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bliumchikMum: We're watching King Kong.
Me: We're watching King Kong?
Mum: Yes. It's on TV. Put the kettle on.
Me: *puts on kettle*
Dad: *plays with remote*
Timmy: *whines because the channel keeps changing*
Me: *gets sugar (gloria gloria)*
Sugar Bowl: *has no lid* (this state of affairs has been going on for some weeks now, and the sugar has been protected from the damp by means of a small plastic lid off a small plastic box that we have presumably lost or broken, just like the original lid from the sugar bowl.)
Me: Hey, how come-
Mum: Ssssh, we're watching TV.
Me: ...
Dad: ?
Me: *waves plastic lid around in exasperation*
Blonde Monkey Lady: *wears hat, pouts*
Timmy: *hums Scooby Doo theme*
Mum: SSSSH.
Dad: *shrugs*
Me (quietly): it's just that-
Dad: Not my problem. Your mother wants to buy a new sugar bowl herself, so I can't.
Me: But she isn't going to buy a new sugar bowl- mum, are you going to buy a new sugar bowl?
Mum: I thought we were going to listen to the dialogue!
Me: But-
Mum: I'm delegating! You live in this house, you can buy a new sugar bowl.
Me: *raises eyebrow at dad*
Dad: *places hand over eyes*
Me: Mum.
Dad: You said you wanted to buy a new bowl.
Mum: No, she said we needed a new bowl and I said "okay."
Dad: No, you said, to me, several weeks ago, that you wanted to buy a new sugar bowl, yourself.
Blonde Monkey Lady: *pouts*
Dad: *pouts*
Mum: Oh, that's right. I want to go shopping.
Me: You know, I'll show you this animation, it's about consumerism, you won't want to go shopping.
Mum: Are we chatting or are we watching TV!?
Me: You're watching TV.
Dad: You know, you always talk during movies, there's no reason for us not to.
Me: *quietly picks uppreciousss teacup and leaves*
1 minute later
Mum: Oh, I think they're going to shoot a movie on an island, right Maggie? Maggie? Where'd she go?
Today, as some of you may be aware, was Pi Day. March fourteenth, in the American date system, 3/14.There is no 31/4, so we have to use the American Pi. This should be the geek's Valentine's Day, really. It is compulsory to eat pie. Pi shaped pie. Not that I did, but I did have pi on my face. In eyeliner. My lecture buddies looked at me funny when I tried to explain. I can only conclude that I require geekier lecture buddies. Why must all the friends I made during O Week have morning schedules? The lecture itself - not that interesting. I mean, native title, right, it's important, but by god our teachers are dull. The Lecture Buddies spent most of it passing notes to each other and giggling - not that I didn't partake in a bit of note-passing myself, mostly on the topic of how the map on the screen would be much more interesting if it showed all the islands that would be created in sydney if global warming raised sea-levels sufficiently. Then the giant squids come. (yes, I am still bitter about that mapping failure a few years ago, why do you ask?) LB1 replied that he wished it marked all the Baskin Robbins' in the city, because he and LB2 wanted ice-cream. 3.14 scoops!
This is a really interesting talk about copyright and the internet remix culture, which is very relevant to everyone in fandom - hell most people on my flist at all, fandom or not, and awesome besides. Speaking of awesome things related to fandom, Audrey's animation storyboard to My Chemical Romance's "Mama" is absolutely fantastic and I urge you all to watch it. It's a sequel to "The Ghost Of You" (which is an amazing video clip, v. sad).
The thing about fandom is that many good fanfic writers have more than one. Duh, right, but the thing about really good authors is that they can make you read stuff in fandoms you'd never even heard of - I read some Sentinel fic the other day, which, I have NO IDEA what the hell that is, but it was awesome! Because it was by someone whose SG:A fic I loved, and so I checked out her other stuff, and it was well-written enough to require no knowledge of the fandom beyond that googleable within a few seconds.
