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Spent Friday night at

sixht_light's house, as her family is away currenty and she's lonely. We watched a couple of old episodes of Smallville, which was fun- I used to watch Smallville religiously in the first season, it was the family show, but after that I didn't really watch it deliberately. (although I think I must have watched some of the first episodes of the third season because I remember them quite clearly- unlike the first season, which is hazy to say the least.) However, it was most fun for an extremely surprising reason, and that was this: Smallville has finally, finally turned Lucy into a slasher.

World: *faints*

I love her dearly, but L is a hetshipper through and through- any canon het pairing, any fandom you care to name. But Clark/Lex has, apparently, finally managed to convert her. I am faily stunned- not that SV Clark and Lex aren't pretty much the gayest gay boys to ever carry on gaily on your television, but this is still pretty monumental. Anyway, this massive milestone in my 12-step Corrupt Lucy to The Ways Of The Slasher, Or At Least Get Her To Admit That Subtext Is An Anagram of Buttsex (*snork*) has led to some faily fabulous dialogue.

3.02: PHOENIX

LEX: *shows up at Kent farm havign been presumed dead*
CLARK: Lex!
LEX: Sup.
CLARK: *looks at Lex for, like, five minutes before saying anything*
LEX: *returns stare with intensity*
CLARK and LEX: *embrace*
LUCY: Gayest look this episode!

LANA and CLARK: *angst about how they cannot be together FOR ABSOLUTELY NO REASON*
CLARK: I tried so hard all last year to be right for you, Lana!
LUCY: He tried so hard not to be gay!
CLARK: But I'm not. This will never work.
LUCY: Because I am deeply in love with Lex.
MOI: Also, you're a Sue. Superman doesn't do Sues.

I appreciate this might not seem revolutionary or in fact interesting to... anyone else. But hey, it amuses me.

Later that evening I mainlined all the Runaways scans presently easy-to-find on

scans_daily, which I thoroughly enjoyed although was constantly second guessing because I've previously read other s_d posts that, you know, spoil Volume One thoroughly and I was all "But X character is going to turn out to be a mole! Why is X doing Y?" (names erased to be non-spoilery.) But my Gert love is true and pure and I sort of want to pick up the trades- except I a) can't really afford it and b) don't know if I'd re-read them enough for it to be worth it. Comics make it really difficult to become a fan, did you know that? SO SPENSIVE.

Also, I saw Howl's Moving Castle this evening, which was, well, a great Miyazaki film- because Miyazaki is always fantastic- but not so much with the, you know, canonicality. Howl wasn't Welsh for one thing. (*annoyed*) Also, if you see it, do make sure you see it in the original Japanese with subtitles, because the dubbed translation is... well, at one point the whole theatre burst out laughing because it was just that bad. I enjoyed it a lot though; but don't go if you're expecting anything with more than a passing nod to book canon.

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I didn't go to Howl's Moving Castle for that reason. Diana Wynne Jones's stories are too good to sacrifice to animators with their own ideas, however artful their animation may be.

Well... that kind of was my feeling, yes. I believe that if you're going to make an adaptation of a book, either make a straight adaptation- cf LOTR, Narnia- they both pretty much stuck to the book, even if you hated them- or make something totally 100% different but keep character continuity the same. I can't think of any good examples, but he nearly managed the second- but not quit, sadly. *sigh*

and then X and Y have babies called W and Z, but their parents, A and C, and B and D respectively, do not agree to the marriage so A and C hire G (unit) to kill Y because they want X to be with J, who has lots of money from his dead parents, K and L. The XY family runs away. Even though X and Y should make two male children, by some weird mutation in the stereotypica gene, they have a boy and a girl.
The family eventually arrives in the Free Land where they set up a successful orchard and live happily ever after...

WTF YOU SPOILED ME LIEK WHOA.

Ah, HMC. Lovely Miyazaki movie, yes, but DWJ's book was so much better. I adored Welsh!Howl. And no more giant suit! What was with that? And no DrunkRugby!Howl either. It was a bit too, er, sentimentalified for my taste. A lot of the humor got inexplicably lost, as did the, well, weirdness.

"Sophie, your hair is like starlight!"

