Glee. Such a guilty pleasure.

They could send me Kurt for Christmas, except that he’d just criticize my closet, so I wouldn’t cry if they sent Artie instead. I’ll install a ramp. Or Puck, if they’re all out of Kurts and Arties, mowhawk and all.

I know how to pick them.

~DreamingOfNothing

I’ve found out why this year’s NaNo is so hard. Because I’ve only got one POV character.

I’m changing that right now. I suppose single-character POVs (or first, definitely) is not in my future. So Jenna will join the cast.

Thanks, darkness. You are wise.

~DreamingOfNothing

… so instead of spending hours a day watching Criminal Minds, Arrested Development, Numb3rs, Glee, or NCIS, I’m spending hours a day watching Liberty’s Kids. I’m not sure if I should feel happy (because it’s educational, even though I can’t really claim it’s for school because even the AP US History exam doesn’t go in this much detail about the American Revolution) or pathetic (because I previously watched it when I was eight and saw Henri as a compatriot in child-ness. Now I am hyper-aware of how cute and little he is. It makes me facepalm.)

Good news, though. Between dance and a new-found enthusiasm for French, I can now actually pronounce Comment allez-vous, instead of murmuring, “Comment allez-vu?” (all letters pronounced, except vous, which was the only one I knew how to say.) Now I can say it correctly, though I can’t really transliterate it. So. Now I’m working on French and Spanish, which is good (because I love languages and hey, French is cool) and bad (because they’re very similar and things like Bien [which is 'bien' in Spanish and - I can hardly pronouce it in French] really give me trouble.)

Yeah. As you all already know, when I commit, I commit good and hard. (Which means I’m about 5K behind for NaNo. But hey. This is school! For real!)

~RêverRien (DreamOfNothing. I think. According to Babel, anyway, so it probably means DrinkStone or something)

When I was a lot younger, I watched PBS. I remember adoring ZOOM, The Magic School Bus, and Zoboomafoo, but I only had three real addictions as a child.

The first was the animated Redwall series. They originally aired in 1999, but they must have rerun it because I didn’t have a television then. Anyway. I loved the series and ended up collecting almost the entire book series, though I only read the first and Mattimeo, anyway. The series was on Redwall, Mettimeo, and Martin the Warrior, and it was a darn good series, I’ll add. Loved it. Watched it every Sunday morning. I literally told kids I couldn’t play with them then because I had something to do. When I dedicate, I dedicate good.

A few years later I really got into Cyberchase, but that was a math-based show that aired after school. Came home every day to watch it. Eventually I outgrew the Cyberchase math, but I loved it at the time. I get connected to characters – I loved Matt, Jackie, Inez, and Digit, and I loved them fighting Hacker and trying to save Motherboard. It was cheesy but I was ten and darn you, that was my favorite series ever.

What inspired this post is a show that I watched from its premiere in September, 2002 to its finale in April, 2003. I watched any reruns I caught as well, and I’m remembering it because my mother recently purchased the entire series for my sibling’s homeschool. It’s called Liberty’s Kids.

It’s a cheesy name, I know, but it’s about three kids and the American Revolution. It basically taught you about the Revolution and the important people and events in it. We also pushed off anything else to watch it – My brother even dressed up as the Marquis de Lafayette for Purim one year. I remember being astounded that someone didn’t know who Nathan Hale was. I thought of Ticonderoga as the fort, not the pencil, and Ethan Allen as the leader of the Green Mountain Boys, not the furniture company. This stuff worked, though – I mean, I remember this stuff. All of it. (Well, most – that’s why I’m sitting in my younger sib’s viewings). It’s good stuff.

I loved the characters in this show as well. I understood Sarah, who was British and usually took the Loyalist side of the discussion, probably had a crush on James, who was a fierce patriot and was daring and couragous, respected Moses, who was basically everyone’s dad, and adored Henri, who was little and French and funny and lovable. I loved them and memorized the theme song and the works. (I basically ignored the part where no one aged between 1773 and 1782.) Still can’t hear the name Henri without thinking of them. I still love them, to be honest, in that way you adore your old teddy bear. Also, they’re still as wonderful as they were when I was younger.

They were great characters. And after having a heavily fanfictioned dream about these characters (it dealt with backstory. Backstory that they talk about briefly and my brain filled in. I can’t believe myself either), my brain thought, “Oh, god, you can’t write Liberty’s Kids fanfiction. It’s produced by PBS. You can’t do this.”

So since my brain is an IDIOT, it decided to go look it up on fanfiction.net, reasoning, “If no one else has done this, you shouldn’t either.”

Then *BRAINFIZZ* What the hell do you mean, 101 stories? Are you effing kidding me?

And a CROSSOVER? With Pirates of the Caribbean?

I think I need to lie down. Or at least turn the computer off before my fool brain makes me read one of these, which will probably ruin my clean visions of this show forever. I bet you money someone’s written a Sarah/James porn. Just writing that makes me feel sick. Bye. I’m going to bed so I can think in the SATs tomorrow.

~DreamingOfNothing

And I’m finally back into the NaNo feel. The words are flowing just the way they’re supposed to be. Yes yes yes yes.

*cheer*

~DreamingOfNothing

Means fear of buttons. And Neil Gaiman’s trying to give it to me.

That’s a movie I really, really want to see. Loved the book, though it did make me scared of closed doors for a good week. It’ll do that to a seven-year-old.

~DreamingOfNothing

Means fear of buttons. And Neil Gaiman’s trying to give it to me.

That’s a movie I really, really want to see. Loved the book, though it did make me scared of closed doors for a good week. It’ll do that to a seven-year-old.

