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Two Memes

ravenclawwit — Fri, 18 May 2012 22:23:27 GMT

Here today with a couple of memes from the lovely bright_lights28. :D Hit me up in the comments if you want to play.

Meme #1

Tell me you want to play and I'll pick up to three of your fandoms. Then update your journal and answer the following questions:

1. What got you into this fandom in the first place?

2. Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?

3. Favorite episodes/books/movies, etc?

4. Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?

5. Do you think more people should get into this fandom?

Castle:

1. I've been watching since the pilot. I heard about the show before it started airing and the premise seemed intriguing to me and I watched and fell in love with it. Nathan Fillion is amazing and Stana Katic was so surprising to me. I'd never heard of her before Castle, but she's amazingly talented.

2. I'm definitely in it for the long haul. I love the show so I'll watch as long as it's on. I hope that's a long time!

3. Oh god I have so many favorite episodes of Castle. Season 2: "Sucker Punch", and "Tick, Tick, Tick...". Season 3: "Knockdown", "Setup", "Countdown", and "Knockout". Season 4: "Rise", "Cops & Robbers", "Kill Shot", "Linchpin", and of course the finale, "Always". LOL it's too hard to narrow down a favorites list for Castle, because the quality is always so consistent!

4. Well, I'm kind of on the edge of things. I reblog stuff on tumblr and I've made Castle icons, and I love hanging out at the weekly Castle recaps done by my friend bright_lights28, but other than that I'm not really in the thick of it. I'm not really sure why other than that I have a lot of fandoms going on.

5. Yes definitely. I think some people write off the show as just being a romantic will they/won't they show, but they don't realize that the actual stories, the cases are really interesting and quirky and the writing quality on this show is really high.

Harry Potter:

1. Well I was a latecomer I admit. My sister had read the books (she was in high school at the time and I was a junior in college) and she kept bugging me to read them. I tried the first book and I actually couldn't get into it at first. So I put it down and came back to it like six months later and read the first book and I loved it. This was like 2002 I guess, it was before OOTP had come out. I raced through the rest of the books and I just loved them. I loved that they had such a rich background and a fully thought out universe. I started going online to discuss theories with other fans and everything. It was great fun. :)

2. Well I'll always be a HP fan, but obviously with the books and movies over, the fandom has died down somewhat.

3. My favorite books in the series are definitely OOTP and DH. They're all amazing, but I liked those two the best. My fave movie versions are PoA, OOTP, and DH 1 & 2. They did an amazing job with the films, especially the last two.

4. Well I used to when the fandom was more active. I read a lot of fanfic (mainly draco/harry or snarry) and I helped co-run a blog for adults who read Harry Potter called BloggingHarryPotter.com (sadly now gone).

5. I think as time goes on Harry Potter will never really die. New generations will introduce their kids to these amazing stories so it'll just keep growing. :)

Supernatural:

1. Well back in the summer of 2006, I was reading some TV blog and someone mentioned Supernatural, which had just finished it's first season. I remember they said it was like The X Files meets The Twilight Zone, both of which I love, so I decided to check out the show. And confession: I headed over to The Pirate Bay to download the first season. I was actually a little skeptical because it was on the WB (at that time, it moved to the CW the next year when the WB merged with UPN or whatever), so I kind of thought it was going to be a crappy teen show ala The Gilmore Girls or Dawson's Creek (apologies to people who like that kind of show) just with ghosts. But I started watching and it was AMAZING. I mean it had everything. Two amazing looking leads who could actually act, especially Jensen Ackles, who plays Dean Winchester, a great storyline and mythology, humor, scares, great writing, great music (classic rock), and even a really unique look and feel. I got about 6 episodes in and I headed straight to Amazon to buy the season 1 DVDs. From that point on I was a diehard fan.

2. Well again, I will always be a fan, but the show is headed into it's eighth season, so it'll be over within the next couple of years, and fandoms usually die down a bit when that happens. Although with SPN's fanbase you can't really tell. It's such a cult hit, with a very devoted fanbase, so it could keep going for years. I did take a break from the fandom for a year or so just because there are portions of the fandom that can be kind of negative (like "Sam Girls" and "Dean Girls" constantly fighting ugh) but I got back into it recently and I mostly hang out with the tumblr portion of the fandom and I only follow non-wanky people so it's much cooler.

3. Oh favorite episodes. Again I have a list. Season 1: "Dead In The Water", "Home", "Shadow", "Salvation", and "Devil's Trap". Season 2: "In My Time Of Dying", "Everybody Loves a Clown", "Croatoan", "Tall Tales", and "What Is and What Should Never Be". Season 3: "Dream a Little Dream of Me", "Mystery Spot", and "Jus in Bello". Season 4: "Lazarus Rising", "In the Beginning", "On the Head of a Pin", "The Monster at the End of This Book", and "Lucifer Rising". Season 5: "Free to Be You and Me", "The End", "Abandon All Hope", "The Song Remains the Same", "Dark Side of the Moon", and "Swan Song". Season 6: "You Can't Handle the Truth", "Appointment in Samarra", "The French Mistake", and "The Man Who Would Be King". Season 7: "Meet the New Boss", "Death's Door", "Time After Time", "The Girl with the Dungeons and Dragons Tattoo", and "Reading Is Fundamental". I actually had to pare down this list because it was too damn long. And it's still long. Supernatural really is amazing.

