Skipping badminton = time to post

[bironic]

1. My Jurassic Park vid showed at vidukon this weekend, and at least three people liked it. :) Neat-o.

2. Speaking of Sheppard, which we were yesterday:

2a) Excellent SGA kink meme fill that transforms the "magical healing cock" cliché into a thinky and sexy story in which Sheppard has to deal with consent and privacy issues when his semen acquires actual therapeutic power. It features John/Jennifer with a lovely sprinkling of dom/sub dynamics; plus many other John couplings and a hefty dubcon warning. As I was writing in my comment that I loved the way Sheppard's bisexuality and submissiveness were simply part of the story instead of being treated with a huge amount of fanfare or angst, and ditto for the sexual preferences of two officers, just nicely done, understated, effective, it occurred to me that the author could be bluflamingo, as that's something I tend to like in her fics, and she has also handled consent issues well in the past. But who knows.

2a.1) I've already recommended the other sexy John/Jennifer story with even more medical kink and dom/sub dynamics and less dubcon, where John keeps showing up with things up his ass and eventually Jennifer puts them there, right? Right.

2b) I had this dream last night where I'd kidnapped Sheppard and had his wrists tied with an elastic hair band and was trying to get him to wear this mismatched pair of shoes, and actually it was all very heartwarming, but that is about all that will translate without becoming boring, so here, have some more recs.

3. Meanwhile, in the fandom I'm still not talking about, there was hot Eames/17-year-old!Arthur in Vegas. And another Eames/just-underage!Arthur fic, Making Partner. Both of these work just as well if you don't know the movie.

And I could assume that if you're interested in this ~mysterious unnamed fandom~ that you're reading helenish's stuff, but just in case, she did an amnesia fic in which forgetting allows the couple to remember and/or realize some things about their relationship; and a pair of older stories I'd missed one of, wherein Arthur (in one story; Eames in the other) had to pretend to be Eames' (ditto) boyfriend to avoid arousing the ire of serious criminals; and also today I finally read through her ongoing snippet series and found several parts to be quite sexy, either because there was sex (Arthur/OFC called Liesl) or because there was angst about not having sex when both of them (Arthur/Eames, that is) actually wanted to. Nice to be literate once again in a fandom helenish is writing in.

4. Yes, that ended on a preposition. The current essay in DF Wallace's book is about grammar snobbery and is both fun and interesting, even if he lambastes descriptivism. Today at work there was a prime example of his point that norms-based prescriptivism can never die because we'd be left with ambiguous sentences like the one in a summary I was reading: "[Woman's name] has a son who is 8 years old and has a part-time job in a hospital as a surgical technician."

Coworker One: Doogie Howser?
Coworker Two: He'd better go full-time or he'll never make surgeon when he's 10.

5. Aimee Mann concert tomorrow with cincodemaygirl and gblvr, hooray. Tidbit of the day: I would have used an Aimee Mann song for Festivids had my assignment been different.

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/xenakis_/]

Helenish is so good to me, so good to me. THE AMNESIA FIC ahjdfgsjhdfgd

Also, YAY FOR YOUR VID! I still love it to ridiculously tiny pieces :D

[bironic.livejournal.com]

That was another example where the process of leaving a comment crystallized something about the story itself in my head - that amnesia allowed Arthur to remember what he wanted. How nifty was that? And of course all the other stuff. Sometimes relationship miscommunications can turn gimmicky, sometimes they're played for laughs, both have happened in helenish stories, but that fic got it pretty well right.

And yay, thanks! I really want to wring out the next couple of vids-in-progress (which aren't funny) while Festivids success is still fresh, but honestly it's not fresh anymore, and my motivation is missing. Sadface. Thankfully there is a long weekend coming up.

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

*makes a note of the theraputic semen story*

Helenish's name sounds familiar. *goes to look why*

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Both worth a read when you have the time!

[elynittria.livejournal.com]

Grammar snobs can be very annoying, especially those who insist (for no good reason) on "rules" such as not splitting infinitives or not ending sentences in prepositions, even when it's obvious that following those rules forces one to write ambiguous or awkward sentences. (Your example ambiguous sentence made me laugh!)

Of course, those who ignore grammar altogether are equally annoying. That reminds me of a grammar-related icon I saw once that I liked: Splice genes, not commas. If the color scheme and design of the icon had been more to my taste, I would have definitely added it to my collection.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Heh. I'm a grammar snob, but I like to think I straddle the line between what is correct so it's understandable and what is IMO overly formal or old-fashioned. I'll edit documents to comply with a lot of that stuff but wouldn't look down on someone for using looser construction in casual writing or when speaking.

Although actually I may lean more toward the overly formal snobbery, because there are misplaced commas and missing commas and so forth that don't always obscure meaning but are nevertheless "incorrect" and annoying. I want to protect the "real" meaning of "bemuse"! Ask me about my thoughts on fic writers who don't close their dependent clauses with a second comma! And so on.

And of course then there is a difference between deliberate flouting of rules, lack of education, belonging to a dialect group...

[elynittria.livejournal.com]

I like to think I straddle the line between what is correct so it's understandable and what is IMO overly formal or old-fashioned

Exactly. To me, that's different from being an absolutist. Obviously, I care a lot about grammar issues too or I wouldn't be a copyeditor.

I want to protect the "real" meaning of "bemuse"

I am bemused by the frequent misuse of this term. ;)

[such_heights]

Your vid went over SO WELL OMG. By the end of the weekend we were all singing it to each other all the time, and also there were the dance moves. It was awesome. :D

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, I am so sorry I missed this. Dance moves???

[cincodemaygirl.livejournal.com]

I don't read in Inception, but man, I am seriously tempted by that amnesia fic.

Concert tonight, yay! So which AM song would you have used for a vid?!

[zulu.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the healing cock rec, that was a good look at the situation!