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fic: Nocturne of the Brooklyn Bridge (China Mountain Zhang)

May 18, 2012 09:21

Nocturne of the Brooklyn Bridge
China Mountain Zhang, all audiences, 6000 words.
I am Teresa Luis but also Comrade Li Taiming, because my great-great grandfather Rafael José Luis y Iglesias was born in the old United States, became a founding member of the Reformed American Communist Party and died defending the Brooklyn Bridge at the start of the ( Read more... )

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moireach May 18 2012, 17:10:52 UTC

SCREW ADULTHOOD, ALWAYS WRITE ME AMAZING FANFICTIONS. <33333

I am curious to hear your thoughts wrt The Avengers. I'm having weird and embarrassing Banner-related feelings. And Stark-related feelings. I'm so ashamed.

throughadoor May 18 2012, 20:14:15 UTC

I told Anne that she should just send me assignments every couple months and convince me that they have deadlines. So now you just need to generate some more life milestones, right ( ... )

moireach June 17 2012, 06:53:26 UTC

Ahahahaha, a MMPR reference. I associate that show so incredibly strongly with having to sit through the last three minutes while I waited anxiously for the 4pm TNG rerun to come on in middle school.

Yeah, I hear you on the dreariness, and I didn't love all the snark and antagonism and things getting messed up, though I guess i understand why they had it that way. Maybe now the NEXT movie can be getting the band back together, a little snark, a lot of hilarity?

Perhaps you would like it more with this amazing recasting? irishmizzy.livejournal.com/219740.html?style=mine

arallara May 19 2012, 01:25:09 UTC

On Tuesday I saw The Avengers with smartlikejustin and imogenics

Ah, so they DO still exist! *g* Happy to hear it, and please all give each other hugs from me next time you see each other. If that's not too creepy.

I miss your stories about Justin Timberlake.

throughadoor May 20 2012, 23:15:41 UTC

Hah, yes, they DO still exist! K is about to start a new job, A just finished her semester at school. We're all going to the aforementioned nuptials this weekend, so I will give them your regards. Hope you are also doing well!

paintedmaypole May 19 2012, 05:10:26 UTC

YAY! You posted it! I may use this opportunity to read/reread the small handful of China Mountain Zhang fanworks in existence.

The sad thing is that I still write all the time.

Yes! I completely understand this feeling. I am writing all the time, but there seem to be a lot less feelings and cuddling and other things involved. And there are way less opportunities to play with narrative structure. Sigh.

Also, am totally in agreement with you about the first half of the movie. It felt very sluggish and I wanted lots of moments of the band getting together, but I felt like they skipped half of those and jumped ahead to the awkward hiatus phase and then to the kicking alien-ass and eating shawarma reunion tour. I wanted the awkward/awesome early bits too.

However, re. the other films. I'll say the same thing here that I said to smartlikejustin: I don't think Thor is worth seeing, not unless you suddenly feel overwhelmed with a love for Loki. (Which... is a thing for many people, but I don't really see it as being quite your thing.) (Okay, yes, ( ... )

throughadoor May 20 2012, 23:19:37 UTC

Yeah RE: Avengers, I think the problem is that the story being told wasn't "getting the band back together" but "awkwardly assembling the boy band with the creepy marionette skills of Lou Pearlman." What makes the band-back-together trope so enjoyable is the sense that the people interacting might be annoyed and/or angry with each other but they have a foundation of trust and shared history. Because this movie had so many prequel movies, it FELT like a sequel (even if you hadn't seen the other movies!) so it felt it should be band-back-together even though it was just band-awkwardly-assemble, so ... I don't know.

You know what movie has done band-back-together best since Ocean's 11? FAST FIVE. WHY CAN'T I BE WATCHING FAST FIVE RIGHT NOW, K8? WHHHHHHHY?

paintedmaypole May 23 2012, 04:06:48 UTC

"awkwardly assembling the boy band with the creepy marionette skills of Lou Pearlman."

Yes! And the problem with this scenario is that, in this case, we're ultimately supposed to like Lou Pearlman, and they couldn't really commit to making him bad, good, or giving him much of any personality for us to connect to. (Other than the eye patch.)

Heh. Maybe they needed to approach this as "awkward band reunion tour with feelings," rather than "first time on the road, let's put on a show."

Also, dude! You can totally be watching Fast Five. I know for a fact that your roommate has it. :D

annakovsky May 22 2012, 19:02:39 UTC

Duuuude, so I was going to leave you a long comment and/or write you a long email about the Avengers and how I too was underwhelmed and we should be cranky about it together, but I've been running around all week, SO INSTEAD I GUESS WE WILL JUST HAVE TO TALK ABOUT IN PERSON IN THREE DAYS, MARK YOUR CALENDAR.

Also have I mentioned to you how psyched I still am you wrote non-Yuletide fic for this? STILL SO PSYCHED. Maybe we should all have, like, a fic challenge every three months or something, I would kind of be into that.

annakovsky May 22 2012, 19:03:32 UTC

Oh also I've been thinking about you guys and your popslash a lot lately because, have you seen this One Direction band that is suddenly everywhere? Are we as a culture doing this again? WEIRD.

throughadoor May 24 2012, 00:09:48 UTC

1. We should TOTALLY have some kind of Stockholm Syndrome quarterly fic challenge. Send me an assignment, convince me it has a due date, and I am there. we can discuss the details when we see each other in TWO DAYS YAY.

2. The Avengers, eh. I get more underwhelmed as it continues to eat the internet. I'm so crotchety and old!

3. Hah, popslash, but from what I've seen of this One Direction crew, don't even be laying the blame for them at the feet of the boy band forefathers, One Direction seems to be diiiiiiiiiiirectly begat of the Jonas Brothers. Everything old is new again?

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throughadoor November 5 2012, 19:56:03 UTC

Hey, thank you so much for this extremely kind comment and your lovely feedback both here and elsewhere. I think the answer on whether you're missing out on anything friending-wise is self-evident: I never post! I've become one of those people who's terrible at responding to comments! Also, oh my God, hahah, I'm pretty sure I wrote Bloom the summer after I graduated college ... which would have been 2002 ... which was, holy shit, almost ten years ago. Popslash! As much-beloved tertiary character Pharrell Williams would say, no one ever really dies.