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I hacked my program file on Saturday so that I'd be able to use Final Cut again, and since then I've been in the midst of working frantically to recontextualize narratives and try not to freak out overly much. However while my enthusiasm for it on Saturday probably helped power the entire coast, I got far enough into it that I started running into ideological balance issues and narrative congruity and unfortunately now I have to access my brain and make sure I'm saying what I definitely want to say. Too bad the ending of S5 is extremely frustrating in delivering a lot of the stuff I wanted delivered. But that's okay, because screw you I will take the text and run with it.

That being said, barring any fits of creative rage I have most of the structure worked out and the dramatis personae are all making their appearances, most of the music marked off and a general theme going on.

When the waveforms aren't cooperating or I don't quite have the right set of frames for a clip, at least I have Castiel's stupid mug to stare at. While he's staring back. Creeper.
affablyevil: (misha says we should read stuff)
[livejournal.com profile] architeuthis proves that being a language nerd is extremely contagious over the internet. I've adapted the fic preferences meme into this new shiny words in fic preferences meme.

+ Your fic length of choice

+ Words you particularly enjoy reading, writing, or saying

+ Your favorite erotic, sensual, or kinky words

+ Favorite words in dialogue (slang, swearing, dirty talk, etc.)
+ Squick words!
+ Common words in fic that just don't do it for you
+ Words you particularly like in a specific fandom
+ Your ultimate/ideal style of prose


Read more )
affablyevil: (it's all location location location)
I just spent the morning trying to use geodesics to talk about ontology and how legitimate the self-consistency principle might be if we also allow for wave function collapse. And just, no. Affine connections and smooth manifold metrics aside, I've decided that the way angels time travel is just by being really really good at math. Like how humans tend to be good at breathing.

Whereas physics and I have always had an internecine relationship, so. I guess I should be used to this.

I've heard it told that a writer only writes once it becomes unbearable for them not to do so; my continued preference for procrastination via research of quantum mechanics or medieval weapons or the seedy underbelly of the usage of American English over actually getting shit done suggests that nope, I haven't hit that point. Which doesn't stop characters from having ridiculous and repetitive conversations in my head. Well, it's that or it's hell grotesquery and plotless post-apocalyptic word landscapes. Which: unhelpful.

Though it is fun.

Here, have a cracky gif type thing )
affablyevil: (he's not king but he's still so proper)
And then, in the second movie, Efron gave us narm. And lo! It was hilarious.

You Know You Can (Bet On It)
Vidder: [livejournal.com profile] affablyevil
Fandom: The Lion King
Warnings: PG, way too much Disney, awesome
Summary: Am I the type of guy who means what I say?

Recommended version: download (82.7 mb)



This vid is 100% the fault of for [livejournal.com profile] thisbrain, who is the sole reason I get High School Musical songs stuck in my head in the first place and end up dancing spontaneously to them like a lunatic while on golf courses or walking down the street.

Notes and boring stuff ahoy )

Plz be to sharing your thoughts, I'd love to get feedback on this.
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I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.

That would be hiatus.


I have thoughts about My Bloody Valentine beyond "Oh my God, that was awesome!" [livejournal.com profile] thisbrain has patiently explained to me that I am warped, which is why episodes like this make me happy. Finally the reason Castiel wouldn't let Dean eat the hamburgers in "Lucifer Rising" has come to light. Also everyone getting non-con hugs is so awesome I don't have words. That episode was so hilarious and awful I loved the crap out of it.


I had a long essay about the "treatment of female characters" in Torchwood in contrast to Supernatural, mostly coming down to issues of agency and politics of the body.

It boils down to this: in Supernatural, nobody gets impregnated against their will*, there's only one female character that carries a longterm torch for a guy (and ultimately turns him down) [Jo], nobody gets dateraped, nobody gets felt up at work or treated like a child [Lilith? Ha!], the major female characters are all physically formidable [Jo, Ellen, Ruby, Meg, Bela, Mary, Anna], three of the female characters pull massive one-overs on the boys [Ruby, Meg, Bela], and every single one of them is doing something independent of the boys' lives.

Am I forgetting any reoccurring characters? I guess Pamela and Tessa, but I don't think I need to make a case for Pamela being awesome and brave and heroic, and I hesitate to include Tessa as a "female character" since she is uh, non-corporeal. The ladies may be fridged/not around enough (according to some people), but their characters are treated with respect. They know what they want, they don't sit around whining about it: they go after it and do what they think is right (or what's evil). They don't wait for direction from other people, they make decisions for themselves.

Fandom reception, however is another matter entirely.

Anyway I was going to yell at the people who think the ladyfolks on Torchwood are done better than on Supernatural (okay I do recognize that this is not, in fact, a Srs Debate), until I started watching Children of Earth. Turns out? Get rid of Jack and Gwen turns awesome. And by awesome I mean, normal. We saw this a bit in "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang", but seriously, I want Jack to be buried under a ton of cement all the time if this is what we get out of it.

Then again maybe my standards are more lax because I am pretty much completely unable to empathize with any character on this show, so examining "the female role" is more of a point of protest for the haters. Also I haven't finished Children of Earth yet so who knows, it could all go down the crapper.

Video editing is taking over my life. Which, well, since I've heard the song at least a few hundred times by now, it's expected that I'd be crazy.

*ETA Jesse's mom was, but while it was supposed to be all "demon-spawny" he is mostly a well-adjusted kid.
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Now I know what you're thinking: "Really, affably, really? Why do you do this to me? Why? This yellow makes me just as nauseous as the green."

But yes, yes. It is time for a new layout! Past time, really. And yeah, I'm very well aware that it's the Christmas/Kwanzaa/お正月 season and everything, so I've decided to go with a festive new theme! But for those of you playing at home you can just stalk me from your friends page per usual and not deal with the onerous massive background that makes me smile so much.



Here's a rec from [livejournal.com profile] metafandom: so you want to write fanfictions on the internets by [livejournal.com profile] traveller
affablyevil: (supervillainy is not easy)
try making an arbitrary brainstorm word list:
thud, thump, clunk, clonk, crash, bang, clump, clomp, wham, whump, clang, chime, ring, smack, chop, whack, crack, clatter, clank, clink, rattle, hum, boom, rumble, growl, hiss, wheeze, fizz, snick, click, snap, pop, tick, dink, chime, toll, ding, dong, bong, beep, burp, huff, sniff, snuff, rustle, swish, swoosh, whoosh, wonk, bonk, cronk, fwap, blurp, mewl, tink, batter, shoonk, shunk, gasp, puff, buzz, sizzle, clack, croak, whuff, zoom, splash, honk, vroom, bleat, blairt, whoop, wham, plink, plonk, drip, smooch, crackle, clop, ping, jangle, blam, whizz, whirl, fizzle, sputter, squawk, chunk, chug, screech, skitter, wallop, murmur, burble, bubble, gurgle, guzzle, plop, slosh, slump, splut, squirt, bringg, bweee, creak, squeak, crinkle, blurt, scuttle

... and then try to legitimize it as fighting writer's block when really you're just a horrible procrastinator that procrastinates.

After discovering John Hodgman's twitter (@hodgman) I had the sudden thought: hey, how cool would it be to have Misha Collins on The Colbert Report? But then, once I seriously considered what I was suggesting, my head exploded. I don't think I could handle Misha and Stephen yelling at each other about religious interpretations and the Bible and Sam as Lucifer and trading quips about who has the bigger world domination army and having cupcake fights and dance-offs. And.

I don't think the human race is ready for that yet.

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