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Do you know how hard it is to try to study grammar instead of reading Harry Potter fic, and then your syllabus uses EXAMPLES OUT OF HARRY POTTER? I dragged myself away from the internet, studied a few pages and then it goes "on a flying motorbike"... Which makes me want to read about Sirius in a leather jacket taking Remus out for a spin and and :((
So because I didn't study as hard as I should have, and because Grammar sucks, I just totally failed it. Bah.

On to happier things:
Day 21: Favourite ship



Doctor/Rose is the reason I got an Lj, and got really involved in fandom. It's from my favourite show, which doesn't hurt of course. I'm not really that passionate about them anymore because in canon their story has been told and I've read just about every kind of story fanfiction has to offer. But they're still very special to me, and I can get quite defensive when people bash them (or Rose in particular), which does happen a lot when I venture outside my safe flist zone.

They're certainly my nr 1 tv OTP. I have a hard time explaining why exactly - at least in a few sentences, I could probably write an essay on it :p. But I think it's because of how they were clearly in love but without the angst and the UST, especially Ten and Rose just had fun. And most of all because they were tragically separated. It really took them being torn apart for me to ship it.


Vincent and the Doctor reaction:
( Slight spoilers for the episodes )

Day 18 - Best title sequence



That tune just always gets me in the right mood for the show :)

Day 19 - Best tv show cast

Either Merlin or Leverage. Merlin because they are all pretty (I never claimed not to be superficial) and because they have chemistry with everything and everyone.
Leverage because it's just a very solid cast. They're all good and funny, they seem to get along really well in real life.

Oh, and Firefly of course! The actors all really believed in the show, even when nobody else seemed to. And not only were they all really interesting characters and had good chemistry with each others, they're still friends years later, which I think is rare.



Doctor Who: I haven't posted a reaction to Saturday's episode yet, mainly because I just didn't really have that much to say. The two-parter bored me, I have no idea what happened in the plot and I have no desire to see it again. Matt Smith was cute, though. But once again Amy didn't do anything, and it's just not the kind of story I like. And then the end of Cold Blood... ( spoilers )
And then next week we get Richard Curtis and Bill Nighy!! :DD I would say it is stupid for them to just get in a fun adventure after this episode, but... it looks really good.
I am going to be so dissapointed when it turns out Bill is only in it for 30 seconds. I LOVE HIM :)


I also have a question; does anybody know if I can make my journal and friends page show 20 entries again instead of 10? I can't seem to find how to change it. Found it!

Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show

Well, it's over now, but until last week I loved to watch Over the Rainbow. It was on after Doctor Who, and it is a talent hunt to find someone to play Dorothy in Andrew Lloyd Webber's'The Wizard of Oz'. I don't watch any other talent shows, but this one is different. They don't mock people who do terrible auditions, the judges are pretty nice, and there is hardly any focus on the candidates' personal lives. All the girls are really good, as well. They can all sing and if any of them is a bitch, we don't see it.

Idk, I just really like it. It's so bright and colourful and they sing a lot of showtunes as well as pop music,...
I hope they do one of these next year. I saw the last one as well, it's just really fun. ;)

This is the girl that won (and I was totally rooting for her so yay!): ( Click for youtube clip )

This meme is going to go a lot more slowly the next few weeks, jsyk.

Day 14 - Your favourite Male character

This took me a while. There are a lot of great male characters out there that I love (And its a good thing this is only about tv characters). I thought about these:

- The Doctor (But somehow, though I love him, I've always been slightly more attached to the companions)

- Malcolm Reynolds (greates antihero ever imho. You never know what he'll do next)

- Logan Echolls (because he was so fantastically snarky and mean and had some of the best lines ever on television)

- Sebastian Flyte (just because. I have always loved him and his destructiveness - talking about the miniseries version, of course. I read the book with him in my head, anyway. (if you don't know who this is, wait 'til Day 17 xD))

But eventually,( this is who I went with )

Day 11: A show that disappointed you

Mad Men. It is always being hailed as this brilliant and sophisticated show, and a friend of mine recommended it, so I watched the first 4/5 episodes. I can see why it gets the recognition, and I do like the originality of it, and some of the actors (Christina Hendricks!). But it just bores me. I didn't expect action or anything, but there is hardly any intrigue and I just fond myself drifting away watching it, and doing other stuff. Nothing happens. So it's definitely just me, and I'm not saying nobody should watch it. Just that it disappointed me.


