Digital Eclipse

This is an open planning post for anyone interested in meeting up to see the Avengers in Orlando this May 3rd. If you've mentioned that you're coming and I don't know when/where/how (derryderrydown?) tag me here so we can make sure everything flows for you!

Current Attendees
tsukinofaerii
gigglingkat
waterofothemoon

Theater Info: Alamonte 18 in Orlando FL.
Date and Time: 11:30AM, 3 May 2012
Price: $40 USD.
Movies: Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man 2, Thor in 3D, Captain America in 3D, The Avengers in 3D.

Some of us will be hanging around in Orlando for a few days after, so there may be chances to do other things. Myself, gigglingkat and waterofothemoon will be staying at the Motel 6 on American Way (Kirkman Road).

If you're interested in meeting up with us, drop a line!

It's past 4AM, and I've written 31,000 words since last Friday. The inside of my forearms actually ache from typing. (Probably need to find some way to support them better if this is going to keep on.) And the kicker? I only just finished chapter 5.

(collapses in a pile of fail)
( Babbling about fic ahoy )

I love you all~

And yes, I'm completely and utterly toasted. I can't feel my nose or my fingertips, which means writing legibly is almost impossible. This is how much I love you all. I'm spending more time fixing drunk typos than I am writing them, because I want you to be able to read my love. So there.

Tonight, I shot off explosives (some of them homemade by other people) and drank lots of alcohol. FOR AMERICA. I have soot marks. It's amazing. There was also meat cooked over an open fire, which (now that I think of it) is kind of freaky and weird. The entire scope of human evolution has been to get away from that, but we do it for fun? WTF? It's like camping. WE USED TO LIVE IN THE WILDERNESS. WHY DO WE GO BACK?

Still hacking from being sick a few weeks ago, but I'm finally hacking up things, which is good. I'm kind of worried that it might have been something serious (well, more serious than the strep which started this whole spiral of illness), and any day I'll wake up dead because I couldn't afford to go to a doctor. :\ Ah, well. I sort of plan to die young from something treatable anyway. Que sera sera, welcome to only-technically-not-poverty in the USA.

My cat says HI.

I have... nothing else to say, actually. :\ Bang seems to be on a roll (-ish, always -ish, because I have no confidence in my ability to ever complete anything), but I am not so drunk that I think writing it is a good idea right now. A couple other things seem to be on the burner, but my writing is just weird at the moment. I really have no excuses for it. :\

One of these days, I should do a post about X-Men: First Class, and how much I love it, even if they did... Well, spoilers. D: IT HAD SOME FAIL. SERIOUS FAIL. But someone (Jazzy?) linked an article on Twitter that kind of sort of made it sound like this segment of the movieverse is aiming at portraying mutants as a parallel of the gay rights movement instead of the civil rights movement (racial rights? civil rights doesn't seem accurate for some reason, even though it's the accurate wording as agreed upon by people who make money writing about these sort of things), and I can almost buy that. Not quite, because the waffling makes it pretty clear that the X-franchise is still trying to be all minorities ever. But there's a fairly obvious parallel between the way some mutants can pass and some mutants can't that seems more Gay Rights to me than Civil Rights. I could be wrong, but I don't think there's an equivalent when it comes to racial minorities? (If I'm wrong, someone please tell me, I would love to know.) But at the same time, it's pretty obvious that the movies (and comics to an extent, though I'm clearly much less involved in those since I've only poked the Avengers) invoke the symbols and feel of the Civil Rights movement. Maybe I'm naive, but you can't really invoke one while drawing from the other. Yes, the Civil Rights movement was powerful and is so easily recognized, which makes for an amazing tool from a writer's standpoint, but it's lazy, because the shoe doesn't really fit but they shoehorn it on because it's easily recognizable. And it just sort of drives me up the wall wanting to build these castles in the sky comparisons, only to have them shot down because canon is so god damned fucking heteronormative and pulling from the wrong angle. And it's even worse when they have so much to work with. I mean, even aside from Erik/Charles or obvious gay couples in canon (which I wish they'd have, but aside from those), there's no reason not to touch on the whole concept of passing, and what it means to find out you're one of them and learning to belong or not belong and what about Mystique? She could completely and utterly blend into human society if she wanted, and she chooses not to, and the possibilities there are so amazing and (IMO) not all that unlike a bisexual fighting to not pass while its still so damned easy to and... GAH.

