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In an Effort to Palate Cleanse After Today ...

... it's the return of the Music Meme ...

... and it's Day 17.

A song about being 17:

Oh, was there ever going to be any other song?

Even though I first heard the song well after I left 17 behind, Janis Ian's song spoke to me in a general sense. I understood it, even though I hadn't suffered what she undoubtedly suffered during her own school days. I'd suffered smaller heartbreaks in high school, for the crime of being weird. Besides, her writing was beautiful. So of course, I loved it. Teenagers have it tough, y'all.

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Years later, I learned she was a science fiction fan, and she wrote a song about that, and put it to the music for "At Seventeen." Here it is. (I don't know if it was written for SFWA, or for the Nebula Awards; Geri, if you're out there, can you tell me? It was the title of her rewritten song, "Welcome Home," which she repeats more than once in the lyrics, that hit me harder than "At Seventeen" ever did. That's what I felt when I discovered SFF fandom; I'd found a home.

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Even later, I had the chance to listen to her live when she played a gig in Evanston. Afterwards, I spoke briefly to her about how much I loved that, especially the mention of Cordwainer Smith, one of my favorite weirdly beautiful writers. It turns out that she was also a Smith fan. That was as much a gift to me as "Welcome Home" was

If you want to see any of my earlier answers, visit Day 16 The links are at the bottom.

Current Mood: melancholy
Current Location: the living room
Current Music: Janis Ian, "Welcome Home"

Music Meme, Day 16

A song from a television soundtrack:

The reimagined Battlestar Galactica was one of the best SFF shows of the 1990s - in fact, it may be the best SFF show of all time (with The Expanse only a hair behind it), at least in my opinion. Its soundtrack by composer Bear McCreary is a major engine driving the story, underlying the incredible writing and acting that made BSG the classic that it became. McCreary, who also composed for shows such as Outlander, for which he won an Emmy, became known during his tenure on all four seasons of BSG for what fans lovingly termed "the poundy drums." They're here in this song, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

In his reimagining (there's that word again) of Bob Dylan's All Along the Watchtower, McCreary did what I initially thought was impossible. Who could be arrogant enough to rescore that song? He was, and despite my initial wariness, I came to love his version even more than Dylan's. It plays during a key point in the show's third season, and the show's producers were absolutely right to go with it. I'm including two versions here: the one on the Season 3 soundtrack, and a live version that McCreary directed during a night of BSG music played live several years ago.

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Before I add the live version, here are my previous meme answers, starting with Day 13 (which has a link to the 12 previous answers, and adding Day 14 and Day 15.

Finally, here's the live version of the song.

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Current Mood: cold
Current Location: the home office
Current Music: BSG "All Along the Watchtower"

Music Meme, Day 15

I've been surviving very cold Chicago; I've been adulting, doing the Green Card renewal (which the CIS folks just sent me two letters stating my case is "in process," huzzah) and getting my Rexulti program application for 2026 ready for delivery to my delightfully old-fashioned shrink and The Amazing Nicki, and spending more time than I should cooking and baking rather than reading. But it's time to put all that behind me and return to my music meme, at least until I can think of interesting things in my brain that others might like to hear about. Therefore, I bring you -

A song from a movie soundtrack:

I've read The Lord of the Rings trilogy more times than I can remember. I also watched the three movies, both theatrical and extended release, dozens of times in total, in theaters, and at home. I love both the books and, with caveats, the movies.

I believe that the ending of The Return of the King, the third movie, is as close to perfect as it could possibly be. A major reason is the song written by Annie Lennox and Fran Walsh, with music by Lennox and Howard Shore. The words, which take from one of Gandalf's comments to Pippin before the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, and speak of Elves being called home to the Undying Lands, get me every time.

This could have been the song I chose as one that makes me cry, but it's for that strange mix of grief, awe, and yearning that is somehow transmuted into joy. And of course Annie Lennox's voice is the wind that fills the sails as the ships leave the Grey Havens.

