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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.

Date: Apr. 8th, 2010 02:03 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] 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! ;)

Date: Apr. 8th, 2010 02:59 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] 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

Date: Apr. 15th, 2010 11:01 pm (UTC)
ext_7448: (top gear)
From: [identity profile] 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. ;)

Date: Apr. 15th, 2010 11:19 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] bironic.livejournal.com
Hm. If it goes south, you could distract with a deep intellectual discussion about the nature of celebrity personality cultivation?

Date: Apr. 18th, 2010 08:07 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] 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. :)

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