Lord, what fools...!

[trinityofone]

1. Does anyone know if there's a community for Scrubs downloads? I miss Zach Braff!

2. I realized that I don't have any icons of Rodney smiling or looking happy--I'm all about the moody, angsty shots for some reason. Can anybody point me to some happy!Rodney icons? He's got such a pretty smile...

3. What is the general fandom opinion about giving first names (or last names) to characters that don't canonically have them? I try to avoid it as much as possible, but if you're seriously writing about these characters, it eventually becomes necessary. In their wonderful fics The Sincerest Form of Flattery and Identification, z_rayne and lamardeuse have set a precedence for Lorne and Parrish being called Nick and David, respectively (ETA: apparently, this originally came from casspeach--*tips hat*); this is one case where I really like there being a fanon rule, because there is no canon one, and it weirds me out when it's like, "Oh, he's Bob this week, is he?" I dunno, maybe I'm just a whore for consistency, but. Thoughts?

4. Hey, you know what I need? Tips on how to seduce my new Irish Literature tutor. He looks like Dylan Moran, he's SCOTTISH, he's cute and adorable and I want him ON ME. I'm serious. Really, really serious. How does one go about seducing someone? Like, in real life and not in my silly two-bit porn. EDUCATE ME.

*cough*

5. Yeah, and does anyone have Franz Ferdinand's You Could Have It So Much Better that they could upload for me? I'd be happy to upload something else in return. Or, um, I could add the fic prompt of your choice to my already lengthy backlog. The choice is yours!

...

His name is Peter. I...both hate and love feeling like this. Hate because nothing ever comes of it, but love because...I never stop hoping. Never.

Comments

[dogeared.livejournal.com]

I have nothing useful, but yay Zach + Scrubs! The new season is SO GOOD so far, seriously. :) And I have a serious lack of Rodney icons at all. It makes me sad.

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

*sniff* OMG, I miss TELEVISION! I mean, I've been getting Lost and SGA thanks to the wonder of the internets, but I'm really starting to hit major Jon Stewart and Zach Braff withdrawal...

Worst. expat. EVER--have I mentioned? ;-)

Hmm. severusslave has some good Rodney icons I think...

[emhen.livejournal.com]

I have the first three seasons of Scrubs, if you want some...? I dunno, what's the best way to upload whole seasons of television? :/

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

Wow, that would be awesome--especially S3, which I haven't seen all of. But, uh. I have no idea, unless you have massive amounts of personal webspace...

Either way, thanks for the thought!

[slodwick.livejournal.com]

I also have nothing useful to add, really, except that I gave Lorne a name (Michael), but I don't know that there's any fanon consensus. I think the Gateworld boards basically agreed on Marcus, but I just... No.

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

MARCUS?! Sickos. ;-)

I like Michael. I like Nick. I like...things to be official, dammit.

*sigh* Sometimes I'm so old-fashioned and traditional...

[whiskeypants.livejournal.com]

low cut shirts are, i've found, wonderfully distracting. no, seriously, watch me some time when some hot lady walks in wearing a low cut shirt. i won't talk to her cleavage, but i'll definitely take note.

don't be nervous around him. just be comfortable.

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

I think a lack of low-cut shirts may be a large part of my problem. Well, that and my utter lack of social skills.

don't be nervous around him. just be comfortable.

Comfortable. Gotcha.

Erm, and also? Will try to think of lots of profound and clever things to say about Yeats...

[wychwood]

...I prefer completely hopeless (and hopefully invisible) crushes, myself *g* It saves so much effort.

I would say "pretend you are John or Rodney and want to seduce someone", but Rodney would go for the brute force attack ("Want to have sex? Go on, you know you like me really" &c) and John would either try to be charming and wait for the object to hurl itself upon him, or be incredibly dorky. Not really the rolemodels you want *g*

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think this is one case where John and Rodney fail me. Shocking, I know!

...I prefer completely hopeless (and hopefully invisible) crushes, myself *g* It saves so much effort.

Well, that's my usual MO. Just...it's not very exciting, is it?

[tikiaceae.livejournal.com]

Scottish Dylan Moran, eh?

No advice from this quarter, I'm afraid... other than omg, *stalk* him!!! Get him *drunk*!!! and such. However, I will watch Black Books again tomorrow. *g*

*points to icon*
He looks pretty happy there. I don't have that many happy Rodney. In fact, I think that's the only one. Hunh. *ponders* You're welcome to this one if you'd like.

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

Scottish Dylan Moran, eh?

I KNOW. I nearly died.

Get him *drunk*!!!

That might actually help, especially if I got myself drunk at the same time. And hey, it's Ireland: asking your tutor out for a drink is borderline acceptable! *plots*

You're welcome to this one if you'd like.

Will very probably steal. He is so, SO cute. Thanks!

