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November 23rd, 2009
01:34 am - Waters of Mars
I'm taking a break from my academic nightmare to post a short reaction to the latest Doctor Who television special, Waters of Mars.
( Read more... )
Also, why is it that the Star Trek DVD has been released for almost a week and I still don't own a copy? Oh right, because I'm completely, completely broke and won't get paid until after Thanksgiving. Phooey. At least I did manage to obtain a really cheap copy of the DVD I need to make my festivids present. Yay.
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November 18th, 2009
November 15th, 2009
12:20 pm - yuletide & AO3 recs
Okay, so I got my assignment and I have to say I'm not a hundred percent happy with it. Of course, it's totally my fault for marking 'Any Characters' or 'All Characters' or whatever it is, but, in my mind, that meant I was open to writing crack!pairings whereas it ended up meaning I have to write the most mainstream pairing, and unfortunately it happens to also be a piring I just really don't understand. It's cool, though, I think I can make it work. The reality is, of course, that I should like these two together; it potentially pushes some buttons for me. That's just not how it's worked out historically in the stories I've read, but we'll see. I'm still very excited.
Meanwhile, I can hardly suppress my glee for the opening up of the Organization for Transformative Works's Archive of Our Own. I really hope this is going to make it infinitely easier to fill random cravings and generally help people find what they want to read at a given moment. I've just been playing around on there surfing through some different stories, discovering a love for anthropomorfic, etc.
Two recs from the AO3 (the second one reveals, as if anyone didn't already know, what an aca-nerd I am):
Five Times Arthur Dent Lost His Towel by norah
Fandom: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Pairings: Slash- Ford/Arthur
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Genre: Humor
Warnings: No warnings
Status: Complete work
Theory/Practice by norah
Fandom: Anthropomorfic
Pairings: Non-normative relationship- Theory/Practice
Rating: Explicit
Genre: Crack
Warnings: No warnings
Status: Complete work
Tags: Pregnancy
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November 11th, 2009
10:48 pm - gaga for this video
I will be writing much more about this video in coming days I hope. I have watched it 99992234q435 times (yes that's a q...) already.
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November 10th, 2009
01:15 am - second midterm
I only have two midterms so you would think that I could really buckle down and give them my all. This, however, is not the case. I think I shot my proverbial 'load' last week and am therefore going to bed in a hot minute despite the fact that this other one is not finished and it is due at 4:15 tomorrow leaving me approximately three hours during the day to work on it. That'll probably be fine though. I am so uninvested in this Intro class. We call it 505. It's dumb. I'm pretty much over it. Seems like most of my older friends got A-minuses and that sounds excellent. Hopefully I can manage. blah. over it.
Meanwhile, if anyone wants a Google Wave invite, let me know. More fannish people need to get on there and see what kinds of wonders we can work with the new platform for collaboration. My boyfriend and I are already co-penning a non-fannish piece of erotica that I'm quite happy with. I think collaboration might be just what I need to keep my WIP momentum and interest up so that's cool...
Current Music: Anya Marina- "Satellite Heart"
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November 4th, 2009
02:00 pm - Science Fiction Pr0n
My latest column for TNG is up today and I must say it's kind of unfortunate timing because everyone's exclusively talking about yesterday's election results in the queer blogosphere, but it is what it is.
Here is the article. It's work-safe but it is about pornography. It's actually about science fiction porn and erotic fanfic is mentioned along with several fannish source texts including Star Trek, Supernatural, X-Files, and Twilight. I think it's pretty fun.
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November 3rd, 2009
04:21 am - blergh.
So here's the central problem I'm facing, the longer i work with these texts, the more I understand them and the more I despair at ever being able to beautifully explicate and expand them. I mean I'm doing it but I keep having these moments of like, "Oh that's what that means....SHIT. Now I have to add a whole new paragraph about that because it's so important; how did I not figure that out like four nights ago???" Sucks. But whatever, I'm getting there. If I can finish in the next hour and a half, which seems possible, then I could actually sleep for two hours, which would seem helpful since I have to participate in some crazy unConference tomorrow for my other class and attend two psych sessions. Yeah...
Meanwhile, my big WIN list from this class so far is as follows:
~Walter Benjamin
~Roland Barthes
~Herbert Marcuse
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12:00 am - midterm
Umm, okay so I have my first graduate school midterm due tomorrow and it's kicking my butt. I have literally been working on this fucker for five days straight (and when I say straight I mean I have done virtually nothing else for the last five days other than eat and sleep and not even all that much of those things) and I sort of feel like I should be done right now but I definitely am nowhere close which is kind of disheartening. It's like the first time that I can understand a little bit why people complain constantly about doing their PhD dissertations because even if you love it, it's easy to get fatigued. I need like an energy drink or something. I wish I had a coffee pot.
