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snick_backupI had ideas of recording my next few answers for the 30 Days of Buffy meme, but it sounded like too much work, and also this back-of-my-throat sinus thing still will not go away. So, have various bits of randomness instead.
* I really like AO3 for the one-stop shopping: I can dip my toe into my latest fandom du jour, check for new mpreg (yay, pan-fandom tags), look up Faith/Giles in hopes of finding something new, and read all the Spuffy by length.
On the other hand, there's only a bare fraction of any one fandom's output on AO3, and also it's so much less personal than reading on LJ. When I read a fic on LJ, I can put it into a social context without working too hard, even if I don't know the person. I can read the comments posted on the story by the author's friends-and-relations. I can poke around and find the author's thoughts on all the fandoms I care about, the WIP snippets to works since abandoned, sequel ficlets written for someone's birthday, and fic wittering for fics I love. It just ain't the same on an archive, especially AO3, which has such a broad base of users.
* Another thing about Lee Adama: He'd be a stronger character if the show would let him interact more with other important characters. Maybe not so much Kara - because I don't always like the way he belittles her - but I pretty much always enjoy him with his dad and I loved when he was military liaison to Roslin. He needs other people to have relationships with and play off of. (As do most people, for that matter; I wonder if Lee's near-isolation as a character was something the writers did intentionally, or if it was sheer accident.) Without seeing those relationships, it's much harder to grasp him as a character. But instead the writers have him always interfacing the with the characters-of-the-week, whom we don't care about, or trying to carry a scene alone, which frankly he just isn't capable of. Kara can do it (see "Home"), Roslin can, so can Adama and Tigh (the latter in a train-wreck sort of way) and maybe Tyrol, but Lee just isn't up to it.
* In general, I'm liking BSG quite a bit, but it seems to me it's always on the verge of suffocating under its own self-importance.
* Homemade lavender ice cream, oh yes! Very lavender. If you like lavender, ho boy is this the ice cream for you, but very much not if you don't.
* I make really excellent beef stew, if I say so myself. Also biscuits from scratch. Which, in combination, was what I had for dinner.
* This is apparently not the quarter for reading. I've read precisely one book in the past six weeks: Soul Music, by Terry Pratchett. I have Cherie Priest's Boneshaker borrowed from a friend, and I just bought a new secondary fantasy steampunk thing by Tim Akers and another book about NYC slums in the late 19th century (yes, "another" as in "additional"; it's a period and place I try to read a lot about), and yet I can't seem to read anything. (Er, besides fanfic, apparently.)
* OTOH, I continue to make progress on The Legend of Zelda. Hey, don't look at me like that; I've only been working on it for the last twelve years or so.
* I really like AO3 for the one-stop shopping: I can dip my toe into my latest fandom du jour, check for new mpreg (yay, pan-fandom tags), look up Faith/Giles in hopes of finding something new, and read all the Spuffy by length.
On the other hand, there's only a bare fraction of any one fandom's output on AO3, and also it's so much less personal than reading on LJ. When I read a fic on LJ, I can put it into a social context without working too hard, even if I don't know the person. I can read the comments posted on the story by the author's friends-and-relations. I can poke around and find the author's thoughts on all the fandoms I care about, the WIP snippets to works since abandoned, sequel ficlets written for someone's birthday, and fic wittering for fics I love. It just ain't the same on an archive, especially AO3, which has such a broad base of users.
* Another thing about Lee Adama: He'd be a stronger character if the show would let him interact more with other important characters. Maybe not so much Kara - because I don't always like the way he belittles her - but I pretty much always enjoy him with his dad and I loved when he was military liaison to Roslin. He needs other people to have relationships with and play off of. (As do most people, for that matter; I wonder if Lee's near-isolation as a character was something the writers did intentionally, or if it was sheer accident.) Without seeing those relationships, it's much harder to grasp him as a character. But instead the writers have him always interfacing the with the characters-of-the-week, whom we don't care about, or trying to carry a scene alone, which frankly he just isn't capable of. Kara can do it (see "Home"), Roslin can, so can Adama and Tigh (the latter in a train-wreck sort of way) and maybe Tyrol, but Lee just isn't up to it.
* In general, I'm liking BSG quite a bit, but it seems to me it's always on the verge of suffocating under its own self-importance.
* Homemade lavender ice cream, oh yes! Very lavender. If you like lavender, ho boy is this the ice cream for you, but very much not if you don't.
* I make really excellent beef stew, if I say so myself. Also biscuits from scratch. Which, in combination, was what I had for dinner.
* This is apparently not the quarter for reading. I've read precisely one book in the past six weeks: Soul Music, by Terry Pratchett. I have Cherie Priest's Boneshaker borrowed from a friend, and I just bought a new secondary fantasy steampunk thing by Tim Akers and another book about NYC slums in the late 19th century (yes, "another" as in "additional"; it's a period and place I try to read a lot about), and yet I can't seem to read anything. (Er, besides fanfic, apparently.)
* OTOH, I continue to make progress on The Legend of Zelda. Hey, don't look at me like that; I've only been working on it for the last twelve years or so.
