wait, what?

Ah ha ha, well-played, Tiger Beatdown: I am telling you this because it is, I have learned, impossible for me to be totally objective about Ginger Snaps. It is made, I think, specifically for women who used to be awkward teenage horror fans, and have ingested a substantial amount of feminist theory since then. When something caters so specifically to your experiences and your concerns, it is hard to tell whether it is any good. Then again, I realize, dudes must feel this way all the time! (NB: I actually don't care for Ginger Snaps at all. But those last two sentences! Yes.)

An author (male) discusses having a story rejected on the grounds of writing like a girl. I can only imagine what that editor would think of fandom. All those boys talking about their FEELINGS!

Jimmy Carter is kind of awesome, though: I am also familiar with vivid descriptions in the same Scriptures in which women are revered as pre-eminent leaders. During the years of the early Christian church women served as deacons, priests, bishops, apostles, teachers and prophets. It wasn't until the fourth century that dominant Christian leaders, all men, twisted and distorted Holy Scriptures to perpetuate their ascendant positions within the religious hierarchy.

The truth is that male religious leaders have had - and still have - an option to interpret holy teachings either to exalt or subjugate women. They have, for their own selfish ends, overwhelmingly chosen the latter.

I'm going to need y'all to start providing recs lists for Remix, Femslash, and Apocalyptothon, because there is far too much and I don't know where to begin and I haven't been in a fic-reading mood for the last month or so and I seem to have forgotten how to choose things to read.

I'm also going to need someone to come over here and thwack me with a hammer until I finish this research for my boss. /o\

I signed up for bandom_hc this weekend. I'm mildly to moderately terrified. Hold me. Let's not talk about the Big Bang fics, I can't...do that right now. (I think I might have missed a mandatory check-in for the RPF one, actually, so I might be out of that...I don't know. Hm.)

Someone on my flist who shall remain nameless made my day start with a mental image of Rob Lowe doused in body oil. You are on notice, and I will never be clean again.

I have baked the cookies and finished the laundry, and my mom isn't answering the phone, so that just leaves...writing the fic. D:

I ate way too much of the dough while cookie-ing and so I haven't tried the finished product yet. Based on the dough, though, the banana taste is not strong at all. (The banana replaces the eggs in the normal Nestle cookie recipe. 2 eggs = 1 mashed banana.) From the way the cookies came off the sheets, the banana changed the texture, which is logical; I think they'll be chewier than normal.

I'll report back when I actually try them, and also if I figure out what the fuck I think I'm going to do with three dozen cookies. WHY DO I DO THESE THINGS TO MYSELF.

Racetrack has made herself a nest in my comforter and won't let me have it. I guess that's not going to be part of the laundry today.

Okay. Going to crank out this fic and then I'll be on chat, chat-people. Unless I go to Target. Hm.

Stuff I have done today:
- Ran the dishwasher
- Took the trash out
- Many many loads of laundry
- Finished a book (it wasn't that great)

Stuff I still need to do today:
- Write my marvel_crossing fic
- Finish the last few loads of laundry
- Call my mom
- Bake banana chocolate chip cookies

I kind of want to walk to the store as well, but that involves getting dressed and whatnot and I'm not a big fan of the idea.

Sigh. Sunday's not really doing it for me, I have to say.

(Yesterday, though, there was super-awesome fangirl time, so overall the weekend's a win unless, like, I rupture a kidney today. &fangirls;)

Re: the Futurama relaunch:

Twentieth Century Fox, which is still producing the series even though new episodes will air on Comedy Central, is recasting the major voice roles for the show. That means no more Billy West (Fry, Professor, and Ziodberg), Katey Sagal (Leela), John DiMaggio (Bender), Maurice LaMarche (Kif Kroker, among others), or Tress MacNeil (Mom, and several others).

Fox released a statement saying "We love the Futurama voice performers and absolutely wanted to use them, but unfortunately, we could not meet their salary demands. While replacing these talented actors will be difficult, the show must go on. We are confident that we will find terrific new performers to give voice to Matt and David's brilliantly subversive characters."

Then I found this article that suggests this is the producers playing hardball to force the actors into an agreement. I STILL DO NOT APPROVE.

You know what show I really miss today? Everwood. I didn't even watch it consistently, just off and on, except the one year in college I lived with a roommate who was *addicted* to...I don't remember if it was the WB or the CW at that point, but that network's overly earnest dramas.

We watched 7th Heaven, Everwood, One Tree Hill, and possibly Charmed together every week while eating dinner. Charmed might have been with a different roommate, but I *think* it was her. They don't make TV like that anymore, y'know? Solidly competent, earnest, fundamentally good-natured soapy TV.**

Nostalgia! Mostly I remember that there was one episode of Everwood where Ephraim went to audition for something in "Boulder," and my roommate and I laughed and laaaaaaughed because we were actually *in* Boulder, at the time, and oh they got it so wrong. Everything.

Anyway. Moving on.

** "Solidly competent" does not apply to 7th Heaven.

Casting call descriptions for new characters for the coming season of FNL. I am not getting a great feeling from those. :\

I do, however, get a good feeling from this picture of Bruce and Clarence.

