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| Saturday, March 22nd, 2008 | |
| 7:15 pm | *taps mic* Is this on? Well, I backed up my LJ over here in December, but have not been double posting since then. But here I am! Just in case! Am friending people over here as I think about it or get around to it. Hi! |
| Wednesday, December 5th, 2007 | |
| 7:30 pm | Made of guh Jane Davitt wrote scrumptious Jack/Daniel porn for green grrl's birthday: Early Riser Classic J/D, so hot you'll have to open the window to the December air, and just vintage them. Glorious characterization and sex and in under 500 words. How does she DO that? And happy birthday, Green_Grrl. You are a treasure. |
| Monday, December 3rd, 2007 | |
| 10:10 pm | move along here... nothing to see... Still working on getting one of the backup/migrate utilities to work. I have a Greatest Journal, same name. We'll see. Not leaving here. Just distributing my eggs. Been listening to Leo Kottke's album Greenhouse tonight... and it's Jack. If Jack were singing along with an acoustic guitar. Am I weird, or what? It has this unselfconscious Jack vibe... I have about 12 WIP files open -- I just checked. All nc 17, all SG-1, 85 percent J/D, a few various threesomes and foursomes. I can't take this. Plus I owe M a beta, and I have no time. The new year, you are going to be so amazed at my prolificness. I miss fandom. So much. I want to write and finish something and post it, goddammit. Sigh. RL. Feh. *clings* |
| 7:27 am | LJ sold to Russian company/group/thingy Prevyet, tovarischi! The news is here: http://news.livejournal.com/104520.h I wonder what the sale price was? Um, can I please ask again for a link to the instructions for copying an LJ over to a GJ? I have a GJ and I guess I better start using it. And which client do I want for simultaneous posting? I've just been using the LJ interface so far. (Sorry to ask again.... Sheesh. Stupid me. I couldn't commit to this at the time much of my F list did; as busy as I am now I was even busier and more distracted then... And I promise to get cracking on the fic website. Synecochic is helping me, but I still have some software issues. Soon, though.) I didn't get faffed about the adult content warnings; we've all been doing that informally for years. I marked my lj, globally, ADULT CONTENT; end of story. But as we've seen, Corporate Overlords do make a difference. In other words, He Who Has the Gold Makes the Rules.... I won't leave here until or unless the SG-1 fandom goes, but after all the feathers that hit the fan in 2007, I guess anything can happen and probably will. I can't lose fandom. I just can't. As I just told telesilla, I'm basically waiting for the OTW journaling service because I don't think there's anywhere we can go en masse that's big enough for us all. Is there any talk of going back to Yahoo lists? SG-1 fandom (or anyone else that's reading), what say you? |
| Sunday, December 2nd, 2007 | |
| 5:29 am | Some "me" stuff about S7 "Heroes" This post goes beyond me responding to the stuff I saw in the "Reading SG-1" book in the chapter on this episode, and that review is here. This is some of my reactions to the ep, I'm sure informed by what Dickson wrote about it. I got a hot bath and some down time yesterday, yay, and I made biscuits! From scratch! It's been, like, a decade since I did that. My biggest beef with the episode is how, at the end, when Hammond is watching the rough cut of Bregman's documentary, Bregman makes the lie/lay grammar mistake in his narration. I groan out loud when that happens. Because he's been presented as this really smart articulate eloquent guy who can do his job well -- in fact, do his job within its very different scope as well as the heroes of SG-1 can do theirs. So a grammar mistake like that is just painful to hear. ( Read more... ) |
| Saturday, December 1st, 2007 | |
| 6:17 pm | Ia: "Seeing, Knowing, Dying in 'Heroes' ", by Lisa Dickson Chapter 1 of "Reading Stargate SG-1". My continued review and commentary of the chapter follows. Part one of this chapter is here. If you recognize an author or editor, use the names given in this book in your comments, please. Some people need to continue to use different names in fandom than in RL and I intend to respect that. Dickson continues to talk about how the writers and director of "Heroes" manipulates the use of POV cameras to manipulate meaning in a very skillful way that takes us out of the usual "consensus pov" of the main camera. She notes how the film scholar Maltby focuses on editing as another way, along with the main POV of the main camera, to give us a sense of reality and truth as the main narrative rolls inexorably along. She quotes Maltby on editing, on how it "mold[s] the series of discontinuous events in time and space from which the film is constructed, into a perceptually continuous whole." ( Read more... ) |
