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RichardIII took out the Death Star for Benedict

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

ScarlettOHara yearns for CalvinOKeefe

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Dickon gives thanks for DoctorCrusher

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

GiacomoCasanova is stalking Heidi

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Cato hearts CounselorTroi

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Aragorn loves JerryFalwell

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

MaryIngalls is serenading Draco

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

GeraldoRivera EXITS pursued by Jesus

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Oberon is in love with Ron

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Sawyer is shagging MisterSpock

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Odysseus dreams about TheMightyDucks

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Menelaus is in love with JemFinch

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Lucifer fangirls TheBabysittersClub

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Oberon is running for President with Michael

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

ChristineDaae secretly desires JackSparrow

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Willow is serenading Worf

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Wilbur has a shrine to Wilbur

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

ColinCraven yearns for MegMurray

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

TheWifeOfBath EXITS pursued by GrumpyBear

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

CaptainHook fought off Reavers for Kazul

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Anansi forgot Poland for GeordiLaForge

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

BillNye EXITS pursued by TheSphinx

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Achilles idolizes RhettButler

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

SirGalahad is serenading CaptainBarbossa

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Eve quacks at ChristineDaae

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

DarthVader quacks at Cato

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Gabriel wants to shag Apollo

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Dickon broods over JohnEdwards

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

BenjaminSisko smurfs Dumbledore

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Pompey wants to do it with JackSparrow

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

LauraIngalls would hang for Cassio

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Locke is shagging CaptainHook

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Gilgamesh idolizes Snoopy

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

CharlieBrown would hang for CaptainBarbossa

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Willow idolizes Cimorene

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Judas writes fic about Lysander

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Bert is stalking SamBeckett

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Loki loves RosencrantzAndGuildenstern

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

CaptainHook writes sonnets to FrankNFurter

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

BooRadley wants to take it out back with RosencrantzAndGuildenstern

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

JackSparrow idolizes GeordiLaForge

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Voldemort fangirls DickCheney

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

BarryManilow hearts ThePhantom

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

ElizabethSwann gives thanks for ElizabethBennet

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Draco secretly desires DEATH

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

LittleOrphanAnnie writes fic about Gilgamesh

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

JohnConstantine fought off Reavers for DoctorCrusher

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

PrincessLeia forgot Poland for HanSolo

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Xander smooches RemusLupin

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

AmyMarch took out the Death Star for TheShadow

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

LyraSilvertongue knows Dickon

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

BethMarch runs a fanlisting for ScoutFinch

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

LePetitPrince has an eye on Belle

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

MaryLennox quacks at CommanderRiker

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Orsino is flirting with MarilynMonroe

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

RaphaeI yearns for Athena

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

JohnConstantine is running for President with LaEsmaralda

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

TheWifeOfBath idolizes MrRogers

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Patrokles idolizes TheOneRing

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

AlbertEinstein wants to do it with SimonAndGarfunkel

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

PrincessLeia wants to do it with ColinCraven

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

ThePhantom wants to take it out back with Shadow

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

BobSaget would hang for Cimorene

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

MaryPoppins is stalking AlexanderTheGreat

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

LauraIngalls idolizes MaryIngalls

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

BooRadley yearns for Dax

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

DoctorCrusher EXITS pursued by PhoebusDeChateaupers

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

RichardIII idolizes JuliusCaesar

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

GeordiLaForge wants to shag CardinalRichelieu

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

TheNewKidsOnTheBlock dreams about ThePlymouthColony

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

JohnConstantine wants to take it out back with FriarLaurence

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

HesterPrynne is serenading IndianaJones

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

RhettButler worships HuckFinn

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Othello took out the Death Star for SailorMoon

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

CaptainHook is running for President with LePetitPrince

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

LongJohnSilver is flirting with MaryLennox

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

AlbertEinstein took out the Death Star for RichardIII

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

ScarlettOHara idolizes ForrestGump

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Charlotte x JoMarch

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

RaoulDeChagny secretly desires RingoStarr

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Zeus wants to take it out back with AlexanderTheGreat

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Artemis fangirls Atalanta

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Lucifer is running for President with CalvinOKeefe

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

ThePlymouthColony broods over Crowley

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

TheEvilThatLurksInTheHeartsOfMen wants to shag LeVarBurton

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

LeVarBurton broods over RosencrantzAndGuildenstern

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG


Cassio has an eye on Mercutio

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Romeo took out the Death Star for FriarTuck

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Heidi is sittin' on Capitol Hill with JaneEyre

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Buffy wants to do it with Iago

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

HAL9000 remembers the Snowdens of yesteryear with Athena

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Aslan is running for President with Sawyer

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

GiacomoCasanova is turning cartwheels for PippiLongstocking

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Claudio is sittin' on Capitol Hill with Othello

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Pompey forgot Poland for ColinCraven

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Judas would hang for Loki

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

AmyMarch wants to shag Tybalt

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

MrDarcy wants to do it with Achilles

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

TheWickedWitch is running for President with Charlotte

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Athos would hang for Bunnicula

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

PippiLongstocking is voting for GeorgeWBush

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Lirael yearns for Lucifer

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

SherlockHolmes smooches ArchdeaconFrollo

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Draco remembers the Snowdens of yesteryear with ThePhantom

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

MegMurray EXITS pursued by ABear

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

JeanValjean is stalking Judas

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Othello is sittin' on Capitol Hill with Aslan

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Judas loves Cato

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Hades has an eye on Lucifer

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Voldemort quacks at AnneofGreenGables

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Judas quacks at LePetitPrince

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

LinusVanPelt is serenading Claire



MaryLennox secretly desires Gollum

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

BillClinton has an eye on FriarLaurence

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Dax knows Malvolio

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

PippiLongstocking has a doll of Tybalt

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

JustABill writes fic about JonStewart

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Ernie is flirting with GeorgeWBush

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Nemo writes fic about Horatio

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Roderigo broods over ElizabethBennet

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

AustinPowers idolizes Rover

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Quasimodo x SailorJupiter

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

SherlockHolmes hearts Waldo

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Gandalf dreams about Voldemort

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Worf has a shrine to Eve

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Clara remembers the Snowdens of yesteryear with TheSphinx

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Odin wants to take it out back with RedFraggle

