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1) I said to myself that this year, I would start documenting stuff that I created no matter how small or silly-seeming, so here’s my fills (so far?) for the Three Sentence Ficathon 2021 (here and new post here):

-strange brew; Monica, Friends

prompt: Friends, Any, The coffee at Central Perk is not that good.

- makes three; Jill/Eustace + 1, Narnia

prompt: Narnia, Eustace/Jill, our fears go hand in hand

- under control; Harry + Minerva, Harry Potter

prompt: any, any, add One "fuck" to the canon dialogue or scene of your choice

- Upside-down; Eustace + Caspian, Doctor Cornelius, Narnia

prompt: narnia, any, role swap

2) HERE is a genderbent casting I made for Cobra Kai, aka the Karate Kid revival series that really has no business being as much fun as it is.

I have so much fun making things! I should do it more often.

Bringing these over from Tumblr too. Fun times. A lot of these ships go way back. Before-I-knew-what-shipping-was back.

also saw this around Tumblr and thought it looked like fun!

cross-posting from Tumblr

1) The Lion King 1994 – favorite Disney movie for as long as I can remember. It’s just perfect. Still well up during the final walk up Pride Rock, without fail. Was basically a disaster watching the musical.

2) Dogfight – frankly, it’s a miracle the movie even works with the premise, and yet it does. I won’t even try to parse how; I just love watching Lili Taylor and River Phoenix hash it out and walk it out and kiss it out again…and again…and again..

3) Princess Mononoke – I got it as a Christmas present when I was fourteen and fell head over heels immediately, a chasing-dragons-wakened-imagination type of love. I mean, deer gods! Wolves in mystical forests! Feral female lead and complicated lady villain! A meet-cute that involves holding the male lead at knife-point while he dazedly calls her beautiful! Truly id-forming.

4) Notting Hill – film equivalent of baked goods, a hot drink, and a fuzzy old sweater.

5) Legally Blonde – "I’ll show you how valuable Elle Woods can be!" I could watch that montage and the final trial over and over again. Well, I mean, I have – along with the whole, fabulous rest of the movie.

6) Stand By Me – not sure what it says about me that my favorite summer film involves kids setting out to find a dead body.

7) Warm Bodies – post apocalypse aesthetic, awesome soundtrack, stupidly cute zombie Nic Hoult? Yesss. I don’t normally like zombies as a trope, and yet.

Others: Speed Racer 2008, Whisper of the Heart, The Mighty Ducks, Ever After, The Parent Trap, Almost Famous

so this is still a thing ~~as is me actually posting on here~~

( 'she is always starving for new books to gobble' )

( or, I re-figure out image posting in a journal blog )

body talk: a porny comment ficathon [the prompt post]

While I still have that song in my head:

taught me love

Livejournal, Zetaboards

taught me patience

Dreamwidth, Discord

taught me pain

Tumblr dot com

Current Mood: amused

Still adjusting to having an account on a fandom platform that Writes again.

(This is just so I can have a first post. Yay, first post.)

Current Mood: hopeful

You could call this my ~serenade to Melina Marchetta's novel, On the Jellicoe Road. It started out as a character-by-character playlist, but then I thought, hey: why not let their whole entwined story play out in all the songs?

Cue me wasting a whole afternoon on a giant five-parter fanmix.

(...I think I may like the cover best of all.)

( And I'm wondering if he'll go or if he'll stay/Do you remember, nothing stopped us on the the field in our day? )

Current Mood: tired

A few quick thoughts on Game of Thrones S2

(spoilers for all aired episodes)

( the night is dark and I ship Arya/Gendry )

So the series is rolling along, though shit hasn’t gotten real quite yet. But we are almost at that turning point!

Current Mood: relaxed

Whew, so my recent frenzied film rewatches have finally brought this into being! It’s been burning a hole in my mind for awhile.

I LOVE Stand by Me. I sorta wish I could send flowers to my childhood’s VHS rental store, just for having it in their collection. It’s really almost as though they had this film just for me and my friends to grow up on. Some years ago, I also found the Stephen King novella it was based on (The Body), and I soaked up everything else that I didn’t know about my favorite characters. They’re almost real to me, I can’t even tell you.

