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Was Stiles' frontotemporal dementia something that the nogitsune somehow faked (I can think of 4 or 5 reasons why it would), something it for real caused in him, or something he actually had regardless, AND, does the replica of his body Stiles now inhabits have it or the possibility of it?
on different tastes
Sep. 8th, 2014 04:38 pmA little while ago -- a week, maybe? -- I discovered the tumblr of a fanfic writer I like. Now, I like every fic they wrote that I have ever read, and I went to the tumblr because they have an ongoing story I'm really into and they said they'd be giving updates on how it's coming along there. (Because apparently just getting a notification when the newest chapter is up wasn't enough for me, I dunno.)
This writer, they produce works with excellent structure, great thoughtfulness and depth of characterization, interesting plots, and enjoyable use of language. Really, I like their stuff a lot!
So I was initially excited when I discovered that they post fic recs! Surely, if their writing was to my taste, what they like must be stuff I'll find worth looking at, right?
Turns out no. The stuff they like is either stuff I find too boring or poorly done to really get into, or stuff I actually hate. They made one rec saying, "I don't know why this isn't on every rec list for this fandom" and I actually said out loud, "because it's really bad" (having previously tried to read the story in question).
It's weird, isn't it? You would think someone whose writing we like would like the same sort of stuff we like to read, but it isn't always the case. There have been times when I've read an interview with a published author or a scriptwriter or a poet whose work I enjoy and they've said someone or something was a big inspiration to them, and I've thought, "Wow, I really hated that book/show/etc."
I guess it just proves that even if you're inspired by someone else, even if you think artistic works are inevitably at least somewhat derivative of the the artist's influences, the artist themself -- and what they put into it -- really makes a difference to the audience.
This writer, they produce works with excellent structure, great thoughtfulness and depth of characterization, interesting plots, and enjoyable use of language. Really, I like their stuff a lot!
So I was initially excited when I discovered that they post fic recs! Surely, if their writing was to my taste, what they like must be stuff I'll find worth looking at, right?
Turns out no. The stuff they like is either stuff I find too boring or poorly done to really get into, or stuff I actually hate. They made one rec saying, "I don't know why this isn't on every rec list for this fandom" and I actually said out loud, "because it's really bad" (having previously tried to read the story in question).
It's weird, isn't it? You would think someone whose writing we like would like the same sort of stuff we like to read, but it isn't always the case. There have been times when I've read an interview with a published author or a scriptwriter or a poet whose work I enjoy and they've said someone or something was a big inspiration to them, and I've thought, "Wow, I really hated that book/show/etc."
I guess it just proves that even if you're inspired by someone else, even if you think artistic works are inevitably at least somewhat derivative of the the artist's influences, the artist themself -- and what they put into it -- really makes a difference to the audience.
Kiffie, I blame you.
Dec. 7th, 2012 02:15 am*pictures Toro running into Nichelle Nichols and fanboying*
*pictures Toro going to a coffee place and getting drinks for like, everyone*
*pictures Toro trying to nap but an ostrich is attempting to stick her head under his arm*
*pictures Toro giving away random articles of clothing he is wearing to people who look colder than him or who have been splashed with muck*
*pictures Toro coldcocking a Klingon*
*pictures Toro giving lessons to young heroes in how to untie knots with your teeth*
*pictures Toro exchanging phone numbers with a woman who complimented him on his boots at the store*
*pictures Toro being shown several tattoos by the guy who they're on, fascinated*
*pictures Toro trying to get Carol to choose the top 10 U2 songs to listen to so he doesn't pick the not-as-good ones when trying to figure out if he likes them*
*pictures Toro learning some modern dance moves from Colleen Wing*
*pictures Toro asleep on a lounger in the porch of the beach cabin, in the afternoon light, one arm up and bent to rest above his head, mouth slightly open, breathing slowly in time with the sound of the waves, a point-eared shadow falling over his legs*
*pictures Toro saying something with a droll look on his face while Bucky holds onto his shoulder, bent over with laughter, as modern hero types look on in bemusement*
*pictures Toro determinedly gazing at a laptop, taking a high school equivalency placement test so he can figure out what courses he should sign up for to get up-to-date with modern general education*
