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Monday, June 15th, 2009
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11:11 am - Monday can fuck right off
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News is making the rounds that ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) minotaurs has passed away, of a sudden heart attack. I met him twice, at Pacificon in 2008 and earlier this year at Escapade. I was looking forward to getting to knowing him better as he made plans to move up to Seattle; I was particularly eager for showings of Dante's Cove, one of his fannish loves. It's probably safe to say there isn't a slash writer out there who hasn't perused his Sex Tips page, and anyone who met him was immediately drawn (as I was) to his kindness, generosity, and gregarious spirit. As smittywing and reccea also know, I was rockin' a minor crush due to minotaurs' physical likeness to My Comics Writer Boyfriend.
He'll be dearly missed.
current mood:  morose
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| Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
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10:46 am
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For Jason Todd fans: a really adorable page on ebay from Gotham Knights, featuring Batman, Jason-Robin, and Babs-Batgirl. I'm not bidding on this one, but someone I know should!
current mood:  rushed
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| Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
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10:50 am - still boldly going
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(Started writing this yesterday, meant to finish last night, went and saw the movie again instead. Who could blame me?)
Like most of you (I feel it's a safe bet), I grew up on Star Trek. Not *quite* old enough to have seen it the first time around, but the reruns were a constant feature of my childhood and adolescence--flipping onto an episode during a random tv search meant watching, enthralled all over again, even if I'd just seen the episode the day before. I still own a shelf full of Star Trek novels, the best of which are by Diane Duane, the best of the best of which are Spock's World and My Enemy, My Ally. I've watched every episode of every series through the years, and yeah, that means all the way through the execrable Enterprise. The universe that Gene Roddenberry built has been, and always shall be, my friend.
( and I, for one, welcome our NuTrek overlord )
current mood:  pleased. also hungry
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| Sunday, May 10th, 2009
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2:05 pm - still too busy to post
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| Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
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3:03 pm
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I need a "hmmm" icon. For considering things.
Work just changed its vacation policy, which means all the unused vacation hours I had must either be used or traded in for (3/4 value) moneys. Moneys is nice, but vacations are nicer. And since I enjoyed Escapade very much, I'm wondering if any of the other slash cons might be worth attending? People I know being there is a high incentive. A potential list from the useful ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) slash_con:
May: MediaWest*Con, Lansing, MI over Memorial Day Weekend (probably too short notice)
July: Vidcon, Tampa, FL
August: Vividcon in Chicago, Illinois (sounds like fun, but already full up)
August: Eastern Media Con in Newark, NJ (Carmen, you're going to this one, yes?) ETA: NM, it's apparently on hiatus this year.
November: Bascon in San Francisco, CA the first weekend in November
Any others? Any recommendations or otherwise on the above?
Also, a warning because I love you: No matter how bored you are on a cross-country flight, do not play Bejeweled for four hours straight. My eyes, they still burn.
current mood:  trying to ignore this headache
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| Monday, March 16th, 2009
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11:40 am - Watchmen
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Having read a lot of reviews previous to seeing it, I had fully expected to come away with "pretty, but ultimately flawed."
I was so glad to be wrong.
( not unconditional love, but darned close )
current mood:  hungry
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| Friday, March 13th, 2009
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11:38 am - for a Friday
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I just wanted to point out the really spectacular special-purpose Bat-utility belt that nakedbee showed off at Escapade: it's shiny and fabulous! Also most sincerely Not Safe For Work viewing. But go look anyway.
current mood:  appreciative
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| Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
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10:58 am - Escapade and other amusements
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Got a surprise new computer at work, which means a whole bunch of half-written lj posts on the old one are gone. Just as well, really. Fresh start, clean slate. I have dire need of this.
Escapade: Great con, great fun! I like fandom. No, I mean, I really like fandom. Which is ironic considering I haven't participated in it in three years but hey, hope springs eternal. Anyway, con...got to see my girls smittywing and (meet) reccea, which always = joy. I met fun and interesting new peoples. I saw more vids, and will post the link to the vid show list when it gets posted. (Although, frankly? I found the bitchinparty list to be more overall inspiring, although possibly because that was my first vid show and everything was shiny and wonderfully new.)
Seriously considering the possibility of con_txt next year.
