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letterblade500 LJ posts. This makes me feel retrospective.
Been in the Myst fandom (well, barely in it anymore) for two and a half years: joined Rivenguild in May of 2001. Been in the Harry Potter fandom for a year and a few months: joined FAP in September of 2002.
Had this livejournal since March 10, 2002. Since March 10, 2002, I have survived several terms of college, interned with avant-garde performance artists, participated in at least five major performances, attempted to LARP, been nominated for fanfiction awards, flirted with terrible depression, had my first truly deep friendship, found out what color my wolf's eyes are, lost my virginity, held my first paying job, forgotten how to dance, ruined my hands, used Maya, and seen D'ni.
I should stop being retrospective, because there are a few other things I wanted to say.
what's your cowboy bebop theme song?
And it gave me my obsessive listening song too. Damn, but do I want the mp3 of the original version of that. (I had it--downloaded from jazzmess.com. But it's currently unavailable, and my hard drive ate it. I have the live version, but it's just not the same...)
And speaking of The Real Folk Blues...my god, but Vicious is a devious little bastard. So we all knew that, but why do I say it now?
So that little encounter Vicious and Shin have, just after Vicious has busted free and slaughtered the Van, just after Shin has returned from his quite treacherous covering of Spike and Jet's escape. Shin is acting all evasive and ass-covering, and dear god but is it obvious that there's something rather fishy going on with 'the target' still being alive. Vicious has got to know what Shin is doing. But he just glares at him, turns away, and then warns him not to follow in his brother's footsteps.
My initial reaction: ?!?!?!
Because all Lin ever followed was the rules. Lin is fucking Percy Weasley in a Red Dragon coat. (Slash crossover #223!) Vicious was damn near ready to conk him over the head for it--Lin just pissed him the hell off. Telling Shin not to follow in his brother's footsteps is telling him to break the rules. And the rules say: find Spike, kill him, make sure he does't twitch, repeat for anyone he's ever associated with. Shin has already blown that rule off.
Then I realized--Vicious is practically encouraging him. He's telling him to do what he just did, that Vicious must know that he did. And he's telling him not to be the rule-thumping annoying-as-an-annoying-thing that his brother was. And...Spike is his, Vicious'. This has been made abundantly clear. It would never be right for Shin and a bunch of Red Dragon Cronies (tm) to hunt down Spike and off him. That life and death belong to Vicious.
Shin, of course, does not get this, and merely goes WTF. And then, my god he's crazy. And then, yes, I'm going to help Spike when he comes regardless of what Vicious wants, because I can't even figure out what Vicious wants. Because wouldn't he want me to be like my brother, unless he's crazy?
This is Arkady's ramble. This is Arkady's ramble on Bebop.
I think I also figured out something important about Gren. (Had a rewatching party in the computer lab, just me and my muses, 5, 12, 13, 25, 26.) He talked to Julia, that month she was on Callisto. Much more rarely, she talked to him. Because, dear god, that woman is a total cipher. She talked about Spike with Gren. And he, Gren, has a deep love of her. Not for her, and not sexual love. I believe the man when he says he's as bent as a paper clip. But he, just as Faye said, can't leave her alone; and she is beautiful in several ways, and Gren, I think, has something of the aesthete in him (even as he's also a soldier, addict, simply a yearning man), and would appreciate her. And I wouldn't be surprised if he started to fall in love with Spike, just a little, from hearing her talk about him. "You get a strange feeling, looking into his eyes."
Gren and Julia talking--now there's a conversation I would have loved to listen to. Because Gren is a little bundle of enigmas, and Julia is the most elusive little bint in the history of fandom. I wonder if I'll ever be able to write it. (Like the conversation between Suder and Kes, which we knew happened, and which I thought on for, oh, seven years before I suddenly came to write bits of it.)
From some of the shots of his hands, it seems almost as if he files his fingernails into points. Sexually adventerous, much?
...All IMHO, of course.
But not IMHO: Spike's artificial eye is the right. I've never seen anything to indicate otherwise, but I lurk my way through message boards and people seem confused.