Oh and the the most irritating things is that I haven't heard anyone else from my class complain about their processes at all. In fact, as I write, several have updated their facebook statuses that their going to sleep, which makes me update my brain to fuck them with a chainsaw. Erm, not really, but I really wish I were done.
At least I do feel that both essays are going to be good when they're finally done and that they will have benefited a lot form the gestation period, but, Geezus, I haven't put this much into ten pages since, well, never.
Oh one more thing, I really wish I didn't feel like my entire academic career weren't based on this one assignment. What an obnoxiously unrealistic and random anxiety to be experiencing. It's just so ridiculous and I hope I don't react this way everytime I have to turn something in over the next two years especially because I have another 7-10 page midterm essay due next Tuesday. G-d, save me. I just keep thinking that I need to do well to get into a choice PhD program which is necessary to get a teaching job somewhere I might actually want to live and it all starts now.....0.0
< /whining >
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November 1st, 2009
01:41 am - Russian FanFilm: "Harry Potter and The Talented Fic Writer"
Okay, so yes I've posted three times tonight, but I think I deserve to spam everyone's friends pages/reading circle/whatever since I didn't get to do anything fun on Halloween. Now I'm about to sleep, feeling a bit better about my academic standing, but first I thought it behooved me to share this veritable GEM with everyone who actually reads my journal:
A Russian Harry Potter spoofy fanfilm has recently popped up on youtube and it's really fantastic.
"Harry Potter and The Talented Fic Writer"
It's really a lot of fun and it just goes to show how much we have in common with Russian-language fandom. (See also this and this and more generally this)
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01:12 am - ftw?
I think I finally have a good hook for my second essay - retail therapy.
That might just be it.
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October 31st, 2009
11:20 pm - all hallow's eve
Sigh, it's Halloween and here I sit at my computer writing part of my Critical Theory and Contemporary Media take-home midterm because it takes me FOREVER to do these things. Sigh... I would feel so much better if I felt like things were going really well, but one of my two essays really hasn't come together at all. the other one is definitely getting there and will be passable but GEEZUS ugh. At least I got to go to a Halloween party last weekend in my dementor costume, which I wore in honor of the fact that I am just not over Harry Potter as I learned this year.
sighsighsighsighsigh. I just want to go to sleep but that would be a bad idea. sighsighsighsighsighsigh. I wanted to have a full draft of both essays by the end of the night. sighsighsighsighsigh.
In other news, I'm discovering that I am oddly squicked out by Kurt sex!fic (re: Glee fandom). I don't know what is really because usually I loves me some pr0n in a big way, but I just kind of find it excruciating in this case even when it's done well. I definitely ship Kurt/Finn and romantic PG-13, PG, and G fic is heatmeltingly wonderful but I feel like the sexy side of things with both Kurt/Finn and Kurt/Puck is weird - maybe because it feels like he's being taken advantage of and I am so hyper identified with him. i donno...
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October 27th, 2009
08:25 pm - eBay addiction
I am unable to approach eBay with any kind of restraint. As a result, once every year or two I get really involved in it, spend a lot of money, and then I have to take a step back. I'm hopefully about to force myself into that last stage here because I can't afford to keep at this for now. ::wipes hands::
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08:21 am - vid rec
I always say that it takes a really good vid to get me interested in watching a show I'm unfamiliar with. Most of the time, I only watch ones for things I've already consumed because that's really the only way they make sense at all, but today I really have to rec this one that's going around.
I've only saw one episode of Twin Peaks in my Television Studies class a year and a half ago, but this vid really captures how fucking creepy that show is. I really would like to see the whole thing. Plus the song is Kate Bush, which, of course, is irresistible to me...
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02:16 am - "pray it won't fade away"
It's funny how my attraction to Chuck is perfectly representative of almost every single one of the totally unhealthy personality kinks that get me into trouble in real life...& the more he grows up and matures out of them, the less attached I am. I wish I could absorb 2.5 seasons of life this quickly and shed the ridiculous crushes I develop on real people that easily.
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October 22nd, 2009
03:02 pm - twilight, yuletide
Y'all, when did I begin a Twilight fan? I don't know...but here we are. Sigh. I am ridiculously excited for the New Moon film and am starting to read fic....... ugh. I am so ambivalent about this.
