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04.27.03 - 11:15 p.m.
Weekend blather
Mostly my weekend was spent trailing along after Diana and Fernando and their stroller of twins, searching for a christening gown for my soon-to-be-goddaughter, Annie.
Who knew the Short Hills Mall, er excuse me, the Mall at Short Hills was so huge? And on so many levels?
And what kind of self-respecting department stores (I'm looking at you, Macy's and Bloomingdale's) don't carry christening gowns in their children's departments? Shabby. Very shabby.
Then I helped Diana's mother pick out a blouse to wear to the christening. She speaks mostly Spanish (though she understands English perfectly well) and I, well, my Spanish is limited to "la cerveza mas fina!" and "donde esta el bagno" pretty much. So you can see this was an interesting experience.
So yesterday was a very long day, because I had to schlep out to Jersey on public transportation and home the same way. I rode in a cab, on a fancy bus, on the subway, on the PATH and on a city bus yesterday at various stages in my journey to and fro. Not to mention being driven around in the HiPezes' SUV - a monster vehicle that could carry a regiment, I believe.
Of course, my exhaustion was compounded by the fact that Friday night I stayed up until ::cough5am:: er very late reading Darkness Dying by Iniga, an excellent Harry Potter fic that dealt with why Sirius suspected Remus and how Peter was recruited by Voldemort. And then I had to read the sequels because Sirus! Remus! My boys! Though the story was completely non-romantic, there was still subtext, because we all know they're are Meant For Each Other. *g*
I mean, they're *so* MFEO that the only way I can get Mary Sue between them plausibly is to put her, ahem, between them literally. Yeah.
Possibly that's TMI.
Today I just hung around and caught up on my magazine reading, finished off reading that series and then watched television.
Now, I will catch up on reading email and my friends page.
Or avoid all that and read more Sirius/Remus fic. Because mmm... Sirius/Remus...
~victoria
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[current mood: tired]
[current music: Troy - Sinead O'Connor]
[random quote: I never meant to hurt you I swear I didn't mean those things I said I never meant to do that to you next time I'll kee]
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04.25.03 - 5:38 p.m.
Recs Yet Again - response to Jintian's comment
Jintian responded to my comments below on recs, and I have a response to some of her repsonses:
Some characters I have rigid views on, and others I don't, but I really, really like it when a story pushes me in a direction I hadn't thought of before, or didn't think I could believe
Well, yes. I have seen stories that have made pairings I don't buy believable (though the stories that convert me full-time to a pairing are few and far between), and I love when a story extrapolates out from canon into new directions, but on the whole, I find that unless the author and I start somewhere near each other on that interpretation of canon, the extrapolation is very possibly one I won't believe.
Does that make sense. Hmm... I'm far more likely to follow an author who starts out close to my interpretation of a character and then takes him or her on a wild, life-changing ride than I am to continue reading a story that *starts out* with characterization that I have a hard time believing.
while I agree that you don't necessarily need to be a good fiction writer to be a good reccer, I think on the flip side, I do appreciate an eloquent, thoughtful rec.
Yes, you're right. I went back and clarified that. One needn't be a good *fiction* writer to be a good reccer or reviewer, but being articulate and even eloquent is very helpful in writing recs.
there's not much I can compare my own reaction to if a rec basically consists of, "This is a great story and you should read it." And plus, if I see rec after rec on a page which all give the same generic blurb, I think I'd be less likely to go after those button-pushing stories, and instead would stick to characters and pairings that looked "safer."
Yes, it's hard to judge when someone doesn't specify what about the story makes it worth reading. I used to do that, just "Great story! Read it now!" but then I realized, over time, that people need more than that - as a reader, *I* need more than that. And I especially cringe when someone says, "Just trust me and read it." Because that tends to mean it's going to be utter gobshite 8 out of 10 times, though those 2 times where it blows you away may be worth it. I'm not sure yet. Having recently been scarred by some really bad Snape/Harry and redeemed!Draco stories, I'm doing HP as a mostly recs-only fandom, and reading people whose work I'm already familiar with in other venues. For LotR, there aren't many people I know involved in it and there's a ton of really, really bad fic, and I've been trawling mostly by myself and it's scary. I've backed away in horror from some horrendous Mary Sue/Legolas and Mad!Rapist!Boromir fics, so I try to make my recs detailed and helpful so other people don't have to suffer that same trauma. But my recs may not be useful to an Arwen/Aragorn shipper, just like my XMM recs are useless to a Logan/Jean shipper. It's all in how you present what you're doing, because obviously recs are not unbiased and they shouldn't claim to be.