4. Oh yeah. I make tumblr graphics, participate in discussions about it, read fanfiction, etc. My OTP is Dean Winchester/Castiel (an angel who was introduced in season four). Like I said, I do try to avoid the more negative elements of the fandom (Sam and Dean girls fighting, irrational Castiel haters, and ship wars ugh), but it's not that hard.

5. Definitely yes. LOL I've turned so many people onto this show. I got my mother, my sister, and my brother to watch it, and they are all addicted to it. I've also turned a couple of friends into SPN watchers too. Pretty much, if you can convince someone to watch like the first five episodes, they will get hooked. I think the thing with Supernatural is that it has something for everyone. It's a sci-fi/horror show for people who like that, it's a show about two brothers and family and unbreakable bonds of love, for people who like that, and it's got great comedy, for people who like that.

Meme #2

Comment to this post, and I will list seven things I want you to talk about. They might make sense or they might be totally random. Then post that list, with your commentary, to your journal. Other people can get lists from you, and the meme merrily perpetuates itself.

1. What are your three favorite novels? The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, and Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut. LOL I know, radically different from each other, but they all have their draws. I love the symbolism in Gatsby, the wit and satire in P&P, and the post-modern disorder of Slaughterhouse.

2. What was the most interesting class you took in college? Definitely my Intro to Cultural Anthropology course. It was a general course, but there's just a lot of interesting stuff about cultural anthropology. I loved learning to look at another culture without placing value judgments on it. I think that actually made me a less judgmental person really. It was also really fun to look at some of the stuff in our own culture from a different perspective. I remember one of the experiments we did for that course was about unwritten rules of society, so we had to do this ridiculous stuff like ride on an elevator with a bunch of unwitting people and stand facing them, instead of turning around like most people do on an elevator. LOL. It was great.

3. If you could only watch one TV show for the rest of your life, which would it be? LOL, see Supernatural above. Now that it's been renewed for an eighth season and the president of The CW said it probably wouldn't be the final season, people are already making "Season 35: Where Dean and Sam fight off ghosts in their retirement home" jokes. :P

4. Where is your dream vacation destination? Well, the place I most love to go on vacation is in The Adirondack mountains in my home state of NY. My family has been going there for generations (since the late 1800's) and we own several camps and lodges. It's just so peaceful and beautiful there. My dream destination that I've never been too is the U.K. I'd love to travel all around England and Wales and Scotland. It's where most of my ancestors are from, and I love the history of the British Isles.

5. What are your three favorite scents? Baby powder, coconut, and lemon/citrus scents. I'm a perfume/body spray/scented candle junkie, so I know my scents lol.

6. Who is your favorite female character currently on television? Probably Temperance Brennan on Bones. She reminds me the most of myself and I relate to her a lot. She's kind of weird and nerdy and also can be a little emotionally distant which is kind of a coping/defense mechanism and that's pretty much me in a nutshell.

7. If you had to choose the menu for your last meal, what would it be? Oh dear. I think I'd go for homemmade Mac & Cheese, deep fried coconut shrimp, ice cold fresh squeezed lemonade, and my mom's chocolate mayonnaise cake with peanut butter frosting for dessert. I mean it's my last meal so I might as well just pig out right?

Downton Abbey Christmas Special HD Screencaps + Desktop Wallpapers

ravenclawwit — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:04:14 GMT

Downton Abbey Christmas Special HD Screencaps [5522 caps/unsorted/1280 x 720 px]
[1] Lady Sybil Crawley wallpaper [from episode 2x03]
[1] Matthew/Mary wallpaper [from the Christmas Special]

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Adam Lambert "Trespassing" Wallpaper

ravenclawwit — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 20:35:38 GMT

In honor of Adam Lambert's new single "Better Than I Know Myself" from his upcoming album "Trespassing" dropping today, I made a new desktop wallpaper with the photo Lee Cherry took for the BTIKM cover art. It's available in a bunch of sizes and with or without text. The text says "Trespassing".

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Enjoy! And don't forget to buy Adam's new single from iTunes or Amazon mp3! You can give it a listen here. :D

37 Adam Lambert Icons

ravenclawwit — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 19:00:10 GMT

[001-037] Adam Lambert
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Icon and Large Textures

ravenclawwit — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:30:43 GMT

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Downton Abbey 2x08 HD Screencaps

ravenclawwit — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 04:51:57 GMT

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Downton Abbey Season 2 Finale Recap (Crack Edition)

ravenclawwit — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 08:48:10 GMT

I wrote this long ass cracky/funny recap, but a word that it is my humorous take on the show. So if you can't stand for the show to be mercilessly mocked this is not for you. It's all in good fun though.:P

This will contain both words and images that are extremely spoiler-y as well. You have been warned.

