assorted and sundry
Jan. 2nd, 2012 10:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
castiron1. Crossovers I did not need in my head: the voice of Scottish singer Andy (no M) Stewart singing "Sherlock, Where's Your Trousers?"
2. Saying that fanfic is training wheels for writing original fic is like saying that sonnets are training wheels for writing free verse.
3. A concept that lacks a word: liking songs of protest and rebellion that are far enough removed by time, language, or distance for you to ignore the fact that actually, you're in or would've been in the group being protested or rebelled against. (This describes a decent percentage of my music library.)
4. Happy Asimov's birthday! His science fiction never did much for me, but I devoured his essays on science when I was a kid, and I still enjoy rereading the Black Widowers stories. (Now, *there's* a rare fandom I should suggest for Yuletide next year....)
5. I saw Tinker Tailor Solider Spy last week with my knitting pal; it was an excellent movie and seems to be a good adaptation of the book. Oldman's performance as Smiley was subtle and absorbing, and the rest of the acting was great as well. I'm probably *not* going to buy the DVD in the near future, but only because there are a few scenes so brutal, disturbing, or gruesome that I don't want the short people seeing them accidentally. (Generally they were telegraphed well enough, though, that I could look away in time and avoid having the detailed mental image seared on my retinas. But it's definitely not a movie for those who want to avoid depictions of graphic violence.) I might take an afternoon off sometime to see it in the theater again. And my knitting pal and I were amused to realize that there were three former Austen heroes together in one movie.
6. Evil Author list, entry #13: If in one of my works I am ever tempted to take a silly way out of a tense cliffhanger when the silliness does not fit with what led up to the cliffhanger, I will go write fanfic of my own story instead and get it out of my system, and then come up with a solution that actually makes sense and fits the established tone of the story.
2. Saying that fanfic is training wheels for writing original fic is like saying that sonnets are training wheels for writing free verse.
3. A concept that lacks a word: liking songs of protest and rebellion that are far enough removed by time, language, or distance for you to ignore the fact that actually, you're in or would've been in the group being protested or rebelled against. (This describes a decent percentage of my music library.)
4. Happy Asimov's birthday! His science fiction never did much for me, but I devoured his essays on science when I was a kid, and I still enjoy rereading the Black Widowers stories. (Now, *there's* a rare fandom I should suggest for Yuletide next year....)
5. I saw Tinker Tailor Solider Spy last week with my knitting pal; it was an excellent movie and seems to be a good adaptation of the book. Oldman's performance as Smiley was subtle and absorbing, and the rest of the acting was great as well. I'm probably *not* going to buy the DVD in the near future, but only because there are a few scenes so brutal, disturbing, or gruesome that I don't want the short people seeing them accidentally. (Generally they were telegraphed well enough, though, that I could look away in time and avoid having the detailed mental image seared on my retinas. But it's definitely not a movie for those who want to avoid depictions of graphic violence.) I might take an afternoon off sometime to see it in the theater again. And my knitting pal and I were amused to realize that there were three former Austen heroes together in one movie.
6. Evil Author list, entry #13: If in one of my works I am ever tempted to take a silly way out of a tense cliffhanger when the silliness does not fit with what led up to the cliffhanger, I will go write fanfic of my own story instead and get it out of my system, and then come up with a solution that actually makes sense and fits the established tone of the story.