Bread and Circus

This post is a bit late, but it still looks like an amazing fest!

Big Gay Hamlet Ficathon
I believe firmly in everyone's right to crack!AUs. I think that crack!AUs are one of fandom's greatest strengths--our endless capacity to reinvent the works that we love, and to stretch the boundaries of our readers' recognition, gives me hope for the possibility of creation and communion.

So I won't say that Orson Scott Card shouldn't have written his egregiously offensive retelling of Hamlet. I will say, however, that I think it's painful, upsetting, and not at all in the spirit of the play that I love.

I'll say this, as well: If you don't like Card's Hamlet, you can write another. This thread is for that.

Follow up post to MESSAGE TO THE BARTENDER THAT I HAVE BEEN STARING AT FOR THREE SEMESTERS

I love my new attitude, which is, "Fuck it, I'm graduating soon. I am going to do whatever I want." So I talked to him. The all-caps in this post have no relation whatsoever to the amount of alcohol I have consumed. I have managed to answer most of the insecure questions I posed in my previous post.

1) Meh, bet he has people flirting with him all the time. I'm a nobody.
LOOK AT ALL THE FUCKS I GIVE.

2) Should I order a beer from him sometime? That would require me biding my time till the servers stop taking beer orders and customers have to go to the bar to get something.
I ORDERED A BEER FROM HIM.

3) What else does he do besides bartending? Is he a student? Did he used to be a student? What keeps him here in this town working this job? Is he happy?
HE WAS A STUDENT. I TALKED TO HIM WHILE SLOWLY FINISHING MY SAMPLE BEER. He was an English + History major who wanted to be a corporate lawyer but then worked in a law office and hated it. So now he's working at Mellow earning funds and taking a break in our fantastic college town. He likes bartending more than he likes serving. He is happy here, he supposes.

4) My parents would fucking kill me if I asked out a bartender.
ENGLISH + HISTORY MAJOR. HELL YES, THEY WOULD KILL ME.

5) I'm not that kind of person. I've only asked out one person, and that was after about a year and a half. And I considered THAT really bold. Asians, and our pile of sekrit feelings.
I AM APPARENTLY THAT KIND OF PERSON.

6) If I tried to sit at the bar during a random quiet time by myself, it would be a better time to talk to him, but he would think I was totally pathetic drinking by myself on a weekday. Then again, I am an engineer.
HE ASKED ME WHAT I DO. I SAID ENGINEERING. HE THINKS IT'S COOL.

7) I have never wanted to ask someone out based on how they look. That's really odd. But I just want to stare at his aesthetic symmetry and find out if he likes Firefly. That's a date, right?
I ARRIVED FOR BEER, I STARED, HE IS MORE GORGEOUS UP CLOSE. AND NOW HE KNOWS MY NAME. *FIST PUMP*

For anyone interested in chatting with a bunch of fellow Person of Interest fans, Purple Junkie is an admin of The Irrelevants, a chat where anyone can sign in (I signed in as a guest since Tumblr was taking forever) and talk about the show with other fans.

You can find the chat here.

You guys, you guys. I was talking to saucery regarding their post about Total Recall 2070 on smallfandomfest, and I happened to mention that the show sounded like Due South with androids. (Just dwell on that. Due South in the cyberpunk future. With Fraser as an android. I hope you are suitably excited about watching this show now.)

And holy shit, they wrote me a crossover fic. They. Wrote me. A crossover fic. 

*mind exploding everywhere*

It's called "Set and Match" and is here at Archive of Our Own. I am totally reading it after I finish my classwork. Thanks so much saucery. You are awesome saucery. (What I did there. PLEASE SEE IT.)

1) This song is extremely addicting, especially when I'm coding.

2) Yes, I know I already posted a fanvid with this song to Sherlock, but whoever did this vid for Doctor Who absolutely nails the timing on all the scenes. It is beautiful.

2) The Dandy Warhols totally shred.

I cannot tell you how pleased I am that Sherlock has started awareness and discussions of asexuality. It would take a high-functioning sociopath in a scarf, wouldn't it?



I think that asexuality is an important component to how a person thinks and his/her relationships with people, and it makes me happy that keen writers are learning about asexuality to add faithful characterisation and depth to their stories. No matter the reason, it's wonderful that asexuality is getting talked about by a wider group. I can only hope that they learn from honest resources that are free of stereotypes and wrong assumptions. I think that's actually what I'm most afraid of. I do hope that Mr. Cumberbatch does his research and sets a good example that asexuals can be as normal and kick-ass as everyone else. Well, perhaps normal isn't the correct word for Sherlock...

Sherlock and Asexuality at Hypomnemata

So because of the lag across the pond, I watched Sherlock Series 1 E1 (EDIT: S2E1, Fumu is an idiot) a bit late.

Without going into spoilers, OH MY GOD, MY FEELINGS, MY HEART, BBC SHERLOCK. I don't think I was breathing through the entire thing, just sitting there on the edge of my bed with my cheap tinny earphones, my fingers in my mouth, exploding with emotion. I love how all the characters are becoming a family. It gives me such a warm glow inside. I don't know what exactly about them gives me the impression that several months have passed. Perhaps just the way they speak and look after one another, especially the Baker Street trio. (Mrs. Hudson is the loveliest woman ever.) This is SUCH a powerful episode. I'm actually glad they're only doing 3 a season. I don't think I could handle any more.

We never go to the cinema, and since we were on vacation we decided to spend money just this once and did the IMAX 3D Tintin. I don't think the 3D really added much to the film (then again, I am not a big fan of 3D films anyway) but the IMAX was very nice. I don't know about the Tintin character, though. I never really thought "oh, that's Tintin" when I saw him, though they did really well with the other characters. I think it might be because they tried to make Tintin look very human, and he was a bit too skinny. And his eyes were too small. It's a shame, because I think they spend weeks and weeks trying to make Tintin look very genuine. However, the way Tintin moved was perfect. Quick, graceful, and competent-- even in the scenes on the ship where everyone is a shadow or a dimly lit figure, you could tell who was Tintin, and THAT is much more difficult to do. Great job there. 

I will not deny I teared up at Haddock's "Don't ever think you're a failure" speech. I could really tell the people who made the film were die-hard fans, and I'm definitely seeing it again. Right after I see Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, which has everyone I would ever want to see in a film together. I'm really glad they chose Tom Hardy to replace Michael Fassbender (OH, T-HARD. BE STILL, MY HEART), but what could this film have been if we'd had all those people AND Fassbender. Oh my god, the world is not ready. *faint*