Sunday night, I was strongarmed into agreed to watch some SGA eps. ( The alternative was Merlin. I chose wisely. )
Followup on things mentioned to other people:
Aral: Maneater vid and commentary. Do not watch with drink in hand.
Ivy: Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud. The language of comics for the uninitiated, from an academic angle. Up your alley, I think.
Anna/Naked Bee: I gave you bad links because my brain lives on my computer, see. Instead: dcu_slash_index (mine) for older fic posted on the yahoogroup lists [go through the memories on the profile page]; dcfic_index (not mine) for fic on lj. My list hasn't been updated in some time (mostly because nearly all fic migrated to lj and I couldn't keep up); I don't know about the other.
More if/when I remember it, but I should pretend to do some work now.
current mood:  okay!
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| Monday, March 2nd, 2009
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9:17 am - things seen
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Spent the entire weekend on the couch with a vile headache, so all update plans got tossed. Instead, briefly, because the pain is lingering and my desk is overflowing already:
Coraline: Great, great adaptation. The little girl a couple of seats away spent the second half of the movie trying to burrow into her mother's lap, and I don't blame her in the least. Scary! Creepy! Stunning animation and I can't wait to put it on my shelf next to The Nightmare Before Christmas.
Hulk vs.: The Hulk vs. Thor segment is far superior to the Hulk vs. Wolverine, although the latter did have a credible Deadpool. But the Thor piece has lovely animation, a gorgeous rendition of Asgard and all the gods (Warriors Three! Hela!), and nicely complex plotting.
Wanted: Guns, cars, and physics don't work that way. Husband's comment: "That wasn't as terrible as it could have been!" Word. Mindless violence and lots of exploding? It's got you covered.
The scans_daily suspension: My only surprise is that it took that long.
Okay, look. I work in publishing. scans_daily is a living copyright violation and if it'd been my material that'd been posted for free week after week? I'd have been torqued off too. Yes, it often proved a good advertisement and a way to expose people to comics they wouldn't have otherwise read. I'm sure a few people went and bought some issues or a trade or two after seeing something intriguing there. But on the whole? It was a way to read the most current comics, the day they went on sale, for free.
If scans_daily had stuck to older comics, past their shelf life, it'd be less of an issue. If scans_daily had any kind of real limit on posting of current books, it'd be less of an issue. But it crossed the line far too often.
For more eloquence on the same, see here--including the final point that s_d was also an amazing marketing tool, and taking it down inspires a great deal of ill will toward everyone involved.
The closure was inevitable, and I'll miss it.
current mood:  Monday
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| Thursday, February 5th, 2009
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9:38 am - huh
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So it looks like I'm going to Escapade after all. Hot damn.
Hasn't sunk in yet. I need this break in the worst way.
On AIM today, for a wonder, because there's a strange and unsettling gap in the work schedule. HI HI HI. I miss you all.
current mood: surprised, also pleased
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| Sunday, January 4th, 2009
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1:52 pm
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I'm cranky like Aquaman and finishing this for my own sense of completion, long neglected.
( rest of the DC rundown )
current mood:  blah
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| Saturday, January 3rd, 2009
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1:28 pm - DC, how you task me
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As usual, DC is harder to parse than Marvel; even my simple categories break down when most of what I bought this year comes down to "meh," and forgettable. A very few standouts, most of which are now either finished or cancelled.
Poor Atom up there pretty much says it all as far as the canon goes. I know most of my flist has bailed on core DC, and if I was wiser/less obsessive I would have done so also. It's been a hard slog, being a DC fan--or rather, a fan of the DC characters and universe.
YES BUY: All-Star Superman, Detective, Jonah Hex, Nightwing, Robin, Secret Six, Teen Titans Year One; Wonder Woman; Fables, Jack of Fables
Best of the Year: All-Star Superman (DCU) and Fables (Vertigo). Runner Up: Secret Six.
INTEREST BUY: Virtually everything else. Batman, Batman Confidential, Birds of Prey, Blue Beetle, Booster Gold, Brave and the Bold, Flash, Green Arrow and Black Canary, JLA, JSA, Legion of Super-Heroes, Manhunter, Outsiders, Shadowpact, Suicide Squad, Teen Titans, Titans, Trials of Shazam, Trinity, all the frickin' minis; Ex Machina
NO BUY: DC Universe Decisions
( blather and bitchery )
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| Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
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10:02 am - okay comics
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Man, it's been awhile---both since I talked about comics and put any away, hence the massive piles now adorning the hallway. While I figure out how to cram a years' worth of books into the already-overflowing boxes, I'm also making mental piles kind of like this:
YES BUY: Comics everyone should be buying and reading. Just plain good stuff. A+ to B+ range.
