rionaleonhart | Entries tagged with phineas and ferb

The first step to beating Exit/Corners is to prove that the mastermind isn't among us... using spelling and grammar.

I heard of Exit/Corners about a fortnight ago and went, 'Oh, I should play that,' and then timydamonkey recommended it to me a week later. The world evidently wanted me to play Exit/Corners, and I was happy to oblige.

Exit/Corners is a game in my favourite strangely specific genre, 'a bunch of people are abducted and put through traumatic, murder-filled trials for mysterious reasons'. Like Your Turn to Die, it is free and so high-quality I sort of feel like I've mugged the developer. Exit/Corners is also unusual against murder visual novels in that it was originally written in English, rather than translated.

Unfortunately, Exit/Corners is only available to play in-browser; there's no console or download version. This was slightly inconvenient, particularly as my save data was lost at one point (I was able to skip quickly through everything I'd already done using the catch-up tool), but the game interested me enough to keep me pressing on.

I really like Ink as a character. I enjoy his slightly dry sense of humour. He's a great protagonist, I think: not too exaggerated a character, so he can interact realistically with the people around him, but there's enough there to make him feel distinct.

( Full spoilers for Exit/Corners. )

On an entirely unrelated note: there's an episode of Phineas and Ferb where a mind-controlled Perry the Platypus shaves Dr Doofenshmirtz's legs, and I just have a lot of questions.

Crossposts: https://rionaleonhart.livejournal.com/540141.html

I wrote the following a fortnight ago:

Goddammit, I've realised that parts of Homestuck are going to become inaccessible in the Flashpocalypse.
There are four months to go, which is probably just enough time to reread Homestuck, if I'm dedicated enough.
I can't believe I'm going to do this.

But I was indeed going to do it, it turns out! I've just hit the sixth of Homestuck's seven acts. 'Ah, she must be nearly finished,' you might think, if you were a NAÏVE FOOL. (Act 6 is divided into six acts. Act 6 Act 6 also has six acts.)

This is such a stupid multimedia interactive webcomic thing, but I'm genuinely slightly sad that the demise of Flash means no one will be able to experience it in its original form any more. There's nothing else like it, for better or worse.

Here are some notes I've made here and there during the first five acts. I have no idea whether any of this is of any interest to anyone, but this is my blog and no one can prevent me from talking about Homestuck.

- The opening is still very slow. I understand why - the start of Homestuck is simultaneously parodying convoluted videogames and taking suggestions for actions from readers - but it's still an unfortunate obstacle to getting into something that's already pretty tough to get into on multiple levels. I think this readthrough really clicked for me around Act 3.

- To my mild concern, I feel I can almost understand the plot of Homestuck on this reread. Maybe it's a combination of having read it before and not having to wait between updates.

I suppose it boils down to 'Four kids play a videogame that destroys the world. The goal of the game is to create a new universe. They are both helped and hindered by the alien kids who previously created their universe by playing the same game.' On its own, that's reasonably understandable! But it's so tangled up in jargon and nonsense, and so much of the story is told out of order. I'm better at working out when scenes are taking place this time around, but I still get lost immediately whenever dream bubbles or Skaia show up.

I'm so curious to know how much of Homestuck was planned in advance. It's so absurdly, unnecessarily convoluted! But the ridiculous, lengthy, overcomplicated plot is also surprisingly consistent and well foreshadowed.

- I love these kids. You have to love the characters, really; I'm not sure anyone's into this for the wildly convoluted plot.

- I never realised this before, but Dave seems pretty lonely. He really needs attention from his friends and tends to 'talk' to them when they're offline in a way that the others don't. Dave, you are nowhere near being the cool, aloof dude you aspire to be.

- Both Dave and Rose are characters who have sincere feelings but can never express them because they can't bring themselves to be sincere; everything they say is facetious! These poor kids.

When Dave actually does touch on sincerity, it hits pretty hard:

TG: whoa fuck
TG: a suicide mission are you serious
TG: no bullshit thats not happening
TG: hey look suddenly everything we just talked about was useless because its time to make a plan that doesnt fucking suck

- I still love Dave entering his first gate by riding a stupid poorly-compressed JPEG of a skateboard into the sky.

- I'm really enjoying Dave this time around, actually. I liked him on my first readthrough as well, but this time I think he's a candidate for my favourite of the human kids, whereas that was Rose my first time around. (Dave reminds me a little of my brother Fred at points, although I can't entirely put my finger on why. My fondness for him may not be coincidental.)

- My favourite character overall remains Karkat. So impotently angry, and yet fundamentally way too gentle to cope in the murder-filled civilisation he was born into; he'll throw around insults, but he doesn't actually want to hurt anyone. He's abrasive and self-loathing and insecure and reluctantly softhearted! He can flip so quickly from PERPETUALLY FURIOUS to a compassionate listener when he realises someone's genuinely struggling! He thinks he might be in hatelove with himself!

