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Interesting bits from my lecture notes:

The melting pot is a myth.

Romantic love (passion) is a basic drive, rather than emotional. Real, emotional love doesn't finish growing until after two years (when the lust drops off precipitously). "We do not fall in love, we climb there."
- Commitment and Intimacy increase over time. Passion drops off after about 2 years.

Men are more visual, women are more susceptible to scent.

Getting dumped sets off all the same reactions as falling in love, except instead of feeling wonderful, you feel horrible. It is not to be laughed at or shrugged off, and is very serious. When you get dumped, you love even harder. Absolutely do not minimize it.

Depression can be an opportunity for insight and personal growth. (True from personal experience.)
- We grow most, find our strengths, through loss and suffering.

According to John Gottman, successful relationships must have:
1. Respectful perception
2. Constant communication
3. Unfailing commitment (ie you cheat once and the relationship is forever damaged)
4. Complete trust

Anyone has the capacity for evil if the situation is powerful enough, but situational power can also be positive.

Cognitive dissonance is the Engine of Self-Justification - "lying to yourself and fully believing it."
- When people behave in a way that they are likely to see as stupid, immoral or erroneous, they change their attitudes so as to believe their behaviour is sensible and justified.

The By-stander effect, is the diffusion of responsibility among a group of people. Since others know of the emergency (and are probably more qualified to deal with it), one's own obligation is lessened. This leads to situations like 30+ witnesses from an apartment building to a rape taking place outside, and no one doing anything to help. (True story.) The smaller the number of people involved, the more likely someone will take action to help.

"The world is filled with good and evil. The barrier between is very nebulous. It is possible for angels to become devils and devils to become angels." - It's all about the situation.

Evil, according to Zimbardo, is "knowing better, but doing worse."

Heroism, according to Zimbardo, focuses on what is right about human nature. Heroic stories serve as powerful reminders that people are capable of resisting evil, rising above mediocrity, and heeding the call to action when others fail to act.

OMG Big Bang Theory!

Evolution vs Creationism
( Quote from the end, so it's a spoiler for just that ep. )

ALSO - if you've seen it you'll know what I mean by this.

Penny: Leonard, it's weird.

Leonard: Totaly.

XD Awesome.

The "You Should Write..." Meme!
my thread here

Bear in mind these are just suggestions, not requests, but you never know!

Commuter cat is star of bus route

That is all.

... I need a kitty icon.

To whoever got me in the remixredux09, please be gentle. My fics are my babies.

Oh, who am I kidding? I signed up for this insanity. Have fun!

FYI, Twisted is my safe story because of the delicate issues it deals with and the fact that I am very protective of what the other is thinking when they're not the POV character. Esp in part two. Not that it matters, I suppose, since you can't touch it, but I felt like explaining. (Also, Understanding is still a WIP, so I didn't have to worry about protecting that baby. =D)

If you have any questions or whatever, feel free to leave me an anon post here or whatever. I'm more than happy to offer my insights if there's something you need/want to know.

Oh and if you're not a Mylar fan, I am so, so sorry. There are some other choices, some different pairings and even a couple different fandoms, but that's what the bulk of my work is so, ya, sorry? Plus side: I try to keep my work as close to cannon as possible (with a few exceptions). So I hope that even non-Mylar fans can understand and hopefully even enjoy most of it , which should hopefully translate to remixability by non Mylar fans... I hope.

Good luck, enjoy, have fun!

Writing Firefly fic his hard. *whines*

I'm going to have to wade into the Firefly section of the internet and find me a beta who can help me out when I've got my rough draft done, that's for sure. The characterizations aren't so hard, although some characters are gonna have to stay on the periphery just to keep me sane. It's the dialog that's driving me nuts!

I watched Serenity again with my Dad last night. First off, forgot how damn depressing that movie is. Anyway, I wanted to get a refresher on speech patterns and character status at the end of the series (though I may have another way to re-watch the series now, yay!) and I came to a couple conclusions:

1) Writing dialog for Mal and Kaylee (and Jayne, to an extent) is going to be damn tricky. I thought River was going to be a challenge, but I have a feeling she'll pale in comparison to their peculiar speech patterns. Mal in particular; while I love his speech patterns, I despair at ever duplicating them.

2) I need to do research on the planets in the Firefly 'verse, even if most of my fic is gonna take place on the ship. Also, I need the command word Simon uses to send River to sleep...

3) I need a list of mandarin curse words/phrases, or at least a list of the ones used on the show.

4) Wash, Zoe, Jayne and Inara are going to have to fall to the wayside in this fic. They'll be around (well, I haven't decided on Inara yet, timelines and all, she was in it until I watched the movie last night and went "oh, that's right, she left") but somewhat sidelined except in group scenes. Jayne will probably push his way into the forefront every now and then though, cause he likes to cause trouble and when shit gets bad he's gonna get vocal. Book is a character I really don't want to try to write, but I keep thinking there could be this really great scene between him and Gabriel. *sigh*

So anyway, the deal is that it'll be mainly Mohinder, Gabriel, River, Simon, Kaylee and Mal. I'll try to work the others in more, but there's so many of them and I don't want this getting completely out of hand. Even my beloved Captain Tightpants probably isn't going to be in it as much as I might want him to be. If he wasn't the captain I'd be having a hard time working him in too. Fortunately, as the Captain he gets to stick his nose in everywhere. Of course, then we get back to the fact that I despair of properly writing his speech patterns. *pout*

Because there are House fans on my flist that don't follow tianafic. (The Mylar fic is up there too already.)