INTEREST BUY: Worth reading if you're following a character, a storyline, or have an interest otherwise. Not a waste of cash, on the whole. B to C range.
NO BUY: No one should waste their money. I probably did. C- to F range.
Marvel first. Marvel is easier to talk about, probably because it's less disappointing overall. This is mostly because while all the Secret Invasion etc. nonsense was playing out, quite a lot of other good books came in under the radar. In brief, here's how the Marvel piles break down:
YES BUY: Captain America, Guardians of the Galaxy, Immortal Iron Fist, Incredible Hercules, Marvels: Eye of the Camera, Nova, Thor, Thor one-shots, X-Men First Class; Stephen King adaptations
Best of the Year: Captain America. Runner Up: Iron Fist.
INTEREST BUY: American Dream, Angel miniseries, Astonishing X-Men, Avengers: Initiative, Dark Reign, Invincible Iron Man, Mighty Avengers, Ms. Marvel, New Avengers, The Order, The Twelve, Secret Invasion, She-Hulk, Thunderbolts, Ultimate Spider-Man
NO BUY: 1985, Avengers/Invaders, ClanDestine, Eternals, Fantastic Four, Hulk, New Universal, Runaways, Squadron Supreme, Sub-Mariner: The Depths, all Ultimate books except Ultimate Spider-Man
( more specific comments about any of the above )
Starting tomorrow with the DC piles, which promise to be altogether more painful.
current mood:  accomplished
current music: somewhere in the crowd there's you
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| Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
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11:12 am
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Offpanel is back up and all seems well. Here's the reply I got from the hosting service:
Thank you for your patience during this time. The reason that you were experiencing down time was due to the DNS issues we were experiencing today. We rectified this as soon as possible and your site appears to be resolving as it should. If you are still having issues with viewing your site, please note that DNS propagation can take up to 24 hours to complete.
...does this actually explain why the site was hacked? And is there anything I can do to prevent it in the future, or is it just a gap in the virtual fence? And did anyone actually *read* the content of the complaint? Because this is boilerplate. BAH.
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ANYWAY. Now that that nonsense is over, back to what I was going to post yesterday. In keeping with the quasi-resolution to actually post things that amuse me: from the Torchwood novel The Twilight Streets, a random aside:
(Gwen is having random Gwen-thoughts) ...although she was gratified to learn when they were at uni that [Rhys] wasn't a great fan of ABBA, since men at uni who were ABBA fans tended not to be interested in Gwen. Or women generally. 'Do you like ABBA?' she found herself asking Ianto. As non sequiturs went, it was a good one.
He looked at her. 'Is this going to lead to a "Jack" conversation?'
'No.'
'Fine. Then I admire the Andersson/Ulvaeus writing partnership as craftsmen and songsmiths. I belive "One of Us" may be the best song written about relationship breakups ever, and I have a soft spot for the fusion of witty lyrical content and poptastic danceability of "Voulez-Vous," but let me make this absolutely clear: I bloody loathe "Dancing Queen". All right?'
AHAHA, author randomness. And why, yes, I did just download a whole mess of ABBA songs. I AM NOT ASHAMED. Although my favorite remains the cover of "Take a Chance on Me" by Erasure.
Next: comics. For real!
current mood: okay
current music: knowing me, knowing you, it's the best I can do
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| Monday, December 29th, 2008
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11:30 am - not my Monday
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Woke up with an entirely DIFFERENT post to put up, and found that offpanel.net has been hacked. If our site was going to be stolen, why couldn't it have been by some nice filthy porn, at least?
Ticket submitted to the hosting service and we'll see what we see.
current mood:  flamingly pissed off
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| Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
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9:14 am - Escapade?
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California in March: Nice weather, not that far. Thanks to devilc for the reminder; anyone else planning to go?
current mood:  intrigued
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| Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
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11:41 am - DIE HUMANITY DIE
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Killed 'em all. It took 198 days and a nasty bacteria.
