we got all night

I feel like I haven't posted in a while, but it's only been like four days and I've been writing. It feels good. But the writing's taken over my brain to the extent that last night I had a dream about writing four different stories at once. The weird thing was the stories were the plots of the fics I'm writing, except the pairings were all messed up so I was essentially editing the stories in my dream to fit the right pairings. Like a game or something. I don't know.

It was better than the dream the night before, which was just a flurry of people being mean for the sake of being mean. I woke up angry at my subconscious for subjecting me to that.

But I want to finish all these fics first so they don't get in the way of my school writing come January or February (so excited to go back). So tomorrow is about catching up on the TV that I didn't watch this week in lieu of writing, a post about my thoughts on them and then back to writing. *is determined*

Lia

P.S. I like how the term "fan fiction" went from "fan fiction" to "fanfic" to just "fic." Pretty soon we're going to be calling them "ffffff" and people will wonder why fandom is so ragetoon all the time.

I'm still in my reading/writing marathon, which is unfortunate for my body, since I could use some fresh air and exercise. But otherwise I am being productive! And that's something that I haven't been in a long while.

I'm actually going to read a bunch of long-ass fics too. I usually never read things past 5,000 words, because I reasoned that if I wanted to read novel-length fics, I'd just go read a novel. But I read one fic that I'll be reccing in the next few days that was 51K and it was amazing, so I'm going to at least read the first part of a few large fics and if I end them going, "BUT WHAT HAPPENS NEXT!!!" I'll continue. I'm thisclose to thinking of counting them on my "books read" list, but that would be an insult to the other authors in my "to read" pile, no offense to the fic authors out there.

I have a few random questions though:

1. What month/year was Cursed filmed and actually released? IMDB posts the date a movie was first shown to an audience, which could be any amount of time before its actual theatrical/DVD release (at festivals and private screenings, etc).

2. Does anyone have a HQ/Hi-Res picture of the first time Jared did that climb-on-Jensen (the one from this event?) Google is surprisingly lacking in this exact picture.

3. I know someone made icons of TV Guide's credit error (when they wrote "Jensen Padalecki") but I can't find the actual post anymore?

4. Who is Danny? Some RPS fics mention him (and it's not Danneel, it's a guy) and I don't get who he is.

Only watching one show on the CW network is confusing when reading fic. But I like it that way.

( Another icon meme )

All the recs are gonna be Supernatural based from here on out. It's kind of ridiculous and I would be embarrassed at how much I've read in this fandom, except I really enjoy it. I don't even legitimately ship anyone on the show and I still enjoy some of the shippy fics. For example...

moonlettuce: Because only you believe me and only you can set me free (Supernatural, Dean/Castiel, NC-17)

tracy_loo_who: Breathless and Intoxicated on Triumph (Supernatural, Dean/Castiel, NC-17)

tracy_loo_who: Missit Me Dominus (Supernatural, Dean/Castiel, NC-17)
The Dean/Castiel shippers have weird titles for their fics, and most of the time I can't read them all the way through. But these three are great and this last one is HOT.

wandersfound: Heaven and Earth (Supernatural, Dean/Castiel, PG)
JIMMYYY. And the description of what Castiel went through when he was dragged back to Heaven is the best I've read so far on that subject.

wandersfound: In Which the Screen is Blurry (Supernatural, Dean/Castiel, PG-13)
This one's just hysterical. Castiel trying to watch a 3D movie and Sam bitching about being a chaperone!

martyred_wings: Until It Sleeps (Supernatural, Dean/Castiel, NC-17)
This one is pretty cracky, like a S1 fic would be, which is the only reason I mem'd it.

serialkarma: But The Vision (Supernatural, Dean/Castiel/Jimmy, PG-13)
I always get stuck on the characters no one cares about. WHY AREN'T THERE MORE FICS WITH JIMMY?!

Lia

So I'm finally getting around to reading fic I've saved in my "to-read" folders and tags from the last two years. At ten fics a day (with the way my family runs) it'll take about a week. Excuse the years-late comments. The good thing is I'll be reading all the fic y'all post from now on, like I used to. So there's that.

Anyway. The whole Diggnation in NYC in June thing is part of the Digg.com Meetup schedule (haven't kept up with Digg in the last year either, whoops) apparently, but they're coming to Webster Hall which is amazing, because I've always wanted to have an excuse to go there that wasn't for some random rave or whatever they usually do there. So next week! Just as excited as last year. Maybe this time I'll get decent pics of Prager and Hippie. I still want the TRS boys to come along, though.

