Fannish update
Aug. 25th, 2013 10:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
luzula1) I turned in both my due South/C6D Big Bang drafts in on time! The podfic is completely finished; the fic about 95% done. Woohoo! And I thought I wouldn't actually be able to write a Big Bang this year.
2) I cut down on my tag wrangling, finally managing to completely let go of the Tolkien fandoms. Which I should've done long ago, really--I have very little investment in the fanfiction fandom for it; I just picked it up years ago as a new wrangler because I know the canon well. Still wrangling due South, a fair amount of C6D, Generation Kill, etc.
3) Last weekseascribe and I, in our continuing fandom-of-two for Steve McQueen, watched The Great Escape from 1963. It was...kind of weird? It's basically about Allied prisoners escaping from a Nazi POW camp, but there was a strange sort of boy scout feeling about it. Like, the Nazis are all "oh, you naughty prisoners, are you trying to escape again!" with cheerful music in the background. Neither of us really got into it as a movie, so we ended up just being shallow and objectifying Steve McQueen. Also, we'd heard there was a scene where he rode a motorcycle through a window a la Ray Kowalski in Easy Money, but this did not actually happen, although there was another motorcycle scene. Anyway, it was such a contrast to Papillon, where I really got invested in the story and characters.
2) I cut down on my tag wrangling, finally managing to completely let go of the Tolkien fandoms. Which I should've done long ago, really--I have very little investment in the fanfiction fandom for it; I just picked it up years ago as a new wrangler because I know the canon well. Still wrangling due South, a fair amount of C6D, Generation Kill, etc.
3) Last week
seascribe and I, in our continuing fandom-of-two for Steve McQueen, watched The Great Escape from 1963. It was...kind of weird? It's basically about Allied prisoners escaping from a Nazi POW camp, but there was a strange sort of boy scout feeling about it. Like, the Nazis are all "oh, you naughty prisoners, are you trying to escape again!" with cheerful music in the background. Neither of us really got into it as a movie, so we ended up just being shallow and objectifying Steve McQueen. Also, we'd heard there was a scene where he rode a motorcycle through a window a la Ray Kowalski in Easy Money, but this did not actually happen, although there was another motorcycle scene. Anyway, it was such a contrast to Papillon, where I really got invested in the story and characters.
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Date: 2013-08-26 11:37 am (UTC)I think I might've enjoyed The Great Escape more as a movie if I'd been prepared for how long it was? Lots of people love it, maybe I'll try it again some day.
so we ended up just being shallow and objectifying Steve McQueen.
To be fair, there is always at least a little of that going on, at least with me. ;)
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Date: 2013-08-27 05:21 am (UTC)Yeah, I know it's a classic movie? IDK, maybe I just wasn't in the mood for it...
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Date: 2013-09-12 05:24 pm (UTC)ETA: Check out the comments of Seascribe's recent post!
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