I've been going through my Youtube history, since I never got around to 'liking' things I ... well, like, and apparently there is some critical vid-watching-point where I sulk over my own non vid making capacity, then go back to writing. Apparently there is also something in my brain that only ever gives me the urge to write things I have no ( Read more... )

Well, The Adventures of Lucy Skywalker is, anyway. I stumbled across it the other day, and it was ... um, okay, kind of weird, because a good portion of the review is the reviewer just reading and occasionally interspersing commentary, and the way she reads it sounds nothing like how it does in my head (it’s awful, but I kept wanting to say ‘um, I ( Read more... )

So apparently I will never run out of these (eta: holy crap there were a lot of them). And I'm gearing up for my essay on the eighteenth-century sublime as a tool of masculine domination (we were supposed to use Northanger Abbey but I got the okay to use Sanditon instead) and a final for my Bible-as-literature class and a revision/four-page- ( Read more... )

I meant to do the Austen one, really, but most of those who'd be interested have seen most of them already anyway, and ... I'll try and do a double Austen-Tolkien one Friday or Saturday, maybe. In the meanwhile, I've been wandering around tumblr and found a bunch of awesome Star Wars things (too many for this post!), mostly from one shiny tumblr ( Read more... )

Guys, guys (er, the two of you that are probably reading this), I just got Lucy fanart! Not for the au_bb -- just because! And it's gorgeous and shiny and everything is wonderful and maybe there will be more OMG this is one the most exciting things that has ever happened to me in fandom (any fandom) and my face has been frozen in :D for the last ( Read more... )

So, I started this intending to talk about the ... irregular circumstances surrounding the guardianship of the Skywalker twins. It mostly just became this incoherent rant about how much Yoda taking command of the twins bothers me. And is probably character-bashing (and maybe PT bashing?), so consider yourself warned.

( Read more... )

Cue appropriate gasps and shocked expressions. I ran across the Fifty Themes; One Character thing, and it seemed just perfect for the EU-ignoring, canon-compliant OT fic I've been wanting to write. So I grabbed a set and wasted the whole day on it instead of working on the au_bigbang. Uh, either of them.

-----------------------

Title: Daughter of ( Read more... )

There's a lot of fandom discomfort over Owen and Beru.  I've seen them positively demonised -- especially Owen -- and I've seen them persistently referred to as Luke's adoptive parents, even though it's always seemed quite obvious to me that they chose not to adopt him.

( to adopt, or not to adopt )

My rant about incomes in P&P actually cropped up in a DWG discussion.  The version posted at dreamwidth, of all places -- I haven't, ah, noticed many from the Austen contingent over [t]here.  Apparently I have lurkers or something?  I don't know, but they were very nice about it (and not in a Cult of Nice way, just normal-nice).

( special licenses )

At twenty-four, I'm pulling my first all-nighter.  4:30 in the morning ZOMG.  *yawn*

Anyway!  Thoughts on the rest of the OT:

-- the "Luke No, I am your father" scene is every bit as amazing as I remembered.  Again, I've heard complaints about Mark Hamill's acting, but it works for me.  If my superpowered cyborg archnemesis had ( Read more... )