Motivation Post: Week 15

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Dear participants and esteemed lurkers!

Time for the Motivation Post. Once again, we'd love to hear your prompts, story ideas, your bingo progress. Also, general hurt/comfort ideas and questions, and things you'd like to see more of on this comm.

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[kiphiana]

Finished & posted another fic, yay, and it's garnering some of the nicest comments to date that I've ever received. Much happy face.

Now if I could only come up with something for 'natural disasters', I'd get me a straight-line bingo. Hopefully sometime in the next few weeks, dear muse? I'm planning on doing Yuletide so it'd be nice to clear the decks by then. =)

[deinonychus_1]

Yey for another fic! Ooh, natural disasters? Volcanoes, earthquakes, tornadoes, tsunami, landslides, severe weather, climate change, asteroid impact, flood, wildfire \o/ Do any of those fit any fandoms you're into? (and can you tell I'm a fan of disaster films? ;-))

[kiphiana]

Heh! Oh man, I wish I could write an asteroid impact fic! (... that sounds weird, but I'm a bit of a space nerd so ...) But I can't think of any fandoms where it could fit. yet. YET! I will have to pursue this thought further ...

(any recs for good disaster films? I feel the urge to watch one!)

[deinonychus_1]

(any recs for good disaster films? I feel the urge to watch one!)

You may regret asking me that, lol! I'm a huge nerdy fan of the really old seventies disaster films, when the genre was really big for a while. So the classics from that period are The Poseidon Adventure (sinking ship - upsidedown! and don't even bother with the remake with Kurt Russel, the original is a million times better) and The Towering Inferno (does what it says on the tin - bigass burning building!).

Or for some more modern ones, with way better special effects but generally less developed plot or characterisation, we have Volcano, Dante's Peak, Deep Impact (that one is an asteroid impact film, with more emphasis on characters than on big world saving action heroics, and waaaay better than that the other asteroid impact film with Bruce Wills), and one of my personal favourites is The Day After Tomorrow for climate change induced ice age.

Hope there's something in that lot that you like! :-)

[kiphiana]

Ooh, awesome list, thanks! I've only seen Day After Tomorrow, so this is a whole pile o' new shiny.

Just started Deep Impact and it's awesome so far!

[darth_firefly]

Agreed, Deep Impact is VASTLY superior to Armageddon.

[kiphiana]

Thank you for the rec of Deep Impact, I just finished it and it was a really really awesome watch!!! Terrifying. But so good.

(It took me two full days to watch because it was so emotional and gripping and I had to take lots of breaks for my sanity. Even so I ended up crying for about the last twenty minutes of the film!)

[deinonychus_1]

Glad you liked it! I have to admit, I haven't watched it for years, but I know I really liked it. I seem to remember it was sadly under-appreciated when it came out, because it was very close to the time when Armageddon was released, and of course they both deal with a similar theme, but Armageddon had all the 'big name' actors and more explosions and special effects, so of course was the more popular with the mass audience. But, for me at least, disaster films are always way better when they concentrate on character rather than big budget FX (that's why I'm such a fan of the seventies disaster films - they didn't have good special effects so they actually spent time on plot and character instead).

Lol, see, you've set me off rambling again!

[kiphiana]

I think with effects-focused films, they're not so rewatchable, are they? The excitement of all the CGI wears off after the first viewing. Whereas character-focused films tend to be much richer and more lasting, whatever their effects.

[irishvampire13]

Natural disasters...that one's throwing me, too. I found limnic eruptions, but I don't know near enough about them to be able to work with that, so I might have to change my mind and go elsewhere.

[kiphiana]

Oh wow, those sound scary!

[irishvampire13]

Don't they? Yikes; I couldn't believe what I was reading. O.o