Miscellany

[bironic]

1. One year in, ignazwisdom's and my Star Trek TOS rewatch continues apace, with great nostalgia and humor. We recently started season three. Here is iggy's latest writeup, on Elaan of Troyius. Episode recap tag / Full tumblr. All NSFW on account of URL and icon, heh.

2. Famous on the internet? Well, not quite, but thanks to a friend, the pudding cups and Jell-O shots from that Kink Bingo birthday party a couple of summers ago make a cameo appearance in the latest issue of Transformative Works and Cultures, special issue on materiality and object-oriented fandom, article "Beyond souvenirs: Making fannish items by hand" by Dana Sterling Bode. Neat. Just wish there were a link to the full post. Looks like that's not journal standard, though.

3. I encountered this summary of Five Times the Inception Team Tried to Extract Information from the Atlantis Crew today on pinboard and found it amusing. Y/N?

I READ ONE WHERE THE INCEPTION TEAM WAS HIRED TO FIGURE OUT WTF WAS GOING ON IN CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN AND WENT INTO THE DREAMS OF A BUNCH OF STARGATE CHARACTERS AND JUST ENDED UP CONFUSED.
--march 2011 by LLD_ONMEME

4. My lower calves (?) are so tight after three days in conference chairs, two flights and next to no exercise that it actually hurt to walk today. Whoops.

5. Non-spoilery nitpick re: this week's Penny Dreadful: Victor wallows in the works of Shelley and Byron and presumably Keats, but has never encountered the term "vampire"/"vampyre"? Really, show? He never read Polidori's story about Byron? I know the show's timeline is fuzzy, but if Varney was out, then "The Vampyre" should have been around for a few decades. Then again, this is a show that lets the fictional creation of one Shelley quote the poetry of the other Shelley, so who knows what literature has or hasn't been published in this mashup. Either way, seems like a guy obsessed with death and the overcoming of it [as half the characters on this show are] would be interested in myths about same in case they have kernels of truth to them.

In any case, they did make up for it with the earlier "Adonais" quote and then Van Helsing pulling an installment of Varney the Vampire off his bookshelf. Yay, Varney. Yay, chumminess between Dr. Frankenstein and Dr. Van Helsing. Because of course.

Comments

[franzeska]

My theory is that the house party where Mary came up with Frankenstein never happened, so Byron never wrote his story and never inspired Polidori to write his. It actually kind of makes sense.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

It's as good an explanation as any in a reality where an author's fictional creation can live in the author's own world.

(But then, are we to give JM Rymer all the credit for establishing the vampire genre in Byron and Polidori's absence?)

[franzeska]

Perhaps in a world where vampires are 1. real and 2. gross, face-eating monsters, nobody ever does establish the sexy Lord Byron vampire genre. (Wow, the worldbuilding implications of the Shelleys are kind of interesting, aren't they...)

[kassrachel.livejournal.com]

Just wish there were a link to the full post. Looks like that's not journal standard, though.

I may be missing something here, but when I clicked on your link, it appeared to go to the full post, with photos and everything. :-)

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Ah, whoops, I meant that I wished the journal article would link back to my post (and to the websites of those who were interviewed)!