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Mon, Sep. 29th, 2003 07:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oyceterSo. I spent all day at work listening to two Del Amitri songs because the band's really got itself stuck in my head now. I should probably get Hatful of Rain at some point too. Anyhow, so now I'm desperately tempted to make vids -- a Xander/Anya vid to Tell Her This and a S6 Spike/Buffy vid to The First Rule of Love. Except I don't have Premiere. I have no clue how to make a vid. And... have not seen enough Xander/Anya episodes! But will stew on this for a while and maybe even plot out schematics.
Weird or interesting books I ran across the past few days:
Twincheeks, a book photographing people's butts
Draw a Skinny Elephant, Shel Silverstein (looked fun)
How to Make Miniature Furniture
a sex manual, a book on Japanese shunga (the erotic woodblock prints) and a book on erotic Eastern art -- I think it's funny that I'm flipping through these at work, ogling at sizes and positions, to check for damage to the book.
Many others I can't remember... I need to keep a list.
Currently reading: Patricia Gaffney's To Have and to Hold, because I thought I needed a nice, happy romance novel after the complete angst and scariness and emotional wringer that was Otherland. I picked the wrong book. It reads like fanfiction, in the best possible way -- the hero and the heroine aren't conventional by any means, both are deeply scarred, and the beginning of their relationship is absolutely disastrous and ugly, like S6 Spuffy. But it's so good! I must read more of this author, because angsty romance with a truly unlikeable hero and a scarred heroine whose "I don't like sex" attitude is much less of a plot device and stupidity than most romances feel like (*cough*ElizabethLowell*cough*).
This is why I read fanfic. The good stuff can have an edge that a lot of mainstream romances can't because of the expectations of the marketplace. Granted, bad fanfic is pure dreck, but the good stuff (once again, I shout out to Hard Candy) can show relationships that aren't fluffy and happy and sex that isn't the norm for romances.
It's also getting cold here =(. I'm sure all you people on the East Coast will laugh at what I think of as cold, but it's not comfy to sit outside and eat anymore, sigh. I want to feel the sun beating on me again...
Weird or interesting books I ran across the past few days:
Twincheeks, a book photographing people's butts
Draw a Skinny Elephant, Shel Silverstein (looked fun)
How to Make Miniature Furniture
a sex manual, a book on Japanese shunga (the erotic woodblock prints) and a book on erotic Eastern art -- I think it's funny that I'm flipping through these at work, ogling at sizes and positions, to check for damage to the book.
Many others I can't remember... I need to keep a list.
Currently reading: Patricia Gaffney's To Have and to Hold, because I thought I needed a nice, happy romance novel after the complete angst and scariness and emotional wringer that was Otherland. I picked the wrong book. It reads like fanfiction, in the best possible way -- the hero and the heroine aren't conventional by any means, both are deeply scarred, and the beginning of their relationship is absolutely disastrous and ugly, like S6 Spuffy. But it's so good! I must read more of this author, because angsty romance with a truly unlikeable hero and a scarred heroine whose "I don't like sex" attitude is much less of a plot device and stupidity than most romances feel like (*cough*ElizabethLowell*cough*).
This is why I read fanfic. The good stuff can have an edge that a lot of mainstream romances can't because of the expectations of the marketplace. Granted, bad fanfic is pure dreck, but the good stuff (once again, I shout out to Hard Candy) can show relationships that aren't fluffy and happy and sex that isn't the norm for romances.
It's also getting cold here =(. I'm sure all you people on the East Coast will laugh at what I think of as cold, but it's not comfy to sit outside and eat anymore, sigh. I want to feel the sun beating on me again...
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Tue, Sep. 30th, 2003 02:20 pm (UTC)I was really wishing I had a new Jennifer Crusie last night BTW. I wish I did read fanfic, or that I could find more authors I like!
Just out of morbid-fearing-the NY-winters curiosity, how cold does it get there?
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Tue, Sep. 30th, 2003 02:48 pm (UTC)Sign of a Dead God Dancing and I must have been 18 given the date of release http://www.strangewords.com/weirdbooks/annmax.html
and this is one of those times I could just kick myself that I sold off all my sci fi/fantasy/ and comics in '82 when I moved...
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Wed, Oct. 1st, 2003 02:09 am (UTC)New Jennifer Crusie? Mmmm.. hrm, well, I read tons of fanfic. What do you think you might like? If nothing else, I would suggest Rheanna's Vivere, a future AU that parts from Angel's history around S2 Angel. I love it to pieces, and it never fails to touch me. here
I love all her stuff actually... most (or all, can't quite remember) is gen, very plotty, and feel like missing episodes, which is pretty rare for fic.