Viridian5's House of "...What?"

I saw Deadpool & Wolverine Saturday and mostly enjoyed it, though I thought it was too long in places and the pacing was sometimes a bit off. It's unfortunate that I'd inadvertently gotten spoiled on one thing--( spoiler )--because it would've been a fun surprise. ( spoilers )

I visited my due South friend of nearly 25 years to see it, and my Elantra did the 100+-mile round trip, something I was a bit nervous about. With the too many places in NYC that have a 25-mph speed limit these days, it was healing for me to fly down two highways at 65-75 mph in New Jersey.

After seeing the movie, Kasha and I figured that AO3 would soon have slash fics set in ( spoiler ), and sure enough, they immediately started showing up.

By the way, the episode of Hot Ones that has Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds was fun.

My reread of some of my old fic continues, and this time I'm at Two Guys, a Girl, and a Pizza Place/Two Guys and a Girl and mentally reading all of Berg's dialogue with Deadpool's voice, which adds a new... something. Sure, same actor, but the voice isn't exactly the same and Berg might be Deadpool-ish but he's not at that level.

(It was fun when Ryan Reynolds finally got to do Deadpool for real, as opposed to the atrocity enacted on him in X-Men Origins: Wolverine where Wade's mouth was stitched shut for most of his screentime. I'd been telling people since the late 90s that I knew an actor who'd be a great Deadpool, just based off what he did as Berg and what he'd do in some of ABC's commercials for the show.

(Though there are many old fancasts I'll unfortunately never get, like Callum Keith Rennie as John Constantine. That could've been magic.)

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I went into Manhattan very early Sunday to see if my stores did any Met Gala-related windows but, to my disappointment, none of them did. Though it probably doesn't help that this year's themes are vague. “The Garden of Time”? (Referencing a 1962 New Wave sci-fi short story of the same name by British author J.G. Ballard.) “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion”?

The celebrities at the gala usually have a hard time getting close to the theme, but maybe if it's vague it doesn't matter.

I'm currently doing some writing, for WIPs in Weiß Kreuz and Saiyuki. It's a problem that my WK ones are so often long ones with no end in sight.

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I was recently reminded I liked this song, "Fire for You" by Cannons, and the roller disco in this video really fits the music and its retro styling. That led me to a live show in which the lead singer does herself up to look like the X-Men's Dazzler (while the rest of the band does KISS makeup), but I wouldn't really recommend the performance because I felt her voice sounded weak in it.

Having watched the first episode of Deadly Class, the show about teens being trained as killers at a secret school, at this point I'm giving it more of a chance based on its soundtrack--the Cure ("The Holy Hour" is a deep cut choice), Echo and the Bunnymen, the Sisters of Mercy, the Damned--and occasional fun 80s references--the greatness of the Dark Phoenix saga and thus Chris Claremont and John Byrne--than its characters or plot. Part of the problem is I am so bored of the protagonist/audience surrogate being some needy teen guy with manpain, especially since the big first lesson he gets onscreen is that girls are treacherous and will play with his emotions (and hormones). And that poor goth girl--whose makeup and style scream, "Don't bother me"--gets physically objectified by two different guys she's shown zero interest toward in about five minutes. Sure, it seems that all the students threaten each other in various ways, but I don't want to see so much of that kind of thing directed at girls.

Though I got a good laugh at one character saying his ultimate kill target is Ronald Reagan.

Having just finished "Chapter 12" of Legion, I spent 98% of it bored and ticked off and ended it super ticked off. Waste an hour of my life with a loop of mostly the same events to get to a conclusion that took two minutes of dialogue and a look at Syd's personality that wouldn't have taken much longer than that?

I was right about the identity of David's parasite.

...you're taking a medication called Amantadine but your brain keeps remembering it as "adamantium." (My innards are indestructible!)

musesfool is revisiting the Archive of Our Own hit count meme and added a kudos version. Things have changed a bit on my hits list since last year, most obviously in the addition of more Saiyuki and X-Force fics and loss of all Andromeda and due South fics.

( by hits )

By kudos, it's a somewhat different list.

( by kudos )

"But she knows this and she smiles
For she has miles and miles of memories all to herself
Everything in between then and now
And all her images of everything in between now and then
And all
they
have
are pictures
Pictures..."
-- "Jenny, I Read" by Concrete Blonde


People aren't writing much new fic in Weiß Kreuz and Saiyuki (Get well soon, Minekura!), and there's only so many times I can reread old Weiß Kreuz and Saiyuki fic at fanfiction.net and MediaMiner and troll for new at Archive of Our Own, while none of the new fandoms have really been hitting me in that OMG!!!! way I remember and miss. (Sherlock is too stingy with canon material and highly problematic; I won't get to see 2x02 and 2x03 for months but managed to see the way Moffat screwed with The Woman and get thoroughly ticked off about it. The Marvel movieverse is all right, but I can take it or leave it and don't have a screaming need to read fic of it.)

With all that in mind, I'm actually rereading some of my own old fic at AO3, partly to look for things to correct but also because when it goes that far back a lot of it is actually new to me all over again. Even though stuff comes back to me as I read, the finer details and phrasings can surprise me. Some of it I cringe at--though I'll keep that online because people have told me in the past that it hurts when old favorites get removed or thoroughly revised--but I've also found some happy surprises in unexpected metaphors and ideas and old friends.

(By the way, I'm also doing a slow process of taking line breaks out of many old fics where I'd entered the txt files into AO3. Because I care about my readers. Though if I did it all at once I'd go mad.)

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Anyway, in any of my old fic I'll read a particularly rat-a-tat-tat bit of bantery, for-love-of-words-and-snark dialogue and know for sure that it's mine but occasionally come up against a phrase or metaphor that really works but I don't remember writing and think, "Hey, that's good. Maybe this author is going places." *g* Or smile over an assertion that bureaucracy is the binding force in this universe.

Or cringe because something is written awkwardly or Mary Sueward or over the top or OMG, I was so young.

Meanwhile, I'll forever be puzzling over why some of my fics on AO3 get good traffic and others languish unloved. I'm always trying to figure out patterns.

Unlike the anime Wolverine and Iron Man playing on G4, I thought the first X-Men anime episode is pretty good, even if that's not a Storm I recognize. And no tall bishie Wolverine like in the Wolverine anime! I refuse to accept the existence of tall bishie Wolverine.

But Mr. Most Popular Dub Voice is voicing him. Again. He sounds more like Wolverine than Milo does, but he's in too much stuff! It breaks my absorption into the show. "Hey, it's That Guy! Again!" and "Wow, he really sounds like That Guy in this scene."

Viper's Creed looks pretty, though I spent most of this first episode's plot staring at the screen going, "..wut?" G4 apparently has a Friday anime block.

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I went to the Food Stamps office in person today and did an interview. Hilariously, when I arrived home there was a letter in the mailbox giving me a new phone number to call to reschedule a phone interview, a paper I'd waited all week for. I think they now have everything they want and can decide my case. I hope they decide to give me food stamps.

But while I was there they told me that I would've needed to come down to the office to give them some documentation they want and get my fingers printed even if I had taken the phone interview last Friday. So how much good is the online application and phone interview anyway? You might as well just frickin' go to the office!

Even with the four-hour nap after doing the three-hour-long Food Stamps office visit, 40 minutes of it spent standing in line, I'm totally exhausted and weak, so I'm doing an early bedtime.