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Mercutio broods over Buffy

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

CarmenSandiego wants to do it with MegMarch

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

TheBabysittersClub secretly desires Zorro

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Worf broods over Rockapella

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Viola has an eye on Aslan

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Adam dreams about Othello

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

JackSparrow pities da foo Dax

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Michael has a doll of MrRogers

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

LaEsmaralda is shagging SirBedevere

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Bartleby knows TheFonz

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

LongJohnSilver remembers the Snowdens of yesteryear with Bert

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Aslan writes fic about MarkAntony

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Tybalt is serenading Achilles

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

VioletBaudelaire secretly desires Michelangelo

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

AmyMarch is serenading Judas

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

FerrisBueller is voting for AustinPowers

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Dorothy remembers the Snowdens of yesteryear with TheWifeOfBath

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Gollum yearns for JemFinch

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Aslan has a shrine to AtticusFinch

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Judas x LizzieBorden

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Dax runs a fanlisting for Malvolio

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Pompey fangirls CaptainKirk

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Aeneas is shagging Hermione

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Lilo fought off Reavers for CharlieBrown

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

JaneEyre fought off Reavers for Nefertiti

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

KingArthur is turning cartwheels for ForrestGump

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Gollum fought off Reavers for Agamemnon

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

PaddingtonBear is sittin' on Capitol Hill with JohnKerry

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

MrDarcy is serenading ThePhantom

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Locke is stalking SherlockHolmes

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

AlbertEinstein EXITS pursued by ScarlettOHara

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Ernie worships InigoMontoya

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Rockapella gives thanks for FrodoBaggins

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

LongJohnSilver hearts BenjaminSisko

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

AtticusFinch idolizes BillNye

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

MaidMarian fangirls Gilgamesh

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

JackSparrow yearns for Sayid

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

LePetitPrince has a shrine to MaryPoppins

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Mercutio is flirting with Belle

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

MinaHarker is stalking Jesus

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Patrokles fought off Reavers for ABear

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

PrincessLeia runs a fanlisting for Judas

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Titania broods over GeorgeWBush

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Wilbur is sittin' on Capitol Hill with Achilles

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Locke forgot Poland for Pompey

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Hannibal is voting for BillClinton

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Poland took out the Death Star for Batman

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Ernie smooches ElizabethBennet

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

MarkAntony is sittin' on Capitol Hill with JuliusCaesar

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

HesterPrynne has an eye on Eve

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

ThePhantom is serenading JaneEyre

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

CounselorTroi writes sonnets to SirGalahad

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

MaryPoppins loves IndianaJones

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

JamesBond gives thanks for SeverusSnape

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Odin writes sonnets to Hamlet

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

GiacomoCasanova dreams about Dax

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Aeneas writes sonnets to ForrestGump

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Aslan is serenading BillClinton

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

CaptainKirk is running for President with AtticusFinch

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

LyraSilvertongue is running for President with Ron

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Cato worships JaneEyre

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

JoMarch idolizes Lucifer

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

ScoutFinch wants to take it out back with Jesus

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

CarmenSandiego secretly desires JuliusCaesar

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Mercutio runs a fanlisting for AlexanderTheGreat

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Worf took out the Death Star for Charlotte

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

FrankNFurter is serenading Lucifer

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

MrRogers secretly desires LeVarBurton

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

ChristineDaae is turning cartwheels for Aslan

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Cosette is stalking TheShadow

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Buffy yearns for TheWifeOfBath

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Patrokles fangirls HuckFinn

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

DarthVader is voting for SiriusBlack

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Voldemort wants to do it with Hannibal

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

KingArthur is flirting with LongJohnSilver

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

SeverusSnape is serenading Hercules

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Locke wants to take it out back with Judas

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

AnneofGreenGables idolizes Leonardo

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Aslan has a doll of Raphael

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

KingArthur writes fic about Jesus

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

CalvinOKeefe would hang for Jesus

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

HAL9000 pities da foo RichardIII

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Aeneas remembers the Snowdens of yesteryear with Apollo

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Draco has a doll of JoMarch

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

PeterPan is stalking Hamlet

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

LittleOrphanAnnie fought off Reavers for Poseidon

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

BenjaminSisko is serenading LeVarBurton

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Harry wants to take it out back with Roderigo

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG
Jesus wants to shag MisterSpock

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Achilles is stalking InigoMontoya

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Demona broods over Patrokles

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

FriarTuck wants to take it out back with FriarLaurence

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Rockapella would hang for Voldemort

What's Your Ultimate Fandom OTP?
Shiver My Timber--A Pirate RPG

Not It!

