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Rei: I got an email from Netflix today about a new show. 'When everyone else mysteriously vanishes from their wealthy town, the teen residents of West Ham must forge their own society to survive.' Sounds like it might be your jam.
Riona: I was about to say 'if it's not High School Musical: The Musical, I'm not interested,' but actually that does potentially sound my jam.

I've now watched the first series of The Society! The concept's interesting: a bunch of teenagers are stranded in an empty town. Instead of going full-on Lord of the Flies, they try to construct a functional society and then have to try to prevent it from falling apart (how do you decide who makes the decisions? how do you make sure you don't run out of food? how do you deal with crime?). I'm not especially invested in any of the characters, though, so I doubt I'll be writing fanfiction (although I've said 'I'm not going to write fanfiction' about many things in the past and I've almost invariably been wrong).

Out of curiosity, I checked AO3 a few episodes in, to see which characters and pairings were popular, and I was surprised to see that the most-written character was Grizz, the guy with terrible hair who up to that point had contributed nothing but pretentious quoting. He does have some better moments in the latest episodes, though.

( Spoilers for the first series of The Society. )

I haven't done a meme here in a very long time, but for some reason I feel like digging this one up.

Ask any fictional character you think I might be able to manage a question, and I'll reply in-character as them with an answer (or possibly reply as myself going 'WHAT THE HELL, I CAN'T DO THIS'). Feel free to ask either as yourself or as another character.

You may, if you wish, ask multiple questions (and/or multiple characters) or attempt to engage the characters in extended conversation.

Crossposts: https://rionaleonhart.livejournal.com/501278.html

I don't often post audience participation entries these days, simply because there's not much of an audience left to participate; Livejournal and Dreamwidth are very quiet places! But I'm fretting about various things at the moment (nothing insurmountable, things are probably going to be fine), and I could do with a distraction, so it's worth a try:

Ask any fictional character you think I might be able to manage a question, and I'll reply in-character as them with an answer (or possibly reply as myself going 'WHAT THE HELL, I CAN'T DO THIS'). Feel free to ask either as yourself or as another character.

You may, if you wish, ask multiple questions (perhaps of multiple characters) or attempt to engage the characters in extended conversation. I've attempted to answer as real people in the past, but I'm specifying fictional characters this time, I'm afraid!

(Alternatively, or in addition: name a canon you know I have at some point enjoyed, and I'll dig up and post an extract from the unfinished fanfiction I've almost certainly got lying around.)

Feel free to comment even if we haven't talked in six years! If you're not sure of my fandoms (I have approximately a billion fandoms), my tag list should give you an idea. Although for some reason I have a 'buffy' tag? Don't ask for Buffy; I've seen about four episodes and you'll be disappointed.

To avoid duplicates on the 'unfinished fanfiction' question, below are links to the different versions of this entry (and the list of fandoms I've thus far posted snippets for in each one):

Livejournal: The Mentalist, My Little Pony, Harry Potter
Dreamwidth: The Last of Us, Uncharted, Top Gear, Assassin's Creed, The World Ends With You, Dangan Ronpa, Ghost Trick, Supernatural, Doctor Who, Prison Break

Crossposts: http://rionaleonhart.livejournal.com/391420.html

Merry Christmas! Lightning has a present for you. It's a punch in the face. You can have it now, or on the day itself, or both. You don't get to decide. She's thinking.

(I wrote this yesterday, and now I think it may be addressing Livejournal rather than You, The Reader. LIVEJOURNAL. I can happily put up with a lot, but the new font on the default entry pages is really difficult to read! Reading is sort of the point of this website. And I don't want to switch over to Dreamwidth, because, the fuss of uprooting aside (this is my home! all my fandoms live here!), I find the default pages there difficult to read as well. All I want is to be able to read things! I didn't realise this was so much to ask!

Is there some sort of magical scripty thing one can employ in Chrome to make the font on Livejournal default pages change itself to Verdana? I - I don't understand magical scripty things, as may be apparent. If not, I suppose I might have to find the most easy-on-the-eyes custom layout I can and enable custom comment pages.)

Ahem. I really do hope you all have a wonderful Christmas or other seasonal holiday! Except you, Livejournal. Coal for you.

So this entry isn't too negative (because, hey, it's nearly Christmas), how about a fun meme? Here's one of my favourites.

