Tuesday afternoon declarations
May. 20th, 2008 03:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bironic1. I don't care what anyone says; Luke Skywalker was hot.
2. Three words for you: multifandom![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
kink_bingo.
3. Saw House. Don't know what to say about it yet. May rewatch some or all of the season first.
4. At a lunch meeting in the Bronx today -- hooray for field trips -- I tried a Snapple lemonade with my hot corned beef sandwich* and discovered that the aftertaste is like the smell in a public restroom. It is entirely possible that Snapple uses the same chemicals found in commercial toilet cleansers.
* because if you're going to be in NYC, you may as well do it right
5. This smart blog article about female sci fi fans links to a NYT article that provides yet more stupidity on the persistent belief that women don't like science fiction and the actions networks have taken to de-emphasize the traditional sci fi aspects of their shows (or ads for their shows) and play up romance and fantasy elements to attract a greater female viewership when they don't seem to realize they already have a substantial female viewership and don't understand what much of that viewership wants.
Look at the Sci Fi Channel's faulty logic, quoted in the Times:
6. It's raining. It makes me want to start drafting one of the Bingo stories (TENTACLES!) instead of doing my work.
2. Three words for you: multifandom
kink_bingo. 3. Saw House. Don't know what to say about it yet. May rewatch some or all of the season first.
4. At a lunch meeting in the Bronx today -- hooray for field trips -- I tried a Snapple lemonade with my hot corned beef sandwich* and discovered that the aftertaste is like the smell in a public restroom. It is entirely possible that Snapple uses the same chemicals found in commercial toilet cleansers.
* because if you're going to be in NYC, you may as well do it right
5. This smart blog article about female sci fi fans links to a NYT article that provides yet more stupidity on the persistent belief that women don't like science fiction and the actions networks have taken to de-emphasize the traditional sci fi aspects of their shows (or ads for their shows) and play up romance and fantasy elements to attract a greater female viewership when they don't seem to realize they already have a substantial female viewership and don't understand what much of that viewership wants.
Look at the Sci Fi Channel's faulty logic, quoted in the Times:
"There were a lot of misperceptions that Sci Fi was for men, that it was for young men and that it was for geeky young men," said Bonnie Hammer, the president of NBC Universal Cable Entertainment, which oversees Sci Fi. "We had to broaden the channel to change the misconceptions of the genre."Ugh. (Found via this brief poll about female sci fi fans linked at fanthropology.)
6. It's raining. It makes me want to start drafting one of the Bingo stories (TENTACLES!) instead of doing my work.
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Date: May. 20th, 2008 08:07 pm (UTC)1. Uh. Ew. But, I forgive you: I have totally weird taste, too, so I sympathise. It took me ages to appreciate that, actually, John Sheppard is *attractive*, and even now it's more of an appreciation of his various expressions and funny narrow shoulders.
2. *checks out*. Ooo. Though I will probably never write porn for fun, nor hugely crave PWP - Porn *with* plot is so much my kink. So much.
3. I need to catch up, now that I'm flailing over that SGA season 4 ending.
4. There's a drink called a "snapple lemonade"? In my head, that's something Snape drinks in crackfics.
5. Hah. Women don't like science fiction? Me, my mom and my best friend were a hugely obsessed Vogayer fan group back in the day when I was, like, 11.
And sometimes the romance sucks. Like, wtf Seven/Chakotay? Why? And the Rodney/Katie in sga was kindof meh. The only Sci-fi romance I have ever approved of was Tom/B'Elanna. Ever. And that's probably just nostalgia; I prefer my onscreen shippiness to be all cool and subtle, kthnx.
What the viewership wants is *cool plot that makes sense* and *Consequences* and *continuity* and *character revelations*. Please. (Yes, SGA, I'm looking at you - though, s4 was unexpectedly very awesome).
5. Hah. I totally know. *Tempts*
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Date: May. 20th, 2008 09:24 pm (UTC)2. Porn *with* plot is so much my kink. So much. I don't see why the bingo stories can't be porn with plot too, if people have the time to write it. Me, I love porn with characterization. Sex or kink as metaphor. Mmm.
3. You've got all summer now. I look forward to your reactions!
4. LOL. Sorry, Snapple is a drinks brand. Sugary-watery fruit drinks and teas, mostly, not carbonated. I've linked it up now.
5. Heh. Our family's Star Trekkishness goes back three generations. Tom/B'Elanna was cool. What I saw of it, anyway; my Voyager-watching got spotty after the first season or two. Now you've got me thinking about Trek relationships I liked. Kira/Odo was kind of adorable when it wasn't drowning in syrup. Picard/Vash sparked. Worf/Troi, no, Riker/Troi, big no, Sisko/Casidy, I didn't like Sisko, so no... Rom/Leeta was kind of hilarious... Bashir/Dax (Ezri) was fun before it was actually consummated... the O'Briens made me want to kill someone...
6. Alas, I had to write Mommy Makeover plastic surgery text instead.