skirts, fic concept meshing, and distinctive voices
Due to rather nice weather of yesterday, decided to forgo jeans and tights and wore suede skirt and boots + torchwood shirt of subtle geekiness. Am poster child of many shades of mid-brown. However, the problem with the suede skirt is that it's one of those skirts that when you're sober and it's daylight, after about five minutes of walking you wish it was just that inch longer as it has a tendency to ride up a bit and stay *just* decent. Spent walk to work tugging at the hem every two minutes. But still, I look good and it's comfy.
Poking the various original fic universes. Some of which contain mary-sues. Several times I insert them into fandom universes when I feel the need to rant at certain things. Occasionally these random ideas once worked out find themselves into fic I'd be willing to post. The circle village universe (village/townsfolk a tad weird due to living on the borders of the Summer Country and entire area infused with the Wild - getting kidnapped/killed by elves is an occupational hazard) recently wandered into the SGA universe as soldiers. And then I had a disturbing revelation where it turns out that the Ancients are actually the elves once the two universes collided - time dilation fields, physical/mental tormenting of people in the name of experimentation that's fun and interesting, dropping stuff when it's no longer fun regardless of consequences to environment, etc, etc. Huh. Always weird when universes mesh upon colliding.
Listening to Putting it Together and pondering when it is that you gain the ability to pick an individual singer's voice out of a line-up - two listens to a track, after you've heard them sing a variety, constant listening over a short period? Some singers are *very* distinctive due to a trick/tone of voice - using this as an example, Ruthie Henshall is *very* distinctive - I'd only heard her on the Chigaco London cast soundtrack once, picked up an ensemble cd and went '...That's Ruthie singing on that bit.' Eartha Kitt and Shirley Bassey are similar, and interestingly, I'd say Ewan Macgregor is bloody distinctive.
John Barrowman, on the other hand, is probably only distinctive after you've listened to him a lot, and often that's a case of sheer clarity of singing compared to other voices. (slightly odd when you start doing comparison of voices, realising how few people sing clearly) Course, once you've got the stage of listening a lot, like with any singer, you can pick them out of a line up if they just sing a word. In a bad accent. When they have a cold. From the bottom of a coal mine.
To the point where, in the case of one track on a compilation cd, a bunch of Barrowman
fans wrote to the publishing company and went 'there's been a screw-up on this track, because that is *not* John.'
Them : 'It is!'
Fans : 'You are not obsessive. We have heard John when he's got a cold, on bad recordings from fuzzy tapes, and during phone interviews where the reception was terrible *and* he was two steps from collapsing in bed with bronchitis. That is not John.'
Publishing company : '...Okay, you win, we'll publish a retraction.'
Last few days, I keep coming across situations - wank, kerfuffles, archiving, beta-ing, why something's classified uninteresting/intrinsically boring and so on - in fandoms that get me quoting Steven Moffatt on the Dr Who commentaries.
'Yes it is. You are young and do not remember. I was there. John was in it!'
(to be said in a pedantic, hissed, histrionic tone of voice)
Oh my god, I've been in fandom too long.
Also, the problem with listening to mainly musicals. When you find yourself singing something under your breath idly, you realise you're either singing something so ridiculously sappy it's not true or you're singing something wildly innapropriate and probably filthy as hell.
Poking the various original fic universes. Some of which contain mary-sues. Several times I insert them into fandom universes when I feel the need to rant at certain things. Occasionally these random ideas once worked out find themselves into fic I'd be willing to post. The circle village universe (village/townsfolk a tad weird due to living on the borders of the Summer Country and entire area infused with the Wild - getting kidnapped/killed by elves is an occupational hazard) recently wandered into the SGA universe as soldiers. And then I had a disturbing revelation where it turns out that the Ancients are actually the elves once the two universes collided - time dilation fields, physical/mental tormenting of people in the name of experimentation that's fun and interesting, dropping stuff when it's no longer fun regardless of consequences to environment, etc, etc. Huh. Always weird when universes mesh upon colliding.
Listening to Putting it Together and pondering when it is that you gain the ability to pick an individual singer's voice out of a line-up - two listens to a track, after you've heard them sing a variety, constant listening over a short period? Some singers are *very* distinctive due to a trick/tone of voice - using this as an example, Ruthie Henshall is *very* distinctive - I'd only heard her on the Chigaco London cast soundtrack once, picked up an ensemble cd and went '...That's Ruthie singing on that bit.' Eartha Kitt and Shirley Bassey are similar, and interestingly, I'd say Ewan Macgregor is bloody distinctive.
John Barrowman, on the other hand, is probably only distinctive after you've listened to him a lot, and often that's a case of sheer clarity of singing compared to other voices. (slightly odd when you start doing comparison of voices, realising how few people sing clearly) Course, once you've got the stage of listening a lot, like with any singer, you can pick them out of a line up if they just sing a word. In a bad accent. When they have a cold. From the bottom of a coal mine.
To the point where, in the case of one track on a compilation cd, a bunch of Barrowman
fans wrote to the publishing company and went 'there's been a screw-up on this track, because that is *not* John.'
Them : 'It is!'
Fans : 'You are not obsessive. We have heard John when he's got a cold, on bad recordings from fuzzy tapes, and during phone interviews where the reception was terrible *and* he was two steps from collapsing in bed with bronchitis. That is not John.'
Publishing company : '...Okay, you win, we'll publish a retraction.'
Last few days, I keep coming across situations - wank, kerfuffles, archiving, beta-ing, why something's classified uninteresting/intrinsically boring and so on - in fandoms that get me quoting Steven Moffatt on the Dr Who commentaries.
'Yes it is. You are young and do not remember. I was there. John was in it!'
(to be said in a pedantic, hissed, histrionic tone of voice)
Oh my god, I've been in fandom too long.
Also, the problem with listening to mainly musicals. When you find yourself singing something under your breath idly, you realise you're either singing something so ridiculously sappy it's not true or you're singing something wildly innapropriate and probably filthy as hell.