"Do you know what I had to do to get seats this close to the bear?"
-I'm not usually lucky enough to have a whole lot of fandom-related dreams, but lately books I'm reading keep popping up in my dreams. After I finished The Likeness? I dreamt that I was Cassie Maddox hanging out in Whitethorn House, and very psychedelically, it was supposed to be a dream that Cassie was having. I've dreamt that I was dreaming before, but not dreaming as a completely different person. Wooaah.
More amusingly, I'm reading Dune right now, and last night I dreamt I started reading about where I left off in the book and that these two new characters show up and I was totally getting into their dynamic and slashing them together and everything, only to wake up and realize those characters don't exist. HAHA MY BRAIN IS REALLY EMBARRASSING ME RIGHT NOW.
-I'm going to have to start hunting for a beta for my Trek big bang soon. There's a super-convenient match-up post at stbbsupport, and I should look over the betas listed again, but a lot of the people who seem ideal look like they've already been approached, or else there's some other issue like they say "I don't like dark stuff," which is fine, but I'm just not sure how dark they mean by dark. A plot that revolves around a murder and dubious actions of police officers and all might not be their cup of tea for all I know, even though they're probably just meaning "If your fic has nine characters getting tortured by Klingons and time-traveling Nazis in the mirror-verse and even more of them dying, it's probably not for me."
And then there are the people who would be just fine except that they make themselves a little unapproachable by having these, um, quality standards. I totally understand just saying "I probably wouldn't be interested in betaing this pairing" or even "I don't like AUs," but saying things like, "I won't read OOC stuff" seems like...kinda missing the point? Cause like, most people make an effort to keep things in-character, but sometimes it's hard, which is kinda why they might want to look for a beta reader?
-I've gotten into a new anime. This is the first time this has happened in many a year for me. It's called Tiger & Bunny, and it's about (LOL) superheroes who have corporate sponsors (or as Shep called them, "Nascar Heroes"). The characters (with the exception of the leads) have variably "That's just my day job" mentalities and there's a lot of slow-as-hell-building-of-trust between the title characters (who are very, very shippable, I am told, and can believe).
-New favorite TV Trope I didn't know existed until recently: EVERYTHING'S WORSE WITH BEARS. If you can guess what the top quote's gonna be before clicking, I will give you a hug. Though I'm a little disappointed that one Avatar: TLA episode isn't listed as an inversion.
More amusingly, I'm reading Dune right now, and last night I dreamt I started reading about where I left off in the book and that these two new characters show up and I was totally getting into their dynamic and slashing them together and everything, only to wake up and realize those characters don't exist. HAHA MY BRAIN IS REALLY EMBARRASSING ME RIGHT NOW.
-I'm going to have to start hunting for a beta for my Trek big bang soon. There's a super-convenient match-up post at stbbsupport, and I should look over the betas listed again, but a lot of the people who seem ideal look like they've already been approached, or else there's some other issue like they say "I don't like dark stuff," which is fine, but I'm just not sure how dark they mean by dark. A plot that revolves around a murder and dubious actions of police officers and all might not be their cup of tea for all I know, even though they're probably just meaning "If your fic has nine characters getting tortured by Klingons and time-traveling Nazis in the mirror-verse and even more of them dying, it's probably not for me."
And then there are the people who would be just fine except that they make themselves a little unapproachable by having these, um, quality standards. I totally understand just saying "I probably wouldn't be interested in betaing this pairing" or even "I don't like AUs," but saying things like, "I won't read OOC stuff" seems like...kinda missing the point? Cause like, most people make an effort to keep things in-character, but sometimes it's hard, which is kinda why they might want to look for a beta reader?
-I've gotten into a new anime. This is the first time this has happened in many a year for me. It's called Tiger & Bunny, and it's about (LOL) superheroes who have corporate sponsors (or as Shep called them, "Nascar Heroes"). The characters (with the exception of the leads) have variably "That's just my day job" mentalities and there's a lot of slow-as-hell-building-of-trust between the title characters (who are very, very shippable, I am told, and can believe).
-New favorite TV Trope I didn't know existed until recently: EVERYTHING'S WORSE WITH BEARS. If you can guess what the top quote's gonna be before clicking, I will give you a hug. Though I'm a little disappointed that one Avatar: TLA episode isn't listed as an inversion.