forget your Unified Theory of Everything

1) I think sometimes we all forget the internet is for porn. It's a sad state of affairs. I hope one day our youth will grow up with the truth, instead of these lies about the internets being SRS BIZNESS. On that note:

2) Where is the Spike/Giles? Flist, I friended you for a reason. Don't let me down in my new housemate's time of need.

3) Have you seen the movie, The Godfather? Did you like it? Why? I understand that this movie is cleverly shot and superbly acted, but why is it so well-loved and famous? I mean, I know why I love it, but they do not seem to be reasons of the masses, forgive my gross stereotype. And why doesn't The Godfather have fandom? Why is it all these . . . non-fannish fans who don't write fanfiction and think no one in the stories can be gay? For that matter, why am I so fannish about it? I'd think it was a fluke, but turns out I was this obsessed before (in 2005 I wrote fic for it. I never forgot it, but I was kinda surprised when I thought about it when I started getting excited about reseeing the first movie). Lastly: WHERE IS THE TOM HAGEN LOVE?

Please, even if you've only just seen the first one in passing, lemme know what you think about it.

Hi from Texas! There are a million things to say, but I have a million things going on, so I say the most important.

-I rec When All The Years Fill In, Harry/Ginny, by seraphcelene. Yes, your resident Harry/Draco shipper is reccing Harry/Ginny. This is a very short piece, about why Harry/Ginny don't work. Even though I don't ship Harry/Ginny, and in fact sort of anti-ship them (though you'll never see me bash them, because I love Ginny and used to love the ship very much), this fic made me sort of wish they could work out. Not because they're so right for each other, but because all the ways they're wrong are so realistic and hurty, and I wish our world and living our lives was more of what we dream, you know? The imagery and the insights in this piece are absolutely exquisite.

-I rec The Seduction of Wendy Darling, Peter Pan, by seraphcelene. I'm not in Peter Pan fandom. Does it have a fandom? Pls to be telling me it does, because one reason I love this fic and am reccing it is because this canon is some seriously twisted shit. As the author makes use of herself, the 2003 movie made use of it too, but it was still marketed for kids, which meant a lot of the twistedness had to remained at least sort of subtle. This author brings all that to the fore. The imagery and language in this is beautiful, too.

Both this and the Harry/Ginny piece are about the realities of growing older and losing the dreams of youth, a concept which is near and dear and wrenching to my heart. Few things I've read have captured the pain and poignancy of it as this author has. Both are short, so if you have a moment, go read and feed.

-I rec my_daroga as a person and LJ friend. She's one of the best people I've ever met. LJ-wise--check out her photography, which almost always tells it's own story, not just of beauty but of something else besides. She also does movie reviews of interesting films; they're always very insightful and often ironic (and amusing), but also concise and to the point, and they don't spoil. She also does has an awesome sense of humor. When I get her jokes I feel special. Plus she's a Phantom of the Opera BNF and is revitalizing phandom one brick by bloody brick. I love her.

-I'm still posting Go Your Own Way, (Batman) Bruce Wayne/Jim Gordon with lots of dirty talk and daddy kink. I'll tell you when I'm done but I thought I'd remind you. I wonder if now is the best time to post these things, with everyone so busy...may repost the recs again later. Anywho, I like this story. I still don't get it, but I like it.

So, I was going through my photobucket, and realized I have some unfinished photo projects, a la My Cheesy Love For Fictional Heroines, The Great Connor // Jackson Browne Debate, and much much more. So I thought I'd try to finish some of them.

This one . . . I'm not finishing. I've long had ideas for a bunch of icons that I thought would be good, but I suck at making stuff :o( Then photobucket got some shiny new toys that allowed you to easily put text on photos without it looking crappy (me not having of the Photoshop or anything like that), so I messed around with it some. I found out I still suck, but these were the ones I did.

( failed captions ftw. For some reason, I have BtVS/Angel . . . and Mulan. Then, as usual, some random. )

So I finished my IWRY fic. Do I know why I am posting, since I will be posting about it again when it gets posted on my day? No. Do I care? Not really.

It was nice to write Buffy people again. Even if it was really only four Buffy people, one of which was actually an Angel people. I'm surprised I actually remember how to spell Buffy.

Anyway, I do have discussion points for you all. Don't collectively groan. Or do; I can't hear you so it doesn't matter. Here it is: I find it remarkably easier to write fanfic when I'm not knee-deep in the fandom it pertains to. I'll always love Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Angel, but it's not my "thing" right now, and therefore it's easier to write. Remember Man's Best Friend? Which is one of my favorite fics I've written (and yes, I still plan on finishing, so sorry!)? I was not "in" the fandom when I wrote that. I still wanted to write Angel fanfic, obviously, but Angel was not my every waking thought, you know?

I think this is the case because I have So Serious Syndrome. ( More about SSS, and what YOU can do to prevent it. )

And it's not the new profile page.

So, how do you lock all posts in a comm, so non-members can't see them? The only answer I can find on lj FAQ is to go into each entry and change the security levels one at a time (unless you have a paid account). This is fine, I have no problem with lj's lameness (yet). But even as maintainer of a comm, I can't edit other people's entries to change the security level. So...what? I have to ask them to go in and do it themselves? If so? That is. So. Lame.

