lily_handmaiden | Entries tagged with bones

This is the end of my first week of summer vacation. "Erin," you may ask, "how could that be? Your university completed its spring term nigh the end of May, which is how you got to go have a great time at Hanover as detailed in this Compendium entry!" Well, clearly you were not paying attention to the whole entry, because I also talked a lot about how I had to write a paper about Emily Dickinson that was finished in the wee hours of the first of June. After which I had a Basement Musical Dance Party to work off all the crazy energy I had pent up from that experience. I had never wanted to move around so much in all my life. I wanted to work out, people. That's how bad it got. And I got way obsessed with Rent. I am still not any more sure why this happened than I was on Compendium. I realized after the Basement Musical Dance Party (at which my beloved friends probably thought I was insane but were too nice to say anything), though, that after months of not doing theatre, not reading for pleasure, not writing anything but academic papers, my creativity and imagination were dammed up to overflowing, and when that happens, I revert to Ten-Year-Old Erin. "Let's play Rent! I'll be Maureen!" It's... weird, but seriously, that's what happens to me sometimes.

June 3rd was this journal's fifth birthday! My Turtle is, like, in kindergarten now! I feel like a very proud, but neglectful parent. But don't worry, I have plenty of plans for your entertainment and mine to blog about over the summer. I won't disclose all of them yet, but I do plan to start updating Story Dice again in the nearest future possible. Also, tomorrow I am going to see Wicked and will post my full review! I AM SO EXCITED!

For now, the backlog of icons I've been collecting for months!

Arthurian Manuscripts!

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At about midnight the night before my art history paper was due, nothing was funnier than these. Oh, Lancelot and Guenevere.

Bones!

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( 3 more featuring more of The Sword! )
5: parallel images omg! From the Pilot and The Girl in the Mask.
6-11: The sword was the star of "The Princess and the Pear." Props to Sweets for the Star Wars, Hodgins for the Arthurian, and Brennan for the ass-kicking.

Kate Beaton!

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( 2 more: the Party Boat and a scene from Pride and Prejudice! )

13: My feline roomate does this to me when her mom is unavailable.
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cleolinda 's "The Secret Life of Dolls!"

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( 17 more featuring Anna Dollerious, The Littlest Edward, the Anti-Sparklepire Task Force, and more! )
The Clone Wars!
(Shut up!)

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( 28 more, including many kickass females )
62-62: Concept art!
69-70: from TPM novel
80: Heh heh. "Lightsaber."

Bonus Star Wars!

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( 3 more )
81: From the Children's Museum Clone Wars exhibit
82, 85: "Learn to draw Luminara Unduli like Katie Cook!" the website said. "Or," I replied, "I could just take Katie Cook's drawing and make an icon." Credit Katie Cook!
83, 84, 86, 87: Daniel Logan's 501st card is so full of angst, it is awesome. This makes me really hope he ends up in the live-action series.

If you go to my Photobucket for whatever reason, bear in mind that if the picture is not titled "mine," I probably stole it and forget who from. So... dun re-steal.

Current Music: Wicked

It's been a while since I've posted the icons I've made, and I figure I might as well do it now before February sweeps hits. Therefore, behold!

Bones

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The Office

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( 4 more )

How I Met Your Mother

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Kate Beaton Comics

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( 6 more, featuring George IV, Shakespeare, and Fat Napoleon )

Jonathan Coulton

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( 7 more Skullcrusher Mountain )
Austen vs. Bronte

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Ah, the age-old question: If Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte got into a knock-down drag-out fight, who would win? My money's on Jane. (These are for Whitney. :))

The Duchess

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( 12 more )
And, because the movie was so pretty that the icons don't really need text, I give you my "Duchess" bases.

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Current Music: Jonathan Coulton

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In an effort to get caught up and stay that way, I'm going to go through this episode as quickly as I can (which, as we all know, will probably not be terribly quickly).

( Bones 4.7: The He in the She )

Weekly Lesson from Dr. Temperance Brennan: "I believe in always swimming with a buddy."
(Come on, what else could it be?)