This gets back to SG:A because I discovered that fandom in just such a way. And I hadn't actually seen any of the show whose fanfiction I was reading, and non-fandom folks would just knit their eyebrows at me and say things like "it's not that good" and "you should watch Battlestar Galactica" and "what is this fanfiction you speak of?"
Last night, I went downstairs to wash dishes and found my dad watching - bom bom bom - STARGATE ATLANTIS. O HAI, says I. I then proceed to confuzzle my dad a little by knowing who all the characters are (but not how to pronounce their names). So yeah, Stargate: Atlantis. It's deliciously cheesy! All the aliens walk like animations! There are laser guns, and scotty-beams! People turn their heads dramatically like on The Bold And The Beautiful! (Somebody has to do a crossover, now. Rule 34.) There is snarking, and also snarling, and I find myself struggling to orient myself in a non-slashy way (John and Ronon are just staring meaningfully at each other in manly warrior solidarity, Maggie. Rodney and Carson fighting over a gun are just two guys fighting over a gun. NO HE DOESN'T MEAN COME AND GET ME LIKE THAT, DAMMIT.)
Anyway, I find myself preferring the world of certain people's fanfics highly over the show, and I don't just mean that there are more (read: any) dudes making out. The dialogue is actually better written, and the plot is more believable, and because all the special effects are in your head there are no cheesy lightshows. Of course I don't get to giggle at Rodney's ludicrous underwear, but I can live with that.
Me: We're watching King Kong?
Mum: Yes. It's on TV. Put the kettle on.
Me: *puts on kettle*
Dad: *plays with remote*
Timmy: *whines because the channel keeps changing*
Me: *gets sugar (gloria gloria)*
Sugar Bowl: *has no lid* (this state of affairs has been going on for some weeks now, and the sugar has been protected from the damp by means of a small plastic lid off a small plastic box that we have presumably lost or broken, just like the original lid from the sugar bowl.)
Me: Hey, how come-
Mum: Ssssh, we're watching TV.
Me: ...
Dad: ?
Me: *waves plastic lid around in exasperation*
Blonde Monkey Lady: *wears hat, pouts*
Timmy: *hums Scooby Doo theme*
Mum: SSSSH.
Dad: *shrugs*
Me (quietly): it's just that-
Dad: Not my problem. Your mother wants to buy a new sugar bowl herself, so I can't.
Me: But she isn't going to buy a new sugar bowl- mum, are you going to buy a new sugar bowl?
Mum: I thought we were going to listen to the dialogue!
Me: But-
Mum: I'm delegating! You live in this house, you can buy a new sugar bowl.
Me: *raises eyebrow at dad*
Dad: *places hand over eyes*
Me: Mum.
Dad: You said you wanted to buy a new bowl.
Mum: No, she said we needed a new bowl and I said "okay."
Dad: No, you said, to me, several weeks ago, that you wanted to buy a new sugar bowl, yourself.
Blonde Monkey Lady: *pouts*
Dad: *pouts*
Mum: Oh, that's right. I want to go shopping.
Me: You know, I'll show you this animation, it's about consumerism, you won't want to go shopping.
Mum: Are we chatting or are we watching TV!?
Me: You're watching TV.
Dad: You know, you always talk during movies, there's no reason for us not to.
Me: *quietly picks up
1 minute later
Mum: Oh, I think they're going to shoot a movie on an island, right Maggie? Maggie? Where'd she go?
