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now here's where the timeline splits off
Look at the date. October 20, 2015. I suppose I should wait until tomorrow to post this, but I'd rather be ahead of myself than behind. And ... I kind of want this post to remain forever behind the "future" as it were ( Read more... ) -
the entertainment gods heard my plea
They really did. Besides getting two new series of "Red Dwarf" promised earlier this year, they have smiled on me again and confirmed that Will Turner will be in POTC5 - aka, The Only Reason I Will Be Going To See This Movie.
My pet LJ project, the Will Turner community at turningpirate, has been in a coma for some years, but with help from willing members who ( Read more... ) -
wasting away again in Pretendville
When I was either a junior or senior in college in the early 90s, I wrote a couple of short stories that were published. Both were competent, but neither was exceptionally good; if I were to go back and read either at this point, I'd probably wince at simplistic dialogue, concepts, characterization, or any number of stylistic boo-boos. One was ( Read more... ) -
playing politics, American style
So here's how it's gonna go for the presidency in 2016. Nothing really significant has changed in my predictions because of last week's GOP "debate" (please, like that was a real thing), just a couple of things solidified ( Read more... ) -
no, you don't get to reverse course now
Did anyone else watch that shitshow of a GOP "debate" last night ( Read more... ) -
a paradigm shift, or two dudes in bed
One of the first romance novels I found in Grandma's bookshelves when I was about 11 or 12 was titled "Captain's Woman." It featured all the best tropes: girl forced to live as a boy to please a cold grandmother for an inheritance flees home at 17 and stows away aboard a pirate ship as the cabin boy, is found out by the captain to be female, they ( Read more... ) -
overcoming assumptions and stereotypes through fandom
While I'm not one of those who believes Everything Means Something on a television show or in movies - sometimes, a cigar may just be a cigar - the fact is, seeing things you know little to nothing about onscreen does educate you for good or ill. Responsible filmmakers and showrunners and producers make a world of difference in some people's lives ( Read more... ) -
throwing slash into the mix too
At a Star Trek convention when I was about 22, I found the art of Joan, a fan artist who drew absolutely wonderful depictions of TOS and TNG characters. Some of them were gen art, focusing on one character or two interacting in a platonic manner. But several were romantic or even erotic in nature, and not having seen that particular kind of fan art ( Read more... ) -
learning how to track down others in the same tribe
When I was 12, I came across Grandma's Jackie Collins and Sidney Sheldon novels while searching for something else to read. She taught me to read at a very young age, and between the small local public library, her bookshelves, and school, I advanced in my material quickly - from Ramona and Beezus and Judy Blume at 6 and 7, through Erma Bombeck and ( Read more... ) -
writing to quiet down a busy brain
The first two months of my freshman year in college were comparatively easy. I only had to adjust to living 200 miles away from everyone I'd known for almost 18 years and learn to handle new, somewhat more difficult classes ( Read more... )