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omgggggggggggggggggg.
Ahem.
It's been a few weeks, which is about half on purpose - I procrastinated so dreadfully on my![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
ladiesbigbang fic that I ended up feeling massively guilty every time I opened a dreamwidth window, so I resolved to cut back on distracting online activities. Which ended up meaning, of course, that I posted nothing for nearly three weeks, and just spent the last three days churning out nearly nine thousand words of fic.
The upshot: I got to the point that I had previously identified as my likely stopping point way back when I realized there was just no way I was going to get through the whole first book by today, and I managed to edit in a couple important changes that needed to be there. So, about ten minutes ago, I turned in my fic. ... **chews nails off** I really hope it's all right that it's the start of a WIP, not an expansion of an existing WIP; but, hey, even if it's not, it's not like I can't still post it eventually. And the challenge was a really great way to get my brain moving - it's not like getting out a qualifying fic is the only purpose behind a fan-creation challenge.
Work is picking up a touch, which is great; I know how to do a little more stuff now, and I suspect that mild experimentation and a little googling has given me a more in-depth knowledge of HTML and CSS than my supervisor. Which, I know barely anything, so, pretty sad, really - but if I ever do anything with it, my supervisor's going to think I'm a genius. :D I also wrote up some text for her the other day, which was the first project she gave me that involved me actually creating text, not just taking other people's text and shining it up; and today she told me she was very pleased with it. \o/
So. Things I have been holding off on posting about:
I've been running into a lot of stuff recently - lawnmowing the past couple weeks has forced me to acknowledge that there is not only a single Littlest One, but at least five Littlest Ones, living in several of our gardens. There were also wild turkeys, with tiny gawky turkey babies, by the side of the road the other week, and I'm pretty sure I saw that one great blue heron again, flying near the same stretch of road as before.
I ended up seeing Inception three times: once with friends, once with my sister, and then my sister and I made our parents go last weekend. So my initial opinions have been pretty well confirmed.
I feel like the ending is ambiguous - and very intentionally so, it seemed to me. There was no reason to have Cobb start the top and then leave it spinning unless you wanted people to be able to argue that the whole thing was a dream, and Mal was right; there was no reason to show it wobbling so much more than it had ever wobbled in a dream before unless you wanted people to be able to argue that Cobb had, in fact, made it back to reality. Generally speaking, I like the second option better, although I am also very fond of the idea that everybody on the team is back with Mal in reality, and the movie was part of their operation to help Cobb wake up.
I like the movie quite a lot, but I'm not head-over-heels for it. Cobb never quite grabbed me, which I think is partly because so much of what he did was about Mal and his guilt - I didn't really end up with a good feel for his personality, because most of what we learned about him was related to his guilt, not who he was as a person. I also wish there had been more ladies. But I liked how it all fit together; I liked Fischer; and even though it frustrated me a little the first time through, I liked that by the end, the previously incomprehensible beginning suddenly makes so much sense.
The fandom, by contrast, I am enjoying all the way through. There is SO MUCH you can do with the Inception universe, as a writer - it's pretty damn cool. I already have about twice as many bookmarks in my Inception folder as I do in any other, just because I want to keep track of it all. I may need to get me a delicious account. (And Arthur and Eames are ♥, of course.)
I am terrible at keeping up with these two shows, though I do want to catch up eventually. I missed the whole 1940s time-travel thing, and it took me a little while to figure it out, but once I did, a lot of stuff made a lot more sense. Mostly, though, the only comment I have is: STAAAAAAAAAARK. **sob** I miss him SO MUCH, and not just because he is awesometastic; I also feel like he makes Carter's dialogue get a lot better. I really like Allison about half of the time, but the other half of the time, she is Love Interest Lady, which I do not personally care for. Jo, I adore all the time, though.
Claudia, I also adore all the time. I thought it was sort of hilariously awesome that Jock Dude liked Pete-in-Myka so much, mostly because I thought the show was maybe actually making a salient point about gender presentation and personality; so I kind of hated the part where Jock Dude confirmed that, yeah, Pete-in-Myka had been way awesome, and then Myka ... kissed him? Because he liked her better when she wasn't her? I seriously didn't understand why that happened. :P
And now I really need to go to sleep, because I have work tomorrow. D: If I remember tomorrow, though, I also want to talk about Burn Notice, Covert Affairs, and Rizzoli & Isles.