Scratch what I said earlier about finishing marvel_crossing tonight. I can't even string two words together, so forget it. I'll write it tomorrow! Or...Sunday. Or I'll miss the Monday draft deadline, have to default, and commit ritual suicide with a toothpick. One of those.

Why does reasonable food not appear magically when required? I can't stand the idea of making anything, but I'm hungry. I hope I have yogurt, that's pretty much the only thing I can think of that requires no effort.

Carry on, carry on, your lives *must* be more exciting than mine. Look at that picture of Bruce and Clarence again, their love is the purest.

Internet you are being too quiet today. >:( Tell me a story or something or I swear to God I will tell you about my day and bore you all to TEARS.

(Sample highlight: I told the copier to make two copies of everything by mistake and now have 40 pages of extra scratch paper hanging out on my desk! OOPS.)

Also, If I don't post by midnight EST tonight that I finished my goddamn marvel_crossing fic, you should send someone to my house to punch me in the kidneys. /o\

Here, have a picture of baby Pete Wentz in a Halloween costume that he Twittered today. He was roughly the size of a hamster.

Oh hey, the Emmy noms are out! For some reason I thought that didn't happen until...later.

Looks like it's going to be mostly GenKill (for various things, though not acting, suck it Emmys) and 30 Rock. I want to see Skarsgard fight Alec Baldwin.

Also, the first comment on the listing that I saw (here) was WTF!!! WHERE IS SUPERNATURAL?!? WHY ARE THEY NEVER NOMINATED 4 AN EMMY!?! Amazing.

Via the_grynne:
Kate Bosworth and Alexander Skarsgård join James Marsden in Straw Dogs, a remake of the 1971 Peckinpah movie. Marsden plays a Hollywood screenwriter who relocates with his wife to her hometown in Mississippi. Bosworth plays the wife, who left the South for LA. to become an actress and returns home so her husband can finish his script in quiet. Skarsgard plays her high school boyfriend, an ex-football hero who sees the return of his former girlfriend as a way to reclaim glory.

SKARSGARD AND MARSDEN IN A MOVIE TOGETHER. likeadeuce, romanticalgirl, I wasn't sure which of you to e-mail first, so I made a post instead. \o/

(Marsden, I think you're getting the Ralph Bellamy role again, given that Skarsgard is roughly as tall as a giant redwood and looks like he could kill people with his cheekbones, and you are...James Marsden. ADORABLE AND I LOVE YOU! But you are not at all threatening.)

Also, Marsden and Bosworth playing a couple again! Superman Returns redux.

But I was trying to remember it to tell cidercupcakes last night and I screwed it up, so here it is in quote form!

The fish-out-of-water tale also stars Brit actress Sienna Guillory as the love interest, Jane, and Gross's old "Due South" co-star Callum Keith Rennie as the villain.

"We have to actually stop each other and say we should do some work now, because it gets goofy," Gross said of his on-set camaraderie with Rennie.

"We spent a long time together on 'Due South' so that stuff keeps coming back, all these stupid things we used to do on 'Due South' we started doing again on set. And of course, nobody knows what we're doing and I think we look like fools."

Paul Gross. Of course you look like fools. Have you seen your own face? Oh snap.

Callum Keith Rennie as "the villain." He should really just start introducing himselfe that way: "Hi, I'm Callum and I'm the villain. :| Please don't ask to take my picture."

I don't even know what I'm saying at this point.

Not really.

I have this (irrational) urge to write Dani Reese/Fred Burkle. Or maybe Dani/Fred/Gunn. I don't think the timelines work out in any possible iteration. I don't really care. I could make it work for kink_bingo, maybe?

I had this plan to work on any of the various fics with deadlines tonight (goddamn it marvel_crossing, write yourself already), but I'm inexplicably exhausted, so I think I'm going to take a bath and read a little and go to bed early. I fail.

Also, I forgot to put this in my post earlier on the subject, but poisontaster and cidercupcakes are made of much win for helping me out with driving logistics regarding my eye appointment and then getting my car back. I am glad they are my friends.

I have a lot of really good friends. I should thank them more often. THANK YOU, FRIENDS. <3

I should also drink some damn water and take that bath. Hrm.

I've posted about this on an assortment of filters over the last few days, I don't even know which, so short version with recap- I had floaty things in my right eye, I went to the eye doctor, she wasn't sure what she was seeing, she referred me to a retina specialist, the specialist re-enacted A Clockwork Orange on my face, I don't have a tear in my retina, I just have shitty nearsighted eyes with shitty nearsighted eye problems. And I should get my retinas checked once a year.

\o/

That is all.

I spent the whole drive to work this morning listening to "Disloyal Order of Water Buffaloes" on repeat and trying to figure out what cop show it should be vidded for. I don't know why I decided it was a cop-show vid, I just did. Anyway. I only own DVDs for three cop shows (I don't know why this was a sticking point, either, given that I don't actually vid), so it was going to be either Life, Homicide, or Due South.

