A Song of Ice and Remix

[bironic]

Oh, hey, Remix is happening. Just signed up! It's been a few years since I participated, and more than a year since I posted a story at all; I'm hoping this will get the ficcy juices flowing. Kept my offers to three fandoms to make things less stressful, especially since I expect to be working on a vid of some kind around the same time. We'll see how it goes with new mods.

Other than that, things here are as usual, except for the wild turkey I saw pecking at the sidewalk a block from Harvard Square this morning. In the voice of Michael Palin, beautiful plumage. Two other passersby were filming it with their phones.

Been exercising almost every day and cooking to take better care of myself, which of course doesn't leave as much room for fannish activity, but still, there has been time this week to start reading A Game of Thrones. About 300 400 pages in now. It's not as overwrought as I'd feared; the mental effort goes to keeping track of all the names -- I can't imagine how much harder that would be without having first seen the show to have faces to pin them to -- rather than ignoring purple prose.

Also I printed this out and hung it up in a simple frame in the kitchen yesterday for laughs whenever I wash dishes.

Oh, and a childhood friend and I are going to see Eddie Izzard live in May!

On a break now between making chicken paprikash and roasted vegetable soup for the week and going to a former classmate's for a dinner party. She and her husband have one of the most beautiful houses I've ever seen, and one of the two best of anyone around my age, yet they just decided to move. I suppose I can't complain, since they'll be a few minutes closer to me. Tonight's challenge was going to be figuring out whether to leave too early to watch Cosmos here or stay too late to watch Cosmos there, but lo, it appears the episodes do appear on fox.com after the fact.

Comments

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Makes sense. It's nice the characters on the show say one another's names so much to help them sink in, but even there, several casting choices, while all the acting is excellent, have left me confusing some characters for others. Or not recognizing one from one season to the next or one scene/costume to another, but that can't be blamed on two actors looking similar. :)

Having the show in back of mind while reading the books has its advantages and disadvantages. It's been an immense help in picking up names as I go, for the most part. It also has me more deeply invested in them and in the plot than I might have been if I'd gone in cold. But it also has me paying as close attention as I can to all these bazillion names, not only the main characters, and who belongs to which house, and which character or house has feuded with which other character or house over what matter and how long ago, etc., because it seems like any and every name will come back at some point to be highly significant, and if I haven't picked up on that character's backstory or physical description then I'll miss something critical.

But still, so far it's fun.