Ask any character you think I might be able to manage a question, and I'll reply in-character as them with an answer (or possibly reply as myself going 'WHAT THE HELL, I CAN'T DO THIS'). Feel free to ask either as yourself or as another character.

Ask away!

Anne McCaffrey may have said some weird things in interviews, and her books may have included some weird implications (we have very different ideas about how much sexual assault a hero can commit before he starts to look rather less heroic), but she was the first woman to win a Hugo or a Nebula or to get a science-fiction book onto the New York Times bestseller list and, on a smaller-scale note of influence, I really loved the Pern series in my early teens.

I - I think I may have been involved on a Pern roleplaying guild on Neopets once? With a brown dragon named Zephyrith (no relation to the name 'Sephiroth'; this was before I discovered Final Fantasy) or something, despite the fact that women can't Impress browns because look I'm special okay. McCaffrey wouldn't have liked that, of course - she was opposed to fanfiction of her books - but it was nonetheless an act of love for her world. (Oh, hang on, I've just searched and found that she did eventually relax her stance on fanfiction. My inner twelve-year-old is suddenly itching to write reams of Mary Sue; my outer twenty-something-year-old wants dragonrider crossover AUs everywhere forever.)

(EDIT: On further reflection, I think Zephyrith may have been a green! But I think I had a special brown dragon in a different Pern roleplay I was briefly involved in.)

Curious fact: the (male) Tai in An Exercise in Pointlessness, my 2004 NaNo effort, was indirectly named after the (female) Tai from The Skies of Pern. In my first Final Fantasy VIII playthrough, I named both Squall and Rinoa after female dragonriders from the Pern series: Rinoa was Lessa, and Squall was TAI (I'd never played a Final Fantasy game before and at that stage hadn't realised that, if I named him in allcaps, EVERYONE WOULD BE SHOUTING AT SQUALL ALL THE TIME). 'Lessa' never stuck, but I recycled 'Tai' as a name for various original characters before it found a permanent home in my NaNo Tai.

What I'm trying to say is that I'm sorry to hear McCaffrey has died. Maybe I should pick up my Pern books again.

Have some quick thoughts on television:

Misfits, episode 3.04: It's a little strange to watch Misfits when I also love so much television of questionable quality, because Misfits really is excellently written (although Simon and Alisha seem to have become slightly less interesting to me now that they are no longer such a massive failure at humanity and terrible person respectively). Kelly is still my favourite, and I find myself unexpectedly 'shipping her and Power Dealer Guy to tiny adorable pieces. I'm a little worried about the possible fate of their dynamic, though, because Misfits is an extremely hostile environment for adorability.

Glee, episode 3.06: I did have a few tears in my eyes towards the end. Santana's storyline is my favourite on Glee at the moment and I want her to take the lead on more songs. I have listened to the Adele mashup approximately a squillion times.

Waterloo Road, episode 7.20: oh my God Linda Radleigh what is wrong with you

(Riona and housemate Rachael have returned from a trip to the supermarket. Riona checks the Internet.)
Riona: Rachael!
Rachael: What?
Riona: While we were out, David Cameron became Prime Minister.
Rachael: Oh, God! This is what happens when you leave the house!

Had to crack up at Charlie Brooker's response on Twitter: LEAST SEXY PRIME MINISTER EVER

It's not the outcome for which I was hoping, and Cameron still terrifies me, but I do find it hilarious that the media have been portraying our political turmoil as a massive Cameron/Clegg slashfic (this manip was on the BBC website, apparently). And, as was pointed out on the Alternative Election Night, a Conservative government means these are going to be a great few years for satire (a Conservative-Lib Dem coalition probably even more so. Are Cameron and Clegg going to be living together at Downing Street, thus making the running of this country into a ridiculous sitcom? I do hope so). Every cloud has a hilarious lining!

(Here is a video on the BBC site of Clegg arriving at Number 10. Is it just me, or is Cameron's body language incredibly, creepily possessive?)

Anyway, you already knew that David Cameron was Prime Minister. To continue the entry's theme of 'Things You Already Knew': SO IT TURNS OUT THAT I WAS IN THE ROOM WHEN CHARLIE BROOKER WET HIMSELF ON LIVE TELEVISION. I can't believe he actually wrote about that in a column. That's amazing. It would have been a great fact for Would I Lie To You?

