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Ugh. I was sick most of last week and not really up to posting. I've been reading LJ, but I had to keep stopping myself from commenting: I've been really cranky and none of you guys deserved me taking that out on you. (It was nothing serious: just a 24 hour bug, actually, but it took my stomach a week to recover. If it has. Jury's still out, I think.)
So this is a quick catch-up post of all the things I've been thinking about saying in the past week.
Why is no one on my flist talking about the new Flash Gordon? Okay, it's not exactly the greatest thing on TV but I'm really enjoying it. I see...I see potential. There are a lot of good ideas in there, but the writers (and the actors) aren't fully filling the potential of those ideas. I think Flash is my new Mutant X: something I can watch for fun, and not have to think too hard about it.
Supernatural - rocks. There's so much I want to say about the last few episodes but I can't get my thinky thoughts into any kind of order. I am a little nervous the show is heading in a direction similar to the first fandom that broke my heart; I don't think I could bear that. But so far, so good. I'm loving it.
On the subject of SPN a quick PSA: SciFiNow magazine (issue 8) claims on the cover that it contains a Supernatural article. Or something. It's small print, under the "spoilers" part. Well, maybe I've got a page missing from my issue but I couldn't find anything SPN in there. Certainly not a full article or even a decent review. This isn't the first time they've done that: the ad for issue 6 claimed there would be a Supernatural feature, but all they printed was a review of the S2 DVDs. Not a particularly good review, either: my guess is the reviewer didn't even bother to watch it. So if y'all are tempted to buy it for the SPN content, save your pennies. (That said, there are other great articles in there. It's worth the price - I just wish they'd quit lying about SPN!!!
Ispent money I don't have treated myself to the complete Xena box set (UK version, that is) a few weeks back. It's not the "ultimate" collection it claims to be, just a re-packaging of the same discs already issued. Which means no extras, and worst of all (for me) no subtitles. But I never buy DVDs for the extras; half the time I never even watch them, so I'm happy. The packaging is pretty and it takes up much less space than my old VHS collection, which can now go to the charity store.
I started a new fic (Supernatural). I've got two chapters written but this is one of those fics I can't start posting until I'm near the end. I haven't figured out yet how it's going to end, and until I do I won't know if a) it needs warnings or b) I'll need to rewrite the early chapters.
The strange thing is this story really wants to be Sentinel. I don't mean as in really TS, a Jim and Blair story. But, well, as a writer I try to pay attention to the five senses - that's just good writing - but I don't wast time describing smells and tastes and sensations unless they're relevant. I mean, if my characters happen to be eating, I don't talk about the smell of the food. Unless it's important to the story, that is. But in this story, I'm finding myself paying more attention to the way things feel and smell than I am to the visuals. It's unusual for me.
This is partly due to the setting: it's a long-abandoned building and when I started to think about the kind of wildlife that would have crept into the place I got this vivid sense-memory of the time Muzanne and I visited Dunbar Castle. Dunbar Castle is - or was then, it's been a long time - quite poorly maintained and it's right on the coast. When we visited it was full, and I mean full of seagulls and the smell was...well, extremely powerful.
So smell is what came to me when working on this story. I guess it's the one thing TV has trouble conveying. I did give some thought to making the story anothere TS crossover, but what I'm going for is a sense of isolation. Too many characters would have spoiled that. So it's just Sam and Dean and I'm certain (dead) John will make an appearance. When he does I'll have a better idea what my ending will be. I can't tell yet whether he'll be a ghost or something more...sinister. (Yeah, I know, they burned his body so he can't be a ghost. Except in this fic he can, because the Bad Thing makes the rules a little different.) Still mulling over that one.
This was meant to be my Halloween fic, but there's no way it'll be ready in time.
Rocky had surgery today to remove a growth on his leg. It's not malignant. He's part staffordshire terrier and apparently the breed is prone to these growths when they get old and they're harmless, but it had been hurting him, so we opted to get rid of it. He came through okay, but (naturally) he's miserable now. The vet recommended we make him wear a t-shirt so he won't worry at it: he looks a right prat.