Possible future recap title: Um... "Redemption Through Transformation," maybe?

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Music: Syntax, "Pride"

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( Bones 4.6: The Crank in the Shaft [best title ever] )

Our Weekly Lesson from Dr. Temperance Brennan: Marijuana doesn't make you a killer.

Probably Future Recap Title: Threat Level Midnight

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Terribly late, I know, but it's been a tough week. To be fair, I did start this post a week ago.

OH. MY. GOD. I am still smiling from last week’s Bones episode. And I think you know why. I think we all know why. And I don’t think anybody could have seen that one coming.

( Bones 4.5: The Perfect Pieces in the Purple Pond [because alliteration is always awesome] )
Probably future recap title: "Return of the King"

Our Weekly Lesson from Dr. Temperance Brennan: "Just so you know, this is much more of an anomaly than the missing head."

Current Mood: busy

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Such a good episode! I seriously cannot think of anything critical to say about it, except the tiny matter of when we're ever going to see Brennan and Parker actually have a conversation. They're holding out on us with this. It's either going to be painfully awkward or incredibly adorable or both (first one, then the other). And I have a feeling it's coming this season.

That's it. So... You're about to be exposed to a total squee-fest.

This episode had everything that makes me love this show.

1. A plot that actually allows the characters to grow and develop and reveal bits of their psychology to us.

2. A B plot that does the same for the secondary characters we so love

3. Emotional implications from past episodes

4. Booth/Brennan bonding at the end

5. Bonus! Parker adorableness

( Bones 4.4: The Finger in the Nest )

Possible future recap title: All Dogs Go To Heaven

Our Weekly Lesson from Dr. Temperance Brennan: "Like all dogs, Ripley only saw the good in people. Dogs are like that. People should take a lesson."

Current Mood: geeky

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I just realized that I didn't mention the redesigned credits sequence when I talked about the Bones premiere. I don't know. It's growing on me. But did they really have to use that picture of poor John Francis Daley with elf ears?

( Bones 4.2 [4.3?]: The Man in the Outhouse )

Our Weekly Lesson From Dr. Temperance Brennan: "I've heard that, if practiced correctly, tantric sexual techniques can extend orgasms by four- to five hundred percent."

Probable future recap title: Some kind of play on "Big Love." I'm not sure what yet.

Here are some icons from "Yanks in the UK"!

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Current Music: Jonathan Coulton

T minus 45 minutes till "The Man in the Outhouse" and I'm finally posting the second half (hopefully) of my Bones season 4 predictions.

And, in case you were wondering-- yes, other things have been happening in my life. Real things. Like this and this. It's just premiere time, so this is where my lj-ing focus has been.

So. Back to the Booth/Brennan spoilers.

( More B/B spoilers )
( The fantasy episode )
Apparently, they're also trying to get Goodman and Heavy D to come back to visit. Y'all know I'm all about that. Also: new hangout locations, mostly outside. Okay, as long as it's not the middle of the woods somewhere, randomly, like in "Baby in the Bough." I agree with Boreanaz that there should be a bar.

A review of "The Man in the Outhouse" and "Yanks" icons after the episode!

Those were the first words out of my mouth when this episode opened at Oxford. They were also uttered at several points in London (including an establishing shot of Picadilly Circus).

I've decided that I'm going to try to do reaction posts after new episodes of Bones and The Office. Because I can if I want.

( Bones 4.1: Yanks in the UK )

Keep 'em coming, please, and make them just as delightful. But take care of your minor characters.

Probable future recap tite: Booth/Brennan Field Trip 4: London Calling

Our weekly lesson from Dr. Temperance Brennan (on the workings of the voicemail): "Technically, you have not reached Temperance Brennan. But if you leave a message, it will reach her. Me. Temperance Brennan."

Which, even where it fell in the episode, made me laugh out loud. But then, Angela's message to her just about broke my heart. She needed her best friend. It made me miss my friends.

Speaking of, shout out to Bethany, who helped me organize my thoughts.

