The best thing to do while being sick is reading exponentially long fic while listening to podfic

[alita_b_angel]

Random links I found cool: Chocobos! They existed! I wish I had lived in a time where I would ride on giant birds.

Screw high tech gig drives and wireless thingymabobs... I want a steampunk laptop. Beyond awesome.

Cloud porn that has nothing to do with ffvii in any way/shape/form

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[kimberlyfdr]

Victors is an event unto itself :) The entire universe that was created from it is amazing (the vid..there are no words for that vid)

And Freedom was one of the first podfics I ever heard in SGA. This was long before I got fully into the fandom, never read the story, so for quite a while I kept going "surely John's not dead...he can't be dead...omg he's dead!" Keeps making me cry every single time I approach the fic :(

[alita_b_angel]

I was actually very wary of Victors since after the initial read of the first few paragraphs I found it quite distancing, it felt academic in a way that excludes others and didn't grip me immediately, especially since my first attempt was mid essay season and I didn't want that kind of academic language to creep over into my happy space as well. The word schism continues to make my skin crawl just a little. But the second attempt into it made me like the skill of writing in that style because of HOW big an undertaking it is to write a cohesive account from so many points of view but moreso, I enjoyed Victors in the respect that it felt so huge and open it was going into it. By the end I was all ready to write my own geeky research essay-format fanfic about Atlantis. The vid is amazing because it manage to get all of that and condense it so eloquently into a few minutes. I am in awe of people who can summarise

[kimberlyfdr]

Victors appeals to me as a historian because I understand that inability to write a cohesive history about events because even participants who were actually there will have different understandings and recollections, whereas those writing from a distance are always putting their personal slants on it without having a connection to who these participants actually are.

The vid amazes me because it re-appropriated the source so that the images presented don't have a direct connection to the original scenes anymore. Most vids I can recall "oh, that scene was from that ep and this was what was happening then" but with the Victors vid...these images were that story, illustrated. It's amazing (plus, it's the Traders theme, which was also re-appropriated so much so that I didn't even realize that's what it was the first time around and I knew that theme VERY well--double fandom goodness for us:)

[alita_b_angel]

I loved the pseudo-history arguing and the psychoanalyzing from a distance too. It felt very much like the catfight historians have over Alexander the Great, which made me smile a little at the potential allusions Victors was making about John and his geeky Hephaestion. (And of course it only brings me joy in my head, though having the whole Roxanne situation/assasination attempt/administrative success in rule helps to guide my history nerd fantasy along).

But from an essay writing standpoint, I really enjoyed how on a metafictional level I could still see that it was very cohesively Speranza's work, like some who has researched all these books, collected the most vital and pointed quotes in order to make an argument, or possibly the greatest fictional, theorectical historical
thesis ever. It just works on so many levels.