4am rambles

[alias_sqbr]

I looked at the cover for the latest issue of Skip Beat and decided I'd had enough of Ren and his stupid angsty face. Call me if it ever becomes about Kyoko again.

I keep thinking I'm done with Glitch and then something new and fun happens. The other day I decided to find the key to the locked door in Subarna Spells, and in the process had a nice conversation with others waiting for it to respawn (I eventually got bored, came back an hour later to see some still waiting and found it on the ground) Then I got in and it was so much fun:people jump from ledge to ledge and when they see a sparkly rock respawn shout out the location then everyone converges at once to mine it in seconds before moving on to the next one. Then I decided to check out one of the other hidden key locations, and found a note inviting people to join a group for user generated quests. So I checked one out, but got stuck…and while wandering around encountered an invite to an unrelated party. When I arrived only the host was there, but we had a nice chat and they gave me all their leftover food (any day that results in free food is a good day, even if it's virtual)

I find this Supernatural fan film interesting. From what I've seen, Counteragent and Naomi Novik both produce fannish works which are of high quality but way too in love with male characters for my tastes, and Supernatural girl!Sam/Dean fanfic tends to feel like regular fic with the pronouns changed to me, but I'm wondering if that fact that there's actual women playing the characters would make any difference. I quite liked swirlygate, but that didn't take itself at all seriously. Anyway, even if it doesn't end up being my sort of thing I think it's a cool idea.

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[lizbee]

From what I've seen, Counteragent and Naomi Novik both produce fannish works which are of high quality but way too in love with male characters for my tastes.

That was why I was already on the verge of giving up Novik's novels, even before the series took a sharp turn into Indigenous erasure in the Australia book.

[bunny_m]

the series took a sharp turn into Indigenous erasure in the Australia book

Ugh!

I wish I could say this surprised me, I really do.

[alias_sqbr]

Yeah I gave up after book 3, and have yet to regret it.

[torachan]

I've been doing a lot of mining lately, mostly in Neva Neva rather than the deeps, but it's the same blue and white triangle key that gets you in. I really like mining with a group like that. It's surprisingly fun.

[alias_sqbr]

I should try out Neva Neva! I keep meaning to go there then getting distracted by other stuff.

EDIT: I have been to Neva Neva. It was great :D

[torachan]

I really like the crowd there. (Plus I just like the Callopee and Pollokoo mines better than Ilmenskie in general. Though the deeps have a lot more coins, which I like.)

[tree]

From what I've seen, Counteragent and Naomi Novik both produce fannish works which are of high quality but way too in love with male characters for my tastes.

i haven't read anything by Counteragent, but i did make it through the first two temeraire novels and... yeah. also, excessive use of semicolons. i mean, i love semicolons! they are my favourite punctuation! but seriously it was just ridiculous. someone wrote a pride and prejudice/temeraire fusion which i really liked (the first part, at least). although you've probably already seen it. :)

awhile back i saw a short clip of a scene from the star trek reboot that was filmed with women in all the roles, and even with the exact same dialogue and staging, it was so much more interesting to me. i tend to think that there will be nuances to an all-female cast of any mostly-male text if only because of the novelty.

[bunny_m]

I absolutely adored Temeraire, but I couldn't force myself to finish book 2. The resolute insistence on writing the Imperial Chinese as white folksMiddle-to-Upper-Class-British-Gentlemen-with-Funny-Clothes-and-Names just turned my stomach, and seeing that there was a later book set in Africa didn't make me want to go back and give her another try.

It's a crying shame, too, as I'd read damn near anything that is Napoleonic/Fauxleonic in SF/F.

a short clip of a scene from the star trek reboot that was filmed with women in all the roles

Now that sounds mighty interesting. Got a link/place to start searching?

[tree]

found it! Star Trek present by The Girls on Film

back to temeraire #2, aside from the "chinese people are bad" plot, i was also unimpressed that the focus on treating dragons more like people did not extend to human females. dragons = people, but not the lady people. well, except the handful of ladies who ride dragons. but they're freaks! most ladies are too delicate, etc.

i mean, if you can have dragons in your napoleonic europe, you can certainly allow women to wear trousers. that's all i'm saying.

(icon courtesy of the random icon chooser *g*)

[alias_sqbr]

I've only seen Counteragent's vids, I'm not sure if she writes fic.

Yes, I saw that clip too. Now I'm wondering how various types of genderswapped media would compare: video vs comics vs prose etc.

[tree]

ah. i erroneously assumed counteragent was a writer due to being in the same sentence as NN. that'll teach me. :)