stuff about stuff
20 Aug 2013 12:34![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
domarzione* I think I'm prepared to call the cross-posting a success and commit to it. I've only had one mixup that got cleared up quickly and I've certainly been posting enough. So, if you are interested in the LJ-flist trimming, feel free to go ahead. Actually, you never need my blessings for that, but you know what I mean.
Also, if I am supposed to be following you at DW, let me know. My LJ flist is tiny because of permissions and my privacy twitchiness, but DW is far more flexible with that, so if you're interesting and you know it, clap your hands. :)
* Thaw is done and I'm at a bit of loose ends. I still want to write, but now there is nothing to write. I can't really ask for timestamps or missing scenes or POV shifts or questions or whatnots like I used to do in SGA because the bulk of the reading audience is on AO3, which isn't geared for that.
Not unrelated, I went back and made some tweaks to the story, since there are downsides to writing it as a posted WIP. Most of the corrections are stylistic and/or simple booboo fixes, but I did make one substantive change, which was go to back and make Clint's... sense of deja vu about the brain co-opting a little less understated, since I think I underplayed it too much before the last chapter. Anyway, the changes came out to less than a hundred words, but I think it's a subtle improvement.
* Watched The Losers the other week because Netflix won't give me what I really wanted -- what's up with the new releases and big releases suddenly being "very long wait"? -- and I really wish they'd done a better job there. I think I only ever read the first TPB of the comics, although I wonder why that was because the premise is totally up my alley, and I'm all for most of the changes they made with respect to the characters (especially everything to do with Roque, although turning him into a three-dimensional character without also updating his heel turn motivation made it worse), but the material itself didn't translate very well from one medium to the next. I've read some fic -- holy carp and other fish, there's a lot of it! -- and I've found a few good ones. I'll take recs there, though, because there is so much of it and I just dipped toes. And yes, I read the slash.
* The baseball team is in its working-for-next-season phase, which is why Travis d'Arnaud is now the starting catcher despite being oh-fer-MLB, and I am giddy that hockey players are now skating in organized groups large enough to merit reports from bored beat writers.
* RIP Elmore Leonard and thanks for all the fish.
Also, if I am supposed to be following you at DW, let me know. My LJ flist is tiny because of permissions and my privacy twitchiness, but DW is far more flexible with that, so if you're interesting and you know it, clap your hands. :)
* Thaw is done and I'm at a bit of loose ends. I still want to write, but now there is nothing to write. I can't really ask for timestamps or missing scenes or POV shifts or questions or whatnots like I used to do in SGA because the bulk of the reading audience is on AO3, which isn't geared for that.
Not unrelated, I went back and made some tweaks to the story, since there are downsides to writing it as a posted WIP. Most of the corrections are stylistic and/or simple booboo fixes, but I did make one substantive change, which was go to back and make Clint's... sense of deja vu about the brain co-opting a little less understated, since I think I underplayed it too much before the last chapter. Anyway, the changes came out to less than a hundred words, but I think it's a subtle improvement.
* Watched The Losers the other week because Netflix won't give me what I really wanted -- what's up with the new releases and big releases suddenly being "very long wait"? -- and I really wish they'd done a better job there. I think I only ever read the first TPB of the comics, although I wonder why that was because the premise is totally up my alley, and I'm all for most of the changes they made with respect to the characters (especially everything to do with Roque, although turning him into a three-dimensional character without also updating his heel turn motivation made it worse), but the material itself didn't translate very well from one medium to the next. I've read some fic -- holy carp and other fish, there's a lot of it! -- and I've found a few good ones. I'll take recs there, though, because there is so much of it and I just dipped toes. And yes, I read the slash.
* The baseball team is in its working-for-next-season phase, which is why Travis d'Arnaud is now the starting catcher despite being oh-fer-MLB, and I am giddy that hockey players are now skating in organized groups large enough to merit reports from bored beat writers.
* RIP Elmore Leonard and thanks for all the fish.
no subject
Date: 2013-08-22 01:17 (UTC)I do not love SGA. I love Stargate SG-1. I am *watching* SGA. Mostly with pained disbelief, actually. But I've never seen it. SGA is the Bad Boy/Girlfriend who is handsome and noble-looking from a distance and dumb as a box of rocks up close...
no subject
Date: 2013-08-22 03:09 (UTC)SGA was mean and stupid and possibly a drunk up close. It took a dramatic concept of such promise and turned it into a screwball comedy and did despicable things to its characters (marginalization, making them unable to retain the lessons of their experiences, etc.), all while the producers and writers gloated boastfully on their blogs. I spent five years with this bad lover and I might still be a little bitter.
I loved SG-1, but in my usual fringe-y way. I loved Jonas (and wrote him a 30K word story). I loved Cam. I kind of didn't mind when Daniel was dead that week. I tried to write Jack as not a doofus. I would never have made it as a writer if it had been my primary Stargate. :)
no subject
Date: 2013-08-22 03:30 (UTC)Oh god THIS.
They did the same thing to SG1 for S8-10. And I was very cranky, too. Especially over the gloating. It's bad enough TPTB are stupid and talentless. But then they gloat about it...
My opinion of SGU is, of course, widely known. But I'm the last person on earth to say something can't or shouldn't be loved. Or that it can't be fannishly retrofitted into something I would even read fic about. The most interesting thing about SGU, to me, is that its fannish demographics seem to skew strongly male. So that's a thing. And I kind of wonder what elements were present to bring out the guy vote, as it were, that SG1 and SGA either didn't have, or balanced with woman-appealing content....
no subject
Date: 2013-08-22 03:49 (UTC)Maybe I liked SGU because my tastes in general skew exceptionally male. I was as prepared to hate it as much as anyone, especially with some of the plotlines they floated beforehand. But it was the Stargate that most closely fit the one I wrote -- a real sense of a military command structure (John Sheppard is military by pretext, not by anything he says or does or how anyone treats him or how he treats others), a real battle between the interests of exploration and survival and fights over power and control, a dark humor instead of silly yukks, actual prices paid for mistakes and hubris and main characters hurt and bled... It was everything I had wished SGA to be. I know it polarized everyone, but some of those episodes and arcs were brilliant.
no subject
Date: 2013-08-22 06:48 (UTC)Since I only watched the pilot and a few random eps of SGU S1, I won't crit the show. Not for me, but apparently I only find a new fandom boyfriend every two decades or so, so that isn't surprising...
no subject
Date: 2013-08-22 14:30 (UTC)Huma, for the record, is actually completely canon-compliant and requires no other QH reading. The entire reason Jonas is a main character in QH is because SG1 made the offhand remark about Langara, like it was just another planet that had fallen and they had no connection to it. So he got his own story because dammit, I cared.
no subject
Date: 2013-08-23 11:57 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-08-23 12:24 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-08-24 01:16 (UTC)But OTOH, none of them was a member of SG1 for a year. So I think TPTB were just being pissy butthurt asshats again. Quelle surprise.