| 4:29 pm | I: "Seeing, Knowing, Dying in 'Heroes' ", by Lisa Dickson Chapter 1 of "Reading Stargate SG-1". My review and commentary of the chapter follows. If you recognize an author or editor, use the names given in this book in your comments, please. Some people need to continue to use different names in fandom than in RL and I intend to respect that. This chapter I found excellent and gorgeous and I learned a lot from it. The book says Lisa Dickson is an assistant professor of English at the University of Northern British Columbia, and she is a co-editor of the book. This chapter considers the themes of Season 7's two parter, "Heroes," from a very film studies perspective, and I learned a lot from reading this chapter and I enjoyed it very much. It may well be the best part of the book. ( Read more... ) |
| 3:54 pm | Intro: Reading Stargate SG-1 This begins my review and commentary of the newish book "Reading Stargate SG-1", edited by Lisa Dickson and Stan Beeler published in 2006 by I.B. Tauris. I bought it from amazon.com in trade paperback size. If it should turn out that you recognize an editor or chapter author from fandom, please limit the comments here to the names in the book. I want to respect some people's need to have different names in fandom and in real life. The very brief and businesslike introduction starts with a short recap of how Stargate SG-1 began its life as a movie and then became a series on USA cable television. ( Read more... ) |
| Tuesday, November 27th, 2007 | |
| 8:50 pm | SG-1 Recs Two lovely and snarky and just plain fun fic posted very recently: Lack of Subtlety by ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} brainofckJ/D, in response to a prompt of mine, and take a look at posts before and after, because she was doing fic in response to prompts! Mine is snarky and fun and vintage cranky!Jack and patient!Daniel and their love is so canon. YAY!!! And then, in response to a perceived dearth of J/D smut recently: Cupboard Love by jd_junkieIt's hot. It features Jack in uniform and Daniel in Armani. It's Season 8. And for me, it's canon. I will truly go down with this ship. I heart J/D. Wow. also, _minxy_ posted some recs -- just like old times. *sniff* *giggle* and synecdochic raised her head from Nanoramo or whatever that thing is called that makes all the writers disappear in the month of November to post two ficlets with JD and Cam from her AU "Broken Wings."RL! YUKses. I am writing. In painful, stolen paragraphs. In December I will post! I am here. Just buried under a mountain RL. But it's all good. I'm in this fandom for the long haul and I'm so grateful for the others who are, too. *cheers* |
| Monday, November 26th, 2007 | |
| 9:04 am | pre-meta meta.... (ETA: Here is the link to my previous meta on the characters of Sam and Vala, which nearly no one read, which is fine, but which I refer to below as an example of framing. And I promisepromisepromise to update my tagging system and tag all the meta and recs. I really inparticular need to go back and tag recs; plus get my recs list updated and reorganized. Thanks for being here. I heart fandom.) Sigh. I guess I'd better get some of this off my chest now so I don't, like, totally rant when it comes time to do the reviews of "Reading Stargate SG-1," which I am thoroughly enjoying! (Plus, I wrote fic last night. Yay. I remembered how and everything. RL, feh.) There are three well researched essays in "Reading Stargate SG-1" that focus on Sam Carter, and on feminism, and on her character development. Reading them made me notice how even in academic writing, well researched, well conceptualized, well documented and example-stuffed academic writing, we can SOOOOO be totally gripped by our preconceptions. It's like the writers of these essays saw what they wanted to see in Sam, and drew wildy differing conclusions about her because of that. It was really amazing. I kept reading and stopping and saying, yes, but.... ( Read more... ) |
| Saturday, November 24th, 2007 | |
