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I just got home a little bit ago from seeing Singin' in the Rain on the big screen with L. and 
innie_darling. It was great. Gosh, Gene Kelly was a handsome man. And the theater was reserved seats with recliners and stadium seating, down in Battery Park City, which meant L. and I took the Second Avenue Subway, aka, the Q train(!!! I don't know why I didn't know until it opened that it was going to be the Q but it is) and it was beautiful. So clean! So brightly lit! So close to my apartment! And then we changed trains at Times Square, and that was annoying, so I don't know if I'll do it on the regular for work, but it seems like a good plan in really nasty weather. We'll see, I guess. I'm still kind of in awe that it's even open, to be honest.
And then we went to the Shake Shack next door to the theater for dinner and chatting, which was also great. And seats opened up just as my food was ready, which almost never happens.
So that was a fantastic day overall, and now I'm home and I have tomorrow off and I'm writing - it is amusing to me that the first story I post this year will likely fill in the "wrong even for you!" slot on my year-end survey for 2017. At least, I don't think I have anything wronger in the pipeline, and if I did, it'd have to be a doozy. I'm still trying to figure out whether this gets both the noncon and the dubcon tags, among other things. At what point does seriously dubious consent become noncon? How do we factor in Stockholm Syndrome? these are not usually questions I have to ask about the stories I write, but sometimes I do write a thing that surprises even me. And the best part is I'm pretty sure there are only like three other people who will read it. But you gotta do what you gotta do. I guess we'll see what happens.
In other news, for the January talking meme,
coffeeandink asked, If you were going to write a Leia movie, what would it be?
I feel like any movie about Leia has to combine politics and spyjinks with sharp, bickery screwball romance with Han, and a soupçon of family drama. So I think it would have to be about her dealing with finding a place for the survivors of Alderaan (as in the comics) - maybe she's in the middle of negotiating with the current Queen of Naboo for space there for a settlement (thus also giving her reason to meet her birth mother's family, though they only really present Luke as the relation; there's a lot of knowing looks about Leia's birth parents among the Naberries), she gets word about a high up Imperial prisoner who claims to have some kind of intel on a group of Alderaanians the Empire had secretly imprisoned prior to the destruction of the planet, and maybe Breha Organa was among them, but a diehard moff of some sort or another is also after this information/location, so it turns into the usual Star Wars space journey/space battle kind of thing, but with highly personal consequences for Leia. (I feel like you could go either way with Breha being alive, but I would go with yes please, and maybe have her played by Sonia Braga.) We could also see Shara Bey and Evaan Verlaine and Sana Starros in addition to Mon Mothma and various Naberrie ladies plus Queen Soruna.
There's also a subplot about Han, Luke, Lando, and Chewie trying to plan the wedding and Leia just being like, "Can't we just recite some vows in front of friends and call it good? I have a constitution to write and a senate to organize and we're basically already married anyway" but Han is like, "I just want you to have nice things, and we'll regret it if we don't do it up right!" (maybe big weddings are an Alderaanian tradition he wants to keep alive for her?) but then after a lot of running around while being unable to find a caterer or a band, he's like, "ah, fuck it, I just want us to be married," and she's like, "that's what I've been saying!" so after all the adventuring is done they have a small but exuberant wedding ceremony where none of the fancy plans have come through and the bride is wearing a flight suit and the groom has a black eye, and Chewie got his minister's certificate off the holonet, but it's the best party any of them have ever attended, and Artoo has the pictures to prove it.
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innie_darling. It was great. Gosh, Gene Kelly was a handsome man. And the theater was reserved seats with recliners and stadium seating, down in Battery Park City, which meant L. and I took the Second Avenue Subway, aka, the Q train(!!! I don't know why I didn't know until it opened that it was going to be the Q but it is) and it was beautiful. So clean! So brightly lit! So close to my apartment! And then we changed trains at Times Square, and that was annoying, so I don't know if I'll do it on the regular for work, but it seems like a good plan in really nasty weather. We'll see, I guess. I'm still kind of in awe that it's even open, to be honest.
And then we went to the Shake Shack next door to the theater for dinner and chatting, which was also great. And seats opened up just as my food was ready, which almost never happens.
So that was a fantastic day overall, and now I'm home and I have tomorrow off and I'm writing - it is amusing to me that the first story I post this year will likely fill in the "wrong even for you!" slot on my year-end survey for 2017. At least, I don't think I have anything wronger in the pipeline, and if I did, it'd have to be a doozy. I'm still trying to figure out whether this gets both the noncon and the dubcon tags, among other things. At what point does seriously dubious consent become noncon? How do we factor in Stockholm Syndrome? these are not usually questions I have to ask about the stories I write, but sometimes I do write a thing that surprises even me. And the best part is I'm pretty sure there are only like three other people who will read it. But you gotta do what you gotta do. I guess we'll see what happens.
In other news, for the January talking meme,
coffeeandink asked, If you were going to write a Leia movie, what would it be?
I feel like any movie about Leia has to combine politics and spyjinks with sharp, bickery screwball romance with Han, and a soupçon of family drama. So I think it would have to be about her dealing with finding a place for the survivors of Alderaan (as in the comics) - maybe she's in the middle of negotiating with the current Queen of Naboo for space there for a settlement (thus also giving her reason to meet her birth mother's family, though they only really present Luke as the relation; there's a lot of knowing looks about Leia's birth parents among the Naberries), she gets word about a high up Imperial prisoner who claims to have some kind of intel on a group of Alderaanians the Empire had secretly imprisoned prior to the destruction of the planet, and maybe Breha Organa was among them, but a diehard moff of some sort or another is also after this information/location, so it turns into the usual Star Wars space journey/space battle kind of thing, but with highly personal consequences for Leia. (I feel like you could go either way with Breha being alive, but I would go with yes please, and maybe have her played by Sonia Braga.) We could also see Shara Bey and Evaan Verlaine and Sana Starros in addition to Mon Mothma and various Naberrie ladies plus Queen Soruna.
There's also a subplot about Han, Luke, Lando, and Chewie trying to plan the wedding and Leia just being like, "Can't we just recite some vows in front of friends and call it good? I have a constitution to write and a senate to organize and we're basically already married anyway" but Han is like, "I just want you to have nice things, and we'll regret it if we don't do it up right!" (maybe big weddings are an Alderaanian tradition he wants to keep alive for her?) but then after a lot of running around while being unable to find a caterer or a band, he's like, "ah, fuck it, I just want us to be married," and she's like, "that's what I've been saying!" so after all the adventuring is done they have a small but exuberant wedding ceremony where none of the fancy plans have come through and the bride is wearing a flight suit and the groom has a black eye, and Chewie got his minister's certificate off the holonet, but it's the best party any of them have ever attended, and Artoo has the pictures to prove it.
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