In other news, I'm kicking myself for not nominated Auto-Tune the News for Yuletide. I'm really not sure what I was thinking there. I'm going to have really tough choices to make for what I'm requesting and offering because even after making my nominations, there are several other small fandoms I'm very interested in. ( Read more... )
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12:48 am - Glee fandom
Why am I so not on the same page with Glee fandom? Quinn/Rachel and Kurt/Puck are by far the biggest pairings and I can't say that I ship either of them. I mean after last week's episode, I can see the appeal of Quinn/Rachel I guess, but the pairing just doesn't speak to me. And, please!, Finn/Kurt >>>>>> Kurt/Puck. wtf.... Also, why is there only one NC-17 Will/Finn fic in existence???? This needs to be remedied. At least there are a few for Finn/Puck.....
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October 21st, 2009
02:05 pm - My recent writings, vid commentary
I know I have already had a lot of great things to say about the vid_commentary community, but I feel like I can't say enough. I'm especially enjoying the second round because this time we're posting on alternating days with viewer commentaries and creator commentaries of the same vids. It's awesome because you get to see really specifically how people can get really neat stuff out of a vid that even the creator didn't intend, which is, in a way, what vidding is already all about. When a person vids, they're bringing their own interpretation to bear on a tv show or film but there's another link in the chain when someone else watches the vid and this community creates a space for us to bring forward our own interpretations of the interpretation! I said in my commentary this time that the ultimate meaning here is a great comment on meaning, itself! Squee~!
Anyway, my commentary is on ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) cherryice's "Attention: Gotham City, There Is A War Going On For Your Mind" based in The Dark Knight fandom. My thoughts are here and cherryice's subsequent thoughts are here. I also have a comment on that post at the bottom.
I also highly, highly suggest the commentary on the multi-fandom feminist vid, "Glorious." I also suggest watching it for anyone who hasn't! The viewer commentary is by mresundance here and the creator commentary by such_heights is here.
I also have my newest TheNewGay.Net post up, and it's truly the most bizarre thing I've ever written (or at least that I've written and posted as publicly as this). It's called "Gay Geekery: Censorship, Friendly Fascism, & Stuffed Animals"
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October 15th, 2009
02:58 pm - Fic I want to write... & a vid
wish i weren't so bad at this.( Read more... )
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01:58 pm - YULETIDEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Gawd, I'm so excited. Yuletide nominations are open. I did the following:
30 Rock
Entourage (tv)
Glee (tv)
Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors
Jem
Venture Brothers
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October 8th, 2009
02:08 pm - OTW on TNG
My latest thenewgay.net article is in honor of the Organization for Transformative Works and their October membership drive. Check it out.
I also highly suggest this interview with Francesca Coppa over at Geek Feminism, which details some of the future plans to build a vid archive.
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October 1st, 2009
03:04 am - GLEEk Fandom
I'm just really glad that people are starting to engage fannishly with GLEE, which is by far my favorite new show this season (though I haven't seen Modern Family yet, which I hear is also a must). For anyone else interested in the comms I've found, they are as follows though I'm still unclear how we tag LJ comms on DW. Oh well, links will do:
glee_tv (http://community.livejournal.com/glee_tv/profile)
gleeclub (http://community.livejournal.com/gleeclub/profile)
gleehotforteach (http://community.livejournal.com/gleehotforteach/profile)
gleenewsletter (http://community.livejournal.com/gleenewsletter/profile)
We need moar fic though post haste.
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12:23 am - Changes to the Lambda Literary Awards
So I wasn't following this business about the Lambda Literary Awards until yesterday, but I've been thinking a lot about it and wanted to record a few thoughts without a lot of conclusions just because I do feel like I have such a vested interest in both literature produced by LGBTQ authors and non-LGBTQ authors that includes queer content. Plus, I'm pretty invested in the Lambda Awards. I watch for them every year and always buy one or two of the winners.
The orignal announcement is here, marked "Clarification of Lambda Literary Foundation Policy Guidelines of Nomination," and two of the posts that ran on metafandom are here by erastes and by rm here, and they both have a few things that I'd like to add something thoughts to, but for anyone just tuning in, the main thrust of this is that the Lambda Literary Foundation has clarified that the awards are for the most part going to be for authors in the LGBT family as they put it.
