damkianna | when she may have held it in her hands.

15,610 / 50,000 words. 31.2% done!

Honestly? I'm a little weirded out by how well this NaNo is going. Maybe it's because I slept for shit all weekend (parents gone to Maine = I was the one stuck getting up to let the cat in at two in the morning) and I shouldn't be reading ANYTHING right now, but so far I am keeping up on the wordcount and I don't hate it? I don't even know how that's possible. o_O I think I did myself a favor not outlining all that strictly, because it means I don't have to revise the outline much when I change something, or write something I wasn't expecting to write. But, seriously. This is weird.

Anyway! I caught up yesterday on Once Upon a Time. And, okay, yes, much as I am intrigued by their backstory for Snow White, I think they ... did ~~Charming~~ James's fiancée a disservice, to put it generously. But! Her showing up in Storybrooke, plus the fact that we haven't actually hit marriage time in the fairytale side of things, gives me the opportunity to hope they have more in mind for her character than just "whiny giiiiirl in a carriage who's not as ~cool as Snow White". :P I hate these plots where women are set up to be antagonists for affection, and one of them is the "good" one and one of them is the one who totally needs to lose because she's not the right sort of girl!! and doesn't "deserve" whoever. Flames on the side of my face. It is like an instant trip back in time to Harry Potter fandom post-HBP-release. Ginny and Hermione are friends, goddammit, and they are BOTH AWESOME.

Ahem. I am still really fond of Snow and Emma, though, and I lovelovelove that Emma accepted her offer of a spare room, I hope they are BFFs forever and drink ALL THE COCOA. And the evil queen interests me increasingly; I really want to know whether they've actually come up with something by which Snow White actively ruined her life, or that was just supposed to be a reference to the canonical (in terms of the original fairytale) prettiness thing. Still recording this one.

Also, over the weekend I had a little spare time and watched Dragon Hunters. Apparently this was originally a French movie? I still can't decide whether it is completely awesome or really weird or both, but I am leaning toward both. I LOVED watching it, omg - the animation definitely looks like it was generated by a computer at certain points, but I did not even care because it was so awesomely weird. Everything floats! Villages are islands that hover in the sky! Bridges crumble and drift upward! People camp on giant lily pads hovering over phosphorescent globes! And the architecture. I am not an artistically inclined person, but I found the visuals incredibly striking. The opening sequence alone, with all those clicky drifting gear things - I could watch it forever.

There's no explanation for the floating, as far as I could tell, and everybody is so matter-of-fact about it that by the time you get to the end of the world, it's actually almost strange to see things falling downward - and yet of course that's the end of the world, when it's normal for stone to float. And the World Gobbler was genuinely creepy, as were the effects of the hallucinations on Sir Lensflare (yes, really) and on Gwizdo especially. There were a lot of things that affected me way more than I was expecting to be affected.

I mean, it was definitely also strange. Despite the modern-ish dialogue ("Unreal!"), there were times when it felt distinctly folklorish, with everybody knowing where to go to reach the end of the world, and there being a door there, and that kind of thing. But Lian-Chu is the best knight ever and Gwizdo's grudging warmth was adorable, and Zoe was my favorite, omg. Well, no, the knitting needles may have been my favorites. Those were some badass knitting needles. I went to the AO3 right after I finished it, of course, and I was sort of surprised that I couldn't find anything - I was expecting it to have at least a Yuletide story or two.