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Here is a link to Day 14 and to Day 13; should you desire, you can see what I yammered on about in earlier meme iterations.

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Current Mood: impressed
Current Location: the home office
Current Music: Annie Lennox "Into the West"

Music Meme, Day 14

A song that someone showed you:

I'm going to go with one that I saw one of my favorite reactors, Roscoe, react to this morning, "Save Me" by BTS. (He actually reacted to it some time ago, but there's a "Roscoe reacts to BTS video marathon going on and I dropped in just in time to see the music video from their early days, and to listen to the song.)

The tune has an extremely catchy hook, and I'm impressed by the fact that both the camera operator(s?) and the group members were working on ground that was partly shifting sand and still managing to both sing and dance (with some pretty complicated choreography) during a number of single-shot camera works.

I didn't enter Kpop via BTS, the way so many people, including those I've met through the Couch Crew discord community, did. I enjoy their music when I hear it, but I'm not Army (the name of BTS's fandom). Despite that, I can appreciate a well-written tune and some smart choreography, even when it's obvious the group and the producers didn't have much money which with to work. So here you go.*

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* I thought about using "Spring Day," which was part of the reaction marathon, but it's pretty intense, with regard to its subject, and I didn't want to put that into the post.

Also, here's a link to Day 13 which in itself has a link to the previous 12 meme answers.

Current Mood: chilly
Current Location: the home office
Current Music: BTS "Save Me"

Music Meme, Day 13

The first song that plays on shuffle:

Well, the first difficulty is that I, being monotonously linear, don't use shuffle. I think I've used shuffle on my winamp list (yes, that's how old I am; I love winamp) once, and I stopped using it almost immediately. I like organizing my lists in a way that makes sense to me. So I thought I'd have to scratch this entry. Next, I thought I'd just pick one of the songs that are halfway through my current 111-song list.

But then I thought I'd try to be true to the meme. I toggled "shuffle" and waited for the first song. It turned out to be Stray Kids' recent piece, "Ceremony."

Welp. It's one of the rare SKZ pieces that I respect, but not one I'd necessarily introduce a Stray Kids newbie. Still, rules are rules, and here you go. It really is a good song. It's just not one of my multitudinous SKZ favorites.

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So I'll also include one of the songs I pinpointed as being smack dab in the middle of my list, or at least as smack dab as an uneven list allows. It's a piece by the Irish duo Saint Sister, called "Causing Trouble." I think I might have shown the actual music video for the song at some point in the past, but this is their live performance of it, many years ago. It's definitely one that I love, and sing along to. They're whip smart and lovely.

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And I'm just going to link you to the last meme entry I made, so that you can catch up on previous entries, should you desire.

Current Mood: exanimate
Current Location: the living room
Current Music: RM "Everything Goes"

Music Meme, Day 12

A song that you feel nostalgic about:

The meme actually states "a song that you feel nostalgic to" but that makes little sense. On the other hand, I have been thinking about what song I might actually feel nostalgic about for the last day or so.

Yesterday it came to me; the instrumental pieces that I listened to on my mother's "Mantovani Manhattan" album (For years I've thought the album was called Mantovani Does Manhattan, but that doesn't seem to be the case.)

When I was about nine or 10, I listened to both sides of the album again and again. And again. And yet again. One of the reasons I know my family loved me was the fact that no one came into Mum's room, grabbed the record and broke it over my head. It didn't matter to me that Mantovani was apparently considered middle-brow at best - frankly, because I didn't know, but I wouldn't have cared even if I did.

I confess that I was fonder of the A side, because it had my favorite pieces: Harlem Nocturne and Slaughter on Tenth Avenue. I can't tell you today what precisely drew me to those pieces. I think I liked the music of Harlem Nocturne better than Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, but I kind of liked the title of Slaughter - and it was quite the overblown piece, which probably also appealed to me. I didn't know until I started putting this post together that Slaughter on Tenth Avenue was originally the name of a 1936 Balanchine ballet with music by Richard Rodgers. It was also the nane of a 1957 movie about New York waterfront union wars, or so states Madame Wiki. I think I'd like the ballet better.

