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Huh?
Seriously, dudes, what the hell?
I've been fighting the migraine from hell for a few days; I come back and fandom's gone crazy. Not regular crazy, either. Really crazy.
Fanlib: If you're crazy enough to hand over your fan fiction to a corporation intent on profiting from it, I can't help you. It comes down to this: if they want to make money off it, they'll expect tribbers to follow their rules. The beauty of fanfic is we make up our own freaking rules and change 'em as we please. They're operating under the delusion that the fanfic community actually wants legitimacy, which makes the so-called "business model" seriously flawed. They're already going the way of fandom.com - someone give me popcorn, 'cause it'll be fun to watch.
LJ is banning fandom: I've got only two words on this one: prove it. Folks, LJ do not randomly delete accounts for TOS violations. You get warnings first, requests to remove or f-lock content and so on. So if anyone has been affected by this supposed crackdown, we'd have heard about it. With links. With excruciating detail. Everyone's posting that this happened to a friend of a friend of a friend: that translates as "it's a lie". Kudos to whoever thought this one up, though: I've never seen a meme spread so fast.
My LJ will remain 90% public for the simple reason that I don't want to have to friend back everyone who wants to read my fic. My friends list is the journals I want to read regularly, and it's staying that way.
One positive outcome though: it made me glance over my LJ interests which I haven't updated in a while and I realised I actually hadn't listed Wincest. Fixed that *g*.
Oh, and the latest Pirates of the Carribean film? A hideously over-complex plot, and it does lack the macabre edge of the first two films. They seem to have mistaken dark for grotesque in this film. They ain't the same thing. AWE opens with the darkest storyline I've seen in a long time - this is not a film to let the kids see unless you've checked it out first (and I never say that, being of the belief that if they're old enough to understand it, they're old enough to watch it).
That said I enjoyed the movie immensely. Everything the bad reviews are saying about it is true, but the reviewers basically miss the point. This movie was made for the fans, not the critics and it's a fun three hours. I loved Jack's hallucinations; I loved the mines-bigger-than-yours contest between Jack and Barbosa; I loved the monkey and the parrot; I loved the rocking-the-ship scene; I loved Norrington's exit and Will's final entrance; I loved the way the ending mirrors the beginning of the first movie.
The "wedding" is the most dumb, over the top scene since the John/Aeryn wedding in Farscape and in any other movie I'd be rolling my eyes at it, but here it really worked. That's the special genius of POTC, I think: they can go totally OTT and somehow it just works.
The best line in the movie, though, was reserved for the dog: "Sea turtles, mate."
And the post-credits scene? Cheesy and predictable. Actually not the scene I wanted to see at the end, though it's obvious why they chose it. (I would have preferred to see Calypso.)
7/10
I've been fighting the migraine from hell for a few days; I come back and fandom's gone crazy. Not regular crazy, either. Really crazy.
Fanlib: If you're crazy enough to hand over your fan fiction to a corporation intent on profiting from it, I can't help you. It comes down to this: if they want to make money off it, they'll expect tribbers to follow their rules. The beauty of fanfic is we make up our own freaking rules and change 'em as we please. They're operating under the delusion that the fanfic community actually wants legitimacy, which makes the so-called "business model" seriously flawed. They're already going the way of fandom.com - someone give me popcorn, 'cause it'll be fun to watch.
LJ is banning fandom: I've got only two words on this one: prove it. Folks, LJ do not randomly delete accounts for TOS violations. You get warnings first, requests to remove or f-lock content and so on. So if anyone has been affected by this supposed crackdown, we'd have heard about it. With links. With excruciating detail. Everyone's posting that this happened to a friend of a friend of a friend: that translates as "it's a lie". Kudos to whoever thought this one up, though: I've never seen a meme spread so fast.
My LJ will remain 90% public for the simple reason that I don't want to have to friend back everyone who wants to read my fic. My friends list is the journals I want to read regularly, and it's staying that way.
One positive outcome though: it made me glance over my LJ interests which I haven't updated in a while and I realised I actually hadn't listed Wincest. Fixed that *g*.
Oh, and the latest Pirates of the Carribean film? A hideously over-complex plot, and it does lack the macabre edge of the first two films. They seem to have mistaken dark for grotesque in this film. They ain't the same thing. AWE opens with the darkest storyline I've seen in a long time - this is not a film to let the kids see unless you've checked it out first (and I never say that, being of the belief that if they're old enough to understand it, they're old enough to watch it).
That said I enjoyed the movie immensely. Everything the bad reviews are saying about it is true, but the reviewers basically miss the point. This movie was made for the fans, not the critics and it's a fun three hours. I loved Jack's hallucinations; I loved the mines-bigger-than-yours contest between Jack and Barbosa; I loved the monkey and the parrot; I loved the rocking-the-ship scene; I loved Norrington's exit and Will's final entrance; I loved the way the ending mirrors the beginning of the first movie.
The "wedding" is the most dumb, over the top scene since the John/Aeryn wedding in Farscape and in any other movie I'd be rolling my eyes at it, but here it really worked. That's the special genius of POTC, I think: they can go totally OTT and somehow it just works.
The best line in the movie, though, was reserved for the dog: "Sea turtles, mate."
And the post-credits scene? Cheesy and predictable. Actually not the scene I wanted to see at the end, though it's obvious why they chose it. (I would have preferred to see Calypso.)
7/10