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birdsofshoreJust my usual kind of post blethering about fannish things and pointing at things I found amusing. :D
I finished reading The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy with my eldest, who is 10. We had such fun with it; it was my absolute all time favourite book when I was his age (there was no Harry Potter then, sob) and he loved the humour and the surreal situations, especially the names! We have had some really childish giggling sessions over "Vroomfondel", "Majikthise" and "Slartibartfast." They are great books to read aloud for this reason, and I especially enjoyed doing Arthur Dent's voice. He's such a fabulous character, although when I was a child I preferred Ford Prefect, and indeed had a massive crush on him, or perhaps it was the actor who played him in the original tv series, David Dixon. There's something just impossibly cute about him.
Anyway, I bet you can guess what's coming next. I now want to read Hitchhiker's fic, because, OMG, Ford/Arthur = slash heaven. I actually daren't look in case a) there is none or b) it is crap, but just on the really tiny offchance any of my flist know some sweet slashy Hitchhikers fic (or want to write me some :D), I am here just AGOG waiting. There would be a reward.
LOOK AT THEM! THEY ARE BEGGING, SLASH ME, SLASH ME.
Another funny thing about reading the books again was that I had to explain to J that when the trilogy was written, the idea of an electronic book that you could press buttons on and get information about virtually anything, was WILDLY RADICAL. I mean just TOTAL SPACE AGE WOW NO WAY kind of stuff. I could see J listening to the bits about how clever the Guide was, and thinking "this sounds really shit, I mean, why would you want that when you have the internet." :D
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hd_erised assignment day. *biting fist* I am equally excited and nervous about receiving mine, as I have never written for an exchange fest before and I have no idea how I am going to find it. I lost a bit of confidence about writing lately, as after fighting tooth and nail to get the brilliant hd_fan_fair prompt that I wanted (the mods will verify I totally embarrassed myself emailing them about 6 times to make sure I had actually got it O.o), I then found I could not write the blinking thing for love nor money. For a while I was thinking I would have to drop out, then FINALLY it started coming together. I've got about 13 or 14k of it now and I think the end is finally in sight. \o/ I must admit I'll be relieved when this one is submitted. And I really really hope the prompter likes it :S
Finally if you made it through all that, (or if you just want to skip straight to the funny part):
two really corking animations. The first one is for everyone who's seen Loki at Comic-Con and also anyone who's tried to hide their fandom activities from their partner. :D I especially love the lip bite.
and the second is for anyone in any fandom ever (although particularly for my lovely friends in the HP fandom). The last line kills me.
I finished reading The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy with my eldest, who is 10. We had such fun with it; it was my absolute all time favourite book when I was his age (there was no Harry Potter then, sob) and he loved the humour and the surreal situations, especially the names! We have had some really childish giggling sessions over "Vroomfondel", "Majikthise" and "Slartibartfast." They are great books to read aloud for this reason, and I especially enjoyed doing Arthur Dent's voice. He's such a fabulous character, although when I was a child I preferred Ford Prefect, and indeed had a massive crush on him, or perhaps it was the actor who played him in the original tv series, David Dixon. There's something just impossibly cute about him.
Anyway, I bet you can guess what's coming next. I now want to read Hitchhiker's fic, because, OMG, Ford/Arthur = slash heaven. I actually daren't look in case a) there is none or b) it is crap, but just on the really tiny offchance any of my flist know some sweet slashy Hitchhikers fic (or want to write me some :D), I am here just AGOG waiting. There would be a reward.
LOOK AT THEM! THEY ARE BEGGING, SLASH ME, SLASH ME.
Another funny thing about reading the books again was that I had to explain to J that when the trilogy was written, the idea of an electronic book that you could press buttons on and get information about virtually anything, was WILDLY RADICAL. I mean just TOTAL SPACE AGE WOW NO WAY kind of stuff. I could see J listening to the bits about how clever the Guide was, and thinking "this sounds really shit, I mean, why would you want that when you have the internet." :D
Well, tomorrow is
hd_erised assignment day. *biting fist* I am equally excited and nervous about receiving mine, as I have never written for an exchange fest before and I have no idea how I am going to find it. I lost a bit of confidence about writing lately, as after fighting tooth and nail to get the brilliant hd_fan_fair prompt that I wanted (the mods will verify I totally embarrassed myself emailing them about 6 times to make sure I had actually got it O.o), I then found I could not write the blinking thing for love nor money. For a while I was thinking I would have to drop out, then FINALLY it started coming together. I've got about 13 or 14k of it now and I think the end is finally in sight. \o/ I must admit I'll be relieved when this one is submitted. And I really really hope the prompter likes it :SFinally if you made it through all that, (or if you just want to skip straight to the funny part):
two really corking animations. The first one is for everyone who's seen Loki at Comic-Con and also anyone who's tried to hide their fandom activities from their partner. :D I especially love the lip bite.
and the second is for anyone in any fandom ever (although particularly for my lovely friends in the HP fandom). The last line kills me.