Current Mood: okay

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After a long hiatus, I am back! Just in time to record my official predictions based on spoilers for the fourth season of Bones. SPOILERS AHEAD!

( Yanks in the UK )

( Hodgela )

( Zack )

( Sweets )

( Cam )

( Two kinds of families )

( Booth and Brennan )

Argh! More after the episode, then!

It's taken me a long time to get to this, and I don't really have much of an excuse. I graduated, and it was wonderful. Other minor things have happened. Most of the time I've been cleaning my room-- it is SO CLEAN!-- working, and recapping. I'm also moving all my icons to a new photobucket in a project I'm calling The Great Icon Migration of '08.

But now, at last, the very last one of these for my undergrad experience...

Quotes of the Semester, Winter-Spring 2008

( Early Lit )

( Divas of Poetry )

( Star-Crossed Lovers )

( Theatre )

( Misc. )

Unfortunately, I couldn't write down all the funny things that were said this semester, so don't feel left out. I'm sure that you said all kinds of hilarious things, but I had stupidly forgotten my notebook or was feeling lazy.

And finally, as a tribute to my wonderful friends at Hanover, I have made some icons just for you guys:

Current Mood: sleepy

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Here follows some introspection about how I'm about to be forced another step closer to the real world, and how my crazy obsessive mind has chosen to deal with it.

The more I think about the Bones finale, the more I, personally, am fine with it. Storywise, I'm not too concerned about next year. Yes, the dynamic of the group will be different; it will never be the same again. Yes, they're breaking up the lab family. But the more I think about it, the more I kind of like the idea that Brennan now finally has her real family back, all together, and her lab family falls apart. So now she has to try to fix that horrible facet of her life, that abandonment and betrayal. They're still family though, and this could end up bringing everyone a little closer. Plus, Cam finally fits in, and Zack will probably be back periodically, and I feel more or less confident after the strong fan reaction that the writers realize they will have some 'splainin' to do, and do it. They've confirmed that they were going to give Zack post-traumatic stress from Iraq, and I think that was going to lead to the Gormogon thing, but because of the strike they had to cut down that middle step. The people who have thought about it have made the connection, it just needs to be explicitly stated on the show. The rational people have started to come out of the woodwork and say everything I said in my last post and then some, which makes me happy.

But now I compulsively check my

storydicefriends page for what they're saying now, what rage is being unleashed, and I always click with a feeling of dread, but I always look. There are still fans who are really pissed, the cast of the show is upset-- or was when they found out-- which is completely understandable, as they did sort of let Eric Millegan go in a shitty way, and they're a very close cast. It makes me worried about potential trouble between cast and writers, that things will sort of go sour that end. Though I also kind of feel that now they've had some time to think about it, just like we have, and are probably more or less okay. I hope. And I'm worried that enough people will be upset and/or stop watching the show to cause the critical notice and acclaim it's recently gotten to tank, or even put it back on the bubble. I know this isn't very likely, but still. It's not a fun time to be a Bones fan, and here's me, just getting into the actual fandom, and it's like I can't relax and be happy until it seems like everybody's happy. Which is never going to happen. It's irrational.

It's a TV show. And yet I just sort of walk around feeling melancholy.

Then, this morning, I started to realize... the times when that melancholy feeling goes away are when I'm with my friends. That's when I stop thinking about it, stop worrying, and have a much more positive outlook. And then a couple of times I've caught myself thinking, "The sad thing is, this has changed everything. It's just that I feel like an era is over and we're looming over uncharted territory, and we don't know what's going to happen-- it would be so much easier if I just knew already that everything was going to be okay-- and we can't go back to that innocent period before. Kind of like with graduation, when I'll be gone and I'll never be able to come back." Oh. "And, it's like... the lab family's breaking up, which works storywise, but it's still so sad... They weren't even thinking of that at Christmas, that it was their last Christmas... Will they ever all be together again? I don't know. Just like I don't know if I'll ever be together will all my friends again. My friends... who have become like my family... in this place... which has become like my home." OH. "And they'll have to bring in all new people, an endless rotation of students, and there's no guarantee that any of them will fit, just like I don't know how I'll fit with the people at UIUC, and anyway, the group will be different. Zack won't be there in person." Yeah. In a phrase I've picked up recently from

cleolinda, OH, I SEE WHAT U DID THAR.