Season 2 of our beloved Downton was a wild ride. We laughed, we cried, we burned effigies of
Sir Richard/Lavinia/Fake (or was he?) Patrick Crawley/Jane/Julian Fellowes/etc.

What surprised me first was that we had jumped ahead again and we were right on the verge of Matthew and Lavinia's wedding. I don't know why this surprised me. Chalk it up to a logic fail on my part, because they've been making giant leaps through time all season, why would they stop now? I think I just had a script in my head of how this all would go, and it somehow didn't include Matthew and Lavinia being 24 hours away from their nuptials of doom. So it goes.

Matthew comes limping in among the discussion of where they're going to put the loot wedding presents, and weirdly, both Mary and Lavinia float towards him. Mary can't seem to accept the idea that Matthew is not her boyfriend. But Lavinia remains ever saintlike (which is why she is both awesome and maddening) and acts as if it's perfectly normal for her fiance's ex to appear at his side every time he enters a room. Matthew complains, illogically, that after having his spine nearly cleaved in two and being confined to a sort of wicker basket with wheels for months, this darn stick is so very annoying. Mary looks bored. Lavinia says something twee about not being too hard on himself, and keep a stiff upper lip and other obnoxious twaddle, and Mary rolls her eyes and tells Matthew that he has three days to practice, which is her tactful way of telling him to quit whining. Never say die, she says. The part of the prophet will be played by Lady Mary Crawley this evening. "Blah, blah, hackneyed in-law joke, blah", closes out the scene.

We sit through a couple of boring scenes where we get the play by play: the Bryants are coming back, Carson inexplicably hates Ethel, Branson is going to storm the castle tonight, and the Crawley sisters really need to pop on down to London and buy some new clothes.

The next scene of note is Thomas, looking pale and tragic and begging Carson to let him stay just a little while longer, since he lost all his money in the Great Plaster Dust Grocery Caper of 1919. But to no avail. We end with Thomas looking almost humbled, which is not a good look on him at all.

Next is the ritual drawing room scene, except Branson ambles in as if he owns the place with one of those horrible new sport coats, and oddly it's Robert who comes closer to fainting than Violet.

Strangely just as Violet starts to get really fun with her speeches we cut away to the kitchens where Daisy is being annoyingly guilty, yet again, for doing the absolute right thing and giving a poor dying young man his last wish. I'm beginning to believe that Daisy actually murders small children in her off hours, because this much of a guilt complex has to come from somewhere.

Back to the drawing room. Robert is apoplectic, Violet is trying to get to the brass tacks, and Cora looks as if she has just done Quaaludes. Everyone else pretends their shoes are oh so interesting. Branson says just about everything he can to drive Robert further into a rage, because this thing with Sybil is not just about love, it's a political protest, every bit as pointed as dumping manure soup on the head of a general. He leaves the room just as Robert decides the thrashing should begin. Clever lad. As he says, he's a socialist, not a lunatic.

Next we cut to another scene with Mrs. Hughes and Ethel which seems more or less exactly like every other scene between them this season. Then we have a scene with O'Brien and Thomas, sexily and ominously giving himself cancer, when Branson comes in and makes everyone feel awkward. Carson comes in and indignantly asks Branson if he has no shame, Carson having no shame at all himself about being an obnoxiously self righteous class betrayer. Branson comports himself with the dignity of an Earl. It's all very inspiring.

Next we have another delightful, "Granny meets modern technology" scene, where she skirts around a gramophone as if it were a lion in its den. She goes in to give a pep talk to Edith, who is tragically underused in this episode. They talk about Lavinia and how a heavy necklace would just flatten her and laugh because jokes about Lavinia dying are hilarious, since there's no danger of it ever actually happening, ever. They talk about Sybil and Branson and Violet pronounces "misalliance" like a French word. Edith has accepted her lot as an old maid, but Granny tells her not to buy any cats just yet, because it's oh so lowbrow.

Meanwhile, upstairs, Sybil is enduring the torture of her father actually speaking to her. It appears as if she hasn't been to sleep, which is actually quite effective, or so they say at Guantanamo Bay. Violet comes in and Sybil looks as close to violence as I've ever seen her. Robert makes some more threats about things she could care less about. He really is useless.

After Carson falls ill, we go upstairs to see Cora looking pretty bad herself, which everyone pretty much ignores. Except for faithful O'Brien but she seems to be under the impression that there's a sudden heatwave or that Lady Grantham is having the vapors. Despite the fact that she's not feeling well, Cora attempts to acquaint Robert with the realities of his youngest child's personality, but since he takes everything she says as a personal affront now, it doesn't do much good.

Downstairs, Anna is trying to explain to Mosely the complex ritual of how to keep the quality liquored up,and they're playing that humorous staccato music in the background which tells us this is all going to get fucked sideways before long.

Cora almost falls down the stairs, Mrs. Patmore is being impertinent to Thomas in the kitchen, and Mr. Mosely is sampling the wares, ostensibly so he can present only the best wine to his patrons, but I think he's figured out that the only way to get through a Julian Fellowes melodrama is three sheets to the wind.