Today, as some of you may be aware, was Pi Day. March fourteenth, in the American date system, 3/14.There is no 31/4, so we have to use the American Pi. This should be the geek's Valentine's Day, really. It is compulsory to eat pie. Pi shaped pie. Not that I did, but I did have pi on my face. In eyeliner. My lecture buddies looked at me funny when I tried to explain. I can only conclude that I require geekier lecture buddies. Why must all the friends I made during O Week have morning schedules? The lecture itself - not that interesting. I mean, native title, right, it's important, but by god our teachers are dull. The Lecture Buddies spent most of it passing notes to each other and giggling - not that I didn't partake in a bit of note-passing myself, mostly on the topic of how the map on the screen would be much more interesting if it showed all the islands that would be created in sydney if global warming raised sea-levels sufficiently. Then the giant squids come. (yes, I am still bitter about that mapping failure a few years ago, why do you ask?) LB1 replied that he wished it marked all the Baskin Robbins' in the city, because he and LB2 wanted ice-cream. 3.14 scoops!
This is a really interesting talk about copyright and the internet remix culture, which is very relevant to everyone in fandom - hell most people on my flist at all, fandom or not, and awesome besides. Speaking of awesome things related to fandom, Audrey's animation storyboard to My Chemical Romance's "Mama" is absolutely fantastic and I urge you all to watch it. It's a sequel to "The Ghost Of You" (which is an amazing video clip, v. sad).
The thing about fandom is that many good fanfic writers have more than one. Duh, right, but the thing about really good authors is that they can make you read stuff in fandoms you'd never even heard of - I read some Sentinel fic the other day, which, I have NO IDEA what the hell that is, but it was awesome! Because it was by someone whose SG:A fic I loved, and so I checked out her other stuff, and it was well-written enough to require no knowledge of the fandom beyond that googleable within a few seconds.
This gets back to SG:A because I discovered that fandom in just such a way. And I hadn't actually seen any of the show whose fanfiction I was reading, and non-fandom folks would just knit their eyebrows at me and say things like "it's not that good" and "you should watch Battlestar Galactica" and "what is this fanfiction you speak of?"
Last night, I went downstairs to wash dishes and found my dad watching - bom bom bom - STARGATE ATLANTIS. O HAI, says I. I then proceed to confuzzle my dad a little by knowing who all the characters are (but not how to pronounce their names). So yeah, Stargate: Atlantis. It's deliciously cheesy! All the aliens walk like animations! There are laser guns, and scotty-beams! People turn their heads dramatically like on The Bold And The Beautiful! (Somebody has to do a crossover, now. Rule 34.) There is snarking, and also snarling, and I find myself struggling to orient myself in a non-slashy way (John and Ronon are just staring meaningfully at each other in manly warrior solidarity, Maggie. Rodney and Carson fighting over a gun are just two guys fighting over a gun. NO HE DOESN'T MEAN COME AND GET ME LIKE THAT, DAMMIT.)
Anyway, I find myself preferring the world of certain people's fanfics highly over the show, and I don't just mean that there are more (read: any) dudes making out. The dialogue is actually better written, and the plot is more believable, and because all the special effects are in your head there are no cheesy lightshows. Of course I don't get to giggle at Rodney's ludicrous underwear, but I can live with that.
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Date: 2008-03-14 05:21 pm (UTC)ksenya's friend: OMG it's Pi Day!
ksenya: I remember in 9th grade [or something] my Math teacher was telling us about how they'd discovered the finite value of Pi...but then it was just a joke. How lame are math teachers...oh jeez.
kf: ...so, what's the origin of Pi Day anyway?
k:..what?
kf: I just remember eating a lot of pies last year. This week I had a pre-Pi Day pie on Wednesday, and we had pie today, too.
k: ...
kf: but why pies?
k: You mean, you thought it was do to with pies?
kf: Why not?
k: So you just listened to my story as if you understood but really you didn't?
kf: Well I didn't respond. So I didn't pretend that I understood.
k: Pah *exasperation* it's 3/14. 3.14. Pi. Get it?
kf: OH! ....AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
k: Please kill me now.
kf: It's also St. Patrick's Day! Last year I was in a parade, and I got to wear a green necklace.
k: ...please kill me now.
Good story? I think so :P Happy Pi Day :)
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Date: 2008-03-15 02:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-03-15 01:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-03-15 02:12 am (UTC)Oh well. I don't mind celebrating twice.