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

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

I didn't hate it quite as much as he did, because I actually enjoy the Kirk/Spock/Uhura relationship mechanics more than almost anything else (and would like to sidebar here to point out that while Carol Marcus is indeed younger and does indeed get seen in her underwear, she otherwise seemed intelligent, full of agency and worthy of respect), but:

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.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I love-love-love the idea of a theater company made of Shakespearian characters; it's brilliant! Mark Antony could do publicity. Lady Macbeth could be in charge of investor relations.

[greenlily.livejournal.com]

Someone on Yuletide has probably already written this anyway. (It's like bandfic, only not with bands.)

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.

[selidor]

ST: Into Lensflare was rather a disappointment. Mildly Annoyed Cheekbones is not really what I hope for when promised Angry Cumberbatch, though the planet-sized plot holes weren't really his fault.
Some day I will find ST:WoK in blu-ray in a bargain bin somewhere and rewatch.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

1.

Good luck to them! Will look at my finances and see what I can do.

2.

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.

3.

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.

[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.

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

2. Rob's write-up is more entertaining than the film, which I kind of liked, but am very, very mixed about. (Somebody tweeted MJH about Cumberbatch playing him in Trek, which would have been way more fun.)

[gwynnega]

Unrelated, but have you seen this Hiddleston--Leslie Howard thing?