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[froodle]

Give me a character from any fandom, tv show, movie, book you know that I know and I will tell you:
a. My favorite thing about that character.
b. My least favorite thing about that character.
c. One person I would ship them with in their own verse.
d. One crossover ship for them I think would be neat.
e. One crossover universe for them I think would be even neater.
f. Their ship from hell.
g. Their song.
h. The title of their biography or autobiography.
i. The last bad dream they had.
j. How they're gonna shuffle off the mortal coil, if they haven't already.

In other news, I am seriously thinking about going back to school full-time. Not to do law (my parental-inflicted enemy of five and a half hideously boring years) or even english (my first love, and like the first guy I fell in love with, a lot of fun at the time but a total waste in the long run) but something practical. Automotive repair or something.

As things stand at the moment, I have absolutely no transferable skills from the three years I have wasted in call centres. So I give great customer service? All that really means is that I'm adept at taking shit from sub-literate fuckwits. And even with the promotion, so now I'm also good at supporting my team with difficult queries? Great, I have the ability to explain incredibly simple concepts to developmentally-challenged clods. Yay for me.

I've survived this long by telling myself I would take my experiances and shape them into a zeitgeist-capturing satirical novel about a phonemonkey who is driven to become a serial killer by the stupidity and rudeness of the general public, but more and more it feels like I might just skip the writing and go straight to the cutting of throats in real life.

If I could do something where I worked with machines instead of people, it might improve my day-to-day moods, if not my habitually grouchy disposition. Not to mention, I may develop the technical skills I need to build my dream invention, the Deppotron. It's the next generation of my initial dream invention, the Deppbot, but where the Deppbot was purely about sex with a robot that looks like Johnny Depp, the Deppotron comes with added features, like the ability to fly and cook and clean and perform household DIY. And of course it shoots lasers from it's eyes, for those inevitable days where sex and cake aren't going to cheer me up and all that will work is a massacre.

Because sometimes even sex with Johnny Depp isn't as satisfying as really fucking someone up.

Comments

[3circledsun.livejournal.com]

Hi. I stumbled across your journal and find you interesting. Mind if I add you?

[froodle]

Not at all.

[3circledsun.livejournal.com]

great. I'm adding you now!

Actually, you're wrong

[googlebrat.livejournal.com]

You have experience in the utilities industry. You know how things work behind the scenes. You understand how things are calculated (because it's not just stupid phone people - VERY FEW people know that). That might well buy you a job in utilities - OFF the callcentre floor.

If your systems are anything like ours, you can, at a pinch, work out bills manually - which is NOT easy maths. That's good experience if you want to go into maths style work. (Accountancy? I hate it, but hey)

You've had experience learning and using proprietary user input systems. You understand those, and you understand how people get them *wrong*, because you've sworn at them. That's invaluable software design, and user testing knowledge.

And that's just the BEGINNING.

Re: Actually, you're wrong

[googlebrat.livejournal.com]

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I know we usually do Leeds places, but sometimes The Boss forgets to tell us when they open for places. Experience says that it's a GOOD scheme. And utilities experience is GOOD.

Re: Actually, you're wrong

[froodle]

I think any math-related job would disappoint me vastly by totally failing to be like Numb3rs. I'd be like, "So when do we go out and catch some arsonist-ninja-terrorist-spies with the power of SUMS?" and they'd be like, "Seriously, we just need you to do a statistical model showing the most effective way of displaying products on a shop floor," and I'd be like, "YOU ALL SUCK!"

[shirleyann66.livejournal.com]

You crack me up - even as you scare me {note to self: be nice to froodle; be very nice to froodle}. LOL I understand your frustrations and with the week I've had, I would buy your Deppotron, even though sex with Johnny Depp has never been high on my list of "Things To Do" (unless he's looking/acting/sounding like Jack Sparrow, 'cause that's a whole other fantasy sequence... ;) ).

As googlebrat said, you have tons of transferable skills - and if I wasn't so burnt out, I would articulate them just like they did. But I am, so I won't. Instead, I will play the game you set out.

Because I'm obsessed...er...focused and seriously need help, I am, of course, going to say: Major Edward Beck. (surprise!!) I'm really curious to see what you're going to come up with. :)

[froodle]

The Deppotron can do anything the real Johnny Depp can do, plus some extra stuff like shoot rockets and punch through walls and other roboty things. So being Jack Sparrow wouldn't be a problem. In fact, it would be better, because the real Jack Sparrow is undoubtably riddled with syphilis, whereas the Deppotron is immune to any manner of filthy disease.

