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gaudior and rushthatspeaks along with the rest of Sassafrass are running a Kickstarter to cover the production costs of their latest album and its live performance at Balticon. You should donate. I've been watching Rush sew their fingers off for most of this week in order to have everyone properly costumed in time for the show and I'd kind of prefer their fingers not to have died in vain. I liked them. Also, if the project meets its stretch goals, papersky will write a publicly available poem for Odin and a privately shared one for Loki, and I can't imagine who doesn't want to read those. Plus, Futhark posters.
2.derspatchel trekked into darkness last night and didn't much like what he found there. For this reason I believe we are rewatching a certain other film in the canon tonight.
3. Falling asleep last night, I found myself thinking about a Shakespearean theater company—not a theater company that performs Shakespeare, but a company made up of Shakespeare's characters. Hamlet is plainly a writer-director, though if he thinks it's going to be all fucked-up family psychodrama all the time, he hasn't talked much to Peter Quince. (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern want to do more experimental projects. They'll probably spin off their own black box.) Get Feste for the music and Prospero for lighting and sound design. Viola specializes in juvenile leads. Honest Iago is very good at heroes. I didn't get very far, because I was very tired and it kept bleeding off into other dreams, and then I spent too much time staring at the ceiling this morning when the sunlight woke me around seven o'clock and I couldn't get back to sleep until ten. Someone on Yuletide has probably already written this anyway. (It's like bandfic, only not with bands.) Or Jasper Fforde got there first and I should not try to think about it.
I hope to visit a library sale this afternoon.
gaudior and rushthatspeaks along with the rest of Sassafrass are running a Kickstarter to cover the production costs of their latest album and its live performance at Balticon. You should donate. I've been watching Rush sew their fingers off for most of this week in order to have everyone properly costumed in time for the show and I'd kind of prefer their fingers not to have died in vain. I liked them. Also, if the project meets its stretch goals, papersky will write a publicly available poem for Odin and a privately shared one for Loki, and I can't imagine who doesn't want to read those. Plus, Futhark posters.2.
derspatchel trekked into darkness last night and didn't much like what he found there. For this reason I believe we are rewatching a certain other film in the canon tonight.3. Falling asleep last night, I found myself thinking about a Shakespearean theater company—not a theater company that performs Shakespeare, but a company made up of Shakespeare's characters. Hamlet is plainly a writer-director, though if he thinks it's going to be all fucked-up family psychodrama all the time, he hasn't talked much to Peter Quince. (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern want to do more experimental projects. They'll probably spin off their own black box.) Get Feste for the music and Prospero for lighting and sound design. Viola specializes in juvenile leads. Honest Iago is very good at heroes. I didn't get very far, because I was very tired and it kept bleeding off into other dreams, and then I spent too much time staring at the ceiling this morning when the sunlight woke me around seven o'clock and I couldn't get back to sleep until ten. Someone on Yuletide has probably already written this anyway. (It's like bandfic, only not with bands.) Or Jasper Fforde got there first and I should not try to think about it.
I hope to visit a library sale this afternoon.
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A) Though I get that Abrams didn't want to do an entire movie about The Search for Kirk, that was some cheap Ubermensch-blood Ex Machina, right there.
B) While I can believe that this version of Jim Kirk doesn't seem exactly historically-minded, the idea that any version of Spock would have to literally phone himself up to ask who KHAN NOONIAN FUCKING SINGH is/was is...crazy.
C) I can handwave Cumberbatch (whose performance is good, because he's a good actor) so long as I see him as a sort of human suit being worn by, say, John Abraham. My head-canon is that they shored up his John Harrison identity by giving him gene-therapy every three weeks or so to keep him pasty and unrecognizable, but that the minute he left Marcus's custody his super-genes started to revert to the default and that if we'd just held long enough on his cryo-tubed face at the end, we would have seen him turning brown again.
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What about them especially? I had very mixed feelings about Spock/Uhura at the time I saw the first film, but it's sort of grown on me since.
Though I get that Abrams didn't want to do an entire movie about The Search for Kirk, that was some cheap Ubermensch-blood Ex Machina, right there.
I admit I still haven't seen the movie (I may this week just so I can commiserate more effectively with
the idea that any version of Spock would have to literally phone himself up to ask who KHAN NOONIAN FUCKING SINGH is/was is...crazy.
Yeah, what?
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What I like about Spock, Uhura and Kirk is this thing that pops up sometimes where Kirk gets roped into forming a bridge between the two of them, essentially acting as their translator, and Kirk gets this weird, panicky look, like: "Oh God, Mom and Dad are fighting and I am totally unqualified for this." It's like he finds both of them attractive and wants them to like/respect him, so he tries to make himself worthy of their respect/liking, and he doesn't want to infringe on their intimacy--but the interesting thing is that both of them seem to want to rope him in, in an elliptical sort of way. He's like their shared exception.
