When industries collide, TV, X AMV, OTW...
Another instance of manga freelancers in the television industry: the husband and I watched ep. 4 of Leverage tonight, and it was written by Christine Boylan. There aren't any other credits under her name in the IMDb, but I assume it's the same Christine Boylan who adapts Loveless and Wild Adapter. ^^
I've/we've been trying a few new domestic shows recently: Leverage, obviously, which isn't brilliant but is decent fun (I started watching because Christian Kane [Lindsey on Angel] is one of the leads, and I'm a sucker for most Jossverse alumni); Merlin, because I keep seeing people talk about it (our verdict after one episode: possibly unforgivably cheesy, despite Tony Head playing Uther); and the second episode of Christopher Eccleston's stint on Dr. Who (we tried his first episode soon after it aired and weren't all that impressed. *hides* It was my first exposure to Who, other than the TV movie that happened to be broadcast while I was at a sci-fi con; I think every con-goer dropped everything and crammed into hotel rooms to watch it). I don't yet know what to think of it, but I do believe I liked the second episode better than the first.
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etrangere posted an X AMV to Tori's "Muhammad My Friend" yesterday. It's not a song I would've ever thought to overlay on X (actually, I don't associate any Tori songs with the series), but it works well: the vid deals mainly with some of the female cast (Hokuto, Kotori, and Karen), and it must be good if I'm paying attention to it despite the lack of Arashi. ^_- Right?
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otw_news has a post today in response to the LJ layoffs, which mainly says "don't panic!" and "BTW, here's how to sign up for Fanlore and how to get in line for a beta account at Archive of Our Own".
The former is a fandom history wiki run by sane people--frex, they don't run around publicly linking fannish and RL identities against people's will, or have bots trawling the Pit for every scrap of info, unlike other sites--and the latter is the OTW's fanfic archive, which I really like. usomitai has been advocating involvement with both of them, and largely as a result of her enthusiasm, I have accounts at both sites now (although I haven't done much with them). So far I think my favorite thing about the Archive is that you can include all of your aliases under one account--not that I really have "aliases", but I used to only write under my first name, and I release fic under this username...
Anyway, they're very nifty, so I recommend going and poking around. ^^
I've/we've been trying a few new domestic shows recently: Leverage, obviously, which isn't brilliant but is decent fun (I started watching because Christian Kane [Lindsey on Angel] is one of the leads, and I'm a sucker for most Jossverse alumni); Merlin, because I keep seeing people talk about it (our verdict after one episode: possibly unforgivably cheesy, despite Tony Head playing Uther); and the second episode of Christopher Eccleston's stint on Dr. Who (we tried his first episode soon after it aired and weren't all that impressed. *hides* It was my first exposure to Who, other than the TV movie that happened to be broadcast while I was at a sci-fi con; I think every con-goer dropped everything and crammed into hotel rooms to watch it). I don't yet know what to think of it, but I do believe I liked the second episode better than the first.
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etrangere posted an X AMV to Tori's "Muhammad My Friend" yesterday. It's not a song I would've ever thought to overlay on X (actually, I don't associate any Tori songs with the series), but it works well: the vid deals mainly with some of the female cast (Hokuto, Kotori, and Karen), and it must be good if I'm paying attention to it despite the lack of Arashi. ^_- Right?
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otw_news has a post today in response to the LJ layoffs, which mainly says "don't panic!" and "BTW, here's how to sign up for Fanlore and how to get in line for a beta account at Archive of Our Own".
The former is a fandom history wiki run by sane people--frex, they don't run around publicly linking fannish and RL identities against people's will, or have bots trawling the Pit for every scrap of info, unlike other sites--and the latter is the OTW's fanfic archive, which I really like. usomitai has been advocating involvement with both of them, and largely as a result of her enthusiasm, I have accounts at both sites now (although I haven't done much with them). So far I think my favorite thing about the Archive is that you can include all of your aliases under one account--not that I really have "aliases", but I used to only write under my first name, and I release fic under this username...
Anyway, they're very nifty, so I recommend going and poking around. ^^