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!

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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

[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!

[casspeach.livejournal.com]

Hee, I did tell z_rayne that she could have the glory, because I am a shy and retiring wallflower and because I only named either of them because she made me (see her cranky comment!). I do really like it when people use the same names though, because they are their names in my head.

I shall refrain from giving my opinion of Marcus as a first name for Lorne (see above comment about shy and retiring) but I couldn't allow it to pass unchallenged.

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

They're good names; I like 'em! So I guess you are the one I should ask for permission to use them, if I do write this particular fic thing--may I?

I shall refrain from giving my opinion of Marcus as a first name for Lorne (see above comment about shy and retiring) but I couldn't allow it to pass unchallenged.

Hey, that's how revolutions are started! *passes you kicky beret*

[casspeach.livejournal.com]

Please do. It will give me a thrill when I read it, being a shy and retiring walflower of simple pleasures.

*Admires self in beret*

Vive la revolucion!