And I've rambled again. I didn't realize I had so many thoughts on the whole thing. *g*
Speaking of rambling, part the first of my "31 Songs" project is up in the LJ: Victoria P.: The Early Years..
::snicker::
Kathe, I keep trying to respond to your comment below, but stupid haloscan is down again. Sigh.
I'm going home now.
~victoria
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[current mood: thoughtful]
[current music: Beautiful Day - U2]
[random quote: touch me take me to that other place teach me I know I'm not a hopeless case]
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04.25.03 - 10:55 a.m.
Recs Update - The All Remix Edition
I've updated the Unfit for Society Recs LJ with the All Remix Edition - 27 stories in 9 fandoms (that's including some of the original stories as well
as their remixes).
Go. Read. Send love.
Maybe this weekend I'll update the actual recs pages on the site.
And upload the three stories I posted this week.
And finish some of the stories that are in need of revision.
Or, more likely, sleep a lot, watch a lot of crap on television, and read.
~victoria
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[current mood: bleh]
[current music: Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits]
[random quote: I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them. ~Jane Austen]
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04.24.03 - 11:50 a.m.
Recs Philosophy Redux
Jintian was thinking about recs yesterday, and one of the things she wrote was: I'd much rather hear directly about someone disagreeing with a rec of mine than believe they'd end up concluding, "Gah, she missed these obvious flaws, her taste is now suspect." I would hope most people don't actually do the latter, but yes, I recognize the possibility.
I think the latter happens far more often than any of us would like, which is why I do put caveats on my recs when I feel it's necessary. I don't think most people feel comfortable saying to someone they don't know well, "What crack were you smoking when you recced that?" (Though I have said that on occasion to friends who've recced things I thought were shite.) So putting a note on the page that you'd like to hear what others think is probably a good idea - otherwise, most people would never think to tell you they thought you were on the pipe when you recommended something (and they'll probably be a lot more diplomatic than I am).
"I loved this story, it hit all my buttons, regardless of X flaws" strikes me as a more honest recommendation anyway. I mean, no one complains if a television reviewer says, "Wow, that episode of Buffy was fabulous even if the fight scenes were a little rough and you could see Gellar's stunt double clearly."
Of course, it's taken me a while to get comfortable enough to do that. You can see the change on the recs pages on the site. Over time, I've become more open about what does and doesn't work rather than simply saying, "Read this! I loved it!" Which isn't a bad thing, as long as one is clear that "I loved it!" doesn't necessarily equal, "This is really good!"
And I do take certain people's recs with a huge grain of salt, knowing that they'll rec almost anything with their OTP or that hits their kinks *without* the corollary that, yes, they know something isn't quite up to par grammar-wise, but they love it anyway. Because, yes, it makes me question their judgement about what's good.
And that's another thing I do on my recs - my list of recommendations are stories that moved me, or that I loved or that I think are really really good (regardless of flaws or where the goodness so outweighs the flaws that they don't matter). I don't claim that the stories I rec are the pinnacle of great writing or the créme de la créme of a given fandom.
As long as one is upfront about what one is doing (sharing stories I really liked, rather than compiling a list of allegedly objective "Best of..." stories), one avoids most conflicts and most questions of good/bad judgement.
I also don't think one's ability to *write* necessarily informs one's ability to recommend. [Edited to clarify: I don't think one's ability to write *fiction* necessarily informs one's ability to recommend. One hopes one can reach a good level of articulation or even eloquence in writing the recs themselves.] I couldn't make a movie or sing a song to save my life, but I can still tell you when I liked a movie or a song and in many cases, *why* (or why not), and what I thought was faulty from my POV as a non-filmmaker/non-musician. I mean, I have eyes and ears. I've seen enough good films/heard enough great music to know when the framing of scene feels off or the acting is bad or the drummer's off the beat (though I have a tin ear. I'm not one of those people who can tell you which instrument is flat and where, though I can tell something is wrong).