Tips: Big help to start in Madagascar. Sell off all starting conditions and infect slowly, under the radar, for as long as possible. It's really not necessary to buy up resistances past the first tier unless you want waterborn (needs Moisture II) or if you need to buy up drug resistance to slow down the development of a vaccine...but then again, if you take out enough hospitals, the number of days 'til vaccine completion becomes irrelevant. Once you're in every country, start to boost up your infectivity and then your lethality. Watch casualties stack up like cordwood. Profit. Enjoy some visceral world destruction.
Hey, it's lunchtime.
current mood: WICTORY! also, kind of grossed out
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| Monday, November 24th, 2008
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12:56 pm
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Because it's a Monday, I spent the morning killing the world.
Nearly got 'em all. Only Cuba survived. (My plague started in Madagascar, which is often the lone survivor. Someone sneezes on the other side of the planet, Madagascar closes its borders.) Nowhere near the high score, though, so the only answer is to keep trying....
current mood: cranky
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| Friday, November 21st, 2008
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1:44 pm - dear life, the universe, and everything:
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No, see, you were supposed to be nice to me this week on general principles. Instead, what do you do? You cancel Eli Stone and Pushing Daisies.
(The cancellation of My Own Worst Enemy just gave me an excuse to delete the unwatched episodes from the DVR. I've been fond of Christian Slater since Heathers, but he couldn't hold it.)
Eli Stone isn't the greatest thing ever, but it's worth watching even if just for SpyLawyer!Daddy Victor Garber. It's a cheerful, hopeful kind of feel-good show; who doesn't need that once in awhile? Nevermind, rhetorical.
But Pushing Daisies is something special, funny and sharp and technicolor insane and a bright fresh spot on tv. For mind-numbing entertaining, it's pretty damn smart. The cast is astonishingly smart (Chi McBride steals all the best lines), the world they inhabit isn't like anything else out there, and it strongly features PIE as a supporting cast member. Ratings blah blah and I'm not actually angry at a network for canceling something that isn't getting them numbers; this is called business and as a part of one myself I've seen a lot of projects I loved die the death of low sales. I'm just disheartened that every time we get something genuinely good, genuinely quality, it can't be sustained.
ARGL.
current mood:  pissy
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| Friday, November 14th, 2008
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10:20 pm
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So the thing is, it is extremely unusual for me to have my computer on any given evening, because after staring at a computer screen all day, every day--and yeah, it really has been 7-day work weeks for some time now--the last thing I can take at night is more pixels. Mostly I've been burning out what remains of my brain cells on Too Much TV, which is a whole 'nother post half-done and on my other computer. But I had to check on something tonight and saw Jim Smith's extremely timely comment about never posting because those lengthy posts never get finished and gee, that sounds a lot like all that unfinished fic, doesn't it?
Anyway, in the spirit of ACTUAL POSTING and stream-of-clinging-to-consciousness briefly: ( Brave and the Bold premiere )
Also saw Madagascar 2 this evening, because what is bad about talking animals? Nothing. It's fine but not as good as the first one, mostly because nothing matches the full-on madcap lunacy of the lemurs the first time around. They still enjoy to move it move it, however.
Quantum of Solace tomorrow before errands and more work, although there might be an hour or so of Fable 2 in there. Because that is also not on a computer screen, you see. (Weak.) And besides, my copy of WoW Eats My Head Wrath of the Lich King hasn't arrived yet.
That is all, good night.
current mood:  exhausted
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| Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
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11:52 am
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In the time I don't have, I've been rolling around in Elizabeth Bear's work lately; I'm well on my way to a complete collection and just finished Dust, which was incredible. Also finished Cory Doctorow's Little Brother and Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, both enjoyed. (Long plane rides and the unwillingness to stare at a computer screen after working on one for over nine hours each day contributes to Getting Books Read, which...yay?)
Anyway, Amazon has now populated my recommendations list with (new to me) authors, and I figure you lot can tell me who's worth reading.
