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Secret Santa Day Four

On the fourth day of Chrismukkah, this Santa had yet to wrap her presents. Whoops!

Each day from now through Christmas, you'll find a post like this one waiting. Leave anonymous comments with your gift for your Secret Santee (make sure to put his or her name in the subject line so they can find it!). Remember, it's okay if you don't have something every day. We do, however, encourage you to leave a little note to let them know they haven't been forgotten. Christmas Day will be a free-for-all, where you can leave presents for anyone at all and, if you so desire, reveal your identity.

Let the gift-giving begin.

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MATHIAS

KUDOS:
ROFL So, I don't know how you manage to have so many pups that mean so much to me, but yeah, Mathias is another one. Generally, I really appreciate the horror genre. I seem to be able to find depth in it, even when that isn't intended. I have my own headcanon for certain characters. My "feel-good" movies are horror films, and have been since I was about three. Oddly enough, I haven't read all that much horror fiction, and certainly not modern horror. You are the one that made me want to read The Ruins. I can't remember where I saw you talking about it. Livejournal, I guess, because this was before the days of twitter. You loved it so much, and I just couldn't get my hands on a copy fast enough. I rode the bus from campus to our local Barnes and Noble and bought it, and I'd finished it by the next day.
There were other characters I was drawn to, and I'm pretty sure I'd given myself away by now, but even in the novel, Mathias was my favorite. It's interesting, he's only character whose perspective you don't get to see, but he manages to be the most interesting and compelling character in the novel. Maybe it's that he still retains some mystery. I'm not sure, but I loved him, and I was so overwhelmingly excited to get to play off of him.
I've played with him through two games, and I know he's still shiny and new in Darrow, but I know you'll do great things with him. Or maybe small, quiet things. It doesn't really matter. He's pitch-perfect regardless, and he's been since the moment you started playing him. I will keep finding excuses to play off of him, keep finding excuses to stalk every one of his threads, and NOT just because I enjoy Joe Anderson's stupid face. You do the character such justice, and I really don't think anyone else could.

Edited 2012-12-23 14:32 (UTC)

I had my suspicions yesterday, but now I'm pretty sure I know who you are. XD (Except I will never guess, because I always think I'm wrong.) Thaaaaaaaaaaaank you again. <3333333333333

LOL If you're not sure now, you'll surely know by tomorrow.

See! There are graphics this time around. I don't even know what this picture it, but I think it's hilarious and I love it.

Leslie: I don't know her canon either, which is terrible of me, I know, especially with how funny she is here. There's a really great sense of exactly who she is in every tag, again, this really distinct and clear voice that's so different from Amy and still so strong. I'm in awe of anyone who can write funny pups, especially ones from sitcoms and you do such an incredible job with her, capturing that tone of absurdity that I'm never quite sure how to get. You do it perfectly, which is just amazing and I'm completely jealous of your ability to do is so flawlessly all the time. The things you've been doing with her are fantastic and I'm really looking forward to seeing the places you take her from here on.

And personal kudos, too! You're always a delight to play off of and to talk to. We've been threading together for a long time (but, haha, that can be said about almost anyone in the game, so I'm giving NOTHING AWAY!) and you've always, always been kind and warm and giving and so much fun. I absolutely adore you, I love talking to you, I think you're an amazing person and I hope your holiday season is wonderful. I know things are a little rough at the moment, but I know you'll pull through, because you're incredible. ♥

This gif sums it up pretty well.

I don't understand that photo either, but I love it. It speaks me to me. But thank you, dear Santa. <3333 I appreciate it. I worry about Leslie so much because she's a sitcom character and I am scared of being unfunny. So this means the WORLD to me.

Today there is more kudos!

Lisbeth Salander

Holy God where do I even start with this.

There is literally nothing about the way you play her that I don't love (EXCEPT I WANT MORE ALL THE TIME), or that doesn't feel authentic. One of the things about her in the film (I haven't read the books yet I know I suck) that most appealed to me was how she's got this intensely tough, prickly, fuck-you exterior, and as you get to know her better it becomes apparent that she's putting on this front precisely in order to protect this fragile, deeply wounded core. But she wants to connect, needs to connect, even if she's afraid to and isn't entirely sure how to go about it. You get that across so perfectly in how you play her, and she'd be complex and interesting anyway but it just adds layers of depth to her that make her beyond compelling to watch.

It's that need to connect that I've especially loved seeing as she moves within Darrow, as she tries to work out who she can trust and who she can let in - and how far. It's at the point where I don't just love reading her and playing off her, but I really feel invested in what happens to her, and I'm like OMG LISBETH I JUST WANT YOU TO BE HAPPY DDDD: but of course it's never that easy. But her little baby steps toward sunlight are so beautiful.