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Puck was caterer, but everyone complained. Ariel's tech crew.
Nine
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Benedict and Mercutio would be insufferable prima donnas. Beatrice could keep Benedict in line but Mercutio would be hopeless.
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Put him up against Touchstone, watch the scenery disappear?
(Whoever put Sir Toby Belch in charge of concessions was not thinking.)
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WIN.
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Um, I might, possibly, after reading way too much bandfic in too short a time (...it started as research for a 'Banned From Argo'/'Helmet Head' crossover fic, okay, and it just got COMPLETELY OUT OF HAND) have started sketching out a story in which a bunch of the bandfic band members ran a theater company and were putting on a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream that was turning out a lot more like Much Ado About Nothing when they weren't paying attention.
I have repented. Really. Mostly.
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. . . Did you ever write it?
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Part of the problem is that it either wants to get shrunk waaaaaaay down and be a short story (I have never written a successful short story, so, there's that) or to be expanded and become a novel. I suspect I will still be trying to figure out what I want to do with it a decade from now. Sigh.
(But the research has been fun.)
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Some day I will find ST:WoK in blu-ray in a bargain bin somewhere and rewatch.
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Verdict as of Saturday night: do it!
(I do not know that I have ever seen Angry Cumberbatch, outside of some coldly furious scenes in Sherlock. I do not follow him intently, though. I liked him in The Last Enemy (2008) before the plot spun off the rails.)
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Good luck to them! Will look at my finances and see what I can do.
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Goodness. Sounds trainwrecky. I didn't think such a bad job was done with the first rebooted film--Scotty actually sounding Scottish was a Good Thing, and almost made up for not only blowing up Vulcan but fridging Amanda instead of Sarek--but I suppose Fate wouldn't let something like a rebooted Star Trek go on for too long without more dramatic forms of fail.
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Interesting concept, that. I like the idea of "like bandfic, only not with bands."*
I hope your hopes of library sale visits were fulfilled. Me, I talked about a book of essays for a few hours, drank a pint or two, didn't speak English for a good chunk of afternoon, and managed to not wonder if the universe is mocking me for not having Swedish by putting a party of cute aux pairs, Svenska tjejer prominent in the mix of them, on the train with me.**
Oh, and there were neon-haired catgirls in cut-offs and bikini tops on the 7 train. As well as a bloke whose face was painted silver, but I expect he was just one of those living statue performers on his daily commute.
*I admit that bandfic always bothers me a little bit. I know it's about the personae of folk in bands that have the whole stage persona thing going on and shouldn't be taken seriously, but I always imagine folk writing bandfic about my friends, and it kind of squicks me. Especially when I think about the ones who, if someone did write slash about them, would respond by randomly grabbing other blokes and kissing them. They're good friends, but I really don't want to be kissed by them, even for the sake of messing with stereotypical slavering fangirls.
**It helped that their taste in music sounded lame. If they'd been talking about Väsen and Garmarna, it might have been depressing.
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I always like that sort of thing.
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I was amused. If I were a different sort of person I might have taken a photograph, but it didn't feel like a performance so I didn't.* A friend of mine speculated that they might have been attending some sort of concert, which would make sense.
*I always feel slightly uncomfortable when complete strangers start taking pictures of sessions, at least the regular ones in the pubs--in the big ones at festivals it doesn't bother me. I suppose it looks like a gig to them, and I expect it's even a compliment, but it's the way my people socialise and I wonder if they'd not at least ask before taking photos of strangers throwing a frisbee in a park. Then again, maybe they wouldn't.
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And yay, Sassafrass kickstarter -- I really hope they get enough money for me to write the Loki poem. I have the shape of it in my head but it'll be hard so I'm not doing it unless I need to.
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High school AUs are traditional, but I like the 1930s direction -- maybe in the style of one of those stock bright-eyed kids who are all "let's put on a show!" and do musicals with tap dancing films.
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I am not sure it is a novel I will write, but thank you.
I have the shape of it in my head but it'll be hard so I'm not doing it unless I need to.
I hope you get the chance.
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. . . I would totally watch Benedict Cumberbatch play Tig Vesicle. The skinny, red-headed, weird-boned relevance just struck me.
(I'm not sure you could make a movie of Light, but if anyone ever attempted it, I think that's my fantasy casting. Besides, I've never seen Cumberbatch do physical comedy, and Tig setting his coat sleeves on fire from scaring off the Cray sisters with the Hi-Lite is definitely that.)
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I don't know if you've read The Centauri Device, but he'd also be great as one of the anarchist-aesthetes, too.
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I still haven't! I'm missing that and Climbers! Of which I really want the new edition, for all the obvious reasons.
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No, I hadn't! Whoa.