Charles Stross
John Scalzi
Sarah Monette
Karen Traviss
Jaida Jones
Caitlin R. Kiernan
Comments, recs, warnings?
current mood: stressed
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| Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
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9:09 am - I don't even know
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The most amusing part about the dream where I found myself in bed with Dean Winchester--and entirely unrelated to anything else--was the bit where I told Sam that he needed to cut his hair because it was interfering with the development of his psychic powers.
current mood: confused
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| Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
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9:07 am - 4E on my teevee
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Having less than no luck in remembering how to write long coherent posts, so firing at will in regard to last week's Supernatural:
Now that, my gaming friends, is how to run a skill challenge in the middle of a combat encounter.
current mood:  geeky
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| Sunday, September 14th, 2008
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9:41 pm - rereading the Legion 2
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I'm afraid I'm going to continue to be obsessed/boring about this for some time to come. But it's fannish posting again, so that's something.
Gonna have to speed this up to get to the stories I really want to talk about....
( Rereading the Legion: Archives vol. 3 & 4 )
current mood: sleepy
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| Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
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9:32 am - Legion alert
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| Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
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8:53 pm - rereading the Legion 1.5
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Non-Legion content: In spare time (ha! ha ha!), been watching DVDs of Freaks and Geeks. I didn't catch all of these the first time around, so it's nice to catch up. Fun, fun show. Anyone who doesn't watch with empathy/sympathy/a sense of familiar creeping horror didn't go to real high school.
Okay, sane people run away now.
Legion resources: For your deep geek Legion needs, I recommend the Legion Companion, a series of interviews with the creators of the Legion throughout the years. Highly enlightening, especially Jim Shooter's commentary, from which I'll be quoting when I get to his issues.
Only for deepest geeks: The Best of the Legion Outpost, fan and pro selections from the first Legion fan newszine. This was the grandfather of Legion fandom, succeeded by APAs such as Interlac, still active today.
On Continuity: A guide to the brain-breaking new order: Again, the Legion Index comes through. That first page has some very good notes about what's in and what's out, and the Membership and Who's Who pages are likewise illuminating. Apparently, original Legion continuity ends somewhere around Legion v.3 #27--just before Thom goes back to Xanthu. It's not a bad place to break off, I suppose, although it does leave out "The Universo Project," one of the all-time best storylines.
I'm also going to continue to be sulky about Ayla and Vi. Just sayin'.
...whoops, I got so caught up in reading the index, there's no actual rereading tonight. (This is why my comics never get reviewed/sorted/put away.) To be continued same Legion time, same Legion channel.
current mood: okay
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| Sunday, August 24th, 2008
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4:08 pm - rereading the Legion
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As threatened. 50th anniversary really was the right time to wallow in the Legion again, anyway.
Starting with the Archives, switching to single issues along the way, and who knows? Maybe I can get through all three incarnations before the end of the year. Again, comments in note form and I'm not doing summaries, because those can be found elsewhere.
As a general note for Legion resources, see the Legion index and/or download the excellent Legion help file.
( Rereading the Legion: Archives vol. 1 & 2 )
current mood: appreciative
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| Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
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4:59 pm - Legion-esque
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Today's safety tip: Do not inhale the diet soda. Man, that still hurts.
I'm contemplating my rapidly vanishing weekend, probably the last one when I won't have to work for a couple of months (again). Over here are the files of unfinished fic, glaring accusingly. Over here are the overflowing piles of comics, waiting to be reviewed before being stowed away into their proper boxes. And here in my hand is a copy of Legion of 3 Worlds #1, and it's putting me in an overwhelmingly Legion-esque mood...even if some of the content, quite frankly, gives me cognative dissonance of the highest order.
I'm still having a hard time coming to terms with Johns' "I Can’t Believe It’s Not The Paul Levitz LSH" (TM Mightygodking, who's already said a lot of what I'm going to here, only more eloquently). Because...it's not. It's not. Johns' Legion's history diverged somewhere along the line in the Levitz era--that was apparent the moment Val Armorr showed up alive and breathing--and someone with a lot more patience and time than me is going to post a cogent analysis of where the timelines split.
And we've already got three versions of the Legion running around, so what harm in a fourth, right? Especially a fourth that derives from the arguably most-loved incarnation of the Legion? But that's exactly the problem, because the Original Legion *is* so well loved, so obsessively remembered, even in the face of two reboots. As least Original Legion fans still had all those stories, whole and intact...until Geoff Johns decided to change them.
It hurts, just a little bit, and after over 25 years of dedicated comics reading you'd think I'd have become immune to such things. But the Legion still gets me to the depths of my comics-loving soul.
