writing and links and things

[rose_griffes]

I say this every year, but it's going to be so obvious which bsg_remix story is mine. The more I wrote (finished a second draft last night) the more all of the themes I love kept popping out. It's sort of embarrassing, actually. I should write a post about id-fic and WHAT THE HECK DOES IT SAY ABOUT MY ID when I keep writing [theme redacted for an attempt at secrecy] over and over again.

(Handy part about being a mod: giving myself a deadline extension.)

I have some fun links:

Here's a trailer for a Harry Potter TV show The Aurors. I wish this weren't an April Fools joke, 'cause I would watch this.

The Bronx Zoo cobra has been recovered.. Too bad--I was rather enjoying her tweets as she was out and about NYC. My favorite tweet: Enjoying a cupcake @magnoliabakery. This is going straight to my hips. Oh, wait. I don't have hips. Yesss! Heeeeee!

Dear Wonder-Woman: YOU Will Get Arrested If You Fight Crime in That Top.

This weekend is my church's General Conference, which is what I'll be watching in a bit, sitting comfortably on the futon, instead of going to church. I love General Conference. (For many reasons, not just couch-sitting instead of pew-sitting twice a year, but hey--that part is pretty awesome too.)


To wrap up this post: I started watching Wall-E recently and I got so depressed after fifteen minutes that I turned it off. Yet people keep telling me how awesome it is. Will it be awesome enough to clear away the CLOUD OF DOOM AND DEPRESSION induced by the first fifteen minutes? Will I cry and resent all of you who loved it if I finish watching it? (Personal resentment! I'll hold a grudge, I'm warning you now!) heh

Comments

[rap541.livejournal.com]

S'ok - I still feel sorry for whoever got stuck with me as their assignment :)

[rose-griffes.livejournal.com]

That's part of why we ask the 'how far out of your comfort zone' question. Happily there were enough other Gaeta fans signed up. ;-)

I think this happens in almost every fandom with a wide selection of characters--we all pick our favorites and write mostly them. Something like 20% of all my stories are about Leoben/the Twos. Probably a (much) higher percentage if you go by word count.

(Honestly, this is part of why I won't do the multi-fandom remix. They only match fandoms, not preferred characters, and there are characters I simply could not write on BSG and Doctor Who. And I get why they do that, but it's scary!)

[nicole-anell.livejournal.com]

I wish this weren't an April Fools joke, 'cause I would watch this.
"17th Precinct", baby! :p

And yes, I'm gonna tell you to finish watching "Wall-E". At the risk of spoilers -- it DOES get much, much less bleak and depressing after that first section, and [white text? more cartoony in its third act when we start seeing humans, and it has an uplifting ending.]

[rose-griffes.livejournal.com]

Okay. As long as Wall-E doesn't get more bleak, I can probably handle it. Thanks.

"17th Precinct", baby! :p
Heh. I'm pretty sure I'll be watching, provided it's available online reasonably soon after the episodes air.

[daybreak777.livejournal.com]

That's funny about the cobra tweets. I didn't know you were on Twitter! I'd join except nothing I've written has ever been within 140 characters. :-)

I recently watched Wall-E. I didn't find it that sad. I actually found it funny at times. I don't know. I liked the film but I didn't get why people cried so much.

Will I cry and resent all of you who loved it if I finish watching it?
Probably? You feel about the first fifteen minutes of Wall-E the way I feel about the first 1 and a 1/2 seasons of Fringe. So there might be resentment. But then you might get to good stuff at the end as I did with Fringe and that might help. Maybe. :-)

[rose-griffes.livejournal.com]

I'm not on Twitter, but if I see links to online Twitter things, I'll check them out. (hah, never written less than 140 characters... *giggles*)

As for Wall-E, the whole premise is just so bleak. Our whole planet covered in trash and abandoned? *sniffles* One tiny robot who has been adorably anthropomorphized, left alone to deal with it? I'll probably watch the rest while paying bills, so I can take refuge in losing money if it makes me too broken-hearted.

Your resentment of the first part of Fringe is beginning to make me giggle. (Sorry!) And I know Walter got you through it, but I still find it amazing that you stuck through it that long.

[deborah-judge.livejournal.com]

I thought Wall-E was pretty bleak all the way through...what actually takes place on screen becomes less awful, but there's a lot of horror implied to have taken place before (and maybe after) the movie. I found the ending about as hopeful as the end of BSG, for a lot of the same reasons. In both cases, when you have a starting situation that is so utterly horrific there's a limit to how hopeful you can get at the end without being completely unbelievable.

(Also, as Wall-E progresses, people being fat becomes a running metaphor for people being stupid and lazy, which I did not enjoy.)

Sigh, anyone who knows me will guess which remix I did as well.

[rose-griffes.livejournal.com]

...what actually takes place on screen becomes less awful, but there's a lot of horror implied to have taken place before (and maybe after) the movie. I found the ending about as hopeful as the end of BSG, for a lot of the same reasons. In both cases, when you have a starting situation that is so utterly horrific there's a limit to how hopeful you can get at the end without being completely unbelievable.

