Old blog archive: 31 March 2003

So I stayed up later than I should have yesterday (not that 11:30’s typically late, but if you have to be at work at 7 AM it’s pretty late), because for some reason, a couple of quotes from “The Dark Disciples” got caught in my head (“Smells like the hold of a kreld-barge, Ioz!” and “Here in Octopon, everything is fair game!” / “Then you’ll have to win it in a fair fight!”), so I figured I’d watch the episode to get them out. And then I started watching a couple of more, like “The Game Players of Undaar” (John Rhys-Davies, HEEEE) and “The Ghost Pirates.” And I realized something, or rather, re-realized it. Cressa is badass. She’s also really sexy. The way she holds herself–she’s powerful and dominating, but still really sultry and womanly in some ways. When Ioz was half-ghosted and leaping off the ghost ship towards Ren on the Wraith, she yanked Ioz out of the grasp of both of Ren’s arms with her whip, and then laughs this really deep-throated, sensual laugh and reaches a hand down for him, and she gets this look. It’s so awesome. :o) They’ve got some seriously awesome strong women in this show–I think she’s stronger than Tula in some ways, and it’s cool to see someone so ruthless.

And Ioz/Tula shippers are going to LOVE this. At the end of “The Dark Disciples,” when Ioz and Tula and Niddler go over to Ren and hug him, Ioz has one arm around Ren’s shoulders and one arm around Tula’s shoulders, and then the hand on Tula’s shoulders pulls back to her hair, and then as Ren pulls away to see how Jenna is, Ioz pulls back completely and kind of tilts his head and looks at Tula, looking a bit…startled? Or caught off-guard, or something. But then they all pull back and he keeps his arms to himself. It’s so cute! I’m not taking any sides in the who-Tula’s-guy-should-be debate, but I’m finding more and more evidence to give Ioz as strong a case as Ren has. ;o)

Oh, and earlier, I was quizzing my best friend on Dark Water stuff–by her insistence. :o) She asked me to name an episode title and she’d describe the episode to me. She’s doing very well; she’s a good pupil and learns quickly. *grins* And I’m sure her putting up with me for 4 years in high school and for 3 semesters as my roommate had nothing to do with it…of course not… *angelic look* She was a fan before we met, though, so I can’t claim that I converted her. (Darn.)

Old blog archive: 25 March 2003

Ugh, need to convert this to MovableType soon…but anyway! Keeping this really short because I really really need to go get my car (it’s across campus, I’m at the library) and park it near here since I’m going to be here for a while still…but I got this awesome gift in my inbox yesterday, along with a really nice message:

Is that not the most adorable thing ever? The girl who sent it is working on a PoDW site and wanted to thank me for my hard work, because my site helped her out a lot with the creation of hers (and I’ll post the link when it goes live). I don’t think I’ve ever really received any “gifts” like this before…that totally, totally made my evening yesterday! :o)

But off to go study for a test worth 20% of my grade tomorrow…gah!

Old blog archive: 16 March 2003

Geez! So I posted 2 episodes up yesterday–Dishonor (episode 2) has already gotten 49 downloads (since around 1 PM yesterday) and King Niddler (10) has gotten 22! And 177 have downloaded (or at least accessed) The Quest in the past week! And yet I’ve only now broken 3 gigs’ worth of bandwidth usage for the month…wow…this rocks. :o)

*stops slacking off at her campus library and gets back to work* 😛

Old blog archive: 09 March 2003

I give up. 4 AM is too damn inaccessible, argh! 3 AM would be a bit better, and anything earlier would definitely be preferrable–but 4 and 5 AM are stretches. I don’t know if I’ll be watching Pirates of Dark Water on Cartoon Network any more as a result, and since we can’t tape it because of our cable box configuration or whatever…grah.

Old blog archive: 08 March 2003

On our drive back to Atlanta from Jacksonville Thursday (I’d gone there with a friend to spend spring break with her family, away from home, just relaxing and unwinding), my friend suddenly said, “Clouds!” and pointed to the sky, where the clouds were looking extremely spectacular and gorgeous and ominous, in shades of bluish-grey, ranging from faint to very deep. The first thing I thought of was, “Clouds…turning water black…all around me….the–Dark–Water!” from episode 5, during Ren’s fever dream. ^^; I told my friend that I’d immediately thought of a PoDW quote to go with that, and that it’s something I do regularly, or used to, if someone just said the right word. If anybody said, “Gah!” I’d think of, “If you were unchained, I’d tear you apart!” from The Ghost Pirates–Cressa’s first mate snarls it at Ioz for repeatedly insulting him. A few other words will set off similar quote-associations, too. ;o) They’re sort of escaping me at the moment, though, but if I remember them I’ll jot ’em down.