hmpf: Cole and Ramse from the show not actually called "Splinter" (Default)
I don't know what's going on with my brain, but I've recently fallen deeply in love again with the Miles Vorkosigan books, the manga series 20th Century Boys, and Farscape. Not that I'd ever particularly fallen *out* of love with any of these, especially not the latter, but my feelings have definitely... intensified lately.

I've also been reading fic outside of my usual fandoms (and a little bit within them, too), have been watching vids, have taken up reccing vids at [livejournal.com profile] fs_10percent again, and have been breeding bunnies by the dozen. Oh, and I've gotten back to writing, finally, thank [insert deity]. So far, I've only worked a bit on a throwaway Farscape fic that's a mere two years old and really kind of redundant and not very good (honestly, I think I said everything I could say about Farscape in Normal already, and everything I write now in that universe is just an unnecessary reiteration of some aspect of that fic. Then again, of course, fandom is just the place for reiterations...), but the Life on Mars bunnies are hopping, too. Hopping like *mad*, in fact. And, [insert deity] help me, I've almost resigned myself to the fact that I'll have to write an Avatar fic, despite finding the movie weak in nearly every aspect except the visual. There's one bunny that just. won't. leave me alone.

Annoyingly, I have rather a lot of RL stuff on my plate at the moment, which means my fannish energies have to be contained to some degree, which is a shame.
hmpf: Show of my heart (best angst ever)
1.) This got linked all over the internet earlier this week, I think. I only just read it now, and I'm struck by how it ties into half a dozen conversations I've been having recently, in wildly different context. With Greenpeace people, about my motivations. With fellow students and lecturers, about the necessity for wonder. With my mother, about Avatar and about Lois McMaster Bujold, and about why I'm interested in all this kind of stuff. With fellow fen, about Avatar. Not taking the world for granted.. In a way, in *many* ways, that's what I'm all about. My mom keeps thinking of me as someone whose world is somehow smaller than hers; she doesn't get that it's really infinitely vaster than hers, because it doesn't stop at the boundary of the 'real'.

2.) I feel strangely energetic today. Energetic enough to start my day dancing sedately to Gazpacho. (Dancing sedately? Yes. You've never seen me dance, have you? Well, few people have. *g* Even dancing sedately is an expression of uncommon energy, with me.) Yesterday, too. Even though I'm sleeping as badly as ever, getting up as late as ever, and still getting woefully little done by common standards. Still, in *my* terms, what I've managed to do yesterday was quite a lot, and the remaining To Do list for today looks manageable, too. When I've finished the list, I may even write some fic - if I still have enough energy left, that is.

3.) 20th Century Boys is making me so happy. Well, happy in a "yes, of course my life is still a complete mess and I need help with that etc." kind of way. You can have islands of sheer happiness even in a mess like that. I *love* the characters so much. They may be the saddest resistance fighters in popular fiction. I would hug them, if they didn't awe me so much (and if they weren't characters drawn on paper). <3 (Well, I would probably hug Yoshitsune, because he needs it.)

http://www.onemanga.com/20th_Century_Boys/217/14/
http://www.onemanga.com/20th_Century_Boys/217/15/

http://www.onemanga.com/20th_Century_Boys/79/17/
hmpf: Me painted blue (fanatic)
excitement or trepidation...

Anybody have any idea what the buzz for it is?
hmpf: Me painted blue (fanatic)
Despite having very little time overall in the last few weeks I discovered a new obsession. Yay! (This is actually a totally un-ironical 'yay' - I *love* new obsessions. New obsessions are like new loves.)

I'm leaving for Worldcon tomorrow and I still have some packing and preparations to do, so I can't write a long entry about my new obsession now, but I've posted quite a few enthused ravings to various message boards, so I can copy some of those and give you a few links.

First, a rec for the series in German:

http://www.sf-community.de/forum/showthread.php?t=5110

Another one in German, but not from yours truly:

http://filmtagebuch.blogger.de/stories/247699/

Now, a slightly rambling rec in English:

http://hellblazer.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=1928

And another one in English, from a board I cannot link to, so I'm copying it here (it's written by me, anyway):

Read more... )


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In other news I had a very nice day today, partly packing, and partly geeking out with Nager, Dune, my roommate and another visiting Scaper from the old farscaped mailing list and the sf-community boards. We watched some Doctor Who and then Dune had to leave and the rest of us later made spaghetti with tomato sauce and ate and talked (before I went back to packing again). Then my laptop broke, but at least that means I won't have to carry it to Britain and back. ;-))

As usual I'm afraid of flying... my plane leaves at 19:50 tomorrow, so think of me then and wish me luck.

I've had recurring nightmares about Worldcon recently, mostly about being unprepared for my panels, but yesterday when I finally read through the whole insanely long (99 pages! 99 pages!!!) programme I finally began to feel properly hyped. There's panels and talks on everything, and I do mean everything. Have a look:

http://www.interaction.worldcon.org.uk/sched05.htm

There are very few times when there's less than four simultaneous items I would like to see. Arrgh!

So, anyway, I'm looking forward to it immensely now, though I'm also afraid it will be an absolutely exhausting experience and I may need a holiday afterwards. ;-)

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