Bits and pieces

[icepixie]

Things I Do Not Understand:

1. Why I suddenly find myself in possession of a Sheridan/"Sleeping in Light"-centric Sheridan/Delenn vid. And why it is the quickest vid I have ever made. Okay, yeah, the song is only about two and a half minutes, but I seriously started this thing THIRTY MINUTES AGO and I have footage on every bit of the timeline. I need to futz with about fifteen seconds' worth, and it'll be done. I could conceivably finish this the same day I started it. And I don't even like the POV character or the pairing!

2. Why, of the four fics I'm currently splitting my writing time between, THREE of them involve children. Dear Brain: Did you forget I hate kids? What gives? (Although writing the hoary old "OTP babysits and things get very weird" cliche does amuse me. Susan has currently gotten the bright idea that if she makes the kid retrieve all the paper airplanes they're throwing in the park, she can burn off some of said kid's energy, much as one does with a dog when playing fetch. She is also optimistically trying to explain Bernoulli's Principle when the kid asks why the paper airplanes fly but he can't.)

3. Why I can't seem to write any verse at all today. Grrr.

4. That "Stereotypical Female Characters" chart going around. If you haven't run into it yet, be thankful; it is heinous.

Therefore, another Wall Of Awesome Female Characters, inspired by settiai. Since fully two-thirds of my icons feature a female character from somewhere (and I'm not even including the quotations from female characters), this got quite large:

Comments

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

4. That "Stereotypical Female Characters" chart going around.

You too, huh? That thing irritates me so much. Guess what? Characters sometimes are tropes! Sometimes they're not! They're better when they're just written as people. And if you write women as people just like if you write men as people, everything will be okay!

/rant

On the other hand, I giggle madly at your situation with the vid. This is almost exactly (okay - it was a fic, not a vid) how my thing for Delenn/Sheridan started. I was just minding my own damned business, and a fic (from Sheridan's perspective!) assaulted me. And ever since then I've been pathologically incapable of not sympathizing with him a bit. :P

[bulleteyes.livejournal.com]

Your wonderful icons led me to think of even more that would fit in this category. Isn't that a wonderful thought? That we can list, list, list and never list them all!

[fallingtowers.livejournal.com]

This female character icon meme was really one of the best things to come out of this whole sorry mess. So much shiny pixely goodness! I particularly love your Ginger Rogers icons: They are so full of understated elegance.

[magsyb.livejournal.com]

I heart your icon wall..it is total love. :D