(It never really struck me before, but Karkat tells Jade that her relationship with Jadesprite is just like Karkat's relationship with other versions of himself right before he starts picturing the two Jades making out. And of course there's his incredible Freudian slip in that conversation:

CG: I'M NOT AS MUCH OF A SCUMBAG AS I WAS SO DETERMINED TO MAKE OUT WITH MYSELF TO BE.
CG: FUCK I MEAN
CG: MAKE MYSELF OUT TO BE)

I've got a real weakness for characters who are perpetually angry and insecure and reluctantly have hearts, come to think of it. Karkat Vantas. Fuyuhiko Kuzuryuu. Dr Cox.

A point that made me smile, because it's such a good illustration of how Karkat is a genuine friend wrapped in a paper-thin layer of fury and antagonism:

CG: JOHN EGBERT, YOU HAVE ASSASSINATED MY PATIENCE.
CG: ADIOS LOSER.
EB: wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
EB: get back to me in a couple minutes, ok?
CG: SD;LKFJSD;LKFJSDLFKJ;
CG: FINE.

- 'It should be noted that in troll language, the word for friend is exactly the same as the word for enemy' and that's why troll society would immediately understand the relationship between Heinz Doofenshmirtz and Perry the Platypus. (Also, they are absolutely kismeses.)

- Karkat getting a huge hatecrush on John and then being incredibly embarrassed when John rejects his hate and nursing a huge sore spot about it is still my favourite thing in all of Homestuck. (I think Karkat ends up with some sort of crush on three quarters of the original human kids. This is great for my tendency to pair my favourite characters up with everyone in sight.)

- I don't know how anyone writes fanfiction for Homestuck. I can't imagine writing it without having everyone's dialogue in their canonical colour and typing style, but also that would look ridiculous.

WOW, THIS IS DEFINITELY TOO MUCH TALK ABOUT HOMESTUCK, BUT I'VE WRITTEN IT AND HERE IT IS.

Crossposts: https://rionaleonhart.livejournal.com/539116.html

Welcome to my lecture about Phineas and Ferb's evil scientist Heinz Doofenshmirtz and his nemesis, secret agent Perry the Platypus, also known as Agent P. Today I will present the facts about their relationship without comment and allow you to draw your own conclusions.

Exhibit A: on 24 May 2013, the Disney Channel aired a music video in which Dr Doofenshmirtz is apparently singing Taylor Swift's 'I Knew You Were Trouble' to Perry the Platypus.

Exhibit B: Dr Doofenshmirtz wears Perry the Platypus underwear.

Exhibit C: when Dr Doofenshmirtz finds a new nemesis, Perry the Platypus is devastated, and there's a sad song from Perry's perspective about their 'breakup'.

Exhibit D: the same plotline also has a song from Dr Doofenshmirtz, reminiscing fondly about his rivalry with Perry the Platypus.

Exhibit E: as shown in Exhibit D, Dr Doofenshmirtz describes the day on which he realised he had a nemesis as 'the happiest day of his life'.

Exhibit F: what is even going on here

Exhibit G: Dr Doofenshmirtz once pitched a television series called Doof 'n' Puss to a television executive, in which he and Perry the Platypus would work together. When the executive asked whether they could give the platypus a girlfriend, Doofenshmirtz exclaimed, 'No! Never!' and stalked out in disgust.

Exhibit H: below we see that, when Dr Doofenshmirtz was injured and hospitalised, his nemesis gave him flowers and drew a heart on the note.

Exhibit I: on 10 November 2012, YouTube user twixremix posted '♡parachutes and ladders♡', a 'Perryshmirtz' fanvid. Dan Povenmire, co-creator of Phineas and Ferb and voice of Dr Doofenshmirtz, left the comment 'So good!'

NB: this is an incomplete list and may require updating as I continue to work my way through Phineas and Ferb.

Thank you for your attention. Please return next week for the lecture 'Phineas and Ferb: Are They Really the Main Characters?'

Crossposts: https://rionaleonhart.livejournal.com/538860.html

I have watched the entirety of Netflix's She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, and this show is great. Lots of friendship! Lots of focus on the weird, fraught, intimate relationship between two enemies who care way too much about each other!

I love Catra. She's a prickly bundle of issues and she’s relentlessly self-sabotaging and it's incredible. It's great whenever she decides, 'Well, all hope is lost; guess all I can do is put on a smug face and be as obnoxious as possible.' What an absolute disaster of a (cat) person.

Not unrelatedly, Adora/Catra is my favourite ship. I do also think that Adora/Glimmer/Bow could be pretty cute, but Adora and Catra have such a great dynamic! There's so much interesting tension and genuine feeling there! Their emotions about each other are such an awful, complicated mess! I love it.

It'd be good to see more of this sort of intense, messy love-hate relationship between female adversaries in other canons. The only other example I can think of off the top of my head is Kate and Alice in Batwoman.

I may make a more spoilery entry at some point, but for now I thought I’d just jot down these quick notes.