Anyhow, here are my two favorite pieces.

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(And here are the previous days: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5, Day 6, Day 7, Day 8, Day 9, Day 10, Day 11)

Current Mood: nostalgic
Current Location: the home office
Current Music: Mantovani: Slaughter on Tenth Avenue

Music Meme, Day 11

A song that reminds you of summertime:

The moment I read this, a completely inappropriate song - Mungo Jerry's "In the Summertime" - was right there in the front of my mind. I know why; I heard it during the summer between Grade 9 and Grade 10, when friction between my Granddad and me made my Mum and Nana decide to send me to stay with my Great Aunt Bobbie at her summer cottage in Shediac, New Brunswick.

There were a fair number of teens spending their summer at Shediac, and so I got a chance to do a lot of things which, while not completely inappropriate, did involve youthful parties with beer and dope. I managed to stay out of the kind of trouble that would have forced Bobbie to report on things back home. And "In the Summertime" was the song I remember most fondly, despite it being problematic these days.

Of course I got older, and learned other summer songs, not least of which were the many versions of Gershwin's Summertime - too many from which for me to choose for this meme.

There was one more summertime song that I fell in love with, and which I associate with my love of Bob and of my adopted city. (Those of you who know Bob may spot at least one of the reasons.) So I give you Summer In The City.

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Here are the previous days: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5, Day 6, Day 7, Day 8, Day 9, Day 10

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: the home office
Current Music: Mungo Jerry "In the Summertime"

Music Meme, Day 10

A song from your childhood:

This one was easy for me. This is a song that my Nana used to sing to us when we were children. I used to love hearing her sing it; she had a lovely voice. None of the versions I found have precisely the same notes in the first line that Nana used to sing, but that's probably a good thing. If I heard it sung the way she sang it, I'd probably be a weepy mess.

Here you go.

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The previous days: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5, Day 6, Day 7, Day 8, Day 9

Current Mood: enthralled
Current Location: the home office
Current Music: The Rose, "Ticket to the Sky"

Music Meme, Day 9

A song with three words:

It's been rather too long a day, at least in terms of my having to put my brain to use, but I'm almost through it now. And before I totter off to bed, I thought I'd return to the music meme. Today's entry required me to put my head together with Bob. We ultimately agreed on the choice I made.

Please note that the English translation of the name of this piece has the requisite three words - Lord have mercy. I am no longer a believer, or at least only an intermittent believer in something that probably isn't Christianity; however, I did choose this based on memories from when I was a believer. I'm not familiar with the music, certainly not enough to choose a good, bad, or indifferent version. I went through a number of choices on YouTube, but ultimately decided to keep it simple and go with a brief chant. For more information on why looking into the music of my birth faith can be fascinating, I direct your attention to Madame Wiki.

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Here are the previous days' entries: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5, Day 6, Day 7, Day 8

Goodnight, all.

Current Mood: sore
Current Location: the home office
Current Music: Something nonreligious

Music Meme, Day 8

(I imagine I'll start posting about life, the universe and everything eventually, but to date, I've been enjoying the music meme. It's mostly for me, obviously, and I don't expect too many comments, but I kind of hope a few of y'all dip into some of the music I'm sharing. Don't worry, though; that's not a requirement. Heh.)

An underrated song

I think I'm stretching this question almost to the breaking point, when I share two versions of Canadian singer Amanda Marshall's song "Birmingham," but I'm fairly sure Marshall - who is a force of nature, something I learned decades after discovering her music whilst on a trip back to Nova Scotia with Bob and Andy - isn't very well known down here. "Birmingham" was the only song of hers that charted in the U.S., something she doesn't appear to have worried about too much.