The most awkward dinner ever begins. Sybil and her father spar over the claret, while Mary and Edith beg her with their eyes not to tattle on their part in the matter. Violet seems to be enjoying all of this hugely. Isobel starts to put her oar in, (And really, isn't it amazing that she's kept her mouth shut all this time?) but Matthew shuts her down, for the sanity and health of all. Mosely almost faints into Matthew's first course, and then Cora, with a withering look at Mosely, gives us all a lesson in "falling ill with class and style".

Anna corners Bates in the hall and demands that he put a ring on it. Jane comes in and she and Anna run upstairs to find Mosely looking green. Anna takes over for him and leads us into the dining room where we see that Lavinia too looks ill. My, Spanish flu travels fast. Robert makes an utterly tasteless and horrifying joke about ninepins. Violet tells a lovely story about Cholera. To say that dinner has been an unsuccessful function is an understatement.

Dr. Clarkson comes to see the invalids, and says that they'll need nursing, to which Robert responds, "All my daughters are professionals." I stare blankly before it dawns on me that he means professional nurses, not the other kind. And yet, Mrs. Hughes smiles knowingly at Robert. Hmm.

Dr. Clarkson prescribes Aspirin and a milkshake (Just when will these people demand to see his medical degree, I ask you?), and then turns to go see to Carson. Isobel vows to come along, and he looks like he's barely containing the urge to throttle her. Which is both funny and sad because I sort of ship them.

Matthew is playing the 1919 version of emo music downstairs, and Mary watches him from above. She goes down and they start to dance. Mary asks him if he'll be alright without his stick, and he says that she is his stick. If only Dr. Freud were here. Mary says that they were a show that flopped and oh. This is going to be one of those scenes. It's not a romantic scene like we all thought. It's a goodbye scene. They kiss but it doesn't feel like the beginning of something; it feels like the end. To drive this home, Lavinia suddenly appears. Because although she was too sick to sit perfectly still at the dinner table, she managed three flights of stairs just fine. Lavinia is nothing if not capable. It'll be written on her headstone.

Lavinia acts totally natural, so we wonder what she saw. Matthew and Mary look like cats with canaries in their mouths so we don't know how this escapes her but we'll chalk it up to the fever that's slowly ravaging her body. Then Matthew asks her how she's doing and she says he should never let her be a nuisance, never let her get in the way. Oh shit. She totally knows.

Downstairs, O'Brien is vowing to stay by her Lady's side, and Dr. Clarkson sniffs Mosely's hair. For a minute I think he's going to ask Mosely if he uses apple shampoo, but no, apparently this is how he tells if people are drunk or really sick. I have a feeling Dr. Clarkson used to sell tonics in a traveling circus.

Upstairs, Robert is wandering around in his fancy bathrobe, waiting for Bates to come do things that by all rights every grown up should be able to do for themselves. Jane appears, acting as if she just happened to be there, but it's more like she popped out of a linen closet down the hall. She tells him that Freddie got into the school thanks to Lord Moneybags Grantham's meddling. Robert says that's wonderful, but sounds like he's about to go hang himself in the nearest closet. Jane is all, wow, you're a total drag dude, and Robert apologizes for being depressed. Jane pretends to care about his white rich guy problems, and Robert gets really turned on. He takes her hand and leads her into his bedchamber.

Carson is being tucked into bed by Mrs. Hughes, all the while insisting that he's perfectly well even though he looks like death warmed over. Carson suggests they hire Mosely full time until he gets better and Mrs. Hughes says she'd rather put a railroad spike through her left eye.

Upstairs Robert and Jane are kissing passionately when Bates arrives to tuck Robert in. Jane hides behind the door in mortal terror as if Bates is a puritan preacher, there to slap a scarlet A on her chest. The interruption appears to shake Robert to some of his senses, and he says that this isn't fair, to anyone. We're supposed to think he means Jane or his wife, but honestly I think he means Bates. How can poor Bates fulfill his destiny as a manservant if Jane is always hiding behind doors? We realize during this scene that Robert is actually in love with Jane? Or at least really cares about her. So this is actually a little sad instead of wholly infuriating.

Meanwhile Robert's wife is basically dying down the hall. O'Brien is right next to her, continually keeping her face nice and moist. Mary tells Mrs. Hughes that Sir Richard is coming down to "help". Because what's more helpful than having another person to wait on and feed while the entire house is ill?

Robert walks down to the Grantham Arms for a pint and to have another go at Branson. He's about as insulting and arrogant as rich aristocrats can be, and Branson is beautifully honorable and indignant. Robert commands Branson to leave town. Can he actually do that? Branson seems to think so but he says Sybil will be coming with him if he does.

The minute Robert walks into the door back at Downton, Isobel helpfully details to him all the bad things that are happening today. Cora is deathly ill, and Sir Richard is popping by for a visit. Mrs. Hughes informs him that they are down two more maids, so he should expect his pudding to be late in the next few days. He doesn't care about any of the servants except Jane. Mrs. Hughes smiles frigidly as she walks away. Edith explains that all the people milling about are caterers for the wedding. Robert rolls his eyes and goes upstairs.

