sundries

[rm]

At 6am, well, 6:20, I finally heard the ringtone on g-chat and Patty and I had a half-asleep vid date. Then it was off to 2-day film school. I'm just home, and ladyofthelog is over and we're cleaning the house, but I'm having introvert time by writing this post.

2-Day Film School is awesome. Exhausting. Somewhat bizarre. Occasionally frustrating, but super good. I'm definitely getting the answers I needed in terms of technical elements and budgeting and that's awesome. And it's making me consider plans, both in terms of treatments I've been kicking around on my own and with others, and in terms of "well if I want to make a film, how do I do that?"

Also a plus, somewhat surprisingly, is the deep cynicism of the dude teaching the class. Whereas the the Luhrmann thing was like "just do what you want and sometimes it will be a devastating experience and sometimes it will be awesome" this dude is like "fuck you, fuck art, this is how you make money, don't fucking waste your time making shorts, make schlock for this much, and then this much and then this much and then 'lo you will have a budget to do what you want." The benefit of this approach even if it doesn't really mesh with my sort of "all things are possible" call to arms bullshit, is it makes me not feel the near moral obligation to Make Things Right Now, which is good, since I'm plenty in the throes of multiple projects right now (D&J! D&J!), and therefore I should only be nosing around at such endeavors and scheduling them for Time Other.

Funniest thing that's easy to explain right now: You're the producer/director on a 3-week indie film shoot. The first week = fun! The second week = zombie exhaustion! Third week = everyone hates you. Then it's over, you pass out, wake up four days later, find out your cast had a party without you. How do you avoid this? 2 week film shoot! I'm still laughing.

It's been a while since I've talked about financial crisis suicides. But it seems one of Bernie Madoff's sons has killed himself. Awful.

Julian Assange's blog from back in 2006/7. It's... well, it's a lot of things. Less charming than I'd expected. Just as "I'm a dude on the Internet who knows more than you" as I expected. It's fascinating, unsettling and unremarkable all at once.

West Point runs a football to Philadelphia. I normally know about things like this, but this one was news to me. Next year they are running all the way to DC.

So Kali and I aren't at a point where we can give you a full narrative summary, but I have to share this bit of hilarity. We're working on a chapter and Cecilia is needled by her fiance and her sister about how they used to burn her dolls to torture her (book is about the fall of empire and colonialism and inbred nobles and magic and the whole bit, so yes, of course everyone's known everyone their whole lives) when she was a child. And then we were talking about it, even though it won't ever appear in the book and I said, "And I can hear Cissy saying, sobbing, 'You have to cut their heads off first or else it hurts them!'" Cissy seems really sweet but is creepy. So yeah, it's like that.

Hey, Sherlock fandom, unironically warning for "Light M/M boy kissing" isn't just offensive, it's a boggling, irritating, weird redundant thingy. Don't.

Did we all hear that two new Torchwood audio plays (audio books? something?) are coming out on CD in March that are set pre-CoE? I loved CoE, and I'm also ecstatic about this. Got it through the Starz Torchwood twitter account.

I have gluten-free red velvet cupcakes and you don't.

Things that ladyofthelog and I have discovered that have exploded in the kitchen at some point: grains of some sort, sugar, a box of chai tea, green food coloring. Yay! ETA: Also, spiders, spiders living in Spider Lothlorien. Yeah, my Saturday night is great.

Comments

Re: Sherlock batty warning conventions

[kel-reiley.livejournal.com]

wow... glad i'm not getting into sherlock fandom then

i'd like to find a good rec comm or fic rec list somewhere, though, b/c i'm too lazy to go look through all the comms and even delicious tags

Re: Sherlock batty warning conventions

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I occasionally do recs at my LJ based on what hits holmesian_news, as do others. But there doesn't appear to be a fic rec list. I wish there was!

Re: Sherlock batty warning conventions

[kel-reiley.livejournal.com]

ooh *heads on over to your journal*

the problem is, i haven't found THE fic for me, yet - you know, the one that just makes me go 'yes, this exactly!' and i think it's probably b/c not many are written from sherlock's POV and when they are, he doesn't sound right to me...

i know john is supposed to be the audience's way into sherlock's world, but he's not the one i... i don't want to say 'identify with' but something along those lines - i understand the world from sherlock's POV moreso than from john's (uh, not that i'm a genius or anything, b/c i am not)

maybe i'm just too picky :(

Re: Sherlock batty warning conventions

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Warning; my signal-ton-noise is extraordinarily variable. My recs are all here, but it sounds like I may not be reccing what you're looking for; I lean more toward John stories. wordstrings' Sherlock POV stuff is generally acclaimed and it is brilliantly written... but you have to believe that Sherlock is actually psychotic, which I don't.

Re: Sherlock batty warning conventions

[kel-reiley.livejournal.com]

yeah, i tried a couple of wordstrings fic rec'd by several ppl and... it didn't work for me :(

this one i read recently: http://archiveofourown.org/works/133861 is john POV and very much isn't my personal sherlock interpretation, but it was SO GOOD and it still worked perfectly for me - more like this would be good

Re: Sherlock batty warning conventions

[neadods.livejournal.com]

That is a good one! But I don't know of more like it.

Re: Sherlock batty warning conventions

[kel-reiley.livejournal.com]

*sigh* it's a one in a million fic
i'd better bookmark it this time so i don't have to keep scrolling back though my history to find it!

i think i may be a case of 'the fic i want will not exist until i write it myself!'

BUT I DON'T WANT TO

Re: Sherlock batty warning conventions

[rm.livejournal.com]

Here's the thing about the wordstrings story, which I like very very much (but not as much as the Whore of Babylon fic I recced). Er.... Sherlock doesn't seem psychotic to me in it. Really weird, definitely a bit not good, also neurologically atypical. But I'm not as off put as I think I'm supposed to be.

Re: Sherlock batty warning conventions

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Sherlock doesn't seem psychotic to me in it.

Not in Death and Resurrection of the English Language, but in the next one or the one after (I'm losing track of the names of the stories in order of the cycle) wordstrings take on Sherlock goes darker and far further out of control than I think of the guy on screen as being. (I'd cite the scene, but I don't want to spoil folks who haven't read the stories yet.)

But I'm not as off put as I think I'm supposed to be

This is where I say YMMV and one fan's meat is another fan's poison and other cliches. We're each bringing not only our own experiences, but our own limits (not limitations, but the "thou shall not pass/thou might negotiate" limits) to it, and those are as personal as taste; what freaks one person out the next won't even blink at.