Anyway, I wanted to talk about Legion of 3 Worlds, and that means going back and rereading the "Superman and the Legion of Super-Heroes" arc from Action, and that's a good place as any for a ( cut tag )
current mood: geeky
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| Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
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9:18 pm
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Eureka WHAT
and also
WHAT
Spoiler/musing in comments
current mood:  shocked
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| Saturday, August 16th, 2008
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9:13 pm
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So as I'm, um, trolling the internets for Olympic slash--shut up, it's a phase, it'll pass--I found a couple of posts that made me lol so hard, they needed to be shared.
Epic Love: NBA Fanfiction in which Teh Slash is discovered by the unwary. If I cared about basketball, I would read these fics. But the commentary is the best, especially the plea at the end not to flame the writers. Classy!
Olympic Slash Fanfiction (2005) -- again, discussion of the phenomena. I was giggling through the comments until I hit this near the end:
Y'all should have been inside my head last summer. I had it all worked out
between the Thorpedo and how he would initiate Phelps into the wonders of the
swimming Olympic brethren. Van den Hoogenthingie played the bitch. Oooh, it was
hot.
There's a website devoted to this.
-- when hysterics caused a mouthful of water to be vented all over the keyboard.
The worst thing?
THERE IS NO WEBSITE LISTED DAMMIT
/sulk
current mood:  embarrassed
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| Thursday, August 14th, 2008
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12:24 pm
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Like I told Nos, I keep having highly inappropriate thoughts regarding Michael Phelps, Garth, and...swimming. Let's go with "swimming." (No, even as gen, it's a pretty thought.) And I keep rereading the Olympic Trials fics that sevenall wrote for Sea & Sky: Sink or Swim and Fish or Fowl. They're short but awesome, and make me smile every time.
According to Phil Jimenez (in the notes for the Tempest miniseries), Garth can swim at speeds of 97.76 knots (or 85 MPH) on the surface. So that makes his theoretical Olympic times...do some math, somebody! :D
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And over on the gymnastics front, you really can't watch without thinking about Our Boy Nightwing. Well, I can't. ( And I'd written him as a competitor, even. )
current mood: okay
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| Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
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9:27 pm
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Latest, on Avatar:
Zuko and Katara missed out on the chance to have sex in a cave. What's WRONG with those kids?
Toph continues to rule the planet.
"Dragon of the West." IROH :D :D :D
...Zuko's going to come to his senses, right?
SEASON THREE I NEED YOUUUUUUUUU
current mood: want more Avatar!
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| Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
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9:57 pm
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Latest, on Avatar:
Jet, totally gay for Zuko. Badwrongthink, yes/no?
This show just keeps getting better and better, slashy vibes just a bonus.
Also, Sokka is a pimp.
I want a real stuffed Momo.
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In other news: Dark Knight in IMAX? Do not pass go.
Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarvey. *sob*
current mood: amused
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| Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
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9:23 pm - dear fandom
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Wherein can be found the fiction in which Nathan Stark, currently a resident of Eureka, is Tony Stark's older, equally hot, equally genius brother, and in which the snarky banter inherent in familial competition ensues?
I know it exists. DO NOT HIDE IT FROM ME.
current mood: geeky
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3:03 pm - next time, in Vegas
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Happiest of birthdays to smittywing! Vegas will still be there when we, you know, plan for it more than a week ahead of time. ;) BUT WE WILL DO EEEEET.
current mood:  gender-confused Nightwing says yay!
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| Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
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8:13 pm - yes, I'm serious
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So who wants to meet up with me and smittywing next week in Vegas? Say, Tuesday or Wednesday through Fri/Sat?
SPEAK NOW, PLANS ARE IN MOTION
current mood: crazy
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4:32 pm - a long time ago, we used to be friends
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...It's not personal. I've been rewatching Veronica Mars lately. It could put anyone in that mood. I STILL LOVE YOU REALLY.
Let's see. Obligatory Dark Knight comment: HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARVEY!!! *wail* and aside from that I'm still processing because holy crap. More coherency after I see it again in IMAX, or not.
Dr. Horrible was mainly amusing because NPH rocks; I've been amused by him since his un-Doogie-like turn as the fascist telepath in Starship Troopers. (I like it, shut up. Sometimes you just need brainless bug-killin' entertainment.) I fail at feminist rage re: both this and DK; honestly, ( you know the punchline. )
Also watching: Avatar: The Last Airbender. Just started season 2 and my, that is some damn fine serial storytelling. I'm assured it only continues to get better and darker, which is very exciting-making.
