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[Nov. 21st, 2009|09:22 am] |
I'm going to Texas tomorrow. I'm looking forward to it. I hope it is warmer and sunnier than it is here (that would not be difficult). I am already ready for Spring. I don't usually yearn for Spring before Christmas, but I am this year. Texas should be fun - I will see my son, recently home from his second sojourn in Iraq, and my grandson is turning one, and my daughter is buying a new house . . . a lot is going on down there for my family members.
This month it's three years that I'm in Pros. I told a friend it was two, but I guess my life is so much fun that the years are blurring together (or maybe not). Anyway, it's three years. Now when I watch an ep, I do see more plot holes and unbelievable stuff than I did in the beginning but I see the love btw Bodie and Doyle, more than I ever did. I adore watching the two of them together: every word, every step, every move.
A friend once said to me that the fandom connection runs so deep that she could tell me things and know that I would understand, even more than did her friends that she sees every day. I agree. I have several fandom friends that I hold so dear to my heart. We don't agree on everything in RL, but that doesn't matter at all. They understand me completely. I don't know how people get thru life w/o fandom and fan friends.
I'm grateful to God that I was introduced to this show. I'll never write in it as well as I like, and I'll never get all the cultural nuances of the show as much as I would like to, but I just love Pros. And as much as I enjoy the eps, I feel so blessed that we have such wonderful fanfic which keeps the show ever fresh and new for us. In fact, one reason I write (sporadically), as dissatisfied as I am with my writing, is b/c I feel an joyful obligation to add to the body of work we have, to keep Pros alive and growing.
I wish all of you a wonderful, fandom-filled weekend. |
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[Aug. 22nd, 2009|07:49 pm] |
Just back from a day in the state just South of mine. I really love it down there. It's probably where we should have moved to, not where we are. But in any case had a Pros Day, which I sorely needed.
Got to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) silver_cyanne's house at 11:00 on the dot, because God knows, I'm always on time. tayawulf was delayed by traffic so silver_cyanne and I headed out to eat. Tayawulf was not long delayed, so we ordered and had a nice talk about Close Quarters, zines, stories, Pros in general. I love this show.
Then we returned to silver_cyanne's, with cookies and Diet Coke and ice, and watched several of recycledmedia's Pros vids, including the multimedia "Wild West Show" which is my absolute Favorite Vid of All Time. It was the first time ever that I saw Bodie and Doyle, so that would explain why I love it, even if it weren't so perfectly done as it is.
Then we watched "Operation Susie". I was dreading it. I had never seen this ep and really had no desire to. I'm fond of Cowley (and I don't believe he has designs on either of the lads) and I was sure that this ep would totally destroy all respect I had for him. But, it was not as bad as I thought it would be. Not high on my re-watch list tho.
Then - as always - I forced everyone to watch an Emergency! ep. It was "Smoke Eater" for those of you keeping score at home. My favorite, altho difficult to watch, rescue is in that ep, and I knew tayawulf would enjoy at least one ep of Emergency! as she grew up with the show as did I. I can mention anything from this series, and she knows it. It's very cool for me, to have a friend that "knows" the show. My childhood revolved around Saturday nights at 8 pm and hers did, too.
Then we ventured back into Pros, watching "Blind Run", b/c it seems a lot like "Operation Susie" at least to me, and I needed something to counteract "Operation Susie". But then it started to storm and I developed one of my lovely, always enjoyable, panic attacks, so I rushed out of there and flew home (not quite, but close).
Very nice to be home! And I managed to come home w/ four of silver_cyanne's Pros zines, which I'm very happy about - I predict days and days of enjoyable Pros reading, which is really all I want to do these days.
I called silver_cyanne when I was almost home so that she would not worry about me, and she and tayawulf had moved onto "In the Public Interest". I was sick w/ envy, but that's what I get for being constantly nervous when I am more than 20 miles from home.
So I'll watch that tonight, but it will not be as fun as if I would have been a big girl and watched it w/ silver_cyanne and tayawulf. But all in all, I did good! I was six hours away from home before I lost it! And it was a great, great day.
One of my sons is in the military, and he always says that the best people he's ever met, and the worst people he's ever met, are in the military. I know what he means. Fandom is very diverse - has great people, and people that I really don't click with - but I so value the friends I have made here. I am blessed. |
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[Aug. 9th, 2009|07:09 pm] |
Well, I was going to watch a Pros ep tonight, but instead put in a DVD of vids that was done by recycledmedia. And was once again wow'ed by her talent. She usually uses country music, which I really don't care for, and when that's married up w/ Pros, yes, Pros, you would think that the combination would be absolutely unworkable. But you'd be wrong.