The thing is: this isn't only a ‘critics-approved’ film. Nope. It’s totally beloved, and no wonder. Anybody could see a bit of themselves in it. It’s all about childhood and goldenness and losing innocence when you didn’t know you still had it; it’s about being yanked into harsher waters and trying to stay afloat, when you're still not quite ready to "grow up". And it is about friendship. Oh, is it about friendship!

It also revolves all around four boys, and that was always fine by me. After all, their journey in the movie quite isolates them from (almost!) everyone else in the world.

But like anyone who eats up the character-study goodness of a gender!swap, I’ve been having a blast re-imagining Stand by Me. Let’s say the golden summer and the sweet melancholy strain and everything else in this story stay intact…but let’s say that these familiar characters were all young girls! Girls living in the shadows of their mothers and their sisters; four girls who go questing down the railroad tracks…

Well, why ever not? Other than the character-study aspect of it, fantasy casting is always hella FUN. : )

If you’re not familiar with the film (it goes without saying that I recommend it with all my heart!), here is its DVD cover summary, as seen through regender.com:

In a small woodsy Oregon town, a group of friends--sensitive Gordie, tough gal Chris, flamboyant Thea, and scaredy-cat Verne--are in search of a missing girl's body. Wanting to be heroines in each other's and their hometown's eyes, they set out on an unforgettable two-day trek that turns into an odyssey of self-discovery. They sneak smokes, tell tall tales, cuss 'cause it's cool, and band together when the going gets tough. When they encounter the town's knife-wielding hoods who are also after the body, the girls discover a strength they never knew they had. Stand by Me is a rare and special film about friendship and the indelible experiences of growing up.

“It was almost noon as we set out to find the body of a dead kid named Rachel Brower…”

( Have gun will travel, reads the card of a man. A knight without armor in a savage land... )

Current Mood: happy
Current Location: Back Harlow Road
Current Music: "Stand By Me"- Ben E. King

Mmmmm, so during the Hunger Games movie, I was filled to the brim with bread.

( Hunger Games, happy Hunger Games... )

Icon used because misery loves company, and OMG WINTER IS COMING.

Current Mood: content
Current Location: home
Current Music: Run Daddy Run - Miranda Lambert

This is the most beautiful post in the world.

Fuck appreciating literature, people. Love stories. Love wordplay. Love a deliciously delivered anecdote, a razor-sharp joke, a ripping yarn, a swashbuckling hero who fights for justice or a lost intellectual who takes bloody vengeance into his own hands; love tales of kings and queens and wizards and goosegirls; love space-faring smugglers and penniless governesses; love confused adolescents and bitter old men; love fallen angels and irritable monsters, mad scientists and grumpy sidekicks, cabbage sellers and long-anticipated saviours…

I am still reading the other commentaries. There’s more. There’s more and more and more.

And good gods, do I love the stories that have made me me.

Current Mood: thankful
Current Music: Kingdom of Zeal- Chrono Trigger

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How ‘bout two?

--The Fault in our Stars by John Green. I read this book in one emotional gulp, one sick afternoon ago. It was one of those hazy, omg-does-the-world-still-actually-exist? reading experiences. I remember thinking things like: I am going to crack and I have to lock that door or they’ll all catch me losing it , then next thing I knew: huh, it is locked already, did I do that? Whatevs. Hazeeeel! Augustuuuus!

Also: whoops, that’s a scarf, not a tissue (lucky for that poor scarf).

And yet! I was tearing up*, but I also laughed so hard that I choked on my lozenges. Sometimes did both at the same time. To quote another book that I love: “they were the kind of tears that came when she was just too full."

--I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith. I just finished it this morning, after reading it various states of dreaminess for the past days. How to describe it? Blurb-y words like ‘sensory’ and ‘dreamlike’ won’t suffice. Cassandra Mortmain’s diary entries are like listening to pieces of music composed by Yasunori Mitsuda . There, that’s high praise from me.

Yep, I’d seen the TV movie before. Flawless cast that I couldn’t get out of my head-canon (I Capture the Castle = that time when Riley Finn from Buffy gave me feels!). Well except for that unremarkable dude who played Simon (mentally replaced him with Joshua Jackson).

