stuff about stuff

[domarzione]

* I had to replace my desktop monitor after it blew on NYE. The new one is only an inch or two wider, but it feels like a completely different thing because it's HD. The old one had been good for what it was and it had lasted a long time: it still has a mark indicating that it's suitable for Windows Vista. :)


* In the Stupid Human Tricks department: managed to clock myself in the temple hard enough to leave a bruise this morning. I wasn't watching what I was doing and when I bent down to pick something up off the floor by the dining room table, I whacked my head against a chair back. It's sore to the touch and sore in general, but it's mostly hidden by my hair, which I'm grateful for because I don't want to look like a domestic violence victim when I'm just an idiot.


* I posted this to tumblr, but it probably makes more sense here:

I am not going to do a Year in Fic review because pretty much the only thing I produced in 2018 was Buratino and two glorified drabbles.

I was going to be a wiseass and do the Year in Fic 2013 instead, but that was the year I started in the MCU so it was literally just the Freezer Burn series.

So then, out of curiosity, I checked 2008′s year in review and it was such a long list of SGA stuff that I had had to split it into two entries, Jan-June and July-Dec.

I don’t have a compiled list for 2003 – I started it in 2004 – but it was comics fic, X-Men and then my freefall into DC.

I can only guess what I was doing in 1998 because that was Mailing List Era and while I’m sure I have the Homicide stuff I wrote for Schism somewhere, that somewhere might be a zip file on my external drive.


I am unsure about doing any kind of author meme; I am seriously delighted when people ask me about fic or want something elaborated upon, but requiring it from others in meme form makes me feel like a diva demanding attention and prattling on unprompted feels very self-absorbed. It’s probably not healthy to be so sure that nobody cares.

So, basically, if you have questions or thoughts, I have Opinions and answers.

Comments

[ratcreature]

FWIW, I often like reading authors prattle about their stuff, but coming up with questions feels like having to do work in some kind of English class, so with the memes that give some kind of list of topic suggestions, where you just have to pick out a number for something that sounds interesting seems much easier.

[kiratael]

The question all authors love: /sarcasm

Is Codename: Pandora still just something you're not committing to write or is it definitely off the table? (I am Intrigued by the hints of plot in the snippets and the idea of Sam in the Freezer Burn 'verse.)

[domarzione]

I always seem to find the replies to that sort of thing, but never the actual post.

[domarzione]

The truth about Codename: Pandora is that I have no plot for it. And any plotting I do do now is to finish that @$%@$^@$^ albatross of Sleepers of Ephesus. So... ask me again once that's done. Because then I will be able to actually consider it instead of immediately starting to stress about Sleepers. :)

[kiratael]

Noted!

[jesse_the_k]

Is your HOMICIDE fic still available anywhere? We just started rewatching the series and I'm astounded that was on broadcast television.

[domarzione]

I honestly don't think so unless the Wayback Machine has it. It was all written before there was a WWW, so it was never archived anywhere but with me. Also, it's Baby!DMZ fic and I am actually kind of terrified to go look at it because I'm sure it's largely readable, but.... it's going to make me twitch.

H:LotS was a basic cable show before that term had any meaning or possibility. NBC was never quite sure what to do with it and they eventually ruined it by trying to make it more generic and less weird. (Step one: making Melissa Leo wear makeup. Step two: all of the Season Six changes.) But holy crap, that pilot is still one of the best hours of television ever.

[jesse_the_k]

Well I found Man Bites Dog on the WBM, and I'll appreciate it as "early days."

Weirdly, Melissa Leo is wearing makeup in the pilot! It looks so wrong. And I so love her swaggery suits.

Speaking of which, did you see Frozen River? It's a heartbreaking story about being poor, and Leo is wonderful.