It's a line I don't believe anymore
Jun. 1st, 2004 12:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fan_eluneAlright, so here's all the stuff I wanted to post these last few days, and the great update-via-email service didn't work.
On Friday morning:
Since I have to wait to get something from my betas on Thou Liv'st Forever, I went back to FoF, on which I'd been fairly blocked because of something I could not decide whether to put in or not. Ended up writing it, and I think I'll write the following story with its having happened, though there's every chance I'll actually take it out. For all that I love Norri, sometimes he can be a pain in the arse to figure out. But how much I do love him.
By the way, people, do go check out No Rest for the Weary by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cgwriting (she's posting it on her lj, all of you rush there already). She's doing the pairing nobody would have thought of, but which works so very well: Buffy/Norrington. Yup yup. Jamesie's getting himself some Slayer goodness. But it's far from being all fluff and smut (though there is ample smut of excellent quality). I have a feeling we'll all be heartbroken by the end.
While you're on her lj, do check out the HP poster she posted a few days ago. I always said Tom Felton would turn out to be quite the hottie, and he's well on his way. (And hopefully *that* poster will be easier to find than the HP2 Slytherin one - kudos to Santa, Losgann and Sweetie again!) Which makes me think that I still have not found the courage to go through Tapping all over again. It will demand so much planning and reworking on... I honestly don't think I'll get to it until next year (it's a bit of a joke, really: when I started it, I intended it to be finished before OotP).
And to finish on a cheerful note: my Frederic-shaped friend is back from New Zealand! Yay!!
On Friday night:
Yay! I finished FoF!! Well, I finished the first draft. Just went over it all again. It's a little over 30k words long. Heh. I hope it's good, I'm so anxious about its sucking. I'm going to need major betaing advice on it. I even showed Gillette in a somewhat good light at some point. Yes, I did. I even wrote some Gillette POV! Which will definitely need some reworking. Don't have any hope of FoF being as good as Cinnie's No Rest for the Weary (which is done and ever so beautiful), or Cinnie and Khylaren's Tale of Two Captains, or any of firesignwriter's Pirates fic, but trying to attain unreachable heights is what allows us to improve, isn't it?
Oh, and big surprise - no, not really. I realised that Origin (518 of AtS) had been written by Drew Goddard. Funny how his eps always stand out to me, even when I don't know they're by him. That guy is so talented. (Yes, I do believe I'm turning into a Drew fangirl.)
Very frustrating to have no connection time left. It means I can't do the research I need to do for some details at the end of FoF. *pouts*
Oh, well. Now that I'm done with FoF, I think that, *sigh*, I'll be reading Joseph Andrews tonight. Why can't we be studying LotR or the Silmarillion in class? Or some Pratchett or Adams? Or possibly, in a more-likely-to-be-studied-in-France way, some Byron? Or Shelley, I'm not gonna be picky on this one.
On Saturday night:
Just watched a TV movie on M6 about a gay man in love with his best friend. Straight best friend. It wasn't really good - we French people suck at making good TV, it seems. Producers won't take any risk and - well, that's material for the rant of another time. The point is, the gay man in question, with his friends, were working for gay marriage. And they actually managed to get it. The movie ended on a gay marriage (and no, no that of the gay guy and his straight friend - straight friend remained straight). The title of the thing was "3 hommes, une femme, 2 mariages," if I remember correctly, which pretty much sums up how stupid the thing was.
And so yeah, the movie wasn't really good. There were more than a handful of clichés. But it just feels so damned good to see French TV deal with such issues. I know it's because it's "trendy" these days, yay for gay culture and all that jazz, but still. If gay trendiness helps people accept homosexuality, I can't say that I mind. And the thing is, gay marriage wasn't treated like such an undoable thing in that movie. It didn't focus on all the difficulties they had at all. So yes, it was quite unrealistic, because our government sucks - maybe it was written in an AU where we had a left-wing government, I don't know. But the casualness of it - it felt good.
'Sides, the one lesbian they had in it was rather hot. *wicked smirk* Red hair (and I mean red-red), clear-cut features, and a personality to match that look. I only wish the whole movie (including her character) hadn't been full of stereotypes, and the story hadn't been so... obvious. Oh well. It's a start.