She didn't write the song, although she's gone on to write and co-write a lot of other tunes, but I loved how she interpreted it. She ended up taking a hiatus for a number of years while she fought a legal battle against her label but she was back with a vengeance in 2023.

So yes, this is a criminally underappreciated tune down here, but not up in My Home and Native Land. So have two versions; the one she released in the 90s, and one she played in 2023 (with a slight addition ahead of time of one of the songs she co-wrote, largely about her own situation as a bi-racial Canadian; then she goes into Birmingham and tears up the place.

Here's the original:

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And here, my friends, is Amanda Marshall as she is now. I wish I had a quarter of her energy.

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Here are the previous days: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5, Day 6, Day 7

Current Mood: exhausted
Current Location: the home office
Current Music: Amanda Marshall "Birmingham"

Music Meme, Day 7

A song title that is in all caps:

This one was very easy for me, since I've been obsessed with ROAR, a song written by and performed by Mingi, one of the members of Ateez; it's on their latest album release and it's truly different from the other songs on the release. Mingi's stage present is amazing - especially when you consider that, despite his onstage persona, he's afraid to have his ears pierced and he doesn't drink. I think he jokes about being a princess, or perhaps it's his comrades who tease him with that title; he's apparently a sweet marshmallow in real life. I saw a meme showing him being described as "A princess the size of a small building." (He's the second tallest member of Ateez, and he's bigger than his best friend, Yunho, who is the tallest, but is a drink of water comparatively.)

Can you tell I'm a little obsessed with him and his song? No? Yes?

Heh.

Anyhow, here are two versions of the song; the official MV, and a live performance video, showing his explosive power and the interplay with his dancers.

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Here are the previous days: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5, Day 6

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Current Location: the home office
Current Music: Mingi, "ROAR"

Music Meme, Day 6

A song title that is all in lower case:

I was sure this one was going to be difficult, but it turned out to be easier than I thought. This is a song by RM, the leader of the juggernaut KPop group BTS. It was on his "Mono" album from about seven years ago. It's largely low-fi, and I love listening to it when I want to slow my mind down; when I just want to breathe. I had forgotten that the title of this song, "forever rain," was in lower case. I hope you like it - the music video art suits it. I notice that this is the second time I've picked a song from "Mono" for this list.

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Here are my five previous answers.

Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: the home office
Current Music: Stray Kids "Stars and Rainbows"

Music Meme, Day 5

A song that proves that you have good taste:

Well, good taste is so subjective, isn't it?

I'm a jazz lover, and I'm a lover of Chicago jazz, and one of my favorite artists is Patricia Barber, a pianist, singer, and writer. Her own melodies are filled with percussive and angular turns, while her lyrics are crystalline observations about the world, humanity, and herself. She also interprets other peoples' music in a way that speaks to me. In the 90s, I read reviews by music critics disparaging her for being technically proficient and cold. She is more than technically proficient and she sure as hell isn't cold. She's heat, hidden under a facade of modern cool - which, not coincidentally, is the title of the first of the two songs I want to share with you. It's hers, and I adore sheer brilliance that I see in her words. The second song is her interpretation of John Lennon's "Norwegian Wood." Both of these pieces feature various iterations of the killer quartet that works with her.

So ... whether either of these prove that I have good taste or not, I hope you enjoy them.

And to be completist, here are links to previous answers:

Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4

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Current Mood: cold
Current Location: the home office
Current Music: Patricia Barber, "Norwegian Wood"

Music Meme, Day 4

A song that you know all the lyrics of: This one initially felt difficult, until I remembered recently hearing on the radio (yes, I still listen to the radio; I don't spotify) Bruce Springsteen's "Thunder Road." It was one of the songs on "Born to Run," the album that catapulted him into fame's corrosive klieg light.