a. My favorite thing about that character.
His moral core - civilization in America has become ameaningless concept, he's working for a corporation that has somehow become a government, and he's still there trying every day to do the right thing according to his own lights. He's smart enough to trust his own instincts about right and wrong and strong enough to stand up for them when it counts.
b. My least favorite thing about that character.
That he wasn't in it more!
c. One person I would ship them with in their own verse.
Heather
d. One crossover ship for them I think would be neat.
Diana Skouris from the 4400
e. One crossover universe for them I think would be even neater.
The Buffyverse. After Giles left, there was a vacuum for an alpha-male with strong protective instincts. He wouldn't have stood for all that Initiative-related fuckery or the horror that was Spike/Buffy.
f. Their ship from hell.
Beck/Mehmily. OH MY GOD I JUST THREW UP IN MY MOUTH JUST FROM WRITING IT.
g. Their song.
Democracy, by Leonard Cohen
h. The title of their biography or autobiography.
He would be far too self-effacing, not to mention busy actually DOING stuff, to write an autobiography. He wouldn't like the idea of a biography either. However, he would be a significant figure in the history books following the civil war that Jake and Mister Hawkins start at the end of season two.
i. The last bad dream they had.
I would imagine it relates to the fate of his wife in the wake of the attacks.
j. How they're gonna shuffle off the mortal coil, if they haven't already.
Fighting bravely FOR JUSTICE against the corrupt government of the new Allied States of America

[shirleyann66.livejournal.com]

You rock! :)

First, good point about Jack Sparrow being riddled with syphilis and other nasty STDs - but by God, I'd bet he'd make it worth the risk... ;) So, the Deppotron it is!

f. Their ship from hell.
Beck/Mehmily. OH MY GOD I JUST THREW UP IN MY MOUTH JUST FROM WRITING IT.

AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!! ew - ick - uck - ptui ptui!! Mind bleach! I need mind bleach!!

Ahem.

Yes, I can certainly agree with this point of view. :)

[froodle]

I suppose since we are modern women with access to condoms and anti-biotics, we wouldn't be as much at risk of catching syphilis from Cap'n Sparrow as other Ye Olde Worlde harlots and gay blacksmiths, so it could still be worth it, if only so that we could better compare the experiance to the Deppotron and thus refine it's various functions. All in the name of SCIENCE of course.

I know, it was so gross I cried a little bit as I was typing it. MEHMILY! Thou art a curse.

[shirleyann66.livejournal.com]

All in the name of SCIENCE of course.

Well, of course! What other reason could there possibly be???? ;)

I know, it was so gross I cried a little bit as I was typing it.

I cried a little when I read it.

MEHMILY! Thou art a curse.

I hear ya...why, why, WHY was she inflicted upon us??? Whyyyyy??

[chibimarchy.livejournal.com]

Do I even have to put which character I want you to do? I believe not. XD

And I suppose going for Communications (that's what I'm into) would be out of the question, if you don't want to deal with people, lol. But I totally get what you mean-- I'm a cashier, and God knows I've had to put up with a lot of fucktards over the last three or so years. :/

[froodle]

This being you, it could be either Dash or Mars, but Dash is my favourite, so I'm going to assume you meant him.

a. My favorite thing about that character.
EVERYTHING! But mostly it's a tie between his hair (so pretty!) and his world-weary cynicism - for someone who can't remember his own history, he's got a very bleak worldview when it comes to people.
b. My least favorite thing about that character.
That he only appeared in the last six episodes - there was so much more to his story!
c. One person I would ship them with in their own verse.
Mars, come on, like you need me to say it.
d. One crossover ship for them I think would be neat.
I really can't think of anyone I'd rather see him with than Mars
e. One crossover universe for them I think would be even neater.
Dash is so quintesentially Eerie, I can't think of a place he'd be better suited to, other than shows that are ALSO about small towns where weird shit happens - Twin Peaks, A Town Called Eureka, Invasion, that kind of thing. I think he'd do well in something like Hustle, given his propensitiy for deception and manipulation, but frankly Hustle isn't worthy of that good a character. I could kind of see him in Carnivale - like Ben and Brother Justin, there's a sense of destiny there, of events unfolding around him that are going to have long-reaching effects on the path of the worlds, but that comes from my own personal theory that Dash is some kind of Avatar so it may not translate properly to a story.
f. Their ship from hell.
Dash/Mayor Chisel. COME ON YOU KNOW WINSTON TOTALLY WANTS IT!
g. Their song.
Take me or leave me, from RENT (this is more of a coupole song, I know, but whatever)
h. The title of their biography or autobiography.
Paradigm Shift
i. The last bad dream they had.
You know the dreams that Wolverine has in the first X-Men movie, where he's in the tank and there are all those scientist dudes? Something along those lines.
j. How they're gonna shuffle off the mortal coil, if they haven't already.
Massive reallignment of reality during the events of Switching Channels (the first episode of EI: Next Dimension). He doesn't so much die as get wiped out of existance altogether.

[chibimarchy.livejournal.com]

I refuse to acknowledge the existence of The Next Dimension. You just can't duplicate greatness-- it always ends badly...

And, oh my God, why do I suddenly want to write some sort of creepy dark fic with Dash/Mayor Chisel? D: D: D:

[froodle]

I felt sorry for the Next Dimension. By the time it aired, it was too late to really be considered a continuation of the original series, so it had to stand on it's own merits, but at the same time EI had just started to achieve cult status, so it was never going to live up to it's predecessor. It kind of got screwed coming and going.

And NO! That would be almost as doom-worthy as your love of the unmentionable P&P remake.

[chibimarchy.livejournal.com]

LOL. I apologize and beg your humble forgiveness.