it's just as well to get up and go.
So, I may have signed myself up for the Genretwisting Deadline Challenge - A:TLA, of course, plus a side of Burn Notice (after all, I do need to expand my fandoms into the Bs). The odds that I'll finish eighteen fics by mid-March are vanishingly low, especially since there are a couple prompts that I'm just not the right person to pull off. But it was blissful just going through the prompt list and imagining. I've got some decent ideas, and 500 words of one fic already down. Good thing Chapter 11 of ItO is going so swimmingly, or I might feel guilty. :D
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idriya today - only for about half an hour, but it was already rather cold, though it had not yet plunged to the depths that are predicted for tomorrow. And then I finished watching How To Train Your Dragon with M/daemonelix. It was interesting. I liked it about as well as Tangled; I can't really say it was more predictable, given that I love the story of Rapunzel (even the version where the prince goes blind and Rapunzel wanders in the desert), but ... the characterization was more predictable, maybe? Toothless was excellent, although visually he reminded me intensely of Stitch - and, of course, I loved Astrid. The visuals when they were flying the dragons were also excellent.
I figured out how they were going to kill the big dragon a fair while before it actually happened, but that was okay; I wasn't really going into this movie looking for intricacies of plotting. I'll admit that I don't totally understand the deal with the dragons - if the big one was the queen bee, then why didn't almost all the dragons die when she did? If the relationship was more metaphorical, then why did they keep coming back when they were all afraid of/hated her? It seemed like there was some kind of weird homing signal thing going on. idek. But! Moving on. :D It was sweet and pleasant and I loved that Hiccup lost his foot even as I cringed just thinking about the maneuvers involved in getting a prosthetic attached with that level of technology. D: OW. Ahem. M loved it, of course, because she absolutely adores dragons - I am fond of them also, but I don't have quite the same fervor. Anyway, thumbs pretty up. I'm glad I got the chance to see it.
Now, back to the first of my six assigned A:TLA sci-fi AUs. :D I will keep the fics short, I will keep the fics short ...
I went skating with
idriya today - only for about half an hour, but it was already rather cold, though it had not yet plunged to the depths that are predicted for tomorrow. And then I finished watching How To Train Your Dragon with M/daemonelix. It was interesting. I liked it about as well as Tangled; I can't really say it was more predictable, given that I love the story of Rapunzel (even the version where the prince goes blind and Rapunzel wanders in the desert), but ... the characterization was more predictable, maybe? Toothless was excellent, although visually he reminded me intensely of Stitch - and, of course, I loved Astrid. The visuals when they were flying the dragons were also excellent.I figured out how they were going to kill the big dragon a fair while before it actually happened, but that was okay; I wasn't really going into this movie looking for intricacies of plotting. I'll admit that I don't totally understand the deal with the dragons - if the big one was the queen bee, then why didn't almost all the dragons die when she did? If the relationship was more metaphorical, then why did they keep coming back when they were all afraid of/hated her? It seemed like there was some kind of weird homing signal thing going on. idek. But! Moving on. :D It was sweet and pleasant and I loved that Hiccup lost his foot even as I cringed just thinking about the maneuvers involved in getting a prosthetic attached with that level of technology. D: OW. Ahem. M loved it, of course, because she absolutely adores dragons - I am fond of them also, but I don't have quite the same fervor. Anyway, thumbs pretty up. I'm glad I got the chance to see it.
Now, back to the first of my six assigned A:TLA sci-fi AUs. :D I will keep the fics short, I will keep the fics short ...