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[shadowkat]

1. Debating joining Romance Writers of America as an Associate-Member. Yes, I've published a novel, but no, it's not really a "romance" per se. I tend to be an unconventional writer. I'm unconventional in regards to practically everything...which has made life difficult for me. I'd be much happier if I could be conventional. But it's just not how I'm put together.

The romance novel that I'm writing is highly unconventional. So not sure it will work. But I want a support group or someone I can share writing with after I finish. But am afraid of doing it.

Sigh. I'm great at writing, I suck at the whole sharing bit.

2. Got the ancestry DNA results back, sort of disappointing. Still can't go back further than the 1600s and 1500s.

Mainly Irish.

Breakdown? (It's in regions because they can't be that specific).

34% Irish/Welsh/Scotish

- Connact, Ireland (ie Northern Ireland)
-Ulster, Ireland (ie, Western Ireland)

25% Western Europe (Basically Belgium, Germany, France)

22% - Scandinavian

7% - European East ( Ukraine, Russia, Czech, Croatia, Poland)

5% - Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal)

3% - Great Britain (basically everything that isn't Cornwall, Ireland, Wales, and Scotland)

2% - Europe South (Italy and Greece)

>1% - Finland and Northwest Russia

>1% - Middle East

So interesting. Also I managed to trace one relative back to the Revolutionary and Civil Wars.
I'm just not sure I have the right one.

3. I'm weirdly pissed off about Lucifer's cancellation. I don't why. It was irritating me this year, but I saw potential and I honestly think S4 could have been great. Also, I don't understand why the stupid ass CW couldn't save it instead of giving us yet another tween soapy college kid drama/spin-off of the Vampire Diaries. (I didn't watch the originals and am bloody tired of Vampire shows.)
But alas, the CW is geared towards teenagers and early twenty-somethings, not the over 45 group like myself.

The channels are "Branding" themselves. In case you haven't noticed. ABC is female oriented/family shows, CW is teen and twenty-something shows (sort of similar to ABC's Freeform), Fox is 18-35 male shows and dramas, NBC is 18-35 hipster comedies and dramas, and CBS is 35-65 procedurals and family sitcoms. It has the highest ratings, because let's face it everyone under the age of 45 is streaming and doesn't watch broadcast television.

Anyhow, I considered boycotting the CW, ie. not watching anything on it any longer. Which I can sort of do...since I'm not that into either Riverdale or Crazy Ex, and I may just watch Legends on either Hulu or Netflix.

But I doubt anyone would care. No one cares what I watch, except maybe you guys? My viewing habits aren't tracked.

4. I'm entertaining myself by participating in a General Hospital Fanboard on FB. Yes, it's crazy-ass stupid like all fanboards at times. We have the character hate, we have the crazy character love for evil villains with no redemptive qualities, we have the grudge matches, we have the whining, and the hate of storylines. We have the squeeing over gowns and cute boys.

It's fandom.

Soap Opera fandoms are..well no crazier than the others, no wait...possibly crazier. I see more interesting discussions in others. Because the writing is admittedly better. I mean, that stands to reason. It's the difference between writing a script in four hours, filming it in eight hours then jumping to the next one, versus, writing a script in three to four days, filming it in seven days, and editing as you go. I mean Buffy filmed an episode over a seven day period with often 22 takes.
General Hospital films an episode in an eight - twelve hour period, with only one or two takes if that. There's gotta be a difference in quality.

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[shadowkat]

Somebody asked him what it was like kissing SMG again??? LOL! Sigh. Poor boy. He's answered that one about fifteen to twenty times now. Seriously, don't people watch these Q&A's on youtube? I'd have asked the difference between kissing someone in a stage play and on screen. And how he prepares for these types of scenes as an actor and what's the difference in preparation between stage and screen or if it's the same, regardless of the number of takes. But no, instead we get the same dumb question...what was it like kissing SMG. He doesn't know. I mean come on.

I just watched an answer on a previous Q&A, where someone asked who he preferred being in bed with Dru or Buffy. And he said, to his recollection he was never in bed with Dru...or did he misremember it? Then he asked if they wanted the truth or the answer they wanted? Truth. So he said, well, exactly the same as above. Not fun, hates doing them, etc. And I think SMG probably annoyed him -- she was a star at 17, and very whiny (as teen girls from broken homes who hit stardom early often are). He was an unemployed, struggling Theater actor and producer used to firing people for being whiny, dead-broke, when he started -- and 32 years of age. (He said in one Q&A, where he was asked if he preferred working on Angel or Buffy, and he said Angel, mainly because everyone was 10 years older than the cast of Buffy, and as a result more professional and less whiny. Which makes sense. An 15-25 year old actor is whiny, a 32-50 year old one, isn't, they are frigging grateful to have a job.) They had a bit of a bantering relationship on the set.

In another, he was asked John Barrowman or Buffy or Dru, and he said Barrowman, because Barrowman had his back. On Buffy, SMG would taunt him -- she had a no nudity clause in her contract, so she'd come to the cold sets in a muffler and gloves, and he'd be wearing nothing but a sock. And she'd tease him and make fun of him. While on Torchwood, he had hurt himself in a previous scene, and couldn't tell anyone, and Barrowman found out, took him secretly to his trailer, and had him stitched up. Barrowman is more seasoned, from theater, and has struggled more than Gellar did.

Last night I was tooling about the internet, and stumbled on outtakes from "Smashed", "Dead Things", and "Wrecked", where they have to kiss each other for 14 different takes. Have to be thrown against a wall for 10 takes. Until they start to flub lines. Over and over and over and over and over...and I'm thinking, okay, that's just torture. These directors and show-runners are complete and utter assholes.

Apparently Stanley Kubrick was worse -- he had up to 70 takes. People love Clint Eastwood because he has less than three takes, if that. For an actor? The best take is the first one. But they seldom use that one.

[mefisto]

I don't think he got asked specifically about kissing SMG. I think that just came up in the course of one of his answers. It's hard to remember the full hour of Q&A.

[mefisto]

Oh, I remember what was probably the worst question. It was something like this: "Of all the characters on Buffy or Angel who you were *not* romantically involved with, which one would you pick?"

His answer was Fred. I guess lots of folk would have preferred Angel or Xander. :)

[shadowkat]

He's been asked that one before. LOL! That's an impossible question to answer. They ask him stuff like that constantly.

[shadowkat]

It should be available on youtube in a couple of months. Too early now. Just happened.