There's a room where the light won't find you
It is the night before Readercon and I am running a fever. I had a nausea-making headache all day, but I thought it would break when we got the torrential rain that briefly turned our street into a water park and caused the women's toilets at ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
spatch's rehearsal space to overflow. It ebbed a little and I finished my work and then I had to stop looking at my computer and lie down for several hours in a darkened room. I get that on some level my body just wants to exist in a state of perpetual Victorian ill health, but the second floor does not a garret make—especially when we have upstairs neighbors—and I am unconvinced that laudanum would work any better on me than most opiates. Also, I'd really just rather not.
1. I don't know whether to describe this essay on Brian Clemens' The Professionals (1978–83) as a celebration, a critique, or stomp-on-the-brakes rubbernecking, but it's wonderfully written and has convinced me that the show was definitely something, even if not necessarily something I want to see. Okay, maybe a couple of episodes. "Having watched the whole of Sapphire & Steel, every surviving episode of Ace Of Wands and his contribution to the children's supernatural series Shadows, I can say without hesitation that 'Heroes' is by far the least realistic thing that PJ Hammond has ever written."
2. Speaking of sympathy for the fascists: vidding Star Wars' Imperials to "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" might sound like low-hanging fruit, but it's Lorde's cover and the vid is both darkly funny and creepingly immersive.handful_ofdust calls it "a Mirror Universe existence" and I had somehow not quite noticed before that unless the vidder futzed with the light levels, Imperial interiors in the original films all look like something out of a horror movie, Kubrick-sterile and glowing dark as space. The music sometimes follows and sometimes illuminates the images and the whole project basically delights me in the same way as realizing a few years ago that Piett fandom had gone mainstream. (kore, are you the person who directed me to Michael Pennington's deleted scenes?) Rob observes that the line about Mother Nature is especially trenchant in context of the Battle of Endor "when they're fucking defeated by Ewoks and trees."
3. Speaking of getting fucking defeated by nature, Rob has chronicled on Twitter the night the baby spiders decided to join us in the shower.
4. Speaking of things I wish hadn't happened, this article courtesy ofrushthatspeaks is an interesting and valuable look at the filming of rape scenes and it is not that I feel bad now for having loved Alejandro Jodorowsky's El Topo (1970) when I saw it, but I feel a lot stranger about future Jodorowsky and that really angers me.
5. I don't have a good segue here. They Can Talk reminds me a lot of The Far Side. I am especially fond of "Shark Rescue" and "forbidden."
At least I have no programming of my own tomorrow.
spatch's rehearsal space to overflow. It ebbed a little and I finished my work and then I had to stop looking at my computer and lie down for several hours in a darkened room. I get that on some level my body just wants to exist in a state of perpetual Victorian ill health, but the second floor does not a garret make—especially when we have upstairs neighbors—and I am unconvinced that laudanum would work any better on me than most opiates. Also, I'd really just rather not.1. I don't know whether to describe this essay on Brian Clemens' The Professionals (1978–83) as a celebration, a critique, or stomp-on-the-brakes rubbernecking, but it's wonderfully written and has convinced me that the show was definitely something, even if not necessarily something I want to see. Okay, maybe a couple of episodes. "Having watched the whole of Sapphire & Steel, every surviving episode of Ace Of Wands and his contribution to the children's supernatural series Shadows, I can say without hesitation that 'Heroes' is by far the least realistic thing that PJ Hammond has ever written."
2. Speaking of sympathy for the fascists: vidding Star Wars' Imperials to "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" might sound like low-hanging fruit, but it's Lorde's cover and the vid is both darkly funny and creepingly immersive.
handful_ofdust calls it "a Mirror Universe existence" and I had somehow not quite noticed before that unless the vidder futzed with the light levels, Imperial interiors in the original films all look like something out of a horror movie, Kubrick-sterile and glowing dark as space. The music sometimes follows and sometimes illuminates the images and the whole project basically delights me in the same way as realizing a few years ago that Piett fandom had gone mainstream. (kore, are you the person who directed me to Michael Pennington's deleted scenes?) Rob observes that the line about Mother Nature is especially trenchant in context of the Battle of Endor "when they're fucking defeated by Ewoks and trees."3. Speaking of getting fucking defeated by nature, Rob has chronicled on Twitter the night the baby spiders decided to join us in the shower.
4. Speaking of things I wish hadn't happened, this article courtesy of
rushthatspeaks is an interesting and valuable look at the filming of rape scenes and it is not that I feel bad now for having loved Alejandro Jodorowsky's El Topo (1970) when I saw it, but I feel a lot stranger about future Jodorowsky and that really angers me.5. I don't have a good segue here. They Can Talk reminds me a lot of The Far Side. I am especially fond of "Shark Rescue" and "forbidden."
At least I have no programming of my own tomorrow.
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And as a rather bouncy contrast to your Star Wars vid - have you seen the hard life of an Imperial trooper as done by lego characters to Dolly Parton?
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. . . I just finished watching an episode and I'm still not sure which one was which.
(What is the fandom like, given the source material?)
And as a rather bouncy contrast to your Star Wars vid - have you seen the hard life of an Imperial trooper as done by lego characters to Dolly Parton?
No! That's delightful. Thank you!
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The heyday was pre Internet and zine-based, but a lot got digitized and it's still active - I know a couple of people still writing in it. Friendly fandom and never had (as far as I know) any of the massive schisms that hit other shows, such as Due South - I think it helps that there's only one major pairing, although there are some die-hard Crowley shippers out there. Lots of long fic, heavy on the angst and hurt-comfort, some plotty, some oddly domestic, a healthy population of varyingly believable AUs (they're circus performers! Bird watchers (not an innuendo)! Doyle (curly haired) is actually an elf!).
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Nice!
I watched a chunk of seaQuest DSV (1993–1996) in 2015 and when I went looking to see what the fic was like, of course most of it was pre-internet and only some of it survived online catastrophes like the death of GeoCities and some of it is on AO3, explicitly transferred from much older sites. I find that kind of archaeology fascinating.
Friendly fandom and never had (as far as I know) any of the massive schisms that hit other shows, such as Due South
And that I respect very much. Like by the time Sherlock finished, I had at least one friend who had stayed in the fandom just to keep an eye on the apparently apocalyptic levels of wank.
Lots of long fic, heavy on the angst and hurt-comfort, some plotty, some oddly domestic, a healthy population of varyingly believable AUs (they're circus performers! Bird watchers (not an innuendo)! Doyle (curly haired) is actually an elf!).
You know, that might actually help me remember which one is Doyle!