Speaking of weird, fraught, intimate relationships between two enemies who care way too much about each other, I've also started rewatching Phineas and Ferb from the beginning. I'm only a handful of episodes in, but it's still great fun!

I do occasionally feel Candace is being punished for being a teenage girl, though. Poor Candace. If nobody ever believed my claims, even though they were absolutely truthful, because the evidence kept mysteriously disappearing, I'd probably have issues too.

I'm genuinely pleased that Perry/Doofenshmirtz, with nearly five hundred fics in a 1,700-fic fandom on AO3, is by far the most popular Phineas and Ferb pairing. It's good to know that people are still drawn to complicated 'they fight, yes, but they also care about each other and repeatedly save each other's lives and don't know how to function without each other' hero/villain relationships even when the villain is an unattractive middle-aged man and the hero is a platypus.

'Perry the Platypus is objectively the hottest character in Phineas and Ferb,' I said to Rei and Tem yesterday. I regretted saying it before I'd even finished the sentence, but it's true.

Crossposts: https://rionaleonhart.livejournal.com/535969.html

Whoops, went quiet for a month and a half there. I'm still around! Not a lot's happened, though; I've mostly just been working. I hope there are still people here.

To my surprise as much as yours, I finally finished the answers to that character-number meme: the one where I picked fifteen characters and you asked questions like 'would Six and Eleven make a good couple?' without knowing which character corresponded to which number. The one I posted more than a year ago. That one. Whoops.

Previous answer instalments are here and here. Fandoms represented below the cut are My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Final Fantasy VIII, Final Fantasy X, Final Fantasy XII, Final Fantasy XIII, Uncharted, The Mentalist, Red Dead Redemption, Phineas and Ferb, Portal, Peep Show, Silent Hill and Pokémon.

( I was going to say 'It's stupid crossover time!' before remembering that, in this journal, every time is stupid crossover time. )

And that's it! ONLY TOOK ME THIRTEEN MONTHS.

Crossposts: http://rionaleonhart.livejournal.com/355902.html

Back in 2010, I attempted a self-imposed challenge: alphabet ficsnippets (A to M, M to Z). The idea was that the first snippet concerned one character whose name began with A and one whose name began with B, the second a B and a C, the third a C and a D and so on. As I had so much fun with them, I thought I'd attempt another type of alphabet challenge: snippets for each letter of the alphabet, each concerning two characters whose names begin with that letter.

As my snippets seem to be a bit longer this time, I'm probably going to post these in more than two instalments. This entry contains six: A, L, M, O, P and X, because I don't have the discipline to write them in alphabetical order. Also, I cheat outrageously in the very first ficlet by never actually having one of the characters appear or indeed be mentioned.

Fandoms represented in here are Glee, Final Fantasy XIII, The Mentalist, Death Note, Mulan, Red Dead Redemption, Dangan Ronpa, Phineas and Ferb, Kingdom Hearts and X-Men: First Class. Enjoy!

( Same-letter alphabet ficsnippets: A, L, M, O, P, X. )

And that's all for the moment!

The fabulously-named Dangan Ronpa: Academy of Hope and High School Students of Despair, if you're curious, is a game about a group of students who have been trapped in a prestigious school; the only way to escape is to kill someone without anyone else finding out you did it. It's never been released in English, but it's being translated with screenshots over here; there are links to the entire story so far in the first post. If you're anything like me, you will become super high-school level attached to almost every character and then get really distressed both when murders are committed and when you realise who the murderer is. I read through the second chapter yesterday and ended up all teary.

(EDIT: Should probably mention that the Let's Play link leads to the Something Awful forums, which have a rather idiosyncratic profanity filter. For 'gently caress', read 'fuck'; for 'poo poo', read 'shit'. I think 'fucking' becomes 'loving' as well. Mondo Oowada's speech becomes very weird if you're not aware of this. (Mondo, incidentally, is my favourite and I love him.))

I actually started reading Dangan Ronpa because someone said that Touko Fukawa, the 'Super High-school Level Literary Girl', was me. This was, I have come to realise, rather an uncharitable thing to say.

Crossposts: http://rionaleonhart.livejournal.com/342450.html

It's been months since the first instalment of the character-number questions, but I have not forgotten about them! I'm just really slow.

Here is the second instalment! Fandoms represented are, as before, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Final Fantasy VIII, Final Fantasy X, Final Fantasy XII, Final Fantasy XIII, Peep Show, Phineas and Ferb, Red Dead Redemption, Portal, Uncharted and The Mentalist, with the inevitable mentions of Silent Hill and Pokémon.

( Some day I'll just have 'a delicious piece of cake' as the ninth character. )

There are yet more answers to come! Goodness knows how long it'll take me to get to them, though.

