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Here's everything I've made that I actually don't mind people looking at, organized by year because there's not that much of it.

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some_stars: (ROCKS FALL. EVERYONE DIES.)
fyi i will be spending the next eight days in NYC and therefore Away from the internet. not that i haven't already been mostly Away, but now it will be for a better reason than spending literally all day every day obsessively rereading every stephen king book (except the bad ones) and only stopping to eat, occasionally.

in less imminent news, i decided that when i move to New York in July, i'm going to turn the drive up into a caving roadtrip. not actual spelunking, obviously, i am both too fat and too phobic for that, but cave-based state and national parks where they have walking tours. because it will be July and too hot to do outdoor things but caves are always nice inside! i've got Mammoth Cave and another further east in Kentucky on my list--anyone know any good caves in West Virginia, Ohio, or Pennsylvania?
some_stars: (iron man is robot porn)
i saw iron man 3! it was great, much less offensive than the last two (although I mean, still a hot mess, but...better?), although aesthetically not as perfect as the first one, because what will ever be. you should definitely link me to any interesting meta and discussions or your reactions posts or anything that i missed in the last week and a half. or fic!
some_stars: (why is body)
1. i am deeply concerned about these stabbing sudden-onset headaches i've been having, seriously, the LAST thing i need is a brand new chronic condition

2. i am going to see iron man 3 today! finally! i have actually managed to avoid all major spoilers, i am pretty pleased with myself about that

3. i think i'm sliding out of les mis fandom nooooo, i don't want to go, i'm not ready, PULL ME BACK

4. i don't understand how i can possibly be suffering from ssri withdrawal if i didn't have it the last four days and haven't changed my dosage in a week, and yet somehow everything is vibrating

5. ugh why are bodies why is summer why why why
some_stars: (FITZ = LOVE)
There is a certain peculiar sensation one can get, as a fan, when you get an idea for a fic that you want SO BAD and would be SO PERFECT and you can’t even breathe for a second after you come up with it because omg what an amazing idea...and you simultaneously realize that it is far, far too niche for anyone to ever write. This is how I feel about my crossover idea where the Eighth Doctor, Fitz, and Anji wind up in Paris in 1832. No one is ever going to write that for me, and I’m certainly not going to write it, because research is hard. But it would be so good. It’s exactly the kind of hopeless terrible lovely situation they’d get into, and I dare you to tell me with a straight face that Les Miserables wouldn’t be even more brilliant as a Doctor Who new series-style historical episode, where everything is regular history but with ~*~secret~*~ aliens. Also tbqh I would watch that TARDIS team change a lightbulb.

I had this idea because I’ve reread about 16 EDAs in one week or thereabouts, because I have not been very well at all and they make the bad go away more reliably than literally anything including my actual medication, at least until I remember that I’ve spent the week rereading Doctor Who books instead of writing. So I’ve been soothing myself to sleep with various far less niche ideas for Fitz-related fic, mostly with Eleven. That involves the completely different and far superior fannish sensation of “multiple people have written this story already, and I can reread it right now.” I mean not the exact version I came up with to comfort myself, but close enough to hit the spot.
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conversation with [personal profile] ang in which I end up being a cranky old person and declaring my eternal allegiance to the middle-grade and young adult literature of the seventies and eighties (which is ridiculous because I wasn’t even old enough to read those books until the nineties), leading to the line, “Also I bet not a single one of these hip new literary genre-bending YA authors has a scene where characters set an egg timer to determine how long they’re allowed to make out.”

I mean if I’m wrong about that, I would definitely like to know! But I feel it’s a strong argument.

(obligatory disclaimer: I love contemporary YA, I think it’s glorious, I hope to write some, etc. etc. But no one will ever replace Paula Danziger and Lois Lowry in my heart.)

(also this originally came up because I suddenly realized that I’ve been unconsciously associating the climactic rope-climbing/poetry-reciting scene of “Anastasia Has the Answers” with Jean Prouvaire for like three months now. Because he would.)
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Oh my god the weather is SPECTACULAR. It's May 3, we've been well into summer for over a week, and it's currently 54 F with a strong breeze and not a cloud in the sky. I keep running out on the deck to twirl like a Disney princess. This will be gone tomorrow, and then it'll really be summer and stay summer until I leave (and then it will continue to be summer in New York, but ahahaha like I'm afraid of THAT) (I mean I've been in NYC in July, it sucked, but it didn't make me feel like the sky was actively trying to kill me) (plus I gather that on Atlantic beaches the ocean doesn't turn into a heated pool by late June and stay that way until fall) (right?) (seriously, fuck the Gulf). But today is gloooooooorious.
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I have no idea if anyone is still following me to whom this might be of interest (or if they are, if they care about Les Mis at all), but I just realized on Tumblr that Fitz Kreiner and Grantaire hit almost exactly the same set of buttons for me. I feel so predictable.