I graduate on Saturday. Hanover has been my home, my place where I belong, my idyllic bubble. I remember, the first time I rode in through scenic, I thought, Oh, my God, it's Ithilien! And I got out of the car and started walking around and immediately felt at home here. I know from high school that I'm not really going to miss the majority of people here-- my acquaintances and such. But the people who are really my friends, who I really know-- people like Whitney and Bethany and

celtic_songster and Tiffany and the Battleses-- I am going to miss them so much. I'm going to miss this place so much. I know that I'll keep in touch with the above people via phone and email and visits, but I'm not going to be here. It will be different. And the people I don't know that well but I like, and the campus, I'm having to say goodbye now. I hate it.

I've never handled change well. It's the uncertainty, mostly. In between high school and college I had a series of stress-related health issues. Now, apparently, I'm avoiding confronting my graduation and the real source of my angsty feelings by shoving them off on the Bones finale. I've always seen a bit of myself in Brennan, so why not? I don't really know what to do about this. With both the show and my future, it's simply a "wait and see" scenario. Like the show, I know that my life is probalby going to turn out fine. I know I probably have the wherewithal to make it. I know that freaking out isn't really logical, but still. It's what I have a history of doing.

So, if I seem too involved in really, really wanting everybody to be cool with the show and for the show itself to turn out all right... that's why. It's all symbolic and stuff.

Current Mood: contemplative

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Spoilers ahead for the Bones finale, "The Pain in the Heart."

I had a pretty strong reaction to "The Pain in the Heart." First of all, Emily Deschanel, Eric Millegan, and Tamara Taylor all pulled off EXCELLENT performances. They made me cry. Poor Brennan. Poor Zack.

I spent several weeks being really worried that Zack was going to die last night. I thought, "I can handle anything but Zack dying." I had no idea, not an inkling that Zack was going to be Gormogon's apprentice. I couldn't believe it. I adore Zack. At first I thought, "Zack would never do that!"

But then I thought about it more. I have experience in this kind of thing, from minutely analyzing Star Wars. And... I understood why Zack would do that. It's horrible, it's awful, it breaks my heart, but... I get where it came from, and it makes me so sad for Zack. I don't love him any less. I spent a lot of last night dreaming about giving him a hug. I'm not even making that up.

This is a character analysis, the connections I made which got me to this point.

ETA: I don't know why the font has come out weird. Please bear with it.

( Some of us lie... )

I know that a lot of this episode seemed rushed. I really think that they had to shove three episodes into one, to make up for the strike. If they hadn't all of this stuff would have been filled in a little more, and it wouldn't have felt so jarring. Maybe next year they'll revisit this and help us along with our understanding of Zack's fall.

P.S. Is Zack a widow's son? Did his dad die sometime in the last two years? Or did Gormogon just make an exception to the rule because of Zack's Jeffersonian connections?

Current Mood: melancholy

As we've already established, it's season finale time, and that means it's also time for me to burn off my nervous finale-related energy by making icons. Which means that it's also time for me to get rid of the backlog of icons I've developed over the past few months. And thus this post came to be.

10 Austen-related icons
Three quotes from Austenblog's comparison of Mansfield Park '07's Fanny Price to Chuck Norris. Seven book illustrations.

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12 Bones icons
Let us remember happy times, before the season finale tomorrow potentially makes everything much less happy.

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6 Susan Pevensie icons

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7 for "Story Dice"
Have I mentioned yet that Michael and I have started a recapping blog? Amazingly enough, I haven't! Everybody, go visit

storydice! I am recapping Bones so far, and Michael is recapping How I Met Your Mother and Psych.

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One for "How I Met Your Mother," and one of Marie de France.