[godofwine.livejournal.com]

If you ever learn the magic rules of seducing your prof, TEACH ME! But apparently the way to become semi-friends with one is to wait until he goes to another continent where he doesn't speak the native language well and is thus lonely and emotionally vulnerable, email him long abstract questions about a topic of mutual interest to which he will write long abstract replies to because he is lonely and emotionally vulnerable, continue like so until you go from questions like "How does the historically specificity of value compare to the extraction of surplus value as the essence of capitalism?" to "So what's your artistic style?", declare yourself friends and prance about like a fifteen year-old.

I'm just saying.

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

*takes rapid notes* Well...that's a start. ;-)

If you ever learn the magic rules of seducing your prof, TEACH ME!

Why do I feel that these are on a website somewhere, and I JUST DON'T KNOW ABOUT IT?!?

[suzy_queue]

If you find any cute Rodney smile icons up for grabs, link to them, please. *g* I should go on a capping spree for smiles, man. They're all so cute when they smile.

Meanwhile, help yourself to mine, if you'd like. Feel free to modify it in any way.

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

If find, shall link. (Am terse.)

Also, I remember this icon! I liiiiiike this icon! Thank you!

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

Agreed. But, aside from bringing a huge jug of vodka to class, how do I convince him to come get sloshed with me?

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

Sometimes, I intimidate boys

nenar has posited that I do. I don't know why; they intimidate me.

Or maybe he was afraid of the whole tutor/student thing

Hell, that's half the fun! Hm. Maybe even two-thirds.

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

I feel obliged to point out that both z_rayne and lamardeuse are honoring casspeach with their choices, as she was the first to use those names. (At least she was for Parrish - not sure about Lorne.)

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

Ooops. My ignorance--thanks for telling me!

[zoerayne]

I can't take credit for Lorne's first name being Nick; casspeach started that with Animal Husbandry and I liked it so I stole it. *g* (And actually, Cass is responsible for Parrish being David, too. *g*)

Personally, I like them having consistent fanon first names, so long as they're not the wrong first names. (Marcus? No. Just...no.) Mostly because virutally no one thinks of themselves by their surname, and so if I'm writing something from the POV of a character who doesn't have a canon first name, it makes me cranky.

Also, I'm uploading You Could Have It So Much Better for you. I'll let you know when it's done, but it's going to be here in maybe 90 minutes.

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

But all the glory could have been yours! Noooooo!

Erm, I mean, thank you for telling me; I'll edit the post to give proper credit. *g*

Personally, I like them having consistent fanon first names, so long as they're not the wrong first names. (Marcus? No. Just...no.)

Heh. Yeah, slodwick told me about the Marcus thing. Where the hell did THAT come from? What crack are they smoking?

Mostly because virutally no one thinks of themselves by their surname, and so if I'm writing something from the POV of a character who doesn't have a canon first name, it makes me cranky

Exactly. Or, to use another example, I have this scene in my head between Parrish and Heightmeyer--no way is your shrink going to call you by your last name. It'd be weird. And unless you're Mulder or Scully, it mucks up sex scenes, too.

Thus, if I ever get the fic in question done, I suppose that this is the official announcement that I'll be following in your (casspeach's!) footsteps--hurrah for fanon first names!

Also, I'm uploading You Could Have It So Much Better for you. I'll let you know when it's done, but it's going to be here in maybe 90 minutes.

Oh, thank you SO MUCH. Is there anything you want? I have...well, a lot of random stuff, including an inhuman amount of U2. But feel free to ask!

[slashygood.livejournal.com]

transit_center has all the fourth season of Scrubs, and the fifth is in the process of being uploaded.

Waterstones sell a book on serious DIY seduction. Not that I have a copy. ::cough::

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

Ahh, thank you for the link to transit_center--it looks like a cool comm all around.

And you know, I may just happen to do some browsing in Waterstones tomorrow...

[siria]

I realized that I don't have any icons of Rodney smiling or looking happy--I'm all about the moody, angsty shots for some reason. Can anybody point me to some happy!Rodney icons? He's got such a pretty smile...

Clearly, our similarities go beyond cooing over David Hewlett at the same time. I thought the exact same thing today, and have a bunch of half-finished icons smiley!Rodney icons sitting open on Photoshop at home.

In the meantime, have a Ronon icon:

Oui! Nous sommes le French!

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

Et il est très bien!

If that is remotely correct, I will be very, very surprised.

[saturnalia.livejournal.com]

1. Does anyone know if there's a community like [info]stargate_eps, but for Scrubs downloads? I miss Zach Braff!

I swear you must read my mind sometimes; I spent a good while yesterday trying to find some kind of Scrubs download community. Sadly I don't think there is one right now, but you could always just join a general TV downloads place and beg for Scrubs episodes? *g*

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

slashygood recommended transit_center--they have the whole 4th season, and supposedly, S5 will be going up next. Hey, it's a start! But let me know if you find anything more...immediate.

Or maybe...I'll just know. *cue spooky music*

[diluvian.livejournal.com]

I always have good luck with flirty eye contact.