In movies that I have watched recently, Night at the Museum 2 was entertaining and I totally didn't know all the cameos that were going to happen, nor did I know John Schwartzman was the DP. And he's not officially a Coppola, but he works a lot with Nic Cage and he's an alright cinematographer. When the inevitable two-movie pack comes out, I may buy that. I'm also finishing up on the Star Trek movies prior to the 2009 reboot and I'll talk about them as a whole when that's done (if all goes according to plan, First Contact, Nemesis and Insurrection will happen tomorrow). But at this moment in time, Voyage Home is easily my favorite. "I think he had too much LDS." XD Unintentionally insinuating Spock likes Mormons equals AMAZING.

And finally, I've started researching Castiel more for this fic I'm writing and I keep coming across video interviews of Misha Collins and I'm really starting to like the guy. I still get super-protective when someone doesn't understand fandom or reacts to fans like we're aliens, but it feels like he's trying his darnedest, so that's a plus. And he's amusing on Twitter.

Lia

Last night I was out of my mind with boredom. I think my instant gratification disease is attacking again. There's so many things I want to do but all of them take more time than I'm willing to spend on a single thing. I want entertainment right here, right now. Eventually I gave up just wasting time and ended up-- at 4am, mind you-- making a background for Twitter, re-doing my LJ layout and staring at my Twitter pic wondering whether I should change it, too. I had a few dreams but they're all jumbled right now since everyone kept waking me up about every five minutes and I don't know which dream was which.

Something is wrong with the world when Downey and Hugh Jackman receive stars on the Walk of Fame in the same year. I don't know what the criteria is, but is Hugh Jackman really that deserving so soon? As far as I can tell he's only been around since 2000. I awww'd about Macy and Huffman getting stars the same year. And lol @ Tinkerbell and the Village People.

I don't know why I was so late to the party but this (seemingly) dead fic-a-thon is pretty interesting to go through. I feel odd with films like Zodiac, Good Night, Good Luck and Fur which are about real people. You'd think it'd be like RPF and that it wouldn't be weird to me because I don't mind RPF, but just the idea of there being fics about these movies is weirding me out. Especially Fur since that in itself was an AU fanfic on celluloid. I wonder how Arbus's family feels about that movie. My views on fan fiction have changed lately, anyway. I'm more interested in anything that's not slash. And my flist being what it is, that is very hard to find! Not that I'm frustrated by it, it's just an amusing fact.

Now that I'm reminded of other creepy subject matter, I was having a conversation with my dad the other day about the CGI in The Incredible Hulk and I mentioned the uncanny valley and had to explain the theory to him. We started talking about how it's creepy when animals show signs of intelligence like when you go to the zoo and the gorillas wave or wink at you or when you're trying to squash a roach and it plays dead so you leave it alone. And I figure that the reason humans find humanoid robots and animals so creepy is because we have a superiority complex. Dad mentioned this Nat Geo program we watched in March about how gorillas have faster memory than humans and I said that that's not creepy because we assume it's a necessary skill for whatever they do in the wild. Kind of how squirrels always remember where they put their nuts but I can't remember my password for GMail when my notifier conks out on me. It's the same way we are amazed and not scared by birds or platypi. But when animals show signs of genius at human levels-- like the roach that tried hiding under a glass container so I wouldn't send him to his maker-- it's weird because we think, "Wait, we're supposed to be the ultimate beings here, not you. How does a mouse, a simple rodent outsmart me, a human!" And I think that's part of the reason why that beach scene in Planet of the Apes is so scary because it's like evolution denied us what we're supposed to be. Does that make sense?

Anyway, My Boys is about to start, I need to load up The Sims 2 and I'm looking into other simulation/strategy games. I'm thinking about getting Black & White or the latest Civilization since I loved the demo so much on my old computer. There also needs to be a new bar-tending simulator. I missed my chance to own Last Call back then as well. Anyone play any of these god games? I really want Spore as well, but that's not shocking news.

( Random Diggnation-related videos )

Lia

For all you writers out there... (and especially musicians and poets) how do you deal with how the words starts to come to you?

Usually I'm just sitting around when I start getting lines of poetry in my head. So I grab either a pad or open TextEdit (whichever is closest) and just go. Hopefully I can get some semblance of a poem out before I run dry, but sometimes I don't. And when it just stops, the piece always looks half done. But I can never get myself to merge it with something else. They're all their own creatures in a way. How do you deal with that?

And sometimes I'm tired and want to go to sleep or I'm terribly busy at the moment and can't write them down. Then I feel like they're lost in the proverbial wind of my mind. Because I can never remember them exactly the way they were later on. I assume a song that's born by music first is just as frustrating, yeah?

I just wrote three different half-done poems in ten minutes, wth.

And hey, it's been ages since I've done Six Degrees. So give me some people to match up! If you don't know what Six Degrees is, here's an example:

Vanessa Marcil and Billy Crudup: Vanessa Marcil - The Rock - Nicolas Cage - 8MM - Joaquin Phoenix - Inventing the Abbotts - Billy Crudup

Lia