beyond the wide world's end

Still mildly reeling over the fact that I wrote 30K of Star Wars fic. (Slightly embarrassed over the fact that I wrote 30K of Star Wars fic right after dropping out of the Narnia Big Bang, but what can you do, right?)

I had the usual post-fic blues where I poked at my various WIPs in hopes that something would stick (the Obi-Wan and lady!Anakin one, the time-traveling lady Jedi one, the sequel to What is Lost, the one where Qui-Gon ends up in the midst of the Clone Wars (this one has Ahsoka in), the post-RotS one where Asajj Ventress and Obi-Wan team up, and, yes, the sequel to Dirt) before I settled on the lady!Obi-Wan backstory, which includes some of the lady!Obi-Wan/Padme. Which I feel duty-bound to tell you is, so far, made of lulz (at least for me).

( Anakin's flirtations were generally well-meant but poorly executed. )

*muses* And a round-up of the others, I guess, so I can keep it straight:

( wip round-up )

Okay, so, as usual, I'm never allowed to complain that I don't have anything to write.

ETA: Accidentally hit "post" before I was done with the entry.

Okay, so it probably shouldn't have taken me a month -- or more -- to figure this out, but, oh hey, I actually talked in my seminar when I was still taking copious notes in the readings + eating enough + and getting enough sleep.

Probably might have been nice if I'd figure this out sometime before the last day of class. *headdesk* Okay, technically tomorrow is the last day of classes, but today was the last day for my seminar and my Chaucer class. And I was basically half-asleep through all of Chaucer, since I didn't get enough sleep last night; I came back to my apartment and sat around going, "Did we actually get to The Parson's Tale? I can't remember." Turns out we did, I took notes on it, I just can't...figure out what they were on. Since I was mostly asleep. And my handwriting goes when I'm asleep. Well, there will be choices on the final; I just won't do anything that involves the Parson's Tale.

For some reason yesterday I completely blanked on the fact that I have an 8:30 class this morning, despite the fact that I've had an 8:30 every freaking Thursday this semester, and only remembered at the lovely hour of midnight, which means I didn't get to bed until sometime around 1:00 and I just. I cannot function on six hours of sleep.

I'll be very glad when the semester's over just so I can make another try at readjusting my sleep schedule to something resembling normality. (Actually, I am so tired that I'm going to finish this post, take a shower, and go to be, which might help. Sleeeeeeeeeep.)

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Unrelatedly, today I watched, or tried to watch, the pilot episode of Carnivale (Ron Moore! Tim DeKay! I like playing, "Where have I seen this actor/television-related personage before?"). It was...interesting. Very HBO-y. There were a couple things in that episode that really, really put me off, so I had it on as background noises while I switched windows (...I can't remember, there might have been one scene where I actually took out my headphones), which led to me missing things when I went back to it and suddenly there were things like MYSTERIOUS RAIN OF BLOOD. Hopefully all the things that set off my stupidly sensitive embarrassment squick were used up in the pilot, because I'm interested enough to go on, it's just so...HBO.

Even less relatedly: Am still poking at the Dollhouse/BSG crossover, though my enthusiasm appears to be fading (except for when Athena or Leoben HACKS THE DOLLHOUSE COMPUTERS IT WOULD BE AWESOME, and the Colonials are all, Ha, this is why you frakkers shouldn't network!), and I keep weirdly coming up short at the difference in fight scenes between the two. Because Dollhouse is almost gratuitously violent, with these long, stylized fight scenes -- apparently Tahmoh Penikett choreographed a lot of his own fight scenes, though! -- and trying to mash up that up with BSG is just...it's really bizarre. We've got a couple of hand-to-hand fight scenes in BSG -- Kobol's Last Gleaming Part Two, the one with Starbuck and Six, and...maybe Unfinished Business? Those are the only really extended ones I can think of; there are also cases of people getting beaten up, which don't really count. The feeling is just so different between the two, it's weird. And I like writing fight scenes, so trying to mash up those two styles just...it's not working for me right now. It's a moment where I go, "Well, if I was writing Dollhouse fic, this would be going on a lot longer and they'd completely trash the apartment. But if I was writing BSG, he'd probably just get hit over the head a couple of times with something heavy. OMG WHAT DO I DO?" Look, I like writing fight scenes. I can probably say with some certainty that I like writing fight scenes more than the average fanperson. I haven't even started writing this fight scene and just trying to figure out some kind of balance between Dollhouse-style fight scenes and BSG-style fight scenes is completely stopping me in my tracks. What a weird thing to get hung up on, right?

