[Error: unknown template qotd] Okay, now I am very seriously missing Detective Beckett from Castle.
And Deb from Dexter. Season 3 should come out on DVD, pronto.
Sookie Stackhouse is the only female detective (more or less) than I can think of as a "lady detective", though, because she is Sookie "When You Talk To Me You Will Talk To Me Like The Lady That Ah Am" Stackhouse. Other than that... "lady detective"? Seriously?
I read a lot of 10-Year-Old Girls Solve Mysteries stuff when I was younger but right now it's all starting to run together in my head. (Who were the girls in the Boxcar Children again? I remember really liking the Boxcar Children...) (Oh, and I remember Harriet the Spy.)
Cordelia at Angel Investigations is starting not to suck, although maybe that's just in comparison to the rest of the show.
Tonight I will probably remember more and kick myself for forgetting them.
And Deb from Dexter. Season 3 should come out on DVD, pronto.
Sookie Stackhouse is the only female detective (more or less) than I can think of as a "lady detective", though, because she is Sookie "When You Talk To Me You Will Talk To Me Like The Lady That Ah Am" Stackhouse. Other than that... "lady detective"? Seriously?
I read a lot of 10-Year-Old Girls Solve Mysteries stuff when I was younger but right now it's all starting to run together in my head. (Who were the girls in the Boxcar Children again? I remember really liking the Boxcar Children...) (Oh, and I remember Harriet the Spy.)
Cordelia at Angel Investigations is starting not to suck, although maybe that's just in comparison to the rest of the show.
Tonight I will probably remember more and kick myself for forgetting them.
Writer's Block: Close Call
May. 21st, 2009 02:32 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]Ahaha this one, obviously. o.O
Am feeling somewhat more comfortable driving again, but am still having minor freak-out every time somebody changes lanes when I'm riding shotgun. Might be because am not in control of anything when I'm not driving. Or something.
Am feeling somewhat more comfortable driving again, but am still having minor freak-out every time somebody changes lanes when I'm riding shotgun. Might be because am not in control of anything when I'm not driving. Or something.
Writer's Block: Be Prepared
Dec. 3rd, 2008 11:03 am[Error: unknown template qotd]
I believe SPOC's plan is to retreat to the third floor of the UC, blow out the stairs, and wait for rescue. Personally, I think rescue had better come fast; I'm not sure how long I'd last trapped in the Asher suite with all of SPOC.
Also, the plan is just not any fun. I'd rather go down fighting, even if this means I'd probably last like .00081923074 seconds.
I believe SPOC's plan is to retreat to the third floor of the UC, blow out the stairs, and wait for rescue. Personally, I think rescue had better come fast; I'm not sure how long I'd last trapped in the Asher suite with all of SPOC.
Also, the plan is just not any fun. I'd rather go down fighting, even if this means I'd probably last like .00081923074 seconds.
Writer's Block: Checklist for Eternity
Aug. 31st, 2008 10:06 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]
Dude, if I lived forever I'd probably turn into "Growing Up Cullen" Edward. Especially if I also didn't need to sleep.
But even if I did need sleep, I would still get like twelve thousand degrees, learn like a billion languages (including relearning Elvish... god, I laughed *so* hard at that one), become filthy rich (because immortal people are ALWAYS filthy rich somehow), and be a prudish* bipolar emoteen with a cleaning obsession because I'm like that anyway.
I will, however, NEVER take up scrapbooking.
*Note shiny new icon! Icon text taken from Cleolinda's recaps of Midnight Sun. Embarrassing personal statement from/about me: I took this icon because I figured it would be the most applicable to posts that are not about Twilight (like there really are any anymore...).
Dude, if I lived forever I'd probably turn into "Growing Up Cullen" Edward. Especially if I also didn't need to sleep.
But even if I did need sleep, I would still get like twelve thousand degrees, learn like a billion languages (including relearning Elvish... god, I laughed *so* hard at that one), become filthy rich (because immortal people are ALWAYS filthy rich somehow), and be a prudish* bipolar emoteen with a cleaning obsession because I'm like that anyway.
I will, however, NEVER take up scrapbooking.
*Note shiny new icon! Icon text taken from Cleolinda's recaps of Midnight Sun. Embarrassing personal statement from/about me: I took this icon because I figured it would be the most applicable to posts that are not about Twilight (like there really are any anymore...).
Writer's Block: Awesome Openers
Jun. 30th, 2008 10:05 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]
"I am the vampire Lestat. I'm immortal. More or less."
-The Vampire Lestat, Anne Rice
Oh, back when the ARVC were good... *fangirly nostalgia* It's such a perfect opening line for Lestat. He's pretentious, dramatic, and sort of sloppy and random all at the same time. And... weird, basically.
