Stray Fannish Notes
Sep. 15th, 2011 10:40 am-Hypothetical vid of the moment is Fringe to Dessa's "Children's Work"... I so wish I could pull this off. The beauty of it is the cracky genderplay playing off the straight, serious resonances of the song against the source- I'd make Peter the narrator character, Olivia the little mystic, Walter their mother and alt!Walter their father. And all sorts of cute stuff from the 1985 episodes with tiny Peter and tiny Olivia. OMG, the punchline being "Mom gets Easter, lets Dad gets Christmas Eve" is so brilliant and twisted.
Also, I want to do West Wing cast to Renee Fleming's cover of Willy Mason's "Oxygen", because the determined optimism of the song is such a good match for the show's tone.
-I seem to be drifting back into comics fandom. Not that I was ever really out... I wore Batman costumes as a child, subscribed to Spiderman and X-Men as a tween, discovered Frank Miller and Alan Moore as a teen, but it's always been a dip in, brief immersion for a few months, then to the back of my mind again. But it might be different now: My D&D/gaming group has made me a regular at a comics shop, for one thing, which means intriguing looking comics are always around. But more importantly, Avengers comes out in the Spring. I can totally expect to continue getting deeper and deeper into comics fandom as the year drags on, driven by my ratcheting anticipation for Joss's Avengers movie.
Which means you should expect a whole bunch of rants about things like how stupid classic Iron Man's cover story was... I mean, before the idiotic "guarding Tony Stark's factory" cover story, the even stupider cover story about how Iron Man was a close friend of Tony's who happened to be visiting the factory. WHY DOES IRON MAN NEED A COVER STORY AT ALL? The government loves Iron Man, gives him security clearance without knowing his identity... in the middle of the Cold War. The police love Iron Man, the public loves Iron Man, criminals fear Iron Man... and Tony Stark has no close family and very few friends who might be targeted, and certainly not any more than they were already targeted for being friends of billionaire industrialist and playboy Tony Stark. THERE IS ZERO HARM IN GOING PUBLIC. IRON MAN DOES NOT NEED A SECRET IDENTITY.
And look, the saddest part of classic Iron Man is that he gets dates with the hottest women in the world but he can't sleep with them because he'd have to undress and reveal the GIANT CHEST WOUND. So part of me wonders if the real reason Iron Man has a secret identity is because he's closeted to himself and is subconsciously looking for an excuse to not have to sleep with the beautiful women he's dating. (And then he meets Steve?) Or maybe he's hiding deep Christian feelings from himself and is subconsciously looking for an excuse to not have premarital sex? Ok, now I want to read that fic.
-I need to read Blackout/All Clear if I'm going to keep up my claim to have read all the Hugo Award winning novels. Which I probably need to do because at this point it's a significant club in my bag when hitting on nerd girls at parties. :P But I'm not that enthusiastically looking forward to it because I haven't liked a Connie Willis story in five years and a novel in over a decade. Also nobody I've spoken to has a good word to say about Blackout/All Clear. So please, somebody give me a reason to read two giant books I don't want to read!
-Holy shit, 2 weeks until Fringe comes back. My latest theory: Peter is no longer part of the universe, but Pacey is! That's why JJ has been preparing us for this moment by hosting PaceyCons parallel to SDCC. Also, in that last sentence, I meant Joshua Jackson when I wrote JJ, but maybe he's colluding with JJ Abrams. Or maybe Joshua Jackson IS JJ Abrams. Never thought of that, did you?
Fringe brings out the conspiracy theorist in me. The bad conspiracy theorist.
-Also, HIMYM is probably back soon. I seem to have fallen a little out of love with that show, at least insofar as excitement for new material goes. I still think the middle of Season 2 is one of the finest stretches of sitcom history, but the show needs badly to get back on the rails if it wants to re-earn my anticipation. I need Ted in a relationship storyline that makes me think he will ever get married, not one that convinces me he still has no clue how to find a partner. I need the writers to realize that their awkward flirtation with writing Barney/Robin poisoned the dynamic between them and it needs attention if they're going to fix it. And I need Alyson Hannigan to own the pregnancy physical comedy as we all know she can.
-Kaleidoscope signups start tomorrow, I guess. I'm still really looking forward to it, even though I took a look at deadlines and realized that my fall is going to be:
OCTOBER: WRITE KALEIDOSCOPE FIC FRANTICALLY
NOVEMBER: WRITE NANO FRANTICALLY
DECEMBER: WRITE YULETIDE FIC FRANTICALLY
Maybe I'll drop NaNo this year, or do some sort of Pico instead. I don't actually have a good idea this year, though last year I didn't either and it still turned out really well. I think I mostly want to do NaNo because NaNo write-ins are one of the social highlights of my year and if 50,000 words of nonsense is the buy-in, I'm willing.