Crossposts: http://rionaleonhart.livejournal.com/340869.html

Just over a week ago,

culf posted an entry speculating on how some of her favourite characters would fare in the Hunger Games. I found this idea interesting, and so I used a random number generator and a numbered list of characters from various fandoms to generate a set of tributes. The results:

Madeleine Hightower (The Mentalist)
Rin Tezuka (Katawa Shoujo)
Candace Flynn (Phineas and Ferb)
Teresa Lisbon (The Mentalist)
Rainbow Dash (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)
Grace Van Pelt (The Mentalist)
Oerba Yun Fang (Final Fantasy XIII)
Applejack (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)
Donna Noble (Doctor Who)
Mulan (Disney's Mulan)
Samantha Carter (Stargate SG-1)
Allison Cameron (House)

Tidus (Final Fantasy X)
Jeremy Usborne (Peep Show)
Squall Leonhart (Final Fantasy VIII)
Sam Tyler (Life on Mars)
Professor Layton (Professor Layton)
Finn Sharkey (Waterloo Road)
The Master (Doctor Who, John Simm incarnation)
Brett Aspinall (Waterloo Road)
Dr Perry Cox (Scrubs)
Bobby Singer (Supernatural)
Iroh (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
Josh Stevenson (Waterloo Road)

(One of the characters the random number generator fell on was actually the Aperture Science Weighted Companion Cube from Portal. I didn't include it. Those things are hardy; nobody else would have stood a chance!)

I'm going to envision the arena here as the actual arena in The Hunger Games. Characters are stripped of any special abilities they might have (the Final Fantasy characters can't use magic, for example, and Iroh can't Firebend). Below the cut are some thoughts on what might transpire.

culf detailed how and in what order everyone would die. I haven't done that here; there are some vague thoughts on who would kill whom, but these are really just scattered ideas about how each character would cope.

( The 74th Fandom Hunger Games. )

I've just realised that I haven't mentioned Applejack or Rainbow Dash at all. I JUST CAN'T PUT THE BRIGHTLY-COLOURED TALKING PONIES INTO THE HUNGER GAMES ARENA. I CAN'T DO IT. I don't want them to be killed. I thought at first that perhaps they could kick the Master to death, but I don't want that either. It's just wrong. They do not belong in the Hunger Games world.

Crossposts: http://rionaleonhart.livejournal.com/336707.html

Here is the first instalment of the answers to the character-number questions! You can still ask questions if you like, but you'd better ask them before reading these; the entry is over here.

Fandoms represented: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Final Fantasy VIII, Final Fantasy X, Final Fantasy XII, Final Fantasy XIII, Peep Show, Phineas and Ferb, Red Dead Redemption, Portal, Uncharted, The Mentalist. Come to think of it, I think all of these are fandoms that only a handful of people on my flist are into. Whoops. Still, I hope you enjoy these!

( In which there are terrible podcast ideas and strange gods, and the fact that robots don't have lips somehow becomes a problem multiple times. )

There are more answers to come, but I think that's enough for today.

Crossposts: http://rionaleonhart.livejournal.com/330570.html

Last year, I held a Multi-Fandom Family Fic Fest in November, proving that I have no sense of timing because, y'know, everyone was busy with NaNoWriMo. It did still garner some great responses, but I'm wondering whether perhaps a follow-up ficmeme would be more successful if I hosted it this month, perhaps in the next couple of days, rather than when most of fandom is struggling to write a novel. It could be a warm-up exercise for NaNoers!

However, I'm also wondering whether this year I should go for a more general non-romantic relationship meme theme. The definition of 'family' in the rules was already fairly flexible, and a non-romantic relationship ficmeme would mean people wouldn't have to worry about whether a particular dynamic might be family-ish enough to qualify. I worried at first that it might be too broad a subject, but it wouldn't just be a genfic-in-general meme; there would still be a focus on (non-romantic, non-sexual) relationships.

I don't know. What do you think? (Whether I go for the specific family or the more general romanceless meme idea, I intend to be less longwinded in explaining the rules and actually keep an organised list of fics written this time.)

[Poll #1786524]

I won't say that I'm considering broadening the theme entirely because Dr Doofenshmirtz and Perry the Platypus can't really be considered family by any stretch of the imagination, but, well...

Thank you very much to whoever sent some virtual purple antigravinators in support of Heinz Doofenshmirtz! I don't quite remember writing the last entry, but I suppose I must have, given the number of times I insist in it that I'm me.

And I'm sorry that it took a few days for me to get around to thanking you, anonymous gift-sender, but that was so I could dedicate a fic to you. Here it is!

(Writing this was quite a weird experience; I've never written fanfiction for anything quite as, well, cartoony as Phineas and Ferb before. Trying to get the tone right in a written medium was awfully tricky, and I had to push past the not-having-written-anything-since-July rust. In any case, have a short and silly piece of Doofenshmirtz and Perry gen. I hope this has worked!)

Title: The Allegory Machine Is Another Matter Entirely
Fandom: Phineas and Ferb
Rating: G
Wordcount: 1,700
Summary: In which a plague of one ferocious alligator is unleashed upon the Tri-State Area.

