RL things I love

[Ghost]

Because it's in the news recently (and it never fails to make me happy), I am posting the link to the greatest piece of gothic Harry Potter fan fiction ever: My Immortal

http://myimmortal.wikia.com/wiki/My_Immortal/Chapters_1-11

Note: it's best to read it in the narrative voices of any of the following:

• James Lipton
• Patrick Stewart
• Christopher Walken
• Morgan Freeman
• Tilda Swinton
• Jennifer Tilly
• Samuel L. Jackson
• Carl Sagan

I am particularly fond of the part where the main protagonist (Ebony Dark’ness Dementia Raven Way) goes into the Forbidden Forest to hook up with Drago Malfoy, and they are interrupted mid-coitus by Dumbledore, who announces his presence to them by calling them motherfuckers.

[Ganymede]

@Ghost

For that sin, there is no end to the depth to which I would sink to rip your face off and watch you writhe in agony.

[Ghost]

@Ganymede

“Hi Draco!” I said in a depressed voice.

“Hi Ebony.” he said back. We walked into his flying black Mercedes-Benz (the license plate said 666) and flew to the place with the concert. On the way we listened excitedly to Good Charlotte and Marilyn Manson. We both smoked cigarettes and drugs. When we got there, we both hopped out of the car. We went to the mosh pit at the front of the stage and jumped up and down as we listened to Good Charlotte.

[Lisse24]

@Ghost You know, I get all paranoid when I try to make "edgy" characters, because I don't want to come off sounding like that.

Obviously, I need to set the bar lower.

[Ghost]

@Lisse24 I'd totally be willing to make purposefully tragic emo characters for fun.

[RnMissionRun]

@Ghost You are a bad, bad man.

[Auspice]

Oh, oh.

You see, I thought My Immortal was bad.

And then someone subjected me to this.

[Ganymede]

@Auspice

Did you notice how poor her grammar was in the first few paragraphs? The humanity.

[Auspice]

Been having a really rough week. This feedback on my outline for the fantasy short story (that I have to write this week) has really helped:

'This is really rather beautiful work. Every aspect of the outline is well detailed, well written, thorough, and explicitly interconnected with all the others. The result is a vision of the story world and the people who move through it that almost feels like the summary of a story already written. I especially liked the way you managed to write a fantasy story that, through its engagement with the technological society on the other side, creates a dialogue between the genres themselves - fantasy and SF. That's a really nice touch because it allows you to tell a story that involves the audience on two levels - the fictional and the metafictional. Very cool.'

[Arkandel]

I really liked Bladerunner 2049.

[Three-Eyed Crow]

@arkandel
Liked it a great deal (gorgeous visuals, Ryan Gosling, AI philosophy, what's not to love?), and it was an excuse to revisit the original Blade Runner, which is always a RL thing I loved.

I'd never watched the theatrical cut before this weekend (I have the DVD set that includes it but usually watch The Final Cut when I want to pull it out again). So I'd always heard about the checked-out Harrison Ford voice-over but never experienced it. Man oh man, you can almost feel someone holding a contractual obligation gun to his head.

[Lithium]

@three-eyed-crow I actually liked the checked out voice of the theatrical version, probably because I saw it in the Theatre. It felt like he was trying to do a very ground out, noir type of PI character to me.

There are some interesting things in the final cut and such, but the narration I thought really added to the gritty noir tone and feel for me.

Haven't seen 2049 yet, hope it's still in theatres when I get the chance.

[Misadventure]

I like both with and without the narration. It was as Lithium described, like a callback to the noir/detective fiction it is. I was sad to find out that the narration was added because audiences didn't understand what was going on.

[Three-Eyed Crow]

@lithium said in RL things I love:

@three-eyed-crow I actually liked the checked out voice of the theatrical version, probably because I saw it in the Theatre. It felt like he was trying to do a very ground out, noir type of PI character to me.

I do think it works better as a noir with the voice over (and makes the story make more sense). I can see why they added it, even if I didn't love the execution. I'll admit that one of my favorite things about Blade Runner is dissecting what works/what doesn't/how it works differently in the many, many versions of Blade Runner.

I think 2049 just adds to that conversation (in that it's made me look at the first again and spend a lot of time comparing how the story/characters/world-building/mood works better/worse in it than the sequel), so it really worked for me. I want to see it again, despite the too-longness of it all. I like it more the more I think about it and talk about it with other people, which is the same feeling I had about "Arrival" (done by the same director). Pretty great!

[Thenomain]

@three-eyed-crow said in RL things I love:

I'd never watched the theatrical cut before this weekend (I have the DVD set that includes it but usually watch The Final Cut when I want to pull it out again). So I'd always heard about the checked-out Harrison Ford voice-over but never experienced it. Man oh man, you can almost feel someone holding a contractual obligation gun to his head.

I mean, it is pretty bad, but we must remember that Harrison Ford was, to be frank, not that good of an actor. That could have just as easily been him reading in a voice he thought was noir.

[WTFE]

I love my wife dearly. Mother of my child. Partner of my life.

Doesn't mean I can't occasionally frequently get the urge to shake her by the throat.

One of those frequent times I get that urge is when the topic of presents comes up. She wants gifts. She likes gifts. She appreciates gifts. BUT SHE IS MOTHERFUCKING IMPOSSIBLE TO BUY GIFTS FOR! This is because she doesn't like to ask for things. Where "ask for" includes "leaving any kind of a clue of any sort as to what she really wants".

So year after year in our marriage I've had to struggle, sweat, and strain to just buy her a fucking birthday present, often getting that bland "that's nice" smile for my efforts. (Note: she doesn't come out and complain about any of the presents I buy she doesn't really like. It's just obvious in short order that the present was not something she was interested in.)

Enter this year. Where I have a spy. My son is old enough and (barely) smart enough to act as my agent, see. So I told him to watch what mommy's gaze lingers on when she takes him shopping and report back to me. Last week I struck paydirt: my wife took my son out to look at things and along the way got distracted by a jade exposition. And very nearly purchased something.

My son nearly had a joygasm at being useful (for a change) and could hardly wait to tell me about it. We then took a stealth trip out to the exposition so I could see the specific things my wife was looking at. The prices at the exposition were stupidly high, but I saw the general kinds of things my wife was looking at and started searching for options.

Meet my wife's new birthday present:

[Tinuviel]

@wtfe I have to admit, I saw the picture before I read the content of your post.

My mind did not go to ideal gift for wife territory.

[Ganymede]

@tinuviel

Your wife is clearly not Chinese, because that shit is paydirt for us.

[Tinuviel]

@ganymede My wife is an American man, so no. But he'd probably also be into it for other purposes.

[Tyche]

@tinuviel said in RL things I love:

@ganymede My wife is an American man, so no. But he'd probably also be into it for other purposes.