fic!

“Theft of Assets, Destruction of Property”, by Helen.  Harry Potter, Draco/Neville.  I’m not quite sure how i feel about the premise of D/N coming to live together, but i loved the characterizations and especially Draco’s transformation.  And, okay, i am a huge fan of Neville’s and love any story where he gets to be a fucking badass.

fic-ish!

“50 Things I’m No Longer Allowed To Do At The Academy”, by Theta Sigma.  Doctor Who.  By far my favorite:

15 – I am not at risk of a predestination paradox if I hand in my thesis on time.

That is, seriously, why all of my school essays were late, every single time, always.  Honest!  Very serious matter, that, predestination paradox.

vids!

“Fever (Remastered)”, by Talitha.  Sherlock Holmes, Watson/Holmes.  Cannot.  Stop.  Watching.

The cinema is going to be having a Mod festival in a few weeks.  Last night i was asking the cinema’s director what sort of events will be going on.

Me:  “Will there be music?”

G:  “Oh, yeah, we’re going to have bands every friday night!  We’re going to have qwwoeiu;hnfecn qoweiruavjp 23uivn alekjaslwuc k.”

Me:  “Sounds awesome!!”

G:  “You have no idea what i’m talking about, do you?”

Me:  “Nope.”

G:  “Have you heard of blahblahblah?”

Me:  “Nope.”

G:  “Have you heard of blahblahblahblah?”

Me:  “Nope.”

G:  “Have you heard of Young Fresh Fellows??”

Me:  “Yes!!!  Because they’re referenced in a They Might Be Giants song!”

G:  “. . . .”

Andy -- up to any good whatsoever?

Out for dinner last night with Andy.  NOT because it was Valentine’s Day (which is a holiday we don’t celebrate), but rather because our local sushi restaurant was having a special sake-pairing dinner and we’re both interested in learning more about sake.  No, wait — i think Andy’s interested in drinking, but i am very much interested in sake in particular.  I’ve not found much alcohol i really enjoy (wine, no thank you; beer, no thank you), but i love sake.

I also love taking pictures of Andy, especially while we’re sitting in restaurants (because it’s when he’s finally still enough to photograph).  I have an entire series where Andy emotes across a range of “i’m bored”/glare, “i’m tired of walking”/glare, and “are you done taking pictures yet”/glare.

Here we have a fine, rare example of “i’ve been drinking and so am almost feeling like smiling”/glare.

Dialogue after i took this picture:

Chris:  “And now comes the part where we’ve enjoyed our nice dinner out and you slide a gift box across the table to me, and upon opening it i discover a brand new gun with 2 clips, and you explain that i have to shoot that guy twice, run down the hall to the restroom, make my way to the last stall, crawl out the tiny window thru’ which i should just fit for i am small, and then make my escape down the alley.”

Andy:  “Well, i’m glad that movie was good for something.”

Chris:  “That’s probably the best way i can sum up my feelings about Besson — he makes lousy movies, but enduring imagery.”

First, an update to an earlier fic & vids post because a link broke:  …on the dance floor, by Sloane.  (This is the “Too Many Dicks on the Dancefloor” / “Star Trek” fanvid i keep talking about.)  I still <3 this vid so much.

Fic!  “Apocalypse How?” A Dinosaur Comics fic.  Yes, really.  And it’s good!  Even Andy liked it.

And finally.  Um, okay, this isn’t really a fanvid, but i found it thinky in the same way vids make me thinky because i think it’s transforming, and thus questioning, culture in the same way. This is “He Wolf,” by Andrew Foster, a sophomore at the University of Washington.  Why’d he parody Shakira’s “She Wolf”?

Foster admits he’s not a big Shakira fan. But when he and his friends saw her newest video, they couldn’t stop watching it — or imitating the sexy, oddball dance moves he called “over the top.”

In the 1st place, i wind up liking the parody way better because it’s being ridiculous on purpose instead of merely being ridiculous by accident — is Shakira supposed to be dancing sexfully, or is she twisting around because she’s supposed to be undergoing a transformation into a werewolf, or both?   But in the 2nd place, the parody is interesting because, to quote again from that september 22nd (2009) Seattlepi.com article:

[T]his morning the YouTube community flagged it as inappropriate for audiences under 18, which surprised its creator: If Shakira can do it, why can’t he?

Why, indeed, does a video where a man is gyrating around get flagged as inappropriate for audiences under 18 when the original video of a woman gyrating in exactly the same way does not get flagged?

And while i’m asking questions with no satisfactory answers:  Why does the scene in the original “She Wolf” video where a wolf prowling across the floor becomes a woman prowling across the floor feature a black woman when there are no other obvous women of color in the video anywhere?

A sort of historical edition, as these are all vids that have been out for awhile.  But for completeness’s sake i wanted to put them here on the website.

House/Wilson to Avril Lavigne’s “Girlfriend.”  Hilarious.

Kirk/Spock (ToS) to NIN’s “Closer.”  Creepy yet kind of compelling.

“Revolutionary Girl Utena” (the movie) to Queen’s “Princes of the Universe.”  Spot on.  I don’t even particularly care for Utena, but this vid is brilliant.

And a special gift.  Andy sent me this URL “because it’s friday”:  John Barrowman in drag

How is it that there was a “Pretend to Be a Time Traveler” day and no one told me???

Dresden Codak’s website indicates that this year it will be december 12.  Be ready.  Don’t make me come backward in time from the future and make you ready.