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

[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?)