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I may do a bit of spamming tonight. Got back from the beach last night. Friday was simply a FLOOD at the beach. So we tended to stay in and watch videos. I re-rented Wimbledon, and as romantic comedies go, I like that one. Also rented In Good Company and found that I enjoyed that one too. Finally, rented Phantom of the Opera and I'm not a fan. Not what I expected, and not my kind of movie. Lovely costuming, but all in all, it wasn't for me.

Saturday cleared up and went down to the beach. Definitely a great deal of damage from Hurricane Dennis there. There must have been a huge storm surge. While buildings away from the beach by only a block have no damage at all, the shore has been eaten to bits. Multi-million dollar homes on the shore have been completely undermined. Entire groups of condos have been undermined so that not only are they hovering above the ground in the rear, but in the front as well, often the parking in front washed away as well.

In Seaside the dunes have been washed away to the point that if you stand in one of the pavillions it's now a 25ft vertical drop down to the beach and only a half-dune remaining. There must have been really impressive waves at the front of the storm to cause this kind of erosion along the shore.

On a more fannish subject this post by Barb - Rahirah has me contemplating my feelings regarding the characters of the Whedonverse. Actually, more often than not my feelings are complex on the subject. It doesn't always seem that way, and it doesn't always feel that way because I think most of my feelings are somewhat contextural, meaning if we're discussing Season 7 in specifics my feelings are pretty much unchanged. The things I protested about character actions and reactions are things I continue to take issue with when discussing seasons six and seven. However, the important part is that those reactions are truly contextural to seasons six and seven. They are only part of the story. When not discussing the seasons, my feelings are, if not always more kind, more objective.

The thing is, I still write BtVS fanfic, and I've never been one to write revenge fantasies in fic, not really. I don't write characters to punish them. I write to understand them. In that context I really, truly, honestly don't hate BtVS characters. In fact I can be very sympathetic to them. This is part of why my feelings concerning the Whedonverse are quite complex. So how do I really feel about the characters? It's a character by character question. In no particular order, my thoughts about various Whedonverse characters: ( Read more... )

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I may do a bit of spamming tonight. Got back from the beach last night. Friday was simply a FLOOD at the beach. So we tended to stay in and watch videos. I re-rented Wimbledon, and as romantic comedies go, I like that one. Also rented In Good Company and found that I enjoyed that one too. Finally, rented Phantom of the Opera and I'm not a fan. Not what I expected, and not my kind of movie. Lovely costuming, but all in all, it wasn't for me.

Saturday cleared up and went down to the beach. Definitely a great deal of damage from Hurricane Dennis there. There must have been a huge storm surge. While buildings away from the beach by only a block have no damage at all, the shore has been eaten to bits. Multi-million dollar homes on the shore have been completely undermined. Entire groups of condos have been undermined so that not only are they hovering above the ground in the rear, but in the front as well, often the parking in front washed away as well.

In Seaside the dunes have been washed away to the point that if you stand in one of the pavillions it's now a 25ft vertical drop down to the beach and only a half-dune remaining. There must have been really impressive waves at the front of the storm to cause this kind of erosion along the shore.

On a more fannish subject this post by Barb - Rahirah has me contemplating my feelings regarding the characters of the Whedonverse. Actually, more often than not my feelings are complex on the subject. It doesn't always seem that way, and it doesn't always feel that way because I think most of my feelings are somewhat contextural, meaning if we're discussing Season 7 in specifics my feelings are pretty much unchanged. The things I protested about character actions and reactions are things I continue to take issue with when discussing seasons six and seven. However, the important part is that those reactions are truly contextural to seasons six and seven. They are only part of the story. When not discussing the seasons, my feelings are, if not always more kind, more objective.

The thing is, I still write BtVS fanfic, and I've never been one to write revenge fantasies in fic, not really. I don't write characters to punish them. I write to understand them. In that context I really, truly, honestly don't hate BtVS characters. In fact I can be very sympathetic to them. This is part of why my feelings concerning the Whedonverse are quite complex. So how do I really feel about the characters? It's a character by character question. In no particular order, my thoughts about various Whedonverse characters: ( Read more... )

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I may do a bit of spamming tonight. Got back from the beach last night. Friday was simply a FLOOD at the beach. So we tended to stay in and watch videos. I re-rented Wimbledon, and as romantic comedies go, I like that one. Also rented In Good Company and found that I enjoyed that one too. Finally, rented Phantom of the Opera and I'm not a fan. Not what I expected, and not my kind of movie. Lovely costuming, but all in all, it wasn't for me.

Saturday cleared up and went down to the beach. Definitely a great deal of damage from Hurricane Dennis there. There must have been a huge storm surge. While buildings away from the beach by only a block have no damage at all, the shore has been eaten to bits. Multi-million dollar homes on the shore have been completely undermined. Entire groups of condos have been undermined so that not only are they hovering above the ground in the rear, but in the front as well, often the parking in front washed away as well.

In Seaside the dunes have been washed away to the point that if you stand in one of the pavillions it's now a 25ft vertical drop down to the beach and only a half-dune remaining. There must have been really impressive waves at the front of the storm to cause this kind of erosion along the shore.

On a more fannish subject this post by Barb - Rahirah has me contemplating my feelings regarding the characters of the Whedonverse. Actually, more often than not my feelings are complex on the subject. It doesn't always seem that way, and it doesn't always feel that way because I think most of my feelings are somewhat contextural, meaning if we're discussing Season 7 in specifics my feelings are pretty much unchanged. The things I protested about character actions and reactions are things I continue to take issue with when discussing seasons six and seven. However, the important part is that those reactions are truly contextural to seasons six and seven. They are only part of the story. When not discussing the seasons, my feelings are, if not always more kind, more objective.

The thing is, I still write BtVS fanfic, and I've never been one to write revenge fantasies in fic, not really. I don't write characters to punish them. I write to understand them. In that context I really, truly, honestly don't hate BtVS characters. In fact I can be very sympathetic to them. This is part of why my feelings concerning the Whedonverse are quite complex. So how do I really feel about the characters? It's a character by character question. In no particular order, my thoughts about various Whedonverse characters: ( Read more... )