My favorite vid of hers, other than the multimedia one "Wild West Show" which I've forced silver_cyanne to watch with me so many times she probably sees it in her sleep, is "If Heaven". It's a death vid (if that is even a term) and features an older MS (Ray) in Some Other Role Other Than Pros (don't ask me which one) in which he is thinking back, w/ great sorrow, to the friends he lost (Bodie & Cowley). Most of the Pros ep scenes seem to me to be from "It's Only a Beautiful Picture" which is my favorite ep. The lyrics have no mercy, there's never a doubt that Bodie and Cowley have passed away, and have left Ray to try to deal with it. It's pretty intense - have to be in the right mood to watch this vid.
We have so many talented vidders in Pros - we are very fortunate. I can think of several right now, off the top of my head, that do absolutely wonderful work. I think recycledmedia is one of the best, as well. I wish her work were available online. I don't think it is, but I'm sure someone will correct me if I am wrong. In any case, I have seen her discs at most of the multi-fandom cons I have gone to, and if you ever see her vids, I recommend that you try to get your hands on them, no matter which fandom. I think right now, she is vidding in Supernatural. If that is the one w/ the two brothers, that's the one she is vidding in. I saw one of her new vids last Summer in that fandom, and even having never seen the show once, I was captivated. Of course, her Pros vids - and my adored "Wild West Show" - are my favorites, tho. |
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| Pros |
[Aug. 2nd, 2009|09:20 am] |
Thanks to the generousity and kindness of katyabaturinsky, my Pros zine collection has expanded tenfold. And boy, am I enjoying that.
When I first got into Pros, I decided I would buy no zines - didn't know the good from the bad, didn't want to spend the money, there were too many out there, blah, blah, blah. Plus, silver_cyanne is always more than willing to let some of her zines migrate northward for months and months on end. In fact, I don't think she's ever asked for one back (I do return them, tho!).
But I saw Katya B's post on slashswap and bought everything that hadn't already sold, plus several zines she threw in for free (!), and now I'm becoming a zine convert. It works well, b/c all I feel like doing these days is reading Pros.
However, I think I'm reading too much, and not watching enough. I watched "Takeaway" last night, really watched it as opposed to just having it on in the background, and there is so much to the show that I don't have down. I need to become better versed in canon.
So my August resolution is to watch more eps. I can't watch one every night; usually when I come home from work I'm so tired I'm brain-dead, but I'm going to work out some kind of plan to watch and absorb the eps. Fanfic is great, but you have to know canon as well, IMHO.
So that will be fun, I'm sure. As long as I skip "No Stone" which creeps me out for some reason. But maybe I'll be a big girl and work up the nerve to give that ep a second try.
I do love this show. |
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| Close Quarters |
[Jul. 20th, 2009|07:17 pm] |
As many of you know, I don't attend cons, I merely make cameo appearances. This year's CQ was no different. I had intended to come down Fri night but I just didn't feel up to it, having been sick for what feels like months right about now.
So I drove down Sat morn and had a late breakfast with loyseofverlaine, sc_fossil, and aerye. sc_fossil gave me a refrigerator magent with the lads on in, in black & white. And I ran into ancastar - never had met her in person.
Next on the agenda was signing in with gblvr and picking up my packet. Then waiting for her to open for business so I could get two of the zines I really wanted, justacat's new one and przed's Exile. I also bought Secret Agent Man 12 from Mysti, and got a new Proslib CD from hagrus. In fact, I ran into hagsrus several times during my day at the con, and really enjoyed talking to her. She lives not very far from my parents.
I went to two panels, one was run by msmoat and Diane, and the other by Kath Moonshine. I liked both of them a lot. The first one had to do with the future of fanfic (is it becoming the Drabble of the Week) and Kath's was about Older Lads, which is totally my interest, so that was great. I saw callistosh65 from a distance but never worked up the nerve to say hi.
Lunch, I ventured out among the non-fen and had lunch w/ a friend from high school and his girl friend. I enjoyed seeing them. I'm sure they enjoyed listening to me cough. Oh, and I saw silver_cyanne's car for the first time in living color. She still owes me a ride, tho.
After lunch, I took a nap in the hopes of being human at dinner and at the Pros quiz.
I shared a room w/ silver_cyanne and altho we have nothing in common other than the fact that we both don't like to wear makeup, we have known each other so long that we can share a room and enjoy the experience. I ran out of money early in the day and so I never paid her for the room - really, the check is in the mail!
Dinner was at a local sports bar. While I was in the lobby waiting to leave, I saw flamingoslim and since I have been wanting to see her recently, that was wonderful. We all squeezed onto the couch while we waited.
I liked dinner as well, even tho I could hardly hear my tables-mates. I sat with metabolick (I had never met her, so that was great fun, and I found out that I think she knows dawnebeth, a friend of mine from my S&H days) and with tiranoq and hagrus and silver_cyanne. I had iced tea in the hopes of being semi-awake later. As it turns out, I was too awake later. All of us just listed, did a lot of passing drinks and food down the table. Without one spill!
