Where hearts were entertained in June
Well, I spent a bunch of time with my mom - she goes back to California tomorrow morning. A lot of what we ended up doing was boring, including watching my dad race his go-cart (four hours of my life I won't get back), but at least he won, I guess. Also it turns out that the Milwaukee Zoo closes at 4:30 on a Saturday, so, um, well. We spent the money for three adult tickets and only got to see about half of it before oh, hey, the concessions guy is scooping all the popcorn into a trash bin, and wait, wasn't this door unlocked before?
BUT! We watched Doctor Who! It's been archiving on my parent's DVR, and I haven't gotten to watch it before since I don't live there and my dad's always sitting in front of the TV anyway, so we started the new season and wow. It really makes RTD's series look like a calm walk in the park! Well, except for the third episode, the pirate one; that was a bit boring through the beginning, I dunno. The fourth one, though, that Neil Gaiman wrote? Wow. And I thought I loved the man before!
I had to take a break from writing Utopia yesterday because I suddenly had no idea what the next scene was. I have all this time to cover between this and the next interesting plot point, and I didn't know how to write all that and keep it interesting, so I stepped back to watch some of the last season of Doctor Who and draw.
I figured out what to do about all that time in between scenes! Skip it. Simple.
Also I am stocked up on Mike's Hard again, so that's nice for writing, and I got some lovely, thoughtful reviews of Utopia (which I am finally, after all this time, not typoing constantly) on FF.N today, which is a relief because people yesterday were weirdly silent after my update. I do need more Brotherhood of Mutants characters, however, and while someone on FF.N suggested I watch the previous movies, I need them to be the right age so that's not really an option.
So. F-list. Are there Brotherhood characters who would be adults in 1967 whom I could use? I mean I can make them up too, it's fine, but my idea of a mutation is usually like, "oh, how is this RNA being spliced and translated?" so eh. You'll probably end up reading about, like, Alligator-Scute-Man and Octopus-Skin-Woman, et cetera.
ETA: Okay, I know this alcohol is affecting me, because I just put a semi-colon in a place where it could only be poor judgement to place a semi-colon. DRINKING IT ANYWAY.
ETA2: Oh! By the way. Just wanted to mention a dream I had the other night, where someone I knew had the flu so I offered to cure them using magic. I made this really badass potion a la the Dresden Files and then we both ended up in the hospital for a month. But you know what? By the end of it all, they didn't have the flu. How's that for performance?
BUT! We watched Doctor Who! It's been archiving on my parent's DVR, and I haven't gotten to watch it before since I don't live there and my dad's always sitting in front of the TV anyway, so we started the new season and wow. It really makes RTD's series look like a calm walk in the park! Well, except for the third episode, the pirate one; that was a bit boring through the beginning, I dunno. The fourth one, though, that Neil Gaiman wrote? Wow. And I thought I loved the man before!
I had to take a break from writing Utopia yesterday because I suddenly had no idea what the next scene was. I have all this time to cover between this and the next interesting plot point, and I didn't know how to write all that and keep it interesting, so I stepped back to watch some of the last season of Doctor Who and draw.
I figured out what to do about all that time in between scenes! Skip it. Simple.
Also I am stocked up on Mike's Hard again, so that's nice for writing, and I got some lovely, thoughtful reviews of Utopia (which I am finally, after all this time, not typoing constantly) on FF.N today, which is a relief because people yesterday were weirdly silent after my update. I do need more Brotherhood of Mutants characters, however, and while someone on FF.N suggested I watch the previous movies, I need them to be the right age so that's not really an option.
So. F-list. Are there Brotherhood characters who would be adults in 1967 whom I could use? I mean I can make them up too, it's fine, but my idea of a mutation is usually like, "oh, how is this RNA being spliced and translated?" so eh. You'll probably end up reading about, like, Alligator-Scute-Man and Octopus-Skin-Woman, et cetera.
ETA: Okay, I know this alcohol is affecting me, because I just put a semi-colon in a place where it could only be poor judgement to place a semi-colon. DRINKING IT ANYWAY.
ETA2: Oh! By the way. Just wanted to mention a dream I had the other night, where someone I knew had the flu so I offered to cure them using magic. I made this really badass potion a la the Dresden Files and then we both ended up in the hospital for a month. But you know what? By the end of it all, they didn't have the flu. How's that for performance?