First of all, the biggest thing that both of them touched on was the question of queer authenticity. rm rightfully points out, in fact, that Lambda is actually not using LGBTQ at all but rather just LGBT, truncating the Q(ueer), which is very unfortunate but definitely happens a lot. And the exclusion of queer people is definitely something to be concerned about, but I did appreciate that in the press release, Lambda stated outright that they take a broad view of who qualifies as LGBT and that authors and publishers are the ones self-identifying through submitting their work for the awards, which seems to settle a lot of these questions. I know a lot of women writers who think of themselves as queer in a non-specific LGBT-sense and it seems like they would be fine for this.
To address a specific question that erastes posed, "When does a trans man become a woman, and if she is then a straight woman is he then ineligible for the Lambdas?" I'm not sure exactly if the question meant to ask about transmen (that is, female-assigned-at-birth male-identified person) or transwomen (male-assigned-at-birth female-identified personss) there, but, either way, I think the answer is rather simple. I'm certain the Lambda Literary Awards board understands that transmen (for example) are men regardless of their transitional or surgical status, they are never straight women, and I'm sure they are always eligible for the awards.
One thing that both rm and erastes mentioned that I think is worth thinking about is possible implications of being 'out' especially with regards to personal safety but also just in terms of personal choice. But there again, for the most part I have to think that anyone who would be putting themselves in danger by submitting their work to the Lambda Literary Awards is likely doing so regardless of the requirement that authors must identify themselves as LGBT(Q) to qualify. It is, after all, still an LGBT(Q) series of awards regardless and it seems like the minds of bigots who could terrorize someone are not going to put a lot of stock in the finer distinctions, but I could be wrong.
Now on the other end of things, I have to say that I think Lambda's reasons are really not the best. I tend to thing that times of adversity should be seen as opportunities to open up and expand rather than hunkering down and cutting off, the latter of which is clearly happening here. The sentence, "We also took into consideration the despair of our own writers when a heterosexual writer, who has written a fine book about us, wins a Lambda Award, when one or more of our own LGBT writers may have as a Finalist a book that may be the only chance in a career at a Lambda Literary Award," stood out to me as particularly awkward and very much rubbed me the wrong way. After all, I write about a lot things that aren't in my own experience and that certainly means I have a different relationship to them than someone who has whatever it is in their life all the time (though few of us battle aliens or have sex with supernatural beings on a regular basis so I guess all that's entirely fair game), but that doesn't mean it should upset people just because sometimes it's done well.
And I will say that I literally grew up reading female-authored slash and femmeslash and found in it everything that I would eventually also get out of LGBTQ fiction (and often much more because it inserted my sexuality into characters and worlds I already loved) and I think it (provides a really important piece of the literary landscape in its queerness. So for me, maybe the real lesson is .... that Lambda should expand even further and recognize fanfiction authors regardless of gender and sexuality >.< ! <3.
I guess at the end of the day, I think there is use in recognizing LGBTQ authors and good(!) LGBTQ content regardless of authorship so I donno y'all but I'm very interested in this debate and want to hear from others.
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September 24th, 2009
02:46 pm - :(
바카 바카 쇼넨.
엡픽 사이.
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02:30 pm - Stupid, Stupid
I am way overly stressed out about this project that is NEARLY COMPLETE at work. Meanwhile, I keep turning over the fact that Japanese-language Harry Potter fandom favors my OTP far more than English-language fandom in my head. I wonder if there's some significance to that.
On a related topic, I may have miraculously procured the second of the three known Harry Potter founders-era doujinshi. If so, I will be ecstatic.
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September 23rd, 2009
12:07 pm - My review of Twilight
My latest column was a somewhat emotional response to reading Twilight last week that I tried to craft into an article. Rereading it now I sort of feel like my conclusion is not very clear, but nevertheless, here it is: Rethinking Twilight Criticism".
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September 20th, 2009
02:59 am - Supernatural
I'm going to decline to post more thoughts on SailorMoonFail09 for now, but that is forthcoming. In significantly happier news, however, I am doing much better health-wise. I am negative for flu including that of the h1n1-type and expect to be back kicking at 100% tomorrow.
Meanwhile, some thoughts on the last two eps of Supernatural...( Read more... )
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September 17th, 2009
06:11 pm - For SailorMoon people
Hey to all Sailor Moon people on my flists, you've probably noticed by now that the Sailormoonfans community has been deleted. I still don't know all the details, but there's some conversation going on about it here but the bottom line is that we have to move somewhere. I had already been on the sailormoon dw comm, and now I'm also on sailormoonfans2 on lj. See below.