I know some really good writers who rec shit stories - because those stories hit buttons *I* don't share, and they don't care about the technical aspects as long as those buttons are hit.
And then there are people who are up on the technical details but who just like stuff that I don't. I'm sure I love stories that are perfectly well-written that just don't do it for other people, because of content, pairing, fandom etc. There are also various fandom "classics" that I haven't recced because... meh... they haven't impressed me or they haven't held my interest or they're just not what I like (or they're too damn long. Goddamn novelists. Write short. I prefer it! And it's all about me! When I rule the world...).
Ahem.
Finding someone whose taste is pretty opposite of yours is a good thing too, because it can help you avoid stories you probably won't like. *g* Or warn you in advance if you choose to read anyway.
The other thing that's key is how alike your perceptions of character/canon are with the person writing the story (there are many fanon versions of Lex or Draco or Spike that I simply cannot stand. They are NOT the character I see onscreen/on the page, and therefore it doesn't matter if the prose is Hemingwayesque in its stark, muscular clarity. A story that is so far from my vision of the characters is not going to make it onto my recs list, even if I can acknowledge its technical prowess. I simply don't *like* stories that are that far from my own templates of the characters or the canon).
Some people's views of the characters *will* match that author's, and so they will rec that story. And I may think, "What in hell is she thinking to rec that?" because my view doesn't match.
That doesn’t really matter with original fiction/movies/television etc., but every fan has her own view of the characters, and they run the gamut for each and every character, and the key to finding a good recs page is finding someone whose view of characters/canon isn’t diametrically opposed to your own (unless you’re looking for stories to avoid, of course. *g*).
I wrote a thing about my own recs philosophy a while ago.
I never really thought about it, but I do occasionally get feedback on my recs, but usually of the "Wow, thanks for pointing that out to me" way. And I'd like people to give me feedback on the recs, even if it's the "What are you *smoking*?" variety. Because I'd just like the opportunity to discuss various stories in a non-hostile, not-overly-sensitive way without feeling like I'm kicking puppies because fandom has this "If you can't say anything nice, say nothing" attitude toward criticism.
No one has complained about the caveats and though I do sometimes feel as if I'm copying say, Shrift and Nestra, I don't rec something just because they do. I mean, some stories are recced to high heaven because they're just that good. Some are recced all over because some people feel "Well, so-and-so liked it, so it must be good" or "She's a BNF so it must be good even if I didn't get it", but I've never subscribed to that philosophy. *I* have to like it (or one of the other four people who share the site with me, but they rec so rarely I forget that they're involved at all sometimes. And sometimes they rec things I would *never* and vice versa, which is why their names go next to their recs, and mine goes next to mine).
Yeah, that's pretty much my recs philosophy in a nutshell - *I* have to like the story and it has to be half-way decently written (I will overlook *a lot* for a good comedy, though). I don't rec everything I like, but if I can remember it well enough when it comes time to update the recs, then I probably really liked it.
Reccing is tricky, but more because I find it hard to articulate about something I really like without devolving into mindless gushing ("I want to marry this story and have its babies!" "This story made me want to curl up and die with envy. I'm never writing again!" "No other Clark/Lex story needs to be written, ever. This fic is the apotheosis of all things CLexy!"). I don't care about politics and other such concerns, and if someone wants to mix it up about my taste, well, the recs are posted to LJ first, with that handy-dandy comments feature, you know?
~victoria
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[current mood: thoughtful. also, cold]
[current music: Big Yellow Taxi - Joni Mitchell]
[random quote: They paved paradise put up a parking lot with a pink hotel a boutique and a swinging hot spot.]
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04.24.03 - 10:08 a.m.
The Watchfic Is Finished!
Time (Clock of the Heart), aka the watchfic, is finished and posted in the LJ.
See that? Three stories in approximately 2 hours, three fandoms, slash, het and gen.
I am a freaking GODDESS.
Now, back to reading Jamie's intriguing and fun Past Forward.
Also, Happy Birthday, Daddy!
~victoria
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[current mood: ecstatic]
[current music: where the streets have no name - u2]
[random quote: they're still building and burning them down, burning them down]
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04.23.03 - 12:31 p.m.
