Frequently asked questions
May. 19th, 2004 03:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cleolindaI would like to welcome all the lovely people who have friended me over the last week or so, and here's hoping this entry is helpful:
Are you reading all these comments? Every single one. I have email notification to my Yahoo address turned on. I'm trying to answer the ones that ask specific questions, but trust me, I've read all of them and I appreciate everything everyone's said and I wish I could reply to them all, but between Van Helsing and Troy there are about 500 comments. This is not even including the other two 15 Min. Movies or the icon entries. I hate to issue a message of mass gratitude, but--thank you, to everyone, for all the nice things you've said.
Can I friend you? Girl, please. I am a total friend whore. In fact, I'm friending everyone back as fast as I can. If I haven't friended you back yet, it's because I'm still wading through my email. Also: after I've been on your f-list for about a week, if you realize that friending me has been a terrible, terrible mistake because I am actually rather boring, feel free to unfriend me. I don't take it personally.
Can I link to your journal or send things to my friends? Also a total link whore. If I want something to be private, I friends-lock it, and that's just so my family or RL acquaintances won't stumble across it, generally. I don't put things in my journal that I'm not okay with the entire internet seeing (and really, everyone should consider this possibility), so linking is fine.
Can I take icons you made? No. I totally made 3000 crappy icons so I could sit and stare at them. Yes, of course you can take them! And please feel free to improve them (coughantialiasthefontcough) or make your own, because all I have is PhotoImpression 2000 and it is ghetto (since this writing, someone has emailed me a copy of Photoshop, so I'm in business).
Why are you making fun of these movies? Did you hate them that much? I think I mentioned this on a previous entry, but it's worth repeating: I don't think that the funny should be reserved for things we hate. Let's face it, the Lord of the Rings movies are freakin' hilarious, and tons of parodies have been written about them. Does that mean that people hate them? On the contrary! And I've enjoyed all four movies I've done so far. Besides, movies as a medium are just funny, sometimes--they can't always be bastions of realism because they're movies and not v. v. serious 10-hour documentaries. Think of it as "making fun" rather than "mocking," and with emphasis on the "fun."
May I worship you/fangirl you/bear your children? I am flattered. Deeply flattered. However, it is only fair to remind you that half these jokes write themselves. Come on--"Hector smash"? That was there, dude. That said, the nicest things you can ever do for any writer are 1) recommend her work and 2) read more of it. Which most of you have already told me you're doing. (coughblackribbonhackdailydigestmovienewswheezeshortattentionspantheatercough. Sorry about that. Hairball.) Or you can do like ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
shock_greenleaf and write me a filk. There's always that. (Hee hee hee.)
Who's the girl in the icon? The icon I'm using right now is Reese Witherspoon in Vanity Fair, which hasn't come out yet.
If there's anything else you'd like to know, please ask in the comments. Even if that question is "Who the hell do you think you are?" Seriously, I'm shocked that I've only gotten one or two vaguely negative comments for the whole series. Not that I'm especially craving any flames now. Anyway. [/shyness & paranoia]
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Date: 2004-05-19 01:14 pm (UTC)If a train leaves Chicago travelling at 50 miles per hour and ANOTHER train leaves Pittsburgh travelling at 70, does Van Helsing wear boxers of briefs?
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Date: 2004-05-19 01:20 pm (UTC)Dear Cleo,
Back in the day before you were a fandom superstar, you told us of a child you had in a dream. A small child, merely thumb-sized! I just wondered if you'd had any luck getting that bastard Elijah Wood to accept responsibility for his actions.
Yours, with much love,
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Date: 2004-05-19 01:23 pm (UTC)imaginary, psychiccalls. Hor.(Man, I knew y'all old-school folks were gonna come over here and start taking the piss. Yay!)
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Date: 2004-05-19 01:27 pm (UTC)I can't wait for "Vanity Fair" to come out. Just watched "The Importance Of Being Earnest" for the sixth time last night. Still cracks me up.