The weather can go back to being in the mid-seventies any day now. Get on that please, New Orleans! (Sure, y'all may have, like, snow and ice and below-freezing temps or something, but the mid-forties is really goddamn cold for us, okay?) I am totally rethinking my plan to go somewhere with four seasons. Seasons! Who needs them?

...I actually have a totally reasonable plot for a BSG/Dollhouse crossover. This is kind of terrifying. ( cut for BSG semi-spoilers, I guess )

Terrible idea or one that has promise? It is going in my folder of BSG AUs to noodle with alongside the BSG/Eureka crossover, the fairy tale-ish story where Hera grew up with the Cylons, and the one where Helo and Sharon are captured on Caprica and Sharon and Boomer team up to save him.

So the Three Sentence Ficathon is going on again!



Lots of great prompts and ficlets, y'all should go check it out.

My fills so far:

( Life, Crews/Reese, one plus one )

( Narnia, Peter and Edmund, outside POV: in England they join the military, and shit are they scary bastards )

( Iron Man films/Battlestar Galactica reboot. Toasters. Toasters! Of course! )

( original, superheroes, codenames are important )

( Narnia, Aslan and Tash, the things they've seen )

( The Chronicles of Narnia, Susan & Lucy Pevensie, jewelry )

( The Chronicles of Narnia, Peter, 'I am the state' )

( Narnia, Susan/Peter, a day like no other )

Haven't finished a chapter! Have written approximately 230 words since last post. Have however found an excellent Saul Tigh song, which is not really a phrase I ever thought I'd type. Be more like the man you were made to be. (Or possibly a Final Five song, since I'm getting Anders bits from it too, but I think majority Tigh.)

Yeah, I suspect I'm going to end up in my advisor's office sometime this week having another breakdown about my thesis. I don't know why I'm so gods-damned bewildered by it.

Well, now that I've spent an engaging hour playing solitaire instead of starting my chapter, perhaps I should GET ON THAT.

Well. To be fair. I also watched about ten minutes of BSG. That scene at the beginning of Resurrection Ship Part II, where Helo and Chief are getting beat up on the Pegasus? Helo's expression: "Hey, frak you, I survived frakking post-apocalyptic Caprica, I spent three months alone on a devastated world with my rogue Cylon girlfriend getting chased by Cylons, I've blown away Centurions with bigger balls than you got and I didn't need a battlestar to do it, you frakking human punks. SO GIVE IT TO ME HARDER, BOYS. I'VE BEEN BEAT UP BY CENTURIONS, YOU THINK YOU CAN BEAT THAT?"

Helo is a very calm badass.

Potential BSG AU: The one where Boomer and not-yet-Athena!Sharon team up to save Helo and a bunch of human prisoners from a Farm on Caprica.

Goes AU in: Probably Kobol's Last Gleaming, where Helo and Sharon are captured by the Cylons on Caprica and are both sent to a Farm. The other Cylons are planning to box Sharon as soon as her baby is born and use Helo to father more human-Cylon hybrids on other Eights. After she resurrects, Boomer finds out about this and decides that one way to redeem herself is to rescue Helo and take him back to Galactica. She breaks the other Sharon out of prison, where they have a tense and terribly awkward stand-off ("Do you love him?" "What?" "Helo. Do you love him?"), then go get Helo, who's all, "...two Sharons. Two Boomers. What the hell. Okay, I'll freak out later," and then insists on taking all the other human prisoners in the Farm with them. So they steal a Heavy Raider and return to Galactica! ...who freaks the fuck out, because, okay, dead guy and two identical dead Cylons. DON'T SEE THAT EVERYDAY. And then Chief angsts.