Yeah, I'm bored with surveys about me, and I bet you are too. So this one isn't, in a slightly more deliberate way than Cain on a Fucking Stick. If you get it, good for you, but don't post it and ruin the fun for everybody. Be cryptic! You can tell me, though. It's either obvious or hard, and as usual, I have no idea. You-- things people would probably care to know(65)
-|You, basically|-
Birthday?:	Irrelevant
Birthplace?:	Unknown
Heritage?:	There is a happy land, far far away...
Weight?:	I'm pretty skinny, but there's more to me than you'd think.
Hair color? Hairstyle?:	Currently, blond and longish.
Eye color?:	Currently, green and brightish.
School level, or if done, career?:	I'm a prince!
Piercings? Tattoos? Want any?:	It seems a bit irrelevant. Or... disingenuous, maybe.
Describe your personality:	Scintillating.
-|Favorites|-
Color?:	I like tawny colors. And regal colors. And piercing colors. And black. And white, sometimes.
Animal?:	Lion. I like things a little rough-and-regal.
Music genre?:	Classical. And that sort of disco-pop stuff. And really hard and wrenching music, too.
Movie genre?:	Tragic and long, with men and women in pretty clothes. Or just tragic. Or a musical.
Game(if you swing that way)?:	I don't. But I'd have to say I'm one who likes a gamble.
Store?:	Um... here's a surprise... I like hunting/fishing/camping stores. You know, with lots of guns on the walls and army vests and lumbering men who smell like rubber and pine.
Sport?:	Self-delusion. Also ice-dancing, and wrestling, especially if it involves thighs going out of joint.
Food? Drink?:	Oh, mother, must I? Wait... no.
Season? Holiday?:	I like them all, but perhaps winter's my favorite. And holiday... Easter, really. Really. I know, I'm a piece of work.
Website?:	divineinterventions.com
Place you�ve been to?:	Ambivalent about so many. Fond of the desert. Also Ireland. And India, though sometimes I get overwhelmed there.
Past-time(hobby)?:	What a charming misspelling. Perhaps playing various stringed instruments.
-|Love/Relationships|-
Names of your best friend(s):	They know who they are.
Think you�re a good friend? Why do you think they like you?:	Because I'm charming and occasionally fierce with my love? I think I'm taxing to have as a friend, but also fascinating.
Get along with your parents, the rest of your family?:	Oh. No.
Taken? If yes, what�s their name?:	I call him Mr. Wonderful.
Single? If yes, do you have a crush and if yes, what�s their name?:	I'm singular, not single.
Why do you like them?:	Because he's fucking beautiful. Because I am what I am, and so, more obviously, is he.
Your perfect date?:	I'm not picky. Storytelling, a little music, a little emotional connection, sex that lasts for days...
-|Randoms|-
[Have any] Siblings? Pets?:	Yeah, and that isn't the most healthy part of my life, actually.
Goals you'd like to achieve?:	I dislike this question.
Phobias?:	No.
Special talents or skills?:	This makes me smile.
Guilty pleasures?:	You could say that.
Bad habits?:	Indeed.
Disorders? Other problems?:	In spades.
Relatives that are famous?:	Again, in spades.
[What's] something most people don't know about you?:	I'm very sensitive. It's not convenient.
Your most prized possessions?:	I like my ornaments.
Your style/favorite clothing style?:	There's very little I can't pull off. But let's say old fashioned, or very slutty.
Happiest moment?:	There was this thing with an egg... Jesus fucking Christ.
[What] do you want to do for a career?:	Oh, I don't know, maybe go into politics or something.
(you)Body part or feature do you hate the most? Love?:	Let's just go with the scars. That sounds like I'm some battered teenager overly in love with suffering... ah, wait.
Word or phrase you often say?:	I feel I ought to be more aware of this. What I say, I mean.
Pisses you off or annoys you to no end?:	Prancing M with his blocky ass and his skirts and his foot on my head.
Have you �always wanted to do?�:	I have.
Country would you like to visit most?:	Aslan's country. But really, I don't know.
Would your personal shirt saying be?:	Fucking angel?
[Have you] technically broken the law, but never paid for it(or did)?:	Yes, and did.
Learned another language? Any other(s) you want to learn?:	I'm a polyglot.
Regreted anything?:	Yes. But not always what you'd think.
-|Opinions|-
Abortion?:	It seems futile, to me, somehow. But I think I have an odd perspective.
War?:	It always seems like a good idea at the time. I like the way war breaks bodies, but I hate what it does to souls.
Gay marriage?:	Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments.
Death penalty?:	Too often used against the love of your life.
Alcohol/drugs?:	I hate being numb.
Racism?:	I can't hate racists. They suffer from reflections, and they don't even know they are suffering.
Religion?:	That's me in the corner, that's me in the spotlight.
Plastic surgery?:	How could I condemn it? I'm as smooth as a baby's bottom, most of the time.
Animal testing/abuse?:	You have to flick this switch inside of yourself, and then it becomes startlingly easy. Sort of like any abuse, really. Don't believe me? Have a care, in that case.
Suicide?:	The whole concept of suicide being damnable is perhaps the worst catch-22 I've ever come across. Barring one.
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Third Book: My Antonia

This was my first book actually received from a stranger on book-crossing, in response to my request for it, in order to join Laura's mother's book club. (Convoluted, no?) But receiving it was a very exciting experience. I was delighted, even though the book club has long since moved on to other things.

I was also curious to see how I would like the book, and what it is about. I am always interested in Willa Cather, since she wrote one of my absolute favorite short stories, "Paul's Case," (I have such an enduring love for that tale) and also The Song of the Lark, which I read in my Performing the Female Voice CSem and quite enjoyed. However, at some point I tried to read Death Comes for the Archbishop, and got nowhere with it, for some reason. And I've never read O Pioneers. So, anyway...

I enjoyed My Antonia. The characters, both major characters like Jim and Antonia, but also minor characters like Jim's grandparents and the hired men and Peter and Antonia's father, were very interesting, and it was scenically lovely. There are many images and incidents that I think will stick in my mind for some time, like the story about the wedding party and the wolves, or Antonia's father at the Christmas tree, or the plow against the sun. I was also intrigued by some insight into this particular historical time: which groups of immigrants were esteemed, etc. I think the way the novel shows us women and men from different social brackets, and showed the options that were available to them, is interesting and strange. Strange, in that much of the book takes place during the childhood and young adulthood of Jim and Antonia, and abruptly skips twenty years before showing more concretely what happened to them. Therefore, everything in between must be intuited and understood obliquely. Actually, I think this is a very subtle and symbolic novel, and there's a lot that I'm not sure I've grasped about it. It may be that I have not experienced certain life events (or even just a longer life) which would make it possible for me to identify with the book in a more precise way.

I'm not sure what I think about Jim and Antonia. Jim is, for all that he tells the story, a presence that seems to get vaguer and vaguer. Or, I think his own sense of himself is vague, cut out of the particularities he feels so at home with. For example, as a smart young man, he studies in college and eventually becomes a lawyer, but it is never clear (to me, anyway) that he has any great interest in this--or, in fact, in his own domestic life. His wife is described only by the anonymous friend who receives Jim's story, and we are never given a glimpse of what his ordinary, non-Antonia life actually consists of, and what his feelings are about it.

Antonia, on the other hand, is full of vibrancy and particular color, but the way that Jim portrays her constantly slides away from actually engaging that vibrant person, more so as they get older. She also seems to hold Jim off, but I think I am more suspicious of his perception of what is happening between them than convinced that Antonia actually ever rejects him. But even the "love story" that may or may not be between them is very oblique... they never have anything resembling an "official" romantic relationship.

Apparently I'm left with a lot of questions about this book and what its saying. It's the kind of book I think I would get more out of if I studied it. Perhaps the book club will prove useful. Anyone else want to read it?