I sketched out pretty complete mental vids for Life and DS. Couldn't get it to work for Homicide. (Okay, it doesn't REALLY work for the other two, either, and it's way too long to be a vid anyway, but I had fun. Even if I am pretty sure that combining Benton Fraser and Fall Out Boy would end the earth.)

I'm just saying, the line "What a match, I'm half-doomed and you're semi-sweet" is made for awwww-cute buddy-pairing shots, okay? Okay.

(Why, yes, I am avoiding thinking about something, bite me. Obsessing over imaginary vids is better than having a meltdown in the bathroom. I don't want to talk about it.)

I do, however, want to talk about your most ridiculous imaginary vids. Share.

sionnain sent me some awesome covers of Bruce songs and said I could share with y'all.

Dar Williams covering "Highway Patrolman" (Amazingly gorgeous)

Cowboy Mouth covering "Born To Run" (Awww, Cowboy Mouth, I love you and your rowdiness)

Enjoy!

Dear cidercupcakes:

So, you loaned me The Wednesday Wars. And you had absolutely no way of knowing how many of my personal buttons/life experiences this book was going to ping. So I'm not going to blame you for the fact that I had to sit and cry for a while after I finished it. But I am KEEPING AN EYE ON YOU, because you may have psychic powers. :)

Dear everyone else:

Finishing it only took about an hour and a half because it is really really good. And since you're very unlikely to have the same combination of weird touchstones and issues that I do, you won't even cry! :D

In other news, it's 3:00 in the afternoon and I'm still not dressed. And I've been lying in bed eating fudge while I read, which is probably...a new low. Time to get the hell up, get dressed, and haul my lazy ass to the grocery store, and/or possibly somewhere to get some writing done.

I really, really wish I didn't have to write linearly. Right now I'm stalled like a stalled thing that is busted on my RPF Big Bang fic, because I have what I have and I know where to start a scene three or four segments down the line, but I can't find the steps in-between. And I can't do the "jump ahead, write the part you know, and fill in the blank later" thing. It's not how my brain works and never has been. Even for academic papers and whatnot, I have to write in order until I have a complete thing. Then I can break sections up and move them if necessary, but the first time through must be written in order.

TL;DR: I am broken inside.

Also! Still unable to find a spark for femgen. Well. I *can*, but all of the sparks sadly involve original characters, who are not eligible for femgen. (But they're really awesome! I should tell you guys about them sometime.)

ALSO ALSO. Vague idea for marvel_crossing, but I don't have a first line, and see above re: linearity, I need a first line before I can do anything.

In conclusion: /o\. I guess I'll go glare at my kink_bingo prompts instead.

I see that fandom still hates narrative. Good, good. Otherwise I wouldn't know where I was.

This weekend I'm getting my eyes checked, and other than that I have NO PLANS. This hasn't happened in over a month. I don't know what to do with it. I keep flailing desperately and thinking I need to make plans. But really, this is a good thing. I'm going to do laundry and vacuum and try to write my marvel_crossing fic (and possibly femgen if I can come up with an idea) and eat hummus and pita chips until I explode. Possibly I will nap. It'll be great.

Maybe I'll even stay off the Internet, or go outside and encounter sunlight! Not likely, but stranger things have happened.

In conclusion, meme: Pick any of my stories and write the WORST possible description of it, and then I have to guess which one it is.

I had three four-day work weeks in a row, it just feels weird to know I have to come back here again tomorrow.

This was posted right before the holiday weekend, so I decided to wait to link it, and then I kind of forgot because I'm an idiot-- The Rascal King, the fic written for me in bsg_remix. My remixer took my Tom Zarek story Catalyst and sort of updated it for the events in the last season of the show. It's really good.

[fannish entitled whine redacted]

[fannish bitchiness redacted]

Actually, you know what, I don't feel well today and I know that's making me grumpy and I'm just going to stop before I get that all over the Internet and someone has to wipe it up. Later, flist. <3

I don't approve at all.

Today is my weekly meeting where I justify my existence! Or, well, my job. This week, I have very little to say for myself. Crap.

sionnain has gone off and left me to die alone gone to a conference and therefore will not be around for me to e-mail in capslock at random intervals. I may spam LJ instead. I know you're all thinking "You could try doing your job," but see above; I'm in a between-stuff lull right now and I don't have anything to do.

Possibly I will write, possibly I will spin my chair in circles until I get dizzy. That's even harder to justify at the meeting, though.

Oh hey, I still need an idea for my Femgenficathon story. :| I was kind of thinking about writing Dani Reese from Life, but I haven't seen season 2. It's a problem when you haven't seen 2/3 of the canon.

My prompt is We cannot live in a world that is not our own, in a world that is interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a home. Part of the terror is to take back our own listening, to use our own voice, to see our own light. -- Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179), 12th-century German mystic, author, lyricist-composer, playwright, poet, botanist, healer and abbess., but that's not binding. Brainstorm me.

Oh, for the love of Pete, I just accidentally dragged and dropped a folder in Outlook and I don't know where it went. That should keep me busy for a while.