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Memeishly:
I spent way too long playing with this thing yesterday. And yet, the scariest part isn't that Bill Nye is considered a fandom (I've actually met they guy, okay? That renders him off-limits for fic), but that this crossover would be sort of easy to work.
Other favorites include Transformers/The Real World/a zombie attack, Friends/Resident Evil/good characters becoming evil (omg zombie!Phoebe), Grand Theft Auto/SpongeBob Squarepants/competing in a Rock Band tournament, and, last but not least, Rocky Horror Picture Show/The Bible/a seemingly ordinary day. I'm appropriately horrified, yes.
Musically: Fellow iTunes users, has the Just For You feature disappeared for you too? Because I've tried logging in and making purchases and everything, but it won't show up.
I'm actually a bit unhappy about this, because Just For You was how I found most of my new music, including the bizarre niche stuff that nobody else knew about. It was actually quite accurate most of the time; it picked up on my love for Guitar Hero tunes and "Paint It Black" covers after about four purchases. Is Just For You gone, or is it just hiding somewhere?
In other music-indecision news, I've found that the Adam West (the band, not the actor) cover of "Supernaut" nicely balances the heavier, more grinding guitars that I like in the Ministry cover with the non-screamy vocals I like in the original. I still plan to pick up the original at some point, because otherwise I'm being a bad music fan (and it comes on the same disc as "Iron Man", which I want), but I might consider parting with 0.99$ for the Adam West version.
I also looked up the lyrics to "Supernaut", and...how has this song not been used in every Doctor fanmix ever? Especially all the Tenth Doctor fanmixes - so long as you disregard that the song is probably about an acid trip, the lines are really rather perfect for Ten at his most manic and self-destructive. Really, I'd put it in a mix myself, but it seems like such a gimme that I feel bad doing so.
Also, shot in the dark, but has anybody here heard the Klutae cover of "Blue Monday", and can you tell me if it's any good? I heard the sample of it and am intrigued, but...well, to be honest, I'm not sure I want to own up to listening to a gimmicky offshoot of Leaether Strip. I'm ashamed enough of knowing what Leaether Strip is, though I do solemnly swear here and now that I haven't bought their music and don't really enjoy it anyway. So there.
I wouldn't want you thinking I was wierd or anything.
Lifeishly, I've been way busy. Not that I expected otherwise, but sometimes it surprises me just how little I get accomplished in the average day, and just how much stuff is piling up on me. I manage to ignore it most of the time - today, for example, I feel sort of relaxed because the two big assignments I had over the weekend are out of the way, but the minute I think about it I realize that I've got an essay due in a week or two and I still haven't got my genes annotated and my first chem test is on Friday and I fully expect it to hand me my tender ass.
Also, I can't stay awake in Chem class, no matter how much sleep I get the night before. This is, as you might imagine, making my learning somewhat difficult.
I feel like this is going to end as badly as first semester last year. I know I should do something. But I just...don't know where to start.
Also I'm doing really, really poorly with the "leaving my room and socializing" thing. Even worse than last year, maybe; I'm not sure.
I should go get lunch. I suspect most of this is low blood sugar talking.
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Bill Nye the Science Guy and Final Fantasy 7.
The story should use alternate dimensions as a plot device!
Generated by the Terrible Crossover Fanfiction Idea Generator
The story should use alternate dimensions as a plot device!
Generated by the Terrible Crossover Fanfiction Idea Generator
I spent way too long playing with this thing yesterday. And yet, the scariest part isn't that Bill Nye is considered a fandom (I've actually met they guy, okay? That renders him off-limits for fic), but that this crossover would be sort of easy to work.
Other favorites include Transformers/The Real World/a zombie attack, Friends/Resident Evil/good characters becoming evil (omg zombie!Phoebe), Grand Theft Auto/SpongeBob Squarepants/competing in a Rock Band tournament, and, last but not least, Rocky Horror Picture Show/The Bible/a seemingly ordinary day. I'm appropriately horrified, yes.
Musically: Fellow iTunes users, has the Just For You feature disappeared for you too? Because I've tried logging in and making purchases and everything, but it won't show up.
I'm actually a bit unhappy about this, because Just For You was how I found most of my new music, including the bizarre niche stuff that nobody else knew about. It was actually quite accurate most of the time; it picked up on my love for Guitar Hero tunes and "Paint It Black" covers after about four purchases. Is Just For You gone, or is it just hiding somewhere?
In other music-indecision news, I've found that the Adam West (the band, not the actor) cover of "Supernaut" nicely balances the heavier, more grinding guitars that I like in the Ministry cover with the non-screamy vocals I like in the original. I still plan to pick up the original at some point, because otherwise I'm being a bad music fan (and it comes on the same disc as "Iron Man", which I want), but I might consider parting with 0.99$ for the Adam West version.
I also looked up the lyrics to "Supernaut", and...how has this song not been used in every Doctor fanmix ever? Especially all the Tenth Doctor fanmixes - so long as you disregard that the song is probably about an acid trip, the lines are really rather perfect for Ten at his most manic and self-destructive. Really, I'd put it in a mix myself, but it seems like such a gimme that I feel bad doing so.
