Sliding into June

Watching

Did you know there is a Drunk History episode where Adam Beach, Q'orianka Kilcher and Zahn McClarnon do the reenactment/lip synching? It's in the Alcatraz takeover segment of "National Parks," season 6 episode 2. A good time. You can tell that they, along with Dallas Goldtooth as John Trudell, had fun with the swearing and flamboyance. I'd only ever seen Zahn do this brand of comedy before when he played an exaggeratedly effeminate gay stylist in Repo Chick, which evoked a similar mix of delight and uncertainty about whether busting one stereotype mitigates the perpetuation of another.

Wikipedia just informed me that the previous episode focuses on the Frankenstein creation story, with two Woods as two Shelleys: Evan Rachel Wood as Mary and Elijah Wood as Percy. Also Will Ferrell as the creature and Seth Rogen as Frankenstein. This should be interesting.

I'd never seen a whole episode of Drunk History before and hadn't realized how often they cast well-known actors in the reenactment roles. Now I see that is half their schtick.

(As of this spring, paid Spotify subscribers get free Hulu if they didn't have an account before. Hulu archives Drunk History. I've also been catching up on Brooklyn Nine-Nine.)

Vidding

I spent part of last weekend working on the sports movie vid, only to confirm that there's too much left to do before the fanworks deadline. "Do I really want to stress myself out trying to make the other four minutes of a four-and-a-half-minute multivid in a week and a half?" I asked, remembering how I ran on adrenaline and meal delivery to knock out "Starships!" in that amount of time and how it took a solid month to edit "The Greatest" last spring followed by about six months of recovery.

Although it's disappointing not to bring a premiere to the con, I'd rather take my time with this one, especially since the whole idea was to play around with the editing. At this point, or at least in this case, I'd rather the process be fun than the vid be done for the dance party—a definite change from past practice.

Anyway, fresh off that decision on Saturday, I shut down the computer and went to the store and ran into scribe and feedingonwind, which never happens. They also mentioned the vid deadline crunch. So you can imagine my amusement and horror when scribe said she and fiercynn were trying to motivate themselves by saying, "Starships was made in a week!"

(Good luck, friends! Please only use that vidding story as a model if you need encouragement to work like a dog!)

Writing

Just as well, perhaps, since someone's prompts at nonconathon captured my dirtybadwrong imagination and I started two stories! 2,700 words on one so far and a couple hundred on the other. Pretty sure the first one will get done. Yay. It's been five months since I added substantive material to a story and eight since I posted a fic. This serves as an excuse for skimping on work all week. Gotta ride the writing wave when it comes.

The PWP includes about 200 words of ( click only if you don't care about ruining the anonymity )

, which makes me laugh.

There is nobody in either fic by this name, but I titled the Word doc "jonathon nonconathon" because I couldn't stop seeing the name in the 'fest title.