I walked back to the hotel with tayawulf and jacquelyn, and tiranoq and silver_cyanne.
Then it was time for the quiz. I was asked to decamp to a different table to even up the table numbers and at my new table, I enjoyed watching Carol answer all the questions. Suzan and zana16 and sc_fossil and Carolyn, we all enjoyed watching Carol answer all the questions. She was amazing. Actually, everyone helped except me. I entertained myself by adding up the scores when it was done.
For one question, I was so certain of the answer I shouted it out for everyone in class to hear (too much iced tea!). But I apologized later to (I hope this is the right lj name . . . .) fjbryan (I really hadn't meant to spoil the game). She and przed ran it, and she was kind enough to say that I didn't harm the game, that everyone knew that Cowley had not given the Chinese guy oxygen first, in an ep that I can't remember the name of (I think I read too much fanfic and don't watch enough eps. I need to fix that).
Then our CQ tradition, eps and vids in someone's hotel room. Last time it was me, silver_cyanne, krisserci5, and sonia6349. And one other person I think, but I can't remember.
This year, it was artconserv, me, silver_cyanne, tayawulf, Suzan, and zana16. At the beginning, everyone encouraged me to go take some cough medicine, so I did. Which means, they all watched Stakeout while I dozed. I barely lasted to the end of Stakeout and then I went upstairs to bed.
True to my tradition of getting up ridiculously early, I left for home at 4:50 am Sunday morning. I didn't run into any traffic, I can say that! But this is getting silly. I plan to go to SHareCon next year (yes, even tho I am not in S&H, I go to that con every two years, like clockwork. And talk about Pros in the hall . . . very, very softly . . . so as to not break any mono-con rules). And I'm NOT going to leave at 5 in the morning. I'm going to stay late! Like, to 8 am even!
Great con, tho. Just the perfect size and of course, the perfect fandom. If they have it again in 2011, I recommend making the effort to come if possible. There's nothing like seeing fen, face to face, and talking about the lads, and everyone understanding exactly how you feel.
It was a good day for me. |
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| Vids |
[May. 30th, 2009|07:47 am] |
I think there should be a law against people like me - who will never, ever, ever, learn how to vid - hearing songs that make us want to vid. Right now, it's 10CC's "I'm Not In Love". That song makes me think of B & D. I play it over and over and can picture just which scenes I would place w/ each line, but . . . . I'll never vid. "Big boys don't cry" makes me think of Bodie, so much.
Pros is just such a great show :) |
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| At Loose Ends |
[Mar. 29th, 2009|09:05 am] |
A bit blue today. My husband and my son just left – my son is moving back at what he considers his home state, and my husband is going there for a week’s vacation to see family.
So here I am, by myself, for the first time in months! And definitely at loose ends.
I could go to work – but I went y’day and there is a limit to how much of my life I am comfortable with them taking. I could go to mass but I went last night. I could go to the gym but I had already decided to take a day of rest. I could go shopping but I don’t like to shop.
I know I’m stressed a bit tho – reverting in my fandom life to First Fandom. Spent Friday evening reading Emergency! fic, the quality of which is frequently problematic, IMHO.
So I have been reading some of my stuff which I like much better (of course, or I wouldn’t have written it) but I wrote Johnny/Roy (yes, I know Roy was married) and I don’t see that so much any more.
My OTP is a couple of English guys. Maybe I should pull up and dust off one of my three WIPs. It’s just so hard to write these days, for some reason.
Well, when in doubt, go to work. I think that’s what I’ll do. Get out this empty house. Just me and the cats now.
As much as my son can get on my nerves, I shall miss him terribly. He turned 32 yesterday.
Can’t believe how old my children are getting. It seems like just the other day, they were teenagers. Now all of them are in their thirties except our nephew that we raised, and he is 28 in June. It was just the other day I was teaching him how to tell time.
I’m even a grandmother now which just floors me (but, for the record, my grandson IS the cutest, smartest, most engaging baby in the history of the planet. Yes, really!).
Hope everyone is having / has had a great Sunday. |
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| Reading stories in Pros |
[Jan. 1st, 2009|03:34 pm] |
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Last weekend, silver_cyanne came up for the day and we spent it eating at what I hope she felt was a nice restaurant (since I didn't do a darn thing for her birthday, I wanted to take her out to eat at a place that was a step above our usual sandwich shop), and watching Pros/talking Pros/checking out Pros on lj.
She did say that some folks on lj might not friend me b/c I never post. So I thought I would try posting. And I actually have a point.
I've been in Pros for about 25 months now, since Nov of 2006. I was pimped in by silver_cyanne but it took a lot of eps. The one that I actually sat through in its entirety without complaining was "Stakeout". Prior to that (I'm vocal about how I feel) all she heard from me was whining: I couldn't tell the men apart and couldn't understand what the heck they were saying.