| 4:35 pm | *wrist to forehead* ETA: In response to a couple of comments, the "Jack is Homeless" AU I seem to always return to is Learning to Say Goodbye by Mystic. There are several good ones on the indispensible AU recs list here Enjoy! :) ~~~ OMG I miss writing. I guess I've thrown in the towel on fiction for the next week or so. RL = overwork and FEH. No downtime, little privacy, cut up blocks of time. Blech. But. Thanksgiving = Made of win. And then there was: Leftover stuffing, and leftover greenbean casserole with the crunchy onions on top. I was soooo bad. ION, when I was leafing through the LL Bean catalog I found myself dressing Jack in all the men's clothes. I am hopeless. Am reading a lot, amazingly enough -- real books with paper and covers. And if I don't get back to fanfic soon, especially Memphis Part 8, I will splinter something. I mean it. There is steam coming out my ears. But in the meantime I'm having lots of character meta thoughts, and fun fanfic playing in my head. But it's so not the same. I need to sit down and read another great AU tonight.... probably one of those "Jack is Homeless" ones that are a total guilty pleasure... talk amongst yourselves.... |
| Monday, November 19th, 2007 | |
| 4:09 pm | Book squee I have in my hot little hands the lovely trade paperback, "Reading Stargate SG-1" edited by Stan Beeler and Lisa Dickson. Copyright 2006, published by I.B.Tauris... Squeee!!!!! I have contacted the lovely and talented whisper99 about her community, sg1_books, and does she want me to use that comm for posting chapter-by-chapter reviews, like I did for "Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet," so I'm excited about reading through this new fandom specific book and reviewing and commenting.Furthermore, that experience taught me that some if not most of the chapter authors are here. Under lovely and mysterious pseudonyms! So talk to me, here or at princessofgeeks at yahoo dot com. I'd love to hear from you. One of you I've already figured out, but I'm totally concerned with making sure no one gets outed. But I'd love to know more about the authors of this book. I heart fandom. That is all. Another book question: I have been buying and reading the Fandemonium Stargate SG-1 tie in novels, and some of them are really good. What about these various other tie in novels whisper has found, and the ones for sale on amazon? Is there a pecking order? Is there any organization? How does fandom feel about the canonicity, if any, of tie in novels? Do we like tie in novels? I certainly seem to. In general. As a concept.... |
| Saturday, November 17th, 2007 | |
| 7:44 pm | Sentinel rec From last May, but wow.... by lamardeuse Refugee Status 45 K, nc 17 an achy, terse, glorious, Jim POV, post-"The Sentinel by Blair Sandburg" story that perfectly rings all the changes of what might have been, what could have been, what should have been, and what finally is. Yum. |
| Friday, November 16th, 2007 | |
| 5:15 am | Where did the week go? I miss LJ so much! RL is keeping me running around like a crazy person. But I'm here. I didn't think I could go this many days without posting... But I can see the light at the end of the tunnel, I'm reasonably sure it's not a train, and the busyness is all good stuff. Been reading old fic and new fic and a tie-in novel and some other stuff. I'm here. *HUGS* |
| Saturday, November 10th, 2007 | |
| 7:25 pm | Comment fic update I have now finished writing to all the prompts I was given here, and they include Jack/Daniel, Jack/Daniel/Vala, Ellison/O'Neill (crossover from The Sentinel to SG-1), Jim/Blair, Sean/Lij from Lotrips, Casey/Zeke from The Faculty, and Frodo-Sam UST from Lord of the Rings. I will be answering feedback over the next more few days. Thank you guys. That really did me a lot of good; and it was fun! Plus I've been reading some recs in the Pornucopia over at surreallis's place, and there's some amazing stuff there. Wow. I heart fandom. That is all. |
| 6:21 am | quote spam I cannot figure out why so talky lately. Probably because I'm not writing much and am neglecting my longhand journal in favor of reading (I am actually reading a book omg), massive mountains of grading and making all sorts of to do lists; fannish, professional, technological, health-related and kid related. Plus you do not want to see the list of all the household machines that are broken right now. Fixed the big garage door this week. Sheesh. Anyway. The purpose of this post is as follows: I was sitting in the car reading TIME waiting for the kids to come out of the school building, and in the Nov. 12 edition there is a profile of USA sculptor Martin Puryear, who I had never heard of before, and the article was very well written, BTW, but there