~DreamingOfNothing

Have I recommended this before? It’s Marauder-fic and it’s fabulous. Reminds me of Shoebox, actually, though it’s been ages since I’ve read Shoebox. And it’s James/Remus, which usually squicks me out, but I just love the fic such that it works, I suppose. And it’s not really porn or anything. Not really. Not comparatively, really. I am going to stick a Mature Sticker on it, though, so if you’re young and impressionable and innocent, now you know. The Mature’s mostly for language, but yanno. Still.

But it’s great. It has wonderfully realistic dialogue, and also has the lines:

“That’s a daisy with tentacles, Sirius.”

“Bloody pessimist.”

Which for some reason, I find the funniest thing ever. But yanno. S’good.

And that is today’s missive. And then we’re off. And in case you’re wondering? HTIWB,E,A has taken a very odd turn in a series of fever dreams and I don’t think aliens and serial killers are going to shoehorn well into the plot. I think I’ll stick with the RVs, though.

~DreamingOfNothing

Know what I hate?

I hate screwing shit up. Yes.

*drinks caffeinated tea. that’s my elation and medication, apparently. that and watching modern family. which isn’t as good as arrested development, no matter what the critics say.*

~DreamingOfNothing

Like your second meme better, BA. Less work. More music.

1. Should’ve Said No – Taylor Swift. Favorite Line: “Was it worth it? Was she worth this?” [It's not one of my favorite songs. It's not incredibly creative or poetic, really, but I like this line because it adds depth. It makes it almost like not such a lame break-up song.]

2. Still Waiting – Sum 41. Favorite Line: “So am I still waiting for this world to stop hating?” [Also not my favorite. I'm not really a Sum 41 person.]

3. You Found Me – The Fray. Favorite Line: “I’ve been calling for years and years and years and years and you’ve never left me no messages, never send me no letters, you’ve got some kind of nerve.” [I really love this song, and this part is the best. Of it all.]

4. High Tide – Cara Dillon. Favorite Line: “Memories of home are still haunting my days – I’ll wait for your reply.” [My favorite part of this song is actually the instrumentals on either side of this line. But the line's beautiful as well.]

5. I’m With You – Avril Lavigne. Favorite Line: “It’s a damn cold night.” [I just love the energy behind it. I love this whole song, really, but it's the energy there that gets me.]

6. What Have You Done – Within Temptation. Favorite Line: “Would you mind if I killed you? Would you mind if I tried to?” [Yeah, it's a bit weird. But it really works with the dynamic and I love it.]

7. Ordinary Day – Vanessa Carlton. Favorite Line: “Touch the stars for time will not flee.” [Okay, so I'm a giant squishy peach. So what?]

8. Smokescreen – Flying Blind. Favorite Line: “I do everything I can to be a law-abiding kind of energy, yet stimulating all the while .” [S'not bad, I suppose. Not really my style.]

9. Thinking Over – Dana Glover. Favorite Line: “There are two roads to walk down and one road to choose, so I’m thinking over the things that you’ve said.”

10. Hot – Avril Lavigne. Favorite Line: Um… I like this song, but not for the lyrics. They’re pretty cliched and lame. The chords, though? Those work for my non-musical brain. And so does the ambiance.

11. Savin’ Me – Nickelback. Favorite Line: “Heaven’s gates won’t open up for me – with these broken wings I’m fallin’.” [I dunno. Just like the wings image, I guess. I like the whole verse, to be honest. Like the whole song. I'm in the camp that thinks it's a love song, really, but that's me.]

12. Fashion Victim – Green Day. Favorite Line: “Going once… Going twice… It’s gone.” [Vintage Green Day is not my fave, but this is clever. I'll give them this verse.]

13. You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us In Prison – My Chemical Romance. Favorite Line: “I’m like a bullet through a flock of doves,” or “Well, I don’t remember, why remember you?“

14. Move Along – All American Rejects. Favorite Line: “Another day and you’ve had your fill of sinking with the lifebelt in your hands.” [This is aside from the opening line, "Go ahead as you waste your days with thinking," because that is also fabulous.]

15. Tuesday Morning – Michelle Branch. Favorite Line: “And if you turned around to see me and I was gone, should have looked outside your window, ’cause the sun was coming up.” [It's the bridge. I always fall for the bridge. It's the most emotionally charged part of the song.]

16. Ironic – Alanis Morissette. Favorite Line: “It’s like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife, it’s meeding the man of my dreams and then meeting his beautiful wife.” [I also love how this song isn't actually ironic. I suppose that's the irony.]

17. Always Getting Over You – Angela Ammons. Favorite Line: “Hit by a brick the other day, just when I thought that I’m okay,” or “So don’t call and say you’re coming back for me – It don’t mean nothing.” [Those are the parts I always end up singing to myself.]

18. Just Wanna Live – Good Charlotte. Favorite Line: “I rock a law suit when I’m going to court, a white suit when I’m getting divorced, a black suit at the funeral home, and my birthday suit when I’m home alone.” [It's a good song. Even with the fake soprano voices or whatever the hell they're doing.]

19. I’m Not Dead – Pink. Favorite Line: “You can do the math a thousand ways but you can’t erase the facts.” [That's one of my favorite lines in music period, so I'm glad shuffle found it.]

20. Fear – Pauley Perrette. Favorite Line: “Are you scared of the dark? Are you afraid they’ll break your heart?” [BEST SONG EVER. EVER. FOR REALZ.]

yeah i’m lazy and tired so i’m only doing 20. oh well.

~DreamingOfNothing