*pictures Toro's face looking really strained and tense just before he needs to speak Korean to a distressed civilian; he's still fluent, but he tries to ignore that*
*pictures Toro in Epic Grouch Mode, all in a huff about soemthing*
*pictures Toro having a shouting match with Namor in the middle of an expensive men's clothing store*
*picturs Toro dipping a hotdog in mustard, looking glum*
*pictures Toro walking with his hands in his jacket pockets away from a cold-looking woman holding a pair of men's gloves in surprise*
*pictures Toro playing tug with a pitbull and laughing*
*pictures Toro holding Annie while she cries, a letter in her hand*
*pictures Toro at 6 or so, wet and wrapped ina big towel, hair sticking up everywhere*
*pictures Toro being offered a glass of champagne on a plane*
*pictures Toro hunting wild mushrooms with Jackie*
*pictures Toro facing off with Magneto and looking distinctly unimpressed*
*pictures Toro playing chess in a park*
*pictures Toro making faces while trying on glasses*
*pictures Toro absently playing with a Taurus zodiac pendant hanging on a string around his neck (yes, that is his sign -- May 6th!)*
*pictures Toro and Hulkling having an impromptu obstacle race through the skies of Manhattan*
*pictures Toro with a few nails sticking out between his teeth as he tries to hang framed drawings by Steve and Joey*
*pictures Toro and Jim playing with about 5 cats*
*pictures Toro being mobbed by cats as he opens a can*
*pictures Toro looking into a small bubbling pot of caramel balanced on his palm while Jim shakes a popcorn pot*
THIS HAS BEEN MY DAY
*pictures Toro going to a coffee place and getting drinks for like, everyone*
*pictures Toro trying to nap but an ostrich is attempting to stick her head under his arm*
*pictures Toro giving away random articles of clothing he is wearing to people who look colder than him or who have been splashed with muck*
*pictures Toro coldcocking a Klingon*
*pictures Toro giving lessons to young heroes in how to untie knots with your teeth*
*pictures Toro exchanging phone numbers with a woman who complimented him on his boots at the store*
*pictures Toro being shown several tattoos by the guy who they're on, fascinated*
*pictures Toro trying to get Carol to choose the top 10 U2 songs to listen to so he doesn't pick the not-as-good ones when trying to figure out if he likes them*
*pictures Toro learning some modern dance moves from Colleen Wing*
*pictures Toro asleep on a lounger in the porch of the beach cabin, in the afternoon light, one arm up and bent to rest above his head, mouth slightly open, breathing slowly in time with the sound of the waves, a point-eared shadow falling over his legs*
*pictures Toro saying something with a droll look on his face while Bucky holds onto his shoulder, bent over with laughter, as modern hero types look on in bemusement*
*pictures Toro determinedly gazing at a laptop, taking a high school equivalency placement test so he can figure out what courses he should sign up for to get up-to-date with modern general education*
*pictures Toro's face looking really strained and tense just before he needs to speak Korean to a distressed civilian; he's still fluent, but he tries to ignore that*
*pictures Toro in Epic Grouch Mode, all in a huff about soemthing*
*pictures Toro having a shouting match with Namor in the middle of an expensive men's clothing store*
*picturs Toro dipping a hotdog in mustard, looking glum*
*pictures Toro walking with his hands in his jacket pockets away from a cold-looking woman holding a pair of men's gloves in surprise*
*pictures Toro playing tug with a pitbull and laughing*
*pictures Toro holding Annie while she cries, a letter in her hand*
*pictures Toro at 6 or so, wet and wrapped ina big towel, hair sticking up everywhere*
*pictures Toro being offered a glass of champagne on a plane*
*pictures Toro hunting wild mushrooms with Jackie*
*pictures Toro facing off with Magneto and looking distinctly unimpressed*
*pictures Toro playing chess in a park*
*pictures Toro making faces while trying on glasses*
*pictures Toro absently playing with a Taurus zodiac pendant hanging on a string around his neck (yes, that is his sign -- May 6th!)*
*pictures Toro and Hulkling having an impromptu obstacle race through the skies of Manhattan*
*pictures Toro with a few nails sticking out between his teeth as he tries to hang framed drawings by Steve and Joey*
*pictures Toro and Jim playing with about 5 cats*
*pictures Toro being mobbed by cats as he opens a can*
*pictures Toro looking into a small bubbling pot of caramel balanced on his palm while Jim shakes a popcorn pot*
THIS HAS BEEN MY DAY
*scritches head*
Oct. 23rd, 2012 05:19 pmAnimal Transformation AU fic is, like, superduper popular in The Losers fandom, and I have no idea why. It's not always, or even usually, werewolves. It seems to be mostly "some poeple turn into animals in this universe" with a few outliers of "everybody turns into animals in this universe. Yes, everybody. In the entire world."