Tomorrow Amber has her surgery - she's off to get neutered. So tomorrow she'll be the miserable one. Poor thing. She's always been all excited when she's at the vets - that's so gonna change now.
I guess that's enough for one post. If I owe you an email, I'll hopefully get all caught up today.
So this is a quick catch-up post of all the things I've been thinking about saying in the past week.
Why is no one on my flist talking about the new Flash Gordon? Okay, it's not exactly the greatest thing on TV but I'm really enjoying it. I see...I see potential. There are a lot of good ideas in there, but the writers (and the actors) aren't fully filling the potential of those ideas. I think Flash is my new Mutant X: something I can watch for fun, and not have to think too hard about it.
Supernatural - rocks. There's so much I want to say about the last few episodes but I can't get my thinky thoughts into any kind of order. I am a little nervous the show is heading in a direction similar to the first fandom that broke my heart; I don't think I could bear that. But so far, so good. I'm loving it.
On the subject of SPN a quick PSA: SciFiNow magazine (issue 8) claims on the cover that it contains a Supernatural article. Or something. It's small print, under the "spoilers" part. Well, maybe I've got a page missing from my issue but I couldn't find anything SPN in there. Certainly not a full article or even a decent review. This isn't the first time they've done that: the ad for issue 6 claimed there would be a Supernatural feature, but all they printed was a review of the S2 DVDs. Not a particularly good review, either: my guess is the reviewer didn't even bother to watch it. So if y'all are tempted to buy it for the SPN content, save your pennies. (That said, there are other great articles in there. It's worth the price - I just wish they'd quit lying about SPN!!!
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I started a new fic (Supernatural). I've got two chapters written but this is one of those fics I can't start posting until I'm near the end. I haven't figured out yet how it's going to end, and until I do I won't know if a) it needs warnings or b) I'll need to rewrite the early chapters.
The strange thing is this story really wants to be Sentinel. I don't mean as in really TS, a Jim and Blair story. But, well, as a writer I try to pay attention to the five senses - that's just good writing - but I don't wast time describing smells and tastes and sensations unless they're relevant. I mean, if my characters happen to be eating, I don't talk about the smell of the food. Unless it's important to the story, that is. But in this story, I'm finding myself paying more attention to the way things feel and smell than I am to the visuals. It's unusual for me.
This is partly due to the setting: it's a long-abandoned building and when I started to think about the kind of wildlife that would have crept into the place I got this vivid sense-memory of the time Muzanne and I visited Dunbar Castle. Dunbar Castle is - or was then, it's been a long time - quite poorly maintained and it's right on the coast. When we visited it was full, and I mean full of seagulls and the smell was...well, extremely powerful.
So smell is what came to me when working on this story. I guess it's the one thing TV has trouble conveying. I did give some thought to making the story anothere TS crossover, but what I'm going for is a sense of isolation. Too many characters would have spoiled that. So it's just Sam and Dean and I'm certain (dead) John will make an appearance. When he does I'll have a better idea what my ending will be. I can't tell yet whether he'll be a ghost or something more...sinister. (Yeah, I know, they burned his body so he can't be a ghost. Except in this fic he can, because the Bad Thing makes the rules a little different.) Still mulling over that one.
This was meant to be my Halloween fic, but there's no way it'll be ready in time.
Rocky had surgery today to remove a growth on his leg. It's not malignant. He's part staffordshire terrier and apparently the breed is prone to these growths when they get old and they're harmless, but it had been hurting him, so we opted to get rid of it. He came through okay, but (naturally) he's miserable now. The vet recommended we make him wear a t-shirt so he won't worry at it: he looks a right prat.
Tomorrow Amber has her surgery - she's off to get neutered. So tomorrow she'll be the miserable one. Poor thing. She's always been all excited when she's at the vets - that's so gonna change now.
I guess that's enough for one post. If I owe you an email, I'll hopefully get all caught up today.
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