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1. I am pretty entertained watching the (growing) portion of my flist that's getting sucked into "bandom." All these posts with capslocky "OMG DON'T JUDGE ME!!!!11!!" Haha. Dude, I feel certain that I am in no position to judge, considering [insert what whatever thing it is that I do/like that makes you most inclined to mock me]. But see, I don't see much fic, I just see these flaily exclamations - Are you guys like off in some hidden corner somewhere freebasing nubile young rocker gayness? And another question: How does the fact that Pete Wenz was friggin' on One Tree Hill for awhile playing himself figure in? I mean, that means he was in proximity of The Chad multiple times.
2. I love the fact that my gym ONLY plays the eighties satellite radio station. Today I was reminded of what a Tina Turner fangirl I was at the tender age of about 6. And for some reason THAT reminded me of when my mom used to go away for weekends to run conferences about peace activism and anti-nuke stuff (yes, you all KNOW already that I was raised by hippies) and my Dad was in charge and he would take us out to the movies and order pizza and it was SO COOL! He let us stay up past our bedtimes too, because he's a pushover about stuff like that. Anyway, I have this very vivid memory of a perfect day where my Pops took us out to the movies and we went swimming and came home and had a rockin' dance party in the kitchen to Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Want to Have Fun." I remember sliding socks on our hardwood floors and how happy my best friend looked and for once not being embarrassed about the whole Tofu-eating/my dad wears Indonesia sarongs in the house situation that was my young life. My memory works like snapshots. And there must have been some Tina Turner involved in that dance party or else I have no explanation whatsoever.
3. I had all these resolutions about when I came back from my trip: don't drink every day, go to bed earlier, do actual work, exercise, etcetera. So far I've managed to be quite sober in my lazitude the last few days. And I worked out. I am also on my laptop in the living room! Which is a step towards my grand plan of getting the TeeVee and computer out of my bedroom so I stop being compulsive and associating my sleep area with madness. I have also decided that since my advisor has left NU and will not be around to see that I've changed my reading list, I'm going to make some shifts in the books I'm going to read before school starts and er, read some academic books about porn and food. Oh yes. I'm thinking it might be easier to motivate myself to stop mainlining fucking HP fic that way.
4. Speaking of HP fic, I'm hoping to get much further on this Hermione fic tonight. It's starting to feel like "Groundhog Day" what with writing the same person losing their virginity in different ways. This should be going faster--it's all porn! I'm kind of desperately hoping that the "ideas" that I have are going to come through. It's sort of meta-ish in my head, sort of. Mostly in that a) I don't believe that there's only one perfect way to do anything, least of all "do it" and b) even when I 'ship I don't think that one other person is the end all be-all of another person's sexuality and c) less coherent stuff about the "story tree" nature of fanfic, because of the way that each of these "Hermiones" that I'm writing is a slightly different person due to different experience/timing. I'm a cheater and I did the "easy" ones first: Viktor Krum and Ron. Now I have Ginny and then a Muggle OMC so I can try and say something re: how Hermione's life straddles the Muggle/Wizarding line and Harry, which will be so fucking hard for me because I'm really not into Harry/Hermione because I platonically friend'ship them.
And now some fic recs, just to wow you with how eclectic I am:
++ a cage to catch our dreams by notthequiettype - Jared/Jensen RPS. Adult. My FB: I love this! And I'll have you know that two separate people either tried to explain this fic and/or read it out loud over the phone to me this week. So. Anyway, hilarious and crackling dialogue, blah blah. What I really like best though about this is what's sorta on the quiet slow burn: a) the sense of place, like LA is a character in the story and b) the slow build with the careful single sentences of foreshadowing throughout.So yeah, awesome. P.S. BEARDS HEIDI BEARDS. And weed. And insightfulness.
++ Sons Gonna Rise by vinylroad - SPN - Sam/OFC - Adult - This is EXACTLY the kind of Sam/OFC story I was desperately wanting last year when I'd go ransacking del.icio.us for them and come up with nothing but my own stories.
++ Coda to an Epilogue by mistful - HP - Gen, I guess, Harry, Draco and the kiddies - A lot of people are saying that this story "fixes" the epilogue to DH. I especially like the first part with Harry and Draco snarking at each other while they're searching for their children who are lost in some dark underground place inhabited by giant alligators. Later parts become increasingly Slytherin-apologist, but it works. I like how it presents an adult future for the characters that's hopeful but not perfect. [Side note: there's like 1O PAGES of FB on that story - I guess I really didn't know what the term "BNF" really meant never having been in HP fandom before. Which I'm still not, natch.]
++Dream a Little Dream by moosesal - RPF/S - Chad Michael Murray and others. The "others" are Sophia Bush, Jensen Ackles and Danneel Harris. It's crack, dudes. Funny and pervy Chad POV of his wacked-out sex dreams.
++ Johnny and Mary by minum_calibre - SPN pre-series - John/Mary - "Adult for teenaged fumbling and such." - Seriously awesome. Affecting. Great rhythm to her sentences and I love the way she quietly includes the impact of John's time in Vietnam.
