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I'm actually finished studying for the night, but I should probably be in bed. But first, another meaningless poll as to what I should be working on next once this test is over, since I've got a lot of unfinished stuff and I can't decide.[Poll #1783689]

Yay!

Note that since I came up with most of these I've seen other people put forward the same theories, but I arrived at them more or less on my own, so. Yeah. For what that's worth.

( Spoilers for the most recent episodes of Doctor Who, Transformers Prime, and Generator Rex behind the cut. )


Oh, and one other thing: there's a reviewer on TGWTG now called Oancitizen who reviews oddball arthouse cinema like Antichrist, Nine Songs, and Jan Svankmajer's Alice (with the gruesomest, most inappropriate bits censored, so no fear). I don't know if any of you out there have the same disproportionate love for Euroschlocky weirdness, but if you are, well, take a looksee. 

And now it's 2 a.m. again so I should go to bed. Curse my late-night habits.

You think you've come up with a fun, interesting, and meaty plotline for your Big Huge Crazy AU...

...and it turns out that a similar plotline already cropped up in an RP several months ago. Which means it's probably not as novel/interesting as you think it is.

FFFFFFffffff this is why I at least need to start keeping track of RPs, or at least bigger ones like Wake and CnC - so I don't end up looking like I'm ripping people off. I mean it's not too similar, but do I need to ask for credit or put an inspiration source in the author's notes or what?

Also I need to be addressing these envelopes why am I not doing that right now. Or at least writing if I'm not going to do that. Or any other of the dozen and a half things I've got to do. 

Would anyone be willing to sit for a while and listen to me blather on about the entirety of what I have so far of the Big Huge Crazy TFA Postwar AU, and maybe help me brainstorm a little?

Yeah I know such an exciting prospect. Don't all look so enthused.

Also hey there, TF:Prime fandom seems to have exploded or something. Were I a more cynical person I would insinuate that ( minor minor spoilers for most recent episode of TF Prime ). Also Breakdown is voiced by Jayne and this will never not amuse me. Let's just get the whole Firefly cast in here, then, why not. Yes, including Nathan Fillion. He can be a TFP Sentinel Prime.

Three more fragments before bed:

1. Does having a specific song associated with a pairing I like make me weird and obsessed? Because there's one in particular that's become so linked to this one pairing and even hearing it makes me want to write lots of fic - maybe even songfic if I ever felt like abandoning my dignity.

2. So, That Guy With The Glasses fandom, is there in fact any Phelous fic out there or am I going to have to write it myself? I know it's probably just my pet interest in crappy horror movies but I am growing more and more fond of him the more of his videos I watch. Surely there's some fic to be had in his continuity-proof resurrections and his "Phelous Who" crossovers, yeah?

3. I know I'm supposed to be blogging about interdisciplinary nonfiction and fancy intellectual stuff like that, but really I'd be much more enthusiastic about blogging if I could do endless critical readings of B-horror movies, pop sci-fi, and metafiction, and how they reflect and affect our culture and thought. It's like the honestly intellectual portion of my brain has shrivelled up and died since college. ;__;

Some days I have to keep myself from just saying "fuck it" and posting my lengthy Thoughts On Metropolis/Takashi Miike movies/the adaptation of Lovecraftian mythos into every single pop-SFF universe ever on my nascent blog. This will not help you get a career, dear.

And now bed.

Every time I rewatch The Dark Knight I ask myself that. And also why Christopher Nolan is allergic to girls.

So I spent most of yesterday laid up with some sort of stomach flu that my entire family had passed around first. I wish I could say that I spent that day being productive and reading the book I'm supposed to review for my blog, but in truth I mostly just curled up in bed all day and read TV Tropes on my phone. And then called in sick today because my stomach was still putting up less-enthusiastic protests any time I tried to put food in it. But at least...today I maybe got some stuff done? Not very much, admittedly?