So yeah, my weekend wasn't terribly exciting - I'm supposed to be studying, after all. Cinnie is helping me improve FoF, though, and she's the best of helps. Really.
Also, since exams are coming up, muses are in a frenzy and I started working on a couple of birthday fics for people on Cinnie's mailing list. Yay! I hope they'll like them... and I hope I get them finished in time, too. One of them will be my first forray into that fandom and I'm rather anxious about it. Oh well. Time will tell.
On Friday morning:
Since I have to wait to get something from my betas on Thou Liv'st Forever, I went back to FoF, on which I'd been fairly blocked because of something I could not decide whether to put in or not. Ended up writing it, and I think I'll write the following story with its having happened, though there's every chance I'll actually take it out. For all that I love Norri, sometimes he can be a pain in the arse to figure out. But how much I do love him.
By the way, people, do go check out No Rest for the Weary by
cgwriting (she's posting it on her lj, all of you rush there already). She's doing the pairing nobody would have thought of, but which works so very well: Buffy/Norrington. Yup yup. Jamesie's getting himself some Slayer goodness. But it's far from being all fluff and smut (though there is ample smut of excellent quality). I have a feeling we'll all be heartbroken by the end. While you're on her lj, do check out the HP poster she posted a few days ago. I always said Tom Felton would turn out to be quite the hottie, and he's well on his way. (And hopefully *that* poster will be easier to find than the HP2 Slytherin one - kudos to Santa, Losgann and Sweetie again!) Which makes me think that I still have not found the courage to go through Tapping all over again. It will demand so much planning and reworking on... I honestly don't think I'll get to it until next year (it's a bit of a joke, really: when I started it, I intended it to be finished before OotP).
And to finish on a cheerful note: my Frederic-shaped friend is back from New Zealand! Yay!!
On Friday night:
Yay! I finished FoF!! Well, I finished the first draft. Just went over it all again. It's a little over 30k words long. Heh. I hope it's good, I'm so anxious about its sucking. I'm going to need major betaing advice on it. I even showed Gillette in a somewhat good light at some point. Yes, I did. I even wrote some Gillette POV! Which will definitely need some reworking. Don't have any hope of FoF being as good as Cinnie's No Rest for the Weary (which is done and ever so beautiful), or Cinnie and Khylaren's Tale of Two Captains, or any of firesignwriter's Pirates fic, but trying to attain unreachable heights is what allows us to improve, isn't it?
Oh, and big surprise - no, not really. I realised that Origin (518 of AtS) had been written by Drew Goddard. Funny how his eps always stand out to me, even when I don't know they're by him. That guy is so talented. (Yes, I do believe I'm turning into a Drew fangirl.)
Very frustrating to have no connection time left. It means I can't do the research I need to do for some details at the end of FoF. *pouts*
Oh, well. Now that I'm done with FoF, I think that, *sigh*, I'll be reading Joseph Andrews tonight. Why can't we be studying LotR or the Silmarillion in class? Or some Pratchett or Adams? Or possibly, in a more-likely-to-be-studied-in-France way, some Byron? Or Shelley, I'm not gonna be picky on this one.
On Saturday night:
Just watched a TV movie on M6 about a gay man in love with his best friend. Straight best friend. It wasn't really good - we French people suck at making good TV, it seems. Producers won't take any risk and - well, that's material for the rant of another time. The point is, the gay man in question, with his friends, were working for gay marriage. And they actually managed to get it. The movie ended on a gay marriage (and no, no that of the gay guy and his straight friend - straight friend remained straight). The title of the thing was "3 hommes, une femme, 2 mariages," if I remember correctly, which pretty much sums up how stupid the thing was.
And so yeah, the movie wasn't really good. There were more than a handful of clichés. But it just feels so damned good to see French TV deal with such issues. I know it's because it's "trendy" these days, yay for gay culture and all that jazz, but still. If gay trendiness helps people accept homosexuality, I can't say that I mind. And the thing is, gay marriage wasn't treated like such an undoable thing in that movie. It didn't focus on all the difficulties they had at all. So yes, it was quite unrealistic, because our government sucks - maybe it was written in an AU where we had a left-wing government, I don't know. But the casualness of it - it felt good.
'Sides, the one lesbian they had in it was rather hot. *wicked smirk* Red hair (and I mean red-red), clear-cut features, and a personality to match that look. I only wish the whole movie (including her character) hadn't been full of stereotypes, and the story hadn't been so... obvious. Oh well. It's a start.