Except Mark, who tried to steal it from me, and definitely does not read this journal, and with whom I will have to deal in some way this week... hmmm.

Overwhelming (Also Happy Birthday Dad)

So... there's really a lot to update about, as I feel that this weekend/week has been pretty eventful, but let me start by saying happy birthday to my dad, who is 59 today, who does not read this blog or really use the internet too often, but who is a most beloved father nonetheless.

Now the overwhelming part... I got home last night and there was a message on my machine from a person named Jen saying that I needed to call her about my friend Cristina, and that Cristina had asked her to call me. I assumed that something was wrong, and I figured maybe Cristina had been hurt in some way, and was in the hospital. I was trying to figure out if she was in Philly or at home, and when I could visit her, all of this stuff. So I called this random person, and after some confusion over who I was supposed to be talking to and who I was, the people there figured out that I was the Becky that I am, and that I didn't know anything about what had transpired... which I didn't.

I met with Cristina last week on Tuesday, catching up and finally getting together after several months of living just a few blocks from each other but never seeing each other. We talked about how her brother was going to leave for a semester in Sevilla that Thursday, and she was debating going to see him off Thursday night, or not. I don't know if she went. And just last night, at dinner, I said to Rachel how Cristina's brother must be in Spain now, and how neat that was. But apparently he went to Spain, and then somehow fell out of a window, and died.

I was so completely stunned. I'm still so completely stunned. He was going for his semester abroad and now he's dead... it doesn't make sense. I almost started crying on the phone, even though I never met this boy. His name is Nick. And I feel so, so badly for Cristina and her parents. I just keep thinking about it. And the thing with him going out the window makes me think of what happened to my cousin... and how no matter how hard it is for him to keep recovering, I am grateful he's alive and walking, now.

At the same time, I never knew this person. It's not a personal grief, it's a grief for my friend. And this makes me sort of restless and confused, because I keep going away into normal things and coming back to it again, and I don't quite know how to... fit it, in my emotional landscape, you know? Because it's so horrible that it can't help casting a shadow over everything today, and yet there's nothing I can do, really.

Oh, Cristina, I love you so much. I wish I could do something to make it better...

It's funny how things become instinctive at times of turmoil. I was in the shower shortly after I heard, saying Hail Marys before I really realized that I was, and it's funny because I never liked the rosary much.

I went to bed at the phone rang at 1:30 or something, and I nearly had a heart attack, but it was Lilah. I talked to her for longer than I should have given my morning appointment with work, I guess just because I was relieved no one else was dead or hurting.

And then of course this morning was just hellish and surreal, and it was pouring rain and I was running late so I had to take a taxi, and I forgot the cds I made to mail to my dad for his birthday, and now I'm here not working even though there's lots to do, but everything feels weird.

I guess there's nothing to say, really, but I hate that. I want there to be something to say. Because I want there to be something to do, and there... isn't.

I'm so, so sorry, Cristina!

Second Book: Where Shall Wisdom be Found?

So, I finished this book last week sometime, but kept forgetting to post about it. It's by Harold Bloom, and was the academic/dense part of my dad's lovely "complete reading experience" Christmas present to me.

It's basically a compendium of Bloom's ideas and impressions of various wisdom writings he has encountered over time, and I found it quite fascinating. His voice is fascinating because it's so erudite and so willing to judge... I always feel a combination of interest and trepidation when reading him, wondering if I could ever stand up to his appraisal. But at the same time, he presents a very human picture of himself, inside this strong mind, looking with the strength of his mind for something that will answer an even deeper part of himself. I can certainly identify with that. And, though it's not a focus of this book, he talks about Hamlet a bit, and I find it accords very strongly with my impressions of Hamlet after seeing it on stage the summer before I started college. In general, he just has such a defined perspective. Bloom, I mean, not Hamlet, and I am interested in that, too.

More than anything, the book left me with a desire to read many of these works that I have not read, like Nietzche, and the Gospel of Thomas. I'm sure that would please Bloom, and perhaps can serve as my commentary on this book until I've thought it through some more. :)

A Bit of Homegrown Gender Theory

I wrote this up for the Bryn Mawr Alumnae list serve, and decided I wanted to post it here as well... I probably said something about this to many of you when I first conceived of it, but let me know what you think anyway...

I think our basic societal perceptions of sexuality and gender are predicated upon the man-as-subject, woman-as-object relationship. (By subject and object I mean perceiver and perceived, or actor and acted upon, not necessarily the popular meaning of objectified as devalued, though it comes from the same root, I think.) This relationship is central to our societal conceptions and regulations of, as well as needs from, gender and sexuality.

This is the reason that heterosexual men (in the non-specific, societal sense) are both able to handle women falling in love and having sex and also basically encouraged to fetishize this-- and also why lesbians are, generally, far less visible than other populations. The women (two objects) are acting as subjects, true... but because the man is the real subject, the owner, if you will, of subjectivity, he can objectify them both, and there is less actual threat perceived from them because of this. Of course, it also tends to invalidate and/or veil the lesbian experience. Heterosexual women, for their part, are less likely to feel personally threatened by female homosexuality than heterosexual men by male homosexuality. I think this is because, as a subjective person, everyone must act as a subject in her or his own perceptions of the world. Therefore, all women experience the doubling, somewhat disconcerting sensation of being simultaneously a personal subject and a societal object-- as a normal part of their existance! So, to see women acting as subject and object to each other is not as threatening to their understanding of themselves and their societal role. However, this mushiness between subject and object identification, and indeed the intial construct that one must be a subject or an object in any sexual relationship to another might explain the confusion people sometimes experience/express about what constitutes "real" lesbian sexual intercourse-- and even the rather bizarre assertion that "real" lesbian sexual intercourse cannot exist.

