oh dear god
I just checked the time stamp of the last post on either journal and it says June 10th.
I am so sorry.
Sort of.
Been running around renaming myself "The Urban DeForest" because I made a terrible pun on Tumblr and decided to run with it.
Also I shouldn't be awake right now so I'll say this - I am not rewriting that movie or doing some other hideous thing to make it 10000x better than the actual thing. I am rewriting my memories and experience of that movie because otherwise I will disown the entire franchise and break my heart simultaneously because everyone was so perfectly cast and then they had to ruin it all with Harrikhan the whitest white man to ever white yet still somehow be cast as an Indian character and the horridly destructive removal of every shred of agency from Alice Eve's Dr. Carol Wallace Marcus.
This means taking things back to the end of the '09 film, regularly falling to my knees and screaming out to the sky "WHY WOULD YOU RUIN SUCH A GOOD AND PROMISING AND GOLDEN AND BEAUTIFUL THING WHY", and redirecting everything and everyone so that the ultimate focus is on the future of Starfleet - exploratory or military? - and not on this baffling hodgepodge of villainy that ultimately ended up feeling fake and empty and pointless. Hell, as baffling as Man of Steel was, it had a pretty gut-wrenching and powerful third act that left me emotionally and physically drained. I just wanted to shake my head, bash it against the wall, and scream, "JJ ABRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMS" during STID's third act.
I just have no idea how to slip in the slow slide towards Jim/Bones. There's no friggin' room. I just deleted a bunch of paragraphs over and over because I'm getting tired and words aren't working.
I do have over 2200 words of fic up on Tumblr, though, and at least 10,000 words of scenes and things off-line. I'll regret this venture but not really, because I am so goddamn pissed about the decisions JJ & Co. made for this franchise. Don't go riffing on and attempting to make a knockoff of an already great film, okay. Don't go simplifying a smart and challenging film to appeal to the lowest common denominator, which is apparently not-very-smart cis white men. Don't whitewash an iconic sci-fi/cinematic villain. Don't toss in gratuitous underwear scenes and expect to get away with it in this day and age with a franchise that is/was famous for being socially progressive and intellectually challenging for its times.
Don't... do these incredibly insulting, denigrating, demeaning, disheartening, regressive things with something that is so much more than all of that. I feel so bad for the Star Wars fans. I really do.
God, I need to stop before I start ripping into the rest of Hollywood for never failing to be incredible shits.
P.S. so funny that my mood theme on DW is still NuTrek. Never bothered to change it and am now so glad that I was too lazy to. LJ's mood theme is still Rahm Emanuel and I just haven't the heart to change that ether. Also, it's too much work so fuck that.
I am so sorry.
Sort of.
Been running around renaming myself "The Urban DeForest" because I made a terrible pun on Tumblr and decided to run with it.
Also I shouldn't be awake right now so I'll say this - I am not rewriting that movie or doing some other hideous thing to make it 10000x better than the actual thing. I am rewriting my memories and experience of that movie because otherwise I will disown the entire franchise and break my heart simultaneously because everyone was so perfectly cast and then they had to ruin it all with Harrikhan the whitest white man to ever white yet still somehow be cast as an Indian character and the horridly destructive removal of every shred of agency from Alice Eve's Dr. Carol Wallace Marcus.
This means taking things back to the end of the '09 film, regularly falling to my knees and screaming out to the sky "WHY WOULD YOU RUIN SUCH A GOOD AND PROMISING AND GOLDEN AND BEAUTIFUL THING WHY", and redirecting everything and everyone so that the ultimate focus is on the future of Starfleet - exploratory or military? - and not on this baffling hodgepodge of villainy that ultimately ended up feeling fake and empty and pointless. Hell, as baffling as Man of Steel was, it had a pretty gut-wrenching and powerful third act that left me emotionally and physically drained. I just wanted to shake my head, bash it against the wall, and scream, "JJ ABRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMS" during STID's third act.
I just have no idea how to slip in the slow slide towards Jim/Bones. There's no friggin' room. I just deleted a bunch of paragraphs over and over because I'm getting tired and words aren't working.
I do have over 2200 words of fic up on Tumblr, though, and at least 10,000 words of scenes and things off-line. I'll regret this venture but not really, because I am so goddamn pissed about the decisions JJ & Co. made for this franchise. Don't go riffing on and attempting to make a knockoff of an already great film, okay. Don't go simplifying a smart and challenging film to appeal to the lowest common denominator, which is apparently not-very-smart cis white men. Don't whitewash an iconic sci-fi/cinematic villain. Don't toss in gratuitous underwear scenes and expect to get away with it in this day and age with a franchise that is/was famous for being socially progressive and intellectually challenging for its times.
Don't... do these incredibly insulting, denigrating, demeaning, disheartening, regressive things with something that is so much more than all of that. I feel so bad for the Star Wars fans. I really do.
God, I need to stop before I start ripping into the rest of Hollywood for never failing to be incredible shits.
P.S. so funny that my mood theme on DW is still NuTrek. Never bothered to change it and am now so glad that I was too lazy to. LJ's mood theme is still Rahm Emanuel and I just haven't the heart to change that ether. Also, it's too much work so fuck that.