1. Stare (2-3 seconds)
2. Look down/away, just a flick
3. Look right back, like you just can't help but stare some more.

Timing is important. The initial eye-lock should be just long enough for him to register "hey, I'm being looked at," then you give a split-second of shy, and then follow up with a bold, hot, "yeah I *do* want you" eyefuck.

The flaw in applying this plan is that he's a teacher and you're *supposed* to be looking at him, so an in-class lookaway might be read as "omg I don't know the answer!" instead. So if you can manage this outside of class, maybe stalk find out where he goes socially, that might help.

And the low-cut/form-fitting clothing suggestion is hereby seconded. Can't help with the talky part, though.

[diluvian.livejournal.com]

Whups, got distracted -- the only strike should have been through "stalk."

::facepalm::

[cetpar.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. I looked through my Mckay icon folder, and the only 2 icons I have of him smiling are this one ::points up:: by me and this one:

which is by thegrrrl2002
which is kind of a smile

Now I'm going to have to find some. . . .

[not-sally.livejournal.com]

go here:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/not_sally/32771.html

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

Eeeeeeee. *g*

[lordelessar.livejournal.com]

I bet you can guess which part of your post I'm going to comment on.

The tight/revealing/sexy clothing suggestion is good, but that's not really the thing that does it for most guys. In a dance club or something, the clothing can be everything cause it's the signal for "hey, I want to leave with someone I didn't show up with." But you're seeing this guy in school, so you need a whole different tactic.
I'll tell you what works to get the message of "I like you" across to even the most dimwitted guy. Spend lots and lots of unnecesary time around him. Go to his office hours whenever you possibly can. Talk to him for as long as you can during each office hour and before or after class. (Probably not before and after, that'd be weird) If you can't make his office hours, arrange some with him anyway. Your reasons don't have to be very good. You could ask stupid questions about Yeats if you want. Just make sure to ask lots and lots of them.

If you spend enough time around him, he'll figure it out. Then start throwing in the sexy clothes too. After that... I don't know. I don't usually have girls go farther than that with me.

[sonofzeal.livejournal.com]

Tell him that [something he can fix] is broken at your apartment and when he comes by...

Oh, not in a silly two-bit porn. Well, shit then, I'm out.

As for the last names thing, occasionally I see that pop up in CT stuff, and there was actually a thread about last names on the Compendium recently. I'd say if you aren't going for anything to serious, go ahead, use a last name that sounds good. As long as you don't think it's now official. There have been problems in the Guilty Gear community with "Kuro Ky" who isn't a real character, just one the community made up, that they insist on trying to find. It's a little sad.

Also, there's a lovely bit of aliteration in DQVIII. I'll have to jot it down for you at some point, it's about 2-3 lines long. Mmm....regressive gaming...

[skylark-cee.livejournal.com]

I can't help you with seduction but I'm damn good at getting noticed. Not always by the right guy mind you...

1. Yes to the form fitting/flattering clothing. Slutty isn't necessarily what you should aim for but making an effort to look nice every time you're likely to meet him will not only help him notice you, but also help you feel more attractive and confident.

2. I already know from your journal that you're intelligent, funny, and interesting. That's why I'm stalking you in the first place:] Just don't be so enthralled with this guy that you're not going to be able to be yourself around him. Should you succeed in getting to know him he will have flaws. He'll still be a cute guy with a scottish accent, but also flawed :grin: Try to know him as a person and don't be so nervous that you aren't yourself. Yourself is wicked cool.

3. Everyone wants to be listened to and appreciated. If you can get him into conversation outside of Irish Literature really listen and give eye contact. Flirty eye contact as described above is v. good but just letting him know that you're interested is important. Sense of humor and common interests a plus. How many people do you have around you that care about what you have to say and laugh at your jokes? How important are they to you?

4. Important part. Make yourself known to him as a sexual being. No you don't have to strip naked and give him a lap dance:P Subtle is better. Just make a positive comment about his appearance. It can be either in a complimentary or a joking manner, but let him know that you could think about him in that way and it'll register that he can consider you in the same light. For example, if you're talking about your social lives and you mention your cute male friend who is in a band, grin, laugh a little, noticeably look him up and down, "I could see you doing that, but you'd have to let me (sing back-up, be your manager, play tambourine)"

5. Yes, spend time with him. Use your judgment as to how much. Flirt. Move slightly into his personal space, no need to hang all over him but the next time you're standing together notice how far away you stand and take another step forward. Sharing of personal items such as food, candy, and work supplies is also good. Friendly teasing between you is always a good sign of progress.

I won't set myself up as some kind of love guru. I'm awful at maintaining relationships but so far pretty frequently I've been noticed and asked out to the point where coworkers asked wtf I did. My aim however is far from perfect often landing in the vicinity of his best friend and the guy sitting on the *opposite* side of me in class :le sigh: But still all of the above are the things that occurred most frequently prior to a relationship. Hope it helps and that I didn't ramble into creepy territory but you said "seriously" so... ta da?

[farohji.livejournal.com]

hi, would you mind friends locking or editing your post please? thanks.

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

Sorry! The post's so old I didn't even think about it. It's fixed now.