And okay, cool...? I mean, it seems like every fandom has at least one (Semi-)Inexplicable ThingTM. (Some are more explicable than others, frex The Great due South Werewolf Thing -- one of the main characters is part wolf, and has conversations with 1-6 humans. Not so hard to understand. The SGA Penguin Thing... they start out in Antarctica, that's basically the only hook, but SGA fandom has multiple Things and one of them is turning the mains into inanimate objects... Digression ends.) I just don't know why people turn into animals is specifically The Losers' Thing. Or if it's possible this is just a cross-fandom Thing that's more obvious in The Losers fandom because said fandom is so small. (From what I can tell, it started before the Teen Wolf show became popular, and The Losers go for multi-species approaches much of the time, so that's probably not a huge contributing factor.)
(Is it because of Cougar?)
And okay, cool...? I mean, it seems like every fandom has at least one (Semi-)Inexplicable ThingTM. (Some are more explicable than others, frex The Great due South Werewolf Thing -- one of the main characters is part wolf, and has conversations with 1-6 humans. Not so hard to understand. The SGA Penguin Thing... they start out in Antarctica, that's basically the only hook, but SGA fandom has multiple Things and one of them is turning the mains into inanimate objects... Digression ends.) I just don't know why people turn into animals is specifically The Losers' Thing. Or if it's possible this is just a cross-fandom Thing that's more obvious in The Losers fandom because said fandom is so small. (From what I can tell, it started before the Teen Wolf show became popular, and The Losers go for multi-species approaches much of the time, so that's probably not a huge contributing factor.)
(Is it because of Cougar?)
music search
Oct. 17th, 2012 12:31 amI wish there was something like Google where, instead of words, you could input a phrase of musical notes and find out what songs they might be from. I've never been good at sight-reading -- I basically have to learn a piece by ear while looking at the page(s) to really get what they mean, something not even 13 years in choir and almost 6 in band cured me of -- and so when I see musical notation in, for example, a comic book, I can't recognise what I'm seeing. I mean, I know sometimes it's probably not from an actual music piece, especially if it's scattered notes or something Piper is using to stop a train. But sometimes it's semi-obvious that the reader is supposed to get something from the music notation, and it would be nice to have some way of looking it up.
So get on that, Internet. (If "there's an app for that", feel free to tell me. Just because I don't like Apple doesn't mean I don't own any.)
So get on that, Internet. (If "there's an app for that", feel free to tell me. Just because I don't like Apple doesn't mean I don't own any.)
headcanon thing
Jan. 22nd, 2012 06:18 pmI think Gibbs' theme song for most of (Un)Covered is "You Love Me To Hate You" by KISS --
-- right up until that record scratch moment when DiNozzo makes it plain that, NO, they aren't on the same page at ALL, really...
(Except in a backwards sort of way where she does do things to piss him off on purpose in order to amuse him, but unlike the girl in the song, she doesn't think she's getting anywhere or has a chance and furthermore, being DiNozzo, just desperately wants Gibbs' love and approval.)
-- right up until that record scratch moment when DiNozzo makes it plain that, NO, they aren't on the same page at ALL, really...
(Except in a backwards sort of way where she does do things to piss him off on purpose in order to amuse him, but unlike the girl in the song, she doesn't think she's getting anywhere or has a chance and furthermore, being DiNozzo, just desperately wants Gibbs' love and approval.)
thots to share about Captain America
Jan. 4th, 2012 07:44 amI am pretty sure they based Howard Stark's look in the cap movie on Clark Gable. And why not? He was The King of Hollywood. He was also a pilot during WWII. Hitler was a huge fan and put out a special bounty, promising to richly reward anyone who could capture Gable alive and bring him to the Führer.
