jackwabbit: (Mulder-MCRU)
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The very first thing I remember doing on the internet was reading X-Files fanfic. And visiting X-Files fan sites.

I'm sure I used it for research, because I was in college, but um...yeah...don't remember that. I do remember looking up episode titles, printing out pics to put on my desk, discovering what passed for forums then, and talking to other fans.

So, um, yeah...not much has changed as far as my internet use.

Speaking of which, have I pimped December Lady's advent calendar today? No?

Well, go and check it out here!

As for how it changed my life, well, we don't have time for that conversation!

Let's just say I'd never be where I am today without it!
jackwabbit: (Mac-Good Book)
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Best:

This is hard to answer, as there are many, so I will do the ones I specifically remember reading for the first time:

1-Huckleberry Finn. I was nine when I read this book, and I had never encountered anyone so cool in all my life. I wanted to be Huck more than anything ever. I mean, he was cool enough to fake his own death. That takes balls, man.

2-White Fang. I was nine when I read this one, too. I was truly drawn into this animal's struggle and how he was only what he'd been made. (Social Darwinism FTW!)

3-Um...having a hard time here...Ender's Game. Dude! Who didn't want to be Ender? EDIT: My Side of the Mountain. Yeah, I wanted to be Sam, too. The whole running away and living on my own thing did it for me as a kid (I think I read this book at about thirteen years old), and as an adult nothing has grabbed me as well as these did when I was younger. Nothing has made me just yearn to be the character so much. But Ender's Game stays, too, and for the record, I read that at twenty-seven.

Worst:

1-The Great Gatsby. Just kill me. Kill me now rather than make me read this book. I thought maybe I just didn't get it as a kid, but no. I've tried to read it as an adult, and just...no. Never. Kill me now.

2-Wuthering Heights. If I'd rather death than read The Great Gatsby, I'd rather the most painful torture imaginable than read this. Worst. Book. Ever.

3-and as if one Bronte wasn't enough, I've got to go with the one book in school I couldn't finish. The one book I cheated on. The one book I Cliff Noted. Jane Eyre. I thought surely it couldn't be as bad as Wuthering Heights, and maybe it isn't, but after Emily nearly killed me, I wasn't going to give her sister the same chance. She had to prove to me she was worth it. She didn't. I gave her a sporting chance, but after a few chapters, I just couldn't finish it. Gone with the Wind falls into the rare "didn't finish" category, too. Read about half. It never got good.
jackwabbit: (Wil-SDCC-Geek)
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Original NES games. Talking stuffed animals and their legendary adventures. Anthropomorphizing everything. Talking gibberish in gibberish voices. Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. About a million other things. But not comic books because those aren't for kids much. And did I mention Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?

(Actually, this questions is crap. If you love it, you don't ever have to outgrow it. Period and the end. Rock out, Raphael!)
jackwabbit: (Wil-SDCC-Geek)
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I mean, really.  In what universe are Slurpees and Icees the same, indeed?

jackwabbit: (Mal-The Captain)
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Why?  Um...does one really have to ask that?  This show was cut down in its youth, and it is far and away one of the best (if not the best) sci-fi shows I've ever seen.  No!  Wait!  I have a new answer.

Ten words, my friends, ten words: Mal.  Zoe.  Wash.  Inara.  Jayne.  Book.  Kaylee.  Simon.  River.  Serenity.

SG-1, you are my heart.  Star Trek, you are my blood.  Atlantis, you are the bones of my flesh.  X-Files, you are my viscera, as suits you...but Firefly, oh, Firefly, you are my soul.

(the jack is silent)

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