Here’s a quote that I wrote down towards the end (but there are SO many quotable quotes, this is just the one I ‘caught’): I only want to write. And there’s no college for that except life.

"No college except life"—don’t you just love that?

*some people sob over books. I tear up and implode.

Augh. My heart actually physically hurt reading this, you guys:
Though I hadn't seen him in over twenty years...

It just. Makes me think of time. Memory and losing touch and reconnection, how surreal it all is sometimes. And loss. The way that stories can tell the truth so much, sometimes, that it aches.

And this part:

It’s easy to forget how satisfying it is to create a character, to discover something magnificent in a script or a scene, and then bring those things to life with other actors in front of an audience.

Yeah. Yeah. I so rarely ever think about how it is from the "other side", you know? Bless you, Wil Wheaton.

ETA: Big spoilers for the film in the comments.

+ *Luke Skywalker voice* NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Well, damn! Here I was believing all these years that my hair was just too thick to stay put in those braid loopies. And wondering where the hell Leia hid the tufty ends of her braids.

+I found that article in the first place because I am convinced that there is a pic out there with Jessica Sula wearing Leia hairbuns. I saw it once, I swear. Still no luck in finding it, if it exists… but I now am thisclose to making a Star Wars!Skins Tumblr photoset with Grace as Leia, Rich as Han, and Alo as Luke (Farmboy, geddit?).

shhhh, this is how I deal.

+That Naboo underwater chase in The Phantom Menace is ten times funnier if you imagine that Qui-Gonn and Obi Wan were trolling Jar Jar Binks through the whole scene. THINK ABOUT IT. They are both perfectly straight-faced when those things come at them out of nowhere, and come on, it’s kind of hard to believe that they never Force-sensed those gargantuan underwater disturbances.

Further proof of this: Jar Jar squawks and passes out, and then Obi Wan tells Qui Gonn: “I think you overdid it.”

(lol, so George Lucas probably didn’t intend the line to mean “Epic trolling, Master”. But it’s way more fun that way, and he Rick-Rolled us with Jar Jar, SO.)

+ I have only now processed that this is going to be an actual movie on actual movie screens.

( cut for Mark Oshiro-like reaction )

I hope this is released everywhere, with a subtitled theatrical version. Because tons of grown-ass fans WILL be slavering to see this!

(Amusingly, the little bro’s reaction when he heard about this was something like shitshitshit, please don’t tell me it stars Tom Cruise.)

Current Mood: silly

^Madeleine L'Engle

+ I just heard that Judy Blume’s Tiger Eyes is going to be made into a movie, as is Madeleine L’Engle’s Camilla. I wonder if this is going to be a new trend: classic slice-of-life YA books getting turned into movies. I mean: the movie studios are still snatching up the rights to Paranormal Romance novels, aren’t they? And I think the dystopian YA books will follow suit.

( Judy Blume thoughts )

+ It’s just too bad that Madeleine L’Engle never lived to see any great adaptation of her books. I know she hated the Wrinkle in Time TV movie, and from what I’ve heard, the Ring of Endless Light one does not even begin to touch the absolute amazing-ness of the book (also: whyyy would you cast Jared ‘Puppyface’ Padalecki as the bad boy anti-hero? Really??).

I am really happy that publishing companies seem intent on reprinting Madeleine’s entire body of work. Bought a whole new set of them over the holidays. Finally I got to read her rare standalones and got around to the rest of the Austin books that I never read (or: only read once) in my adolescence. See, I loved Meg Murry a whole lot (still do!), but I was Vicky Austin. **

I recently reread my lovely, by-now-falling-apart Time Quartet collection, the books about the Murry family.

( Time Quartet reread thoughts )

...One day, I WILL learn to write an organized book!post.

So, universe, I honestly could not care less about Glee and it’s “storylines” anymore. (A few weeks ago, I got curious and read one S3 episode summary...and I backed away wanting to punch the Glee Wikia.)

But but BUT:

holy exploding ovaries, Mike Chang

Hurrrrr. I don’t usually get especially excited over an attractive dude putting on eyeliner, but it’s Harry Shum Jr.. Why they put Finn in the limelight when they could be plastering this guy and his face (and his abs!) all over the TV screen is beyond me.

Current Mood: giggly

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