The piles of comics continue to stack up and gather dust, along with the theory that I'll get around to talking about them all sometime. I HAVE GOOD INTENTIONS.
Very tired of being sick, which merhawk points out is a not-unexpected consequence of the exceedingly high stress levels of the last two years. Still, it's dull and needs to be over now.
Idle query: If I was to attend one fannish convention next year, which should it be? (Fan-run con, not pro.) I has curious!
I need to remember to post when I actually think of things I want to share, because man, this is dry. :/ Here, have some pretty Simon! and...out.
current mood:  pensive
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| Saturday, July 12th, 2008
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5:05 pm - superhero summer!
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Kinda crazy the summer we're having, innit? We've had Iron Man, Hulk, Hancock, and Hellboy, and haven't even gotten to Dark Knight. Iron Man was by far the best of the lot (so far); Hulk was way, way better than expected; Hancock was--well, okay, it had a great premise and a very good first half, before it went off the rails; and I just got back from Hellboy: The Golden Army, which is a tremendous spectacle and tremendous fun as long as you don't think about the plot. Some really visually stunning moments, as to be expected from del Toro. Recommended with a serving of poporn salt.
Also watched the Gotham Knight animated release, which--you know, it's Batman, I'm easy. Not blown away overall, but some nice moments. And Deadshot for Carmen. *g* I'm pretty excited for the Wonder Woman feature, the first modern solo take. Looks Perez-inspired, so that'll be fun.
and oh, oh. Dark Knight. Cannot wait. After seeing Batman Begins, I was incapable of saying anything other than BATMAN! BATMAN!! for about a day. Only this time I expect it be wails of Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaarvey! because omg, omg. In anticipation I was even driven to reread Fearful Symmetry and anything that can make me revisit my own fic is a powerful force indeed. *changes post icon*
All right, must go pack. Will be out of touch and internet-less for a week, not that this will likely be noticable given frequency of posting lately. *sigh* When I return--yeah, I'm pretty much not going to be coherent after DK, so business as usual.
current mood: rushed
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| Monday, June 23rd, 2008
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8:55 am
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So I sit down at the computer yesterday to do some work--because that's what I do on Sundays and after two years of these deadlines I don't see an end to it--and instead spend half the afternoon reading apocalyptic whorehouse RPS fic.
...I don't even READ RPS.
I'd take it as a sign of the impending breakdown, but as always, I don't have time for it.
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Also:
Shit piss fuck cunt cocksucker motherfucker tits. For extra credit: Fart turd twat.
No, I won't cut that. He wouldn't.
current mood: dazed
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| Friday, May 23rd, 2008
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9:03 am - also
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Happiest of birthdays to tangeriner! Love you, angel baby.
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also
Is there Pepper/Rhodey IM movie fic? Because there should be. The two who love Tony best and are hurt by him most often....
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8:51 am - public health warning
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Those new mint crisp M&Ms? Candy-coated crack. Delicious...minty...candy-coated crack. The one bite = instant addiction type. I tell you this so you won't buy any and leave all of them for me and be forced to suffer cravings eternal.
It's...too late for me. Save yourselves!
current mood: doomed
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| Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
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4:36 pm - Batman and the Legion of Super-Heroes
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[I've been working on this at free moments but I'm starting to lose the taste of it. Posting now, unfinished, to be amended at every opportunity.]
From Action 864:
Lightning Lad, re Batman: "I wonder what he would've turned out like if we'd gone to get him, too."
That one line has stunned me for about two weeks now.
(Also:
Superman: "Do you know what the history books call us in the 31st century, Bruce?"
Time Trapper, narration: "Oh, Kal. They barely *remember* Batman.")
But what if they did? What if they had come back for him?
He would have changed them. And they would have changed him.
( this is what I meant by 'too big to be fic' )
current mood:  intrigued
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| Monday, May 12th, 2008
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9:35 am
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Fannish weekend, of a sort:
Saturday I went to the Emerald City Comicon. I refrained from digging through back-issue bins and original art piles (I know, shocking) and only walked away with the latest PS238 trade. Attended the DC Nation panel: Didio is a huckster and I would never ask him anything serious. Entertaining, but very little real news aside from Greg Rucka (still my boyfriend) saying that he's working on a Batwoman book. Expect the official announcement at San Diego.