Downstairs, Mrs. Hughes has given up on the idea that Thomas doesn't work there anymore. He's being uncharacteristically obliging. Homelessness can do that to people.

Isobel tells Lavinia and Matthew that they have to postpone the wedding unless they want to puke all the way up the aisle. As she leaves, Matthew tells his mother how nice it is that Lavinia doesn't actually seem sick even though she's confined herself to bed and is making everyone wait on her. Isobel says she's been lucky, which of course means she's done for.

Down the hall, Cora is gasping for air and Robert is pissed because nobody consulted him on the matter, being far too busy trying to keep her alive. Sybil asks where he's been and he can't decide whether to tell her that he's been screwing the maid or that he's been trying to pay Branson to abandon her. He tells her he's been taking a constitutional instead. O'Brien comes in to hose down Lady Grantham again and Sybil pleads with her father to make her go away. But O'Brien shall not be moved.

Bates tells Anna that he quite likes being dominated, and that he did as she said and got the marriage license and they can get married on Friday, provided they're all still alive. Ethel shows up with the baby and Jane says the Bryants are back.

Mrs. Hughes goes up to see Mrs. Churchmouse and her husband, Mr. Rude McRudepants. Ethel comes in and Mrs. Bryant is touchingly nice and eager to be the baby's Gran. Her husband is a classless asshole of the first order.

Downstairs, O'Brien explains the concept of death to Daisy, the widow. Mrs. Patmore tries to comfort O'Brien but utterly fails.

The Bryants want to buy Ethel's baby. They'll give him nice clothes, a fine education, and a sanitized origin story until he's about 21, at which point they'll ruin his life forever by telling him his whole life was a lie. Mr. Mustachioed Douchebang the III says "bastard" about 25 times.

Upstairs, Cora is deliriously thanking O'Brien for always being such a devoted sycophant. O'Brien tries to say she's sorry about the time she terminated Cora's pregnancy with a mislaid bar of soap. Before she can get to it, Robert comes in and also thanks her. She decides to let well enough alone.

Matthew comes back in to see Lavinia, and Isobel leaves after deciding that the chance of them having sex is functionally nil. Lavinia angelically tells Matthew that she's not angry at him for snogging Mary at the school dance. In fact, she would feel like a horrible awful horrible person if she held him to his engagement when he clearly likes Mary better than her. Also she loves him more than her life, but she's not good enough for him. She's ordinary, little, chunky jewelry is lost on her. And when she saw Mary and he together, even she kind of shipped it. But she does have some self esteem; she thinks she's a way better nursemaid than Mary. Matthew says that this is pointless since Mary is engaged to someone else, because Matthew always says just the right thing. Lavinia says she has to go die now, k thanx bye.

Sir Richard finally shows up after threatening to do so for the first 2/3 of the episode. He pointlessly offers to drive people around, but Mary would rather he murder Branson. Mary susses out that he only came because he was afraid Mary and Matthew would be having all the sex over Lavinia's sickbed. Just as it's getting heated, Thomas opens the door as loudly as he can, looking inexplicably proud of himself.

In the kitchens, Thomas tells everyone that Sir Richard is making himself useful by daring to ask for tea. Mrs. Hughes looks like she could kick a puppy. Thomas volunteers to do it and even to take some up to Carson and I momentarily wonder if he's going to poison Carson's tea.

Daisy is still guilty so she's like, "Screw William's poor old lonely father, my whole life is a lie!". Life can be so hard for the truly ethical among us.

Anna is in Mary's room when Mary comes in for a handkerchief. Anna says, "This is awkward but I really need Friday off to get hitched, even if your mother is on her way out of this world". Mary says it's fine, she'll just pretend she's a maid and cover for her. Nobody will even notice. Edith comes in to say that Lady Grantham is worse.

She is worse. Apparently her brain is actually leaking out of her nose. But no, Dr. Clarkson says it's just a nosebleed, he just uses words like hemorrhage and mucous membranes so that everyone will lose their shit. He also says that if she lives through the night she'll be alive or something equally stupid. Mary takes him to see Carson before Lord Grantham punches him in the face.

In Carson's room, Dr. Clarkson says Lavinia wasn't too bad the last time he checked on her two days ago and he'll see her absolutely last so she has a chance to get good and sick before aiding her in any way. And then he leaves. Pod!Thomas comes in, looking only too happy to be waiting hand and foot on his former boss, scaring the living shit out of Mary and Carson in the process. Carson and Mary make up for their little spat. Mary says Carson should be careful of Thomas, because she thinks he might be an alien. Then she hands Carson the tray of food and drink that Pod!Thomas just prepared and tells him to eat up.

In the dining room a few people are awkwardly eating, and Mary notices that Thomas looks like a footman again. He explains that he conveniently found his liver livery in a cupboard so he just put them on. He smiles cheerfully at her and she briefly considers plunging the fork she's holding through his jugular to see what color his blood is.

