Entertainment without MuJi: Day One.

[innerbrat]

Please state the nature of the Entertainment Emergency
Canon Squee Post is Go
Name of canon in subject lines: skip over the ones you don't want to be spoiled for.

Alternatively: I just posted a pup into the bar for the first time in I don't know how long. Talk to me about long absences you've had, and why, and how you overcame them. Or what your pups have been up to since the last time they talked to one of mine.

Comments

[sdelmonte]

Let's talk abut Knox. After playing him for a few months, he kinda stalled out. I had some good OOMs with him, had fun with him, and got him a few friends. But he was not being very interesting in my head. I had new pups - Kirk and Gibbs - and they were more fun. I was close to stepping back from Knox, maybe even retiring him early.

And then came Rachel Grey's gift of obscene amounts of money to several friends, including Knox. He immediately got an EP. That gift, and his reaction to it, jumpstarted him. Before long, he became and stayed the strong voice in my head. So I can't entirely say that he came back due to anything I started, but once I got him going again, I saw how much there was to do with him as I got him a new job, had him tag Rapunzel that first time, and so on. I guess sometimes you need a new POV or a new challenge to make you see an old pup in a new way.

[innerbrat]

TWO MONTHS UNTIL NEW CANON, BABY.

I'm hoping that will kickstart Mel in the bar, definitely.

Mind there are also canon things to do with Will and Francesca. Just need to get back into the bar swing, I think.

Also, ♥ for Knox.

[kali921.livejournal.com]

Alex, I'm starting to read the Legion.

Help me.

[royal-guarantor.livejournal.com]

I'm going to tag!

[innerbrat]

♥

[ostro_goth]

I had a long absence due to the fact that my else!game ate my brain, and there seemed to be not much new in Milliways. Then, suddenly, last autumn, due to a bizarre series of silly circumstances actually starting out with the PB of one of my else!game charries, a certain dead Goth moved into my head and demanded to be given air time in Milliways...

And Teja's mellowed somewhat since any of yours last spoke to him; he's no longer going to tell an armed woman that women shouldn't fight, or suchlike things.

[innerbrat]

I approve of mellowing!

Yeah, sometimes elsegames can be sticky. Still, I might actually app one of my loudest elsegame headvoices next round- I've finally acquired one not already spoken for over here!

What's teja been doing with himself?

[calluna]

Loooong absence: Monk. After I had that brilliant idea of "LET'S MOVE HIM THROUGH PRE-CANON AND KILL TRUDY ALL OVER AGAIN!" he sort of... shut up.

I'm crossing my fingers and hoping that his voice comes back to me with the next season. I really don't want to adopt him out or delete him even though I've offered to... he's my first LJ RP pup. I CAN'T LET HIM GO.

[innerbrat]

That's what I'm like with Mel. I MUST KEEP HER OMG. Hopefully I can get to playing her more.

IRON MAN

[wakeupnew]

IS NOT MY CANON BUT I DO NOT CARE SDGDSKJG;SDKGJSDG.

I picked up one of the comics (Armor Wars) and have been reading; awesome hilarity!

Re: IRON MAN

[innerbrat]

I still haven't tried the comics. I'm sticking with my DC love, I think.

BUT OMFG MOVIE SO GOOD.

[wakeupnew]

I'm in something of an absence now, I think. The main reason is that I'm swamped by slowtimes, hate tagging them, and hesitate to start new threads while I still have something like 15 running. Also, though, I haven't had the time or the motivation to play, lately; the former's changing, though, and I really think that the latter will, too, as I finish up all of these slowtimes.

[innerbrat]

Ah yes, when fear of slowtimes overtakes. I know that feeling. And am often guilty with giving poorer and poorer tags in the hope the trhead will die a natural death without my partner hating me >_>

LOST

[buongiornodaisy.livejournal.com]

D'aww, wee li'l John Locke.

Re: LOST

[innerbrat]

I can't wait to find out what the hell is going on.

[herdivineshadow]

I tend to go for quite a while for most of my pups between postings - apart from Guy (I guess because he has other canonmates to keep up with). Mostly it's because when I get home from work my brains are a bit fried and then my weekends get filled with stuff by other people.

I know Frank hasn't been in for a while - mostly because he's post-canony and I've been pondering putting him back to pre-canon and going through it.

[canadabear.livejournal.com]

I haven't posted Sikozu in bar in I don't even know how long. She's just gone quiet, but hopefully getting around to re-watch bits of canon might stir her up again.

I have no Smallville canon squee, because it was not squeeworthy this week. In fact, Clark says it sucks to be him in so many ways he really doesn't want to think about it anymore.

[innerbrat]

One of these days I'm going to sit down and watch Smallville.

You'll take all the blame.

How I Met Your Mother

[timjr.livejournal.com]

What, it's totally my canon now, heheheh.

So much good Barney last week. Hopefully, this will continue tonight.

Iron Man, Legion, Manhunter, X-Factor, Lost, blah blah blah

[accipiterpuella.livejournal.com]

Iron Man - Fraction's Invincible Iron Man miniseries is a good attempt to mesh movie!Tony and comic!Tony without compromising the jerk factor of either.

Legion - I've been starting to read older Legion stuff lately. The Legion's always intimidated me because they've been through five reboots, but the awesome factor here is too large to ignore. Despite Jim Shooter's really creepy and totally age inappropriate thing that he just did with Saturn Girl.

Manhunter - Because Manhunter's being started up again after a long hiatus, I've been reading the trades again and basking in Kate's saucy and slighly incompetent glory.