Click here to Join
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01:24 pm - sailormoonfans ~ total fannish meltdown
umm, the sailormoonfans comm on LJ is gone. it's gone. it says it's been deleted and i don't know what to do. i'm sick + having a total fannish meltdown. i don't even know what else to say. i was on it last night talking about the first edition of the manga and now it's gone. i've hung out there for so long - it's basically THE home of English-language SM fandom and it's gone.
... i dont even know how to feel right now.
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September 9th, 2009
12:11 pm - Gay Geekery: How Bi Is Torchwood Really?
My latest Gay Geekery column has just come out here, and I'm less painfully ashamed of it than the last one. It's fun though there are formatting issues for some reason and Gwen's photo keeps moving around depending on the size of the screen.
Yay~!
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September 1st, 2009
11:38 pm - "Romeo & Juliet Circumstances," vid by ZephyrPrince
Title: "Romeo & Juliet Circumstances"
Vidder: Zephyrprince
Fandom: His and Her Circumstances by Masami Tsuda, Hideaki Anno, Kazuya Tsurumaki, and Gainax
Music: Taylor Swift- "Love Story"
Pairing: Yukino/Arima
Summary: This is my first attempt at vidding and there are some blatant fails, but I had a lot of fun with it. I wanted to vid a canon het pairing from one story arc (includes clips from episodes 1-4, 7-8) to keep it simple in my first try and I happened to receive the DVD boxset for this show as a birthday gift last week and fell back in love with it.
Download: 19.53MB MOV
( streaming )
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August 26th, 2009
04:26 pm - Genre in Flames - The New Gay
http://thenewgay.net/2009/08/genre-in-flames.html
This is my newest thenewgay column, but I rather dislike it. I have been a bit busy and left it to the last minute which resulted in it wandering, not clearly communicating what I was trying to say, and being generally shitty writing. Oh well, I'm sure with a regular column, it's bound to happen now and then. I am, however, determined that it shan't happen next time. I think next time's will be about Torchwood and I think that I shall start it today.
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August 24th, 2009
07:28 pm - Mainstream Warnings + We're NOT All Wathing the Same Movie
I thought this Gawker post concerning the content warning that appeared before last week's episode of Mad Men was super interesting in light of the meta fandom debate earlier this summer (and many times before this as I understand it) over warning on fanworks.
What's particularly interesting to me, here, is that if this blogger's theory as to why the warning was on that particular episode is correct, then AMC is more concerned about warning for heavy gay petting than rape, which seems to be almost the exact opposite of how the debate here unfolded, with most people highly concerned about warning for rape and not as much over gay content.
For me, the bottom line here is something about how mainstream media is just getting it wrong, but I don't really want to discuss just the merits of warnings any more so instead I'll make a more interesting point relevant to the example (which has also been made by many more eloquent and less sleep-deprived people before me) which is that I do think that warning for something does have consequences though I would say I'm generally pro-warnings.
Warning for gay content, for example, sends a message affirming the fact that you might dislike gay content enough that you are deeply disturbed by gay content enough that you absolutely must be warned so that you can avoid any exposure to it at all costs, and I don't want to affirm that. For me, as a gay man, that is hurtful, plain and simple, but where it really gets interesting is when you're talking about something like BDSM because it really is a squick for some people but for others it is a healthy, central part of their sexuality, and I think we are always walking that line.
I've seen that particular discussion elsewhere but not with a conclusion that I felt a hundred percent good about. I think, though that where I've gone personally with it is the idea that it can be a good idea to warn for specific acts like cutting or scat play, but blanket warnings that there is some form of BDSM somewhere in fic under the cut seems less useful. I'm not sure still though...
On another note, This is a video on a blog that my boyfriend reads everyday, The Daily Beast. It's an interview with Quentin Tarantino in which he talks about how he writes lots of background for each character but the viewers only get to know a small portion of it. He references this one character in particular that has a rope burn around his neck and says that he likes having a little bit of mystery in the character and he likes giving us something to chew on so that when we all come up with slightly different scenarios as to how the burn came to be, we're no longer all watching the same movie.
Now obviously people write all different kinds of fanfiction (and make vids and fanart and fanmixes and filk and play RPGs and LARP and g-d knows what else) for a wide variety of reasons, but one thing I love about fandom is that we really thrive on this sort of thing. No, we're not all watching the same movie or TV show or reading the same book and we're very up front about that. We externalize our views of the movie, how we think it was or how it could/should/might have been, and we commune with each other's versions. Now we don't always agree, but, hopefully, most of the time, we at least respect the versions everyone else is watching (though shipping wars can get quite nasty in teh worst of times).