(flails)

As Erik says, "You want society to accept you, but you can't even accept yourself." I can't even BEGIN to start on how that statement hit me. I just sort of choked up and stared. IDK if the screenwriters even know what they did there, but it's beautiful and heartaching and just beyond words.

And that's why I would have gone with Magneto.

I just have a lot of feelings. :(

waterofthemoon is in AIM right now, and she says HI. IL her very much. ♥ She's listened to my drunk all night and been terribly nice about it.

Sober ETA: This makes it clear that DW needs some sort of sobriety check. ♥ Thank you all for not teasing me about my navel gazing and swiss cheese like attempts as philosophy.

(shakes a fist in impotent rage)

I made rainbow cupcakes yesterday. They are very pretty, and also delicious. It's totted up as one of the only things specifically for me that I checked off my To Do list. (sigh) But at least I got the house vacuumed? And dogs washed. Kitchen scrubbed (twice). Laundry done. Bird cage cleaned...

I need to encourage Mary on that Spring Break thing.

Today, in honor of Valentines Day, I'm in a skirt and a pretty red sweater. In honor of my long-standing tradition of being single, I've also snarled at several people who think I "should get out more" and "will regret not dating more when I want kids". There's a couple of assumptions there...

Not that I am really violently against the whole Soulmates! Lurve! Chocolate! spiel, but my relentless cheeriness and baked goods can only survive so many people attempting to direct my life before it crumbles into a growly mess. My mother is usually good about it, but even she got in on things this morning. I blame my brother. Clearly his fertility has made her think of mine. Now his youngest is out of the cuddly phase and into being bitey, adding to the problem.

To be rid of my annoyance, tonight I shall go home and occupy the bath tub, along with a good book. Or possibly the next few episodes of MLP. Or NaNo. Or the sex pollen fic. Something fun.

The door to my office has a "Beware of Dragon" sign taped to it. Yeah, it's like that. Following my recent luck, my coffee maker broke on Monday. RAWR. We have coffee at work, but I am so not functional before I've had my fix. (gentle twitch) No coffee and no sleep make Faerii something something.
( Random babble about my fanfic: a normal cut )
Okay, now for the less fanficy stuff. For anyone not in the know, I'm planning on putting together some writing resources for fanfiction. There really aren't any collected resources that I know of. A great many forums and individual topics for specific issues, but it mostly seems to be a case of trial and error. Many of us may have had experience with trial and error—the first one I remember was riding my bicycle into a tree. So, yeah.

It still needs a title. The one I used when discussing it with my mother this morning was The Great Batshit of 2010. I'm pretty sure that's not going to work.
( Okay, now for the real point behind this )

Yesterday, I had The Writing Discussion (Again) with my aunt. I've lost track of how many time I've gone over it with people, but she seems to be especially persnickety on the subject. Normally, I wouldn't even bother dedicating a whole post to this, except this time it took a twist, and I want to evaluate my thoughts before I forget them.
( For The Thinky )
I've got my thoughts out there, being read and processed and considered by an unknown number of people. Most of them probably dismissed those thoughts, but maybe in ten years someone will remember back and smile. That's made my life worthwhile. So if, by some unhappy circumstance, I fail to wake up some day soon, I've got that. That's my legacy, and I'm content with it.

Disclaimer: I swear I'm not dying, or ill or anything of the sort! I don't even have an aching jaw right now. (crosses heart) This is just a riff off of a thought I had. No worries, loves. Disclaimed because the last time I posted on mortality, some people worried.

PS. Also, I want to see Killers, solely for the line, "Let's just say I work for the Blah Blah Blah, and they gave me a license to Blah." And the leads are cute. ♥

Sekrit: I had a birthday yesterday! Okay, not so secret, because it's listed openly, but I usually don't bandy it around loudly. (handwave) People forget, or are thoughtless, or whatever, and it's just easier to keep it to myself than deal with it. They didn't know because I never told them, right? So it's not personal! Still loved, let the shiny continue. (Yes, it's a negative view of things, but it works for me.) This does not work so well with my family, but TBH, I'm used to my family spacing on personal issues. (Yes, Emma, I'm still sixteen. Ignore the credit card/car/job/etc. It's all in your head.)

That being said, yesterday was very ( Twilight Zone )

No writing was done yesterday, but that was deliberate, so I don't count it as a failure to write. ( Updates in that regard: )