Been in the Myst fandom (well, barely in it anymore) for two and a half years: joined Rivenguild in May of 2001. Been in the Harry Potter fandom for a year and a few months: joined FAP in September of 2002.
Had this livejournal since March 10, 2002. Since March 10, 2002, I have survived several terms of college, interned with avant-garde performance artists, participated in at least five major performances, attempted to LARP, been nominated for fanfiction awards, flirted with terrible depression, had my first truly deep friendship, found out what color my wolf's eyes are, lost my virginity, held my first paying job, forgotten how to dance, ruined my hands, used Maya, and seen D'ni.
I should stop being retrospective, because there are a few other things I wanted to say.
what's your cowboy bebop theme song?
And it gave me my obsessive listening song too. Damn, but do I want the mp3 of the original version of that. (I had it--downloaded from jazzmess.com. But it's currently unavailable, and my hard drive ate it. I have the live version, but it's just not the same...)
And speaking of The Real Folk Blues...my god, but Vicious is a devious little bastard. So we all knew that, but why do I say it now?
So that little encounter Vicious and Shin have, just after Vicious has busted free and slaughtered the Van, just after Shin has returned from his quite treacherous covering of Spike and Jet's escape. Shin is acting all evasive and ass-covering, and dear god but is it obvious that there's something rather fishy going on with 'the target' still being alive. Vicious has got to know what Shin is doing. But he just glares at him, turns away, and then warns him not to follow in his brother's footsteps.
My initial reaction: ?!?!?!
Because all Lin ever followed was the rules. Lin is fucking Percy Weasley in a Red Dragon coat. (Slash crossover #223!) Vicious was damn near ready to conk him over the head for it--Lin just pissed him the hell off. Telling Shin not to follow in his brother's footsteps is telling him to break the rules. And the rules say: find Spike, kill him, make sure he does't twitch, repeat for anyone he's ever associated with. Shin has already blown that rule off.
Then I realized--Vicious is practically encouraging him. He's telling him to do what he just did, that Vicious must know that he did. And he's telling him not to be the rule-thumping annoying-as-an-annoying-thing that his brother was. And...Spike is his, Vicious'. This has been made abundantly clear. It would never be right for Shin and a bunch of Red Dragon Cronies (tm) to hunt down Spike and off him. That life and death belong to Vicious.
Shin, of course, does not get this, and merely goes WTF. And then, my god he's crazy. And then, yes, I'm going to help Spike when he comes regardless of what Vicious wants, because I can't even figure out what Vicious wants. Because wouldn't he want me to be like my brother, unless he's crazy?
This is Arkady's ramble. This is Arkady's ramble on Bebop.
I think I also figured out something important about Gren. (Had a rewatching party in the computer lab, just me and my muses, 5, 12, 13, 25, 26.) He talked to Julia, that month she was on Callisto. Much more rarely, she talked to him. Because, dear god, that woman is a total cipher. She talked about Spike with Gren. And he, Gren, has a deep love of her. Not for her, and not sexual love. I believe the man when he says he's as bent as a paper clip. But he, just as Faye said, can't leave her alone; and she is beautiful in several ways, and Gren, I think, has something of the aesthete in him (even as he's also a soldier, addict, simply a yearning man), and would appreciate her. And I wouldn't be surprised if he started to fall in love with Spike, just a little, from hearing her talk about him. "You get a strange feeling, looking into his eyes."
Gren and Julia talking--now there's a conversation I would have loved to listen to. Because Gren is a little bundle of enigmas, and Julia is the most elusive little bint in the history of fandom. I wonder if I'll ever be able to write it. (Like the conversation between Suder and Kes, which we knew happened, and which I thought on for, oh, seven years before I suddenly came to write bits of it.)
From some of the shots of his hands, it seems almost as if he files his fingernails into points. Sexually adventerous, much?
...All IMHO, of course.
But not IMHO: Spike's artificial eye is the right. I've never seen anything to indicate otherwise, but I lurk my way through message boards and people seem confused.