(Also earlier today I realized that, you know that thing Marius does where he has calling cards made up but has no one to call on, so he just carries them around in his pocket like a goober? *points at icon* That totally happened. "He'd never had the chutzpah to use one and had hidden them away for fear of Anji finding them.")
some_stars: (dw: oldest of skools)
man, signal-boosting is so much easier on Tumblr. Let's try this: zines are awesome! Fanzines are awesome! [personal profile] holli is trying to get some DIY fanzines going and has set up a comm, [community profile] diyfanzines! If y'all can make the Doctor Who one happen I will contribute a thing about the Eighth Doctor books. There are also other zine ideas you could contribute to, some fandom-specific and some meta. Or you could make your own, or whatever. It doesn't have to be the Doctor Who zine, that's just the one I'm really excited about. (I keep tossing around the idea of doing a whole EDA zine myself, but I don't know how to art, or for that matter how to zine.)
some_stars: (workers unite!)
What's a passage of Shakespeare that a robot might like?
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I need to start reading again, not least because it might help fill my brain with words so that trying to write is not such an existential terror. Recommend me novels?

Hard and fast criteria:
1. No egregious fail that will make me angry
2. Some kind of genre content, very plot-focused
3. But also with interesting characters and relationships

Preferably:
1. With queer main characters
2. And a minimum of heteronormative bullshit from the straight characters
3. Easy to read (YA is fine)

:D? :D?
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oh my god you guys, I just found Cosmopolitan's online listing of exciting new sex positions, and it is AMAZING. You really have to see the pictures to truly appreciate it (they're all cartoons but it's still pretty NSFW), but I will share some of my favorite bits anyway:

"The key to your pleasure is keeping your limbs as limp as a noodle."

"Arrange a big pile of pillows on the floor and fall into it face first."

"Holding his hands, extend your arms out to your sides and lift your torso like a snake ready to strike."

"Find a reclining lawn chair or bench, or line up three backless chairs."

"Make sure to lift his legs when they swing around over your head."

"The aroma of wet grass boosts your sense of smell, making this a supersensory experience."

"Next, he starts alternately crossing and spreading your legs like scissors, opening and closing as he thrusts."

"Do it right and you two will look like a multilimbed lust creature."

"He can prop himself up on his forearms if he doesn’t want to get his hair full of sand."

--I was going to keep going, but actually I don't think anything can top that.
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Oh dang has it seriously been two weeks since I last posted? Apparently! Well, I am alive, and doing reasonably well if not great. Absolutely nothing of note has occurred; all I do right now is chatter about Les Mis with people and work on relearning Hebrew and slog through this awful middle school U.S. history textbook, god it's terrible. And reload Tumblr a lot. I can't even watch TV, it requires too much concentration. Or something. So everything is extremely boring right now, hence the silence. There is probably no point whatsoever to posting this but I figured I would just check in and mention my continued existence.
some_stars: (why is body)
I'm having SSRI withdrawal and it is the super worst ever and I have to tell everyone about it and it SUCKS. That is all.
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I made it through the concert, though I remain deathly ill :( And I used this opportunity of being completely incapacitated to watch TV! Because I need a special reason to do that. Anyway I am now caught up on Spartacus, and...dang. Some stuff sure did happen there! I have vague thoughts on some problems I think the third season is having (that the second also had, to an extent), but I am too tired to elucidate them right now and anyway on the whole I am clearly fond.

Now I have to shower, because I have to work tonight, except I don't know if I can stand up long enough. This may present a problem.
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oh god, I am so DONE with choir, why can't I actually be done :( I'm part of the Cell Block Tango ensemble again, and I should note that five of us did the exact same number last year, and yet apparently everyone but me can't get their shit together, because when I had to miss our last rehearsal tonight due to rampant mystery throatsickness it seems they all fucked up, and now I'm being badgered to go to an extra two-hour rehearsal tomorrow morning. Before the show, for which I have to be at the theater from 1 to 10 pm. I am told the director is going to cut it if we don't get it together by the dress rehearsal tomorrow afternoon, and frankly if they're all this hopeless I think that would be a good idea. I mean they've had fucking WEEKS, and it's all right there in the sheet music or you can watch the movie, there is really no excuse. And I am so sick and my throat hurts and the only way I'm going to make it through this stupid concert is to push myself so I won't be able to talk on Sunday, and if it weren't for this ensemble I wouldn't even bother showing up. I just don't see how it's so fucking hard to learn the right words. They are right there on the page! I suspect they all just assumed they knew it and kept teaching themselves a wrong version and now there is no hope.
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Some people on Tumblr just started a collective, one chapter a day Les Mis reread, and I've been reading along quietly and will probably continue to be mostly quiet, but today I had opinions! Opinions on 1.1.4 and the Bishop of Digne, specifically. If that is of interest to anyone.
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Three days before our choir performance and I am sick in the throat, as usual. It's really sad how I spent so long thinking I had this ultra-powerful immune system because I never got sick, when in fact that was just because I never spent any time around other human beings. Turns out, my immune system is actually really pathetic! At least I don't have any singing solos this time around, and my speaking solo is Cell Block Tango so sounding a little rough and husky is perfectly fitting.
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I just finished season one of Spartacus! I wanted something pretty to occupy myself during this weird liminal period, and it certainly was that, although the violence is way too much for me and I'm constantly having to look away until the sound effects stop. I have no fannish feelings about it yet, but I did stay up until 2 am to finish the season even though I'd spoiled myself for everything in it, so clearly it has some kind of hold on me.

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