Captain America was also a big Gable fan. Which makes his interactions with Howard Stark interesting, because in addition to being personally intimidated by intelligent, charming Stark, the man looks a lot like one of the handsomest American film actors of the time. Painfully aware of his own inexperience, and body image not entirely caught up to new body, no wonder he figured Peggy would prefer Stark!
Oh, Steve.
eta: Now picturing Cap, Wanda, and (with a great show of reluctance) Clint watching Gone With the Wind.
Captain America was also a big Gable fan. Which makes his interactions with Howard Stark interesting, because in addition to being personally intimidated by intelligent, charming Stark, the man looks a lot like one of the handsomest American film actors of the time. Painfully aware of his own inexperience, and body image not entirely caught up to new body, no wonder he figured Peggy would prefer Stark!
Oh, Steve.
eta: Now picturing Cap, Wanda, and (with a great show of reluctance) Clint watching Gone With the Wind.
I'm not sure if this is brilliant or not.
Apr. 8th, 2011 10:22 pmAlright, so, Highlander. Everyone knows Immortals are undead, yeah? They're normal people, aging normally, capable of getting sick or grievously wounded, and can die of illness or old age and stay dead. BUT. If they get "violently" killed, they come back and never thereafter age and eat each other's souls and can only be killed through decapitation. (And, I've always assumed, atomizing explosions. Because technically the head is separated from the neck there, as well.) So they're undead. NOT ALIENS. But they still don't entirely make sense. Why the Game? Where do they come from? If they're undead, why only eat each other's souls, and not those of non-Immortals? (Although I like the Highlander: the Animated Series logic of absorbing each other's knowledge and skills towards creating the ultimate, omniscient being as a possible answer to that last question.)
Today, I found this (posted anonymously):
God damn it, why didn't I think of that?! It's not perfect, but it can be worked with. In the series, at least, we know there's magic and demons and miracles -- we see them. Sure, classical changelings aren't crossbreeds, they're flat-out fairies swapped for real human children, but we'll allow the term. We've got evidence that stories of fae -- especially the elves that live underhill -- began as myths involving spirits of the dead, which would be why the "Immortal-ness" doesn't come into play unless they are killed, I suppose.
It's possible this just seems to work because I'm sleep deprived, so I'm going to go to bed now, but meanwhile, what do you think?
Today, I found this (posted anonymously):
When I first saw the flashback in the episode of HIGHLANDER in which Duncan is banished from his family and village for being a "changeling," I didn't think much about it. Okay, the concept of a fairy changeling fits in with the Celtic culture of the Highlands. Later I realized that — Highlander Immortals ARE changelings, specifically human-fae hybrids! It explains so much. Most cultures in the world have myths and legends about immortal, supernatural beings analogous to elves and fairies, so this theory works everywhere, not just in Britain and Europe. All Highlander Immortals whom we're aware of are orphans whose parents are unknown. Because the fae don't want halfbreeds among them, they foist these babies onto human families as changelings. Because they don't want too many of the halfbreeds around to cause trouble, they invented and promulgated the Game with that ridiculous "There Can Be Only One" premise, to get the halfbreeds to kill each other off. And of course the fairy genes account for their longevity and the difficulty of killing them. Can't have children? Most interspecies hybrids are sterile.
God damn it, why didn't I think of that?! It's not perfect, but it can be worked with. In the series, at least, we know there's magic and demons and miracles -- we see them. Sure, classical changelings aren't crossbreeds, they're flat-out fairies swapped for real human children, but we'll allow the term. We've got evidence that stories of fae -- especially the elves that live underhill -- began as myths involving spirits of the dead, which would be why the "Immortal-ness" doesn't come into play unless they are killed, I suppose.
It's possible this just seems to work because I'm sleep deprived, so I'm going to go to bed now, but meanwhile, what do you think?
an NCIS fic I would like to read
Sep. 24th, 2010 03:08 pmUnrequited Brad Pitt/Tony DiNozzo! eta: Actually, it works as gen. It can just be admiration and not lust -- see below.
