fic recs and other things

[luninosity]

Apologies for the less frequent updates! Holiday busy times. Plus end-of-term rapidly approaching. Why does everything always have to be done at once...? Anyway, have some fic recs and some random thoughts!

-if you have somehow not yet heard, Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen are appearing in the next X-Men film! THE UNIVERSE IS EXPLODING WITH

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[luninosity]

It is an odd play, but I can see it working for them--they have such presence that no action's necessary. And I am entirely jealous that you got to see them act together; something about two great talents bringing out the best in each other, just marvelous...

those ones where everything comes together, and just flows, and you're really excited every time you pick up the metaphorical pen and add some more

Yes yes yes. Those moments're why we're writers, I think. Well, there're other reasons too, but that...sheer breathless joy when the story pours itself out through you...it's incandescent. And I think everyone reading catches the reflection of the flame.

He announced what now? Why? I'm not opposed to his music, just not generally excited, but that seems kind of...random. What else is he up to?

ABBA songs are surprisingly angsty! "Knowing Me, Knowing You" is another good one for them. Or "Our Last Summer." Or, oh, "The Winner Takes It All." Ouch. I think I've left that Muse song as a prompt for someone...somewhere...don't think she ever wrote it. Ah, well.

*picturing James and Michael singing ABBA now, thanks for that*

[telperion_15]

And I am entirely jealous that you got to see them act together; something about two great talents bringing out the best in each other, just marvelous...

I'm really glad, as I'd missed seeing Ian McKellan in King Lear the previous year (had already seen Patrick Stewart in both Hamlet and Anthony and Cleopatra).

He announced what now? Why? I'm not opposed to his music, just not generally excited, but that seems kind of...random. What else is he up to?

It is a little odd - he's apparently said that he had no plans to write any more music, and wants more time to himself...

*picturing James and Michael singing ABBA now, thanks for that*

You're welcome! ;)

[luninosity]

I can imagine Ian McKellen being a marvelous--and heartbreaking--Lear, but it'd be hard to sit through, I suspect. Was that Patrick Stewart as Claudius, in Hamlet? He'd give that role so much depth!

Kind of want more James/Michael karaoke fic now, too.

Random side note: if the We Have A Dance sequel happens, they should totally be preparing for the next show, and it could so easily be Chicago...

Things being busy for you, over there, end of term and all? :-)

[telperion_15]

Yes, he was Claudius (to David Tennant's Hamlet), and he was great!

if the We Have A Dance sequel happens, they should totally be preparing for the next show, and it could so easily be Chicago...

Hmmmmmmm... *contemplates*

And yes, insanity reigns, right now! Both in work and out of work! I just feel like I have so much to do, and not enough hours to do it all in!