Random fannish observations
1. The Washington Post had an article this morning about the backlog in the copyright office (apparently their new faster system for registering stuff is actually slower) and it was incredibly frustrating, talking about how people were "waiting sixteen months to get their copyrights" and saying things like "you don't need a copyright to publish or perform a work, but registering it provides legal protection and is the only way to keep people from copying your stuff" and I was yelling back like "These people already have copyrights! They aren't waiting to GET them at all!" Argh, fail, Post, fail.
2. There are more and more Big Bangs springing up, and somehow the average wordcount they require has shrunk from the 50,000 it originally was to 15,000 for almost all of the new ones. Since when is 15,000 words a huge long story?
3. Bandom/CW crossover in real life: Leighton Meester doing vocals on Cobra Starship's new single.
4. I was watching Angel the other day and suddenly there was surprise!JDM, playing some guy whose boyfriend had been killed by vampires.
5. I've also been watching reruns of various CSIs and have seen surprise!Lucas Luthor, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Megalyn Echikunwoke, a Ghostfacer, Brendan Fehr, Adrianne Palicki, and Sandra McCoy.
6. I went out last night to watch Star Trek again and then ended up making it a double feature with Wolverine. Because I'm able to do that kind of thing now. Also they gave me a free popcorn. Wolverine was indeed fairly meh: it wasn't a very well-structured story and I didn't think it added very much to the movieverse overall. Mainly it just made me think a) movie-Gambit/movie-Rogue would indeed be hot (hey, they are a classic, I liked them together when I was little (though the other movies have made me appreciate the Rogue/Bobby/John of course)) and b) Lynn Collins taking Taylor Kitsch home to Steven Strait for a little reunion and by "reunion" we mean "hot threeway sex." Because you guys, I learned a few weeks ago that Steven Strait GOT MARRIED last year at AGE 22 (to a woman who is 29, I'm just saying). And she was in the Wolverine movie so of course it was like "hey, honey, someone in my movie is someone you've worked with before." "Oh reeeaaaaallly." And I feel very dirty for thinking this, yes I do, but still. Somehow the pure innocence of Sky High was washed out by the obvious slashiness of The Covenant here.
7. Speaking of feeling dirty, if you had asked me a week ago whether I'd ever be reading porn about Captain Kirk enjoying being dominated and roughed up and choked during sex, I would have said a) totally OOC and b) I don't read fic about those people, oh god my childhood! Fandom, what have you done to my brain, apparently the new Enterprise is a big orgy where everyone is part of a happy team with benefits and especially Kirk, Spock, and Uhura have lots of sex all together. Team with benefits, I just. (YouTube is not cooperating and finding kissing clips for me.)
8. Apparently there is something wrong with me on the internets.
9. Am also trying to hash out a concept for a mainstream sci-fi action blockbuster with a majority female, majority of color cast and a happy queer romance subplot. Because the day I go watch a blockbuster with surprise!homoerotic plotline will be a happy day, and no one else seems to be moving faster on it. Plus, have gone back to working on Gilgamesh, though that has fewer women and no overt gay sex. It does have a more complete plot at the moment, though (so far I am stealing viral aliens).
10. This entry is apparently all about threesomes.
2. There are more and more Big Bangs springing up, and somehow the average wordcount they require has shrunk from the 50,000 it originally was to 15,000 for almost all of the new ones. Since when is 15,000 words a huge long story?
3. Bandom/CW crossover in real life: Leighton Meester doing vocals on Cobra Starship's new single.
4. I was watching Angel the other day and suddenly there was surprise!JDM, playing some guy whose boyfriend had been killed by vampires.
5. I've also been watching reruns of various CSIs and have seen surprise!Lucas Luthor, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Megalyn Echikunwoke, a Ghostfacer, Brendan Fehr, Adrianne Palicki, and Sandra McCoy.
6. I went out last night to watch Star Trek again and then ended up making it a double feature with Wolverine. Because I'm able to do that kind of thing now. Also they gave me a free popcorn. Wolverine was indeed fairly meh: it wasn't a very well-structured story and I didn't think it added very much to the movieverse overall. Mainly it just made me think a) movie-Gambit/movie-Rogue would indeed be hot (hey, they are a classic, I liked them together when I was little (though the other movies have made me appreciate the Rogue/Bobby/John of course)) and b) Lynn Collins taking Taylor Kitsch home to Steven Strait for a little reunion and by "reunion" we mean "hot threeway sex." Because you guys, I learned a few weeks ago that Steven Strait GOT MARRIED last year at AGE 22 (to a woman who is 29, I'm just saying). And she was in the Wolverine movie so of course it was like "hey, honey, someone in my movie is someone you've worked with before." "Oh reeeaaaaallly." And I feel very dirty for thinking this, yes I do, but still. Somehow the pure innocence of Sky High was washed out by the obvious slashiness of The Covenant here.
7. Speaking of feeling dirty, if you had asked me a week ago whether I'd ever be reading porn about Captain Kirk enjoying being dominated and roughed up and choked during sex, I would have said a) totally OOC and b) I don't read fic about those people, oh god my childhood! Fandom, what have you done to my brain, apparently the new Enterprise is a big orgy where everyone is part of a happy team with benefits and especially Kirk, Spock, and Uhura have lots of sex all together. Team with benefits, I just. (YouTube is not cooperating and finding kissing clips for me.)
8. Apparently there is something wrong with me on the internets.
9. Am also trying to hash out a concept for a mainstream sci-fi action blockbuster with a majority female, majority of color cast and a happy queer romance subplot. Because the day I go watch a blockbuster with surprise!homoerotic plotline will be a happy day, and no one else seems to be moving faster on it. Plus, have gone back to working on Gilgamesh, though that has fewer women and no overt gay sex. It does have a more complete plot at the moment, though (so far I am stealing viral aliens).
10. This entry is apparently all about threesomes.