I want to encourage everyone to consider doing Kaleidoscope. The nominated fandoms list is here: I had no trouble finding a half dozen fandoms I hadn't nominated that I love and want to write for, or else are movies that I've wanted to see and am willing to write for. Anyway, it should be fun.
Also, I want to do West Wing cast to Renee Fleming's cover of Willy Mason's "Oxygen", because the determined optimism of the song is such a good match for the show's tone.
-I seem to be drifting back into comics fandom. Not that I was ever really out... I wore Batman costumes as a child, subscribed to Spiderman and X-Men as a tween, discovered Frank Miller and Alan Moore as a teen, but it's always been a dip in, brief immersion for a few months, then to the back of my mind again. But it might be different now: My D&D/gaming group has made me a regular at a comics shop, for one thing, which means intriguing looking comics are always around. But more importantly, Avengers comes out in the Spring. I can totally expect to continue getting deeper and deeper into comics fandom as the year drags on, driven by my ratcheting anticipation for Joss's Avengers movie.
Which means you should expect a whole bunch of rants about things like how stupid classic Iron Man's cover story was... I mean, before the idiotic "guarding Tony Stark's factory" cover story, the even stupider cover story about how Iron Man was a close friend of Tony's who happened to be visiting the factory. WHY DOES IRON MAN NEED A COVER STORY AT ALL? The government loves Iron Man, gives him security clearance without knowing his identity... in the middle of the Cold War. The police love Iron Man, the public loves Iron Man, criminals fear Iron Man... and Tony Stark has no close family and very few friends who might be targeted, and certainly not any more than they were already targeted for being friends of billionaire industrialist and playboy Tony Stark. THERE IS ZERO HARM IN GOING PUBLIC. IRON MAN DOES NOT NEED A SECRET IDENTITY.
And look, the saddest part of classic Iron Man is that he gets dates with the hottest women in the world but he can't sleep with them because he'd have to undress and reveal the GIANT CHEST WOUND. So part of me wonders if the real reason Iron Man has a secret identity is because he's closeted to himself and is subconsciously looking for an excuse to not have to sleep with the beautiful women he's dating. (And then he meets Steve?) Or maybe he's hiding deep Christian feelings from himself and is subconsciously looking for an excuse to not have premarital sex? Ok, now I want to read that fic.
-I need to read Blackout/All Clear if I'm going to keep up my claim to have read all the Hugo Award winning novels. Which I probably need to do because at this point it's a significant club in my bag when hitting on nerd girls at parties. :P But I'm not that enthusiastically looking forward to it because I haven't liked a Connie Willis story in five years and a novel in over a decade. Also nobody I've spoken to has a good word to say about Blackout/All Clear. So please, somebody give me a reason to read two giant books I don't want to read!
-Holy shit, 2 weeks until Fringe comes back. My latest theory: Peter is no longer part of the universe, but Pacey is! That's why JJ has been preparing us for this moment by hosting PaceyCons parallel to SDCC. Also, in that last sentence, I meant Joshua Jackson when I wrote JJ, but maybe he's colluding with JJ Abrams. Or maybe Joshua Jackson IS JJ Abrams. Never thought of that, did you?
Fringe brings out the conspiracy theorist in me. The bad conspiracy theorist.
-Also, HIMYM is probably back soon. I seem to have fallen a little out of love with that show, at least insofar as excitement for new material goes. I still think the middle of Season 2 is one of the finest stretches of sitcom history, but the show needs badly to get back on the rails if it wants to re-earn my anticipation. I need Ted in a relationship storyline that makes me think he will ever get married, not one that convinces me he still has no clue how to find a partner. I need the writers to realize that their awkward flirtation with writing Barney/Robin poisoned the dynamic between them and it needs attention if they're going to fix it. And I need Alyson Hannigan to own the pregnancy physical comedy as we all know she can.
-Kaleidoscope signups start tomorrow, I guess. I'm still really looking forward to it, even though I took a look at deadlines and realized that my fall is going to be:
OCTOBER: WRITE KALEIDOSCOPE FIC FRANTICALLY
NOVEMBER: WRITE NANO FRANTICALLY
DECEMBER: WRITE YULETIDE FIC FRANTICALLY
Maybe I'll drop NaNo this year, or do some sort of Pico instead. I don't actually have a good idea this year, though last year I didn't either and it still turned out really well. I think I mostly want to do NaNo because NaNo write-ins are one of the social highlights of my year and if 50,000 words of nonsense is the buy-in, I'm willing.
I want to encourage everyone to consider doing Kaleidoscope. The nominated fandoms list is here: I had no trouble finding a half dozen fandoms I hadn't nominated that I love and want to write for, or else are movies that I've wanted to see and am willing to write for. Anyway, it should be fun.