was a quote in there from him that just jumped off the page for me and that made me think of the challenges of writing fanfic and could kind of serve as a mission statement for the Organization for Transformative Works or as an answer to all those "Why fanfic?" questions. Here it is: "What I'm interested in now is trying to subvert the intense control that my imagination has on the work. One of the ways is to work with something that's already a given, so you have to rise to a different place to incorporate it into what you do, to make it your own." -- sculptor Martin Puryear, speaking to TIME writer Richard Lacayo on why he's incorporating "found art" and representative images into his sculpture for the first time. The article says, "lately he has been introducing into his work more of what he calls "things with a previous life in the world": wheels, tree trunks, ... wheelbarrows.... [F]ound objects ... that come into his art trailing associations." OMGOMGOMG -- because those "trailing associations" are, of course, what we get when he sit down with Daniel and Abydos and write our own story about him. Or sit down with music and some stills and make a vid. I LOVE THAT. See you on the flip side. |
| Friday, November 9th, 2007 | |
| 1:20 pm | the vids in my head I swear there is a Vala vid in "Skateaway" by Dire Straits. And since their album "Making Movies" is recorded on the flip side of the tape I've been listening to in the car this month, I've been listenint to it a lot, too, and it hit me the other day that komos used three lines from "Romeo and Juliet" from that album for three of her short and porny J/D fic last summer sometime.... "Hey la my boyfriend's back" (which is a shoutout to a much older song; like the end of "Skateaway" is a shoutout to "Shattered"), "You can fall for chains of silver" and "You can fall for chains of gold." Mark Knopfler is god. Plus that "Romeo and Juliet" song is so archetypal and incredible. I'm pretty impervious as a person, pretty detached, but the sadness and loss in that song can still make me cry, right there on the highway. Plus I have some personal baggage about it, which I'm mostly over, but that song is really incredible. Also, there's a Sam/Pete story in "If She Knew What She Wants" by the Bangles. Off to the Apple techs to see what the heck is up with this website I'm trying to post. *cheers* |
| 5:45 am | J/D ficlet rec OMG! carron responded to my request for comment-fic prompts, and she wanted to write one, too. So I gave her J/D and "Regret," and what she produced, snap, just like that, is not a fragment, not a snippet, but a full fledged future fic story, with a plot turn, with mood, with emotion, with surprise, with humor, and it is too amazing. You SOOOO want to read it.It's here at her new blog: http://mushypup.wordpress.com/2007/11/0 Go! Read! Admire! The SG-1 fandom has such kickass writers. Carron, you are AMAZING. *mwah* |
| Thursday, November 8th, 2007 | |
| 8:42 pm | Just if you like... ... play with me? Give me prompts for comment fic now? Because, I have had this incredible stressful Thursday on top of the in-fucking-credible stressful WEEK and MONTH, and I'm sitting here, alert yet rather physically and emotionally tired, yet also so very full of words -- good words, ficcy words -- and needing to find the opening to let them out. Give me, right now: a pairing, or a character.... a rating.... and a short prompt, even one word. (Any characters from any of my fandoms, het, gen, slash.) And I will write comment fic. I'm gonna go read a couple more J/D 2007 ficathon fic and check back. Ready, go! :D. (Just if you like. No idea how many I will need to limit this to. Let's just see what happens.) ETA: OMG this was wonderful. Thank you all so much. I'm gonna stop with ivorygates' J/D prompt, but I'll do all of them down to there in the next couple of days. You guys rock. Thank you. |
| Wednesday, November 7th, 2007 | |
| 12:14 pm | *free space* Huh. Unexpected afternoon off. Three hours all to myself. Let's see; write smut or grade papers! Ha. One guess! Also, does Mitchell/Sheppard exist in fic form anywhere? Recs, anyone? I'm sure it must; I've just not looked for it/noticed it until this moment. Or even thought of it, actually. Didn't they bond over a lemon in SG-1 S10 "The Pegasus Project"? I have glued my Stargate patches on my jean jacket with iron-on glue. I win. Also, I really enjoy icons! I spent part of yesterday afternoon uploading again. Didn't realize I'd missed them. God, the to do list. Dying to write. So I will. Now. |