sundries, evening edition

[rm]

The Informant was great and really interesting. Patty and I utterly laughed our asses off, but then at the end it was sad or disturbing or frightening or something. A bit "there but for the grace of" -- the compulsive lying that started out as hilarious was actually pretty chilling and pathetic by the end.

I could watch Joe McHale's cat-like, turned up-nose-face all day long.

After Patty and I had awesome Indian food and then got home in time for me to catch some of Baz Luhrmann on Dancing with the Stars. *sigh* I'd be lying if I told you I wasn't planning to watch the whole bloody two-hour nightmare on the Internet later this week. Oh, Baz.

Then we watched an episode of Merlin. Man, Arthur and Merlin are so dating. I wish this show could actually get some drama under itself and be about something so I could actually bring myself to care. Then again, I'm not sure my social circle can take another odd cracky show becoming serious drama all of a sudden.

I really, really, do not want to have to make another post about the LLAs, but just because I think the change (particularly the mid-year change) to the eligibility criteria of the LLAs is problematic and potentially unfair to bisexual, transgender and genderqueer authors doesn't mean I have any patience for the nasty, nasty bouts of privilege I'm now witnessing from what I would like to presume is a minority of self-identifying straight authors. Don't fucking talk to me about the closet or about privilege you think I have, because I am not interested in being that angry this week. I have better things to do (like live my life) and cannot be indulging or pointing out this shit at every damn turn. Anything else I have to say right now will probably be deeply uncharitable and yet fairly fucking justified so I'm going to stop right there.

The trailer for Where the Wild Things Are looks unexpectedly awesome to me.

Comments

[karnythia.livejournal.com]

I have this urge to come up with a "Your privilege is showing" bingo board for these conversations. Someone needs to tell a whole lot of straight people "This is not about you" with a series of macros, posts, and possibly a bat.

[viciouswishes.livejournal.com]

I figured out he was a compulsive liar long before the movie announced it and I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop in an uncomfortable, awkward manner, which made me find it a tad long. I do think there were some hilarious moments though. (I'm a little too young to remember the RL events when they happened as corporate scandals were not on my radar at that point.)

[elainasaunt.livejournal.com]

Hey! Spoilers!

[laughingacademy.livejournal.com]

I caught the second hour of Dancing with People, Some of Whom I’ve Heard Of, and oh man, it did nothing to change my opinion that those shows are incredibly embarrassing. The pro female dancer’s costume in the last performance left me gibbering.

Ooh, was that the trailer where we see the kid sliding down a ice tunnel, and peeking at his mother, and running toward the giant twig-sphere? That was one of the best trailers ever, in terms of piquing my interest.

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

Waitaminute! Straight authors are exhibiting privilege?
Wow! If that were not so utterly unprecedented, it would be really, really, fucking annoying.

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

I went to sleep for a few hours and suddenly it "But, but! I'm oppressed too!"

Gah! I'm still fuzzy on where I stand on the Lammy's... but dude! I am not liking the behaviour of these so-called allies.

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

I would like a lot of people to shut up and sit on their hands right now, on both sides.

[kel-reiley.livejournal.com]

Where the Wild Things Are - oh it does! i want to see that so badly

which merlin episode did you watch? it is getting more heavily into the arthur/guinevere thing this series (which is not unexpected in any way but that they are doing it very well)

i do hope merlin remains silly and ridiculous - i may or may not just be in it for some of the fabulous fic i've read

[upstart-crow.livejournal.com]

I think there are legitimate problems with the new LLA guidelines including the ones you've mentioned -- and those especially. But I am really fed up with the straight folks (and the queer ones who don't Get It) who are screaming about oppression and how they're closeted and omg this is just like segregation (what?).

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

I think-- and I could be wrong here-- that there are a lot of women conflating their historical oppression as women authors (women can't write men, women only write romance, women can't write well) with the historical oppression of GLBTQ folks. (Especially as the change seems to have come in response to a burst of women writing M/M stories.) IMO, it's given things an extra emotional charge.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I've been guilty of "white women's tears" and have, I hope, managed to pull my head out of my ass on at least a fairly regular basis. Now I'd like some other people to get along with fixing their shit too.

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

It would be nice, wouldn't it? (The RWA also seems to think gay sex is dirty and icky and un-award-worthy, so that may also be part of it-- if you want an award and you write M/M, you don't have a lot of opportunities, so that resentment may be coming out. Me, I figure if I ever finish the current book, much less get a publisher, that will be award enough.)

[rm.livejournal.com]

Oh, don't even get me started about a panel I was on at a con with a woman who writes M/F/M romances and then went on about how there's no icky gay stuff in her books because the men never touch. Most of the audience were people looking for sex-writing tips related to original projects or fanfic, and they were not amused by the anti-sex tone. It was egregious.

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

there's no icky gay stuff in her books because the men never touch

Most awkward sex scenes ever, or MOST AWKWARD SEX SCENES EVER? (Maybe they used Saran Wrap, like in Pushing Daisies?) I've read either an account of that panel or a review of one of those romances.

EVERYONE SHOULD BE SMART AND CONSIDERATE LIKE ME US. (I wonder how much of this drama would've been eliminated if the LLAs had waited until the first of the year to announce this for the next cycle, and phrased it as 'As a response to the unprecedented success and visiblity of openly GLBTQ authors..' But that may be the PR professional speaking.)

(Edit because I do know HTML, I do, really.)

[lefaym.livejournal.com]

I wish this show could actually get some drama under itself and be about something so I could actually bring myself to care. Then again, I'm not sure my social circle can take another odd cracky show becoming serious drama all of a sudden.

I think that Merlin will be able to up the drama quotient without losing its cracky quality due to the fact that Gaius and Uther both need to die at some point for the story to progress, and also because of Morgana's eventual turn to "evil", which will hopefully be very ambiguous (and I am totally turning with her when she does).

[weirdquark]

also because of Morgana's eventual turn to "evil", which will hopefully be very ambiguous (and I am totally turning with her when she does).

Ha, that reminds me of this moment where a friend of mine was watching an anime* and had the following happen:

A character** she loved: Will you follow me..."
My friend: Yes!
The character, continuing: ...into darkness?
My friend: ...shit.


*Wolf's Rain
**Darcia

[ciel-vert.livejournal.com]

The trailer for Where the Wild Things Are looks unexpectedly awesome to me.

Both times I saw that trailer before the sixth Harry Potter movie, I was blinking back tears and swallowing over a lump in my throat for reasons I still do not fully understand, nor can I explain. It feels like nostalgia, but not quite. I don't know, it wasn't even one of my favorite books as a child (though, obviously the movie will be quite different since there's not much plot in the book). Anyway, I am very much looking forward to seeing the movie, but I will make damn sure to have an entire box of tissues with me!

Also, hello! I've admired you from afar for ages, and this morning I thought, why not just friend? :)

[opheliastorn.livejournal.com]

It is one of those weird, weird things, isn't it? And I can't yet tell if the movie itself will make me react just the same as the trailer, with its epic childhood-ness, or if it will slip over into just being awful. Either way, I - am ambivalently excited?