He was young, and the lyrics he wrote here are full of the kind of thoughts a young person thinks of as wisdom. These days I hear different things in the song than I did when I first heard it, particularly in the rough way he treats the woman, Mary, in the song. Still, I remember it so well because Bob, Dr. Gonzo and I put it into our small repertoire when we were a monumentally unsuccessful rock and roll band. We loved singing it - Bob on the melody, Dr. Gonzo and I doing two-part harmony.

When I heard it recently, I started to sing along, until my throat thickened with tears, possibly because I remembered singing it when I was young and thought I had what was wisdom - I don't know. But I know every word, every syllable of the song.

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And just to be completist, here are links to the previous days' entries.

Day 1
Day 2
Day 3

Current Mood: anxious
Current Location: the home office
Current Music: Stray Kids "Astronaut"

Music Meme, Day 3

A song that makes you cry: As I get older there are more pieces of music that seem to bring tears to my eyes, but one song never fails to make me weep, sometimes so hard that I have to force myself to stop; Paul Simon's "An American Tune." Paul Simon does his own song proud, but I find that these days, I love Willie Nelson's version. There's so much weariness laced with stubborn hope in the song's words, and Nelson sings as if he's known every day of that weariness, and gotten up every day with that stubborn hope somewhere in his heart. And the words about coming in the age's most uncertain hour? Now I weep even more as I listen.

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Current Mood: touched
Current Location: the home office
Current Music: Stray Kids "Runners"

Musical Meme, Redux*

2. A song that makes you smile

This one was a tad difficult, because I'm more apt to be dour than to smile. Still, this one never fails to make me grin. Lee Know is normally known as part of Stray Kids' danceracha threesome, since he's had a lot of experience as a dancer (he was briefly a backup dancer for BTS before debuting with SKZ) and helps with choreography. He's also the group's "mom" but in this song, he got to be a kid again himself. His voice is actually quite lovely, so listening to this is a pleasure for me. Together the song and its video are absolutely grin-worthy to me.

Here you go.

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*I promise I'll try to include music that isn't KPop or the occasional anime intro or outro. But since that's where my musical head has been for the past few months, and probably where it'll be for the foreseeable future, you're going to have to suffer. Or, you know, enjoy. I'll probably have to put this caveat at the bottom of every entry in this meme exercise.

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: the home office
Current Music: Lee Know "Youth"

Music Meme FTW

I have an unfinished meme exercise sometime in the past, possibly about four years ago. But I'm not going to go back to that one, why do that when I can try another one and only get halfway through it? This one's about music, and that feels like one I actually might get through. It's worth a try at least. Many thanks to

shipperslist for the list of music-related questions. Let's see how this turns out.

1. A song that you discovered this month: Since I already talked about RM's "Tokyo" a few days ago, I'm going give you a solo piece by Yeosang, a member of the eight-man KPop group Ateez. He's one of the members who I've discovered well after becoming fond of some of his group mates. He's a lead dancer, what's known as a sub-vocalist - he has a nice deep voice - and a "visual," which is a thing I understand, but which isn't one of my favorite bits of KPop culture. (Yes I enjoy them being pretty, but I don't like the idea of "pretty face" being an official position especially since the members of any idol group have to be good at everything. Everything.)

This song is full of near-operatic symphonic swagger. I'd like it even if it was all in Korean because of how it's put together, and how well Yeosang and his dance crew use it in this music video. The English subtitles give me a little more of a hint about what the song means to him, and that's another reason I like it.

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Current Mood: sore
Current Location: the home office
Current Music: Ateez "Wake Up"

Frankenstein Meme, Day 26

I dropped out of this lo, these many months ago, but I want to complete it, because I am linear beyond all hope of transcending linearity. So here goes, once more, with feeling.

