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Sarah Polley is seriously one of my favorite actresses known to man. I remember watching her in Avonlea on the Disney Channel back when I was small. There's something about her that is very striking. She's not one of the typical Hollywood glam girls. You don't see things about her in People or in the National Enquirer. Unless she's in a movie, it's sort of like she's not doing anything, which isn't true at all. She's a writer and a director in addition to being an actress. Her mother died when she was a teenager. I only know all of this because she's one of my default Illyana Rasputin aka Magik PBs when I RP. I don't see a lot of icons of her and most of the ones I see are pretty movie centric. I like icons with words most of the time. I can't help it. I'm addicted to words and phrases. It's also probably why I'm not really a fan of instrumental music. No one is singing. I know there's still soul in it, but I interpret my world through words.

The phrase on this is "love glutton," which I feel a lot like sometimes. I love fiercely. I want love fiercely. There's also a sense of loving fiercely and it not being returned in this icon. It's in her expression and in her pose. I love that, too. This icon speaks to me of me. I'm probably the only person who sees it that way, which is another reason why it's stays in the rotation forever and ever amen.

Tara from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Let's be honest here. Tara is not my favorite character. It's not that I don't adore her because I do, but she's never the one who holds my attention, which, truth to tell, is very much Tara in and of itself. She's in a background a lot not because she's unimportant or not interesting or any of those things. She's in the background a lot because she puts herself there. She doesn't think she belongs anywhere else. All of a sudden she's stumbled into this group of people, and they're dynamic and loud and charismatic. She's not really sure what to do with herself. They love her and value her and accept her as one of them, and she's floored. The phrase on the icon describes her utterly, and it describes me in a lot of ways. You see I can't let her be my favorite character because we're so alike that it pains me sometimes, but I cherish her all the same.

Oh, Joan. I can only see this icon as a JoA one rather than an Amber one. I loved Joan of Arcadia. I wish it had more success every single time I look at a JoA icon or see the boxed sets of the DVDs that I own. Sometimes I will see a picture or icon of Amber and wish very fervently that JoA was still on so that I could watch everything unfold. I want to know that happens with Adam and Joan and all the rest of them. I want Joan to find some peace because the poor girl runs around tearing herself apart and tearing herself up inside all the time. The way it stands right now, the end of the series, she's stuck. She's trapped in time on a precipice. She's eternally lost and trying to be found.

This is a phrase that radiates with me. I have been that girl. I have felt that way. I feel that way a lot. There's a lot in my life with my job and my friends and just things that make me feel like no one sees me and no one cares and no one wants me. I feel like the piece of the puzzle that doesn't matter. It's extra. You don't need it. If you lost it or replaced it with another, the picture would be the same. No one would even know. This is one of my despair icons.

I don't like Dawn. Dawn annoyed me from the moment that she came onto the show, but I did enjoy seeing the way that she interacted with people, how her presence changed people. That's not the jist of this icon for me, though. It's the part about building your own family from people you choose. My family isn't very tight. We just weren't. I've always felt like an outsider with them. My mother is narcissistic and hurtful without meaning to be. My father is a hermit. I was never around my sister or her children much. We just weren't close. No one talked. No one shared. I don't look to them for comfort or companionship. I love them; I sometimes enjoy being with them if they're not stressing me out beyond belief, but my family is the one I have built with my friends.

You don't have to share blood to know a person. If I have chosen you as a friend--a real, close friend--it is because I feel a bond. I would do just about anything for you. I love you, and you are part of my expanding world. I may not have the time to talk to you or see you as much as I would like, but it doesn't matter because when we do get together things fall just where they should.

This is probably my favorite picture of Paige Guthrie ever. It also started one of my OTPs that will never, ever die no matter what Marvel does to is. This is a picture of capturing a moment. It's lovely and it's open. There's a sense of a beginning to it. It reminds me of RPing Paige. It reminds me of the many games I've played her at where I did get to write the less-than-perfect but wonderful story of her and Jono together. It's happy times and smiles. It's the sun before the storm.

Current Location: Donnie
Current Music: Toad the Wet Sprocket - Something's Always Wrong | Powered by Last.fm

Talk about five of your icons meme with prompts from

mizzmarvel. I've got it laid out as picture, keyword, explanation. Feel free to suggest more for me or ask if you want me to select some for you.

1. Chase: Lasers

There are some comic books and some fictional characters that you just instantly adore. Then there are some that have to grow on you a while before you stop thinking of them as being inane and annoying. Runaways was a comic that I immediately loved, and I instantly gravitated to liking Gert because, well, there's a lot of her that reminds me of me. Plus she is just that awesome. Then there was Chase. I wasn't really sure what to think of Chase. He was annoying and pretty dumb. At least what we saw of him at the beginning. And then we started to see more. He grew on me. He's one of my favorites now, which means he's doomed to have terrible things continue to happen to him even though I can't bring myself to read Runaways before because it's less of the bad boyfriend that Gen 13 is and more like an evil ex-boyfriend who breaks your heart only to win you back and then break your heart all over again. Basically I stopped being able to take having my heart torn out over and over and gave up Runaways. The comic, not the characters. There's still a very strong Gert muse that very purposefully walks--never bounces or saunters or even strolls--through my head, and she loves Chase. And I adore Chase. This is just one of those beautiful, happy, quintesential Chase moments that reminds me of all the good times that Runaways and I had before it backed up its stuff and left me aching.

