International Geek-Out Report (and a note on catching up)

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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 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. :-)

Comments

[amonitrate.livejournal.com]

ooo. I would love to. (YAY!)I have to finish up a piece for dejla first. What's your timeline like? I could get to it towards the end of the month, I think, if you're ready by then.

[dune-drd.livejournal.com]

My mouth is watering just by reading about that 68 wifes thing... post it soon?

[ommadon.livejournal.com]

Surely the programme itself is canon-defining, the problem is the stuff the fans have devised themselves?

[(Anonymous)]

Hey! I have an LJ tag all to myself!

ALL HAIL GENE HUNT & WILLIAM ADAMA'S ACADEMY FOR AGING ORPHANS! (Starbuck, stop hitting your brother, you know how impressionable little Chris can be!)

And he is so the God of Children, and no one will take that away from him! (Believe me, you don't know everything about the Star Wars Extended Universe, because NO ONE does. But you now know the important bits, as dictated by me.)

Don't worry about slow feedback - I actually only got to read your email on Saturday because I was having bizarre net-connection problems, but I've resolved the issue now. I was busy on Sunday, but I do mean to reply to your email, specifically to knock some sense into you. ;)

I do love 68 wives; unashamedly so! Though you need to be happy with it for yourself too, so take all the time you need. I'm sorry I don't think that the Maya fic is your best work. I don't dislike it, I've just seen you pull off incredible emotion porn *cough*Normal*cough*, and don't like to see you sell yourself short. Then again, your enjoyment of writing it counts as much as the finished product - one of the quirks of fanfic I suppose (though one could argue it's one of the quirks of writing in general.)

BATTLESHORTS!

PS. I have not written any more of the crossover mainly because a Neverwhere vid to The Raven (as in that cool Highlander vid) ate my brain. I've come to conclude that no matter how much I might want to make a vid - however much detail I plan it in - if it doesn't eat my brain and force me to vid it IMMEDIATELY, I probably won't get around to it. Still, I hope to be wrong about that. So anyway, I currently have 40s of Neverwhere vid. Oh Windows Movie Maker, thank you for making my first foray into fades not quite as agonising as it could otherwise have been (though I still maintain that .25s is too short a fade and .5 is too long...)