One month since last time. Cool!
Some stuff:
1) Sweden has genderneutral marriage law as of 1st of May. Awsome!!!
2) I've seen the Watchmen movie. Overall it was one of the best adaptions of a source material for the silver screen that I've seen. (Much closer to its source than V for Vendetta by a long shot.)
3) I don't have much else to say. Except I really feel like getting some writing done. I haven't actually written any kind of fiction, fan or original, in a long time now. Bleh, I could use a writing meme just to get some exercise:
Give me a character/pairing/fandom and then pick a random trope of tvtropes, that is to say any of these nifty articles that remind us struggling creators that "it's been done". :P
That said, one thing tv-tropes have got me thinking on is that: I totally don't mind that some of my ideas aren't as original as I would have liked to be. Mostly because a) some things are just classics, and therefor isn't surprising if they're though of independently by different people, and b) there's always a new way of doing things. Having been involved in the HP fandom, and come to see a lot of the discussions I've been involved in there as tools to help myself avoid certain literary traps, tv-tropes is to me yet another tool. It's also nice to see that a lot of things I've already thought about when it comes to certain tropes, whether I use them myself or not, isn't just me overthinking things. (Well, at least not just me.)
Oh, and btw, should warn you before you click above link, tv-tropes can end up extremely time consuming.
1) Sweden has genderneutral marriage law as of 1st of May. Awsome!!!
2) I've seen the Watchmen movie. Overall it was one of the best adaptions of a source material for the silver screen that I've seen. (Much closer to its source than V for Vendetta by a long shot.)
3) I don't have much else to say. Except I really feel like getting some writing done. I haven't actually written any kind of fiction, fan or original, in a long time now. Bleh, I could use a writing meme just to get some exercise:
Give me a character/pairing/fandom and then pick a random trope of tvtropes, that is to say any of these nifty articles that remind us struggling creators that "it's been done". :P
That said, one thing tv-tropes have got me thinking on is that: I totally don't mind that some of my ideas aren't as original as I would have liked to be. Mostly because a) some things are just classics, and therefor isn't surprising if they're though of independently by different people, and b) there's always a new way of doing things. Having been involved in the HP fandom, and come to see a lot of the discussions I've been involved in there as tools to help myself avoid certain literary traps, tv-tropes is to me yet another tool. It's also nice to see that a lot of things I've already thought about when it comes to certain tropes, whether I use them myself or not, isn't just me overthinking things. (Well, at least not just me.)
Oh, and btw, should warn you before you click above link, tv-tropes can end up extremely time consuming.