Lexalicious dreams
Remix Fic #1 I Drove All Night (The Boys Don't Cry Remix) and Remix Fic #2 Hair Shirt (The Pret-a-Porter remix) are up in the LJ. (I Drove All Night is NC-17 and slash. Hair Shirt is gen.) I do really like Hair Shirt, considering how quickly I wrote it. I think because I liked the original, but had a problem with the way CJ viewed Donna (the *author* may not like Donna and her interfering ways, but I never get the impression that CJ *on the show* thinks of her disparagingly), which made it somewhat easier for me to rewrite it, correcting what I perceived as the Donna-flaw, and also getting into the Toby-POV groove, which was actually kinda fun. If I'm anyone on WW, it's probably a scary combination of Donna (nagging and full of trivia) and Toby (sarcastic and easily annoyed), I had a much harder time with I Drove All Night (as regular readers of this diary/LJ may recall), and well, suffice it to say that while I think the original story works, I'm not quite sure my version does, for various reasons. Anyhow, I've been dreaming about html, I may not code them and put them on the site for a few days. But you know, there they are, for them what care. Last night, I did not dream of html, but of Lex. Yummy, powerful, not-willing-to-share Lex. And it was very good. It was more like Medieval Prince Lex and I was apparently supposed to marry him, but I didn't want to unless I knew he was going to grant me equal power to rule over the fiefdom, and he wasn't having that. There was sweaty swordsplay as foreplay and talking trees and generally Lex being hot business dressed all in black, and me desperately trying not to give in on my demands even though he was so seductive and reasonable. All in all, I was very sad when my alarm went off. ~victoria
Sumnmary: "Xander supposed he meant it as comfort, but it felt more like pity."
Summary: "She'd bought herself her very own hair shirt. St. Claudia Jean, martyred on the altar of Bartlet's lie and her own mistake."
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[current mood: amused]
[current music: Janey's Got a Gun - Aerosmith]
[random quote: That man’s soul has left him, his heart’s as deadly as a rusted nail. That man sheds his skin like a veil.]
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04.23.03 - 12:42 a.m.
Secrets Revealed!
For those of you who chose to wait and not see who wrote what, the author names are now listed on all the Remix stories and there's also an Author Index.
Feel free to post your remixes across the web, if you haven't already done so.
~victoria
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[current mood: sleepy yet accomplished]
[current music: Untouchable Face - Ani DiFranco]
[random quote: Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world]
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04.22.03 - 3:39 p.m.
Achtung Baby!
Ah, instead of writing fic or doing something useful like editing, I rambled about feedback at great length over in the LJ.
Ooh, they're playing "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" and yesterday, K. wrote a brilliant little essay on the song and its meaning for her.
Pretty much everything she said about it goes for me, too.
U2's Joshua Tree tour was the third concert I ever went to. I'm fairly certain it was March of 1997 (though it might have been April or May) at Brendan Byrne Arena (now Continental Airlines Arena, but no one calls it that).
Ooh, and now With or Without You. It's twofer Tuesday. I keep forgetting since I didn't work yesterday.
Anyhow, that concert, along with Bruce in August of 1985, was a seminal experience in my life. It was practically a religious experience. More so than I ever had in church, anyway.
U2 is... U2 is the soundtrack to my life, more than any other band, I think, even more than Bruce. Because they're inextricably linked not only to high school (Unforgettable Fire and then Joshua Tree) or college (Rattle and Hum, Achtung Baby) but to all the years after.
Up until I stopped carrying a cassette walkman in favor of a cd player, the one tape I always had with me was Achtung Baby.
Because it is the apotheosis of the perfect album. Not one bad song on it. Joshua Tree, for me, peters out after One Tree Hill. Though I suppose it's really, really hard to match a line up of songs that runs: Where the Streets Have No Name, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, With Or Without You, Bullet the Blue Sky, Running to Stand Still, Red Hill Mining Town, Trip Through Your Wires (god I love this song and it's so often forgotten), In God's Country and One Tree Hill. Exit has never done it for me, though I guess I do like Mothers of the Disappeared. I just rarely listen to it.
And now I want to go home and blare Joshua Tree and dance around my living room in my underwear.
Sigh.
Two more hours of work to go before I can do that.
But, new Gilmore Girls tonight. HOw much did I love last week's episode, which I finally saw on Sunday? I loved it muchly.