I did manage to have two increasingly bizarre dreams wherein ( my dreams are fascinating, right. )


Also I have been watching a whole bunch of movies! Still not Tangled, much to my disappointment, but lovely lovely M and J treated me to a marathon of Muppet movies for my belated birthday and it reminded me how much I love them. A Muppet Christmas Carol is actually legitimately good! Michael Caine manages to act while surrounded by singing muppets and big chunks of the narration are pulled right from the story and it's all-around great, it should be part of everyone's Christmas plans.

We also ended up watching Muppet Treasure Island, which is equally lovely and has Tim Curry in it, even if he only gets to sing once. It is, however, much funnier now that I'm older and more familiar with the actual story of Treasure Island. Also, it got me listening to Shiver My Timbers over and over again because I'd forgotten how catchy it was. I do believe it might even be composed by Hans Zimmer, he of those other pirate movies.

It also reminded me of how every fandom I'm in desperately needs to have a Pirate AU. Not real pirates, though. Movie pirates. They're much more fun. Oh, of course they do, just imagine how much fun Beatrice the Pirate Queen would be. Or Privateer Ziva. Or the Doctor as a rougish explorer-slash-outlaw who swaps out travelling companions. Or, hey, Transformers in general: ROBOT PIRATES.

Once I am finished with the reams of other fic I am supposed to be writing it is campy pirate AUs all around. I do need my nonsensical id-fic occasionally. And then I will learn how to draw so I can draw everyone in huge feathery hats.

Alternately, I could just write, I don't know, actual PotC fic. Speaking of which, I've decided that the Pirates of the Carribbean universe takes place in the Land of Fiction, from the Doctor Who serial The Mind Robber. Given that it's a place run on storytelling logic where characters and concepts from just about any work of fiction can come to life and wander around freely, PotC's melange of time periods, mythological creatures, and seafaring legends makes perfect sense! I have no idea how I would use these in a fic, though. Mostly it makes crossovers easier without pedantic nerdfaces like myself having to figure out what time period the PotC movies are actually set in.

I keep coming up with these lists of progressively more insane crossovers that I know I will never write because I can't figure out an actual plot for any of them, just an idea. Thus far I've ended up with:

- That one with Maria (from Umineko) and Vector Prime (Transformers) with the latter trying to figure out what the hell she even is, because creating something from nothing just doesn't make sense that's not how the universe works etc.
- The one where Gendo Ikari (Evangelion) is a Sorceror (Umineko) and screws with everyone in the 'verse.
- The one where the Miami of CSI is the inverse of Silent Hill
- That other one where Blitzwing somehow falls into the PotC universe and becomes allies with Pirate King Elizabeth

And the thing i I know there are more and I just don't remember them! I have got to just start writing down whatever comes to mind so I have records of things.

Wow, this entry got rambling really fast. Um, have a meme! 

Pick a character I've written/am likely to know about and I will give and explain the top five ideas/concepts/etc I keep in mind while writing that character that I believe are essential to accurately depicting them.

Two a.m. and I've got work in the morning. Good night, flist.

So I went and stayed up until 1 a.m. watching AMV Hell 5. Considering I have work tomorrow morning, this was probably a poor life choice. At least I don't work til noon?

At least I got some new music out of it, as I tend to with AMV Hell. And The Eyes of Mars with Marillon Cotillard is my jam at the moment. It makes me want to write more Epic Fic where Sari is a Mystical Magical Cyberton Goddess or whatever the fuck it was I was writing about.

I don't know, it's this thing I have. Some people like to hurt their favorite characters, some people like to draw their favorite characters in costumes; I like to give my favorite characters cosmic importance or make them the only one who can save the day or something.

AND HEY SPEAKING OF THAT. ( Writing blather about that postwar I keep talking about. )

Oh, that reminds me: I've seen the first two episodes of TF: Prime! Maybe more complete reactions later when it's not 2 a.m. and I am not being irresponsible, but in summation: I think it'll grow on me. I didn't have that instant OMG I NEED MORE OF THIS IN MY LIFE NOW NOW NOW reaction that I did with Animated of Beast Wars, but I did enjoy it and I want to see where it goes.

