7 Random Things Before Bedtime
Oct. 2nd, 2007 10:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
salixbabylon1) Anyone know what happened to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
smut_wednesday? I mean, I know they deleted themselves before LJ could do it, but did they migrate somewhere and change the name? (I think I looked at Insane and Greatest, but perhaps not.)
Anyone know? Help? I miss my Wednesday artsmut. :(
2) When did "strap-on sex" get turned into "pegging" and why? Does "pegging" mean something in particular?
3) You know that song "Teenagers" by My Chemical Romance? The song changes POVs halfway through and causes my brain to get all twisted up on itself, trying to figure out who is addressing whom. The first half "they" are adults who suck, but in the second half, "they" are mean teenagers. Hence confusion. Consequently, the bloody song has been stuck in my head for fucking *months* now.
4) Second runner-up to Things That Suck in Fandom, following WIPs that are abandoned and never finished = WIPS that finally finish, but totally just peter out in the last chapters. It sucks when you've been reading something brilliant for months and months and get all excited to see that it's finally finished and you reread from the beginning... only to discover that the author either lost their muse or just phoned it in or something. *sigh* (And before you all get paranoid on me: NO, this isn't about your fic. The fic that I'm thinking of at the moment was bandslash, my new secret vice.)
5) Saw "Stardust" this weekend and I really loved it. Frankly, I expected it to be kind of visually pretty and otherwise suck, which is good because I was totally surprised that it had a decent fairy-tale plot and was funny and was *tremendously* pretty. (The key to happiness in life is setting your expectations low. Seriously.)
The best part, though, was the totally unexpected queer content, which was handled in a way where it just wasn't that big of deal that the character was gay. Sure, it was a stereotype and yes, they did do the transvestite=gay thing, but still. It was random and incidental and in a teen/children's movie and that ROCKS. :)
6) Also, in "Stardust", it took me forever to recognize Rupert Everett, whom I adore. Mostly because every time the abd prince came on-screen, I kept thinking he'd have made a fantastic Snape in the HP movies.
Because my biggest peeve (ok, maybe not *biggest*, but one of the top ten) in the Harry Potter movies is that although I desperately adore Alan Rickman's voice, he's just too old. Or they needed to do de-aging makeup on him or something. Snape/the Marauders are only 19-22 years older than Harry (depending on which of JKR's timelines you go by), which means that even at the end of Book 7 when Harry is 18, Remus/Sirius/Severus would only have been 40. For the movie HP:POA, released in 2004 (when they'd all have been ~36), David was 41, Gary was 46, and Alan was 58.
Why yes. Yes I am a big Harry Potter geek. And I recently spent way *way* too much time researching people's ages for a fic that I'm working on. Made a 6-column table and everything.
(And don't even get me started on Remus' pornstache or facial scarring in POA. HOw could they do that to such a gorgeously fuckable man, I ask you? Such a crime.)
7) Which segues nicely into the last item: my fic for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-syndicated.gif)
ficrocksthe80s. It's Harry/Draco. It's (so far) totally canon compliant, even with DH, *even* with the revolting epilogue. (Although I'm reviving Fred. Twindeath is just wrong.) Furthermore... there might not be any sex in it.
That's right - I seem to be writing a really long, plot-heavy H/D fic that's entirely canon-compliant and only rated PG-13.
I know. I'm scared too.
The end of the world must be coming...
smut_wednesday? I mean, I know they deleted themselves before LJ could do it, but did they migrate somewhere and change the name? (I think I looked at Insane and Greatest, but perhaps not.) Anyone know? Help? I miss my Wednesday artsmut. :(
2) When did "strap-on sex" get turned into "pegging" and why? Does "pegging" mean something in particular?
3) You know that song "Teenagers" by My Chemical Romance? The song changes POVs halfway through and causes my brain to get all twisted up on itself, trying to figure out who is addressing whom. The first half "they" are adults who suck, but in the second half, "they" are mean teenagers. Hence confusion. Consequently, the bloody song has been stuck in my head for fucking *months* now.
