"And you're the superhero?/ I never wear tights./ I'm crushed."
smilebackwards your card arrived! It's lovely and you are way too kind :)
On the flipside my housemate is back which means I am back to sneaking around my own flat. And it's January which makes me miserable at the best of times, especially when my family don't quite get it. Plus I'm mad at myself for being a bad friend and not having anything to say to anyone else, cause right now my own nonsense is taking up all of my energy.
But! I liked Sherlock Holmes. I can see the problems other people had but as all I wanted was a reason to seek out Holmes/Watson fic, I was well served. Of course now I'm going to feel obliged to chase some books down I suppose. *sighs* Fannish life is so hard y'all. And I had a question: can anyone think of a media source where it's two female characters doing the Holmes-Watson thing? And in this particular instance I mean the media trope where two male characters, involved in some shared pursuit, pull each other back towards it, regardless of the wives/partners who are being ignored? I'm not objecting exactly, but I'm curious whether it's just a guy thing. When it's a guy-girl thing it's sometimes a boss thing as well, and more often there's textual relationship jealousy rather than just really heavy subtext. Do girls leave their husband/boyfriend to wait for them at home because their super-hot, super-fun female partner in crime says 'I can't do this without you'?
Gonna go see Avatar in 3D tomorrow I think. Even if I hate it, I want to see the new tech in action, plus it gets me out of the house for at least 4 hours.
Oh, and I got The Middleman DVDs for Christmas.
scrollgirl have you seen it? Cause the male lead is the archetype hero-guy who saves the day while drinking milk, resolutely not cursing and looking sort of like he got lost a decade or two back. In a completely adorable heart-breaky ass-kicking way. And for some reason I thought of you... ;)
And also there's a Hispanic female lead, much passing of the Bechdel test, robots, zombies, puppet vampires... Worth importing from the US, is what I'm saying. And also this, from the DVD booklet. After explaining that he wanted to make a geeky show without having to explain all the geeky references, Javier Grillo-Marxuach says this:
... you may watch The Middleman and come to the conclusion that our characters live in a fantasy world: an unreal realm where friendships are sustaining and sustained, where heroism is rewarded not with tragedy and further burden, but with hope - and where evil is the result not of an unbeatable, unknowable and all-encompassing conspiracy but of a stone-headed unwillingness to face the challenges of life with common decency... and as you walk away into the inky moral darkness of our complicated world - the truth of cruel, cold and meaningless existence - you may even be tempted to smile at a stranger you pass on the street...maybe because you are amused by our callow misunderstanding of life's bitter reality...maybe because you look at us and our little show as one might a child who doesn't know any better...
or maybe just because it looks like that stranger on the street could use a smile.
And when you do...just remember...our plan is sheer elegance in its simplicity.
Repeat after me: there's nothing wrong with a happy ending. Or a hero. Writing is better than real life because writing has to make sense/mean something/do what you tell it. Now - sleep. Tomorrow - Avatar movie and writing and talking to parents without sounding like I'm on the edge of a breakdown.
On the flipside my housemate is back which means I am back to sneaking around my own flat. And it's January which makes me miserable at the best of times, especially when my family don't quite get it. Plus I'm mad at myself for being a bad friend and not having anything to say to anyone else, cause right now my own nonsense is taking up all of my energy.
But! I liked Sherlock Holmes. I can see the problems other people had but as all I wanted was a reason to seek out Holmes/Watson fic, I was well served. Of course now I'm going to feel obliged to chase some books down I suppose. *sighs* Fannish life is so hard y'all. And I had a question: can anyone think of a media source where it's two female characters doing the Holmes-Watson thing? And in this particular instance I mean the media trope where two male characters, involved in some shared pursuit, pull each other back towards it, regardless of the wives/partners who are being ignored? I'm not objecting exactly, but I'm curious whether it's just a guy thing. When it's a guy-girl thing it's sometimes a boss thing as well, and more often there's textual relationship jealousy rather than just really heavy subtext. Do girls leave their husband/boyfriend to wait for them at home because their super-hot, super-fun female partner in crime says 'I can't do this without you'?
Gonna go see Avatar in 3D tomorrow I think. Even if I hate it, I want to see the new tech in action, plus it gets me out of the house for at least 4 hours.
Oh, and I got The Middleman DVDs for Christmas.
scrollgirl have you seen it? Cause the male lead is the archetype hero-guy who saves the day while drinking milk, resolutely not cursing and looking sort of like he got lost a decade or two back. In a completely adorable heart-breaky ass-kicking way. And for some reason I thought of you... ;)
And also there's a Hispanic female lead, much passing of the Bechdel test, robots, zombies, puppet vampires... Worth importing from the US, is what I'm saying. And also this, from the DVD booklet. After explaining that he wanted to make a geeky show without having to explain all the geeky references, Javier Grillo-Marxuach says this:
... you may watch The Middleman and come to the conclusion that our characters live in a fantasy world: an unreal realm where friendships are sustaining and sustained, where heroism is rewarded not with tragedy and further burden, but with hope - and where evil is the result not of an unbeatable, unknowable and all-encompassing conspiracy but of a stone-headed unwillingness to face the challenges of life with common decency... and as you walk away into the inky moral darkness of our complicated world - the truth of cruel, cold and meaningless existence - you may even be tempted to smile at a stranger you pass on the street...maybe because you are amused by our callow misunderstanding of life's bitter reality...maybe because you look at us and our little show as one might a child who doesn't know any better...
or maybe just because it looks like that stranger on the street could use a smile.
And when you do...just remember...our plan is sheer elegance in its simplicity.
Repeat after me: there's nothing wrong with a happy ending. Or a hero. Writing is better than real life because writing has to make sense/mean something/do what you tell it. Now - sleep. Tomorrow - Avatar movie and writing and talking to parents without sounding like I'm on the edge of a breakdown.