One day I'll say something meaningful again.

[bironic]

Well, that's interesting. It's not a big leap to restricting access to sites that offer fan-produced work.

In less worrisome news, turns out my weekend was spent in gorgeous fog on the bay in southern Jersey instead of nowheresville northern Jersey:


There's a bridge back there, lost in the mist. (click for bigger)

Alas that now I'm back in D.C., it's 90 degrees. And barely April. It is -- *checks* -- 79 degrees in my apartment. Time to get out of this town.

You may have seen that House Big Bang went live. I made some art for it: two covers and a pinch hit. The first one is what I worked on the most, and turned out, I think, the best.

Misc.: Saw and greatly enjoyed Naissance des Pieuvres (Water Lilies). The comment thread by Ediane at AfterEllen's review is the closest I've found to my own thoughts. Bizarrely, neither NY Times nor Variety discussed queerness in their reviews, when the movie is about a girl who falls in love/obsession with another girl, who may or may not be attracted to her in return.

Lastly, have a rec: spike21 and harriet_spy's From the entrance to the exit, it's farther than it looks -- SGA, post-series, very NC-17, and hit so many of my soul-deep kinks in the first half to two-thirds that there was this thrill running through me I haven't felt in a long time, reading. It's John/Todd/Teyla, too, and has pretty much everything you could hope for in that grouping. IMO. I'm not sure what to make of the ending yet, and there's an iffy bit in the beginning equating alienness with monstrousness, but the story is absolutely worth checking out.


p.s. Even in the company of 7 non-fannish people and making no attempt to turn conversation or channels in that direction, some subjects and programs are apparently unavoidable, such as SGU, the Merlin episode with the slash dragon, Top Gear, and my friend's brother's discussion of the attractiveness and sexual preferences of Anderson Cooper.

Comments

[zulu.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I love fog. It's weather I don't see a lot of (no, not even where I am in England), but it's my favourite for being out walking in, and taking mysterious pictures of.

With a rec like that, I may just have to check out this story! :D

[bironic.livejournal.com]

It very much catered to my particular tastes in a way that I hadn't known I'd been missing. That may not translate to others! But it does have a panfandom favorite conceit and delicious character dynamics, and it's by two of the fandom's great hot-fic authors.

[zulu.livejournal.com]

I have it open in a tab now--we'll see if it grabs me! Always willing to give recced stories a chance.

[daasgrrl.livejournal.com]

I liked the House Divided one - very striking! Also, Taub!

*excises Top Gear rant here, way too successfully* *g*

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Had I spent more time on it, I think I could have matched the different faces' resolutions better, but I think it represents the mood of the story. The other artist went for the spiderweb-crack theme too.

Your non-rant has me curious, you realize.

[daasgrrl.livejournal.com]

LOL x 2 ;)

The non-rant was just the text above, but in angle brackets, which of course don't show up in lj! I suppose that's ironic. Or perhaps not.

It's not really a rant... it's just that I seem to be lacking the gene that causes the entire human population to love Top Gear. I was in an ABC shop on the weekend (equivalent to PBS, I think, although I don't know if PBS has associated stores *g*) and there was a huge display devoted to it, not to mention how virtually everyone in fandom seems to love it. I just... don't get it. Of course, just know I'll regret saying this if I ever become a fan XD

[bironic.livejournal.com]

I've only seen a handful of episodes. It's -- it's like watching a totally different life, like royalty, or real housewives or something -- people who have astounding amounts of money and a love of something accessible to only a few people, and no seeming sense of that (in Jeremy's case, at least), or no care, anyway -- but which is made up for, in part, by their sheer joy in cars and their occasional wit.

IMO. My friend ahab99 is really into it and I like watching her be excited about it.

[daasgrrl.livejournal.com]

It was Clarkson who really put me off, I think - he was so very superior, rather like Stephen Fry without the charm and self-consciousness.

On the other hand, watching Chris Barrie enthuse about helicopters and tanks is enthralling and completely different. Oh, hush *g*

[bironic.livejournal.com]

That is why I want to see a Clarkson-Bourdain face-off -- battle of the smug attitudes!

[bell]

Mmm! So what do non-fannish people have to say about SGU, etc? :3

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Let's see. From the brother (in his twenties): SGU (which was on when I arrived) is terrible, the idea of a slash dragon is part mystifying and part hilarious, Top Gear is highly entertaining, and Anderson Cooper looks good in his suits.

Meanwhile, I just want to see a Jeremy Clarkson/Anthony Bourdain face-off.

[ahab99.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha. Yes, apparently a large swatch of the non-fannish population likes Top Gear! I don't know what I'd say to them if forced to have a conversation about it in that context! ;)

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Judging by people's reaction when I said re: Merlin "because the dragon believes Merlin and Arthur should be together foreverrrr," they would not be too traumatized. :D

[ahab99.livejournal.com]

Hee, and yet, trying to argue that three straight middle-aged English car blokes are MFEO feels like even a step further. It would take a lot for me to just drop that one into a non-fannish conversation. ;)

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Hm. If it goes south, you could distract with a deep intellectual discussion about the nature of celebrity personality cultivation?

[ahab99.livejournal.com]

Yes, I'll have to have a segue in mind to a very intellectual discussion about the creation and maintenance of public personae. :)