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[flowrs4ophelia]

(I'm kind of slowly facing the fact that my other journal paintedponyxox is practically dying as the outlet it used to be for anything besides actual fanworks, recs, and more organized meta such as I always post here, because I just don't have many active fandom friends on that journal anymore. This means I'll have more posts like this here from now on and generally post more, while that journal will probably become mostly for the real-life reports and drunk pics and keeping in touch with my friends who have no idea what "slash" or "meta" refers to, etc. Which really makes the most sense to do. Anyway...)


1. I now have a Dreamwidth, with my 'e' in "flowers" dammit, though I'm really not sure if I'll be doing much with it besides having my username to comment with. *shrug* I also have a shiny new Delicious. The task of adding bookmarks to that and organizing them all is practically addictive. And I've had way too much fun making ridiculous and mostly pointless tags like "drunk_kirk_is_so_cute", "gun_porn", "imprinting_is_evil", and "watson's_afghanistan_angst".

2. Oh fuck me. I saw The Wolfman, which not only also takes place in Victorian London but in the exact same year as Sherlock Holmes just so this is begging to be done as much as possible, and now I'm pretty sure I'm going to have to write a completely insane crossover because we already need more werewolf!Watson fic in the world anyway. What the ending suggests about Hugo Weaving's Scotland Yard detective character makes it all too easy. I put a prompt for something like this on the SH kink meme but now a fairly detailed idea of how it could be done has taken over my head too much and I don't think there's any fighting it. O_O

This is horrible, though. My list of SH fics I have to write is getting monstrous and unmanageable. Especially since I've also been struck with a random idea to write Irene/Mary fic. I've never done femmeslash before and I'm finally kind of resigned to the fact that my musebrain does this thing where anything I would usually think I'd never particularly want to do I'll eventually realize I have to do for that very reason just to see how I can handle something I'm not used to. LOL. And it's actually going to be pretty damn tragic by the end because even though I don't see any good reason for Mary to get dealt the same fate in the movies that she does in canon, I seem to like throwing it into fanfic. :/

(By the way, as I've been going through the books I've realized that it's never actually specified how Mary died, but so many fans talk/write about her dying of consumption that I had the idea it was canon. I swear I've even read about people drawing parallels between that and Conan Doyle's life because he had a wife who died that way. I'm kinda confused. Is this just one of those kind of things that's such a popular fanon idea that it's commonly mixed up with canon?)

4. I gotta say...I wasn't at all opposed to Tim Burton doing Alice In Wonderland when I heard it was actually happening and was pretty excited about the cast and all, but now that I've seen the second trailer I think it just looks kind of obnoxious. :(

5. Note to self: messing around looking through little_details when I'm bored is infinitely less brain-rotting than reading ohnotheydidnt or fanficrants. Now, if only I could find out what the typical penalty might be for someone arrested for public intoxication in the 1880s...

6. I finally have a new computer after my old one died, which means now I can finally get caught up on Skins and other stuff I haven't been watching. Wheee.

I have been watching Caprica and liking it but don't have much to say. Except Uncle Sam is the shit and TAURON BOYS PLAYS JACKS WITH THE FINGER BONES OF TAURON BOYS WHO LOSE THEIR JACKS. Haha Grammadama is creepy.

7. I guess all this bullshit with the "Literate Union" getting stuff deleted from ff.net is getting real. It's time like these that I'm so very glad I'm not a BNF with fics everybody knows about. I only even have a couple fics posted in the pit that are probably just explicit enough to violate the TOS and have had people ask me just in case anything happens if I archive my writing anywhere else. But it seems like most stuff getting reported and pulled is Edward/Bella fic, so I'm probably safe. I don't want to be all "LOL sucks to be you" about it, but I'm watching everyone at the_gazebo in their panic and click-saving frenzy and can't help but just think Wow, you guys must read a LOT of porn in this fandom if this is changing your life. If Jacob/Bella wasn't for whatever strange reason my one ship with a great lack of NC-17 material available it would probably be another story, haha.

