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This response is completely off the top of my head and ended up being (1) way longer than I expected, so I'm posting it in bits and pieces, and (2) more fervent than I expected, so if you like Padmé and/or the prequels, you may not want to listen/read. But here we go. Oh, and the transcript necessarily includes the essay I'm reacting to, since I read it aloud and responded point-by-point (well, started to).
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This response is completely off the top of my head and ended up being (1) way longer than I expected, so I'm posting it in bits and pieces, and (2) more fervent than I expected, so if you like Padmé and/or the prequels, you may not want to listen/read. But here we go. Oh, and the transcript necessarily includes the essay I'm reacting to, since I read it aloud and responded point-by-point (well, started to).
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I will probably doing more audio things in the near future, because, honestly, it's about all I have time for at the moment. Back in ye olde days of 300-level classes, and only three of them, I had plenty of time for my sort of involved, rambly essays, which I just don't at the moment. But I do want to stay involved in my fandoms! So audio stuff that doesn't take as long, with transcripts when I can manage, so sort of like rambles, but more...spontaneous!
In related whatsits, I would like to do a reading of something I didn't write, in accordance with the whole hey-I-have-time-for-talking-if-not-much-e
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In related whatsits, I would like to do a reading of something I didn't write, in accordance with the whole hey-I-have-time-for-talking-if-not-much-e
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so I'm the subject of a Youtube review
Jan. 22nd, 2012 01:17 pmWell, The Adventures of Lucy Skywalker is, anyway. I stumbled across it the other day, and it was ... um, okay, kind of weird, because a good portion of the review is the reviewer just reading and occasionally interspersing commentary, and the way she reads it sounds nothing like how it does in my head (it’s awful, but I kept wanting to say ‘um, I put those stops there for a reason’). It's not the accent, either, just ... I don't know. The rest is a brief sum-up of her opinions that seemed mostly about some other fic she disliked, but she concluded that mine is more than adequate, which was nice? You can try to watch/listen to it here, if you want.
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In my head, this post has always been the natural follow up to my Death Star rant, aka “why Luke was totally justified in blowing up the Death Star and certainly not a mass murderer.” Actually I'm not sure they have anything to do with each other, but anyway.
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I have, somehow, managed to acquire too many pictures for a normal picspam since my last picspam. So instead, here are just the gifs -- all Star Wars, as usual. A few are in sets, for which I sorta-kinda came up with titles.
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whee + Elizabeth watches some fanvids
Jan. 7th, 2012 11:06 pmIn happy-making news, the ace bigbang is going to happen for reals, only it's going to be BETTER -- a full-blown people-who-aren't-straight-or-cis bigbang. I already babbled at ![[personal profile]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
tulina and hl and biichan about it, but it's so awesome that I had to share with EVERYONE. Hmm, maybe somebody will put it on ![[community profile]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
fandomcalendar and there'll be participants on the dw side? That would be cool! Anyway, that's a thing (an awesome thing!!).
Speaking of which, I was just glancing at the most recent ... events, and found something beautiful. OMG. I love OT3s and ship them across all my fandoms, and somebody's already volunteered for my very favourite one. Maybe I could get up the nerve to suggest a prompt? ...eh, probably not. (I get ridiculously nervous about these things! But still, a OT3 prompt is a thing of beauty.)
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tulina and hl and biichan about it, but it's so awesome that I had to share with EVERYONE. Hmm, maybe somebody will put it on fandomcalendar and there'll be participants on the dw side? That would be cool! Anyway, that's a thing (an awesome thing!!).Speaking of which, I was just glancing at the most recent ... events, and found something beautiful. OMG. I love OT3s and ship them across all my fandoms, and somebody's already volunteered for my very favourite one. Maybe I could get up the nerve to suggest a prompt? ...eh, probably not. (I get ridiculously nervous about these things! But still, a OT3 prompt is a thing of beauty.)
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fic round-up
Jan. 5th, 2012 10:19 pmAnd I think this is the last of the end (...lol) of the year stuff. I look on it as a sort of meme and borrowed the format fromlettered.
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Wheeeee informal MBTI thing
Jan. 4th, 2012 08:45 pmFrom wyncatastrophe. And look, I'm shocked.
You Are An INTJ |
 The Scientist You have a head for ideas - and you are good at improving systems. Logical and strategic, you prefer for everything in your life to be organized. You tend to be a bit skeptical. You're both critical of yourself and of others. Independent and stubborn, you tend to only befriend those who are a lot like you. In love, you are always striving to improve your relationship. You have strong ideas of what love should be like. At work, you excel in figuring out difficult tasks. People think of you as "the brain." You would make an excellent scientist, engineer, or programmer. How you see yourself: Reasonable, knowledgeable, and competent When other people don't get you, they see you as: Aloof, controlling, and insensitive |
fic catch-up
Jan. 3rd, 2012 09:34 amI noticed that I hadn't got around to posting anything I'd done in... eh, awhile, so here are the fics I've written recently(ish) and not posted:
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Happy New Year, everyone!
