Scattershot.
Feeling strangely unfocused today, despite a lot of work laid out ahead of me. I have to get it together. Focus.
NYE was a quiet one. We did shrimp, fancy cheeses, and miracle fruit tablets (which made me want to sample everything in my fridge). We watched Inception for the first time, which I liked and was just drunk enough so that it made perfect sense. Saw the wrong side of noon the day after, thankfully sans hangover, then worked. We also saw The Expendables, which is a movie about where old action heroes go to die... and when did Sylvester Stallone morph into a caricature of a bulldog and a mentally-deficient cat? Anyhow. There was Jason Statham, at least. Saving grace. Well, I wouldn't say 'saving.' There were two female characters in the entire shebang, and they existed solely to get smacked around by the Bad Guys. Groundbreaking.
In keeping with my resolution to read more, I have been reading. But shocking to me: I've been reading fanfic. I haven't read much fic at all since my BTVS fandom days around the beginning of this journal. But seriously, the end of Mockingjay had me searching out The Hunger Games fanfic in the worst way. Anything to wash the taste of that book out of my mouth and flesh out all the promising characters who were deeply disserviced.
Here are my Hunger Games recs thus far:
and our dreams will break the boundaries of our fears by Electrumqueen. Johanna/Finnick, Haymich. Pre-canon, which expands on the evil of the Capitol & President Snow so perfectly it might as well be canon.
Feel What It's Like To Be New by Electrumqueen. Johanna/Gale, post-canon. I love Johanna so so much and this author captured her perfectly. An excellent bookend to the fic above.
Fish In A Barrel by Gileonnen. The first of two amazing fics about what Finnick's Games were like.
Achilles Heel by Mithrigil. The second of two amazing fics about what Finnick's Games were like.
i'll know my name as it's called again by Mozartsfriend. Katniss/Peeta. An infinitely preferable relaying of that disastrous epilogue.
You Do Not Talk About The Revolution by Mithrigil. An awesome, quiet Haymitch & Cinna moment.
THEIR LAST NIGHT OF LOVE: A SPECIAL VERITY PRESENTATION, EXCLUSIVELY FOR PREFERRED CUSTOMERS by Yahtzee. Katniss/Peeta. The expansion of the Capitol's world feels so real. There's a more graphic depiction of sex in this one, but it's not vulgar, and the author's Katniss voice is Spot. On.
NYE was a quiet one. We did shrimp, fancy cheeses, and miracle fruit tablets (which made me want to sample everything in my fridge). We watched Inception for the first time, which I liked and was just drunk enough so that it made perfect sense. Saw the wrong side of noon the day after, thankfully sans hangover, then worked. We also saw The Expendables, which is a movie about where old action heroes go to die... and when did Sylvester Stallone morph into a caricature of a bulldog and a mentally-deficient cat? Anyhow. There was Jason Statham, at least. Saving grace. Well, I wouldn't say 'saving.' There were two female characters in the entire shebang, and they existed solely to get smacked around by the Bad Guys. Groundbreaking.
In keeping with my resolution to read more, I have been reading. But shocking to me: I've been reading fanfic. I haven't read much fic at all since my BTVS fandom days around the beginning of this journal. But seriously, the end of Mockingjay had me searching out The Hunger Games fanfic in the worst way. Anything to wash the taste of that book out of my mouth and flesh out all the promising characters who were deeply disserviced.
Here are my Hunger Games recs thus far:
and our dreams will break the boundaries of our fears by Electrumqueen. Johanna/Finnick, Haymich. Pre-canon, which expands on the evil of the Capitol & President Snow so perfectly it might as well be canon.
Feel What It's Like To Be New by Electrumqueen. Johanna/Gale, post-canon. I love Johanna so so much and this author captured her perfectly. An excellent bookend to the fic above.
Fish In A Barrel by Gileonnen. The first of two amazing fics about what Finnick's Games were like.
Achilles Heel by Mithrigil. The second of two amazing fics about what Finnick's Games were like.
i'll know my name as it's called again by Mozartsfriend. Katniss/Peeta. An infinitely preferable relaying of that disastrous epilogue.
You Do Not Talk About The Revolution by Mithrigil. An awesome, quiet Haymitch & Cinna moment.
THEIR LAST NIGHT OF LOVE: A SPECIAL VERITY PRESENTATION, EXCLUSIVELY FOR PREFERRED CUSTOMERS by Yahtzee. Katniss/Peeta. The expansion of the Capitol's world feels so real. There's a more graphic depiction of sex in this one, but it's not vulgar, and the author's Katniss voice is Spot. On.