Mary tries to sit next to Matthew and Sir Richard freaks out and screams, "I SAVED YOU A PLACE UNGRATEFUL HOAR". At least it feels like that because everyone else is so silent. Sybil rushes in and tells them that Lavinia is so...*trails off* So what? So boring? So little? So ordinary?

No. Turns out Lavinia is so about to die. Matthew doesn't understand. She was fine just awhile ago when she was telling him that breaking her heart was just fine, really. Dr. Clarkson says it's a weird disease with sudden changes, which Matthew interprets as, "You killed her with your snogging and waltzing ways". Lavinia tells Matthew it's better this way, he won't have to dump her, and she wants him to be happy, which is odd since everything she just said basically ensures that he will never be happy again. Matthew tells her that he can't be happy without her and everybody else feels too awkward to point out to him that she's already dead and she can't hear him.

We see Matthew several days later, walking to Downton wearing a black armband. He looks like a vampire. He arrives to find the servants taking down the wedding decorations and asks them what they're doing. Robert sees him and says he couldn't be more sorry. He tells Matthew that Cora is doing much better, and that all the funeral arrangements have been taking care of, so Matthew can't even look forward to that to take the edge off. He mentions Mary and Matthew looks as if he wants to crawl out of his own translucent white skin.

Carson is still in bed, and he's sad about Lavinia, even though he's also glad she's not there anymore. He's a complicated man.

Robert is glad to see Cora looking better, but she doesn't quite believe him. She says there's nothing like leaning over the side of your bed, puking up everything you ever ate to make a wife realize that she's been neglecting her man.

Ethel shows up to tell Mrs. Hughes that she's keeping her baby, because life is short, especially when you have kids.

Anna and Bates go to the hall of a thousand windows to get married in front of a bored looking clerk and a few perfect strangers.

Robert is in the library when Jane shows up. She tells him she's truly glad that Lady Grantham is better, in the same tone that one would say they are truly glad they have a bunion on their foot. She says she's given her notice and Robert gives her the name of his "fixer". She looks insulted for a moment until he says that the money is for Freddie to give him a start in life. Uh-huh. She asks him if he'll be happy and he finally realizes that if he's not it's his own damn fault.

Mary can't believe that Anna and Bates finally got married. Just to be sure it takes, Mary has arranged a sex dungeon honeymoon suite for the newlyweds. There are enough candles to burn the entire house down, in case it doesn't work out.

Carson goes to check on the silver and finds Pod!Thomas already there, pawing through it. Carson warily thanks Thomas for being so bizarrely helpful in the last few days, and Thomas leers at him and says he's sure Carson will make it up to him sometime.

Jane collects her last paycheck from Mrs. Hughes and it's obvious that Mrs. Hughes knew something was up with Jane and Lord Grantham. She's a sly one.

Anna and Bates are in bed, having just had whatever passed for great sex in 1919. They both look a little unsure about it. Anna says that no matter what horrible distressing things may happen in the very very near future, at least they'll have each other. Nothing's gonna stop them now.

The funeral is extremely somber, with horrible dirge-like music that makes me want to find a convenient implement to plunge into my own carotid artery. Oh happy dagger. We find out that Lavinia's middle name was Catherine and I spend the next few minutes thinking she looked way more like a Catherine than a Lavinia.

Daisy sees William's father at his grave, so she finally has an ounce of pity and goes and talks to him.

Matthew tells Mary his theory that they co-murdered Lavinia with their forbidden love for one another, and that it is all over and they are cursed forever more. Somewhere, Lavinia is either weeping angelic tears or cackling with insane laughter.

Robert sees Branson at the funeral and demands to know what he's doing there, all dressed in black and acting so serious. Branson stares at him and says, "It's a funeral tho". Sybil wishes she and her father could have parted as friends. Robert says since he can't stop them they shouldn't argue. Which is what they've been saying for the past week. He gives them his blessing but tells Branson if he mistreats his little girl, he'll send his animal familiars after him. Branson says he expected as much since Lord Grantham is the greatest wizard who ever lived. Robert also promises to give them some money, but not that much. Let's not kid ourselves, it'll be a lot. Sybil and Branson walk off hand in hand.

Violet asks Robert if he gave in. She then begins to plan the elaborate prank she's going to pull on the entire English aristocracy by making Branson an esteemed journalist/Prime Minister/next in line for the throne.

Back at Downton the servants arrive home, where two extraordinarily well dressed cops are there to arrest Bates for murdering his ex. They lead him away in handcuffs while Anna looks on and the rest of the staff wonders what the hell just happened. Roll credits.

Downton Abbey 2x07 HD Screencaps

ravenclawwit — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 17:42:23 GMT

Downton Abbey 2x07 HD Screencaps [3143 caps / unsorted / 1280 x 720 px]

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Icons [Adam Lambert, Bones, Autumn]

ravenclawwit — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 22:33:33 GMT

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"My Name Is Death" Halloween Music Mix (Download+Spotify)

ravenclawwit — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 20:40:53 GMT

I made this Halloween playlist/music mix a while ago for another comm, but I thought I'd post it here for anyone on my f-list.

