quel heure est-il ou tu est?
May. 31st, 2011 05:48 pmAhh, yes. It's that awkward time of year between regular TV's season finales, and the beginning of summer TV. That time where usually I write tons of post-finale fic. Unfortunately, this year I have very little to say - while I have been watching television and really enjoying it especially things relevant to Kate Beckett and Britta Perry and Olivia Dunham and Crazy Eyes Eva Green and Myka Bering and HG Wells and Hot Doctor Lauren, I don't have as much writing time in me as I have in the past. This sucks, but a fact of my life right now.
SOMEDAY THOUGH. The Warehouse 13 epic is still on the table,![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
thrace_ and I are getting there.
Things I'm currently smitten with:
1) This music video, for the new Simple Plan single.
THIS IS NOT THE JANK ENGLISH VERSION WITH NATASHA BEDINGFIELD OKAY. This is the ~Canadian content~ version, featuring a Quebecois lady singer, and it combines all of my very favourites: petulant self-indulgent pop punk, duets with male and female voices, and FRENCH WOMEN. I find it a vast improvement on the English-only version, and think you all will like it very much, unless you happen to have awful taste.
2) This post from How to Be A Retronaut, featuring Lesbian Pulp Fiction Covers.
These covers are AMAZING. I am vaguely charmed-in-a-horrified-way by the historical depiction of lesbians as sexual predators/deviants, and these are perfect examples of that for me. The art is gorgeous and sexy, but the subtitles are all BE APPALLED AS GIRLS HAVE RELATIONS. History, I don't know what to do with you sometimes. (As an aside: would these not be a totally awesome fic meme? If there was a way to use the covers as prompts to write sex-positive, queer-positive stories about chicks doing it? Someone should get on that, no?)
3) I can't believe myself, but Naked Heat.
GF bought it for me for my birthday, and I was all LOLOL A CASTLE NOVEL YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE but it's actually hilarious and absorbing, in a meta sort of way. It reads like fanfiction where the writer is pretending to be Castle writing fanfiction about his life, so there are kind of layers upon layers there, and then lots of references to Firefly and RL details about the actors. It's one of those works that provides escalating rewards to escalating levels of obsessive fannishness, basically, and I don't know that I'm getting everything I could out of it, but it's a fun read.
It's also an extra episode of Castle, pretty much, and something to read during downtime at work. Plus, LOL THE SEX SCENES ARE SO BAD, I get embarrassed just skimming them, WHO THOUGHT IT WAS A GOOD IDEA TO INCLUDE THOSE. There's this almost palpable uncomfortableness to them, where they're supposed to be ~salacious to fit the TV show but vague enough that the series isn't publishing arms-length porn about itself, and just - nothing works. It's hilarious.
Anyway. I feel like LJ doesn't talk with me very much anymore, and this is a shame. Tumblr is alright, but wordlessly reblogging pictures of pretty people is kind of the saddest thing in the world, no? How about this: POST A PICTURE OF YOUR FAVOURITE SEXY TV PERSON IN THE COMMENTS. WE CAN USE IT AS A CONVERSATION-STARTER.
SOMEDAY THOUGH. The Warehouse 13 epic is still on the table,
thrace_ and I are getting there.Things I'm currently smitten with:
1) This music video, for the new Simple Plan single.
THIS IS NOT THE JANK ENGLISH VERSION WITH NATASHA BEDINGFIELD OKAY. This is the ~Canadian content~ version, featuring a Quebecois lady singer, and it combines all of my very favourites: petulant self-indulgent pop punk, duets with male and female voices, and FRENCH WOMEN. I find it a vast improvement on the English-only version, and think you all will like it very much, unless you happen to have awful taste.
2) This post from How to Be A Retronaut, featuring Lesbian Pulp Fiction Covers.
These covers are AMAZING. I am vaguely charmed-in-a-horrified-way by the historical depiction of lesbians as sexual predators/deviants, and these are perfect examples of that for me. The art is gorgeous and sexy, but the subtitles are all BE APPALLED AS GIRLS HAVE RELATIONS. History, I don't know what to do with you sometimes. (As an aside: would these not be a totally awesome fic meme? If there was a way to use the covers as prompts to write sex-positive, queer-positive stories about chicks doing it? Someone should get on that, no?)
3) I can't believe myself, but Naked Heat.
GF bought it for me for my birthday, and I was all LOLOL A CASTLE NOVEL YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE but it's actually hilarious and absorbing, in a meta sort of way. It reads like fanfiction where the writer is pretending to be Castle writing fanfiction about his life, so there are kind of layers upon layers there, and then lots of references to Firefly and RL details about the actors. It's one of those works that provides escalating rewards to escalating levels of obsessive fannishness, basically, and I don't know that I'm getting everything I could out of it, but it's a fun read.
It's also an extra episode of Castle, pretty much, and something to read during downtime at work. Plus, LOL THE SEX SCENES ARE SO BAD, I get embarrassed just skimming them, WHO THOUGHT IT WAS A GOOD IDEA TO INCLUDE THOSE. There's this almost palpable uncomfortableness to them, where they're supposed to be ~salacious to fit the TV show but vague enough that the series isn't publishing arms-length porn about itself, and just - nothing works. It's hilarious.
Anyway. I feel like LJ doesn't talk with me very much anymore, and this is a shame. Tumblr is alright, but wordlessly reblogging pictures of pretty people is kind of the saddest thing in the world, no? How about this: POST A PICTURE OF YOUR FAVOURITE SEXY TV PERSON IN THE COMMENTS. WE CAN USE IT AS A CONVERSATION-STARTER.
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