++Scientist, Astronaut and Nymphomaniac: the Nine Lives of John Crichton by Feldman - Farscape - Adult - John/Aeryn - Remember that episode where everybody bodyswitched? Yeah.
Oh and since people keep asking me if I know where there's any Rupert Grint RPS (WHAT? WHY ARE YOU LOOKING AT ME THAT WAY?): [Here] is where you can find some good Rupert/DanRad and [here] is a PG13 rated Rupes/Emma/Keira Knightly fic where the girls make out and he like brings them snacks. I am so gratified that such a fic exists, for some reason. Probably because I am me!
And finally, I can't imagine that most EVERYONE in SPN fandom hasn't seen this yet but:
++ Woman's Work - SPN vid by sockpuppett and sisabet - Not so much gen as a meditation on the sexualization of women's bodies and violence in media in general. So from what I could see the Camera was the main character. They're showing us that it's okay to be critical of the things we love.
My FB: Jesus Christ. I don't even know how to TALK about this right now. Every muscle in my body was pretty much tensed up the entire time I was watching that. I had chills and like, that fluttery/angry/nauseous feeling in my fingers if you know what I mean. Rarely have I had such a physical, visceral reaction to a fanvid. I'm impressed and kind of dazed and, I hope you don't mind me saying so, but feeling more than a little sick.
So powerful, All of it, all of it. But I especially remember the juxtaposition of well, SEX AND VIOLENCE when it was made most explicit with the Madison/Jess stuff early on.
One thing that I do find really interesting is actually...how little Sam and Dean are actually in the vid. Which makes sense because really this is about how the camera treats women's bodies, not how those characters do. Or it seems so to me.
The song choice is brilliant. And that last clip. Yow.
Seriously. This was a brave thing to make.
Um, if I were to write Rupert/OFC fumbly firsttime fic would you all throw tomatoes? Or just smile indulgently and be glad I'd gotten all that out of my system in one fell stroke. :P
ETA: What I'm making myself for dinner tonight, because you care: baked sweet potato, white asparagus, lamp chop marinated in garlic, olive oil, salt and pepper, and fresh oregano from the only plant I have potted in my apartment. I think maybe I'm going to get some plants as part of my "having a more beautiful life" plan. However, they'll have to be all cacti because I am notorious bad at keeping plants alive. My BFF back home pointed out that I seem to be now capable of keeping a small cat alive just fine. But see, he is constantly moving around and doing stuff, thereby REMINDING me of his precious, preciousness. <3
I think I am also about to change the title of this LJ to "Modern Spinsterhood." :)
1. I am pretty entertained watching the (growing) portion of my flist that's getting sucked into "bandom." All these posts with capslocky "OMG DON'T JUDGE ME!!!!11!!" Haha. Dude, I feel certain that I am in no position to judge, considering [insert what whatever thing it is that I do/like that makes you most inclined to mock me]. But see, I don't see much fic, I just see these flaily exclamations - Are you guys like off in some hidden corner somewhere freebasing nubile young rocker gayness? And another question: How does the fact that Pete Wenz was friggin' on One Tree Hill for awhile playing himself figure in? I mean, that means he was in proximity of The Chad multiple times.
2. I love the fact that my gym ONLY plays the eighties satellite radio station. Today I was reminded of what a Tina Turner fangirl I was at the tender age of about 6. And for some reason THAT reminded me of when my mom used to go away for weekends to run conferences about peace activism and anti-nuke stuff (yes, you all KNOW already that I was raised by hippies) and my Dad was in charge and he would take us out to the movies and order pizza and it was SO COOL! He let us stay up past our bedtimes too, because he's a pushover about stuff like that. Anyway, I have this very vivid memory of a perfect day where my Pops took us out to the movies and we went swimming and came home and had a rockin' dance party in the kitchen to Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Want to Have Fun." I remember sliding socks on our hardwood floors and how happy my best friend looked and for once not being embarrassed about the whole Tofu-eating/my dad wears Indonesia sarongs in the house situation that was my young life. My memory works like snapshots. And there must have been some Tina Turner involved in that dance party or else I have no explanation whatsoever.
3. I had all these resolutions about when I came back from my trip: don't drink every day, go to bed earlier, do actual work, exercise, etcetera. So far I've managed to be quite sober in my lazitude the last few days. And I worked out. I am also on my laptop in the living room! Which is a step towards my grand plan of getting the TeeVee and computer out of my bedroom so I stop being compulsive and associating my sleep area with madness. I have also decided that since my advisor has left NU and will not be around to see that I've changed my reading list, I'm going to make some shifts in the books I'm going to read before school starts and er, read some academic books about porn and food. Oh yes. I'm thinking it might be easier to motivate myself to stop mainlining fucking HP fic that way.