Sunday I finished the weeks-long task of sorting through all the fic-related files on my harddrive, mine and others. That was a lot. A LOT. And very depressing to realize that I haven't really written anything for three years. But many things were found, including an ancient jam Scott/Warren/Jean fic by Carmen, Dannell, and me, now archived (it's not good, but hey); a couple of Leah's things, now up on her page; and yet more pieces of things by just about everyone I used to confab with on AIM. Kael sugar, I have a whole file of stuff by you, a lot of unposted pieces for the Dracoverse and elsewhere--lemme know if you want 'em posted or if you want the files for review. Either way, I will keep them for my own amusement. ;)
Work now.
current mood: okay
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| Monday, May 5th, 2008
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11:04 am - tread lightly, you'll jinx it
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A metric ton of project-shaped fewmets has landed on me this morning (what's new), but I'm not fretting about it at the moments. For one, I'm still sort of high off of Iron Man. For two...
Not fic--too big to be fic. For me, anyway. But there was a line in last week's comics I've sort of been obsessing on, and I might just spend the rest of the day writing up some speculation-type notes. It's a delicate thing I'm trying to nurture here.
So, query: what do we really know about Bruce Wayne's life before he returned to Gotham and became Batman? That nebulous period between age 8 and 21 (it's 21 now, right, not 25 like in Year One?) that's usually defined as "Bruce traveled the world and sought training in various skills".
...got impatient and did some digging.
( Results here! )
Anything missing?
current mood: less Monday-ish than usual
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| Sunday, May 4th, 2008
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1:49 pm - Iron Man
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contains more than the FDA recommended daily dose of both iron and awesome.
Definitely at the top of the list of superhero movies. Considering it's a character I'm not particularly fond of, that's going some.
And yes, you really do have to stay until after the credits!
( spoilery glee )
current mood: okay
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| Thursday, May 1st, 2008
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12:45 pm
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and oh, yeah, I finally caught up on Torchwood. Would very much like to read some Ianto/Tosh, now, to make up for it. Or Jack/Tosh. Or Ianto/Tosh/Jack for the win. Recs, please?
current mood: disgruntled
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| Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
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11:51 am
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When I put the cereal with strawberry bits into strawberry yogurt, why does that make me think of cannibalism?
current mood: NOT crazy. NOT
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8:59 am
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Spent some time trying to clean up some old files last weekend. Observations:
* I have files that I haven't opened since 2005 for fic that I still think I'm working on. Some of those stories had their genesis in 2001, or even earlier. I have no statute of limitations, clearly.
* If any were needed, I have blackmail material in the form of chatspam on greenygal and smittywing and miss_porcupine forever. As they have on me, I'm sure. Seriously, seriously The Crack, you guys.
* Found some stuff Leah sent me that needs to go up on her page, including her proposal for a second Tempest miniseries and at least one of her old Garth stories from the TitansTalk APA. There really is no excuse for not having archived this while she was here.
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Iron Man looks fantastic, doesn't it? Too bad he's being such a fascist dick in the comics these days. But I never much cared for IM, anyway; as far as I'm concerned, the bigger a jerk Downey is in the film, the better I'm going to like it.
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I...I believe in Harvey Dent. I always have. And if they get it right, Dark Knight is going to tear me to shreds.
current mood:  working
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| Sunday, April 27th, 2008
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3:42 pm
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Still rockin' some epic fail on all fronts, so all I got is random.
My Pandora, stuck in the 80s like me.
Supernatural gets the ftw line of the week: "You gotta go be gay for that poor dead intern!"
Some old, yet still amusing spam mail: ( not OVERY (sic) disgusting )
Comics rundowns: not today! But I still care!
So I haven't been writing--really--but I do this thing where I watch something, and start a fic, and never finish. This one's from January 2007 (...argh) and it'll do for a drabble? Maybe? (Over by 15 words, technically.)
( Space: Above and Beyond teeny bit )
current mood: random
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| Friday, April 11th, 2008
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11:33 am - I rewatched Firefly last weekend, can you tell?
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I want to read the Pygmalion-style fic where Jayne goes to Inara for instruction in how to court Simon without horrifying him. (Because even he knows the Jayne approach is...no.)
...what?
current mood:  musing
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