finally some stuff just legitimately got dropped like a very hot thing, like the arming of Baltar's cult, the sentience of the centurions, the actual future potential of more hybrid kids.

I think the only two things on your list I'd disagree with is the Lee/Kara thing, because I was, weirdly, completely okay with that since I preferred their relationship be platonic (mostly) and the human/cylon fleet integration which I thought was reasonably well-handled if ultimately pointless given the way they chose to settle on Earth.

I also think that's an extremely thorough list - the only things I'd add are:

- Leoben and Kara's storyline got completely dropped after 4x11 when he ran away from her which was a crying shame.
- Tory's entire POV. I mean, that's not necessarily a loose plot end or theme in and of itself but it was certainly disappointing to me.
- What happened to the mutineers. Again, we briefly find out they were in jail, etc., and it's not a loose plot end per se, and frankly, this is me being picky, and nothing they haven't done before and worse in earlier seasons, but it was something I'd've liked a clearer explanation of.

I hope that helps? :)

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

Oh gosh yes, Leoben and Kara, I'd forgotten about them too. We spent ages getting build up between those two that went nowhere didn't we.

And yes, very helpful, thank you.

I'm wanting to write a series of short fics continuing on from the Mutiny you see, which try to fix where the show went for me. And I was thinking about doing one for each main c haracter, which would resolve their personal stories, whilst moving the bigger story along to a conclusion. A different conclusion. One which hopefully doesn't suck so hard.

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it was such a weird way to end that storyline that I wonder if there were actor involvement issues. :(

I do, however, wholeheartedly support your AU project. As you are well aware, I think a proliferation of better, alternate endings is The Way To Go. :D

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

Perhaps. But then I suppose Kara had a habit of not looking back at the men in her life.

Did you watch The Plan yet?

[asta77.livejournal.com]

How physically comfortable I felt in the same space as you was incredibly comforting.

Yes! I felt the same way upon meeting you! It was almost weird in that it didn't feel weird to just fall into a conversation as if we had done it a hundred times before even though we were seeing each other for the first time.

AND I MISS YOU TOO! I keep thinking about all the things we didn't get to talk about. And I may have had a small breakthrough in regards to a plot point giving me some trouble. Yes, I'm still thinking about the fic. :)

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

Yes! I mean, I've met other people from online before, and usually it's not as awkward as I fear and we get on well, etc., but it was really surprising to me how well I clicked with you (and others, but right now we're singing your praises!)

I keep thinking of the things we haven't had time to talk about tooooo. For instance I think I completely forgot to thank you for all those times you showed up and let me babble at you on Jabber/Meebo earlier this year and stuff. *hugs*

I APPROVE OF THINKING ABOUT THE FIC! And am eager to hear about this plot breakthrough - email me! And give me your paypal info while you're at it!

[metatxt.livejournal.com]

Oooooh the CLIP SHOW!!!

and now you have me trying to recall whether I thought you sounded massively british, unbritish, or looked like a teenager. did I? I didn't think so.... although I do know you don't say blueeeeeberries the posh way.

in any case, I am so glad you had such a fantastic trip! and ftr I told everyone, "I swear I never thought I'd want to vlarp so much but Becka is just so awesome I couldn't STOP talking to her" which um, should be noted since I was the distracted one >.>

that said, I am entirely confused as to how our vry srs romance was hilarious.

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

Nah, I think you were one of those rare few who didn't comment either way, though god knows what low res webcam did to my "youthful looks" :p Honestly the accent thing was mentioned by fewer of my LJ friends and mostly was my mom's friends being all, "OMG SHE SOUNDS SO BRITISH!" because, well, my Mom totally doesn't (which entertainingly threw Julie when she spoke to her briefly on the phone), even though they've known me my whole life, I guess to them, I'm the weird british-sounding kid their friend has so it's more of a subconscious throw for them.

The age thing is just weird though. I mean, okay, I don't really look older than I am. I get a bit of the "Huh, I don't think you look 26," think the UK too, though mostly I put it down to the fact that I dress casual and don't really bother with make-up unless I'm at an EVENT or something. And I'm sure that's a big part of it in the US too, but...in the UK it's occasional and they think I'm maybe 22. In the US...more than half the people I met (flist-friends and family-friends) AND A RANDOM STORE CLERK thought I looked like a teenager. (Mind you, this is the country that ID'd me, at 21 to see an R-rated movie *facepalm*).

At which point, I actually asked my aunt, uncle and grandpa about this and they were like, "Yeah, you totally look like a kid," and even my Mom was like, "Srsly?"

So...I have no idea. It's like some weird north-american age-distortion mirror or something. I'm not...upset about it or anything. If I thought it were true, it could even be hilarious and kind of neat, but...I think it's some weird cultural perceptive difference that it frustrates me I can't put my finger on.

AND "BLUEBERRIES" IS NOT A WORD THAT SHOULD RHYME WITH "HUBRIS".

"I swear I never thought I'd want to vlarp so much but Becka is just so awesome I couldn't STOP talking to her" which um, should be noted since I was the distracted one >.>

Awwww! *snuggles you* Getting to chat with you in real time was a total highlight for me too. :D

that said, I am entirely confused as to how our vry srs romance was hilarious.

