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On a very long bus ride, I read Joan Aiken's Jane Fairfax, a published work of fanfic about Jane Austen's Emma, and it was just okay. Because it had to work in the backstory and interstices of its souce, it didn't get the chance to be more than its source, you know? Or not enough more. Compared to a fanfic novel about Anne de Bourgh I read off the ( Read more... ) -
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Using video to walk through the new Yuletide signup is a good idea. I'm very much less of a fan of the idea of being able to specify in searchable ways exactly what kind of story you're looking for. Like, specifying a character you're looking for is one thing; specifying "It must be this character in this sexual position in these permutations with ( Read more... ) -
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One of the things I like a lot about Fringe is its cheerful juxtaposition of skeptical hardheadedness with whopping nonsensical bullshit. Everyone says, "That is bullshit!" and then five minutes later is totally onboard the Atlantis brain vibration space aliens train. It's so cute.( Read more... ) -
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The AO3 is so completely borked and wrong. I don't even know. The bad data I complained about a year ago are still bad! Obviously the standard entry-style evolved over time (EXACTLY THE WAY YOU SHOULD NEVER DO), but nobody's gone back to fix the older ones. The display design is still aggravating in exactly the same way! Browsing is still ( Read more... ) -
Difficult protagonists
By coincidence, I am group-watching season 2 of The Wire and the short-series detective show Luther at the same time. (No spoilers beyond season 2, please.) Both of them star Idris Elba, of course, ten years apart and in different countries with different accents, and while Luther is a fairly conventional difficult-protagonist-detective show in the ( Read more... ) -
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OMG Yuletide noms! Om nom nom.
Last year I discovered, on or about December 22, that I really wanted to write for The Warriors, which is a 1978 movie about New York gangs who ride the subway and occasionally wear makeup, leather vests over no shirt, gold lamé, or rollerskates (though sadly not all at the same time). That is to say, I needed a ( Read more... ) -
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Stories that could have been
Over the weekend I was re-watching SGA episodes from season 1 while moving furniture, and remembered all over again how likable it was in those early days. McKay's lovable-asshole routine was a novelty still, and he really was an asshole, an aspect which got toned down as the show went on. Sheppard was still a charming blank, and it was still ( Read more... ) -
Fringe!
The season has gotten underway now, and I'm... interested and puzzled. Which is about what one can hope for, I guess?( Read more... )