It follows, then, that this is also why heterosexual men tend to be threatened by male homosexuality in a much stronger way. Male homosexuality creates a situation in which men act as subject toward male objects. As mentioned before, men have the power of subjectivity-- the whole system requires them to have it. So, a man will have trouble denying another man's subjecthood, which is fine as long it is turned upon women... but when it is turned upon men, any man may be suddenly put into the object position. This "feminizes" him in a much more disconcerting way than a simple sex act could, by making his relationship to society essentially feminine. (And, in turn, destabilizing the assumptions that our entire societal gender system is built upon!) This would also explain the almost compulsive societal need to stereotype homosexual men (not that lesbians are "un"stereotyped, but, as a general rule, it is the stereotypes of homosexual men that ellicit constant remark, use, parody, and also which have the most credance in society as a whole. If at least one homosexual man can be externally feminized enough to deintentify him with other men, placing him in his own special category, the threat he bears can also be isolated. Brokeback Mountain offers no such defense... in fact, no defense at all. To me, this is what makes it have the potentional to be so wonderful and liberating to people of all genders and sexualities... but therein also lies the threat. When someone reacts by striking out wildly at the very concept of homosexuality, I assume it is not merely a personal sexual discomfort and threat that s/he is reacting to, but also the implied dismantling/reshaping of (what I view as a false and very harmful but nonetheless extraordinarily pervasive) an entire societal system of gender.

I can see places in this where people might ask, but where is the penis? The vagina? Penetration etc.? Especially when I talk about what constitutes sex acts, and certainly with the subject-object motif. I agree that this is relevant, but I would argue that instead of our ideas about gender roles arising spontaneously out of the sex act itself, the way in which we frame and conceive of sexual activity and its implications arises from (and serves) the prevailing gender model.

A warning before I get off my soapbox: The evidence I have for all of this is based on my own experience and observation, and I'm sure many theorists that have soaked into my brain, but at this time I can name none, so I take credit for both my insights and my errors.

75.5... Personally, I think that's a little low to really be a whore.

...Though it does make me wonder about the obscene number of movies I must have seen so far in my life. Not obscene in a bad way, really, just... a lot.

Put an X next to the ones you've seen. Score over 70 and you're a movie whore. Copy, repost, and put your score in the subject line.

(x) Pirates of the Caribbean
( ) Boondock Saints
( ) The Mexican
(x) Fight Club
( ) Starsky and Hutch
(x) Neverending Story
( ) Blazing Saddles
( ) Garden State
(x) The Princess Bride
(x) Young Frankenstien
( ) AnchorMan
( ) Napoleon Dynamite
( ) Saw -- No, thank you.
( ) White Noise
( ) White Oleander
(x) Anger Management
Total here: 16 My Total: 6

(x) 50 First Dates
( ) Jason X
( ) Scream
( ) Scream 2
( ) Scream 3
( ) Scary Movie
(x) Scary Movie 2-- I think it was 2 and not 3... either way, it was pretty dumb.
( ) Scary Movie 3
( ) American Pie
( ) American Pie 2
( ) American Wedding
(x) Harry Potter
(x) Harry Potter 2
(x) Harry Potter 3
(x) Harry Potter 4
( ) Resident Evil I
( ) Resident Evil 2
( ) The Wedding Singer
( ) Little Black Book
Total here: 19 My Total: 6... a pattern emerges

( ) The Village
( ) Donnie Darko
(x) Lilo & Stitch
(x) Finding Nemo
( ) Finding Neverland
( ) 13 Ghosts
(x) Signs
(x) The Grinch --The old animated one, that is.
( ) Texas Chainsaw Massacre
( ) White Chicks
( ) Butterfly Effect
(x) Thirteen Going On 30--Sort of. I saw it on a bus, and the picture wasn't working most of the time, and for some reason that made it oddly endearing to me. That, and I was against the prententious woman on her cell phone behind me, who talked like it was pure torture to be subjected to such a peurile (spelling?) film.
(x) I, Robot--In the book, one of the protagonists was born in 1982. This always fascinated me.
( ) Dodgeball
( ) Universal Soldier
( ) A Series Of Unfortunate Events
( ) Along Came A Spider
( ) Deep Impact--Have I mentioned that I hate most disaster movies? (The most is in there basically for Titanic. So far I hate all natural disaster movies. Oh, a lot.
Total here: 18 My Total: 6 again!!! Wow!

( ) KingPin
( ) Never Been Kissed-- I'm a little confused about this one, but I think I'm mixing it up with something else that I did see.
( ) Meet The Parents
( ) Meet the Fockers
( ) Eight Crazy Nights
( ) A Cinderella Story
( ) The Terminal
( ) The Lizzie McGuire Movie
( ) Passport to Paris
( ) Dumb & Dumber
( ) Dumb & Dumberer
( ) Final Destination
( ) Final Destination 2
(x ) Halloween --Or, one of these Halloween things. Maybe it wasn't the first. At a Halloween party. It was Nathaniel's first horror movie... maybe mine too?
( ) The Ring
( ) The Ring 2
( ) Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
(/) Practical Magic --Well, I started watching this with Liz and then the movie died, so I never got to see the end!
(x) Chicago
( ) Ghost Ship
( ) From Hell
( ) Hellboy
(x) Secret Window
( ) I Am Sam --Wanted to.
( ) The Whole Nine Yards
( ) The Whole Ten Yards
( ) The Day After Tomorrow
( ) Child's Play
( ) Bride of Chucky
(x) Ten Things I Hate About You
( ) Just Married
( ) Gothika
( ) Nightmare on Elm Street
( ) Sixteen Candles
( ) Bad Boys
( ) Bad Boys 2
( ) Joy Ride
( ) Seven
(x) Oceans Eleven--Though I slept through a chunk in the middle... it wasn't boring, I was just exhausted.
( ) Oceans Twelve
( ) Identity
Total here: 41 My Total: 5.5... almost 6!

( ) Lone Star
( ) Predator I
( ) Predator II
(x) Independence day
( ) Cujo
( ) A Bronx Tale
( ) Darkness Falls
( ) Christine
(x) ET
( ) Children of the Corn
( ) My Boss' Daughter
( ) Maid in Manhattan
( ) Frailty
( ) Best bet
( ) How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
(x) She's All That --Oh, yeah, with a whole bunch of people... Marie... and... Anne? And Lindsay? Colleen? Maybe?
(x) Calendar Girls
(x) Sideways
( ) Mars Attacks
Total here: 19 My Total: 5... going down.

