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International Geek-Out Report (and a note on catching up)
First, the note: I haven't gotten any further with my LJ catch-up plans because it was the last week-and-a-half of term and I was busy doing university stuff (except for the three days ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
beccatoria was visiting me, when I was busy geeking out). Will get around to the catching up next week, I think.
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Now for the International Geek-Out Report.
beccatoria arrived on Friday and left on Tuesday; in between lay three days of unrestrained geekiness. We watched all of Life On Mars and nine eps of Battlestar Galactica. Thankfully, she turned out to like LoM and I turned out to like BSG S3. We sang the chicken song. We had loads of crisps and sweets and other unhealthy food. We watched fanvids. We decided that Gene Hunt is the God of Children and should open an orphanage with Adama. We decided that Saul Tigh was a Russian intellectual in another life. We pointed at the screen screaming "battle shorts!!!" in unison. We visited the future of the 1980s and the Frankfurt University book warren. We talked writing and politics and Star Wars (I now know everything about the Star Wars Extended Universe.)
When she left I told her to write fanfic, and she did! And it rocks! (Sorry,beccatoria - I know I said I'd give more detailed feedback but I haven't gotten around to it yet - uni interfered.)
beccatoria also gave me a live read-through and betaing session of "68 Wives", which she loved and said is actually a lot more ready for publication than I thought it was. So, I may actually publish that *really* soon. (amonitrate, you got time for some beta reading?) I also showed her the Maya fic, which she didn't like so much - possibly, as we tentatively concluded, because it is unashamedly fanficcy, in an 'easy' way. Which is exactly what it is supposed to be, and I think it does the job it's supposed to do - namely, lovingly circling an emotion - so I'm fine with that. It's essentially emotion porn, no more, no less.
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In other news, somehow I am now completely zen about any changes to Life On Mars canon that season two may possibly bring about. Oh, and I won a Magic Alex CD. :-)
beccatoria was visiting me, when I was busy geeking out). Will get around to the catching up next week, I think.***
Now for the International Geek-Out Report.
beccatoria arrived on Friday and left on Tuesday; in between lay three days of unrestrained geekiness. We watched all of Life On Mars and nine eps of Battlestar Galactica. Thankfully, she turned out to like LoM and I turned out to like BSG S3. We sang the chicken song. We had loads of crisps and sweets and other unhealthy food. We watched fanvids. We decided that Gene Hunt is the God of Children and should open an orphanage with Adama. We decided that Saul Tigh was a Russian intellectual in another life. We pointed at the screen screaming "battle shorts!!!" in unison. We visited the future of the 1980s and the Frankfurt University book warren. We talked writing and politics and Star Wars (I now know everything about the Star Wars Extended Universe.) When she left I told her to write fanfic, and she did! And it rocks! (Sorry,
beccatoria - I know I said I'd give more detailed feedback but I haven't gotten around to it yet - uni interfered.) beccatoria also gave me a live read-through and betaing session of "68 Wives", which she loved and said is actually a lot more ready for publication than I thought it was. So, I may actually publish that *really* soon. (amonitrate, you got time for some beta reading?) I also showed her the Maya fic, which she didn't like so much - possibly, as we tentatively concluded, because it is unashamedly fanficcy, in an 'easy' way. Which is exactly what it is supposed to be, and I think it does the job it's supposed to do - namely, lovingly circling an emotion - so I'm fine with that. It's essentially emotion porn, no more, no less. ***
In other news, somehow I am now completely zen about any changes to Life On Mars canon that season two may possibly bring about. Oh, and I won a Magic Alex CD. :-)
Re: I think it could be ready by then, yes.
Re: I think it could be ready by then, yes.
Just sent it to you, btw. But there's no hurry if you're not ready yet - I just figured that since I'm really quite certain that I've done everything I could, on my side, I might just as well send it off to you guys now so you can tell me what *you* think might still need work. (I'm actually suffering from delusions of grandeur at the moment, feeling that nothing really needs changing anymore. *g*)