( The Allegory Machine Is Another Matter Entirely )

PEOPLE OF THE TRI-STATE AREA, YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE.

I AM INSTRUCTING YOU TO oh, wait, I forgot to turn off the Caps Lockinator.

The Caps Lock key, I mean. The Caps Lock key.

In any case, I am your friend Riona the Leonhart or whatever my name is and am definitely not an evil scientist who has determined her password using some sort of ingenious Password Decodinator. As your friend Riona the Leonhart, I am here to tell you that you should all support Dr Heinz Doofenshmirtz in the upcoming Danville Mayoral Election.

I realize that some of you may not live in Danville and this Internet thing probably extends across the entire Tri-State Area, but this is not a problem! Simply kidnap and imprison or otherwise incapacitate a Danville citizen and use their identity to vote for Heinz. I can assure you as your well-informed Internet friend that this is entirely legal and not a problem at all. If you are having trouble finding a suitable trap, Doofenshmirtz Evil Inc. in the center of town offers a wide selection. (Do not forget to release your captive afterwards! There's no point in being Mayor if there's no one to subjugate, right?)

Please do ensure that you have voted for Heinz Doofenshmirtz and not for the other Doofenshmirtz also running for Mayor, Roger Doofenshmirtz, who is a big pooface.

Thank you! Now, if you'll excuse me, the platypus has escaped his trap and it looks like we'll have to fight.

Yours absolutely sincerely, pinky swear,
Riona the Leonhart

I have now watched Phineas and Ferb: Across the 2nd Dimension, and I absolutely love it to pieces. Characters meeting their alternate-universe counterparts is a concept I've always been fond of, and Dr Doofenshmirtz takes it a step further by meeting his alternate-universe counterpart and then singing a duet with himself entitled 'I've Found a Brand New Best Friend (And It's Me)'.

Dr Doofenshmirtz is one of my favourite characters in the whole world. The affable, bumbling villain is nothing new, but Doofenshmirtz is the best example of the trope I've ever seen. And I love his weird friendly-nemesis relationship with Perry.

(Speaking of Doofenshmirtz, two of my favourite Phineas and Ferb clips: a delightful visual gag and the first ten seconds of 'Back in Gimmelshtump', the latter primarily for poor Perry's reaction.)

...okay, so my curiosity just got the better of me and I tried plugging 'Perry', 'Dr Doofenshmirtz' and 'Romance' into the story filter on fanfiction.net. I already regret it. NOOOOOO ONE OF THEM HAS A DUCKBILL WHAT DO YOU MEAN THEY KISSED NO THEIR LIPS DID NOT MEET PERRY DOESN'T HAVE LIPS

Ahem! Scarring man/platypus love aside: Across the 2nd Dimension contained multiple things I have wanted to see in Phineas and Ferb for ages. Possibly the most significant: the boys met Dr Doofenshmirtz! ♥! Thirty seconds into their encounter with him, I realised that I couldn't stop grinning. The rare moments when Dr Doofenshmirtz directly interacts with the non-platypoidal (this may not be the accepted scientific term) members of the Flynn-Fletcher family are some of my very favourite moments in Phineas and Ferb. I wish it could happen more often.

(And they're so friendly with each other! And Doofenshmirtz was appalled when the Doofenshmirtz from the alternate universe had the boys attacked! I was actually really sad when Phineas realised he was evil. PLEASE BE FRIENDS, GUYS. Dr Doofenshmirtz needs friends!)

Also: oh, the ending. So cute. Bless your little platypus heart, Perry.

For people who don't care about Phineas and Ferb: you're wrong, but have a link to an excellent His Dark Materials AU for Sherlock, written by

etothepii. It's got a few distracting Americanisms, but don't let that deter you; it does such clever things with the concept of daemons.

Am I the last person in the world to discover 3D photographs? These are so cool. The viewing technique reminds me a bit of Magic Eye pictures, so if you know how to see those you may have a head-start. Human vision is crazy!

On a less positive note: why is there so much Final Fantasy XIII fanart in which Hope is a big manly man and Lightning is blushingly submitting to him? No, seriously, I do not understand. This Hope? This Lightning? Really?

Hope Seduces Lightning: A Fic
Hope: Uh... Light? I was wondering - is it okay if I ask you something?
Lightning: Hm?
Hope: ...uh, never mind.

I learnt recently that Hope's voice actor also voices Phineas Flynn in Phineas and Ferb. This is delightful to me. I want Phineas to meet Hope and teach him about making the most of every day. There's a hundred and four days of Focus-pursuing; Cie'thhood comes along just to end it...

In subsequent poking through voice credentials, I also discovered that Snow's voice actor is voicing James Sunderland in an HD rerelease of Silent Hill 2. I don't know whether to be terrified or laugh forever. Has anyone written fanfiction in which Snow heads into Silent Hill to find Serah? Do it now; I'll wait. (I went to see if I could find anything about the remake on YouTube, and I found this preview, if anyone's curious about the new voices.)