Jess is askeered of Mrs. Kim and her cricket bat (and so he should be). Luke and Sookie getting their cooking groove on in the diner. The tension between Lorelai and lawyer-lady. The duelling Poes. And of course, Lorelai telling Luke about The Dream.
God, I so want these two together.
Sigh.
~victoria
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[current mood: nostalgic]
[current music: With or Without You - u2]
[random quote: see the storm set in your eyes, feel the thorn twist in your side, I wait for you sleight of hand and twist of fate on a bed of]
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04.21.03 - 11:04 p.m.
Fishes and kisses
I laid around all day like a bump on a log. I started rereading GoF (which my mother took away 'cause *she's* rereading it as well, and since it's her house...) so I didn't get very far with that.
I'm now looking over my WIPs, and contemplating diving back into writing.
I have some edits on Inheritances that need to be added, some comments to respond to on it, and a whole lot of thinking about how to ground it in the narrative 'here and now'.
I've also got one of the betas on Nothing LIke the Sun back, and the comments are very helpful and I need to start making some revisions there. Because the one thing I was afraid wasn't clear (aside from Draco's motives) isn't, and that needs fixing.
I could talk about fannish entitlement and fannish rudeness and other things like that, but I'm still riding the afterglow of getting the Remix archive up and there are always going to people who are fuckwits, so it's best just to ignore them when they get all fuckwittish.
I'm going to go back to contemplating my WIPs...
Oh, the title on this entry is just the candy I got in my Easter basket. Swedish fish and Hershey's kisses. 'Cause my mommy loves me.
~victoria
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[current mood: mellow]
[current music: Complicated - Avril Lavigne. Sigh.]
[random quote: “It’s all about the he-said/she-said bullshit” – “Break Stuff” – Limp Bizkit]
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04.20.03 - 10:59 p.m.
My Mary Sues, a short introduction
I'm still feeling worn out and I ate a little too much I think and my stomach reacted badly, so I'm kind of curled up in bed, rereading Prisoner of Azkaban and checking out my friends list.
And that reminds me that Halrloprillalar asked what our Mary Sues would be like.
My HP Mary Sue is a bit of a dirty girl, in that she wants (and gets, as she is a Mary Sue) both the men of her dreams. Yes, this is the infamous Sirius/Remus/Mary Sue that I will never write.
I haven't really settled on a name, though I think she's been Jane the last few times I've thought of her. She's a former Ravenclaw Prefect (possibly Head Girl the year after Lily?) who pined quietly for Remus Lupin, and has since returned to Hogwarts to join in the new fight against Voldemort. There would definitely be Remus/Sirius/Mary Sue action at some point. And Remus would look like Ewan McGregor and Sirius like Clive Owen.
My BtVS Mary Sue is one I did kind of write - in Xander Steps Up. It's a horrible story. Frankie is a short-order cook who works in the Fabulous Ladies Night Club with Xander, and one night helps him fight vampires and then they shag.
My true BtVS Mary Sue (i.e., the one that will never be written) also ends up with Xander, but later on. He's older, a cop, and she's just moved to Sunnydale to live with her dying grandmother, a local woman who of course, turns out to be a powerful witch. This Mary Sue's name was Marcella.
My Angel Mary Sue is different. She was named Madeleine, and she was Lindsey's former fiancee, and also a SiT who was never called, and who was quite bitter about it. She gave piano lessons and taught music for a living in LA. She somehow got entangled with Angel, which led her to rediscovering Lindsey, and well... yeah. Mary Sue. Though Lindsey never quite redeems himself and they don't end up together.
I seem to have a thing about unhappy endings for my avatars.
When Lindsey left, I sort of transferred Maddy to Wesley. She's still a bitter SiT who was never called, but now she's a cop (to replace Kate) and she's got information for Wesley. She knows all about Angel and him and sparks fly blah blah blah MarySuecakes.
I also wrote kind of a Mary Sue in XMM, with Cecilia, in The Ties That Bind (another of my less-than-sterling efforts, though it has moments I like). She's Logan's daughter, though, not his lover (she does string Bobby along for a while, though. Mmm... Bobby...), but I have a never-to-be-finished fic (second X-fic I ever started) that does include Tessa, my lovely dream-walking Mary Sue, a mutant psychologist brought in to help Rogue deal with the nightmares Logan and Magneto have left in her head.