Comments

[randomneses.livejournal.com]

I still haven't watched this season on skins because I'm lazy. I'll watch all the eps tomorrow though.

I'm not looking forward to Alice in Wonderland at all tbh. That stupid Avril Lavigne song especially ruined my very little interest.

What is this union?

[flowrs4ophelia.livejournal.com]

They're this group that is basically trying to rid fanfiction.net of any fics they hate by reporting them if they have explicit content. Which...does make the fic in violation of their rules and all, but it sounds like they're pretty much only doing it to be assholes.

[bluesigma.livejournal.com]

Nope.

[flowrs4ophelia.livejournal.com]

I'll probably only see the movie if I hear lots of good things about it. It looks like a bit of a CGI headache, LOL.

I got a MacBook. I loves it.

[ninety6tears.livejournal.com]

5. I'm actually kinda surprised by how amusing/constructive fanficrants can be, unlike fandomsecrets which ends up making me want to pull my hair out sometimes. But I actually have moments where people rant about things I never considered could bother readers, which has to be taken with a grain of salt, but still. And the people there seem overall relatively sane.

7. I thought they were mainly getting stuff deleted that's just...badfic. And using the appropriateness level as an excuse.

Hey, I thought you needed an invite for dreamwidth? Is that no longer the case?

[flowrs4ophelia.livejournal.com]

Idk, after getting comfortable with the idea that SH fandom is overwhelmingly friendly I finally ran into the first fan who was being kind of an ass in that comm, so I haven't gotten the best impression so far. LOL. It's definitely not as much of a waste of life as browsing fsecrets, though.

I have a feeling this group is just full of obnoxious "I have nothing better to use my energy on than hating Twilight" people and to them all popular Twilight fic is badfic. That's a fandom that's getting specifically targeted a lot more than others. I'm sure a lot of stuff they're getting deleted really is God-awful, but words can't describe how much they need to get the fuck over themselves.

[ninety6tears.livejournal.com]

Hmm, what was the SH fan being an ass about? Yes, there are some nitpickers, but they usually get sort of LEARNED. Haha, this post (http://community.livejournal.com/fanficrants/9244515.html). I died, would LOL again. And when some of them turn into discussion of how Leonard McCoy would really NOT react if somebody threatened to break his arm, and somebody comments saying that they've just then considered actually watching TOS because of the nature of the Trek discussions in the comm, it's fun.

[sighani.livejournal.com]

OH JEEZ. Y'know, the entire time I was watching The Wolfman, I was giggling about Sherlock Holmes and how he would handle the case. But werewolf!Watson?? You are amazing. This needs to be written. <3

Also, you summed up my feelings toward Alice in Wonderland exactly. I have no desire to see it anymore. Johnny Depp is the only incentive, but I won't pay for a whole movie night just for him, sorry.

[flowrs4ophelia.livejournal.com]

I read a pretty awesome but short fic a while ago about Holmes finding out Watson is a werewolf, but after I came out of this movie I couldn't stop thinking how something about him being turned into one would be a whole other awesome thing and now I need it badly. Haha.

[eumelkeks.livejournal.com]

Friended you on DW. You'll see, it's a cool place with many nifty things that LJ doesn't have. :D

And I always feel super after reading fanficrants. Because others are MORE STUPIDERER THAN I ARE.

[flowrs4ophelia.livejournal.com]

And I always feel super after reading fanficrants. Because others are MORE STUPIDERER THAN I ARE.

Yeah, it's definitely great for that, LOL. I wouldn't have missed the hilarity of this sex ed fail post (http://community.livejournal.com/fanficrants/9244927.html) today for anything.

[eumelkeks.livejournal.com]

I read it this morning and couldn't stop smirking throughout the whole thing. Fandom, how I love thee!

[rayruz.livejournal.com]

Uncle Sam Adama is the coolest. That is all.

[trascendenza]

I have nothing much to add except that I support more posts like this! They are neat. ♥