It starts at daylight

[sovay]

1. My best cousins 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.

Comments

[papersky.livejournal.com]

I think you should write the Shakespeare's characters thing, but it needs something else. They need to be doing it in the milieu of Albert Finney's The Dresser, all 1930s boarding houses and a new town every week and never quite enough money and the show must go on. Or on a spacestation. That would work too. What I mean is that this is an idea that needs another idea to collide with it and then it will be a novel I really want to read.

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.

[weirdquark]

I think you should write the Shakespeare's characters thing, but it needs something else. They need to be doing it in the milieu of Albert Finney's The Dresser, all 1930s boarding houses and a new town every week and never quite enough money and the show must go on. Or on a spacestation. That would work too. What I mean is that this is an idea that needs another idea to collide with it and then it will be a novel I really want to read.

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.

[sovay]

What I mean is that this is an idea that needs another idea to collide with it and then it will be a novel I really want to read.

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.