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Date: 2004-05-19 01:39 pm (UTC)Movies... it's probably easier to tell you what I don't like, because I'll watch just about anything. (I really like old movies, '30s and '40s, though.) Don't like WWII/Vietnam war movies--too upsetting. Don't like submarine movies--put me to sleep. Don't like a lot of romantic comedies, because they seem so predictable. I like movies that have action/adventure in them, but not Action Movies that are totally that from Two Cops, One Young and One Eight Days From Retirement mold.
(My sister: "Do you like ANYTHING?"
Me: "Shut up, man.")
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Date: 2004-05-19 01:59 pm (UTC)That MSN group is *awesome.* They cap each new episode, too. So awesome for the days you miss and you hear about what happened afterwards and you're like, "Nuh-uh. They're not *that* crazy." Oh, yes they are.
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Date: 2004-05-19 01:57 pm (UTC)L o L,
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Date: 2004-05-19 02:15 pm (UTC)maybe you should start playing with tarot cards...
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Date: 2004-05-19 03:22 pm (UTC)Where is JournalFen today, btw? I want it to come baaaaack...
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Date: 2004-05-19 03:42 pm (UTC)If I were straight, I'd so ask you to marry me (total eyeroll on your part I assume)
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Date: 2004-05-19 03:52 pm (UTC)Hope you liked my "new, unabridged and seriously improved" Mariah Carey song. Oh God, the swearing it took to finally get that comment up was just... guh.
I've no intentions of unfriending you. You are the light... *does Simpsons Mufasa impression* *you must avenge my dead, Kimba... d'I mean, Simbaaa*
WTF is a "filk"? Has sth to do with my ear-splitting, screeching song... but what it means...?
I can't believe you actually got negative comments! Tell me who they are!! I KEEL YOU DEAD!! God, that is a classic. I love you for it.
And HECTOR SMASH!!!?? I told that to my friends at Uni. Had them pissing their pants. I <3 u, liek, OMG, soOoooOoOooO tottaly!!!111!!145667@!!!22@@!1111!!! MY HED IS PASTEDE ON YAY!!!111!!!$%15^%!$%$!4!!
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Date: 2004-05-19 04:11 pm (UTC)The negative comments weren't even all that negative--nothing like "U think U r so fnuny but u R not, hor!!1!" Someone took exception to the lot of us laughing at Van Helsing for... reasons I still don't really understand, considering that I actually enjoyed the movie, for one. Someone else on the Troy thread... I still don't even know what they're talking about. Something's "unacceptable," I'm just not sure what.
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Date: 2004-05-19 04:54 pm (UTC)Cheers!
seems as good a time as any to mention...
Date: 2004-05-19 05:55 pm (UTC)*scuttles off*
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Date: 2004-05-19 06:15 pm (UTC)More like, "Bitch, are you for real?" *g*
Er, the *real* reason I'm commenting is that journalfen is down, and I'm sad and bored. WOE. *cries*
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Date: 2004-05-19 06:16 pm (UTC)because I am actually rather boring, feel free to unfriend me.Personally, I'm bored with your wit, intelligence, and brilliant silliness. Not to mention, acting like you were the first person
which you wereto go through that thumb-sized baby ordeal with elijah. *shakes head*Who's the girl in the icon? The icon I'm using right now is Reese Witherspoon in Vanity Fair, which hasn't come out yet.
I so want to see the film when it comes out, and that's just based on the VP pictures, like in your icon, linked to before, which were amazing.
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Date: 2004-05-19 06:22 pm (UTC)which you wereto go through that thumb-sized baby ordeal with elijah.Oh! but I have since seen the error of my ways. There are dozens of us, you know. Our support group is called HOE (Hors of Elijah).
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Date: 2004-05-19 09:32 pm (UTC)God, I love it when I'm right. You big famous funny writer person, you.
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Date: 2004-05-19 09:47 pm (UTC)rummoney? I thought that when you were famous, you got lots of money. *impoverished pout*(no subject)
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Date: 2004-05-20 03:14 am (UTC)Vladimir
Ah-hah!
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