Also, shot in the dark, but has anybody here heard the Klutae cover of "Blue Monday", and can you tell me if it's any good? I heard the sample of it and am intrigued, but...well, to be honest, I'm not sure I want to own up to listening to a gimmicky offshoot of Leaether Strip. I'm ashamed enough of knowing what Leaether Strip is, though I do solemnly swear here and now that I haven't bought their music and don't really enjoy it anyway. So there.
I wouldn't want you thinking I was wierd or anything.
Lifeishly, I've been way busy. Not that I expected otherwise, but sometimes it surprises me just how little I get accomplished in the average day, and just how much stuff is piling up on me. I manage to ignore it most of the time - today, for example, I feel sort of relaxed because the two big assignments I had over the weekend are out of the way, but the minute I think about it I realize that I've got an essay due in a week or two and I still haven't got my genes annotated and my first chem test is on Friday and I fully expect it to hand me my tender ass.
Also, I can't stay awake in Chem class, no matter how much sleep I get the night before. This is, as you might imagine, making my learning somewhat difficult.
I feel like this is going to end as badly as first semester last year. I know I should do something. But I just...don't know where to start.
Also I'm doing really, really poorly with the "leaving my room and socializing" thing. Even worse than last year, maybe; I'm not sure.
I should go get lunch. I suspect most of this is low blood sugar talking.
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Hey, look at that, an excuse to watch Friends reruns. I can call it research.
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1) When did you meet Bill Nye?!
2) Point me in the direction of the "Supernaut" lyrics? Because now I'm curious, but I'm failing abysmally at finding them.
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2) They're here, (http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/blacksabbath/supernaut.html) should you want them. And, on the surface, they seem a little too carefree for Ten, but if you read them with a sort of sense of denial/emphatic insistence that the speaker doesn't need or doesn't want something in order to ignore the fact that he does need it, it works rather perfectly. That, and the last lines are perfect for dark!Ten.
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2) ...OH MY GOD, THOSE ARE PERFECT. Especially the last verse for dark!Ten, but I don't think the rest necessarily sounds too carefree. I do like your reading, though, so...now it's perfect on two different levels.
Shoot. I hate when I fall in love with lyrics, because I am inevitably disappointed by the sound of the song, which never seems to align with my musical preferences. Who does the original? Because I am hopeful about "non-screamy vocals" yet somewhat doubtful that Black Sabbath could provide such a thing.
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I don't know your exact circumstances exactly but I'm gonna butt in with some advice anyway and I'm sorry if it's wrong and totally doesn't apply to you. Don't worry too much about socializing. I find it sort of...happens in its own time. I spent so much of uni angsting about the fact I didn't do it, then a lot clicked in my final year and I WANTED to do it, I wasn't forcing myself. If you're happy with you and how you spend your time and what you really want is to stay at home and meta about 'The Daemons', own that, it's fine. Like yes, try and meet people who share your interests cuz you might click with them but you don't have to force it, y'know?
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*hugs*
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It's hard to explain, my uni experience was this weird mix of trial and error and giving up and trying again re: socializing and I was lucky cuz I had my flatmates who were as geeky as me so sometimes weeks and months at a time would go by and I'd stay at home and watch Who or Battlestar Galactica or X-Files or whatever together or all sit on our computers poking our various parts of the internet, vaguely worrying that we should get out more.
The other thing is, sometimes it's not you, it's just that you haven't found people you click with. All my people seemed to happen in my last year.
Anyway, poncy advice hat off, don't worry too much, am sure you'll be absolutely fine. *hugs again*
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That's kind of like mine, actually. I have friends, and I wouldn't trade them for anything, and some days we'll just stay inside being geeky together, but...I worry that I'll move out, and I won't be near any of my college or high school friends, and I won't have the social skills and/or experience to meet new people, so I'll be screwed. That's what scares me most of all.
Thank you again. It helps to talk to someone who gets what I'm talking about. :D
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This is exactly what worried me too. And my female flatmate for that matter. Then I realised that, yes, ok, I am using my flatmates as a sort of safety net/security blanket so I can avoid socializing AND still have friends and that caused me angst for MONTHS till I realised that was OK. Because someday I'd be in a situation where I WOULDN'T have that safety net, I'd HAVE to go out and socialize or not talk to anyone except on the internet and I realised that's when I'd do it and that's how I'd get better at it. So worst comes to the worst (and I don't think this will happen to you but let's look at the worst anyway) you spend all of college with your friends being geeky, have fun and do what you want to do, then you graduate and move somewhere new and you'll have to figure out socializing then. I think for people like us it's easier when you just HAVE to. And it's never too late to learn.
In comparison to me and my two flatmates, our 4th friend who we're equally close to went to a different uni and she didn't know anyone and was forced to go out and socialise. I figure that's the situation I'll be in wherever I end up going to stage school. Unless it's London in which case I'll be flatmates with 4th friend and one of now ex-Edinburgh flatmates and the whole process will start over. ;)
so yes, there's my life story, hope it helps.
Thank you again. It helps to talk to someone who gets what I'm talking about. :D
Please don't worry! Let me know if you've had enough of my rambling, I just figure I've JUST finished having this exact crisis so I might as well pass on my dubious newfound wisdom. ;D
The other thing is, something totally different might work for you and that's ok too. :D
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As far as crossovers go, I can totally see Phoebe as a zombie. Or trying to be one, at any rate.
Monica: Okay, Pheebs, you know you actually have to be a zombie, right? This isn't like your "I can be a bear cub" thing.
Phoebe: I can be a zombie.
XD