I need to go to bed so much right now. I just need to stop watching AMVs first...easier said, I know.

(P.S. Hey, check out the icon. pellimusprime  made it. Isn't it purty?)

1. I have managed to Do Something Painful to my shoulder; it hurts if I turn my head too far towards it or try to turn around. I'm not sure how I did that, but I think it might have something to do with me being a stupid bint who tried doing advanced yoga poses four months after having back surgery. I do hope it clears up on its own so I don't have to explain to my orthopedist that I was doing stuff I wasn't supposed to.

Except the other possibility for how I hurt it is that I cracked my neck the wrong way (like cracking your knuckles but with more troubling noises) and I'm not supposed to be doing that either.

Having all these back issues always makes me feel so old, even if logically I know that lots of people have had surgery at my age or younger. Not to mention I feel awfully lazy when I actually have to sit down because my back hurts.

(For folks new to this journal: I have scoliosis, and had surgery last summer to get instrumentation installed that would help correct my curvature. After that operation one of the bolts holding said instrumentation in place slipped a bit, enough to protrude from my back a bit, and this July I had it removed. And thus I am really supposed to be a bit more careful about what I do with my back since it really hasn't been that long, but I feel pretty great so I forget what I'm not supposed to do.)

2. I haven't been going on DA much lately because I havenothing to post and looking at my huge backlog of messages and posted art is intimidating and scary, but I found this on deviantartsnark  and it just encapsulated a lot of the things that have annoyed me about DA (aside from the most recent mod failure on the subject of trans* users, which is a whole other thing).

Not the trolling itself, that's pretty typical business, but the comment on the DD selection, about how the photo shows "a beautiful model", with her pregnancy as "a not unattractive afterthought". And I don't know why that wound me up so much, but that seems like it's missing the point of the photo - it's a maternity portrait, the whole idea of it is that the model's pregnancy isn't an afterthought - it's an important part of the portrait, particularly with the nesting-bird motif. And that's all ignored by the featurer, because who cares about any of that so long as the model's beautiful and the portrait's attractive. I mean, that's what's important, right? 

It's just reflective of the way photography and portraiture of women is percieved on DA, which has irritated me for a long time - female nudes in obviously erotic poses, or nudes that focus very much on the breasts or legs or other typically-attractive features, are frequently praised and lauded, whereas male nudes have so many unwritten rules they have to skirt to avoid being banned as pornographic, and when they are featured the featurer is always very careful to talk about how it's not an erotic portrait, it's just showing a beautiful body, there's nothing even potentially gay about this omg can you imagine a man being subjected to a gaze how horrible. Most of the models in portrait photography are very conventionally attractive and designed to show it off. And about 90% of the fetish photography is femsub, which there's nothing wrong with, obviously, but the fact that there are so few examples of anything else becomes uncomfortable. I don't know, it's just a collection of things that irritate me about the site and I felt like ranting about them. Feh.

3. So I have not been writing for the past while, given that my computer is broke, but I have been tossing ideas about and trying to figure out what I want to do in some of these Big Huge Crazy AUs I want to write. Mostly I've been thinking about that postwar AU and how I can make it make sense. Which isn't easy, let me tell you.

( Long-ness and, um...spoilers for the end of Beast Machines? )
So...yeah, I'm thinking it's probably a better idea to just work on that one where Bumblebee takes the form of an iPod, at least that one has sort of a plot and doesn't require miles of fanwank.

It is so damn late why aren't I in bed. D: D: Good night, flist.

1. One of our local indie theaters is showing the entirety of Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle, a five-movie...something-or-other that is supposedly about change and differentiation and the parallels between fetal development and human potentiality. Or something.  I've been curious about it ever since the last movie in the cycle came out a couple of years; even when I don't understand it (and I usually don't) I find the images involved, and the seeming gulf between the images presented and what the artist is trying to say, fascinating, not to mention I just like to mull over the images and symbols themselves. I don't know why, but I've never been able to dismiss the more opaque modes of art.

