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It has been a million and five years
Dec. 21st, 2011 11:41 amsince I posted anything here. But, like many, I expect, I'm shining up my dreamwidth in the light of the latest LJ fuckery. Don't mind me. :)
yuletide, movies, and last post of '09
Dec. 31st, 2009 11:13 pmI know this is extremely belated, but life has been crazy this break! Crazier than school generally is, and that's saying something.
First and most importantly, I got an amazing yuletide fic! It's for Robin McKinley's Sunshine, and it's wonderful and gorgeous and true to the book and I love it to the power of a million. <3. A Precious Seeing, still by Anonymous in my timezone!
Secondly, SHERLOCK HOLMES. I know there's a lot of fandom controversy on this one, but good lord I loved it. I thought it true to the essence and spirit of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle while still managing to be its own thing, which is hard to do and always awesome when done right. See Star Trek 2009 for more proof. :) Robert Downey Jr. was brilliant--about ten minutes into the movie I wanted nothing more than to take him home, wrap him in a blanket and feed him soup while I tell him that I love him over and over again, right before checking him into rehab. His Sherlock was flashier than the traditional version--but he was awkward and fumbling and an asshole and a cocaine addict and pathetically, achingly in love, and oh my god, I loved him. RDJ has a talent for portraying "painfully in love but clueless about what to do about it"--Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and Iron Man prove that--and his Holmes is no exception. Good lord, I loved him.
Beyond that, Jude Law rocked that moustache like there was no tomorrow. It shouldn't have been attractive, and yet it really, really was. I loved that his Watson wasn't an idiot, either--but someone genuinely sharp and intuitive in his own right, even if he isn't a Sherlock. The two women characters were brilliant as well, I thought--I was expecting to dislike Adler as an Elizabeth-Swann-inexplicably-and-randomly-badass-for-the-sake-of-titillation-type, but she totally won me over. And Mary won my heart pretty early on. See it, and you'll see why.
Posts to follow on the two other movies I saw this break: Avatar: a shocking thumbs down, and The Princess and the Frog, an even more startling thumbs up. :)
Happy new year, everyone. May 2010 be better than 2009!
First and most importantly, I got an amazing yuletide fic! It's for Robin McKinley's Sunshine, and it's wonderful and gorgeous and true to the book and I love it to the power of a million. <3. A Precious Seeing, still by Anonymous in my timezone!
Secondly, SHERLOCK HOLMES. I know there's a lot of fandom controversy on this one, but good lord I loved it. I thought it true to the essence and spirit of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle while still managing to be its own thing, which is hard to do and always awesome when done right. See Star Trek 2009 for more proof. :) Robert Downey Jr. was brilliant--about ten minutes into the movie I wanted nothing more than to take him home, wrap him in a blanket and feed him soup while I tell him that I love him over and over again, right before checking him into rehab. His Sherlock was flashier than the traditional version--but he was awkward and fumbling and an asshole and a cocaine addict and pathetically, achingly in love, and oh my god, I loved him. RDJ has a talent for portraying "painfully in love but clueless about what to do about it"--Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and Iron Man prove that--and his Holmes is no exception. Good lord, I loved him.
Beyond that, Jude Law rocked that moustache like there was no tomorrow. It shouldn't have been attractive, and yet it really, really was. I loved that his Watson wasn't an idiot, either--but someone genuinely sharp and intuitive in his own right, even if he isn't a Sherlock. The two women characters were brilliant as well, I thought--I was expecting to dislike Adler as an Elizabeth-Swann-inexplicably-and-randomly-badass-for-the-sake-of-titillation-type, but she totally won me over. And Mary won my heart pretty early on. See it, and you'll see why.
Posts to follow on the two other movies I saw this break: Avatar: a shocking thumbs down, and The Princess and the Frog, an even more startling thumbs up. :)
Happy new year, everyone. May 2010 be better than 2009!
After excitedly making a Dreamwidth account yesterday, I woke up today with an invite to archiveofourown. Which was cool. :) I don't know if someone sent me the code or not (I guess it's supposed to be anonymous?) or if it was the random generator, but if it was somebody, thanks! It's so shiny.
I went ahead and put up a fair number of my stories, and in the process re-read a lot of them. It made me remember just how much I love the Joker. Star Trek's been spinning around my head since May, and I've been loving every second of that, but I still don't feel like I have as strong a grasp on the characters as I did with the Joker.
