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Life has intervened in about half a dozen ways to make me fall completely off the boat on the January talking meme, so I am going to shove it into February instead. :P

Also: Escapade! I am going! Whooo! I freely admit right here and now that I will probably spend virtually the entire time sitting with my laptop in a cabana by the pool hoping people will come hang out with me, because right now that is how I roll, but I am super excited and will even try to bang out a new vid in time.
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(This one is for Dec 3! Will get Dec 4 in later tonight I hope!) for [livejournal.com profile] blackrabbit42: Trip to Disneyworld!

OK, so I absolutely love Disney World -- my parents took me and my sister a few times as children, and I have various really vivid memories of the place, which for me is really unusual. (I have a brilliant memory for things like quoting the subtitles to the credits of Monty Python and the Holy Grail word for word and absolutely nil memory for faces or events in my past. Our family gatherings invariably have my sister saying, "Remember that time we [did something very fun]," with many details, from when she was six years old, and me saying blankly, "No," even though I was ten.)

But I have really clear memories of making up Lex Luthor fanfic about the whole space mining thing that used to be in the Space Mountain waiting line (from which I can draw a line straight to Moving On, haha), and then there was the time when my parents (who were bored stiff) let me take my sister and go around the park ALONE (I was I think 13-14 or so? the freedom was heady), and I could sing the Tiki Tiki Room song by heart (although I misheard the line "flowers croon" as "flowers bloom" and have been trying to fix it in my head since I discovered the mistake when I looked up the youtube video of it for Hypatia).

Anyway, so to be honest one of my motivations for having a child was (a) to get to show them Star Wars unspoiled (the ORIGINAL ones obvs), and (b) to take them to Disney World. :D

about this most recent trip plus advice for going with a toddler )

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[personal profile] gingicat: Luring children into fandom

Well, I had various elaborate plans for doing this for when Hypatia got older, including watching various fannish sources together and making up stories, playing computer games and doing mods (initially for her, then later showing her how to do her own). However, based on my current evidence, this is not going to be necessary. She is already a fan.

The current fandom is The Wizard of Oz. We read the book in tiny bits and pieces and then watched the movie in ~15 minute increments, fast-forwarding past the Wicked Witch.

Since then, I have sung "We're Off To See The Wizard" at least three times a day for every day of the last month, and have LARPed alternately the Scarecrow ("Mommy, can you ask to go" "OK: Dorothy, do you think the Wizard would give me some brains?" "Yes I do Scarecrow!" "Well, let's go!" *break into united song and go skipping through apartment*), the Tin Woodman ("You need to be oiled, Tin Woodman!" "Mmmphmpmphr!" *Hypatia applies toy teapot in lieu of oilcan*), and Auntie Em ("Dorothy! I'm so glad you're home! Where were you?" "I was in Oz!").

Hypatia prefers the roles of Dorothy and Glinda. She has repurposed a random plush handbag someone gave her as her basket and a small stuffed Pluto is Toto. She likes to cosplay in a small blue dress and is often sad if it is in the wash. Also she is already making up fanfic: she decided that Auntie Em and Uncle Henry should get to visit the Wizard with Dorothy. I may possibly have given excessive fuel to the fire by getting her a pair of sparkly red shoes which she now insists on wearing ALL THE TIME.

For the sake of my sanity, I would appreciate any recommendations for other toddler-appropriate fandoms to pimp her into if any of you have ideas!

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Jan 1: [personal profile] resonant: A character who would make New Year's resolutions, and a character who wouldn't.

OK, doing this in the form of a list, haha.

Clark: One resolution that he takes pretty seriously and tries to actually stick to for the whole year.
Lex: No. Too trite, too easy to discard. If there's something you resolve on doing, you do it, you don't wait for the new year.
Lois: A half-dozen casual resolutions mostly having to do with doing more yoga and getting massages and drinking less coffee and smoking less, all discarded within a couple of weeks max because shut up, Kent, she's onto something BIG.


Jane Foster: Like Lois, but her resolutions are about talking to normal people sometimes and not spending so much time in the lab, and they don't last past waking up on New Year's Day.
Thor: Listens as Jane and her friends discuss their various resolutions, doesn't entirely get it, but after Darcy explains, agreeably accepts one of her devising, vows to uphold it, and proceeds to stick to it like grim death and gets really horrified around March when he finds out none of the rest of them have stuck to theirs.
Loki: Pathetic mortals really bother to mark one single revolution around their star? Also, to kill Thor.


Tony Stark: He has Pepper for that kind of thing.
Pepper: Makes a resolution to do more yoga and keeps it with sensible exceptions in case of crisis situations. Flatly refuses to come up with a resolution for Tony.


Harold: Oh, is it New Year's Day? Goes back to coding.
John: Privately makes his annual resolution/vow that nothing is going to hurt the people under his protection. He knows it doesn't do any good but he can't help doing it.
Carter: just like Clark. *sniffles*
Fusco: A bunch of casual resolutions which all peter out bit by bit through February and March.
Shaw: Are you kidding me?
Root: Always! Usually to try something new, like hacking a nuclear site or something else really fun.



Dale Cooper: Diane, while I've never been much for making New Year's resolutions, after last night's celebration at the Roadhouse, I returned to my room at the Great Northern feeling mildly light-headed -- possibly a consequence of the interaction between the three slices of pie I indulged in along with the champagne -- and despite the late hour, rather than falling immediately asleep I found that my mind felt strangely open and receptive to forming positive intentions towards the year to come...




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