Also, in case you're interested but somehow missed it, the first episode of Charlie Brooker's new Radio Four panel show, So Wrong It's Right, aired yesterday. The panel were David Mitchell, Victoria Coren and Rufus Hound; you can listen to it here if you're in the UK. My favourite part, predictably, is about seventeen minutes in, when Mitchell gets shirty with Brooker for calling him 'smartypants' and then comes up with an entire bitter reality TV premise in response to it; this was recorded over a year ago, so I'm delighted Mitchell and Brooker had chemistry even then. I want Mitchell, Brooker and Coren to be on everything together. (They're all on tomorrow's episode of You Have Been Watching, incidentally: ten o'clock on Channel Four.)

Bit of advertising now:

draegonhawke is looking for players for a panfandom roleplay,

beyondtherift! It's been around for a while, but a number of players have recently moved on, leaving vacancies for characters from fandoms including Doctor Who, Torchwood, Life on Mars and Buffy. If you're looking for plotty roleplaying and won't be too disconcerted by the fact that the characters already there have undergone development over the course of the game, you could check it out.

I received a truly amazing card through the post today, apparently from Derren Brown, which means that his psychic powers are even more impressive than I'd realised, because this isn't the address I included with the ukulele. It had me laughing so hard that my housemate thought I had lost my mind, which was an opinion that did not appear to be altered when she actually read it. I wanted to show it to you, but, sadly, not one of the photographs I took with my housemate's extremely blurry digital camera was readable.

Here is a description instead.

( Because I love getting weird post. )

It strikes the balance between charming and creepy perfectly and I adore it. Thank you so much, 'Derren'; you have completely made my day!

This seems an appropriate time to repost one of my favourite memes: the Hey, Let's Blur The Boundaries Between Fiction And Reality meme (or the informal roleplaying meme, if you prefer).

Ask any character you think I might be able to manage a question, and I'll reply in-character as them with an answer (or possibly reply as myself going 'WHAT THE HELL, I CAN'T DO THIS'). Feel free to ask either as yourself or as another character.

Real people are not out of bounds, but obviously this is just for fun and I am not actually claiming to be any real person. Um, apart from, you know, me. I'm real.

I know only about three of you really care about Delaware, but regardless: here are some episodes I would like to see in the hypothetical AU Season Four of Supernatural in which Chad Michael Murray stars as Delaware Singer, Bobby's estranged hooker son and the fabulous invention of

wanttobeatree and

sazzlette. ('Delaware Singer', 'Bobby's estranged hooker son' and 'the fabulous invention of

wanttobeatree and

sazzlette' all refer to the same entity; Chad Michael Murray is not playing three different characters in the hypothetical Season Four. Although perhaps he should.)

If you have not yet met Delaware Singer and would like to, please read through this roleplay, to which I am completely addicted. Major spoilers up to the first episode of Season Four.

( Spoilers behind the cut, also up to the first episode of Season Four. )

Here's a fun meme I attempted about half a year ago. I haven't really written anything for a couple of months, and right now I need to relearn how to get into a character's mindset, so it seems a good time to repost it.

Ask any character you think I might be able to manage a question, and I'll reply in-character as them with an answer (or possibly reply as myself going 'WHAT THE HELL, I CAN'T DO THIS'). Feel free to ask either as yourself or as another character.

Ask away! (You may, if you wish, ask multiple questions (perhaps of multiple characters) or attempt to engage the characters in extended conversation.)

...oh, dear, I've reached Zanarkand and I think I've realised that my period of hating Tidus was probably emotional insulation. When you actually like the characters and care about what happens to them, Final Fantasy X is the most soul-crushingly upsetting thing in the entire world. IT'S SO MISLEADINGLY BRIGHT AND COLOURFUL AND SILLY AT THE BEGINNING AND TIDUS IS SUCH AN ADORABLE DORK AND THEN THE PLOT COMES ALONG AND STABS EVERYONE IN THE FACE AND MAKES ME CRY BUCKETLOADS.

Also, Tidus and Yuna are so cute I can barely stand it. SHE RUNS UP TO HOLD HIS HAND. IT IS ADORABLE. That Scene In Macalania is completely ridiculous (and Tidus' brain-eating grin terrifies me), but it is also sort of charming!

Anyway! Before season four of Supernatural begins (please note that I do not live in America and if you spoil me I'll cry), I would like to introduce you to someone! His name is Delaware Singer, and he is one of my absolute favourite Supernatural characters, and it makes me very very sad that, you know, he's not technically a Supernatural character in the 'actually appears or is even mentioned in the episodes' sense.