It's not that I don't love writing Kirk and Spock--but it's harder. There's something about the distinctiveness of the Joker's voice, and the way his mind works that just clicked in my brain, and made it easier, somehow.
I get sort of the same feeling with the Jossverse characters I know best--like I don't have to sit and hunt for their voices, because Buffy and Xander and Spike and Dawn and Angel and Willow etc. are just so clearly themselves, and it's easier for me to hear what they would say, and how they would say it.
Maybe it's the difference in having a huge amount of canon to work from. I spent all of last year catching up on 7 seasons of Buffy, and 5 seasons of Angel, so that's 12 season, with about forty five minutes per episode and about 22 episodes per season. That's (I think, my math is horribly shaky) about 200 hours of just listening to how these characters talk. So maybe it makes sense that I'd "remember" their voices better? I've seen all the TOS movies and most of TOS itself, but it only sort of applies since what I mostly try to write is reboot. Also, the character whose voice I feel strongest on is Spock, and he's (to me) the most similar in terms of speech patterns etc. to his prime self.
With the Joker, it's only a 2 hour movie, but I also got into the huge canon of graphic novels that go along with it. So maybe it's got to do with digesting his voice in two separate mediums, and processing that separately in a way that made it more memorable? Or something?
Bah. I really don't know. I guess I'm just searching for a reason why I can love Trek, and love Jim, and love Spock, and have this urge to write about them, but not feel as easy about writing them.
But then I went back and read this this, and I just missed him, a lot.
Fine, don't thank me. But it's yours now, you know. Everything I've ever given you—lipstick kisses and death by dental drill. Tarot card suicides. Killer robots in acid green tights, poisoned stripper birthday cake, a pack of bloodstained playing cards with the sexy bits drawn back in and a couple of damn funny jokes.
*shrug* I don't know.
In closing, and because I just slightly depressed myself and he always cheers me up, Shatner. Includes such gems as "Shatner, asked about his position on guns and gun ownership, speaks instead of the day he wound up barreling down a California highway on his motorcycle with his clothes half torn from his body and blood pouring from his head (and several other parts of his body)—and with a teddy bear in tow."
I went ahead and put up a fair number of my stories, and in the process re-read a lot of them. It made me remember just how much I love the Joker. Star Trek's been spinning around my head since May, and I've been loving every second of that, but I still don't feel like I have as strong a grasp on the characters as I did with the Joker.
It's not that I don't love writing Kirk and Spock--but it's harder. There's something about the distinctiveness of the Joker's voice, and the way his mind works that just clicked in my brain, and made it easier, somehow.
I get sort of the same feeling with the Jossverse characters I know best--like I don't have to sit and hunt for their voices, because Buffy and Xander and Spike and Dawn and Angel and Willow etc. are just so clearly themselves, and it's easier for me to hear what they would say, and how they would say it.
Maybe it's the difference in having a huge amount of canon to work from. I spent all of last year catching up on 7 seasons of Buffy, and 5 seasons of Angel, so that's 12 season, with about forty five minutes per episode and about 22 episodes per season. That's (I think, my math is horribly shaky) about 200 hours of just listening to how these characters talk. So maybe it makes sense that I'd "remember" their voices better? I've seen all the TOS movies and most of TOS itself, but it only sort of applies since what I mostly try to write is reboot. Also, the character whose voice I feel strongest on is Spock, and he's (to me) the most similar in terms of speech patterns etc. to his prime self.
With the Joker, it's only a 2 hour movie, but I also got into the huge canon of graphic novels that go along with it. So maybe it's got to do with digesting his voice in two separate mediums, and processing that separately in a way that made it more memorable? Or something?
Bah. I really don't know. I guess I'm just searching for a reason why I can love Trek, and love Jim, and love Spock, and have this urge to write about them, but not feel as easy about writing them.
But then I went back and read this this, and I just missed him, a lot.
Fine, don't thank me. But it's yours now, you know. Everything I've ever given you—lipstick kisses and death by dental drill. Tarot card suicides. Killer robots in acid green tights, poisoned stripper birthday cake, a pack of bloodstained playing cards with the sexy bits drawn back in and a couple of damn funny jokes.
*shrug* I don't know.
In closing, and because I just slightly depressed myself and he always cheers me up, Shatner. Includes such gems as "Shatner, asked about his position on guns and gun ownership, speaks instead of the day he wound up barreling down a California highway on his motorcycle with his clothes half torn from his body and blood pouring from his head (and several other parts of his body)—and with a teddy bear in tow."
