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

[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. :)