Ahem.
It's been a few weeks, which is about half on purpose - I procrastinated so dreadfully on my
ladiesbigbang fic that I ended up feeling massively guilty every time I opened a dreamwidth window, so I resolved to cut back on distracting online activities. Which ended up meaning, of course, that I posted nothing for nearly three weeks, and just spent the last three days churning out nearly nine thousand words of fic.The upshot: I got to the point that I had previously identified as my likely stopping point way back when I realized there was just no way I was going to get through the whole first book by today, and I managed to edit in a couple important changes that needed to be there. So, about ten minutes ago, I turned in my fic. ... **chews nails off** I really hope it's all right that it's the start of a WIP, not an expansion of an existing WIP; but, hey, even if it's not, it's not like I can't still post it eventually. And the challenge was a really great way to get my brain moving - it's not like getting out a qualifying fic is the only purpose behind a fan-creation challenge.
Work is picking up a touch, which is great; I know how to do a little more stuff now, and I suspect that mild experimentation and a little googling has given me a more in-depth knowledge of HTML and CSS than my supervisor. Which, I know barely anything, so, pretty sad, really - but if I ever do anything with it, my supervisor's going to think I'm a genius. :D I also wrote up some text for her the other day, which was the first project she gave me that involved me actually creating text, not just taking other people's text and shining it up; and today she told me she was very pleased with it. \o/
So. Things I have been holding off on posting about:
I've been running into a lot of stuff recently - lawnmowing the past couple weeks has forced me to acknowledge that there is not only a single Littlest One, but at least five Littlest Ones, living in several of our gardens. There were also wild turkeys, with tiny gawky turkey babies, by the side of the road the other week, and I'm pretty sure I saw that one great blue heron again, flying near the same stretch of road as before.
I ended up seeing Inception three times: once with friends, once with my sister, and then my sister and I made our parents go last weekend. So my initial opinions have been pretty well confirmed.
I feel like the ending is ambiguous - and very intentionally so, it seemed to me. There was no reason to have Cobb start the top and then leave it spinning unless you wanted people to be able to argue that the whole thing was a dream, and Mal was right; there was no reason to show it wobbling so much more than it had ever wobbled in a dream before unless you wanted people to be able to argue that Cobb had, in fact, made it back to reality. Generally speaking, I like the second option better, although I am also very fond of the idea that everybody on the team is back with Mal in reality, and the movie was part of their operation to help Cobb wake up.
I like the movie quite a lot, but I'm not head-over-heels for it. Cobb never quite grabbed me, which I think is partly because so much of what he did was about Mal and his guilt - I didn't really end up with a good feel for his personality, because most of what we learned about him was related to his guilt, not who he was as a person. I also wish there had been more ladies. But I liked how it all fit together; I liked Fischer; and even though it frustrated me a little the first time through, I liked that by the end, the previously incomprehensible beginning suddenly makes so much sense.
The fandom, by contrast, I am enjoying all the way through. There is SO MUCH you can do with the Inception universe, as a writer - it's pretty damn cool. I already have about twice as many bookmarks in my Inception folder as I do in any other, just because I want to keep track of it all. I may need to get me a delicious account. (And Arthur and Eames are ♥, of course.)
I am terrible at keeping up with these two shows, though I do want to catch up eventually. I missed the whole 1940s time-travel thing, and it took me a little while to figure it out, but once I did, a lot of stuff made a lot more sense. Mostly, though, the only comment I have is: STAAAAAAAAAARK. **sob** I miss him SO MUCH, and not just because he is awesometastic; I also feel like he makes Carter's dialogue get a lot better. I really like Allison about half of the time, but the other half of the time, she is Love Interest Lady, which I do not personally care for. Jo, I adore all the time, though.
Claudia, I also adore all the time. I thought it was sort of hilariously awesome that Jock Dude liked Pete-in-Myka so much, mostly because I thought the show was maybe actually making a salient point about gender presentation and personality; so I kind of hated the part where Jock Dude confirmed that, yeah, Pete-in-Myka had been way awesome, and then Myka ... kissed him? Because he liked her better when she wasn't her? I seriously didn't understand why that happened. :P
And now I really need to go to sleep, because I have work tomorrow. D: If I remember tomorrow, though, I also want to talk about Burn Notice, Covert Affairs, and Rizzoli & Isles.