Monday, with rain & story-writing

[bironic]

1. SGA Season Three Catch-up Plan A is a go. Taped the episode that aired Friday night. Obtained most of what I missed. Have seen up to ep five now ("Progeny"?). Man, I thought "Duet" was funny, but "Irresistible"'s right up there. And was that or was that not John Diehl, who did the original glyph translations Daniel corrected in the Stargate movie? That breaks my brain. Laughed at Rodney's happy remark about how Ronon held him against the wall while he and John Diehl had a nice long chat, and all the jokes and double entendres and deliberate subtext about how all the men (except John) were in love with the herb guy. Also Rodney on morphine in "Sateda." And the delightful Robert Picardo, conducting intrusive interviews with friends and colleagues just like Dr. Zimmerman did in the DS9 episode "Dr. Bashir, I Presume?" wherein Bashir's Big Secret was revealed.

2. Went to see Meet the Robinsons Saturday night. Usually you have to drag me kicking and screaming to an animated movie—have overdosed; my dad loves them—but the promise of time travel and the fact that it was based on a book (though there were seven screenwriters) convinced me to do the family bonding thing, and you know what? It's one of my favorite animated movies ever. Maybe it just hit the spot, but it was all Disney-fied hovercars and robots and science geekery and sci fi/pop culture references and celebration of failure as a learning tool and sparkly time-warp bubbles and a dinosaur and mobster frogs and snarky gay flowerpots and the happy ending where if you stay true to yourself you find people who love you for who you are. The too-many-cooks rule seemed not to apply to the screenplay, miraculously, and the pacing was decent. The villain was a hoot and a half, too—a twitchy, loveable string bean of an idiot trying to be eeeevil but repeatedly failing. He had a happy unicorn binder. You all should go see it. In 3-D!

3. Rain all day yesterday, rain today, rain tomorrow. Also wind. It hasn't been nearly as bad here as it has in New Jersey and upstate-New-York-that-we-Long- Islanders-call-upstate-even-though-people-who-live-there-insist-it-isn't, which is good in the sense that we don't have much flooding or downed trees or power outages, but bad in the sense that we were promised a storm and got kind of a fizzly nothing. If it's going to rain, I want it to rain buckets! None of this half-hearted drizzle and occasional brief downpour nonsense.

4. Finished my remix_redux story, which turned out okay after all. Had it betaed and then uploaded it. Took a glance at the list of stories uploaded so far and discovered that I am the luckiest remixee ever because somehow there are two remixes of my stories and I love the remixer(s)'s choices and I cannot wait to read them.

Unfortunately for the impatient among us, the stories are all locked until Sunday the 22nd (with author reveals on the 29th), so to fill the gap between finishing my story and getting to read everyone else's, I offered to pinch-hit. Not that I have the time, but it felt fair when someone did two for me, and I was very specific on what I'd be willing to do—and it worked, because this morning I got an assignment that is exactly the sort of assignment I'd been hoping to get the first time 'round, for an awesome person in an awesome fandom, which is... awesome.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have a story to write by the end of the week.

*runs*

Comments

[elynittria.livejournal.com]

"Irresistable" was a blast. "Marmots!" LOL! (And I don't know the actor's name, but he was indeed the inaccurate translation guy from the original Stargate movie.)

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Ahaha, marmots. Forgot that line. I loved Rodney when he was so earnest and open. His grins especially. It felt much more natural than the sly Cadman!Rodney.

[topaz-eyes.livejournal.com]

Hooray for finishing Remix! And *two* stories for you! Even better. :-)

Happy writing!

[bironic.livejournal.com]

*g* Thanks; I am very happy. One down, one to go. How'd yours turn out?

[topaz-eyes.livejournal.com]

I uploaded my story on April 12th, before the mad rush. (huge sigh of relief) It turned out that my assignee and I, shared only one fandom in common. I was worried about that. And, a story that I would have done, had already been remixed in a previous challenge. But, luckily, I found another story to work with.

I'm thinking my remix turned out OK, but I'm worried my assignee might be disappointed; my choice was from an old fandom of his/hers. Oh well. Now we just have to wait.

Don't know a thing about the remix written for me though. For all I know, mine might be a pinch hit. *g* I'm trying to be good and not abuse the sockpuppet.

[stephantom.livejournal.com]

I've been cheating and using the sockpuppet to read things. !!!

lol I'm horrible. But I could not resist. And. It will be still be awesome to see all the authors revealed! And then I'll have much more to read, and I'll be rereading to leave reviews then. lol

[topaz-eyes.livejournal.com]

I like the anonymity for the first week, because the stories are judged on their own merits, not on who wrote them. Probably some can identify who wrote what just by the style; but for the most part, BNFs, newbies and mid-list writers are on equal footing. It makes the reveal more fun. :-)

OK, so I did poke around a bit when I realized I hadn't set the comments to "no e-mail", heh.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

I feel bad for people who end up getting (not doing) pinch-hit stories. Though I suppose they don't know. It's just a shame to think that someone may have put several months' effort into writing their remix and then get one written in a week in return. Then again, time spent doesn't necessarily equate to quality.

It turned out that my assignee and I, shared only one fandom in common.

Yeah, my first assignee and I only had one fandom in common. Well, two, but I didn't feel comfortable enough writing in the other one.

I think even if the story you remixed was from an old fandom, your remixee should still like it -- after all, even if it's a few years old, it's still their work, and it's got to be a thrill to see what someone's done with your story no matter how long ago you wrote it or how much your enthusiasm for a fandom may have faded.

[renoir-girl.livejournal.com]

Neat. You actually improved my opinion of Meet The Robinsons. Yay.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Did I now? What was it, the bit about the happy ending?

(Nice icon. The Incredibles, now there's an example of one that didn't do much for me. Though I liked the running gag about capes being a fatal flaw. And the giant robot, because giant robots are always fun. Always. And some joke at the beginning that I can't remember, during the robbery scene.)

Oh but you know what? I was disappointed that they never made a Will Robinson joke. All they would've had to do is have the robot cry out, "Danger!" It would've been so easy!

[renoir-girl.livejournal.com]

Nah, it was the powerhouse laundrylist of awesomeness. That'll get me every time. :D

Now, that isn't a Plan 9 from Outer Space icon, is it?

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Hee. Icon's actually from Crash of Moons, a movie made from three episodes of an old sci fi series called Rocky Jones, Space Ranger (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Jones,_Space_Ranger).