Jan. 2nd, 2012 03:38 pmI hope 2011 has been okay and 2012 will be better -- though, at least for me and my fellow Americans, I have some slight doubts about that. OHAI ELECTION YEAR. But let's think positive thoughts for a few days, anyway. And I'm determined to finish my waaaaay-overdue replies tomorrow if I have to stay up all night. And Mark liked Tom Bombadil in general and is a bit stunned at the fabulousness of Tolkien, so the world is pretty okay despite nightmares about Rick Santorum becoming president.
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end of year meme
Dec. 23rd, 2011 06:56 pmI have to apologize straight off—I have two inboxes filling up with awesome comments, I haven't answered any of them (half-finished three replies, though!), haven't logged into chat much or kept up with my f-list or really done anything except eat Christmas sweets, play Heroes of Might and Magic III (totally the best of the series!), wrap a bunch of presents, keep up with Mark Reads Lord of the Rings, and leave a few comments. And I'm not really up to anything productive right now, either, so ... a meme?
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Commentary (Left to Follow)
Dec. 19th, 2011 01:10 amOtherwise known as license to ramble!
Left to Follow isn't quite my first fanfic ever (that would be this chapter), but nearly, and really the first one written from within fandom, in response to fandom. And it is my first Austenfic, which seems appropriate for today. Er, yesterday by now, but it was today when I wrote this. Okay.
I'm going to assume everyone who reads this has already read the story and knows how it ends (or they...wouldn't be reading?), so spoilers, I guess.
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Left to Follow isn't quite my first fanfic ever (that would be this chapter), but nearly, and really the first one written from within fandom, in response to fandom. And it is my first Austenfic, which seems appropriate for today. Er, yesterday by now, but it was today when I wrote this. Okay.
I'm going to assume everyone who reads this has already read the story and knows how it ends (or they...wouldn't be reading?), so spoilers, I guess.
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I spent the last week up in Bellingham (my almost-home-town!), finishing up a few final essays and enjoying myself with my friends. I got my grades, which are mostly better than I expected (A-, A-, B-), got into advanced creative writing, and generally everything's going well. Oh, and Mark Oshiro is doing Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which I've heard fine things about but never seen -- and I don't really know much about it -- so I caught up to episode four so I could comment.
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Yet another SW picspam + meme
Dec. 1st, 2011 10:30 pmSo apparently I will never run out of these (eta: holy crap there were a lot of them). And I'm gearing up for my essay on the eighteenth-century sublime as a tool of masculine domination (we were supposed to use Northanger Abbey but I got the okay to use Sanditon instead) and a final for my Bible-as-literature class and a revision/four-page-explanation of revision, so.
I wonder if anybody can guess my favourite character. *whistling*
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I wonder if anybody can guess my favourite character. *whistling*
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Austen picspam
Nov. 26th, 2011 03:32 pmSo, good Austen fanart is not quite so abundant as SW -- though this may be that I tend to dislike the adaptations, especially the 1995 one, so the various versions of Colin Firth or whomever don't generally make the cut. Anyway, here's some of the stuff I've found.
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another SW picspam
Nov. 24th, 2011 02:07 amI meant to do the Austen one, really, but most of those who'd be interested have seen most of them already anyway, and ... I'll try and do a double Austen-Tolkien one Friday or Saturday, maybe. In the meanwhile, I've been wandering around tumblr and found a bunch of awesome Star Wars things (too many for this post!), mostly from one shiny tumblr -- though, to be honest, I don't perfectly remember everything I've posted before. Here's to hoping for very little overlap!
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So, I've been incredibly busy with uni and family stuff and keeping up with the Republican primaries (best reality TV ever). ( boring stuff )
I'm thinking of doing a sort of DVD commentary type thing over at my long-defunct fic comms. We'll see. But before that, I'd really like to actually respond to the prompts we got for the alternate pairing fest. Nobody has responded yet, which is not particularly surprising as we are a very tiny community and I have been a faily mod and November and alternate pairings, but I would like to myself, but I don't really have the time right now. So I'm exercising my modly powers and extending the date to ... not-November. Say, a little before Christmas -- the 21st. But I'd be glad to adjust for anyone's convenience or whatnot.
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I'm thinking of doing a sort of DVD commentary type thing over at my long-defunct fic comms. We'll see. But before that, I'd really like to actually respond to the prompts we got for the alternate pairing fest. Nobody has responded yet, which is not particularly surprising as we are a very tiny community and I have been a faily mod and November and alternate pairings, but I would like to myself, but I don't really have the time right now. So I'm exercising my modly powers and extending the date to ... not-November. Say, a little before Christmas -- the 21st. But I'd be glad to adjust for anyone's convenience or whatnot.
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