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that's why we get along
1. Dragoncon came and went, and was generally a blast. I'm getting old, though. No 3 am nights for me. I went to a couple of panels, and encountered a "but there were no 'good' white people in Rosa! It sucked!" whiner in the wild during the Doctor Who fan panel. (so painful, that entire panel, but that was a stand-out moment where NO ONE rebutted this dude). Freema & Catherine Tate were there and entertaining at their panel. Tried to see some of the Farscape panels (they were supposed to broadcast them), but the audio was completely screwed.
2. AO3 won a Hugo Award, which seemed to be fine. Until oldskool fans decided that it was AWFUl, AWFUL, they tell you, that people were devaluing it by saying their tentacle porn fic on AO3 won a Hugo Award! The over-blown wank has been the gift that keeps on fucking giving. I don't know that I ever held the Hugo Award in much esteem, but the defenders of its sanctity and holy divinity have certainly made me consider it little more than a rocket-shaped dildo.
3. Which we still won. For writing tentacle porn. (check fanlore for more links)
4. Fic Round-up for August:
BBC Sherlock: At the Risk of Falling (Off Roofs) - Molly/Sherlock, AU where they are spies in competing agencies. It was a lot of fun to write.
BSG: BSG Ficlets - Mostly Kara-related. Friendship and gen. I'm going to do a Kara/Sam one at some point, but most of the ficlets I have for them are half-assed unfinished things.
5. Grim Tales released some new games which I broke down and grabbed. The Nomad ends up with Anna re-writing history for teenage delinquents, so they... do not become gang members. A bit on the iffy side. The Guest From the Future was excellently ridiculous bad fanfic tropes (Anna's teenage daughter from the future needs her help saving everyone!), which has a final level where you literally mind-wipe the bad guy so he doesn't fall in love and cause death and destruction.
6. I mean, I shouldn't be surprised. This is the series where Anna's dead father who tried to murder her and her sister (and did murder her twin sisters before she was born), comes back as a skull who sasses at her a lot and is kind of an asshole. (Richard has, unfortunately, grown on me like a creeping mold. And at least he has a personality, unlike Dorian Black, her husband)
(TBF to Dorian, though, it's not like Luisa's husband, son, or grandson aren't all more than whiny idiots who never seem to learn "Do NOT TOUCH THE THING. IT WILL KILL YOU. OR SOMEONE YOU LOVE.". At least Dorian only whined that time his portrait was destroyed)
7. The Secret Order also put out Shadow Breach and Return to the Buried Kingdom. I actually liked Shadow Breach, but Return was a bit eh. Also, Sarah's friend Julie must be a telepath in a former life as she keeps getting possessed.
8. Big Finish released The Further Adventures of Lucie Bleeding Miller, and they are excellent. Amazing and fun and silly and heart-wrenching and there's LITERALLY A MOMENT in The Dalek Trap where I was like "OMG FU, Nick." for something Lucie said that was like being punched. And also, they got the SOUNDS from earlier DW eras, and it was EEEEEeeee-inducing, because I did so love that episode (and also, the writer fully admits Island is a riff off Wicker Man). Ahem. Anyway, if you're looking for something short and quick and fun, this is a good one to grab.
2. AO3 won a Hugo Award, which seemed to be fine. Until oldskool fans decided that it was AWFUl, AWFUL, they tell you, that people were devaluing it by saying their tentacle porn fic on AO3 won a Hugo Award! The over-blown wank has been the gift that keeps on fucking giving. I don't know that I ever held the Hugo Award in much esteem, but the defenders of its sanctity and holy divinity have certainly made me consider it little more than a rocket-shaped dildo.
3. Which we still won. For writing tentacle porn. (check fanlore for more links)
4. Fic Round-up for August:
BBC Sherlock: At the Risk of Falling (Off Roofs) - Molly/Sherlock, AU where they are spies in competing agencies. It was a lot of fun to write.
BSG: BSG Ficlets - Mostly Kara-related. Friendship and gen. I'm going to do a Kara/Sam one at some point, but most of the ficlets I have for them are half-assed unfinished things.
5. Grim Tales released some new games which I broke down and grabbed. The Nomad ends up with Anna re-writing history for teenage delinquents, so they... do not become gang members. A bit on the iffy side. The Guest From the Future was excellently ridiculous bad fanfic tropes (Anna's teenage daughter from the future needs her help saving everyone!), which has a final level where you literally mind-wipe the bad guy so he doesn't fall in love and cause death and destruction.
6. I mean, I shouldn't be surprised. This is the series where Anna's dead father who tried to murder her and her sister (and did murder her twin sisters before she was born), comes back as a skull who sasses at her a lot and is kind of an asshole. (Richard has, unfortunately, grown on me like a creeping mold. And at least he has a personality, unlike Dorian Black, her husband)
(TBF to Dorian, though, it's not like Luisa's husband, son, or grandson aren't all more than whiny idiots who never seem to learn "Do NOT TOUCH THE THING. IT WILL KILL YOU. OR SOMEONE YOU LOVE.". At least Dorian only whined that time his portrait was destroyed)
7. The Secret Order also put out Shadow Breach and Return to the Buried Kingdom. I actually liked Shadow Breach, but Return was a bit eh. Also, Sarah's friend Julie must be a telepath in a former life as she keeps getting possessed.
8. Big Finish released The Further Adventures of Lucie Bleeding Miller, and they are excellent. Amazing and fun and silly and heart-wrenching and there's LITERALLY A MOMENT in The Dalek Trap where I was like "OMG FU, Nick." for something Lucie said that was like being punched. And also, they got the SOUNDS from earlier DW eras, and it was EEEEEeeee-inducing, because I did so love that episode (and also, the writer fully admits Island is a riff off Wicker Man). Ahem. Anyway, if you're looking for something short and quick and fun, this is a good one to grab.
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Ooh! I mean, at my current rate, I'll get there in 10 years, but I'll be looking forward to it. :-D
The AO3-Hugo thing is head!desk inducing. OMG, how dare people joke about such serious things? Which would have been over and moved on from by now had they not objected.
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I know, I know. Like, I didn't even pay it much attention until now, and I sort of want to sign off on my fannish email with "Hugo Award Winner"
(well, not really. That would require actually sending email on occasion)
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and I sort of want to sign off on my fannish email with "Hugo Award Winner"
That would require actually sending email on occasion)
Apparently in the midst of the wank, one of the Hugo people suggested that if people must joke about, they should do so in their email sig... and just, lol, what decade are they in? Are they still using mailing lists and newsnet? What to put in my sig isn't a thing I've had to think about for 20 years, and I'm pretty old school in fandom terms! I don't think they get creative, pseudonymous, undercover fanfic fandom at all, which seems to be the main problem here.
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Actually, in the BTS, Nick basically says (I am massively paraphrasing what I heard on Friday, so I'm probably getting it wrong, but), "We had to kill her off, or we would have just written them forever, and we sort of couldn't do that." (due to Sheridan's career, etc.)
I think it was Briggs who said that, anyway. It might have been the other guy who created her, whose name is escaping me.