Come to think of it, Cie'th wouldn't be at all out of place in Silent Hill. (Those Seekers? The monsters that basically consist of a head and an arm? I freaked out when one dropped a Cie'th Tear and I realised it had been a person once.) It's generally tougher to write Silent Hill crossovers with a character that already has experience of the horrific. Plus, although Snow certainly has psychological weak spots into which the town could twist a sharpened paperclip, I'm having trouble imagining why it would want to. Not a man with much darkness in his soul, Snow Villiers.

I think what I've learnt today is that 'shared voice actors' does not necessarily an unshakable foundation for a crossover make.

But it's still an awfully tempting one.

(EDIT: Today, I asked my brother to put some plates in the washing machine.

He did exactly that.

I really need to think more before I speak.)

'Alas,' I hear you cry, 'I want to hear a kickarse song, but I have only forty-three seconds to spare!'

Well, Phineas and Ferb has come to your rescue with 'Mom Look'. I so want an extended version of this. 'Tree-Related Wish' is also a pretty great under-a-minute song, although that's more because of the lyrics.

Have I ever mentioned that Candace and Jeremy are really, really cute? They are so cute. I would not say no to a Jeremy in my life.

(I've been reading The Ask and the Answer, the second book in the Chaos Walking series by Patrick Ness, and I keep picturing Lee as Jeremy. It's a little disconcerting.)

Waterloo Road is back and as weirdly compelling as ever! I notice they've brought a new bad boy along, because the Waterloo Road Redemption Treadmill moves ever onwards: there's a bad boy introduced, and gradually he becomes too good to provide real conflict, so they have to bring in a new bad boy to cause disruption. Tariq follows Kyle; Kyle followed Finn; Finn followed Bolton.

(Speaking of Finn: that facial hair, Finn? Really? I mean, it's your face, but... are you sure? Also, Josh's hair is becoming more and more tragic with every term.)

The ending of the episode (7.11) actually made me gasp. I'd spent the entire episode trying to work out what to think of Mr Byrne; slamming a kid up against a wall certainly changes things. Goodness me.

It absolutely breaks my heart that Matt has returned and Sam is gone. I wish he had mentioned her; their storyline together in series four was one of my favourites. Maybe they stayed in touch and that's why it wasn't brought up? I hope they stayed in touch.

Also back: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic! The opening of the second series was so cool. I found myself genuinely distressed by the events in the maze. NO, PONIES, YOU CAN GET THROUGH THIS.

(When Applejack saw that supposed vision of the future in the pool? I had tears in my eyes, I have to confess. I am so weirdly invested in the friendship of these cartoon ponies. How is Friendship is Magic so good?)

I love that Fluttershy's nature made her completely impossible for Discord to undermine. You are my favourite, Fluttershy.

Yes, I'll admit that I consume a lot of media intended for children. But it's such a great time for children's media! Phineas and Ferb and Friendship is Magic are both genuinely well-crafted programmes, and I find they're really good things to watch when you're feeling a bit down. (Waterloo Road is not well-crafted, but it's also not aimed at children, so it makes me feel less as if society is glaring at me and demanding that I explain myself.)

I appear to have been sorted into Hufflepuff on Pottermore.

Whoops!

Oh, I so wanted to be in Ravenclaw. I really did. But the first question on my Sorting quiz was 'How would you like history to remember you?', and two of the options were 'the Wise' and 'the Good', and I sat there and thought, 'I want to be in Ravenclaw,' and then I thought, '...but I would rather be "the Good".'

And honesty is itself a Hufflepuff trait, so I suppose choosing that option makes me doubly Hufflepuff.

Hufflepuff is a very fine house, and it would have been my second choice, and its badger mascot on Pottermore is completely adorable. But people do tend to underestimate Hufflepuffs, and having my intelligence underestimated is something that I really, really hate. If I actually did attend Hogwarts, the attitude displayed towards Hufflepuff would drive me absolutely mad. (Also, I feel Ravenclaw fits me more closely because it represents not only my good qualities but the really annoying things about me. The really annoying things are a significant aspect of my personality, Sorting Hat!)

In any case, here are some amazing fictional characters who would probably be in Hufflepuff: Fluttershy, Applejack, Zell Dincht (he'll try to pretend he's in Gryffindor; don't listen), Laguna Loire, Sazh Katzroy, Snow Villiers, Blaine Anderson (the fandom tends to put him in Gryffindor because his actor also portrayed Harry Potter, but I don't think Blaine is a Gryffindor at all), Ty Lee, Zuko (he gets very touchy about this; don't mention it to him), Rory Williams, Mickey Smith, Fernando Sucre, Dean Winchester, Maes Hughes, Allison Cameron (borderline Slytherin in later seasons), Dr John 'JD' Dorian, Karen Fisher, Annie Sawyer, Guinevere of Merlin. Yuna of Final Fantasy X, one of my favourite characters ever, is borderline Hufflepuff-Gryffindor, as is Bonnie MacFarlane. Dr Heinz Doofenshmirtz vehemently claims to have been a Slytherin, but his student records tell a very different story.

