First Snowfall! (and Vermont Vaudeville, Scary Movies, and Daggone Tamlin)

[dawn_felagund]

We had our first snowfall last night. Around nine o'clock, we began to spot the first fat snowflakes among the rain, and by eleven o'clock, it had changed over to all wet snow. It was sticking a little on the ground by the time we went to bed around 1 AM, but when I eagerly peeked out the window this morning, I was disappointed because it had all

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[shirebound]

Thanks for the movie reviews! I might check out one or two of these.

[dawn_felagund]

Are you a scary movie fan too? I sometimes feel like the black sheep among my flist for my strong liking/interest in horror movies! :D

[shirebound]

I appreciate a story with something behind it, like the theme of "Control your dreams, don't let your dreams control you" from "Nightmare on Elm Street", pure scariness ("Halloween" and "Poltergeist") or even, if the mood is right, horrific ("Saw" or "The Strangers"). As long as I'm safe at home and it's not a dark and stormy night I can handle the scary... usually!

[dawn_felagund]

That pretty much describes my interests as well! :)

[samtyr]

Since I utterly *adore* "The Lottery", I will definitely check out 'Population 436.'

The movies I plan to watch this coming week are: Nosferatu, Rosemary's Baby, Psycho (1960), The Fearless Vampire Killers, The Wicker Man (1973) and probably a few others I haven't decided on yet. But as you can see, I lean heavily on the old, classic versions. (Big surprise, eh? ;)

[dawn_felagund]

They shared in common an isolated settlement that has developed odd and sinister quasi-religious traditions that are based on superstition, projecting a veneer of perfection with a dark heart that only comes to be known as the story progresses. I enjoy stories/movies like that, where you follow the PoV character in a process of discovery.

I've heard of or seen all of them except The Fearless Vampire Killers. Unfortunately, I've only seen the Wicker Man remake with Nicholas Cage, which I've heard does no justice to the original. I'll have to see if I can get my hands on the original.

[samtyr]

The Wicker Man original is *great*, while the remake is... considerably less so.

The Fearless Vampire Killers is really good and I hope you get a chance to see it sometime. I won't say more because I don't want to spoil it.

I usually watch movies I've already seen, especially horror movies. Otherwise they (the horror ones) tend to bother me for a long time afterward. The strange thing is, they never used to bother me but all at once, they just *did*. Not sure why, exactly. ::shrugs:: Oh well.

[hhimring]

Looking forward to the Tamlin fic, whenever it's ready to be shared!

[dawn_felagund]

Thanks! I'm happy with the story so far. I have some sections I want to polish and rewrite, but I don't normally have this much enthusiasm this far in.

[indy1776]

First snow…

Video store! We had one of those in Florida just down the road from us and it makes me sad to think that it might be closed. I don't know if it is or not and I don't even remember the name of it to check. I miss video stores; they always had some movies I wouldn't have thought existed and the algorithms in the pay-on-demand service we have with our cable (we don't have Netflix, etc.) are terrible.

Yay Tamlin! :D As for Nano: they changed the rules a couple of years ago so that you can add 50k to an existing work. Of course, that presumes the story will be that long.

[dawn_felagund]

they always had some movies I wouldn't have thought existed

So true! Especially when we watch horror movies in October, we just browse the horror section. Since a lot of them are independent or limited release, we find a lot of stuff we might not have even known about otherwise.

As for Nano: they changed the rules a couple of years ago so that you can add 50k to an existing work.Okay, you are so totally my NaNo lifesaver this year! You can probably tell I haven't done a NaNoWriMo for quite some time now. :D

[indy1776]

You're welcome! Sometimes I think Nano's my third fandom; I can't drag myself away from it. I'm even rebelling this year and researching for fifty hours rather than writing (my writing goal is a 1815 word story to get my lifetime Nano count up to 725,000 words) and yet I'm still hanging out on the Nano site.

I know pretty much nothing about the YWP other than what I told you earlier, but I doubt they'll have stricter rules than Nano itself.

Yay! And you are very welcome.

[dawn_felagund]

YWP seems to be NaNo but they can set their own word counts. There is no separate set of rules. And the separate section of the site, from a webmaster's perspective, seems mostly to keep the program compliant with the U.S. Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, which forbids websites from collecting information from children under the age of 13 without parental consent. As a teacher, I can act as a parental proxy for my participating students, but I suppose they need a separate part of the site to make that work.

It seems NaNo has relaxed a few things since I last participated. I noticed they are no longer hammering on the idea of writing without rereading/editing either, which always bothered me (since rereading what I last wrote is part of how I get in the mood to write more).

725,000 words! WOW!

[heartofoshun]

I am glad Bobby is happy, but I am not at all ready for snow yet here (we did have one snowy Halloween in recent memory--maybe five years ago or so--but that is highly unusual). It's been chilly for a couple of days now. I think the hopes of any further truly warm weather here have pretty much passed. I am cold at the moment. But I think it is warmer outside than it is in my house!

Scary movies are not my favorite thing--unless one wants to call Game of Thrones a scary TV show. I think I can call it that. There is generally something on that show that is right on the cusp or has passed the edge of the horrifying and terrifying for me and I enjoy it.

I am very excited about your Tamlin story. It can't be too long.

[dawn_felagund]

Apparently snow before Halloween is the norm for us here! He had a great time today. And I enjoyed the fact that he could look at all the Facebook posts from various resorts about their first snowfall and people hiking to do runs and not have to listen to him complaining about being stuck in Maryland! :D

[heartofoshun]

And I enjoyed the fact that he could look at all the Facebook posts from various resorts about their first snowfall and people hiking to do runs and not have to listen to him complaining about being stuck in Maryland! :D

I can just imagine! As long as you can stay warm in your little house this winter, it does not sound bad to me at all. I am one of the few people who prefer the winter to the summer. Although, I do wish I had better boots! And another winter coat. I don't like mine very much. It's nice, but it's a long puffy coat. I feel like I am walking around encased in a pillow.

[dawn_felagund]

I think I'll do okay here this winter. The worst weather to me is in the 40s/50s and damp. That weather is physically uncomfortable to me and there is nothing fun to do in it. I like colder weather because I'd rather have snow than rain.

Our house stays very warm. There have been times when it's in the 40s or even the 30s outside and we don't have to put the heat on because of all the south-facing windows. It's basically a greenhouse! We avoid putting on the pellet stove until the temperature in the house drops into the 50s because, even on the lowest setting, the house heats up super-high and really fast!