The one that did it for me was "Mixed Doubles". I still remember that day, we were sitting in my living room huddled around her laptop (I couldn't play Region 2 DVDs on my DVD player, of course, and that assumes I even know how to turn my DVD player on) and I was bowled over by the sleeping bag chat.
I kept waving my hands around and saying "Did you see that! Did you see that!" when of course, she had, many times, but she put up with my exclamations since it was clear I had Finally Seen the Light.
In Feb of 2007 I read Harlequin Airs and didn't care for it at all. Recently (last weekend) I re-read it and I like it much better now. My point is, I think some stories you should not read too early in your exposure to the fandom. I know HA didn't change in the 21 months between my first reading and the second. But I did. I wonder what other stories I didn't like in early 2007, that I will now like in early 2009.
It will be fun to find out. |
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| Calendar |
[Oct. 28th, 2007|11:32 am] |
I have started my Christmas shopping, hoping in vain for inspiration to strike for my two impossible to buy for relatives - my dad and my brother. Well, when I can't decide what present to get for someone, I fall back on my tried and true method for dealing with it.
I buy something for myself.
This year, it's Pros related, just as it was last year. This year, it's a calendar, just as it was last year.
The difference is that in 2007 I had a calendar of places in the United Kingdom that I had never heard of (grin) and for 2008 I have a calendar of places in London that I've (mostly) never heard of. Yes, I've heard of Buckingham Palace and the Houses of Parliament (I'm not that ignorant!) but London Eye in Lambeth? No. Inn of Court. Also no. And, I'm afraid no again for Victoria Embankment Gardens.
Well, thank goodness for Wikipedia . . . but whether I've heard of a particular place or not, tangentially it's Pros related so it makes me happy! More Pros in everyday life, that's my motto. |
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| Keychain |
[Oct. 11th, 2007|09:42 pm] |
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When I was at Zcon last month, I talked to a friend of mine there who had purchased a small Bodie and Doyle charm that she attached to her wallet. She showed it to me and explained that even though she was very busy with RL, she decided she could carry around with her, this charm that would make her happy when she looked at it. That's my memory of what she said, anyway. I was so tired at Zcon I'm amazed I got there and home in one piece.
I thought that was such a good idea but it wasn't until I was down in the dealers' room that I decided to act on this idea, myself. I bought a keychain for $2 that has Ray on one side (he is wearing fatigues and is seated on a motorcycle) and Bodie on the other, wearing a poloneck (I know, how unusual for Bodie to be wearing a poloneck!) with his shoulder holster, and a coat thrown over his back. Ray looks quite serious. Bodie's expression is guarded.
I can not convey how much I love this keychain. I see it all the time, going to work, coming home, running errands, going to the gym, food shopping, church, shoe-shopping, just everywhere I drive. Everytime I see it, I smile. I pull it out when I'm blue at work, and there the Lads are, to cheer me up and keep me going.
So the moral of this story is, little things in your life can make a big difference and so don't make your RL completely fandom free. Little bits of fandom carried throughout one's day, can make all the difference. It has for me, anyway.
I do love my keychain! |
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| Village squabbles |
[Jul. 9th, 2007|10:14 pm] |
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You know in "The Ojuka Situation", Ojuka's wife tries to have him killed due to a village squabble, as he put it?
Well, that's is what is happening in my little corner of my little town in my Can't Pass A Budget On Time state. Our neighbor has nine dogs. Yes, nine. Another neighbor doesn't like the fact that he has nine dogs. And the pissing contest is now to the point that the police are dropping by to break up altercations and question everyone on how much they have had to drink.
I find it very unnerving. I wish my husband were home. I hate conflict and we have it here, and I know I'm going to end up getting sucked into somehow, unless I move tonight, which isn't very likely.
I'm ready for Close Quarters. I have to get away for a while and I am so excited that next weekend is the weekend! It seems like I've been anticipating this for so long, I can't believe it is almost here.
For a total change of subject, I finally figured out that scene in "When the Heat Cools Off" where LC supposedly gave real alcohol to MS. I had heard about it a lot but was always looking in the wrong part of the ep (brilliant, I know). Now that I've found it I have no doubt that there was something in that glass poor Martin wasn't expecting. He sure did a good job of saving the scene tho. I wouldn't have had the presence of mind to stay in character!
Well, the voices from outside are dying down. I hope the police are gone. I'm off to find an Pros ep to watch. |
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| First post |
[Jun. 16th, 2007|10:46 am] |
This is my first post to livejournal and I just needed to see how to post. Fortunately I'm at silver_cyanne's house and she is showing me how to do it. I'm old and technologically challenged. But all the cool kids are posting so I figured I'd better try to get with the program. |
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