Updates and whatnot:
Late last night, I posted a Jack/David fic -- I'm always unsure when the best time to post things is, but 10 p.m. is probably not it.
verb_noire has raised $7,381 to date, which is pretty awesome. Other cool things that I am reminded of: I'm picking up some sweet book recs from 50books_poc and film recs from 12films_poc.
One of the sweetest films I can remember seeing, which was written and directed by Alice Wu, is Saving Face, a romantic comedy about Wil, a Chinese-American lesbian, that deals with both her romance and her family (her mother, primarily). I haven't yet mentioned it on the comm because I'd want to rewatch it first (which means that I need to re-rent it from netflix).
I first saw it when I asked for recommendation of gay/lesbian movies where no one died and this movie, like Imagine Me and You delighted me with its delicate touch (oh, and as a fannish side note, IM&Y has Lena Hedley (who plays Sarah Connor in the current series) as one of the romantic leads and Angel Colby (Gwen on Merlin) as a potential LI character for someone else at the end). Saving Face has complex and believable characters and I really adored the resolution.
Bookwise, when we read books for the 'American Dream' class I recently took, the books that stayed with me the longest were "Typical American" by Gish Jen and "A Raisin in the Sun" by Lorraine Hansberry. "The Great Gatsby" was overrated (Gatby=stalker! Also, the narrator is a cold, selfish jerk) and though "Grapes of Wrath" was better than I expected, it still wasn't all that compelling (though, as we had time constraints, we watched the movie for that, so probably the book is better). There were also several short stories/essays, though I only recall that one of them was that Horatio Alger thing. In a later class, we did get the chance to read/talk about MLK's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" which was even more awesome than I recalled it being.
"Typical American", which starts with a Chinese exchange student coming to America just before the Chinese Revolution, was engaging and drew me deeply into protagonists' perspectives, with two very vivid female characters who grow and change throughout, and an ending that offers the potential for a brighter future without unrealistically typing things up in the bow. "A Raisin in the Sun", which I really want to see performed as a play now, really makes me ache for the characters (the class was interesting, because the first half was all -- "white guys! white guys all over the place! only white guys have a voice!" and then the second half was the opposite and it was amazing was a relief it was not to be reading from that perspective anymore).
Pictures for "Planet of the Dead" (the upcoming Doctor Who special) are out. David Tennant remains pretty.
verb_noire has raised $7,381 to date, which is pretty awesome. Other cool things that I am reminded of: I'm picking up some sweet book recs from 50books_poc and film recs from 12films_poc.
One of the sweetest films I can remember seeing, which was written and directed by Alice Wu, is Saving Face, a romantic comedy about Wil, a Chinese-American lesbian, that deals with both her romance and her family (her mother, primarily). I haven't yet mentioned it on the comm because I'd want to rewatch it first (which means that I need to re-rent it from netflix).
I first saw it when I asked for recommendation of gay/lesbian movies where no one died and this movie, like Imagine Me and You delighted me with its delicate touch (oh, and as a fannish side note, IM&Y has Lena Hedley (who plays Sarah Connor in the current series) as one of the romantic leads and Angel Colby (Gwen on Merlin) as a potential LI character for someone else at the end). Saving Face has complex and believable characters and I really adored the resolution.
Bookwise, when we read books for the 'American Dream' class I recently took, the books that stayed with me the longest were "Typical American" by Gish Jen and "A Raisin in the Sun" by Lorraine Hansberry. "The Great Gatsby" was overrated (Gatby=stalker! Also, the narrator is a cold, selfish jerk) and though "Grapes of Wrath" was better than I expected, it still wasn't all that compelling (though, as we had time constraints, we watched the movie for that, so probably the book is better). There were also several short stories/essays, though I only recall that one of them was that Horatio Alger thing. In a later class, we did get the chance to read/talk about MLK's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" which was even more awesome than I recalled it being.
"Typical American", which starts with a Chinese exchange student coming to America just before the Chinese Revolution, was engaging and drew me deeply into protagonists' perspectives, with two very vivid female characters who grow and change throughout, and an ending that offers the potential for a brighter future without unrealistically typing things up in the bow. "A Raisin in the Sun", which I really want to see performed as a play now, really makes me ache for the characters (the class was interesting, because the first half was all -- "white guys! white guys all over the place! only white guys have a voice!" and then the second half was the opposite and it was amazing was a relief it was not to be reading from that perspective anymore).
Pictures for "Planet of the Dead" (the upcoming Doctor Who special) are out. David Tennant remains pretty.