No, not the actor. If you're an NCIS fan, you know I mean the doctor who treated Tony for the plague and who ALSO played against him in the football game where Tony sustained the injury that scuttled his sports career.
I want Brad POV starting before that game. I want him impressed as hell by Tony as a peer-and-rival, and looking forward to meeting him on the fieldof battle. I want him woobily horrified at being a party to ruining Tony's chances at making it pro. I want details of the game! I want Brad eyeballing the medics because oh god they'd better do it right. I want him, as a pre-med student, to have a friend working in the hospital who gets him in to see Tony -- but he chickens out at the last minute.
And then, years later, he is surprised to have Tony as a patient. He hasn't been stalking him after all -- he didn't know he'd gone into law enforcement, much less joined NCIS -- but he remembers him, oh yes. (Remember, it was Brad who brought up the game and gave Tony a copy of a recording he had. It makes sense that Brad would have mementoes of a great victory for his team, of course -- but he recognised Tony!)
I want to read this. Caring!Dr. Pitt.
I suspect I'll have to write it myself. *sigh*
No, not the actor. If you're an NCIS fan, you know I mean the doctor who treated Tony for the plague and who ALSO played against him in the football game where Tony sustained the injury that scuttled his sports career.
I want Brad POV starting before that game. I want him impressed as hell by Tony as a peer-and-rival, and looking forward to meeting him on the field
And then, years later, he is surprised to have Tony as a patient. He hasn't been stalking him after all -- he didn't know he'd gone into law enforcement, much less joined NCIS -- but he remembers him, oh yes. (Remember, it was Brad who brought up the game and gave Tony a copy of a recording he had. It makes sense that Brad would have mementoes of a great victory for his team, of course -- but he recognised Tony!)
I want to read this. Caring!Dr. Pitt.
I suspect I'll have to write it myself. *sigh*
NCIS head-canon time
Aug. 3rd, 2010 07:00 am* After Viv Blackadder, Gibbs ordered Tony to be less nice to new team members/probationary agents.
( More here. )
( More here. )
Am I technically even a slasher?
Jun. 20th, 2007 01:59 amSometimes I have difficulty reconciling myself to my participation in the the greater slash 'community'. I mean, I've been reading m/m romantic or pornographic fiction since, oh, late grade 8 or so. I've been writing it since high school. But a lot of stories, I hate. I do! And the attitudes of many slashers really get up my nose.
Maybe this is just an example of Sturgeon's Law in action, and 90% of everything is crud. Maybe I just think about it too much -- after all, in my first year of university I wrote a paper on the Westernization of yaoi fandom as compared to yaoi fandom in Japan and that Occidental native, slash; and I wrote a paper on what makes something homoerotic for males versus females as subject matter.
Sometimes I just get so irritated at slash, because it's alienating -- and no, I don't mean for the "norms", I mean for men. If every time I hugged or stood close to or smiled at someone of the same gender as me was interpreted as a sign of sexual interest, I'd become a hermit! It's like my appreciation of (well-written, dammit) m/m fiction works in direct conflict with my desire to see men allowed to be more open and comfortable.
It's dehumanizing. It pisses me off and makes me stop reading fanfic for stretches at a time.
*sigh*
Maybe this is just an example of Sturgeon's Law in action, and 90% of everything is crud. Maybe I just think about it too much -- after all, in my first year of university I wrote a paper on the Westernization of yaoi fandom as compared to yaoi fandom in Japan and that Occidental native, slash; and I wrote a paper on what makes something homoerotic for males versus females as subject matter.
Sometimes I just get so irritated at slash, because it's alienating -- and no, I don't mean for the "norms", I mean for men. If every time I hugged or stood close to or smiled at someone of the same gender as me was interpreted as a sign of sexual interest, I'd become a hermit! It's like my appreciation of (well-written, dammit) m/m fiction works in direct conflict with my desire to see men allowed to be more open and comfortable.
It's dehumanizing. It pisses me off and makes me stop reading fanfic for stretches at a time.
*sigh*
