Exercise starts here

Geurch. Started jogging again. Achieved my starter 10 minutes, feeling of collapse not as bad as the other times I've started. Mostly annoyed that I have to do it round Cotswolds - it's a big, featureless playing field which you have to do circuits around. Seriously boring, but still not as boring as the gym. As soon as Mapledurham's de-flooded, I'm going back down there. Only problem is that we're apparently due for more flooding some time soon... :sigh: Weather absolutely fecking grim. Chilly, wet and windy, with near-constant drizzle.

EDIT: Am now eating overly-sugared grapefruit. Benefits? Benefits? Nahhhhhhh.

Mary Sues

What type of Mary Sue are you?
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My first character wasn't a Mary Sue. It was a stock yarn with a plot and characters interchangeable with your average 70s/mid-80s Marvel superheros arc. Including dialogue, situations, etc.

Character number two, on the other hand.. mwhahaha. This wasn't a normal Mary Sue, it was a Mary Sue on steroids. It was me. Which I started writing in a lecture at college, where moi of present day did a mind-meld into the 16-year-old me of the X-Men universe, who was still me... but an in shape me with superpowers and on the Excalibur team. I'd wound the team back two years so I could meddle with plot lines, and damn it was fun. I've still got the stories around somewhere. I still remember the first point where I open the wardrobe to look at my costume and go into hysterics because I refused to wear the spandex monstrosity and hauled out a pair of combats . Basically an opportunity for me to make snarky comments and push them into spy work, and address the issues of celebrity the Excalibur team had at that time. Because if they were real celebrities, Rachel, Meggan and Kurt especially would be doing large amounts of magazine shoots at the very least. There were PR people and agents screaming down the phone at them between missions, which gradually became more and more about the intelligence side and Excalibur stopped being superheroes and became spies. They also got to snark at Professor X's team and ideals a lot.

Squeee!

The Long and Short of it, the film Sean Astin shot using members of the LOTR cast for production crew and the cameramen and stunt men for actors (special appearance by Peter Jackson as the bus driver) on a day off from filming LOTR. I'd seen the making of it on the Fellowship extras, but the short film's damn cute. Silent with an opera ST. So. Very. Cool.

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Firefly
Identified with: Wash
Lusted after: Zoe
Hated, or were annoyed by: erm.
Adored platonically: Kaylee
Loved With Great Devotion: Jayne. Box Dropping Man Apes gone wrong...
Wrote most about: fic? whu?

Six Feet Under
Identified with: Claire
Lusted after: Nate
Hated, or were annoyed by: Brenda
Adored platonically: Frederico
Loved With Great Devotion: David
Wrote most about: fic? whu?

Angel (which I am behind on)
Identified with: Wes
Lusted after: Wes. And Lilah.
Hated, or were annoyed by: Fred and Gunn.
Adored platonically: Lorne
Loved With Great Devotion: Lilah.
Wrote most about: Wes

LOTR
Identified with: Eowyn
Lusted after: Boromir is first, but most of the Fellowship.
Hated, or were annoyed by: Arwen.
Adored platonically: Merry
Loved With Great Devotion: Sam
Wrote most about: Boromir

Smallville
Identified with: Chloe
Lusted after: Lex
Hated, or were annoyed by: Lana
Adored platonically: Clark
Loved With Great Devotion: Lionel
Wrote most about: Clark

Robin of Sherwood
Identified with: The Sheriff
Lusted after: Will Scarlet
Hated, or were annoyed by: Sir Richard of Leaford
Adored platonically: Nasir
Loved With Great Devotion: The Sheriff
Wrote most about: Gisburne