...only problem would be the timeline, because of Starbuck on Caprica + the Kobol plot + the Fleet split. Presumably Starbuck gets the Arrow of Apollo and goes back to Kobol and everything goes the way it did in the show except for Helo and Sharon, sans the Resistance subplot, but maybe not. Also for how it serves no point except to amuse me.

The Plague (a.k.a. The Common Cold) has decided to make its presence definitively known as of, oh, last night. Hate you, Plague! Will be going to get Dayquil/Nyquil later today, though I'm never actually convinced that it works that well. Until then, well, at least I have a lot of Kleenex.

Need to go back through my browsing history for the past week and put together a list of all the BSG vids I watched, to keep from losing them all. -- even though I'm still using Delicious, I now don't want to add anything to it because I love the recently bookmarked Delicious toolbar a lot, and if I add new stuff, then the stuff that's already there will go away. I wish there was a way to customize that toolbar aside from "recently bookmarked" or "most visited", and wow, I just realized there is, so I'll do that later today. (As you can see, I am totally on top of stuff today.)

Other things to do later today, aside from thesis stuff and a giant chunk of Greek because my Greek professor hates us (she probably doesn't, she brought us Laffy Taffy last week): cut up this mango, make biscuits, e-mail my first and third readers (stopped into my second reader's office after class today). Ugh, school, hate you. Go to library and print MacKay article and scarf pattern. Make dinner; eat. Read more of the Meyerson book.

...actually, since this post is still open, will make vid list now.

( BSG vid recs )

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Why, yes, I did write this post over the course of many hours in between classes and homework. (Also, yes, I've seen dualbunny's BSG vids, I just have them on the external hard drive and I don't want to dig the links up when I...already have them.) And now, to do school-related things.

...also I think I may have run into a pile of vids/commentary that does not match up with my own viewing of the show, woe. I think it is a very good thing that I was not actually watching this show while it was on the air, because I suspect I would have either hated the show or hated the fandom or both. I'm also actually pretty glad I took that year, year and a half long break between the front third of S4 and the back two-thirds, and that when I went back into it, I watched (nearly) the entire run of the show from the miniseries to Daybreak, because I don't think I would have handled it that well the first time. Going back through it meant that while I was invested in the characters, I wasn't going to be shocked and spoiled and personally aggrieved by their choices. Also, I'm older and more mature, or something. (I am a whole TWENTY-ONE YEARS OLD. The last time I watched this I was NINETEEN. That extra two years? Clearly a great improvement. By the time I am twenty-five I expect to be zen and calm, or something like that.)

Oh my gods, the BSG Wiki is actually going to either (a) make me blind (b) destroy my grades or (c) all of the above. I went on for five minutes to check a point of canon and emerged two hours later having discovered the transcripts of the BSG podcasts by Ron Moore. The eye strain comes from the fact that the wiki is white text on dark red and the font is a size or smaller than is actually comfortable to read. I can feel my eyes dying.

BLIND. I'M GOING BLIND.

I was going to write for fifteen minutes and then do my Greek homework. This was at 5 pm. TWO HOURS AGO. Agh agh agh.

And I only wrote two hundred words before getting sucked in, too. On the bright side, I now know many and varied points of BSG trivia. Did you know Grace Park was one of two finalists for Starbuck? MIND-BOGGLING, I tell you. Or that the actress that plays Ischay is Jamie Bamber's wife? OR, hmm, what's something actually show-related, that Hera's name when she's being fostered with Maya is Isis? BLIND. (Or how many times Ron Moore and David Eick apparently went, "Hey, do we know why we're doing this?" "Because it'll look cool.")

Caprica! I have finished it, mostly by virtue of the fact I watched approximately two-thirds of the season yesterday. (I just couldn't stop.) I'd seen all of it except for the last five eps that didn't air in the U.S., and gosh, those eps are when it gets really, really good.

( spoilers, I guess? )

In further conclusion: Caprica vid rec! (Which looks like it came out early in the season, since it doesn't have a lot of the bits from the back half.) Brand New You're Retro by hollywoodgrrl.