Also, Dealing With Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede:
"Chapter One: In Which Cimorene Refuses to be Proper and has a Conversation with a Frog."
I figure a chapter title like that might as well count as a line.
"Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say they were perfectly normal, thank you very much."
Because you just know it's going somewhere weird; the book cover's got a kid on a broomstick on it. And if you need that line ID'd, get off my journal.
Apparently I'm rather fond of opening lines with description rather than action. Dealing With Dragons' first opening line proper begins "Linderwall was a small kingdom, just east of the Mountains of Morning, where philosophers were highly respected and number five was fashionable..." and I can still remember the voice on the book on tape the first time I ever heard that read in Pam's car in second grade. "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit," which should be obvious, and the first line of Hitchhiker's Guide, which is something about the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the galaxy in which there lies a small unregarded yellow sun. And I think one of the other books in the series starts off with the brilliant line about how in the beginning the universe was created and how this made a lot of people very angry and has generally been regarded as a bad move, although I could be wrong and that could just be a chapter beginning. I need to reread those books. Also, I think I totally missed Towel Day this year.
At the moment, I can't remember any film opening lines at all except "I amar prestar aen," because I'm a dork and went to a particular effort to learn all the Elvish in that movie a few years ago; "Who's this? That's not my father" from Death at a Funeral because I watched it on Friday (it is a brilliant opening, though), and "I don't want to be a product of my environment, I want my environment to be a product of me" from The Departed, which I actually find to be kind of an annoying speech, because I watched it last night. But this all has less to do with things being "gripping" than with me having an awful memory.
I think the first lines to Heathers are "Your turn, Heather." "No, Heather, it's Heather's turn." I really hope I don't have to explain why this is amusing.
"I am the vampire Lestat. I'm immortal. More or less."
-The Vampire Lestat, Anne Rice
Oh, back when the ARVC were good... *fangirly nostalgia* It's such a perfect opening line for Lestat. He's pretentious, dramatic, and sort of sloppy and random all at the same time. And... weird, basically.
Also, Dealing With Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede:
"Chapter One: In Which Cimorene Refuses to be Proper and has a Conversation with a Frog."
I figure a chapter title like that might as well count as a line.
"Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say they were perfectly normal, thank you very much."
Because you just know it's going somewhere weird; the book cover's got a kid on a broomstick on it. And if you need that line ID'd, get off my journal.
Apparently I'm rather fond of opening lines with description rather than action. Dealing With Dragons' first opening line proper begins "Linderwall was a small kingdom, just east of the Mountains of Morning, where philosophers were highly respected and number five was fashionable..." and I can still remember the voice on the book on tape the first time I ever heard that read in Pam's car in second grade. "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit," which should be obvious, and the first line of Hitchhiker's Guide, which is something about the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the galaxy in which there lies a small unregarded yellow sun. And I think one of the other books in the series starts off with the brilliant line about how in the beginning the universe was created and how this made a lot of people very angry and has generally been regarded as a bad move, although I could be wrong and that could just be a chapter beginning. I need to reread those books. Also, I think I totally missed Towel Day this year.
At the moment, I can't remember any film opening lines at all except "I amar prestar aen," because I'm a dork and went to a particular effort to learn all the Elvish in that movie a few years ago; "Who's this? That's not my father" from Death at a Funeral because I watched it on Friday (it is a brilliant opening, though), and "I don't want to be a product of my environment, I want my environment to be a product of me" from The Departed, which I actually find to be kind of an annoying speech, because I watched it last night. But this all has less to do with things being "gripping" than with me having an awful memory.
I think the first lines to Heathers are "Your turn, Heather." "No, Heather, it's Heather's turn." I really hope I don't have to explain why this is amusing.
Writer's Block: The Only True Question:
May. 31st, 2008 02:09 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]
Both. Duh. Ninja-pirates, if possible. One with acquired skills of the other. Pirates who do karate and ninja who suck down rum like it's water. Because my friends and I are above such petty, artificial rivalries, which accomplish nothing and distract from the important things in life (maximizing awesomeness and ridding the world of zombies, in case you were wondering), and this is why we are twice as awesome as the rest of you.
Omfg I am the biggest and most pretentious dork ever. I am so sorry. I couldn't resist.
Both. Duh. Ninja-pirates, if possible. One with acquired skills of the other. Pirates who do karate and ninja who suck down rum like it's water. Because my friends and I are above such petty, artificial rivalries, which accomplish nothing and distract from the important things in life (maximizing awesomeness and ridding the world of zombies, in case you were wondering), and this is why we are twice as awesome as the rest of you.
Omfg I am the biggest and most pretentious dork ever. I am so sorry. I couldn't resist.