In this context hilarious and adorkable are interchangable. ;) Suffice to say, I think the way we finally summed it up is that neither of us had ever seen so much epic glee!angst. It was like a therapy-literate hyperactive tornado of angstily gleeful confusion! But we love you both. :*

[chaila.livejournal.com]

It was like a therapy-literate hyperactive tornado of angstily gleeful confusion!

Heeeeee! I have never heard a more appropriate description of anything in my life! Particularly the therapy-literate bit. I just died a little of adorableness.

For the record, I thought your accent was cute and as someone who is always, always thought to be older than I am (height =/= age, seriously, people WTF) yet at the same time is insanely insecure about not actually being that old, well, age is weird. :) And you are ridiculously awesome (SOMEONE WHO UNDERSTANDS). Even if the fact that people want to hear stuff about meee makes me go awkwardly O_O. I'm still not all that good at the fangirl thing, but it was totally awesome to just be with you and hang out and have you be brilliant and fantastic in person. You translate to real life very, very well. <#

Vegas isn't scary! *challenges your laptop to a duel*

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

AHAHA! Yes! They must think I'm young because I'm short! :p But really, people think you're older cus you're tall? Weirdness. For the record, I think we both look about how old we are, but I certainly wouldn't have guessed you to be much older than me. *hits weird age stuff*

You translate to real life very, very well. <#

Awww. Dude. That's just about the nicest thing anyone's said to me in a really long time, and quite frankly I wish I'd thought of it first so I could have said it to you.

Vegas isn't scary! *challenges your laptop to a duel*

It's terrifying! It crashes on my poor laptop. Which...I think means by default you win the duel... :(

[metatxt.livejournal.com]

heee ok first - i totally forgot some textual marker that noted I was being mock indignant. I know all too well how we are hilarious. But I'm glad I didn't because OMGYES therapy-literate hyperactive tornado of angstily gleeful confusion is the most perfect relationship tagline (for us) evaaaaaah.

AND "BLUEBERRIES" IS NOT A WORD THAT SHOULD RHYME WITH "HUBRIS".

TRUFAX. but... um.... can we make an exception for Joss Whedon characters since the non-Brit characters are campy too? *cannot find clip of Giles (Anthony Stewart Head) telling Wesley (not a Brit but speaking in a stereotypical prissy British accent) that he has the "emotional maturity of a blueberry scone" and iz now sad*

I am also puzzled by the North American magic-youth-mirror, but now even more disturbed that you got carded at a movie theatre. WHO DOES THAT?!

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

Hee, don't worry, I knew you were being mock indignant but...coming up with hilarious yet accurate descriptions of your entire relationship was too good an opportunity to pass up... :p

And...I hate to tell you this, but something else Joss Whedon lied about is, well, in britain we don't HAVE blueberry scones. Well, okay, probably someone somewhere has made one by now but it's hardly a traditional scone. We don't have blueberries here and until a few years ago it was kind of hard to find them and expensive to buy them when you did. They are a weird American Thing!

WHO DOES THAT?!

You weird Americans do that! It wasn't even for a horror film or something with graphic sex! It was for freaking "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"! *tears out hair*

[cyborganize.livejournal.com]

LEGENDARY!

a therapy-literate hyperactive tornado of angstily gleeful confusion!

NEW RELATIONSHIP TAGLINE!

*is not distracting or hilarious*

man, I can't believe I didn't think to make CYCON '09 T-shirts!

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

man, I can't believe I didn't think to make CYCON '09 T-shirts!

I dunno, they would have had to have stripes or they would have clashed with the rest of your outfit. :P

[frolicndetour.livejournal.com]

And quite honestly, I was under the impression we left with me deciding you should write a fic about Kacey's mom dying in the New Caprica attacks and Kara getting stuck with her, and you apparently think we'd decided I should, but either way IT OUGHT TO HAPPEN.

Hee, maybe we'll have to co-author it. ;)

It was so great to meet you, and now I wish we'd done something a little more notable, but you know, Fitchburg. But it's always fabulous to find people who will talk with me about Kara and Sam for SEVEN HOURS. *blush* And I'm glad you and Kev got a kick out of the Baltar cult swag.

Oh and sometime you'll have to tell me where the $4-can store is, since I've apparently managed to live hear for almost a decade without finding it.

...When are you coming back? ;)

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

Dude it was Fitchburg, what the hell else were we gonna do? Go to the train station that has ONLY ONE PLATFORM because it is literally the end of the line? ;) You were far more entertaining than any notable event. Cult swag is ALWAYS win and dude, it's fabulous to find anyone who'll put up with me talking about geeky crap for SEVEN HOURS let alone someone else who actually enjoys it. :p

I am sorry to report I have absolutely no idea where the $4 can store is beyond it's somewhere in central Cambridge, I think near Harvard Square. It's a quirky gift shop across the road from a traditional toy store and a cupcake shop and somewhat near a JP Licks? (OH GOD JP LICKS).

...When are you coming back? ;)

NOT SOON ENOUGH. *cries*

Hee, maybe we'll have to co-author it. ;)

Dude, projects! :D Though I did rant on at you endlessly about how much I suck at plot so...I dunno. Maybe collab is the way to go. Let me know if you have any thoughts on it - seriously, this could be fun!

[cyborganize.livejournal.com]

that store is Black Ink!

[frolicndetour.livejournal.com]

Ooh, thank you, I'll have to check that out. I'm not sure how I managed to miss it. :)