'love, love will tear us apart again'

[mooging]

Humour me, flist. It is either keep myself busy on the internets, or go and throw up forever. Nausea is not the boss of me, I say! I say, down with fail and up with FREAKING POINTLESS MEMES! FUN FOR EVERYONE! also I am going to get those 5 Things comments done very very soon, I promise.

On another note, I'm thinking about making this journal semi-friends only. I mean, I lock most of the stuff I don't feel comfortable sharing with the world at large, but I'm thinking of maybe extending that to just everything that isn't either an entirely fandom-related post, or fic. Flist, what are your thoughts? Are you friends-only? What do you think of friends-only journals in general? Has semi-friends only worked for you?

Feel free to join in with one, or both, I really don't mind! I'm off on a new icon gathering haul around LJ, la la la, I must make the most of these two short months with all the userpic spaces, fun fun fun.

1) Comment and I will:

1) Tell you why I friended you.
2) Associate you with a song/film.
3) Tell a random fact about you.
4) Tell a first memory about you.
5) Associate you with a character/pairing.
6) Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.
7) Show you my favourite user pic of yours.
8) In retort, you must spead this disease in your LJ. (except, you don't have to do this at all, whatever meme rules, I openly defy you).

2) Name a character and I'll tell you three (or more) facts about them from my own personal pseudo-canon.

(Also, I really don't mind if you pick more than one character, but no more than three please, because there are LIMITS TO MY BRAIN.)

BASICALLY I JUST WANT TO BUM AROUND THE INTERNET FOR A BIT; WHO'S WITH ME?

Comments

[strangeumbrella.livejournal.com]

LATE BUT ENTHUSIASTIC

I sign up for both memes, and for the second, I give you Ross Gaines and/or Ollie Plimsoles.

[moogle62.livejournal.com]

1) Tell you why I friended you. I do believe it was that Mac/Guy thing you posted, and I went YES THIS PERSON IS AWESOME and that was that. And then you made me watch Life On Mars, and my brain exploded.
2) Associate you with a song/film. Oooh, okay: Help, by the Beatles, because I listened to your version of it in my ears, like, on repeat while I wrote that Matt Smith/Tennant thing, which took about two hours or so, and now when I hear someone who isn't your ukulele band of good singing it, it sounds wrong.
3) Tell a random fact about you. I think you're really freaking fabulous what what who said that. Er. You are destined to marry that chip dude, who has MADE HIMSELF SOME POCKETS JUST SO HE CAN GET ON THE TRAIN. No, er, you work for AQA, the text dudes, and basically I want to do that too.
4) Tell a first memory about you. Talking about favourite Green Wing episodes, and then showing you that fic I wrote, and then you making me watch LoM and me just entirely going mental for about three months and not being able to revise properly for a couple of GCSEs until I had written some fic down first.
5) Associate you with a character/pairing. First and foremost, Sam/Gene. And then, er, Derren/Mark/Reece, because of that time without food or sleep but with all the awesome in the world in one small room. :DD
6) Ask something I've always wanted to know about you. If you could do anything at all right now, what would you want to do? On an entirely shallow note: shag, marry, push off a cliff - Tennant, Gatiss, Reeson. GO GO GO.
7) Show you my favourite user pic of yours. SO FREAKING MANY; HERE IS A HANDFUL. , , , , , OH TENNANT YOU ARE SO FREAKING ATTRACTIVE, , , YES, and, finally, . DO NOT THINK THAT IS ALL OF THEM; I JUST THOUGHT I SHOULD STOP. I think you are the person on my flist that has the most icons I covert and adore.

[strangeumbrella.livejournal.com]

2) Help, by the Beatles, because I listened to your version of it in my ears, like, on repeat while I wrote that Matt Smith/Tennant thing
Here is a true story: the other day that came up on shuffle on my iPod (the Beatles version), and bam, my first thought: oh, Matt Smith/David Tennant. And then I was like WHAT. Presumably that is now going to happen forever.

3) You are destined to marry that chip dude, who has MADE HIMSELF SOME POCKETS JUST SO HE CAN GET ON THE TRAIN
OH GOD DON'T SAY THAT

6) If you could do anything at all right now, what would you want to do?
hmm hmm hmm. This is fairly broad! In terms of actually anything at all, what I would do is go back to Highgate in the early nineties and befriend the League of Gentlemen. Within the bounds of reality, what I want to do is go home, because I'm so close to doing so and I slightly can't be bothered with these next few days. More specifically, I would love to sit down with the rest of the ukulele band and play together.

On an entirely shallow note: shag, marry, push off a cliff - Tennant, Gatiss, Reeson.
WHAT. WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS TO ME. WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS TO ME. Okay, okay, I am going to have to say, though I am not happy about it: marry Gatiss (just...do I even need to explain that), shag Tennant (if you turn this down, do you somehow stop qualifying as a human being?) and WELL that means I have to push Reece off a cliff, which I REALLY DON'T WANT TO DO. D: The worst thing is that out of the three of them, the one I am currently the most mental over is Reece, and so idek how this happened. Maybe Mark will catch him???

7) LOL SO MANY

[moogle62.livejournal.com]

2) YES. YES, I HAVE ~INFILTRATED YOUR MIND~. I'm like Derren Brown (he's very kind, he'll read your mind), except not.

3). TRUFACTS. HE LOOOOOOOVES YOU.

6) Home soon! Think the good thoughts, my sausage.