4. Speaking of HP fic, I'm hoping to get much further on this Hermione fic tonight. It's starting to feel like "Groundhog Day" what with writing the same person losing their virginity in different ways. This should be going faster--it's all porn! I'm kind of desperately hoping that the "ideas" that I have are going to come through. It's sort of meta-ish in my head, sort of. Mostly in that a) I don't believe that there's only one perfect way to do anything, least of all "do it" and b) even when I 'ship I don't think that one other person is the end all be-all of another person's sexuality and c) less coherent stuff about the "story tree" nature of fanfic, because of the way that each of these "Hermiones" that I'm writing is a slightly different person due to different experience/timing. I'm a cheater and I did the "easy" ones first: Viktor Krum and Ron. Now I have Ginny and then a Muggle OMC so I can try and say something re: how Hermione's life straddles the Muggle/Wizarding line and Harry, which will be so fucking hard for me because I'm really not into Harry/Hermione because I platonically friend'ship them.
And now some fic recs, just to wow you with how eclectic I am:
++ a cage to catch our dreams by notthequiettype - Jared/Jensen RPS. Adult. My FB: I love this! And I'll have you know that two separate people either tried to explain this fic and/or read it out loud over the phone to me this week. So. Anyway, hilarious and crackling dialogue, blah blah. What I really like best though about this is what's sorta on the quiet slow burn: a) the sense of place, like LA is a character in the story and b) the slow build with the careful single sentences of foreshadowing throughout.So yeah, awesome. P.S. BEARDS HEIDI BEARDS. And weed. And insightfulness.
++ Sons Gonna Rise by vinylroad - SPN - Sam/OFC - Adult - This is EXACTLY the kind of Sam/OFC story I was desperately wanting last year when I'd go ransacking del.icio.us for them and come up with nothing but my own stories.
++ Coda to an Epilogue by mistful - HP - Gen, I guess, Harry, Draco and the kiddies - A lot of people are saying that this story "fixes" the epilogue to DH. I especially like the first part with Harry and Draco snarking at each other while they're searching for their children who are lost in some dark underground place inhabited by giant alligators. Later parts become increasingly Slytherin-apologist, but it works. I like how it presents an adult future for the characters that's hopeful but not perfect. [Side note: there's like 1O PAGES of FB on that story - I guess I really didn't know what the term "BNF" really meant never having been in HP fandom before. Which I'm still not, natch.]
++Dream a Little Dream by moosesal - RPF/S - Chad Michael Murray and others. The "others" are Sophia Bush, Jensen Ackles and Danneel Harris. It's crack, dudes. Funny and pervy Chad POV of his wacked-out sex dreams.
++ Johnny and Mary by minum_calibre - SPN pre-series - John/Mary - "Adult for teenaged fumbling and such." - Seriously awesome. Affecting. Great rhythm to her sentences and I love the way she quietly includes the impact of John's time in Vietnam.
++Scientist, Astronaut and Nymphomaniac: the Nine Lives of John Crichton by Feldman - Farscape - Adult - John/Aeryn - Remember that episode where everybody bodyswitched? Yeah.
Oh and since people keep asking me if I know where there's any Rupert Grint RPS (WHAT? WHY ARE YOU LOOKING AT ME THAT WAY?): [Here] is where you can find some good Rupert/DanRad and [here] is a PG13 rated Rupes/Emma/Keira Knightly fic where the girls make out and he like brings them snacks. I am so gratified that such a fic exists, for some reason. Probably because I am me!
And finally, I can't imagine that most EVERYONE in SPN fandom hasn't seen this yet but:
++ Woman's Work - SPN vid by sockpuppett and sisabet - Not so much gen as a meditation on the sexualization of women's bodies and violence in media in general. So from what I could see the Camera was the main character. They're showing us that it's okay to be critical of the things we love.
My FB: Jesus Christ. I don't even know how to TALK about this right now. Every muscle in my body was pretty much tensed up the entire time I was watching that. I had chills and like, that fluttery/angry/nauseous feeling in my fingers if you know what I mean. Rarely have I had such a physical, visceral reaction to a fanvid. I'm impressed and kind of dazed and, I hope you don't mind me saying so, but feeling more than a little sick.
So powerful, All of it, all of it. But I especially remember the juxtaposition of well, SEX AND VIOLENCE when it was made most explicit with the Madison/Jess stuff early on.
One thing that I do find really interesting is actually...how little Sam and Dean are actually in the vid. Which makes sense because really this is about how the camera treats women's bodies, not how those characters do. Or it seems so to me.
The song choice is brilliant. And that last clip. Yow.
Seriously. This was a brave thing to make.
Um, if I were to write Rupert/OFC fumbly firsttime fic would you all throw tomatoes? Or just smile indulgently and be glad I'd gotten all that out of my system in one fell stroke. :P
ETA: What I'm making myself for dinner tonight, because you care: baked sweet potato, white asparagus, lamp chop marinated in garlic, olive oil, salt and pepper, and fresh oregano from the only plant I have potted in my apartment. I think maybe I'm going to get some plants as part of my "having a more beautiful life" plan. However, they'll have to be all cacti because I am notorious bad at keeping plants alive. My BFF back home pointed out that I seem to be now capable of keeping a small cat alive just fine. But see, he is constantly moving around and doing stuff, thereby REMINDING me of his precious, preciousness. <3
I think I am also about to change the title of this LJ to "Modern Spinsterhood." :)