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I'm seriously thinking about signing up as a participant in this as a fic writer. Because I would sponsor a writer or fanartist, but I don't really have the money. The only problem is I haven't really been into writing HP lately. But even if I could just get myself to start the first fourth of that Ted/Andromeda story I've had filed in the back of my head a while, that could be maybe about 3,000 words, and if somebody sponsored me for 1 cent a word that would make a good $30. Eh. I seriously doubt anyone would actually want to sponsor me, though. Maybe in Brokeback Mountain fandom one of every forty people who have been around since the beginning would recognize my username, but in HP I'm a needle in a haystack.
It's really pissing me off that a lot of my LJ comments aren't being e-mailed to me. I accidentally spam-blocked LJ and now that I undid it some comments are going to my inbox and some are still going into the spam box. WTFFFFFF. I'm trying to check through all the spam but I could still miss something. I don't know how to fix it. So if any of you comment with something really important like "Sara will you marry me?" and I don't reply it's not necessarily because I don't love you. :(
This meant, of course, that while I was getting tons of wonderful, glowing comments on my first QAF fic I thought at first I was getting squat. Still, yaaaaaaaaaay :DDDDD The funny thing I'm finding about writing Queer As Folk characters, though, is that they are the most foul-mouthed people I've ever written. I keep feeling like I'm going overboard with the cussing and looking over dialogue to see if there's anywhere I could ease up on the "what the fuck"s and "where's my goddamn"s but that's just the only way I can hear them talking. Justin wouldn't say "forget it," he'd say "fuck it." Oh well, I really don't think anybody is going to complain about that, hehe.
Last night I went with Chike to see Dreamgirls. It was all right, but not worth all the hype it's gotten, I think. The character who you're supposed to be cheering for all along I just thought was kind of a whiny drama queen at some parts. And another takes way too long to realize her husband is a dickhead. She gets walked all over for so long that by the time she finally sticks it to him I'm not like "you go girl", I'm like "......Duuuuuh." I wanted to see this because I love period movies about the 50's and 60's like Ray and Walk the Line, but there is not much reason for this film to take place in the 60's and 70's except for the really awesome costumes, considering the music is modern. However, it did portray the difficulties of being black singers trying to make it back then; there was a part when a white singer stole the song their group did and there wasn't really anything they could do about it. Chike turned to me and said, "See where Elvis got it from?" and I laughed because that's pretty much exactly right. Right after he said that two characters said this in the next scene: "This is how it always is. Know who first recorded 'Hound Dog'?" "Elvis Presley?" "No, Big Mama Thornton." So then I was really laughing.