And because one meme at a time is not enough:

If you comment on this entry, I shall...

1. Respond with something random about you.
2. Tell you which color you remind me of.
3. Tell you my first memory of you.
4. Tell you what animal you remind me of.
5. Ask you something I've always wondered about you.
6. Tell you my favorite thing about you.
7. Tell you my least favorite thing about you.
8. Challenge you to post this on your journal.

I don't know most of you that well, but comment anyway! It's a way to get to know each other better, y/y?

Day Nine: Best scene ever

Okay, another very hard one. I have a great love for the wall scene in Doomsday because it is just so simple, well-acted and heartbreaking. And the longer I think about this, the more great scenes I think of.

But in the interest of keeping this meme a little diverse rather than answering to every question with something Doctor Who related, I going for another one, that certainly would have won a few years ago without competition:the Epic scene from Veronica Mars. I was quite a huge shipper (still am though I haven't rewatched in a long time and am out of the fandom)
I love this scene because while it's quite romantic, it's also really realistic. I could have gone with a scene with swelling music or lovers reuniting but I love this because it is so simple. While Logan means what he says, he wouldn't have said it if he wasn't drunk, and Veronica just isn't going to throw herself at him just like that.
I even had the line No-one writes songs about the ones that come easy written in my folders in high school.
Okay, so it isn't the best scene ever but it's one that I have a lot of love for and is certainly one of my favourites!

No real spoilers for the show in this clip. Watch it, even if you don't know the show!

( Clicky for a youtube clip of the epic scene! )

Aww, I finally get to use my V/L icon again! :D I miss them.

Day Four: Your favourite show ever

Doctor Who.


There are shows that I think are better made, or more consistently better (DW has really terrible episodes, okay) like Firefly or Life on Mars,... But I don't love those in the same way I love DW. It's the show that made me really involved in fandom (I read Veronica Mars fanfic before, but that was it), and the level of excitment a really brilliant episode gives me is unique. I started in the fandom focussed on shipping, but after a while that stopped. And now, it's still my most active fandom but not really focussed on my OTP anymore.

I love the actors, the writers and the producers. I listen to the dvd commentaries and the podcasts (I don't do that with any other show). I really just care about it a lot.

I first fell in love with it near the end of S4, and I remember thinking that by the time it came back (year and a half later) I'd probably forgotten all about it. But by that time, I turned out to love it more than ever.

Day Five: A show you hate

I don't watch shows I don't like so it never gets to the point of hate, I think. Cliché answer is reality tv, but I just ignore that.

Oh! You know what I really despise? Those American family sitcoms type According to Jim and Still Standing. I do like some American sitcoms like Friends and HIMYM, but I'm talking about the kind that is all about a perfect happy all-american family that gets in to embarrassing and often offensive shenanigans that are painfully unfunny and are just meant to show how amazing the American suburban life is. Bah.

Day Two: A show that you wish more people were watching 

Hmmm... Maybe Leverage? I don't know that many people who watch it, and it's so much fun! It's a procedural, kind of, but with quite some character development (because that's what I love in a tv show), and it's perfectly entertainig. It's the show I always go back to when I am stressed out or generally need to relax.

Next: Doctor Who reaction

( *Vampires of Venice ! * )

Ye olde icon meme. johnmayergirl23 ; picked these six icons from my modest lj collection.

( 4 Dw icons, 2 movie ones )


Also: I went shopping today for the first time in a reallllly long time. So of course I bought a lot, but I was with my mother so I didn't have to pay for ANYTHING. It was amazing!:D

Wich means I got a lot of clothes (50s style flowery dress :P) , and the following:
- Murakami novel ♥ Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

- Newest Ian Rankin novel - The Complaints

- Stieg Larsson - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I want to know what all the fuss is about, basically.

- Peter Verhelst - De Kleurenvanger

- Serenity (!! ♥)I was so excited to find it :)

- The Boat that Rocked :D

- ...Mamma Mia :S (my mother wanted it, okay. And I may not have argued because I think it's funny)


Can you tell I'm bored? :P This post is pure procrastination. I'm too knackered to do any homework today.

A. Post a list of seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself on your journal.
B. Tag seven people to do the same.
C. Do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag "whoever wants to do it."


Yeah, that last one is exactly what I'm doing, sorry. :-) If you want to try, go for it!

Tagged by frotcake.
Anything more you want to know, go ahead and ask.


( 7 things about me )