AND NOW MORE RED DEAD REDEMPTION, BECAUSE I CAN'T SHUT UP.

All right. As you may have gleaned by now, I love Red Dead Redemption. I love the world; I love Marston; I love Bonnie; I love my horse; I love the dialogue; I love faffing around in the magnificent wilderness for hours on end, doing nothing that advances the plot but having fun anyway.

There are some things I do not love about this game, however, and I shall now convey one of these to you in poetic form.

Ode to the Wildlife of Red Dead Redemption

dear cougars
please stop killing my horse
you're awfully pretty and furry, of course
but I wish you would show just a hint of remorse
:( :( :(

I particularly hate the cougars because they've made New Austin scary for me. The game is so beautiful and I just want to ride for hours, but whenever I venture out of the cougar-free haven of Mexico I'm on edge because at any moment a cougar could come along to ruin my day. (When a cougar does kill my horse, I have to reload. I can't help it. By this point, I have become so attached to my Kentucky Saddler that I find myself greeting him with 'Hey, baby' as he approaches.)

You know when you hold a very strong opinion about something and, looking for reassurance that you're not alone, seek others who share that opinion? I became so frustrated with the cougars that I eventually decided to search on Google for others who hated them as much as I did. I think the phrase I chose for my search was 'fuck cougars' or 'fucking cougars'.

This, as you'll probably have guessed, turned out to be a mistake.

Maybe Pottermore was right; I'm really not a Ravenclaw.

I was just trying to remember what my mental image of Snape was when I first started reading the Harry Potter books, before the films came along and replaced it with Alan Rickman, and then I realised that, although Phineas and Ferb didn't exist at the time, my Snape looked a lot like Heinz Doofenshmirtz. I don't even mean that he looked like a live-action Doofenshmirtz might; my mental images of everyone else were realistic people, but Snape was very clearly a drawing. His nose in particular was Doofenshmirtzish.

Hmmm.

Relatedly, have a handful of thoughts on the first Deathly Hallows film!

( Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part One. )

In conclusion, hooray!

Wow, it's going to be so strange when the final film comes out. The end of an era! Although I've never been very involved in the fandom, Harry Potter has been a significant influence in my life since I was ten years old.

(I've just remembered that last night, as I was going to sleep, I wandered along a line of thought approximately as follows: Why did I never really write Potter fanfiction? Maybe it's because there's too much already; it's too difficult to be original. I have to think of something nobody has written before.

What I seem to recall I came up with, as I drifted off, was doves flying out of Hermione's vagina.

In the light of day, this doesn't seem such a great idea. Look, it was half past one in the morning (unusually late for me; I had to walk home from the cinema, as the buses were all hiding from the snow). I was half-asleep. I can't be held accountable for whatever bizarre ideas my subconscious throws at me in that state.

Knowing this fandom, someone's probably written it already, anyway.)

Is it just me, or is personally driving a pupil you've been accused of touching inappropriately home a really incredibly bad idea? Even if you want to explain to his father that it was a misunderstanding, you don't drive the pupil home yourself. One of the many points at which Waterloo Road has had me shouting 'THINK' at the screen.

I really like Davina! I feel I shouldn't really get attached to characters who aren't in the current series of Waterloo Road, because inevitably they will leave and break my heart, but I do like her a lot. And I 'ship her with Tom, of course, but who don't I 'ship with Tom?

Over in the world of the Pokémon AU, I have decided that Tom's Growlithe originally belonged to Izzie and passed into his care after her departure. The Growlithe is probably female, because in canon Tom is the only male presence in the Redpath-Grainger-Clarkson household and because on the whole the important figures in Tom's life tend to be female (Josh being the obvious exception).

This arrangement has the advantage of meaning that Tom acquires the Pokémon that symbolises loyalty only after the whole adultery business is over and he settles into a more responsible attitude. What Pokémon does he have before that, though? Does the new generation have a Lackofselfrestraintachu?

Steph has a Glameow. Fact.

SUDDEN POKÉMON CROSSOVER FANDOM SHIFT (there's a phrase that could open half the paragraphs in this journal): if Dr Doofenshmirtz of Phineas and Ferb had a Pokémon, he would have a Psyduck. He would call it Perry the Psyduck. Perry the Psyduck would, of course, be an entirely separate entity from Perry the Platypus; it wouldn't even occur to Doofenshmirtz that they had the same name. (Really, they don't have the same name; one is called Perry the Psyduck and the other is called Perry the Platypus. See? Completely different.)

Ferb has a team composed entirely of Magnemite and Magneton. Vanessa rolls her eyes at her dad's insistence on giving her Dark Pokémon all the time, but she is quite fond of a couple of them; I can see her with a Choroneko, one of the new Pokémon from Black and White. I have no idea about Phineas himself, though.