Adding more urgency to my decision on weather or not to go see the films is the fact that they're only showing for about a week and they're not available on DVD unless you're willing to pony up half a million dollars for the super-special art-critics-only box set. And I'm not. So this is probably the only chance I'd get to witness this weirdness for myself and pass my own judgment on it. On the other hand, that's five movies in one day - I think the cycle goes from 1:00 p.m. to 7 or 8 p.m. Granted, it's shown in parts - Part 1, then Parts 2 and 3 together, then Parts 4 and 5. Technically, I could see 1, 2, and 3 one day and then 4 and 5 the next. But that's still almost forty dollars that, in truth, I probably shouldn't be spending on movies that I'd be dropping on this thing. More if I get popcorn, but these aren't really movies you can eat popcorn to.

Dammit Barney, just put them on DVD , it's not going to compromise your artistic integrity that much to let us plebes see it.

2. Speaking of movies, over the weekend my uncle took me to see It's Kind of a Funny Story, which I enjoyed - I'm ashamed to admit it did hit just a bit close to home, but I also thought it was pretty good about finding the humor in its situations without actually making fun of the patients' problems. It was more about seeing the humor in a sometimes sad situation instead of "ha ha look at the freaks, isn't it so strange that people act like that?", if that makes any sense.

( Cut for rambling about depression and stuff. )


3. M, J, and I went strolling in Downtown today, since the downtown area near where I'm catsitting is actually very interesting and vibrant and has a bunch of galleries and niche shops for every conceivable interest. And we spent a lot of time just walking and talking and being ridiculous, which is what I like to do when I'm with M and J. And on the way there, before they arrived, I found a tiny little comic book shop. It was literally one room, which I do believe was smaller than even my smallest college dorm. I think it might have been a tiny bit bigger than the campus singles, though it was jammed tight full of books and the bookshelves that contained them, so that probably made it look a lot smaller than it was.

But anyway, I tried mightily to resist buying All The Comics, but I did walk out with two: Deadpool The Heroic Age (an issue of a story arc wherein Deadpool tries (with very little success) to be a good guy) and G.I. Joe vs. The Transformers Black Horizon Vol. 1, which I thought was a reboot since it was a whole new story; seeing as I had no idea where the actual G.I. Joe Vs. Transformers line began and I was vaguely aware there were two different crossover continuities, that seemed like a good place to start.

Except it turns out that it actually was part of a continuing story, not a reboot, and thus I had little idea what was going on or what people were talking about for most of the time. I've never been more grateful for an introdump. 

Also ( Spoilers! )


4. So I went back home over the weekend in order to do laundry and things before I went back for my second week of catsitting, and one evening my family and I sat around watching CSI: Miami, as we do sometimes.

I have spoken, before, on how the series just gets more and more over-the-top the longer it goes on, which is one of the reasons I don't watch it that much anymore. However, at one point, a very familiar siren sound went off and I, only half paying attention, declared "Oh no! They're entering Silent Hill!"

My brother, equally casually, declared "I'd watch that show."

And then I got an idea.

( Cut because it's another huge crossover AU dealie. )

...wow, that was bizarre even by my own standards. D:

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Why can I not even write an LJ entry unless it's 3 in the morning. THIS IS IRRITATING. Also the Ficlet Project Ficlet has broken 1000 words. I think I might have missed the point a tiny bit.

Very, very slowly. I wrote a whole 630 words this week! And most of it was on the Ficlet Project fic! Hooray! 

Miscellaneous things:

1. SARAH JANE ADVENTURES OMG. Maybe wanting something really really hard does make it happen after all!

( Cut for spoilers from the video. )

So the upshot of all that is basically SQUEE. I am so glad this series is still going. So glad.

