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

[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...

[slodwick.livejournal.com]

If they really loved us, they'd let Lorne hook up with Elizabeth give Lorne a first name already. *pout*

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm just afraid that an actual canon first name will be the curse that kills him. "Sure, you can have a first name--on your GRAVE!!!"

Mmm, Elizabeth/Lorne. Or Elizabeth/Caldwell. Or Elizabeth/Zelenka. Or Elizabeth/Ronon. Oh, she's such a skank! Look at how she toys with all the boys' affections!

[slodwick.livejournal.com]

"Sure, you can have a first name--on your GRAVE!!

Why am I hearing that in the voice of a plastic dinosaur?


Or Elizabeth/Lorne/Caldwell/Zelenka/Ronon, if we're being honest. She'd be all over that.

[shoemaster.livejournal.com]

"Sure, you can have a first name--on your GRAVE!!

Why am I hearing that in the voice of a plastic dinosaur?

Yeah, totally with you there. Oh Hoban.

[some-stars.livejournal.com]

I'm just worried that his canon first name will be AWFUL. like...Jim. or Brendan. Or some other namewhich is perfectly fine and respectable but JUST SO WRONG FOR HIM.SO WRONG. YES DAMMIT I KNOW THESE THINGS.

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

Bert.

Oh, I'm sorry, Parrish is Bert. Lorne's Ernie.

[wychwood]

*giggles helplessly*

[wychwood]

What's wrong with "Marcus"? I like the name!

(well, apart from the deep and lasting WRONGNESS of Lorne being called Marcus, anyway *g*)

[slodwick.livejournal.com]

I have nothing in particular against the name "Marcus". I just feel strongly that it should not be Maj. Lorne's first name. :)

[cetpar.livejournal.com]

Ditto. Marcus Lorne even *sounds* okay, but Lorne doesn't *look* like a Marcus to me. I like Michael. I like Nick. And I'm used to Nick by now because of the stories by z_rayne and casspeach.

[out-there.livejournal.com]

Actually, I like the idea of Marcus. I like the idea of Lorne having a dodgy, dorky first name that doesn't suit him *at all* -- which is why absolutely everyone refers to him by his surname.

Of course, I partially blame this on scribewraith who was discussing a potential highschool AU and declared that Lorne's first name would have to be something really, really embarrassing to make him go by "Lorne" instead. (Her suggestion of "Washington" still makes me giggle.)

[slodwick.livejournal.com]

THIS JUST IN: SLOD = IDIOT.

*re-reads own story*

I didn't actually call him "Michael". I almost called him "Michael", but then decided I preferred "William". *headthwap*

[cetpar.livejournal.com]

Okay, has this story been posted yet? Because I am addicted to Lorne fiction, and I don't remember reading one by you. If it has, could you point me toward it? ;)

[slodwick.livejournal.com]

It is posted: New Jersey as Icebreaker (http://slodwick.com/sgajersey.php) *g*

[cetpar.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much!