( ) Event Horizon
( ) Ever After
(x) Forrest Gump
( ) Big Trouble in Little China
(x) X-men 1
(x) X-men 2
(x) Catch Me If You Can--it was cool! I think my score is increasing a lot because of the movie days in the box office this summer.
(x) The Others
( ) Freaky Friday
( ) Ring of Fire
( ) The Hot Chick
(/) Swimfan--Oh... oh, let me tell you about this one. I was in Seville. It was STUPID, probably even more so in Spanish. My ear was exploding. I left in the middle (the only time I EVER have, I think), and caught a cab home. The cab driver, practicing English, said, "You are a nice girl. You are a pretty girl. You are the girl all the boys will think, I want you to have my babies."
( ) Miracle
( ) Old School
( ) Ray
(x) The Notebook
( ) K-Pax
Total here: 17 My Total: 6.5... highest yet!

(x) Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
(x) Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
(x) Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
( ) A Walk to Remember
( ) Boogeyman
( ) Hitch
( ) Back Door Sluts 9
( ) Anal Acres 1-- What?
( ) Anal Acres 2
( ) B-Cup Divas
(x) The Fifth Element
(x) Star Wars episode I The Phantom Menace
(x) Star Wars episode II Attack of The Clones
( ) Star Wars episode III Revenge of The Sith --Sad! Who wants to see it on video with me?
(x) Star Wars episode IV A New Hope
(x) Star Wars episode V The Empire Strikes Back
(x) Star Wars episode VI Return of The Jedi
( ) Troop Beverly Hills
( ) Swimming with Sharks
( ) Air Force One
( ) For Richer or Poorer
(x) Trainspotting-- Highly disturbing.
( ) People Under the Stairs--I've heard it's highly disturbing...
( ) Blue Velvet
(x) The Sound of Music--Yay!
(x) Parent Trap--Yay!
( ) The Burbs
( ) The Terminator
(x) Empire Records
( ) SLC Punk
( ) Meet Joe Black
( ) Wild girls
( ) A Clockwork Orange
( ) The Order
(x) Spiderman
(x) Spiderman 2
( ) Amelie--I know, I should.
Total here: 37 My Total: 15... whoa, explosion!

( ) Mean Girls
(x) Shrek
( ) Shrek 2
(x) The Incredibles
( ) Collateral
( ) The Fast & The Furious
( ) 2 Fast 2 Furious
( ) Sky Captain Of The World Of Tomorrow
(x) Closer--En espanol... a bit confusing.
Total here: 9 My Total: 3

(x) Titanic
(x) Saved
( ) Bowling For Columbine
( ) Fahrenheit 9/11
(x) The Sixth Sense
(x) Artificial intelligence (AI)
(x) Love, Actually
( ) Shutter
( ) Ella Enchanted
( ) Princess Diaries 1
( ) Princess Diaries 2
(x) Constantine
( ) Million Dollar Baby
( ) Envy
( ) Eurotrip
( ) Malibu's Most wanted
( ) Big Daddy
( ) Black Sheep
( ) The Breakfast Club
(x) West side story
Total here: 20 My Total: 7

( ) A Christmas Story
( ) Spanglish
( ) Pulp Fiction --I know, I know.
( ) Sleepover
( ) The Evil Dead
( ) Killer Klowns From Outer Space*--These random ones sort of make me want to write my own list.
( ) The Seed of Chucky
( ) Vanilla Sky the original spanish version-- No, but I know it's called Abre los ojos.
(x) Nightmare Before Christmas
(x) Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
(x) Interview With The Vampire
(x) The Crow
( ) Purple Rain
( ) Reservoir Dogs
( ) Wayne's World-- Maybe a few minutes of it...
Total here: 15 My Total: 4

( ) Wayne's World 2
( ) 21 Grams
( ) Blow
(x) Edward Scissorhands
(x) Clerks-- Summer in the Box Office... I think it was the last one.
(x) Beauty and the Beast
( ) Guess who
( ) Monster In-Law
( ) Elf
( ) Stuart Little
( ) Stuart Little 2
( ) Mall Rats
( ) Chasing Amy
(x) Dogma
( ) Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Total here: 15 My Total: 4

(/) Beetlejuice-- I... am not sure! I know I saw parts of it when I was little and it creeped me out... and I think I saw parts of it when I was older, and it didn't creep me out... but I don't know if that ever added up to the whole thing.
( ) The Last Samurai
( ) The Amityville Horror
( ) The Aviator
(x) Romeo and Juliet
(x) Romeo + Juliet
( ) Barbershop
( ) Beauty Shop
(x) Legally Blonde
( ) Legally Blonde 2
( ) The Forgotten
( ) Confessions Of A Teenage Drama Queen
( ) Grudge The Japanese version
Total here: 12 My Total: 3

ADDED, because they deserve to be here.

(x) American Beauty
( ) Crash
(x) Road to Perdition
( ) Fargo
(x) Moulin Rouge
( ) The Producers
( ) King Kong (1933)
(x) King Kong (2005)-- I wouldn't bother, by the way. Though the visuals are interesting and King Kong himself is cool.
( ) Bad Santa
( ) Batman 1: Batman
( ) Batman 2: Batman Returns
( ) Batmas 3: Batman Forever
( ) Batman 4: Batman and Robin
( ) Lost in Translation
(x) Madagascar
Total here: 15 My Total: 5

In Total: 75.5 /253

NO MORE!!!!!! LAST ONE GONE!

Goodbye, Harvard Divinity School Application!

I think you are the best one yet... please prove me write and come back with a yes! I like you a lot.

And you're the last........................................................... so strange!!!!

I will probably have to talk more about this later. For now............... GOOD LUCK to ALL!

Brokeback Mountain

I don't really know what to say, except I think I'm in love with this movie.

It was so perfect, and so incredibly acted, and so real. Somehow that reality, and the exquisteness of it as a movie mitigated the tragic aspects a bit for me, so when it finished I felt peaceful, and full of quiet joy that I had seen it. But then going to sleep and waking up, I couldn't stop thinking about it, and the weight of what had happened sunk in. Not in a despairing kind of way, though. I don't quite know how to describe it, except that it just stays present to me.

