The Aerodynamic Properties of Elton John.

[rionaleonhart]

Creative writing may improve doctors' bedside manner, apparently.

Oh, I want Cuddy to force House to attend a creative writing course. It could be amazing.

Right. At the moment there's a meme going around: something along the lines of 'comment with the name of a fandom I'm aware of and I'll tell you the relationships I'm interested in in that fandom'. Now, this is all well and good, but I'd probably have to talk about why I'm interested in each relationship, and then I'd talk about the relationships I'm not interested in and why they don't appeal to me, and then I'd drift off into crossover-land and be lost forever. I mean, if you said 'tell me all the relationships you're interested in from Doctor Who!' I would spend years going 'Oh, yes, and Captain Jack Harkness/JD, and Jack/Chase, and Jack/Sam Tyler, and Jack Harkness/Jack Sparrow, and Jack/James Sunderland, and Jack/Squall/Rinoa, and Harkness/Hammond/Clarkson/May...'

Therefore, what I am going to do instead is repost a meme I did about a year ago (although not as about a year ago as I thought when I glanced at the date on the entry. WHY PUT THE MONTH BEFORE THE DAY? YOUR COUNTRY IS SILLY), when I had rather fewer fandoms than I do now:

1. Comment with any pairing (or character, or threesome, or platonic relationship, or theory, or random concept ('WHAT IF THE TOP GEAR TRIO BECAME CARS?'). Multiple suggestions are welcomed) from a fandom (or fandoms: crossovers are - of course! - fine) that you know I like, or at least have some knowledge about.
2. I will ramble for about 100 words (I may [read: probably will] go over a bit) about the aforementioned relationship/character/theory. This may be incoherent gushing or exclamations of disgust, depending on what it is. (I can't actually think of a pairing that would result in exclamations of disgust. PLEASE DO NOT TAKE THIS AS A CHALLENGE.) If the theory/relationship is sufficiently intriguing or ridiculous, you may also get random snippets of fic as I try to work it out.
3. Put this on your LJ, if you are so inclined.

(Torchwood starts tomorrow! I can't decide whether to be excited or terrified.)

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[rionaleonhart]

(Spoilers for Silent Hill 2 to follow.)

Oh my God I love James. I know I shouldn't, but I really, really do. When I started playing Silent Hill 2 I had already read through the entire script online, so I already knew all the reasons why Adoring James Sunderland Would Be Silly, and yet...

...and yet, well, about three minutes into the Trail Down To Silent Hill That Never Ends, I had started talking aloud to him to calm my nerves.

And after about an hour of walking nervously through the streets of Silent Hill, completely lost, with no company but James, I had become irrationally fond of him.

And then I started to think that he really was oddly adorable when he shifted and scratched his head if you left him alone for a while, and that the way he shone his flashlight around after one of the drops in the Prison was the cutest thing in the world, and I knew that I was doomed.

I just love his devotion and his insanity (because protagonists who are completely off their collective rockers are the best kind), and he's so charmingly thick, and when you're trapped in Hell with only one person really 'on your side' you can't really help but feel some attachment to him, and I just felt so sorry for him. And even if he's not really a good person, he tries so hard to be.

And I think that the James/Mary relationship is wonderful, in an absolutely horrible sort of way. He obviously loved her: it just all went horribly wrong, because he was distressed and selfish and also a lunatic. He was willing to keep on going through Silent Hill, despite everything that happened, because there was the slightest chance that he might see her again. If you subscribe to the 'he imagined the letter because of a subconscious desire to punish himself' theory, which I think is a very plausible one - well, then he put himself through Silent Hill, and I can't imagine a more powerful way of showing regret than that. It was one of the first het pairings that really fascinated me, because pairings have to be either hideously disturbing or have gigantic obstacles before I sit up and take notice, it seems.

In conclusion: oh, James.

[twilit-wanderer.livejournal.com]

I AM NOT THE ONLY ONE TO TALK TO HIM. I feel oddly vindicated. Perhaps I should be worried, instead.

...And, really, I'd like to say more, but mostly I will stick with, "yes, yes, and MORE YES," because that's about my coherency level right now. Also, yes. Insanity is like a one-way ticket to Awesome Protagonist Land.


Also, also, "oh, James" is seriously the best conclusion for everything SH2 EVER.

[thebaconfat.livejournal.com]

when you're trapped in Hell with only one person really 'on your side' you can't really help but feel some attachment to him

Man, yes. I remember at the bit in the first game where I first ran into Kaufmann and he'd just killed a monster and I went "OH THANK GOD THERE IS SOMEBODY ELSE HERE AND HE HAS A GUN HE AND HARRY WILL TEAM UP AND BE BEST FRIENDS FOREVER AND WE WILL GET OUT OF THIS AWFUL HELLTOWN AND THEN KAUFMANN WILL INVITE ME TO HIS BIRTHDAY PARTY" and then three minutes later Kaufmann was like, "Well, seeya," and Harry was like, "Later." And I cried.

Anyways, yes. You have to bond with James, even while trying to keep a safe distance, just 'cause you've been through so much together by them time you're like ten minutes into the game.

ADORABLE LUNATICS FOREVER!

[kadrin.livejournal.com]

It's past midnight and I'm still sick (and also it's my birthday! as of nineteen minutes ago!) and, in short, I am in the kind of mood in which one does not want to have just finished Silent Hill 2 again. Though for the first time with one's very own copy of Silent Hill 2.

Nonetheless, this comment sums up everything I have just been thinking about James for the past several hours. Well, not all of it; there was also waaaaah. A fair bit of that.

(Hi, comment from 2006! I'm comment from 2007! We're talking across time! ...if you don't have e-mail notification turned on this really has no point but catharsis.)

[rionaleonhart]

I always wondered about what you thought of James, because I never could really tell.

(I would not be able to survive without e-mail notification. Hello, comment from the tenth of January! I'm comment from the ninth, which is my excuse for not having wished you a happy birthday earlier. Happy birthday!)

[kadrin.livejournal.com]

I was vacillating on him this playthrough. Every scene change I flipped between "he actually hated her! oh man!" and "he was actually her mercy angel! oh, James!" and then during the end sequence I settled on a comfortable "his growing resentment for sacrificing so much of his own life for hers made him feel guilty about his perfectly understandable (given that he's a lunatic) desire to end his wife's pain and made him even more of a lunatic, and also he's an adorable dork so I'm allowed to keep digging him". And then I wept. Well, sniffled. Manfully.

...I'm not sure at all how this icon is appropriate, unlike yours which is very appropriate. Er... the Avatar Cycle represents... Mary's... pullover.