A trope which you are virtually certain to hate in any fandom:

As a meme reentry, this one is difficult for me. I guess that any fic using tropes like “Person A is/will be/must become subservient to Person B because my imaginary society and/or worldview requires it/it’s sexier than consensual erotica/made-up biology For Sexytiems/shut up, it’s cool” would be an immediate back-button for me. I say that, knowing that Your Kink Is Not My Kink, and You Do You; I just wouldn’t read or watch or discuss something like this, which is probably why I haven’t dipped my fandom toe into ABO.

Some folks might take from the previous paragraph that I’d hate Mpreg. Nope. I might not read a whole lot of it because I’m not that interested in pregnancy, period (had more than a couple of negative adventures with pregnancy, as well as one good one), but I’ve occasionally read some very good, emotionally riveting stuff using that trope, so it doesn’t count.

One thing that I just can’t abide, although I’m not sure it counts as a trope, is any plot that hates a particular character so much that the story revolves around, or has much of its plot reflect, every other character’s hate for that one.

One that’s definitely in the same church and almost the same pew, is when the hate focuses on a canon ship, with one member of that ship being knocked off and/or bad-mouthed by the writer, so that their preferred ship can go ahead. I recall back-buttoning out of a Sherlock story for that reason many years ago, and kind of back-buttoning away from the author’s stuff in general, which is probably my loss, but damn, yeah, I hate that.

Current Location: the home office
Current Music: American Back Roads
Crossposts: https://kaffy-r.livejournal.com/608088.html

Frankenstein Meme, Day 25

A trope which you are virtually certain to love in any fandom.

Coming back to this meme after more than a bit of time away, and this is the first question I have to answer? Not fair, Frankenstein Meme, not fair!

It’s not fair because I can’t easily pinpoint tropes, either the ones I like or the ones I don’t, probably because I don’t think in terms of tropes.

But without going to TV Tropes (because that way lies madness) let’s see; if “found family” is a trope, then I will always try out a story I spot that in. Is “mistreated underdog getting her own back” a trope? Then that’s for me, and I don’t care if it’s a little mean-spirited. I like seeing bullies and douchecanoes get what’s coming to them. Perhaps if I just label it “Justice! Finally!” it won’t sound as mean-spirited?

Ah, wait; “hurt-comfort” is a trope, right? That’s one I’ll generally read, doesn’t matter what fandom. In fact, if “comfort” alone is a trope, then that’s one I love as well.

”Finding love in an OT3 — is that a trope? Then it’s a winner in my book.

Current Mood: cold
Current Location: the home office
Crossposts: https://kaffy-r.livejournal.com/600469.html

Frankenstein Meme, Day 24

Do you have any hard and fast headcanons that you will die defending?

Oh, a few.

Harriet Jones didn’t die at the hands of Daleks in “The Stolen Earth”. She was too good, too smart, and too necessary to the Whoniverse, in my opinion, and I wrote my own little fixit about that.

(Interesting coincidence that I discovered while trying to remember the name of the episode in which she died — Google-fu can turn up the strangest things — a poem in the 2017 book by James Goss, “Harriet Jones, PM”, illustrated by Russell T. Davies, has her surviving by falling through a trap door in her livingroom, landing on a mattress, and racing away on a motorbike. RTD says it’s canon. In my 2008 fic “Copper Armour for Miss Jones” Harriet survives by falling through her collapsed livingroom floor. She blacks out and wakes up on a camp bed, where her rescuer (Mr. Copper) had placed her. There’s no motorcycle, but they get away in Mr. Copper’s automobile. Of course it’s not plagiarism of any type, but it does amuse me to think that RTD and others wanted to save her, and found a way remarkably similar to the way I chose to save her.)

Donna Noble regains her memories without dying. I always thought her fate was lazy writing on RTD’s part. Yep, wrote a fixit about that as well, because I just know that the Thirteenth Doctor would have done her damndest to solve what Ten didn’t.

Rory and Amy either escaped New York, or weren’t sent back by the angel.

Huh. I appear to be pimping my own fixits, but I guess that’s because when I really, really, really, disagree with something in the Whoniverse as presented on the small screen, I’m incapable of not writing something to change what happens. Y’all don’t have to read any of it, and I’ll stop.