YES. IF YOU DECLINE THE OFFER TO SLEEP WITH DAVID TENNANT YOU ARE NO LONGER ALLOWED TO BE A PERSON. IT IS OFFICIAL. Also, no, no-one ever needs to explain the need to marry Gatiss, because jndkjwbDKJ, okay, and, also, I imagine he would be less taxing to be around all day than Reeson, who presumably is a bit emotionally draining after a while. You know that bit in the s3 diaries, where it's the writer's block section, and he and Steve are just sitting on the sofa in the blue room? That always makes me think of those horrible moments where you're with someone else who has just gone into this mood that you can't shake them out of, and they're sitting in their own little cocoon of angry misery, and you're just sort of sitting there, feeling a bit out-of-place and vaguely wishing they'd snap out of it, and not quite knowing what to do but thinking you should do something, and sort of resenting the other person for bringing the mood down. LOL TL;DR, IN SHORT, REESON IS A PROPER MENTAL BUT WE LOVE HIM AND MARK WILL TOTES CATCH HIM WITH HIS TIME TRAVELING ~*POWERS*~

(also, the 'you' there was kind of 'one', but I can't sustain the use of that because I feel a bit pretentious. I, er, apparently felt the need to clarify this.)

[strangeumbrella.livejournal.com]

and, also, I imagine he would be less taxing to be around all day than Reeson, who presumably is a bit emotionally draining after a while
lololol my actual exact thought process. SORRY REECE WE STILL LOVE YOU. In fact, all that is probably why I'm so obsessed with him right now.

[moogle62.livejournal.com]

EMOTIONAL DAMAGE IS ATTRACTIVE: WHO KNEW?

a: everyone

[sophieisgod.livejournal.com]

Butting in shamelessly to say DUDE IS THAT A REGENERATION ICON???

[moogle62.livejournal.com]

YES, YES IT FREAKING IS

AJSDKABFKJbfkj

oh Prior and Rivers, how I love you. (A LOTTTT)

[sophieisgod.livejournal.com]

AHHHHH

It was on our A2 WWI synoptic unit syllabus, and I got all obsessed and read the trilogy really quickly and GOD, PRIOR. And poor pining Wilfred Owen, what what.

[moogle62.livejournal.com]

Afgh, it made me cry so freaking much, and sdknbfkjadbf

Prior/Rivers is one of my favourite things ever: apparently I defile all the things I love, as I managed to write Prior/Mitchell, what (which, also, lo0o0ony_lauren wrote a beautiful fic about Rivers trying to treat Mitchell straight after he's been turned, and Rivers thinking he's a normal shell-shocked soldier and then Mitchell freaking out).

[moogle62.livejournal.com]

Ross Gaines:

- He told Pauline he only slept with her because she made him hate his job. This is what he wants to believe: what he knows, although he wishes he didn't, is that he slept with her because he genuinely finds her attractive - and he hates it.
- He avoids hand-writing things as much as he can, because pens make him think of Pauline, and then he wants to either commit several types of felony, or slam his hand in a desk drawer to stop him being able to think about her. He is, in actual fact, very good at using computers. Cathy Carter-Smith was very impressed.
- He wishes he and Mickey could have been better friends.
- He cried at Pauline and Mickey's wedding reception and he didn't know why.

Ollie Plimsoles:

- People get rich from writing LIES about the North, and he wants... to do that too.
- When he was married to Linda, he suggested having a threesome, when he thought she might be losing interest in him - even though he didn't like the idea, he was willing to try it, for her sake - but she said she didn't want anybody else. This is partly why he is so bitter that she left him for a woman.
- When he was drunk, once, he kissed Phil, and then in the morning, when he remembered, he was sick for so long that he nearly cancelled a Legz Akimbo performance in a school hall, but he didn't, because work is always the priority. Anyway. This is why he doesn't like Phil.
- He once wrote a harrowing play about the ~issue~ of bulimia. It was called 'Bring it Up'.

[strangeumbrella.livejournal.com]

- He wishes he and Mickey could have been better friends.
- He cried at Pauline and Mickey's wedding reception and he didn't know why.
aslkdjh both of those sent me a bit special

- People get rich from writing LIES about the North, and he wants... to do that too.
1) LOL. 2) I told Loz this and forgot you weren't there to see it (??), so here is what happened to me earlier: my brother emailed to ask if I wanted to go and see the play they're doing at his school while I'm back for Easter (which he isn't in this time, but is going to go and watch), and it is...BOUNCERS. I am totally going to go and I am not going to be able to take it seriously in any fucking way at all.

- When he was married to Linda, he suggested having a threesome, when he thought she might be losing interest in him - even though he didn't like the idea, he was willing to try it, for her sake - but she said she didn't want anybody else. This is partly why he is so bitter that she left him for a woman.
oh my god this is weirdly lovely and sad

- When he was drunk, once, he kissed Phil, and then in the morning, when he remembered, he was sick for so long that he nearly cancelled a Legz Akimbo performance in a school hall, but he didn't, because work is always the priority. Anyway. This is why he doesn't like Phil.
WELL THAT'S CANON ps I would read that

- He once wrote a harrowing play about the ~issue~ of bulimia. It was called 'Bring it Up'.
OH MAN I HAVEN'T STOPPED LOLING

why yes I have quoted back all those Ollie ones, what are you going to do about it

[moogle62.livejournal.com]

why yes I have quoted back all those Ollie ones, what are you going to do about it
Freaking nothing, that is what I am going to do. Proactive, I can not has it. I enjoyed that comment very very much

-YOU MUST GIVE US ALL YOUR THOUGHTS ON BOUNCERS, LOL. LOL. LOL.
- very glad you found the bulimia play name amusing
- OLLIE/PHIL IS CANONNNN