But my true XMM Mary Sue would be a firestarter. Because, dude, I am such a pyro. I'm amazed I never burned down the house back when I was young and lived at home and came home drunk and played with mom's lighter at 4am. So, yeah, firestarter, probably with a bit of a wild past but who's settled down now and of course, attracts Wolverine's eye.
I am nothing if not predictable.
I believe I've discussed my LotR Mary Sue previously. I've only had about 20 years to work on her and she hasn't changed much (the engagement to Boromir is new with the movie; for many years, she somehow supplanted Eowyn in Faramir's affections, and when I finally reconciled myself to Eowyn, I attached her to Legolas, so that's *not* new, but the movies helped there. *g*) - her name is Yavannië, which is the Quenya word for September, and she was engaged to Boromir. She remained in Minas Tirith and helped in the Houses of Healing, where she meets and eventually falls in love with Legolas. Who is attracted, and dallies, but eventually breaks her heart and moves on to be with his One True Love, Gimli. Yavannië sort of fades away at that point, having had a few hot nights of fruity Elf sex (to go with her on-and-off over the years of their engagement hot and sweaty man-loving with Boromir).
I recently found out that someone wrote a story with a very similar Mary Sue, and that depresses me, 'cause I actually thought I might write this one, as it ends up being Legolas/Gimli and since I'm not in LotR fandom, I don't really care what anyone thinks of me, and it amuses me.
And I'm *all about* amusing myself.
I've had other Mary Sues:
Han Solo's former smuggling partner who turns up by throwing a spanner in the works on a rebel mission and has one last fling before sending him off to Leia's waiting arms.
The True Love (het division) of Obi-Wan Kenobi, who is also possibly Han Solo's mother. ::snicker::
The chickie who was Kellerman's ex-girlfriend who pulled him out of his downward spiral after "Fallen Heroes." The FBI profiler who didn't mind that Bayliss swung both ways as long as he swung her way (her name was Lia, btw. I remember that.).
The ex-flame of Mulder's who showed up for one last fling before he finally devoted himself fulltime to Scullylove.
And my favorite, I think, the young American widow with a young son who befriends Ramses Emerson in that fateful time between Falcon and Thunder, where he's still reeling from Nefret's betrayal. She's the daughter of an Egyptologist, of course, and working in Egypt on the Harvard dig, and she consoles Ramses in his dark time. And her son and Sennia hit it off.
Huh.
That's a pretty good list of Mary Sues. They entertain me, anyway.
And because I'm slow and easily distracted, this has taken me almost an hour to write.
God I'm sad.
In Remixy news, I'm putting up a list of my favorites of the remixes in the LJ.
~victoria
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[current mood: tired]
[current music: Slave to Love - Bryan Ferry]
[random quote: The storm is breaking or so it seems we're too young to reason and too grown up to dream]
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04.19.03 - 8:48 p.m.
We Invented the Remix...Redux... Archive Is Open!
I haven't even opened my email or looked at my friends list, so I hope nothing big is happening, because I got news.
I'm blind, and possibly crippled, but it's done.
We Invented the Remix...Redux
The remixes are up.
Alphabetically by title and by fandom.
That's 68 stories (will eventually be 70, but due to extenuating circumstances, isn't right now) in 13 different fandoms (well, more if you count each Trek incarnation and X-Men incarnation separately, but I didn't *g*).
Go on. Read. Have fun guessing. Or, if you feel the need to know right now, well, you can... but I'm not telling how. You'll figure it out. Or you'll wait til next week when I post the files with the authors' names.
Whichever.
I can't express how much I LOVE the remix of Best-Laid Plans. It's so nice to finally know what Logan was thinking all that time he was being a moron.
I have a list of my favorites of the bunch, but I'll spare you for now.
Tell all your friends.
And they'll tell two friends, and so on and so on...
did I totally just date myself with that reference?
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I think I'm gonna go steal some Easter candy from the kids' baskets now. *g*
~victoria
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[current mood: accomplished]
[current music: Edge of Seventeen - Fleetwood Mac]
[random quote: I came, I saw, I conquered.]
~*~
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The painting is "Boreas" by John William Waterhouse. Again, not a muse, but I like her. She suits the color scheme.
The quote is from Sir Philip Sidney.
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