So yeah, my weekend wasn't terribly exciting - I'm supposed to be studying, after all. Cinnie is helping me improve FoF, though, and she's the best of helps. Really.
Also, since exams are coming up, muses are in a frenzy and I started working on a couple of birthday fics for people on Cinnie's mailing list. Yay! I hope they'll like them... and I hope I get them finished in time, too. One of them will be my first forray into that fandom and I'm rather anxious about it. Oh well. Time will tell.
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Date: 2004-05-31 05:28 pm (UTC)However, the end surprised me, as I didn't think they would make such a happy-end with the gay marriage being accepted... It's just like the time jumped 5 years forward.
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Date: 2004-05-31 05:54 pm (UTC)Love, remind me to kill off one or two of your muses. Your zoo is clearly getting too big :-p
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Date: 2004-05-31 06:45 pm (UTC)Now - the straight girl was definitely hot, but I liked the personality of the gay girl much better. I wonder whether we were meant to like or dislike the straight girl... And anyway. I tend to go for long hair over short, generally, I find.
As for the ending - I didn't expect it 'cause I didn't know the title of the movie until after the movie, when I checked it on the net. So I was quite surprised. I'd seen it coming, the whole what's-his-name has a crush on whatever the hero's name was (wow, that movie really made an impression. I can only remember the straight guy's name, and that's because it's Dan and it made me think of 'my' Dan on Gaia.), but not the actual wedding.
It was pretty awesome to have the movie end on that. Though they really demeaned the idea of marriage before that (with the straight wedding, but still), when the dad was all "if nobody cares can we please get on with it?" and how they could always get a divorce later, so it kinda made it as if it wasn't a big deal. I think they were rather clumsy at bringing their point across. Or possibly, their point itself was 'clumsy'.
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Date: 2004-05-31 06:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-31 06:15 pm (UTC)Re: the sucky movie: I love the idea of unrequited love in all its forms-- something just so damned tragic about it. Is it a coincidence that the next installment of the Unrequited series will feature a gay man in love with his straight friend? Gonna start writing that... eventually. Heh.
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Date: 2004-05-31 06:25 pm (UTC)And that icon of mine? Cy and Skids from Boy Meets Boy? Cy is big on the Skids love (despite being otherwise straight), and Skids is big on the Harley love (Harley being in a committed relationship for over three years now). It's a pairing that would never work for a thousand reasons, but I'm still a sucker. Cy simply breaks my heart.
I really can't wait for this next installment, really.
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Date: 2004-05-31 06:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-31 06:57 pm (UTC)And oh - you too? Tybalt is completely my big crush of the comic. Have you tried reading Avarice's fiction on his time with Mik? It's so very excellent. I have a thing for guys who pretend to not give a damn and are in fact falling so very hard.
I think it was even sweeter when he wanted to help Skids and all, but still wouldn't really acknowledge his feelings. I guess I'm not a true Cy/Skids 'shipper in the sense that, hell - Cy was being such a dork anyway, and Tybalt was being so very lovable... in that devious, amoral way of his. How could I not be rooting for Tybalt instead?
Ha, that comic was so very good.
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Date: 2004-05-31 07:07 pm (UTC)Oh, me too! It just melts me :)
No, haven't read that fic... URL?
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Date: 2004-05-31 07:30 pm (UTC)It's the Chalk and Charcoal series. It's absolutely wonderful, and beta-read by Sandra Delete, too, so it has her stamp of approval. It's so very faithful to the spirit of Mik and Tybalt.
If you want some other good Tybalt fic, you can also check out Avarice's All the King's Horses - it's an AU from the break-up. Quite a lot of Tybalty goodness in it as well. Avarice writes him beautifully.
She's also the one who selected all those fics for the archive, and they're pretty much all gems - those I read so far, anyway.
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Date: 2004-06-01 01:54 pm (UTC)I think I'm definitely not a sucker for that... 'Cause it just hurts way too much in RL.
(Actually, as I learnt a few years ago, it can even hurt when you're on the other side of the fence.)
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Date: 2004-06-01 04:16 pm (UTC)And I know everything about the pain of the other side of the fence, too.
Big love, sis.