Journal - "iCarly and Junk"

[leskuh]

Hnn. I'm in an iCarly mood, but don't know what to do with it. Also, it might just be me being picky, but so far NONE of 5_4_3_2's challenges haven't really caught my eye. I think the visual challenges are a cool idea, but IDK. None of the November ones really grab me and 'Let's Eat' as an overall prompt is kind of... EHHHHHHHH.

I also can't do it because 'Let's Eat' keeps sending my mind to DIRTY places and then I just start giggling like a 12 year old.

Also, the week-by-weekish ones seem to be fanfiction only? Which is bummery. Not that anyone can stop me from doing whatever I want, but it's kind of a moot point since the new challenge JUST went up and it's about the side characters and I have absolutely no interest in drawing any of the side characters. I still haven't even made a proper Carly after all.

Last night's episode wasn't really that great either. Lewbert-centric episodes are not a good idea. He is boring and completely unlikable and not worth a half hour of my time. Sorry.

The trio was cute in this episode though. I liked all the lounging about that they did. You can really see how comfortable the cast has become with one another at this point.

ALSO: Nathan! SO TALL!

It is totally okay if I have a little crush on Nathan Kress because he is going to be 17 in like 3 days and I am only 20 and 3.5 years isn't that big a difference AMIRITE?

Hmmm. I'm about halfway through the next chapter of Trying. Helga and Phoebe are being all sorts of adorable in it. Arnold is kind of hanging back and letting the girls steal the limelight for this chapter.

Anyway, anyone want to give me iCarly related prompts? They can be anything you want - Song Lyrics, single words, WHATEVER. Please note that I'm pretty much only really comfortable drawing Sam and Freddie (and maybe!Carly) so like... if you want Spencer/Nevel it is totally NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. Actually I'm likely to only draw Sam/Freddie stuff, because that is what I like, so uhhhh... Just so you know and all.

But yes. Toss me some prompts please. Even if you have no investment in iCarly, but have a word or phrase stuck in your head. LET ME HAVE IT.

Comments

[analeisa.livejournal.com]

There’s also that other episode where Spencer dates Carly’s teacher and she goes crazy on him. That too is presented as LOL SO FUNNY. iCarly does seem to think boys being attacked and girls going crazy is hilarious. Which, like you said, is VERY not cool.

iCarly has nice themes on friendship and creativity (and I have that dorky need for Same and Freddie to hook up) but that sexism is why I dislike the show more than I enjoy it.

[leskuh.livejournal.com]

Spencer seems to be a walking target for all sorts of abuse on that show (Freddie too to an extent, although most of that comes from Sam). Just because you reverse the gender norms doesn't make the (often times at least partly sexual) violence any less skeevy iCarly!

Yes, I like iCarly on a lot of levels, but I'm not blind to it's faults. My favorite scenes are the ones where it's just the trio being BFF-y and lounging about. That's like... all I want to watch is three friends being cute together! Leave out all the Nevel sideplots/quasi-sexual abuse scenes and just let me watch them make cute faces at one another!

poisonivory and I once had a conversation about how, iCarly can be funny and charming, but it's hard to love. I can like the show a lot, but I can't say that I really love it. It doesn't fill me with the warm fuzzies that Hey Arnold! does.