I remember watching Up and just being devastated by the first twelve minutes, but the implication was that things would get better. And they did. (Plus, while losing a spouse is deeply tragic on a personal level, it's not the same as a planet-wide disaster caused by our own wastefulness.) So far Wall-E hasn't given me a reason to believe that it's going to get better.

But I'm probably going to watch the rest anyway. Apparently it doesn't get worse, so I already know the maximum level of bleakness.

(Also, as Wall-E progresses, people being fat becomes a running metaphor for people being stupid and lazy, which I did not enjoy.)
Argh.

Hee, remix obviousness is a theme I'm seeing on LJ lately. Though I'm usually quite oblivious to everyone else's so-obvious-to-themselves fic 'tells.' (I don't get to play the guessing game, since I know the assignments and help post the remix stories.)

Nobody guessed mine last year, much to my surprise. The year before that, either shah_of_blah or emmiere did, I can't remember which. (Or maybe it was both?)

[rose-griffes.livejournal.com]

I don't mind some crying, as long as it's not over how depressed I am over Wall-E's doomed ending or a doomed romance. (I knew a bit about the basic set-up, but it was way more dark than I expected.)

I love depressing movies, as long as I know that's what I'm going to get. Jean de Florette and Manon des sources are two of my favorite films ever, and I cried buckets over them. Multiple times, even, 'cause I rewatched and cried again.

I need a ridiculous crying-face userpic of some kind. Some sort of overblown tragic sobby face.

[millari.livejournal.com]

If it makes you feel any better, I totally got faked out last year by your remix story. :D

I really enjoyed Wall-E, although it's been interesting to hear the issues that people had with it, because I totally get every single one of them, and reading these comments is making me remember all the moments while I was watching the movie in the theater and was feeling really uncomfortable; but then: adorably anthropomorphized robots! and I would get distracted and sucked into the main plot, which is essentially a sweet, harmless action/romance/comedy.

But there'd be times where I'd be watching and thinking about how they were playing around with such a shockingly bleak idea in a kid's movie! (/incredulity). I kind of can't believe they got away with making this movie for children. And *that fact* is I think at the heart of his brilliance, perhaps more than the story itself, which is basically an very well-done animation movie with a mostly tight plot, which you know, Pixar does anyway. It's not hugely better than other movies Pixar has done, but I do think it is really emotionally affecting. I did not find myself on the verge of tears at any point during the Toy Story movies, but I did during this one.

Of course, I realize this may not be a selling point. :P

deborah_judge nailed it with her comparison to the BSG finale. The implied questions you are left with at the end of Wall-E are similar to BSG. But I demand a lot less realism from an animated movie than I do from my sci-fi show I've been watching for its gritty realism, so I gave Wall-E a lot more slack in this department. :)

[rose-griffes.livejournal.com]

If it makes you feel any better, I totally got faked out last year by your remix story. :D

This surprises me! Though like I mentioned to someone else, I'm sure we're all far more aware of our own 'tells' than those of others.

Wall-E really is surprisingly grim, especially for the target age. But this isn't the first time Pixar has done this to me; I was sobbing during the first fifteen minutes of Up. (So glad I didn't watch it in the theatre.) Had to press pause. I'm not sure why Wall-E got stopped rather than just paused. Hm.

[izhilzha.livejournal.com]

The thing about WALL-E is that I believe kids' movies *should* tackle this sort of thing. That's what fairy tales and stuff have always been for: reminding us that there are monsters (and that sometimes we are the monsters) but that in the end, too, those monsters can be fought and beaten.

And man, in sheer charm, I think this movie has all the other Pixar films beat. :)

[scifiaddict86.livejournal.com]

I really wish JKR would write something about Harry's later years as an auror it sounds so awesome and I think she could do some awesome stuff when she's not stuck writing for kids.

The worst part about handing in my fic for something like this is immediately afterwards I'm convinced its terrible. Right now I'm sure everything I wrote is overwrought and out of character and my remixee is going to hate it. Of course since I have yet to be right about any my concerns for any of my other fics, I now most of this is in my head but somehow that doesn't make my head quit.

[rose-griffes.livejournal.com]

Argh, my remix is stuck in "too dependent on the original to make sense on its own" stage. *sigh*

But yeah, handing it in definitely induces that weird mix of "Yay!" and "Oh no!"

I'd love to read Rowling's stories about the kids grown-up; too bad she's unlikely to do so.

[scifiaddict86.livejournal.com]

I don't know about that, JKR may say she's done for now but ten years from now I'm not so sure. Harry and the rest were such a big part of her life I can't see her never going back there.

[lunar47.livejournal.com]

yes watch WALL-E!!! The first 15 minutes are definitely the saddest but it gets cute after that.

And OMG I would so watch that Aurors show.

[rose-griffes.livejournal.com]

I'm giving Wall-E another chance. Though your name is on the potential grudge list, missy! (Heeeeeee!)

[lunar47.livejournal.com]

LOL of course