Anyway, the bottom line here is I LOVE YOU FANDOM (we've been together now since I was ten or eleven and I turned 23 the other day so that's quite a relationship) + I just thought it was interesting that Tarentino was saying he wants all his viewers to engage in teh way that we engage most everything.
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August 23rd, 2009
10:04 pm - omg birthday vid!
OMG, my new friend, electrizity made me a new!Trek vid for my b-day & it's wonderful! Everyone in STREK should def check it out.
Title: "Feelin' So Good"
Musician: Jennifer Lopez
Author/Artist: electrizity
Characters, pairing(s): Kirk, Kirk/Uhura
Rating: G
Link: http://electrizity.livejournal.com/3885.html?view=3373#t3373
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August 18th, 2009
03:19 pm
Well if you ever want to be thoroughly, thoroughly embarrassed at work, take a break to watch a few vids, bawl your eyes out, and then have coworkers walk by and stop to ask if you're alright. Then try explaining that despite the fact that we've closed the canon, Harry Potter still has a very powerful hold on your emotions - you've known those characters far, far longer than you've known most people who are still part of your life, after all.
...yeah. that happened. AWKWARD.
All I can say is, I'm glad I don't have the same level of squick for embarrassment that redbrickrose does or I'd probably just be dead on the ground right now.
ANYWAY, so ViVidCon has meant lots of new fun, wonderful things to consume + [since watching the Half-Blood Prince movie, I've started working on a Founders fic (re: Rowena Ravenclaw, Helga Hufflepuff, Godric Gryffindor, & Salazar Slytherin) and now listening to Order of the Phoenix (my favorite of the seven) on audiobook so] I've also been searching through backlogs of Harry Potter vids (thus the crying) & thus I think I'm going to do a recs post soon or new and old things that I love.
I really must start vidding. I've been thinking about it ever since the Gender and Intellectual Property conference (actually maybe even back to December) I went to with fiercynn (where I met redbrickrose & amonitrate), but I've been held back by 1.) intimidation, 2.) laziness, and 3.) waiting for the best idea for a vid ev4r to strike me, but I think I'm just going to have to get the fuck over it and go for it one of these days soon especially because I had Jason's old Mac reformatted for the express purpose of using his iMovie, but I may end up doing it in my school's media center anyway since I've been trained with all that tech already. As for the intimidation part and the search for the perfect concept, I think it's probably time to just jump in feet first. Afterall, no matter how good the concept, my first attempt is probably going to suck (though electrizity's first vid, "Hello Earth" is SO FANTASTIC & I am jealous) regardless.
A few deas I have:
-Gossip Girl: conflict between the teens and adults to Ace of Base's "Young and Proud"
-xxxHolic: Watanuki/Doumeki AU set to "Loathing" from Wicked
-Supernatural: Sam's silly demon blood addiction plot arc set to "Rehab" by Amy Winehouse (haha though this is probably beyond my skill level)
-Sailor Moon: all the series' genderqueerness set to "Androgyny" by Garbage
-Multifandom: something about the love between /android, android/cyborg, android/human, and cyborg/human set to Kate Bush's “And So Is Love” including Ianto/Lisa (Torchwood, various pairings from Terminator and the androids from the Björk music video, "All is Full of Love")(this too is probably beyond my skill level but perhaps a long term goal
-I'm also interested in vidding to something lyric-less like an Air song.
I'm told I should start with a movie because it's easier but I don't know what movie I'd do. I have no good ideas with movies really....
Elsewhere, we have titles for the first few episodes of season five of Supernatural and the one to air on October 1st is titled "The Douchebag of Oz," which I think is an awesome name.
Oh and I've been listening to the Gallifrey audio plays that spun off of Doctor Who and features Romana and K-9, both of whom I love, as well as another companion, Leela, whom I had never met before. It's great though. Romana as president of Gallifrey is excellent and her dynamic with Leela is to die for. I want so much femmeslash of them. I wonder if it exists....
OHHH. One more thing (and then I have to work sigh), I saw and ADORED Julie & Julia. Sooo good. & wonderfully female-centered as well - blew the Bechdel test out of the water.
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August 10th, 2009
01:03 am - TNG, Dumbledore, cyborgs, hip hop, auto-tune, and Fanta!!!!!!
So this probably could've been a tweet - or rather a series of tweets - but I feel like my recent life has been too much twitter and not enough journaling so here's to you LJ ... err, LJ & DW ... my how things change.