Current Mood: busy
Current Music: Kate Bush, "Wuthering Heights"

My original plan was to do one huge icon post for the over fifty icons I've accumulated and not posted yet, but then I thought maybe I'd like to link some of them to communities, and that isn't really something I want to do with these. These are for my own amusement and that of my friends. Because the last thing I want to do is make the author of that paragon of bad fanfiction known as "Taken!" stop writing.

So here, ladies and gentlemen, are seventeen quote icons from "Taken!" Because I couldn't resist. More behind the cut.

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( I forgot to mention to you, I tapped into everyone's computers at her labrartory. )

And, as a bonus, two icons from "Held at Gunpoint":

Current Mood: busy
Current Music: Kate Bush, "Wuthering Heights"

( aforementioned icon of optimism )

Wow, two entries in one day! I keep saying I'm going to blog more, and this is a good way to start. By just blogging what I feel like blogging in the moment.

Folks, there is a reason I tend to look at spoilers a lot, and that reason is exemplified in the fact that my abdominal muscles are actually sore from being clenched all day in anticipation of the Office finale. And that I'm slightly nauseous from compulsively eating popcorn just to give my nervous hands and mouth something to do. Does this say good things about my mental and emotional health? Probably not. But I'm addicted to fiction like Ryan Howard is addicted to the crack. I can't help it-- as a writer, as an actor, as an avid reader since the age of six, I can't help but get involved.

This May sweeps is driving me crazy. I can now vividly remember the reason that as recently as last year I was trying to cut down on the number of shows I watch. TV is so stressful! From now on I will stick to book and movies! I said. Books and movies, in most cases, have a definite end. Preferably, stick to the classics so that nothing else can mess with them. Anything by Jane Austen? You know how that's going to end, and it's going to be happy! Anything Arthurian? You know how that's going to end, and it's going to be sad yet hopeful! And that will be THE END. If you want to read the sequels and spin-offs, knock yourself out-- but they're optional. TV just keeps going. And you know that they're going to keep messing with you, and you even are pretty sure of the specific ways in which they're going to keep messing with you, and it could go on and on and it could start to suck (and after five or so years probably will), and there's nothing you can do about it! You're emotionally invested! You're along for the ride!

Last year, Michael hit upon the brilliant insight, "We are Ryan. And television is Kelly." We know the tricks that Television is pulling, and we get disgruntled, and we say we're breaking it off, but then Television will put on a nice dress or do something dirty, and all of a sudden we're back, and we can't explain how it happened. I would argue that, conversely, we are Kelly, and television is Ryan. Television likes to deliberately play with us. Television uses us as an object, and then it does something stupid and leaves us heartbroken, and then we get all bitter and we're all, "I have a question: How dare you?"

One finale down. One finale to go. I'm feeling halfway relieved that now at least I know. This year's finales seem like they've been more up in the air than I can remember previously. On both Bones and The Office, there has been crazy secrecy, hints of all kinds of crazy possibilities, conflicting reports... And I have not been reading spoilers since it's been impossible to get anything very reliable. Just lots of speculation-- lots and lots. Nerve-wracking speculation. Jim and Pam could get engaged or married or broken up or fired. Everyone on Bones could die and/or be Gormogon. On Bones, I'm still glad that I'm dwelling in blissful ignorance until Monday (well, I'm glad until I see spoiler cuts on people's journals and know that other people know things I don't know and then I start wondering what they know). On The Office, I would have liked to know. I'm better able to enjoy these things when I know what's coming. It's actually now I end up enjoying so many things so much-- At World's End, Revenge of the Sith... I know what to expect.

I had no idea what to expect with The Office tonight. That said, I did enjoy it, very much. It's just the kind of episode I'm not going to be able to watch again until I know everything is going to be okay. Like how I couldn't watch "Casino Night" ever during season three, even though it's one of the best episodes of television I've ever seen. Let's have a spoiler cut, shall we?

( Reaction to 'Goodbye, Toby' )

So, I guess I can hope for my summer happiness fix from Bones on Monday... but it's looking more like that finale is just going to leave me sad. With woe and death. Come on, guys, just one moment of Booth-Brennan fluff at the end! That's all I need from you!