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Tracklist:
01 Marilyn Manson - This Is Halloween
02 AFI - Miss Murder
03 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Rising
04 Filter - Hey Man, Nice Shot
05 Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear The Reaper
06 My Chemical Romance - Vampires Will Never Hurt You
07 Eagles - Hotel California
08 Okkervil River - Westfall
09 Echo & The Bunnymen - The Killing Moon
10 Stone Temple Pilots - Dead & Bloated
11 The Used - Wake The Dead
12 Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Red Right Hand
13 Within Temptation - The Howling
14 Jen Titus - O Death *

Download
http://www.mediafire.com/?my1whmudihm

Spotify Playlist
http://open.spotify.com/user/katyggls/playlist/4h0vtgZmVpQX72YD6XO64a
* On the Spotify playlist, one substitution was made due to song availability. O Death by Jen Titus was replaced by O Death by Tim Eriksen. Same song, different artist and arrangement.

Happy Halloween!

Downton Abbey 2x06 HD Screencaps

ravenclawwit — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:51:10 GMT

Downton Abbey 2x06 HD Screencaps [3122 caps / unsorted / 1280 x 720 px]

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Part 2 - http://www.mediafire.com/?6f77bdlg6alcwuu
Part 3 - http://www.mediafire.com/?dqy34qfnsoq2rf2

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Downton Abbey 2x05 HD Screencaps

ravenclawwit — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 18:54:38 GMT

Downton Abbey 2x05 HD Screencaps [3119 caps / unsorted / 1280 x 720 px]

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Mediafire
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Part 2 - http://www.mediafire.com/?y09cbrg7scs3ak1
Part 3 - http://www.mediafire.com/?3c2mj2ppe8lcu03

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Downton Abbey 2x04 HD Screencaps

ravenclawwit — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:48:56 GMT

Downton Abbey 2x04 HD Screencaps [3087 caps / unsorted / 1280 x 720 px]

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Downton Abbey 2x03 HD Screencaps

ravenclawwit — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 22:44:07 GMT

Downton Abbey 2x03 HD Screencaps [3215 caps / unsorted / 1280 x 720 px]

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Part 2 - http://www.mediafire.com/?cvd9fob5fvebaj6

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Meme Time

ravenclawwit — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 21:07:59 GMT

Taken from bright_lights28

Give me a character (or two) from any fandom you know I'm in (you can get a hint from my profile or icons), and I'll let you know:
[1] How I FEEEEEL about this character
[2] All the people I ship romantically with this character
[3] My non-romantic OTP for this character
[4] My unpopular opinion about this character
[5] One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.

Ask away! :D

Downton Abbey 2x02 HD Screencaps

ravenclawwit — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 18:44:34 GMT

Downton Abbey 2x02 HD Screencaps [3167 caps / unsorted / 1280 x 720 px]

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Part 2 - http://www.mediafire.com/?y7cgwcaug1c3bqb
Part 3 - http://www.mediafire.com/?x8kkn5wac9zaz21
Part 4 - http://www.mediafire.com/?2lccwc256zphftc

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Downton Abbey 2x01 HD Screencaps

ravenclawwit — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 17:58:54 GMT

I made some HD screencaps of Downton Abbey, episode 2x01. They do have a logo but it's pretty unobtrusive, imo.

Downton Abbey 2x01 HD Screencaps [3961 caps / unsorted / 1280 x 720 px]

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Part 2 - http://www.mediafire.com/?e9hymfj79zteveq
Part 3 - http://www.mediafire.com/?fkzvgfi5neeuzcr
Part 4 - http://www.mediafire.com/?zza1f14ka53akkr

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Promo: Seasons_Contest

ravenclawwit — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 22:59:13 GMT

Are you an icon or graphics maker? Do you like entering challenges and contests? Do you like the seasons of the year and making pretty things to celebrate them? Then you should join seasons_contest!

Join Now!

New Icon Textures

ravenclawwit — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 14:50:40 GMT

I have 2 new sets of Icon textures today, a mixed set and a set of text icon textures. Feedback is appreciated! :D

Click HERE to download from deviantART or HERE to download from mediafire.

Click HERE to download from deviantART or HERE to download from mediafire.

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The text textures are from the amazing song "My Ghost" by Glass Pear. It's a great song, check it out:

Show Me The Love

ravenclawwit — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 01:05:15 GMT

One little compliment can make you feel amazing.

So give me a compliment, anything in the entire world, even that my shoelaces are pretty. Put this in your journal. And once you get some comments, put that entry in a memory or tag and when you are feeling down, just go to that entry and this will remind you how great you are. Comments are going to be screened so none of you will know if I'm über-popular and get over 100 comments on this or a total loser who doesn't get any.

Don't forget to post this in your own journal so I can compliment you, too! :]

True Blood, We Need To Talk

ravenclawwit — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 18:53:12 GMT

So I feel the need after last night's episode of True Blood (4x11 "Soul of Fire) to just have my rant out about how this season has gone. You are forewarned that this will be full of spoilers so if you haven't watched the whole season up to and including last night's ep, read ahead at your own risk.

