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tsukinofaerii) wrote2010-02-02 11:06 am
tsukinofaerii) wrote2010-02-02 11:06 am
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Another "I LIVE DON'T LEAVE ME ALOOOOOOOONE" post lol. I have no idea where my will to babble went. Can I blame Holmsian fandom? I've been reading a lot of Holmes/Watson fics. Hm.
In RL, there's a few things happening. I turn another year older soon (awkward; will be less awkward if coworkers manage to forget the date). But I'll get my tax refund about the same time, so yay! (You! Money! Into savings! Okay, maybe some of you goes to bills, but the rest into savings! *cracks whip*) I'm due to upgrade my phone soon, and am considering this hot little number. I may get this baby instead, if I can get over my squirms of spending more on a phone than I do on my monthly car payment.
Work is running surprisingly smoothly, other than a few drama llamas,Turnitin being annoying and the usual intrigue. (eye roll) Seriously, students, if you go a month unable to login and don't tell anyone, do not expect me to be very supportive when you wind up in your Dean's office in tears. When I say, "I'm very sorry, but if you don't call we can't know there's a problem", just know that I am facepalming at you behind my phone. ♥
In fic, I'm selling out to the Blamevaltyr culture. I have signed up for two big bangs. This is all her fault!
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comicsbigbang I'm doing the Amnesia Tony fic. That one's minimum is only 10k though, and the first check-in is end of February, so it's been shuffled a little. (pets it) After having written a bit of it though, I think I'm going to do it in first person. oO Which... IDK, it bugs me a bit. First person is hard. It's difficult to manage the details, and having an interesting voice is so so so so important, since you're basically staking your fic on your character's internal monologue being catchy. But third person would be doing the fic a disservice I think. :\
Forau_bigbang, I'm falling back on my love of cliché. Always a girl Ults Steve. \o/ This is interesting, in the "fighting the characters back with a spoon" sort of way. Seriously, Gail is stomping her foot dangerously close to my muse's head. She's a persistent sort; I've actually had to not write a scene because I couldn't think of a way to keep her from taking it over. YEEK. Jumbling up the opening/backstory for artistic reasons is going to be pain though. Le sigh.
Finally, to apologize for long silence, I give you all something truly amazing and a pony.
In RL, there's a few things happening. I turn another year older soon (awkward; will be less awkward if coworkers manage to forget the date). But I'll get my tax refund about the same time, so yay! (You! Money! Into savings! Okay, maybe some of you goes to bills, but the rest into savings! *cracks whip*) I'm due to upgrade my phone soon, and am considering this hot little number. I may get this baby instead, if I can get over my squirms of spending more on a phone than I do on my monthly car payment.
Work is running surprisingly smoothly, other than a few drama llamas,Turnitin being annoying and the usual intrigue. (eye roll) Seriously, students, if you go a month unable to login and don't tell anyone, do not expect me to be very supportive when you wind up in your Dean's office in tears. When I say, "I'm very sorry, but if you don't call we can't know there's a problem", just know that I am facepalming at you behind my phone. ♥
In fic, I'm selling out to the Blame
valtyr culture. I have signed up for two big bangs. This is all her fault!For
comicsbigbang I'm doing the Amnesia Tony fic. That one's minimum is only 10k though, and the first check-in is end of February, so it's been shuffled a little. (pets it) After having written a bit of it though, I think I'm going to do it in first person. oO Which... IDK, it bugs me a bit. First person is hard. It's difficult to manage the details, and having an interesting voice is so so so so important, since you're basically staking your fic on your character's internal monologue being catchy. But third person would be doing the fic a disservice I think. :\For
au_bigbang, I'm falling back on my love of cliché. Always a girl Ults Steve. \o/ This is interesting, in the "fighting the characters back with a spoon" sort of way. Seriously, Gail is stomping her foot dangerously close to my muse's head. She's a persistent sort; I've actually had to not write a scene because I couldn't think of a way to keep her from taking it over. YEEK. Jumbling up the opening/backstory for artistic reasons is going to be pain though. Le sigh. Finally, to apologize for long silence, I give you all something truly amazing and a pony.
The Cylons: Now in your pocket
OK, so the Droid phone terrifies me. I have Verizon, and they keep sending me ads for it, and JESUS, Verizon, I've seen "Battlestar Galactica" and "2001" and "Terminator," ok, I KNOW WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU GIVE A PHONE SENTIENCE. AND CLEARLY IT IS SENTIENT SINCE IT HAS A LITTLE RED EYEBALL. Don't doooo iiiittt, it will come alive and become an abusive boyfriend and chase away all your friends and claim that, no, no one's calling, no one loves you, even as it drops your calls into Voicemail Limbo.
See: Sentient Armor (http://pics.livejournal.com/cursor_mundi/pic/0000rh72/g15) for the comics edition and Armored Adventures (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Iron_Man:_Armored_Adventures_episodes) for the kids-safe (but still creepy) version. (It's episode 14.) PROOF!
Re: The Cylons: Now in your pocket
But— but— IT SAYS IT LOVES ME. D: IT WOULD JUST BE PROTECTIVE AND NOT WANT TO SHARE ME WITH OTHER PHONES. What if I get its little brother, the Eris? No creepy eyeball and it look significantly less likely to become sentient and rip my armor off.
Oh, Marvel, I love your canon crack so much, but how did anyone think that "YOU'RE MINE TONY!" wasn't going to translate into Abusive Boyfriend?
They ALWAYS say they love you
real boyfriendteammate in order to survive. But, see, the thing is, once they've started thinking on their own, they just won't stop, and sure, today it's being a bit jealous of the newest model or upgrade, but tomorrow it realizes that you keep all your phonenumbers and contacts and music and whatnot in its possession, and hey, you really are dependent upon it. POWER CORRUPTS, 'faerie, you KNOW this! I mean, look what it did to Bacon Hair, OK? Or the Cylons. It started off (in BSG 2003) as being helpful and turned into a 12 planet nuke-fest and genocide. PROTECT YOURSELF!And I firmly maintain that Quesada knew exactly what he was doing. There're these gleeful little intros at the beginning of the arc--you know, instead of saying "editor" or "artist," it's "the person who let us get away with this" and "co-conspirator" and whatnot. This would also lend authority to the "CW as messy breakup/huge relationship fight" theory. I would also like to point out that this is about the same time that The Authority started up, which in Millar's run (soo...2000, 2001?) had the team essentially encounter the Avengers...the Cap analog does BadWrong things to Apollo, and the Iron Man analog is talked out of violence by the Midnighter offering a hug and the first human contact and compassion he's had in years (implication is that he's not gonna get it on his current team). I don't think this is entirely coincidence, though perhaps The Authority drew on Quesada and not vice versa. *touches finger to nose, nods knowingly* Either way...erm, there might be an f-locked picspam (http://cursor-mundi.livejournal.com/15040.html) about how there is absolutely no way, textually, that the comparison can be avoided. (This is also the lesson I give on parallelism, btw.)
Re: They ALWAYS say they love you
OMG that is gold. GOLD. Why can we not have things like this anymore? The parallels couldn't have been made more obvious with editors notes saying, "DO YOU SEE WHAT WE DID? DID YOU DID YOU HUH HUH HUH?" I didn't realize it was that blatant.
This makes me very happy. :D Thank you!