2. Mulder: Nerd

The X-Files might be my one true love television show. As much as I sort of detest David Duchovny's real lifestyle, which it's my place to judge but whatever, I will never, ever not adore Mulder. What can I say? He's smart, driven, insular and utterly, utterly broken. The dynamic between him and Scully was amazing. I spent years waiting for them to realize that every single one of us in the view world had realized from almost day one: that they were totally and completely in love. Mulder said it best, "You're my one in five billion." If there was ever a line to make your heart melt, there it is. And Scully, per the usual, brushed it off because, well, it's Mulder and Scully and that's the way it went in there world. I have a lot of X-Files icons. This one probably isn't my favorite of them all, but it might be my favorite one of Mulder. There he is all nerdy and believing in impossible things that are really and truly happening every single day for him, his glasses on, stuck in the basement, alone, no one wants him and no one takes him seriously, no one knows him and he doesn't want to be known. Not by them anyway. Not even by Scully for a long, long time. It's this perfect moment in time, though, because he's turning--in the episode he's turning toward Scully because it's the pilot and he's meeting her for the very first time although he's already read some of her published word--and his life is going to change. In this moment, his life is going to change. It's perfect while still conveying the fact that, yeah, nerd. Always and forever. Despite my protests to the contrary, I pretty much am more like Mulder.

3. STV: No Logic Train Here

So many people hate Star Trek: Voyager, and I can't understand why. Maybe I don't understand because I was never a fan of the original series or even of Next Gen. I started watching DS9 and then moved into STV. I didn't have a preconceived Star Trek history to fall back on other than a few movies that I had seen, which were all newer versus older. STV is my Star Trek door now and forever. I have my favorite pairings and episodes and novels. And I'll be honest. Tuvok isn't always one of my favorite characters. A lot of the time I find him borish and aggravating, but he gets some terrific lines. Plus it's always fun to see him forced into situations that you know have to be completely irking him, like almost every single interaction he ever has with Neelix. But I, like Janeway, derive enormous amounts of pleasure from his discomfort. Besides who better to be smug about asshatery than Tuvok.

4. Glee: Effing Love

I'm pretty sure this is the first Glee icon to grace my LJ, though it was likely closely followed by a Kurt one because, well, Kurt is my favorite character on the show. Santana and Brittany, however, are totally my favorite canon but unofficial couple. It's the perfect scene for them because Santana is pointedly not looking at Brittany, but Santana is very clearly the only thing that Brittany can see. Kurt might be the heart of the show in my eyes, but Brittany is the wide-eyed innocence that's accepts and loves and trusts unconditionally. She is sweet even when she's being mean. And when she loves it's with every single part of her even though a lot of times she's not aware that she's being used. Plus this icon is just so much fun that I couldn't pass it up.

5. Jono: My Hero

Anyone who has been in an X-Men-related RP with me knows that Jono and Paige are one of my OTPs. I can't help it. I'm destined to adore couples who never, ever seem to work out. Or who have horrible plot tragedies befall them. Many of you probably also know how skeevy I think it is that Paige and Warren got together. I like Warren. I really do. But this pairing is icky. It's not just an age thing, although he has got to be at least twenty years her senior if not a bit more even with the way comic time works. It's also the fact that Warren looks like he could be a Guthrie. His features mimic those of Sam and his wings and other powers just smack of Jay. So, in effect, Paige is sort of dating two of her brothers. It's gross. Not to mention that Jono is just way cooler. So Jono punches Warren and becomes my hero. Always and forever. Love ya, Sparky. Even when you're blue because I know it's not your fault.

Current Mood: silly
Current Location: Donnie
Current Music: A Silent Film song clips on Amazon

Talk about five of your icons meme with prompts from

mizzmarvel. I've got it laid out as picture, keyword, explanation. Feel free to suggest more for me or ask if you want me to select some for you.

Current Mood: silly
Current Location: Donnie
Current Music: A Silent Film song clips on Amazon

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I am so in love with

hawkenfay right now. That icon? Makes me day. And this icon post might just have made my week.

Am feeling lots better than yesterday. Of course, I have spent much of yesterday after getting home from work and today on the couch, drinking tea, coffee, etc. and taking Zicam every five to five and a half hours. I can taste nothing. Everything tastes the same with different textures and temperatures. It's annoying and results in me eating little.

Tomorrow I'm hoping to spend some time doing some posting.

For now, though, I am going back to my Christopher Guest marathon. Have already watched Best in Show and am working on Waiting for Guffman.

Current Mood: lazy
Current Location: home