THAT WAS THE LINE. THERE WERE TWENTY PEOPLE IN THE THEATRE AND WE LAUGHED FOR LIKE FIVE MINUTES. OH MY GOD. (the person I saw it with- who hasn't read the book- said it was probably a Jap/Engl translation problem...!)

I was really upset about Howl not being Welsh! I spent ten minutes trying to convince this friend who hasn't read the book that it was a TRAGEDY that Howl wasn't Welsh. Sadly I don't think she bought it. *sniff*

It really was a tragedy. And I know, that was the line that my friends and I cracked up about too--I figured that might be what you were talking about :)

Hee, yeah. :P

Ah hello. Haven't seen you in aaaages.

Back when I did read fic I always had massive trouble accepting any pairings that weren't "real" unless it was blatant pwp bandslash - ones where band people actually had a relationship annoyed me. Now I know I'm not the only person who likes relationships to stay canon :P
(What annoyed me more were the harcore shippers who actually believed what they were writing. I think pretending band people are in love with each other as a joke is fun, but actually BELIEVING that two real people you don't know personally are secret lovers and building your life around it is just plain CREEPY. Whoops ranting)

Canon forever!

Heh. You should have been around the HP fandom when a (minority) of H/H shippers realised that JKR was not going to make them fall madly in love. Frickin' hilarious. Some of them started trying to make people boycott the books because JKR had got it "wrong." You just gotta laugh.

I saw that!!! I briefly flirted with HP fandom after the last book came out but I kinda drifted off after a couple of weeks. It was hysterical. I think I would like fic more if there was more filling in the gaps and less creating your own imaginary universe and forgetting the original canon (or truthful reality in real person stuff) exists...

When I read HP I just felt dirty reading about any pairings that weren't canon. So I just read R/H. Because they're cute.

But HP is probably going to stay just light reading for me. I tend to see the characters (apart from Snape!) as WAAAAY to stereotypically good and evil (and I kinda think Harry is a Sue) so yeah.

please don't flame me!!

Um, hi. My name is Darcel. I heard you were a fan of Runaways, and noticed that you haven't gotten to read some of the comics. After talking to

sixth_light, I decided to email you them. However, my email's hate me and haven't been letting me send them off. (I've tried sending you them from Yahoo, Hotmail, and Gmail)

So I thought I'd offer: if you have MSN messenger (or AIM- Yahoo hates me for sending anything, so it's out), I can try sending them to you via messenger. They are zipped, but it's still a pretty big file (128,053 kb), so it might take a minute. If that works for you, my MSN account is Luciasdream@hotmail.com

Sorry to be so way belated- Livejournal has this thing about sending me comment notifications, it doesn't like to. But wow, that is such a generous offer and yes, I'd absolutely LOVE Runaways! The only tiny problem migt be my internet connection, which is dubious at best and shocking at worst. However! I am willing to give it a try, and have therefore added you! Thank you so much in advance!

:) No big deal. As far as sending it- message me whenever you get online and I'll start the transfer. I'm on the messenger on and off throughout the evening (or night?, in your case- time differences are very confusing), so it shouldn't be hard to catch me.

! (It sent!) Also, theres a comic book reader for it: http://www.geocities.com/davidayton/CDisplay

I don't think there was one if the folder, so. :)

I KNOW! IT SENT! And then I spent half an hour harassing the poor tech guys into shifting it to a computer that I could burn it onto a CD from (the one I was on only had floppy and flash drives, and I didn't have either. :P) Thank you!

Oh, yeah, I thought about getting something like that when I couldn't open it. :P thanks!

Uh.

... it's not working. *sob* I have no idea what I've done wrong! The file is runaways but it hasn't got a file type or anything- it's just that it would open in CDisplay or Image viewer or Firefox or anything I've used to display images before. :-/ any ideas?

Um, let me think... They don't say Runaways 01.cbr and so on? Try adding the .cbr at the end. :(

It's just the one big file- there aren't any individual ones. It's odd! I'm totally puzzled by it because it basically says there's nothing there, even though, clearly, it's this massive file that must have TONNES of stuff in it. So. Uh, yeah. :p

Ooh. Can you take a screenshot of it? If I can see it, I might be able to figure out how to fix it.