It was so good. So, so good. Every single actor did a really fantastic job. The setting was unbelievably beautiful. The story was incredibly complex and layered, for all its fairly simple layout. Jake Gyllenthal (spelling?) was amazing. Heath Ledger was extraordinary. I was incredibly impressed by them both. Heath Ledger seemed to be physically swallowed by Ennis, to inhabit him. The woman who played Ennis' wife was also extraordinary, and I was captivated (for all her small amount of screen time) by Jack's mother. Everything just felt real, in this totally palpable way. Oh, and I was completely invested in Ennis' eldest daughter, as well. She reminded me of me extremely... not just because she had brown hair and eyes, but really because of the way she carried herself, and how much she loved her father, the way she related to her father. That really resonated so much with me. All of the characters really did... I related a lot to the women, and I could feel for them so much, even though I was totally invested in Ennis and Jack's relationship. But when Alma (I think that was Ennis' wife's name) was suffering over having found out about them, I just felt it... I felt the hopes she had for her life, and how much she was confined... oh, especially when Ennis just sort of dropped the kids off at the store because he had to go to work... and I just had this feeling like I was inside her, like, the men have everything, they have everything, and now they have to take this, too. The one power that women have over men is stripped away. And I mean, of course it was a personal pain, but so... exacerbated. I didn't blame her one bit for lashing out at him, even though it was awful for him.

Jack and Ennis were so real... it took a long time to get to know them, even, Ennis especially. It took awhile to really start to feel them, and I learned more about them slowly throughout. So extraordinary. I can't say enough about the work of these two actors. I really can't. It's hard to believe Heath Ledger is the same person I saw in Casanova... because in so many was he wasn't! It was just... consummate transformation-- so, so, so marvelous. And their love story was utterly compelling. I'm fascinated by the interlocking themes of manliness and violence and repression and love and communication... the way they recurred in almost every character, almost every relationship in one way or another, so that the people were complete, and themselves, in each relationship they had. So many times in movies there's this "inevitable" love story. You know it's going to happen, it has to happen, and it does... but it doesn't feel real, precisely because of that. This was completely the opposite. You know it's going to happen, it has to happen, and it does... not even in a surprising way or anything... but it feels so real that it loses nothing to its own inevitability. It feels so real that it captivates without casting a glamour. Plenty of times love stories make me long for a love "like that," and I guess in some ways this did... but more, it made me feel part of that love, or, it was so connected to real feelings that I knew I have experienced this emotional world, and that I will go on experiencing it, because it is my emotional world too... because there is something about it that taps into being human, no matter what the specifics of your experience are. I know that all of these characters are like me, because I know they feel like I do... they just express it differently.

This movie says something that I have been trying to understand, about the violence that is done to and by all men and women, of any sexuality, in the name of conforming to society. It is not a joke or a theory... it is real violence. And it may not kill us all, but if it is not opposed it will surely drain who we are, to a colorless approximation.

And somewhere inside and beside and with that violence... there is beauty, too. There is the life of the soul. That's what struck me so much about Jack's mother... she lived in this squalid, soulless environment, and her soul was still so vital inside her. And that's why there is so much joy in the movie, and so much joy in me for having seen it, I think.

But I don't want to philosophize about it too much just yet. Go see it. You'll understand. I hope so much that everyone sees this. I think this is a movie with the power to change hearts, not because it actually changes them, in fact, but because it exposes them to the truth that is present in them already.

I love this movie, and I love the people in it, and when I saw the credit come up with the author's name I felt such a fierce joy and pride. It is my vocation to make stories like this, too. That is what I want. More on this later; it's something I've been meaning to talk over.

In the tradition of my more thoughtful posts, I'll end with a song. Consider it a love song, and a song of thanks for this beautiful story:

Now I walk in Beauty,
Beauty is before me.
Beauty is behind me,
Above and below me.
Now I walk in Beauty.

A (More Than Semi) Right Guid Willy Waught

I want to post about New Year's before I get so far into other things that I forget.

God, it was lovely. A bit of a whirlwind, so that I was very disoriented when I got back home/to work, and felt that much more time had passed than just a weekend. But lovely.

As sentimental as it may sound, my arms and my heart just feel more full with those people close by. It felt so right to be together again, even if not absolutely everyone could be there. And it was wonderful to be together with no obligations for once, too. Nobody was doing anything, performing anything, running around... we were just there to enjoy each other. And we did!

I'm glad Rachel and I decided to go on Friday. It was good just to arrive there, and fight our way through Times Square. And I was so excited when we were waiting for Lilah and Julia to appear! And then meeting Chelsea in Grand Central, and Maddie and Katie R. the next day... it felt like coming home. And I got most lovely presents. A work voodoo doll from Chelsea, which I'm sure will come in handy, a pair of pins from Julia which she said made her think of me... they make me think of me, too, and, completing the pin them with a flourish, a Saint Sebastian pin cushion from Lilah! I was SO excited about that... I cannot even express my excitement. And, of course, I had previously received a wonderful book of restoration plays called Libertine from Charlotte and Olivia Saves the Circus (by Ian Somethingorother!) from Katie R. Lovely, lovely, lovely. Which apparently is the word of the hour.

Friday night at Julia's we couldn't stand to actually separate ourselves into reasonable sleeping arrangments (i.e., one person per bed, as had been arranged), and instead Chelsea, Rachel, and I all snuggled together on one big matress, and we pulled the other matresses together so Lilah and Julia were within reach as well.

Saturday we hung out sleepily for much of the day at Katie's, as her sister plied us with champagne. In the midst of all this we got lunch and I managed to submit my Duke application. Then, we realized that the MOST IMPORTANT THING TO DO for the New Year was to learn ALL the verses of Auld Lange Syne in Scottish. (The title comes courtesy of the last of those verses.) This filled me with joy. We sounded quite beautiful, in Katie's sister's living room, and I felt the meaning of the song in a totally new way as I looked around at all the faces. I think everybody else did, too.