I really hated this episode. True Blood has been a chore to watch this season. There are just way too many really obnoxious story lines, and as evidenced by tonight's episode, they never end. The whole Marnie/Witches thing was the worst thing that ever happened to this show.

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Actually the only story I found remotely interesting tonight was the Alcide/Sam/Marcus/Debbie/Luna drama. Interesting that Alcide killed Marcus. Does that make him the new Pack Master? Or does it mean that he's a werewolf outcast now for killing one of his own? And Luna can stay. We like her and she makes us like Sam again, so that's good.

At least Tommy is really dead though. He was dragging the show down for awhile, and then I lost all taste for him when he basically raped Luna and the show pretended non consensual sex was oh so excusable since poor Tommy has had such a hard life. Wah.

Anyways, here's my True Blood wishlist for next season:

1. Let's be done with witches. For real. I like Jesus, but if he has to be sacrificed so that this obnoxious plot, with the many plot holes, inconsistencies, and general stupidity it has introduced can be expurgated, so be it.

2. Right. We get it. Sookie and Eric have sex. On every available surface. Every hour that they are concurrently awake. And sometimes even when they're not. I'm not a prude and a little gratuitous sex is a good thing, otherwise I never would have started watching TB, but when it gets to the point where every sex scene feels like you've seen it 20 times before, and 20 minutes of every episode are devoted to soft focus Eric/Sookie "skinemax" shenanigans, it gets old. And this is from someone who couldn't wait for Eric and Sookie to get together.

3. Andy. I used to like Andy. Let's bring back the Andy that we all liked. You know, the guy who was sort of bumbling but a generally competent police officer, who didn't really have any story lines of his own, but occasionally popped up in other people's plots to say amusing stuff and make other people look both smarter and dumber at the same time (that's a real talent). That guy. He was alright.

4. Fairies. This was a plot I actually used to be interested in. Up until it was covered for the first 20 minutes of episode 401, and then promptly dropped (utterly wasting Gary Cole in the process, I might add) for the rest of the season. Now they're going to bring it up again, but unless they're going to actually do it justice instead of just shamelessly squandering some more of America's finest character actors (Gary fucking Cole, ffs), they should just let it go.

5. Pacing. Are they filming True Blood in real time now? Wtf is going on? In last night's episode, Jesus said he was about to perform the ritual, and then we cut away to some other bullshit, and then FIFTEEN FUCKING MINUTES later we come back and Jesus is just starting to cut into his arm. Just what the doodly fuck has he been doing all that time? His taxes? This isn't fucking 24. Condense shit like every other TV show.

6. Dear True Blood, if you never utter the words "werepanther", "Crystal", or "Hot Shot" again, neither will we. *maintains stony silence*

7. Tara. Stop. Just stop. Stop making Tara's life into a steadily increasing crucible of torment, under which any other mortal would've surely blown their brains out by now. It's getting ridiculous. Ridiculous even for a show about Vampires, werewolves, shifters, fairies, and witches. Come the fuck on.

Ok I'm done ranting. And I do still love this show because I know how great it can be, I just wish the writers would steer it back on course. Here's hoping for season 5, since I'm sure none of these problems will be solved in the season finale.

Listen To The Sound Of My Voice

ravenclawwit — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 18:38:42 GMT

So I decided to do this meme, mainly because the topic of regional linguistics has always fascinated me a bit. The fact that in the U.S. and in other countries you can really pinpoint where in the country and even where in a state someone is from just from their accent and word choice is really interesting. Plus it's just neat to hear the voices of people on your f-list.

Record yourself reading the following words and answering the following question:

List of words:
Aunt, Route, Wash, Oil, Theater, Iron, Salmon, Caramel, Fire, Water, Sure, Data, Ruin, Crayon, Toilet, New Orleans, Pecan, Both, Again, Probably, Spitting Image, Alabama, Lawyer, Coupon, Mayonnaise, Syrup, Pajamas, Caught, Aluminium

And the questions!
What is it called when you throw toilet paper on a house?
What is the bug that when you touch it, curls into a ball?
What is the bubbly carbonated drink called?
What do you call gym shoes?
What do you say to address a group of people?
What do you call the kind of spider that has an oval-shaped body and extremely long legs?
What do you call your grandparents?
What do you call the wheeled contraption in which you carry groceries at the supermarket?
What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining?
What is the thing you change the TV channel with?

You'll probably want to turn the volume down, because my mic is kind of crappy and I was kind of close to it.

Bones Icons

ravenclawwit — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 17:03:22 GMT

I have some icons that I made for the bones_ga Summer Of All Seasons Icontest.

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Pottermore!

ravenclawwit — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 20:49:10 GMT

Yay! I finally got in! If you're on my f-list (or even if you're not and are somehow seeing this post) and you have a Pottermore username, leave your username in the comments and I'll add you. Oh and add me too. I'm EchoLeviosa86. See you at Pottermore!