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Date: 2013-08-10 07:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-08-10 07:38 pm (UTC)I can relate to your
But like you, I managed to figure out how to tell the story I wanted and was pleased with the ending result. I'm sure your fic will be brilliant!!
*hugs*
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Date: 2013-08-10 07:49 pm (UTC)My mom read to me too, and she was a big reader who read all the classics that they teach in school, for fun! She was big on Jane Austen, as well other writers from that era. I think she is what fostered my love of reading/writing, especially since she introduced me to it at an early age.
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Date: 2013-08-10 07:53 pm (UTC)"Plus, Becky's fanfics were fucking terrible."
Hahahahahahhahahahhahahahhahahhaa
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Date: 2013-08-10 08:10 pm (UTC)"You're reading stories about gay wizards fucking again, aren't you."
"NO! I'm, er, looking at drawings of gay wizards fucking."
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Date: 2013-08-10 08:11 pm (UTC)Yes yes we have to have a fangirl meeting. You're coming to London! It will be FANGIRL MEETING TIME ♥
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Date: 2013-08-10 08:13 pm (UTC)I'm sure the book fair fic will be fine. I loved your smooch fic and the entry for hd cliche, and I'm looking forward to reading this one.
That last animation made me LOL. Of course Becky's fanfics were fucking terrible! How dare she put trivial stuff like having a baby before the important stuff!
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Date: 2013-08-10 08:13 pm (UTC)Only one more day to wait, now...
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Date: 2013-08-10 08:17 pm (UTC)I am often too tired to be much of a fun mum, which makes me sad, but I hope J has lots of good memories of us reading together.
He is crazy about reading; I literally have to nag him to put his book down (I was just the same). We don't even have a TV, and we are very strict about computer time. I am basically just an evil mum :DD
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Date: 2013-08-10 08:22 pm (UTC)Hitchhiker's really did surprise me. I think there is a lot more of that sort of silly, surreal, geeky humour around these days, so it didn't feel so fresh or groundbreaking as it did then, but it's still very funny. It also seemed rather short to me! And it ended really abruptly, which confused us. Ah well, apparently we're starting Restaurant at the End of the Universe tomorrow night.
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Date: 2013-08-10 10:52 pm (UTC)The prompter will love it. I can't wait for that fest!!!!!
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Date: 2013-08-11 01:21 am (UTC)Thank you for posting the videos. Made me grin and I needed that. :D
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Date: 2013-08-11 06:29 am (UTC)I hope you're right. It was such a great prompt!
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Date: 2013-08-11 06:32 am (UTC)I was working as a nanny when the HP books came out, and the children I looked after were the right age to enjoy them. We all got obsessed together (although they mostly laugh at my fangirling now).
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Date: 2013-08-11 01:00 pm (UTC)Also, <3 you and your posts. I love the fan girl vid. :)
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Date: 2013-08-11 01:22 pm (UTC)Both of the videos made me hoot. Very clever little animations.
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Date: 2013-08-11 01:57 pm (UTC)****
"What are you doing?" Arthur said. Ford's fingers were sliding up his thigh. Arthur was aware of just how thin his pyjamas were. He swallowed. If Ford continued, it was likely that he'd know, too.
"Just relieving a little tension."
Arthur's voice was strangled as he replied, "I'm sure a nice cup of tea would do that."
"Now, come on Arthur, I know that you do this on Earth too."
"I don't!" Arthur closed his eyes as Ford's fingers made their way to the top of his thigh.
"I once had a most instructive afternoon with Bob from the pub."
Arthur opened his eyes again. "Skittles Bob?"
Ford nodded, but now his hand was moving again. "There's an entry in the Hitchhiker's Guide."
Arthur could see the words 'Don't Panic' out of the corner of his eye. What he really wanted now was a towel. He wanted to hide the tent currently developing in his pyjama bottoms. He stopped breathing as he realised how close Ford's face was, as he saw the way the light caught his eyes.
"Do you want me to stop?"
It had been days - months, if he was being honest - since anyone had touched Arthur like this. "It's in the guide?"
Ford nodded. "And it recommends a cup of tea, for afterwards."
"In that case..." Arthur turned to face Ford properly. "Keep going."
*****
Ok, that's as much as I got. I really need to get back to writing my fanfair fic now. :P
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Date: 2013-08-11 02:02 pm (UTC)*HUGS THEM TIGHT*
*MAKES THEM DO MORE SEXING*
What you REALLY need to be doing is writing me a whole story of this :DDDD
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Date: 2013-08-12 01:09 am (UTC)Also, I adore Hitchhiker's. Now, get back to work on Fan Fair! And don't forget your towel!
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Date: 2013-08-12 01:16 pm (UTC)I think I got the videos via the Mary Sue: http://www.themarysue.com/
Such an enteraining website. They linked to another (in my opinion, not so funny) video by the same animator so I had a look about to see what else she had done.
I wrote about 6 k of fanfair this week, I think. For me, that is amazing!
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Date: 2013-08-13 12:22 am (UTC)Now I'm the one who needs the towel! ;)
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