Eventually, we got dressed and dolled up (in a manner of speaking), and headed out for dinner and Beauty Bar, where we planned to ring in the New Year. Dinner ended up being at a marvelous diner called Joe Jr.'s. It was the most decorated place I have ever seen in my life. There were Christmas decorations, New Year's decorations, Hanukkah decorations (including a big fuzzy blue Star of David)... all on every possible wall and hanging from the ceiling and everything. When we arrived in our big crew of 7, one of the waiters kept insisting we were eight and trying to add himself to the party. They also tried to convince us to split up into two booths, but we were not to be deterred from excessive togetherness. The waiters continued to be extraordinarily solicitous... when we asked what the soups of the day were, they brought us two small bowls and seven spoons! And after the meal, they asked if it was anyone's birthday, and we said it was Katie R's in a week, so they brought us two slices of apple pie covered in vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry ice cream and whipped cream! Then the waiter who had tried to join us earlier also tried to pay his share... which Katie R. said was, in fact, the whole bill. Oh! And as we were eating, a whole ENORMOUS parade of vehicles went by, all with giant menorahs atop them! And there were big vans that said "Mitzvah Mobile" and stuff. It was really incredibly cool.

After our fabulous meal, we went off to Beauty Bar, and were admitted amid a flurry of ID checking and cover charge paying. We had Dirty Girl Scouts to start, officially my favorite shot, and then Lemon Drops, and then... I had a rum and cranberry... and waited a little before having a gin and tonic... and later at some point had a B52, and finally champagne at midnight. I was really drunk, mostly because I've never done lots of shots before. But in a mostly fun way, no sickness or anything. Though there was definitely a period of time when Katie R. and I were clinging to a parking meter outside, and it felt sooo nice and cool and stationary, and we definitely discussed how odd we must look. And we took a whole series of Affectionate Women pictures, to compliment Rachel's present to Maddie (a book called Affectionate Men). And I kissed everyone at midnight, I think, though I have no memory of where I started. And, of course, we sang Auld Lange Syne... all the verses... in Scottish.... really loudly and not so prettily, but we got them all, even drunk. It was marvelous. There was lots of dancing. Good music! They said they didn't have Mr. Brightside, but they played it anyway. I got really hot and had to take my sweater off, revealing my very tight "Book Worm Walk" shirt underneath, but apparently it went over well, since two strange boys danced with me, and one seems to want to get together for coffee next week. I'm not yet sure what I think about that. Lilah's boyfriend Joe showed up and lei'd us all, and Katie R. and Rachel and he and I had a lovely dance entangling ourselves in the unraveled cord of plastic lei. Everything has this sort of colorful haze over it in my memory, though by the end I was much less drunk... since I stopped drinking shortly after midnight and we went home around 4. And it's not that I was perfectly happy the entire time... it's more that everything felt right in some hard-to-pin-down kind of way.

We went home and collapsed, emerging slowly the next day, and I made scrambled eggs with delicious cheese and ham, and we went to see Casanova, which was a rollicking good time, full of fun and sweetness and visual loveliness (in people and location) and silliness and laughter. And then we parted ways with the crowd going back to Julia's, and Katie R's lovely sister took Katie and Rachel and I out for Chinese food. Rachel and I finally made it home about 1:00 AM, and I slept forever and ever, and got up and did my applications.

And that was my New Year.

:)

One More Down, Only One to Go!

Goodbye, NYU application!

It is getting easier; I think you took the least time. May you be no less (and possibly even more) effective for all that. Good luck! Come back with offers and success!

Interesting...

Your Love Element Is Fire

In love, you are a true listener and totally present. For you, love is all about feeling more alive than you've ever felt. You attract others with your joy and passion. Your flirting style is defined by your strong ability to communicate. Fun and play are the cornerstones of your love life. And while your flame may burn too brightly, it's part of your appeal. You connect best with: Wood Avoid: Water You and another Fire element: will likely burn out quickly

What Element Is Your Love?

First Book: Man and Boy

So, I decided an exciting thing to do would be to record all the books I read this year in this journal. My dad urged me years ago to make a list of all the books I'd ever read, sort of a curicculum vitae, I guess... I was intrigued but daunted by the prospect and I never did. However, new year means a new start, and yesterday I finished the first book of the new year. :) It was Man and Boy by Tony Parsons, a book I had heard vaguely about and perhaps seen in the bookstore. I got this book in New York City, when Rachel and I went to meet up with Charlotte and Katie and Julia and see The Gentleman Dancing Master by good old Little Willy. After getting off the Chinatown bus, I discovered there are a dearth of bathrooms in Chinatown, at least that I could find, and ended up taking refuge in a library. Said library had a book sale.... 10 books for a dollar. I couldn't believe my eyes. That meant the books were 10 CENTS EACH. I bought ten, as you might imagine. Well, I bought nine and Rachel bought one, amid much bemusement on her part at my extravagance. Or whimsy, or something. I don't really know, as it seemed the only sensible course of action to me. Anyway, one of these ten books was Man and Boy.

I started Man and Boy because I wanted something engaging, and realistic, and not too heavy. It was, in fact, all of those things. I definitely liked it more at the end than I did in the beginning... I think it's interesting how that happens in some books: you're going along thinking, well, this is ok, but essentially you aren't fully engaged. And then, suddenly, something makes it personal to you, and you're with the story in a different way. For a lot of the book, I felt like it was probably very relevant to a lot of people, but that I was not yet in the stage of life that would make it relevant to me. And the writing was... simple, and straightforward. However, as the book progressed I got more into it, especially Harry(the narrator)'s relationship with his son. Which was, of course, one of the main points of the book. I think I was interested, in general, to see how a man wrote a novel that seemed to parallel a lot of popular novels aimed at women from a male perspective. I found that I understood and was sympathetic to Harry's motivations, even when he was making bad decisions. On the other hand, I was puzzled by Gina, his ex-wife, even though perhaps if I was in her situation I'd have behaved more similarly. I don't really know.

I liked Harry's puzzle about where he was in time and society, and what it meant to be alive and struggling now, as opposed to in the (overly) idealized world of his parents. And one part when he was saying goodbye to his son, Pat, really made me think of my father, and almost made me cry.

I'm not sure what I'm going to to do with the book. I'd be willing to give it up to bookcrossing, but I feel like I want to be sure that somebody receives it, maybe, instead of just dropping it off somewhere. We'll see.

Happy 2006 reading! Or something. :)

Two Down (finally!), Two to Go!

Goodbye, Yale Application!

Goodbye, Harvard Application!

Extra-special good luck to both of you, with all your prestige and everything. :) I hope they like my brain, where you live. And Harvard Application, please inform your writers that it is not necessary to be so damn complicated and specific about everything.

Just two more left...