X-Factor - PIETRO, PIETRO, PIETRO.

Lost - AAAAAGH!

As for muses on hiatus, both of my main muses have been on long hiatuses of one sort or another. She-Hulk because she went through a huge transition in canon and I had to wait to see how that would play out before I posted her in bar again, then I realized that she hadn't posted in bar in forever and screw it, no one would remember her anyway so why post? It all snowballed from there.

Hawkgirl's been on semi-hiatus since work got insane and for the above "oh, god, it's been so long, will anyone even remember her?" thing, although Adiva dragged my ass into plot, which has been kickstarting me to write her again.

Re: blah blah blah

[innerbrat]

Yeah, what you describe with She-Hulk is similar to the random anxious paranoid crap spewed out by my own brain recently. So I understand.

Oh oh, when's Hawkgirl from? I ask because I'm feeling out all DC muns I know about a potential Dinah in bar.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

[innerbrat]

Was anyone even surprised?

Re: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

[kali921.livejournal.com]

By new comic developments? Or by something else?

If the former, no. No, I wasn't surprised. I just read some totally awesome meta about that issue, actually.

ReBoot

[mendanddefend_archive]

Is this awesome (y/n)?

Re: ReBoot

[kali921.livejournal.com]

YES, it is. Is that the new website for the movie, or just a revamped website for all things Reboot?

*squeeflail*

Also, Bob in glasses is the cutest thing ever.

I CAN HAS QUANTUM OF SOLACE??/

[weeper-of-blood.livejournal.com]

STILL NOT SURE ABOUT THE TITLE OF IT.. BUT.. MATHIEU AMALRIC.. JOY UPON JOYS.

/Caps lock

I wants my new Bond movie now :/

Re: I CAN HAS QUANTUM OF SOLACE??/

[buongiornodaisy.livejournal.com]

Whenever I start to feel OK about the title I just remember that they appropriated it from a short story that had nothing to do with action just for the sake of describing Bond's manpain. It's probably not even a relevant description of Bond's manpain, largely because Vesper is... wait for it... NOT ALIVE.

Fuckers.

They need to stop taking perfectly fine Ian Fleming stories and changing them into LOLZ AMAYZING ADVENTURES!!!11 that have NOTHING TO DO with the original plot.

[ceitfianna]

Demeter and Will have been consistently loud for me though Will's currently out of Bar for plotty.

The Pirate King is my toughest pup, who's been on a slightly long hiatus. I want to try and EP him again but I need to figure out where in canon to bring him from and remind myself that yes I do a good job with him.

Since with him I get the fear of oh god, its Gilbert and Sullivan and Kevin Kline do I do a good enough job.

Also I've acquired a new headvoice in the form of Tumnus from Narnia, looking like the movie but really from the books.

Though I'm glad I have until June to app him since he doesn't even have a journal yet. Also in terms of since our pups last talked, Will's main thing is being with Kate I think.

[innerbrat]

I had no idea you were the Pirate King. Hoorah!

[wickedtrue.livejournal.com]

I go so many different long absences because of Work and School, I worry I won't get new people to play with, just my old buds I've known for years and years and remember 'FLEUR WAS FUNNY!'.

The unicorns are funny?

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

HI FEATHER. Everybody should play with you. Always. No matter how long it's been or who you bring in, or whether or not your characters are funny. Fleur was lots more than funny although she's that too, and I can vouch for that personally.

Then again, everybody should play with everyone! That's kind of the point of the game.

[misslucyjane]

Last year I 1)Killed off a character due to canon 2)had novel-prep stuff to do 3)fell head-over-heels with a character that I did not get to play here and so played in othergame and 4)lost the SO of one of my characters

So I didn't feel much like playing here for a while. Did a house-cleaning, cut out everyone whose voice I had lost, kept a crack character . . . then Maru gave me firstcptjack, who is a joy to play. There have been times it's amused me that the closeted dead guy is my anti-angst, but there you are.

[wheatencrown]

I miss playing with you and Jack is wonderful, I love reading all of his threads.

[agoodshinkickin.livejournal.com]

I know nothing about long haituses.
Haiati?
Hentai?

Good lord where the hell did THAT come from?

At any rate, it's not good when one loses a voice for a while. Or when one loses the drive to play a character because of so many OOC things. It's very sad, in fact. It makes the baby'versions of all major deities cry.

[bcgphoenix]

All of mine haven't been in for a while ("a while" being longer for some than others *eyes mercurialist sheepishly*) because I've had a tendency to get stuck in the loop of, "I can't RP! I have [insert excuse: fic to write, vids to finish, applications to complete, jobs to look for]." The guilt of being idle kind of crushes the creativity out of me and makes me close the bar.

And then, of course, I'll spend the next three hours playing JewelQuest or something instead. I suck.

I have also not yet figured out how to get over this, but I'm hoping I will soon. Suggestions? Absolutely welcome.

[innerbrat]

Closing Jewelquest might be an idea, but it never works for me. I... have no idea, actually.

Supernatural

[adiva_calandia]

All I have to say about "Time Is On My Side" is: Shit.

OMG OMG THURSDAAAAAAAAY.

Re: Supernatural

[innerbrat]

Man, I am so tired of being so angry at a show I otherwise love so much.

*insert feminist rage here*

Doctor Who

[adiva_calandia]

Okay, who else thinks the things being said about soldiers in this season are really interesting?

Re: Doctor Who

[irredeemableant.livejournal.com]

There is a LOT of it, isn't there? Sontarans, then this ep... is very interesting.

I still vote that the 'she' coming back is Gallifrey, hence all the war commentary...