But that's what makes me have head!canons.

Other head!canons: Rose, the Ninth Doctor and Jack Harkness were able to avoid Game Station and stay together; Rawhide wasn’t killed by a Red Lectroid; Taura was able to live to a ripe old age with a partner of her choosing, thanks to Miles. Sapphire and Steel escaped the motorway cafe.

God, I have to stop now.

Current Mood: thoughtful
Current Location: the home office
Crossposts: https://kaffy-r.livejournal.com/597059.html

Frankenstein Meme, Day 23

A fandom you’ve abandoned and why.

I don’t think I’ve ever abandoned a fandom, at least not as an adult.

Perhaps I grew away from the original Star Trek when it went off the air; does that count? I’d had a terribly intense crush on Spock (I think I’m in a fairly large club there), but it faded as I grew up. Not that I didn’t love seeing Leonard Nimoy in later ST movies and in other roles outside of that universe; it was just that … I grew older, and that all-consuming love for someone who didn’t exist burned out as I started falling in love with people who did exist. (Most of those folks might as well have not existed, for all I figured in their consciousness. aaand that’s what happens when you start to think of your first crush. We’re going to turn around and walk back to the beaten path.)

So, no, no abandoned fandoms. Unlike one unreal heart throb, the complicated or multifaceted universes that captured me hold me still.

Current Location: the home office
Current Music: wordless music on YouTube
Crossposts: https://kaffy-r.livejournal.com/596717.html

Frankenstein Meme, Day 22

Your rarest fandoms.

This one’s really easy. I think that “The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension” would be the rarest. I consider it a fandom since I wrote a fic involving two of its central characters, and because I adore the movie and Earl Mac Rauch’s book (he also wrote the movie’s screenplay.) I’m pretty sure there are at least one or two communities out there of fellow Banzai lovers, but they’re certainly rare themselves. Just remember: Don’t be mean, because no matter where you go, there you are. Why is the watermelon there? They’ll tell you later ….

(I know it says fandom(s), but I think I'll stick with one.)

Current Mood: full
Current Location: the home office
Crossposts: https://kaffy-r.livejournal.com/596133.html

Frankenstein Meme, Day 22 (Plus)

Name a character that you’d like to have for a friend.

Goodness. That’s a tall order.

( Read more... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: the home office
Crossposts: https://kaffy-r.livejournal.com/595054.html

Frankenstein Meme, Day 21

In an attempt to keep my brain moving, and my journal as well, I've returned to the Frankenstein Meme. Go, me.

Say something genuinely nice about a character who isn’t one of your faves. (Characters you’re neutral about are fair game, as are characters you dislike or even loathe.)

Well, we can swiftly exclude any version of the Master because, seriously? They're an awful, awful person. And saying they have a strong fashion sense doesn't count as saying something genuinely nice.

I’ve mentioned before that the Tenth Doctor isn’t one of my favorites, and I'm sorry, but I honestly can’t easily think of something nice to say about him. That’s not to say there aren’t nice things about the character, but I’ll leave it to his fans to delineate them. (And fans, please don't @ me. I'm irritable today.)

How about this? In “The Goblin Emperor” I don’t like Setheris Nelar; he's an abusive bully whose treatment at the hands of Varinechibel didn't excuse how he treated Maia. I can, however, appreciate his intelligence (which probably would have made him a better Lord Chancellor than Uleris Chavar) and his love for his wife - and hers for him, to be honest.

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Current Location: the home office
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Frankenstein Meme, Day 20

What fandom broke your heart?

No fandom has broken my heart. There are some stories within my chosen fandoms that have made me cry, but I assume this question has to do with members of the fandom, and not the creators, or the stories that comprise what I love in each fandom.

No? I’m wrong? OK ….

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Current Location: the livingroom
Current Music: Pending anime
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