Five things make a post. Two are about ghosts.

[bironic]

1. I'm going to vid the Twilight movies. Without irony. So there.

2. Staying away from Twitter/Tumblr until we've seen Star Trek: Beyond on Saturday. However, I did just pop onto Twitter to relay an anecdote about how the young man who sold me the movie tickets this evening was wearing a Starfleet uniform (red, TNG style, three pips), complete with shiny insignia. On my way out he said to his dinner-eating, non-nerd-appearing fellow employee that he was a first officer, to which the fellow employee replied without blinking, "No way. They'd stick you down in stellar cartography."

3. Monday I was treated to a hangout with ignaz as she boomeranged through town for a work thing. We caught up a bit and saw Ghostbusters, which was fine. I hadn't expected to love it as much as many friends seem to, and that turned out to be accurate, but it was enjoyable on multiple levels, from Kate McKinnon's owning of the part to the game of Spot the Boston Location to the feminist metacommentary. Primarily, I hope their taking of our money -- which, btw, $14 for a non-3D/non-IMAX showing on a weekday?! -- convinces some thick-skulled Hollywood exec that non-romance-driven movies with quirky women of various races and body types and with unspecified sexualities have a market.

Among the highlights of the evening was running into marginaliana and her +1 at the theater!

4. I also had a really nice time at a birthday party the other week talking with marginaliana, verymilkytea and windtheme and getting to know them better.

verymilkytea helpfully demonstrated how Pokémon Go works; it was brand-new at the time. A coworker subsequently snapped some photos of me posing with two or three invisible Pokémon in my office. I don't play the game, but what I like about it is how its particular implementation of augmented reality makes it feel like ghost hunting or those science fiction stories where someone is slightly out of phase from normal: the idea that there's something there that you can't detect unless you have a special piece of technology that picks up some signature beyond our human senses. It's fun to pretend we're living in a reality where there's a Pokémon over your shoulder right now and you just need a smartphone camera to "see" it.

5. Busy period at work: late evenings, no lunch breaks, full and shifting meeting schedules. Still, it's better than the last few weeks, when I felt nonspecifically draggy-terrible and couldn't sleep deeply or think straight. I've got an appointment with a new doctor tomorrow with the hope of actually figuring out what's been going on in the last couple of years. TMI maybe.

Bonus 6. Bowl of falafel salad. Mm.

Comments

[topaz_eyes]

It's fun to pretend we're living in a reality where there's a Pokémon over your shoulder right now and you just need a smartphone camera to "see" it.

I...rather adore this idea. Like portals between worlds. The Miss has Pokemon Go, and I am vastly intrigued by hearing about where she keeps finding her critters. They've chosen some fascinating places for Pokestops and gyms, to be sure. :-D

I hope the new doctor can get to the bottom of your health issues.

[bironic]

Thanks. I liked our first interaction - now to see about the follow-up.

>>They've chosen some fascinating places for Pokestops and gyms, to be sure

I mean, people have talked about troublesome aspects of the game, like unequal access for people with mobility limitations, or visible minorities & women who don't feel comfortable going certain places alone or at certain times of day/night, or the assignment of inappropriate Pokestops like (outside?) the US Holocaust Museum. But yes, there are some really cool aspects of it too.

[yhlee]

I had this brilliant idea years ago to vid Buffy/Angel to Dexter Freebish's song "Twilight" and then actual Twilight came up and I had to give up the idea. *g*

I haven't seen the Twilight movies, but I read the first couple books and found them enjoyable in an airplane/popcorn-reading sort of way.

I hope the doctor is able to help!

[bironic]

Thanks!

I like the movies more than the books because the prose was a barrier for me, on both a sentence and (in)consistent-characterization level, while the film medium leaves more to the imagination re: the characters' internal lives. They're also pretty! But of course the movies have their own flaws, like the mystery of how all the leads seem to have been coached not to emote.

>>I had this brilliant idea years ago to vid Buffy/Angel to Dexter Freebish's song "Twilight"

I will take the moral of this story to be (1) jump on ideas you like before they're stolen by other pop culture media, and/or (2) if there's an idea you like but don't want to make, wait a while because someone might write a book or make a movie and take care of it for you. :)

[chaila]

I'm going to vid the Twilight movies. Without irony. So there.

Yessssssssssssss. *waits patiently*

[bironic]

It's partly your fault for your Bella vid! Which I watched again the other night for motivation after having heard the song in a coffee shop. (Also largely my own history of vampire Mary Sues, and a dash of having heard this apt song on NPR.)

[chaila]

Happy to take a tiny bit of blame credit for this development.

If you, for example, had recs for things with lady vampire Mary Sues in them, I would not say no? I should look harder, but I just keep finding things where the Mary Sue vampire is a dude.

[bironic]

Ah, and I should clarify, the vid (as I see it now) will be about the Mary Sues who meet & fall for vampires and then become vampires themselves, with a focus on the joys of discovery, inclusion and transition. Perhaps some broadening of scope if there isn't enough good footage to sustain the song (characters who "join" vampires in some other way, or who are incorporated into a non-vampire group they love in a similar way). So this might be a disappointing list if you are most happy with existing vampires who exhibit Mary Sue tendencies. Did I explain that at all well?

Anyway, my list so far is short but does include Jesse from the Vampire Chronicles, which might be up your alley, as well as the hanger-on from True Blood and the familiar from What We Do In the Shadows, with possible addition of Elena from The Vampire Diaries, Sookie from True Blood, or even Winnie from Tuck Everlasting and Gillian from Star Trek IV... I will be making a separate post about the project and asking around about characters/canons I should check out.