for all your telecaster dreams
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bantha_fodderI am overwhelmed by ficathons I stupidly signed up for, multiverse and the femgenficathon and twicetoldfandom, and I want to write for all of them but I'm so busy and I'm so tired and I've not the heart for it, nor the inspiration, not really.
But I want to write, so tell me what to write. Name a fandom I know, character/pairing, prompt, go wild. No promises.
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Today I was reminded of the main reason why I love pilots: Do I have to smack you in the mouth?
But I want to write, so tell me what to write. Name a fandom I know, character/pairing, prompt, go wild. No promises.
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- Media recently consumed:
- The Curse of the Golden Flower. I love Gong Li, and I love Chow Yun Fat, and I have a shameful love of Jay Chou that I try not to talk about. One of my favourite things about Chinese history is the opulence of the emperors, the golds and the reds and the enormity of the Forbidden City. I enjoyed this movie very much, though I found the subtitles incredibly distracting. Also, the large amount of breastage was distracting, completely inappropriate for the time period as it was.
- Nochnoi Dozor, which made very little sense, and was gruesome and horrible but brilliantly captivating. We've purchased the first two books to read, to see if that helps or makes it worse.
- Pirates of the Carribean: At World's End. I've surprisingly little urge to fic, though Miss Fahye wrote a perfect, perfect ending, and I find that, though ambivalent to Will/Elizabeth previously, I am in love with the Captains Turner. I still miss Anamaria, though, and her lack is perhaps the impetus I require to write. The thing I loved the most, though, was the singing, at the beginning, and Barbossa telling them all that the song has been sung. I loved that little weaving, it was mystical and awesome. Also, Chow Yun Fat, rinse, repeat.
- The Lives of Others, I am unused to these heavy German films, though my partner, being of German descent, is quite familiar with them, and herding me towards familiarity. This was emotional and powerful and I cried, at the end.
- Heavy Weights was described as 'a German Cool Runnings,' not really an accurate description. It was funny, yes, and it was about underdogs in sledding, yes, but it was Germany after the war and it was petty and it was funny and it yes. It was fun, I enjoyed it.
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Today I was reminded of the main reason why I love pilots: Do I have to smack you in the mouth?
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Date: 2007-06-11 02:07 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-06-11 02:30 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-06-11 02:07 pm (UTC)Perfect summing up of how I felt about the film. I hadn't been as shocked by a death in a film as I was with Prince Jai's in a long while.
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Date: 2007-06-11 02:35 pm (UTC)His devotion to his mother was lovely, though, and it was at that moment that I realised just how much I love Jay Chou. Have you heard the song he wrote for the movie?
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Date: 2007-06-11 02:58 pm (UTC)I think I heard his song while it was playing over the end credits? But I don't remember what it sounded like.
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Date: 2007-06-12 01:23 am (UTC)Do you remember that scene where the Empress is stomping angrily down a corridor and the music's all ominous and threatening, and her boobies are shaking up a storm in time with the music? I call that the Deadly Advance of Breastdom.
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Date: 2007-06-11 02:15 pm (UTC)(So i'm going to comment anyway and change the subject because i'm bored)
Hey, did you ever get to watch that Miami Vice movie?
Also I've started to re-read Tamora Pierce's Trickster series. Whenever it has a mention of Numair I can't help but think of that post you made lol.
Re: on a tangent..
Date: 2007-06-11 02:41 pm (UTC)I did enjoy the Trickster series, and I love Tamora Pierce's books, but all of her main characters so clearly tread that Mary-Sue line, perfect with their perfect flaws, which, hmm. And I did honestly like Numair, up until that moment he became a thirty year old with a sixteen year old girlfriend.
Re: on a tangent..
Date: 2007-06-11 02:55 pm (UTC)In Miami Vice I was mostly dazzled by the use of High Def film stock and that Isabella was unapologetic and kicked ass. They could have easily spun her out into her own film... she was so working her own empire :D
Re: on a tangent..
Date: 2007-06-12 01:21 am (UTC)I do see what you mean about the Mary Sue-ing, although I think that's prevalent in YA fiction in general. Also in genre. And I think it bothers me very little because when I read fiction and I like the main character, I tend to mentally defend them no matter what kind of stupid crap they pull, and I love them regardless of their annoyingness and flaws. :)
That attitude works less well with authors, as my experience with Laurell K. Hamilton has taught me.
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Date: 2007-06-11 03:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-06-11 05:38 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-06-12 01:02 am (UTC)And Nochnoi Dozor! Wheee! The silly Americans already have Dnevnoy Dozor, apparently we get it in October. And I really enjoy the books. They're much more coherent than the movies (because they can take the time to explain concepts) and there's also much MORE. ND the movie covers basically the first third of the ND book. (From what I've heard, DD the movie will cover about the second third...)
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Date: 2007-06-12 02:43 am (UTC)YOU HAVE LEAD ME TO ALL THE WILL/ELIZABETH PEOPLE.
(This is significant because there aren't many, and now I have fic to read, YAY. :)
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Date: 2007-06-20 02:12 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-06-12 03:03 am (UTC)P I L O T S
:-D
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Date: 2007-06-12 03:30 am (UTC)And third and fourth it, if necessary.
Think of all the innuendo laden conversations they could have!
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Date: 2007-06-19 06:41 pm (UTC)