She definitely counts as one of those "strong characters, female". UGH I JUST LOVE HER OKAY GOD

Edited 2012-12-23 17:01 (UTC)

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Thank you so much. And just. My biggest fear about playing her is that I don't do her justice, but she's such a creation. I'm so incoherent.

Don't worry she will be happy someday~

Thank you ilu~~

Today, I bring you a small batch of Lucian icons! I don't know his canon at all, but he's kind of pretty to look at in some of the caps I found. >_>

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Yay, thank you! I personally happen to think he's quite pretty to look at :D

Just a note for today to assure you that you haven't been forgotten and Santa will have double gifties for you for the last two days! <3

Thank you Santa! You are very kind to me already!

Can you believe it's the day before Christmas Eve? This is so weird! Time is flying!

Today I have 24 icons for Delta. The lighting on Spartacus isn't too great or there would be a lot more than that, and Delta probably showers a lot more than Spartacus does, but I hope some of these will be useful!

These are lovely! Thank you. <333

For Ashley on Day 4, icons of her beautiful ladeez (seriously I'm a little obsessed with Maria Bello after this)

Ursula:

Jane:

Ffffff thank you so much. It's so hard to find good Maria Bello icons. Which is fucking ridiculous because man, look at her face.

So for today, I'm just gonna go ahead and do the present I want to do, which is a trip down nostalgia lane, ship-style.

Bridget Jones/O-Ren Ishii

Bridget Jones (my Bridget),

Please know I am not writing this out of melancholy. Today I walked along the beach, and when I turned, the ocean was swallowing my footprints. I am not religious enough to believe this is the story of life, but it was a reminder of the impermanence of this place.

I arrived here and I was still proud and cold; you were so strange to me, a funny tropical bird flitting about. I came to know you as warm and impractical and though I made you nervous, you didn't run away. I fell in love too late, or maybe too soon. I can't tell.

If I have gone, I did not choose to leave. Too many people have left you here, and I wish there was a way to make you see that it is the cruelty of fate and not something in you. Not you, not you.

After all, it's because of you that I've had someone to love, known the love of someone else-- known the touch of someone who loves me. That in itself is more than I ever dreamed of on cold nights in Tokyo. You have been a gift I never believed I deserved. I hold the frustration of not being with you in exactly the way I wanted, that's true, but when years pass and time fades this place, that will not be my memory. My memory will be of drinking tea with you, in a warm, sunlit place.

I told you once that suki da, I love you. There is a more archaic phrase that people rarely use. Ai for love, and shiteru for I am doing. It is love that makes a journey, that is moving and always. It is not 'I love you' but 'I am loving you'.

Aishiteru. Aishiteru.

O-Ren Ishii

I'm Kissing You

Pride can stand a thousand trials
The strong will never fall
But watching stars without you
My soul cries

True Colors as covered by Ane Brun

You with the sad eyes
Don't be discouraged
Oh I realize
Its hard to take courage
In a world full of people
You can lose sight of it all
And the darkness inside you
Can make you feel so small

But I see your true colors
Shining through
I see your true colors
And that's why I love you

...more to come as we go, and all my love.

sdfaj;lskfj AUGH.

FEELINGS. ALL THE FEELINGS. ♥ ♥ ♥

I know that I have flickered in and out of contact for these few days. It is really not intentional as I love you heaps and I want to rain joy down upon you. I really don't think that there is anything wrong with that.

A lot of this is going to turn into a massive IOU, but I am going to give you some kudos in the meantime. Let's start out with James Tiberius Kirk whose voice you have captured so perfectly that it makes me flail each time I read one of his threads. I have started to develop a difficulty in blurring actually canon moments with the actions you have written which is problematic when it comes to winning nerd arguments. I have absolute faith that the arrival of new canon is only going to cement the fact in my mind that you have an epic take on his voice. I love reading his threads with EVERYONE (especially his canonmates) wherein my heart aches for this grounded SOB.

Speaking of grounded astronauts, I have to flail about Kara Thrace. I won't say that it is giving me away to say that I have loved reading your threads with her for the past few years and her arrival in Darrow has only just solidified my love of her. I was ROLLING at the idea her last EP with Castiel and then loved how it seemed so perfectly her. When I read her tags I can hear Katee Sackoff's voice in my head which is amazing since my brain defaults to reading tags in the voices of Monty Python actors. So take it for the high praise it is! Also you have given me one of my favorite game ships to stalk and I basically am a ball full of feelings every time I thread stalk.

There is more coming, but I have indulged in the nog and this is just telling me that I need more threads with you.

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Leah

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ANGEL~ <3

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Sarah!