My first House fic!

Title: Off Balance
Characters/Paring: House/Wilson (friendship)
Rating: Pg-13
Spoilers: Season Finale, big ones.
Warnings: none
Word Count: 284
Summary: A Wilson-centric look at the drive to the psychiatric hospital, from the finale.

comment_fic ficlet. Originally here.

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Wilson's eyes kept flicking over to House.

This is an even better vid of the killer robot episode. Not only does it it include the line from my icon, but it also has the robot fight!



Sadly, though most episodes of BBT are fabulous from beginning to end, this episode was split about 75/25 Whiney Wallowitz/Robot and the Wallowitz stuff was annoying, so these are probably the best scenes from that episode. Well, either way, MONTE and Sheldon are fabulous. Oh, the bits in-between that involve Sheldon trying to trash-talk Kripke were also fabulous, as you can tell from his one attempt in this clip.

Ok, I'm done posting vids for now.

speccygeekgirl's request - DVD commentary of Silence and Denial. If you haven't read it yet, you should probably read the normal version first. My commentary is a little spoilery, and it spoils the flow.

This is it for commentary, unless someone drops me another request.

( Silence and Denial with DVD Commentary )

Sheldon teaching Penny to play WoW (sort of):



Penny gets Sheldon an awesome gift (Nimoy/Spock fans, enjoy!)



From my icon, sort of, the killer robot:

ladywilde80's request - DVD commentary of Bound by Blood. If you haven't read it yet, read the normal version first. I spoil stuff with my commentary.

( Bound By Blood - Commentary )

The Last Question by Isaac Asimov

Having read Asimov's Foundation series, I already consider him to be a brilliant author by my own judgment. Clearly, more important minds than mine have already determined this, but I was glad I finally got around to reading his work myself.

Today reddit led me to this short story. It's not long, by definition (haha), but it is once again bloody brilliant. It was written in 1956, but aside from a few little things at the beginning of the story that make it apparent that it's somewhat dated, you can't tell.

Regardless, I think it's fascinating, and I immediately fell in love with it, so I felt I must share.

Enjoy!

(I hope people would like to discuss it, so the comments in this thread will likely contain spoilers for the ending.)

Also, it oddly gives me motivation to write that short story I keep avoiding.

For a Sylar-centric episode, I am of oddly mixed feelings. I think it requires a second watch. However, first impressions are important, so:

( Spoilerific, but fairly short. )

Please keep finale spoilers out of your replies. I know a bit about the "proposition" scene in the preview from Mabes' post, but I never read any of the other spoilers and, frankly, I just don't want to know. I will either enjoy the finale, or I will throw things. Either way, I'd rather go into it with as much cautious optimism as possible.

Oh, and I never said anything about last week's episode. There didn't seem to be much to say, as far as retconning goes they've done worse, and there were bits I highly enjoyed. So all I have to say is this: Socks are Love.

It doesn't necessitate a post on mylar_fic, but I wanted to leave findable notice that if anyone is looking for me for info, etc., that I'm writing exams all day tomorrow. I'm going to bed early now, so this is me vanishing from the internet until tomorrow evening. I will reply to any concerns as quickly after I get home as I can.

Hopefully this is completely unecessary, but I know there are 5 or so people running behind schedule, so I am aware that things might come up.

Quick Heroes thoughts...

( Spoilers )

*sigh* I'm so happy to have good ole Sylar back, it almost makes me feel better about House. ... almost. ... temporarily.

O.o I was shocked as hell when I got notified of my nomination for the horrible_awards, so you can imagine when I checked the results today I was even more shocked!



Nothing like a characterization award to make a rotten day suddenly look a whole lot nicer! =D

Interesting format to the awards too. There was voting for a fan favourite in each category, but other winner/runner-ups (like moi) were decided by a panel of judges.

Anyway, very cool.

The comment that came with the award made me grin like mad too. Hee, I dunno, maybe I should give a sequel a thought. ^_~

"I really wish you'd continue this because it is such an amazing plot line; he made the freeze ray how much harder could time travel be?

Billy's characterization seemed to fit and the voice inside his head - being not Penny's but of Billy's portrayal of Penny and of regret and guilt - was very well done as well. You even capture a bit of Hammer in Billy, in how he expressed his opinion of her dream of helping the homeless shelter as small thinking."

OMG HEROES I LOVE YOU!

Wow, was that Bryan Fuller's first episode since he returned? Just curious. Because, holy shit, I haven't loved an episode 100% like that in AGES. And it was full of characters that I'm mostly ambivalent about! Not even any Sylar and I enjoyed it soooo much!

( Spoilers, obvs. )

10:00 - 11:00 pm

( Felt like trying something new. Kitty tried to thwart me, but I prevailed. )

Haikus as page not found errors = awesome. Go LJ!

This page is not here
like plum blossoms in the wind
existence is fake

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I forgot to pimp this. Vote for me if you like, or whoever you think deserves to win. Voting closes on the 20th.



I'm nominated for my fic Brain Storm in the following categories:
"The Make it Real Award" - Best Characterization
"The Laundromat Award" - Best Relationship-Centric
"The Dr. Horrible's Turn Award" - Best Future Fic