I feel a bit sheepish about this, but I'm quickly going to point to the collection of Peep Show Mark/Jeremy sentence-fics I finished a couple of days ago for

1sentence. Please don't take this as a demand for reviews! It is entirely fine not to review; I'd be a hypocrite to protest. It's just that I posted it at a stupid time of night and so some people who might be interested may have missed it, which would be a shame in a fandom this small.

Having watched the sixteenth episode of the fifth series of Waterloo Road, I can say with confidence that Josh Stevenson is the most adorable person in the history of the universe. Never before have I made such an array of squeaking noises. I want everyone to give him a million hugs, except I don't really because time he spends being hugged by other people is time when I'm not hugging him myself. (Tom is allowed and indeed required to hug him, though.)

NEW TERRIBLE WATERLOO ROAD CROSSOVER IDEA: Waterloo Road merges with Balamb Garden. All of a sudden, the Waterloo Road students need to learn how to use magic and fight monsters and summon gods without destroying everything within a five-mile radius NO FINN I SAID WITHOUT DESTROYING EVERYTHING FOR GOODNESS' SAKE PUT IFRIT AWAY.

I suggest this mainly because I want to see what happens when one puts Finn Sharkey and Seifer Almasy in a classroom together. I imagine the answer is 'the instructor has a breakdown'. (Oh, dear, Finn would flirt so much with Quistis. She's not falling for you, Finn.)

Josh doesn't take terribly well to killing things. He sort of stands in the background when Seifer and Finn are sizing each other up. Occasionally he smiles awkwardly at Raijin and Fujin. Maybe just Raijin, because Fujin can be a bit intimidating.

There's also the terrible crossover idea of having Ruby from Supernatural possess Ruby of Waterloo Road. Finn reminds me quite strongly of Dean in some ways, so perhaps he and Josh can team up to go saving people, hunting things. Why is Ruby around, though? Does one of the pupils have demon blood?

...oh, of course. It's Sambuca. Sam.

If I'm going to go with this stupid name thing, I suppose Jo the fifth-series French teacher needs to take the place of Supernatural's Jo. But without any implied crush on the Dean-equivalent, because Jo is far too down-to-earth to fall for Finn's charms and also a lesbian.

I shouldn't be allowed to have ideas.

I was going to say 'I'm going to have to write all of these, aren't I? If I don't write stupid Waterloo Road crossovers, who will?' But then I checked fanfiction.net, and, erm...

"Well, this is it...We're going to Waterloo Road school..." Phineas said, with a blank face.

[...]

"Don't worry, Phineas. Summer vacation may be over, but you never know, Waterloo Road might be awesome." Isabella smiled, not knowing what Waterloo Road is actually like.

Phineas, Isabella and Ferb were, after all, only ten, they didn't watch Waterloo Road on tv.

what

(And it looks as if the author has given Phineas a tragic backstory to fit in with the general tone of Waterloo Road. I - I can't read this.)

Here is the second half of the alphabet ficsnippet meme! A reminder of the concept: the first snippet contains one character whose name (first name, surname or nickname) begins with A and one whose name begins with B, the second a B and a C, the third a C and a D and so on until Z and A. In this half I've cheated a bit by reusing characters.

Fandoms represented beneath the cut are Doctor Who, The Odyssey, Revolutionary Girl Utena, Phineas and Ferb, Silent Hill 2, Final Fantasy VIII, Final Fantasy IX, Final Fantasy X, Supernatural, Sherlock (BBC), Sherlock Holmes (Conan Doyle), Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Little Mermaid, The Mentalist, Harry Potter, Kingdom Hearts II, Pokémon and, of all things, the Just William books by Richmal Crompton.

( Alphabet ficsnippets, M to Z )

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If Life Gives You Lemons, Make Out With A Lemon.

I Flip Out To Ill Jams Because They Kick Ass, Obviously.

Dr Doofenshmirtz and Perry the Platypus: An Unbiased Examination of the Facts.

You Will Dooby Dooby Do What I Say.

Pabracadabra. Final Answer.

A Revolutionary New World Awaits You Bastards.

Seven Always Ends Up Eating Nine In These Things.

You're At My Mercy! And I Don't Have Any! You're At My Nothing!

That's Not Helpful! I Don't Know Why I Thought That Would Help!

Balthier And Fran May Also Be A Factor.

Fanfiction: The Allegory Machine Is Another Matter Entirely (Phineas and Ferb)

IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR THE TRI-STATE AREA

You Fight A Pharmacist? Why Would You Even Do That?

Use Rock To Break Glass To Get Wrench To Break Glass To Get Rock.

Don't You Know That You've Been Oxidised?

The Artwork, Incidentally, Is Beautiful.

Curse You, Harry The Platypus.

BBC One. Eight O'Clock. It Looks Set To Be A Delightfully Dramatic Episode.

Are You Okay?

Fanfiction: Alphabet Ficsnippets, M to Z

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