Delaware Singer is the brilliant invention of

sazzlette and

wanttobeatree. (He'll tell you his surname is Springer, but don't believe it.) He is Bobby Singer's hypothetical estranged hooker son, and he is hypothetically played by Chad Michael Murray, and he is a bit of a lunatic and ridiculously fun and I know that the fourth season is going to be a gigantic letdown because he is almost certainly not going to be in it.

I hope to make up for this by persuading you all to write fanfiction about him. (Hey, it worked with Zombie Piers Morgan.)

sazzlette and

wanttobeatree have been roleplaying his adventures in the Impala over here (spoilers for the end of the third season). They are hilarious, and then when you're looking the other way they clobber you over the head and break your heart. Delaware is a little like Dean, except better-adjusted and unconstrained by broadcasting regulations and with more terrible hooker jokes. What's not to love? (Also, the hypothetical mutilated pairing name for Sam Winchester/Delaware Singer is 'Salmonella'. I think that alone is more than enough reason to write it.)

This is an exercise that struck me as being incredibly interesting, but which I couldn't really repost myself because I'm not involved in any roleplays. So! It is Slightly Modified Meme Time!

The original meme:

Ask any of the characters I roleplay a question and I'll reply in-character as them with an answer. Feel free to ask them ANYTHING, regardless of whether you know their canon or not. Feel free to also ask them as your own character. They will respond accordingly.

The Non-Roleplayer Remix:

Ask any character you think I might be able to manage a question, and I'll reply in-character as them with an answer (or possibly reply as myself going 'WHAT THE HELL, I CAN'T DO THIS'). Feel free to ask either as yourself or as another character.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL AND I MAY WELL FAIL MISERABLY. My experience with roleplaying is largely confined to, um, the roleplaying boards on Neopets, many years ago.

Yes.

So this is probably not going to leave you with a sense of 'I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT'S FICTIONAL ANY MORE', but it should be fun, at least. Or a disaster! I am hoping for 'fun'.

(I think someone should host a meme where anyone can offer in-character responses, possibly anonymously. I contemplated it, but I'm so bad at self-promotion that it'd probably never get off the ground.)

thegreatesthits has once again bribed me into doing something insane for the Scrubs fandom, in this case writing an essay on JD/Cox. Oh dear. (Dr. Cox himself has been good enough to comment on it, which is awesome, although I am ever-so-slightly worried by the fact that he apparently reads my contributions to fandom.)

Also, fans of Dr. Cox might want to take a look at his application to a ridiculous Hogwarts RP, which I cannot stop laughing at.

Anyway! In non-random-link-related news, I'm really rather proud of the United Kingdom after the Eurovision song contest last night. For the first time in God knows how long, our song wasn't absolutely dire! It was silly, yes, but you can't criticise Eurovision entries for being too silly, and the chorus was nicely catchy. We finished nineteenth out of twenty-four! For us, this is pretty damn impressive.

Not only that, but the two songs that had the highest number of votes from us were the Finnish entry (in which the band was dressed up as monsters and the song contained the lines 'It's the Arockalypse' and 'It's the Day of Rockening'), and the Lithuanian entry, which was my personal favourite for its fantastic lyrics:

WE ARE THE WINNERS!
(WE ARE! WE ARE!)
WE ARE THE WINNERS OF EUROVISION!
(WE ARE, WE ARE! WE ARE, WE ARE!)
SO YOU'VE GOT TO VOTE (VOTE!), VOTE (VOTE!), VOTE FOR THE WINNERS!

Our taste is impeccable, seriously.

Non-British Europeans, answer me this: how on Earth do you manage to get through Eurovision without Terry Wogan commentating, becoming progressively drunker, and incessantly mocking the voting, acts and hosts ("Oh, here they are again. I'll be amazed if someone doesn't say 'amazing'")? I seriously wouldn't be able to watch it without him.

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Entries tagged with roleplay?

His Hair, However, Remains Terrible.

What Have I Totally Done?

Think About What You're Saying, And Then Don't Say It, And Then Just Run Away Somewhere.

I Always Wanted A Fire Lizard.

Hot Seats! Hot Seats, Yeah!

His Writing, Incidentally, Looks A Bit Like That Of Someone I Know.

If Bobby Were To Get A Man Pregnant, John Would Be An Obvious Choice.

How Long Have You Been On Fire?

Maybe You Shouldn't Talk Any More.

When Worlds Collide. Or Not.

The Day of Rockening.

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