If not...please halp? *puppy eyes*

I remember when pornish_pixies came back after being deleted, you couldn't see a thing going on in there! I can see some very dedicated mods going back in and changing all the security levels, but I highly doubt people posting in 2003 who forgot they even wrote it came back just to lock there Potter porn. Is it because that is a paid account?

Stupid stupid stupid.

In other news, America. *beams*

So, I just posted to this comm I run, and in the mood theme place it says I'm feeling hopeful.

I am not feeling hopeful.

Well, I totally am, because TOMORROW YOU GUYS TOMORROW, and also I'm doing it I'm really doing it, and I like my job even though some people suck, and I'm going to Granny's for Thanksgiving and stuff, and people keep having babies, like both my brothers and a friend back home and crazydiamondsue (er, not that she had another one. I mean the old one. Yes, Jonah is OLD now), and it is autumn, and Thornfield is not only a beautiful place in autumn, Cirian!Rochester, it is a beautiful place all year round, says Morton!Jane, and I love what I'm writing now SO MUCH, and Evangelion is amazing.

But I am not hopeful because I did not say I was hopeful, Mr. Livejournal Thang, so please to not be telling me how I feel!

Why would it do this? Was it looking at my voter's registration card???

For the last year and a half my biggest fandom has been something I haven't talked about all that much.

I'll always be a part of BtVS and Angel fandom, not only because I love the canon but because the people there mean a lot to me. I still have a lot of fics I want to write in it, but I've slowed down a lot. But even when that was my biggest fandom, and many times since, I've had flings: Harry/Draco, Pam/Jim, BSG, Horatio Hornblower. My thing now is Gordon/Batman, and though I love it much, I suspect it is but a fling.

This fandom was not a fling.

That fandom is/was mistful's writing. Those of you that know are probably saying, doesn't she just write Harry/Draco fanfiction? Well, yes. And in some ways, you could say Harry/Draco has been that secret non-fling fandom for the past year and a half. I do love the ship for itself, and when I write fic for it, it is about what I bring to those two characters.

But though mistful does use those characters, I don't believe you have to like the ship--or even like them, or even know the canon--to love these stories, and be so, so glad you read them. They have been my fandom, not the source material. They've been the places my mind has wandered, when I have free time; they've been the things I wanted to write fanfic about; they've been the things I needed to talk about.

mistful isn't going to write any more fanfiction, because she's going to be writing profic. She's started a fantasy trilogy (the Demon's Lexicon); the first book is going to be published in 2009. I'm happy, and not just for her. I'm anticipating those books more eagerly than I ever anticipated Harry Potter, and as much as books by any of my favorite authors (most of whom are dead, so I don't really get that eager). Because I am a die hard fangirl, there's a comm where you can talk about her professional stuff here: marmalade_fish.

( But about that fanfic... )

You know what the world needs more of?

Batman/Gordon. Bruce Wayne/Jim Gordon, Bruce/Jim, Jim/Bruce, Jim Gordon/Bruce Wayne, Gordon/Batman. Do you see how I am like a tween dreaming of marriage to her chemistry class crush? Bruce Gordon. Jim Wayne. Bruce Wayne-Gordon. James "Jim" Wayne.

First of all, you guys, Commissioner Gordon. I read this quote about how in a place like Gotham City, it's easier to be Batman than Commissioner Gordon. It's melodramatic, but don't you think it's a little true? I mean, isn't the whole reason Wayne became Batman because he didn't see how else to do what needed to be done? And yeah, that's brave, and maybe cleverer, more productive, useful (in the short term. Who knows what it does for the underpinnings of society? I'm not even getting into the ideas of Gordon's actions being definitely more ethical, perhaps also more moral).

But Gordon's the one doing this thing he knows is impossible. And he's never going to stop, no matter how impossible it is. He's going to do it until it kills him, because someone needs to try.

I . . . don't know what's wrong with me.

I also don't know when RL is going to let up, but I'm hoping soon. I got a new job (still at the Science Center, different position), but I've finally done it a couple times now, and there's not extensive travel/visiting people for the next six weeks or so ... who knows. I miss you all. I do still read your journals, even if I don't comment. Looking forward to reading some fic eventually...!

So when I asked what books you were reading, I mentioned Twilight by Stephenie Meyer being amazing. And it is. [Yoda] It is. [/Yoda]

So I wrote a book review to share it with you all. I didn't actually finish the book review, because I was doing it at work and then even book reviewing got outlawed (counting rubberbands is still allowed!). Or perhaps it is . . . my style of book reviewing. Most things I do do require waving arms and--er, something I personally like to call vivacity, no matter what the people whispering behind their hands and looking at me strangely from the very farthest corner of the bus call it. Was it the "Everyone needs to see my book review for lo, I am genius!" part that got me in trouble?

( So here's Twilight, the Pretty Darn Quick version. )

In other news, those of you wondering what happened to daily_words--I fell off the wagon but will be back shortly. Many thanks to vaysh11 for handling Wednesdays!