4) Second runner-up to Things That Suck in Fandom, following WIPs that are abandoned and never finished = WIPS that finally finish, but totally just peter out in the last chapters. It sucks when you've been reading something brilliant for months and months and get all excited to see that it's finally finished and you reread from the beginning... only to discover that the author either lost their muse or just phoned it in or something. *sigh* (And before you all get paranoid on me: NO, this isn't about your fic. The fic that I'm thinking of at the moment was bandslash, my new secret vice.)
5) Saw "Stardust" this weekend and I really loved it. Frankly, I expected it to be kind of visually pretty and otherwise suck, which is good because I was totally surprised that it had a decent fairy-tale plot and was funny and was *tremendously* pretty. (The key to happiness in life is setting your expectations low. Seriously.)
The best part, though, was the totally unexpected queer content, which was handled in a way where it just wasn't that big of deal that the character was gay. Sure, it was a stereotype and yes, they did do the transvestite=gay thing, but still. It was random and incidental and in a teen/children's movie and that ROCKS. :)
6) Also, in "Stardust", it took me forever to recognize Rupert Everett, whom I adore. Mostly because every time the abd prince came on-screen, I kept thinking he'd have made a fantastic Snape in the HP movies.
Because my biggest peeve (ok, maybe not *biggest*, but one of the top ten) in the Harry Potter movies is that although I desperately adore Alan Rickman's voice, he's just too old. Or they needed to do de-aging makeup on him or something. Snape/the Marauders are only 19-22 years older than Harry (depending on which of JKR's timelines you go by), which means that even at the end of Book 7 when Harry is 18, Remus/Sirius/Severus would only have been 40. For the movie HP:POA, released in 2004 (when they'd all have been ~36), David was 41, Gary was 46, and Alan was 58.
Why yes. Yes I am a big Harry Potter geek. And I recently spent way *way* too much time researching people's ages for a fic that I'm working on. Made a 6-column table and everything.
(And don't even get me started on Remus' pornstache or facial scarring in POA. HOw could they do that to such a gorgeously fuckable man, I ask you? Such a crime.)
7) Which segues nicely into the last item: my fic for
ficrocksthe80s. It's Harry/Draco. It's (so far) totally canon compliant, even with DH, *even* with the revolting epilogue. (Although I'm reviving Fred. Twindeath is just wrong.) Furthermore... there might not be any sex in it. That's right - I seem to be writing a really long, plot-heavy H/D fic that's entirely canon-compliant and only rated PG-13.
I know. I'm scared too.
The end of the world must be coming...
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Date: 2007-10-03 05:36 pm (UTC)5) I saw it on the week-end too! Very pretty. There were a few character inconsistencies/plot devices near the end that eere a little weak, but all in all a fun movie.
I made a remark about the stereotypical nature of the gay thing, and the Dwarf said "What? I thought you were all about he gay pirates!" When I got home and told the kids there was a gay pirate they thought it was really cool, and when the Son found out who played the gay pirate he was shocked. (You know when he goes to the barber he says, "Cut it like Robert DeNiro in Taxi Driver.")
6) The ages in Harry Potter have been utterly inconsistent, and when DR is like 24 and playing Harry in the last movie it's really gonna show. but I forgive Alan Rickman for being 58 because he's Alan Rickman.
I think the next Harry Potter movie would be absolutely smashing is they could somehow squeeze int he line 'Hence the spitting" for Snape... but I have a soft spot for crossovers.
7) Twindeath is just wrong. I couldn't agree more. I may not talk to my twin, but I'm glad he's alive.
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Date: 2007-10-03 07:37 pm (UTC)5) Yay for synchronicity! I knew we were phsycially linked somehow.
6) Oh totally. They'd better crank out those last 2 movies ASAP. The kids are all growing up way too much.
I do love AR. Really. That voice makes up for almost anything. The makeup artists are the ones I have a real issue with, when you get down to it. It's like they don't even think Snape and Remus should be sexy.
7) *smooch*