Also I've been informed that there is, in fact, a Three/Jo/Iris Wildthyme audio out there somewhere. It is now my objective to make this part of my life.

2. Speaking of squee, someone on the anonmeme mentioned my fic! \o/ They mentioned it by name and everything, which sort of implies that enough people have heard of it to know what the anon was referring to when then mention it - or that they knew to seek it out when they were watching a specific serial. 

I know this'll probably make me sound like extremely eager for attention, but it made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Because I know you're supposed to write for yourself, but I wouldn't write if I didn't want people to read and enjoy these stories, if I didn't want to share them and send them out into the world. And the thought enough people like my little fic for it to get referenced in a place where nobody has any expectation of me seeing it just makes all the writers' block worth it.

< /sentimentality>

3. In the midst of Trying To Write, I've been seriously plotting out which of the Big Huge Crazy AUs I want to write first, which ones I think I could finish realistically, etc. Because I do want to write them instead of just having them float around in my headspace. And so I've been trying to hash out a plot for the more nebulous Holy War AU (which has fewer definite plot points) in the hopes of writing it down one of these days.

( Cut for writing blather. )

So, yeah. Just an idea I've been tossing around. Plus, that gives me a venue to write some of the popular pairings in a new light - because I kind of feel obligated to write Sunstreaker/Sideswipe or Thundercracker/Skywarp, but I've never really felt that inspired to, if that makes any sense? And in this AU context I could do something new with them.

I need to make myself a schedule for which of these BHCAU I want to write first, so that I can assiduously ignore it and start working on something totally different instead.

BUT FIRST. Ficlet project. And then Springkink fic.

4. So I wrote about 140 words of "teaser" for the Holy War AU in freewrite. I decided to put it here.

( 142 words, to be precise. )
I feel like I should post a bit of the Ficlet Project fic, because I've got over 500 words of it, but idk. That feels like it should be a surprise.


5. Have finally gotten hold of a scanner! We'll see if it'll actually scan my drawings instead of refusing to see them if they're not inked, because I hate inking. I'm looking forward to posting clean versions of some of my sketches. Might give me some drive to draw again.

6. It's not 1 in the morning, wow. I should probably go before it is.

I get that online application is more economical and saves trees, but it also means I have to keep track of way more logins and passwords and am geometrically more likely to forget them and end up wasting everyone's time trying to get a new one every time I visit X site.

Oh, and they request a resume and cover letter and then, on the next screen, tell you to fill in by hand all your academic and work information and write a reason why you're an ideal candidate. What is the actual point.

So, taking a break. Here is a meme quiz thing, even though I've never actually read the Golden Compass books (of which I am deeply ashamed):

( My daemon would be: )

Surprisingly accurate, though that might be because this quiz provides middle-of-the-road answers rather than super-extroverted vs super-introverted. Hm.

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Is anyone else having problems with uploading photos, or am I just being really incompetent? I had a couple more pictures that I wanted to upload, but every time I try to import a photo the loading window slows way down and then never actually loads. Maybe my computer's just over capacity.

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Last entry or so I mentioned that I'd gone through and read most/all of the prompts on tfanonkink  just for the heck of it (and because I was laid up and didn't feel like doing much else. And while there are a couple that I might like to try writing (if I ever finish my enormous backlog of Stuff to Write, which given the status of that list and my current stifling writers' block will basically never happen), there was one that gave me yet another idea for a Big Huge Crazy (and mostly gen!) AU. I think of those a lot, really.

( Cut for length and talk of kinkmemes. )

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On a less perverted note, it would seem that The Rock has been cast as the voice of Cliffjumper in TF: Prime. To which I say HELL YEAH. :D Unfortunately, it would appear that Gina Torres is not in fact voicing Arcee, so the series just became 75% less cool, so it almost balances out.


Good night, flist. It's even later than usual, but that's what I get for finally deciding all these ideas need to be put on paper Right Now.