iamshunpike: (B. Franky Fitz)
2012-01-19 04:11 pm

bowie-owie-owie-owie-owie

last night I dreamt that David Bowie died.

it wasn't even medical, it just happened, in the dream he died out of nowhere, plain and simple.


weird. I'm not even a fan. No one can't love his music, sure, but I wouldn't say I'm in fandom or listen regularly.


sometimes dreams mean something and sometimes they mean jack, hah
i'll probably do a search on him every now and then for the next few months, though, just to make sure. /creeped out
2011-12-31 06:48 pm

Happy New Year's Eve, everybody!

I'm not doing anything big or getting dead lost in some crowd at midnight...we've got chicken wings, and are going to count down to 12:00AM exactly, going to watch the ball drop. Rahh.
And that's two little entries where I've mentioned holidays alongside food and so on.


So to add to this...I think I am experiencing for the first time what Skins fandom wank is really like (at its craziest?). As it's coming time for this generation to get the second half of their story told, everyone is going nuts with death hints and ship anticipation like I never anticipated. I mean, it's not just ship wank. It's SHIP RAGE. SHIP RAGE.
I think it's better that, out of all my fandoms, in Skins (gen 3 at least), I ship almost every single ship. It's so far been my one ticket out of shipping-discussion fear/anger. And when the actual episodes air, I have a good chance of liking whatever ships get made canon.
It's the way they might be brought together - or apart - that's a bit scary to me. As well as the rest of the plot. If all these hints we're getting come true, then what?? I don't know what to think.
This fandom is cray-cray.
I love it though.


Back to the subject of the new year! Two-thousand twelve! 2012! God I can barely believe it. It should be March. March 2011. I feel like the whole year rushed out ahead of me. Like if every floor you walked on turned into treadmills, and you had to run to catch up.... Gor.


(— AND IS THAT POLKA MUSIC FROM DOWNSTAIRS??
JABUS!
VHAT IZ ON THAT TELEVISION, THAT IT MAKES SUCH SOUNDS?)



To end a scattered update...goodnight, all. I've got to go. I'll talk to you in the new year!
- SH
2011-12-24 10:05 pm

festivus...it's for the rest of us....

Merry Christmas Eve, everybody! I hope you have a wonderful time over the holidays.

We put out wintry decorations just today and it was fun. :) Later (or tomorrow) we're going to make crab dip (to put on bread, muffins)..nom nom nom.

2011-12-22 03:35 am

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Hi. If you use LJ, you know that they sometimes make ridiculous changes that are useless and just plain bad. When they do this, the staff doesn't listen or change a thing, no matter how much the users say that they dislike it, and would like the changes to be undone.

Most recently, they changed comment page design as well as taking out comment subject lines altogether, and this plus earlier changes (hello, profile-page fiasco) made me want to have a backup journal account on another website, so that if I ever left LJ, I'd have an alternative.

I'm not sure I'll ever use this, but it's good to have. So there you have it.

This'll be the only entry for a while, I think.
Thanks for reading. :)

-SH


P.S. The way DW's staff (??) replies to and deals with users is down-to-earth and, well, actually responsive (unlike LJ). I like it.


ETA, Dec. 23rd: All my LJ entries are finished being imported — wow! That took only a day!
Soon I might make a graphics comm-clone here (MAYBE), and import the entries of the original one on LJ (if that is possible????). :)

Dreamwidth so far is awesome.
plus its provided layouts are far prettier than LJ's.
2011-12-21 11:44 am
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Yuck, LJ! what are you doing?

the new LiveJournal comment page/entry page design is gross-looking. the font is too large and it's got that trying-hard-to-be-sleek feeling to it. I was used to the old one...LJ usually doesn't offer opt-outs — maybe people (including me) will speak against it and it'll be changed back?

Yep, there's a whole thread talking against the redesign. But we spoke against the profile-page redesign, and they kept it anyway, so I'm not sure I'll get my hopes up. :/

Gross.


ETA: Commenter sh*tstorm, part 2.

I've made a dreamwidth account (same username), just in case I ever get too fed up with LJ to continue with the site (whether because of this, or other future changes where the staff just won't listen). :/ I don't think I'll use it, but it's good to have a backup.
2011-11-16 08:45 pm

Writer's Block: American Censorship Day!

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No, I don't. I think it's terrible and a disgusting abuse of power. Censorship like this is wrong. As so many other people have said, it goes against the value of free speech which the United States were founded on, as well as just basic human rights.

I honestly hope this doesn't come to pass. I haven't heard much IRL about it, but have had my panic and then calmed down some — the internet, predictably, is panicking like hell, and if any of this is solidly true? then with good reason.
But honestly, the government half the time can't get their sh*t together to make far longer-discussed laws than this get through, so by that logic, I cross my fingers and pray some, yeah? Yeah.
2011-07-29 06:41 pm

pasta with shrimp is my best friend

...and we're getting ice cream later. :B
2011-06-30 09:08 am

Another miniature adventure in the life of The Narnia Psychic.

So, lately I've been listening to Queen's song Don't Stop Me Now constantly. And over the fast few months I've been just floating on the fringes of Narnia fandom. Then, just now, I ran into this GIF:




GIF source



There was no reason why I should have seen that. It's from some little interview James McAvoy did with Keira Knightley years ago, around the time Atonement came out. She asked him what his favorite song to dance to was, and this was his response.


