Green Room - Week 36 - Day 3

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

Today is a busy day in Idol-land, so I'll cut right to business:

We had the results of the Quick Fire last night: http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/834094.html

and today is the deadline to get in your entry in! http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/832879.html

How do you know if you have or not? Because if you haven't - you are being shamed!!! :) http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/834503.html


Tonight is also the deadline for getting in your votes for the Spirit of LJ Idol, Season 9. So far, 6 of the eligible 11 contestants have turned in their ballots. http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/832594.html

For any of those remaining voters - I'm sure you are planning on getting in your votes, and are just thinking about how you want to rank everyone to best reflect your feelings.

If, for some reason, you don't vote - I'll have to turn it over to my dog.

This morning, I asked Foxy who she wanted to vote for - and showed her the list of candidates.

Apparently, the person remaining who best represents what this season has been about is a bunch of lion cubs playing. (on one of her favorite shows: Big Cat Diary)

She was *very* passionate about that choice. It had all of her attention, and she excitedly grabbed her rope and swung it back and forth in between barks.

Now, clearly, a bunch of lion cubs playing is a great choice and will represent Idol well.

But if it's not YOUR choice - you should probably get your ballot in!

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What shows make *you* grab your rope and excitedly bark at the screen?

Comments

[kickthehobbit.livejournal.com]

That's kind of how I've seen it. :)

I started out in Lord of the Rings fandom, though, where a lot of the stuff that's canon spans thousands of years and there's not a ton of detail given—we get a very dry recounting, instead, of what happened. Lots of space to fill in the blanks.

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

I would think that would be a lot of fun - to fill in details between events, while keeping to established continuity.

With the Marvel groups I was in - there was a jumping off point where the timelines between established Marvel and our version occurred. Big cross-overs events that didn't end up happening in the same way, or whatever caused a relaunch didn't occur. That kind of thing.

Of course, working in a shared universe meant that we had to make sure that we were keeping consistent with what everyone else was doing. It was a fun way to play in the sandbox.

Alternate realities are a part of comics, so there was definitely an advantage starting there! :)

[kickthehobbit.livejournal.com]

It's what eased me into fan fiction, honestly—before that I was always like, this is so weird why would anyone write this? wouldn't you rather come up with your own characters? and then I found the community and it was like, "...I GET IT NOW!" There's standard fic, too, just exploring relationships or going for total alternate-universe-what-if-this-thing, but I totally got started in on it via the "this is in line with canon, I'm just filling in the blanks."

I can imagine the working in a shared universe thing would complicate it somewhat! But you're right—alternate realities and whatnot are part of canon, in comics, so that makes things a bit easier. :D