Anyway, my Dumbledore article is all set to go up on Wednesday at thenewgay.net and I certainly will be spamming my flist about it when it does. I hope some peeps from around here will read it (& if you really love me and want my editors to see what an interesting and different perspective I'm bringing to their blog, then you might even make a comment!). The one thing I wanted more was an additional extra picture. I have one of Dumbledore opening the doors to the Great Hall, which is appropriate because I'm trying to invoke the idea of the closet door and "coming out," but I also wanted a fanart of Dumbledore/Grindelwald at the end when I'm discussing the upcoming films both to show non-fans how awesome fanart can be and to really visually hit home that oh-so-canon pairing in people's minds, but after stalking several artists on deviantart, I think I have failed in that endeavor. We'll see if any of them get back to me by Tuesday when I upload the final draft.
On another writing note, I am finally putting all my thoughts together about the explosion of debate in the hip hop world over autotune and how I think this is all a microcosm of the greater societal debate about cyborgism. squeeee. It's so fun & I'm really hoping I can use this for something else too - possibly in an adapted form for my column but also hopefully in some academic context.
Elsewhere in my life, I'm watching Gossip Girl s.02 and loving it though others have said it's not as strong as the first season. I've never been a big Nate fan but I do think his bromance with Dan where I am in the series right now is totally heart melting.
Oh and there's big Fanta news HERE. New Coke fountains! All the Fanta regional flavors in one place! I simply MUST track one of those down when I return to the south next. squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
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August 4th, 2009
05:40 pm - Cyborgs
I've been slowly watching all the vids that people wrote commentary on for ![[info - community]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png) vid_commentary and reading their analysis of each. I just read one for my favorite vids, "Unnatural" Charmax, and it's interesting because I read it somewhat differently but the footage is all from Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles and Battlestar Galactica, neither of which I've seen but both of which deal with cyborgism as a central theme, and it just underscored for me that I really must watch both but particularly BSG and soon. Why must there be so much good tv to watch.....?
My first regular column for thenewgay is done for next week though I hope to edit it pretty heavily. It's about the portrayal of Dumbledore in the Half Blood Prince movie since it's the first film we've gotten since Rowling outed him in October '08.
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August 1st, 2009
12:36 pm - we 3 things
Three things:
1. Can I has Star Trek XI on DVD now? WHY NOT???? : ( : ( : ( I won't last much longer without it....
2. My vid_commentary on castorfate's "Beautiful" is up here. In the end, I'm pretty proud of my analysis even if the writing is a little sub-par I think. Oh well...it was very, very fun to do.
3. I am officially a bi-weekly columnist for thenewgay.net. My column is called Gay Geekery. I've had three gaygeek-related articles over the last couple of months on the slashy/gay subtext in Star Trek XI, the recent gay goings on (okay, really LGBT, but "gay goings on" has such good alliteration) in the Marvel universe/X-Men comics, and most recently this. Anyway, after the most recent one they asked me to come on as a semi-regular writer because the ideology of the blog is to represent gay cultures outside of Gay Culture and I guess the geek angle really stuck so that's fun. We'll see how it goes....
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July 23rd, 2009
08:14 am - Anime/CLAMP Fandom Blatherings
CLAMP has announced that their intertextual manga series, XXXHolic and Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicles, will end this year, which is great news for me because 1.) it means I can finally read them without being intimidated by their voluminousness, 2.) I never liked the art in these two series as much as their previous work and 3.) it could maybe possibly mean they'll have time to work on one of their discontinued by incomplete works like Clover, which was just re-released in omnibus edition in the US and Canada (*DO WANT*), or X/1999, the conclusion of which has been rumored to tie in with Tsubasa!
Oh I wish I were at Comic Con....NEXT YEAR I SHALL ATTEND NO MATTER WHAT.
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July 22nd, 2009
12:36 pm - "Bet on It" vid
It's becoming increasingly clear to me that I need to watch High School Musical soon. I've seen the last musical number from the first film, which I loved, and one number from the second one that was less impressive. The newest and coolest new!Trek vid is taken off the series and I love it!
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July 9th, 2009
10:31 pm - Torchwood: Children of Earth, Day 4 - It's realistic.
fuck, forgot the cut for a second there - hope nobody was spoiled...
( Read more... )
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July 8th, 2009
July 7th, 2009
July 1st, 2009
04:47 pm
I've now confirmed that my coworker is/was also in fandom. It turns out she's been sort of off for a couple of years because she's now a paid and published non-fannish erotica author on ruthiesclub.com (umm, NSFW!), which is pretty awesome. We then had a long conversation with our other coworker about the things we like to read in erotica that we don't necessarily like doing in real life.
In other news, I'm a quarter of the way through Star Trek: Enterprise, which I love even though I'm one of like eight people on the planet with that sentiment. I am especially fond of the themesong, which trekker reportedly malign. It's very moving I think. It's also made me think about my relationships to theme music generally. I think there's a very clear path for me: If I like a song at first it's fine, then it builds to a passionate love and then I get sort of used to it and then I get more excited about it as the series draws to a close. Of course that's all dependent on how long the series is....
I'm about to show a friend of mine who is unfamiliar with fandom his first few vids. I've selected ones from shows he likes including Buffy (thanks to redbrickrose), Gossip Girl, and The O.C. so we'll see how that goes. Recently when I've talked about them like in Gay Scifi club people have all professed to know exactly what I mean but I fear they don't really because they're thinking of just sort of random clips set to music on youtube, but then again the borders are hard to police...
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June 24th, 2009
11:46 pm
Last week before I left for home for my uncle's funeral, I was eating with a bunch of the interns in my building and one of the law fellows who is reading Twilight casually dropped the word "slash" into conversation. A little bit later, I dropped "fic" offhandedly and her face spasmed a little bit but all cool was kept. It was awkwardly like finding out someone else's gay and not so open about it. Now I feel awkward pushing forward with asking her about stuff though...we'll see...
Next Star Trek film may have another female main character says io9.
Also, I'm really enjoying the "reality" version of Gossip Girl, NYC Prep, in which there is one guy whom everyone thinks is probably gay. I agree though with some of this article. It's pretty interesting.
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June 18th, 2009
02:03 am - Big Bang & ST:E
So I'm reading Civil War to asses its appropriateness as a backdrop to my sff marvel comicverse bigbang and it's looking okay except that I realized I also have to consider House of M and the depowering of the majority of the world's mutants. Certainly my two main characters can be among those spared in the depowering, but it does sort of suck. We'll see....
Also, I guess I have to read House of M...so much to do to prepare for this!
Am now watching Star Trek: Enterprise and apparently I'm one of approx. 8 people in the world who liked the first season.
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June 16th, 2009
02:16 pm - The other thing I'm doing right now
Since I plugged my sff big bang, I'm also just gonna put this out there as something I'm working on. I think it's awesome and aca-ish which should be gleefully fun.
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June 15th, 2009
03:08 am
I'm pretty sure I'm crazy, but I guess that's okay. Basically the story here is that no sooner had I completed my first fic in seven years, which I've shaved down to eight pages, than I signed up to write a 25,000 word bigbang, which is ridiculously longer than anything I've ever written for anything....but it should be fun. Basically, I'm finally putting into action a story that I've been sitting on ore or less as long as I've been in fandom, itself (re: 10 years or so). I signed up under the heading X-Men/Marvel Comicverse because the two main characters are mutants and mutants have always been the staple of the X-series but since they're both original it's probably more accurate just to say Marvel Comicverse. The backdrop is probably going to be one of the manifestations of the Mutant Registration Act - perhaps the Civil War super human registration program, but I'm reading Civil War right now to see if that works for me because I didn't really follow it when it happened. More details soon.
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June 12th, 2009
04:51 pm - Sailor Moon Uranus/Neptune vid recs
I have noticed a couple of requests for Uranep (Uranus/Neptune; Haruka/Michiru; Amara/Michelle :P) vid recs lately so I decided to put together a list of some of the ones I like since this is one of the most important pairings in my fannish history. I've only included vids that are accessible to the public either on google videos or youtube, but, as with all of anime fandom, there are lots of other high-quality vids on animemusicvideos.org and I could recommend stuff on there if people are interested. Before I get to the recs though I have a couple of thoughts on Sailor Moon AMVs/vids generally.( Read more... )
As for Uranep in particular, I mainly see vids exploring three major themes: their romance and relationship generally, the (specifically canon) queerness of the pairing, and the tragedy of the characters and their mission. I've organized the following eleven under these three pairings, though most of them touch on all three so it's really not hard and fast sorting.( Read more... )
Finally, if anyone has other thoughts on these or disagrees with my analysis or would like to suggest other vids, please do. I'd love to talk about this more!
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June 9th, 2009
02:49 pm - Insta-Vid-Rec
Sloane's vid, "...On the Dancefloor," is probably the best new!Trek vid I've seen yet. It's a brilliant repurposing of a song that I would probably otherwise dislike to expose the complete lack of female characters in Star Trek XI! Everyone should watch it!
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