I searched for the actual video and this is what I got.





Yeah, I get that Queen is known by pretty much everyone with exposure to the world and taste, but still, that particular song? That ONE song?
It's not the most mind-blowing of my ~Narnian premotions~, but it still flips me out, man. After all these months predicting Narnia-fandom-related coincidences, I still flip out every time.


I leave you with this:


2011-06-03 09:53 pm
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I've changed my username!

merae is now iamshunpike.

I used a rename token, though, so it's the same account, not a new journal. If you type in merae.livejournal.com, it'll take you to the same place, same entries, same journal. You don't need to add me again or anything. Yeah.

I already had the account but didn't use it much, but I just feel like the screenname is more..."me"? I just never felt much like "merae" (aren't you supposed to identify with a username like it's your other name? ehhh). So there you go.



[livejournal.com profile] iamshunpike [livejournal.com profile] iamshunpike [livejournal.com profile] iamshunpike




This is going to take some getting used to, I think. I'm glad I did it, though.

P.S. Now maybe you get the caption at the header of my journal...Stan Shunpike said it to Harry in Prisoner of Azkaban. Stan is one of my favorite Harry Potter characters/fictional characters at all.
2011-03-18 04:09 pm
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WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME THAT WORKING WITH SKINS SCREENCAPS TO MAKE ICONS MAKES YOUR EYES BLEED? FFS.





That is all.
2011-03-07 12:06 pm

privilege

Ok, so people are lazy. They are, I am, you are. We'll go to our kitchen and look at all the food and say "There's nothing to eat." Bullshit, what you mean to say is either:

A. "There's nothing here I want right now," OR
B. "There's nothing here that can magically be prepared in under five minutes/thirty seconds."

If you're in a position to read this then you've probably done it and so have I.


This Has Been A Pointless Guilt Trip Pushed On You By InternetCorp© and the person who just popped in a few toaster waffles which are now being eaten. InternetCorp©, For A Better Life™.
2011-01-01 11:55 pm
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A Year in Fanfiction meme

This was something [livejournal.com profile] likecharity posted, and I thought I'd do it as well.

I posted this fanfiction to the internet in a weird order, so it'll take a bit of work to piece out what order I actually wrote them all in....

everything is under here. this is a bit long, actually. )
2010-12-22 05:55 pm

WHAT IS THIS?

Okay, so my grandmother (dad's side) sends me forwarded emails...a lot of them, and very often. They can get pretty campy, yeah. BUT LOOK WHAT WAS WAITING FOR ME AT THE END OF ONE OF THEM, DANCING, FOR PETE'S SAKE.



WHAT. WHAT IS THIS??
It's adorable and annoying and f--king strange all at the same time.

I don't even know.
2010-12-08 06:27 pm

Just FYI

We lost internet access on Saturday and just today got it back. We had to get a new router and everything. Long story short, I was offline and am now online again. Yippee? ...eh.
2010-11-19 01:51 pm
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ALSO, HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS TODAY. YES.
2010-11-16 12:49 am
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Mary Elizabeth Frye.

.
2010-11-01 09:59 pm

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I am eating a Hershey's King Size Chocolate bar. You are not.

MUAHAHAHAHA.
2010-09-21 01:45 am

THIS IS IMPORTANT, GUYS.

:43, people. :43.




Why have I never, ever seen this?

My life was never truly complete until now.
2010-09-17 02:59 pm

memory flavor and NARNIA.

I am eating a strawberry frosted pop-tart.

Mmmmm, the taste of nostalgia.

In other news, I am now wayyyyy deep into Narnia fandom again. I love this fandom's acceptance of RPF. Because those books get heavy sometimes and I'm not always in the mood. But I always am up for some Georgie! Why do all my main ships revolve around Georgie

1. James/Georgie
» OTP. they are my OTP for-EVAHHHH. NOBODY tops them.
I've even thought about writing original fic of them and then changing names, details, etc. Yeah I know.
And what happens in my braincanon when James leaves Anne-Marie to be with Georgie? She hooks up with Georgie's older sister. ( I've even written a drabble of this. )
Yeah. I know.

2. Anna/Georgie
» IDEK. It just works, in my mind. And what else are they going to do if the guys are all busy being slashed with one another?
Femslash doesn't get enough attention in this fandom. That's one of my only beefs with it.

3. Ben/Georgie
» I want fic for this SO bad — I cannot wait for VoDT to come out. [livejournal.com profile] likecharity had better make good on her promise! if you could call it that.


Okay, now, I have to say this:
I know I'm late to the party and all, but MAN. [livejournal.com profile] narnia_dazzle is FUN as hell. I love it.
I am so Team Bin Bons, but after seeing some creepy-ass shots from Dorian Gay Gray, I'm a little off-put by him. Perhaps I shall switch to Team Skandarwin. ( this picspam already has me half converted, f--k. or should I say, YEAH! )


BRB, putting a Skandar banner in my profile. It is black and white and red all over just like a newspaper, verrrrry verrrrrry trippy.

OK, I just put the banner in my profile, and let me tell you, it SCARES me. IDK why I put it up. Now you will go look at it out of a compulsive, curious need! and you will be frightened too! haha!


Finally: