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rthstewart) wrote2014-12-14 07:48 pm
rthstewart) wrote2014-12-14 07:48 pm
December meme (falling further behind) Fab 5 Fems and 1977
I've been concentrating on things for Athena's Daughters 2 (EEEEEE KICKSTARTER STARTS TOMORROW WATCH THIS SPACE) and finishing my Yuletide. I had great plans for doing a bunch of treats but eh, it's all been way too busy. And then my own prompt ended up on the pinch hit list, which is like the third time in a year, and so I felt badly that my prompt caused such stress my writer had to default. I try to tell myself that, in a way, it's a good thing because when my prompt is picked it up, it's by someone who knows exactly w hat they are getting into and they really want to write it. In a week. So, I hope they have fun and it doesn't cause stress and they enjoy the prompts.
There are some fic responses buried in this December meme, and I'll get to those, eventually, but they will come later, dates notwithstanding. Possibly even January. I'm sorry, but eh, too much other writing that pays the mortgage. Also, hmm, TBH I was going to post something "Christmasy" in Golden Age Narnia that Harmony_Lover requested but it involved characters and situations that recently engendered a couple of things I really would have been better off not reading and that started the never-ending I suck death spiral, so yeah, nothing is going to be forthcoming regarding Narnia for a little bit until I lick my wounds and yank the bandaid off, which will have surely stuck to skin and hurt like hell. It's been better than it used to be -- I 've not had anyone tell me I'm going to hell for months -- but I'm assuming that's because I'm just not posting much and really the negativity roils even when I don't post....
Moving on,
yalumesse yalumesse asked about 5 favorite female characters, and for this, with one exception, I'm going to go with ancient history.
Leia Organa -- probably my first serious fannish experience and for all the obvious reasons.
Mara Jade -- as Zahn wrote her in the original Thrawn trilogy. I've written about and written Mara before and I so admire her intelligence, her competence, the way she's overcome her past, the way she found agency, and her loyalty and lack of ego. I'm not sure if I would like her as a friend but I'd want her in my corner.
Ellen Ripley -- I've only seen Alien 1 and Aliens each once, in the theater, and never watched them again because they so terrified me. But that has not stopped me from loving Ripley for all she stood for, the universe she occupied, and the place she occupied in the development of science fiction and women IN science fiction. I feel the same way about Sarah Connor in the Terminator movies too. What's most interesting about Ripley though is that unlike Sarah, she doesn't go the full militarization route -- she battles the Queen in a big piece of loading equipment, all to save Newt. It was for me an indelible moment of female empowerment and maternal strength -- by both the Queen and Ripley.
Miss Piggy and Miss Phyrne Fisher -- for many of the same reasons -- the clothes, the feminism, the success, the confidence, and self-defense moves and the hot boyfriends.
And speaking of Star Wars,redsnake05 asks about 1977. I was in high school and things were the pits at home. Disco and the Bee Gees. There was a worsening energy situation and gas prices, Jimmy Carter became President, Mikhail Baryshnikov's amazing Nutcracker was on TV (something I would see on stage the following year). The Rankin-Bass Hobbit was on and I loathed it. The Silmarillion was released -- I have the first American edition and it was both thrilling and disappointing. I paid for it with my own money, the dust jacket says $10.95 and bought it at a B.Dalton. I was deeply into horses and was riding and showing my horse, Teddy, and doing speech and debate. My speech topic was .. hypnotism, I think. And then Star Wars, in May. All my friends at the barn were talking about it and who would "get" Leia. Appalling, I know, but we were 16. I finally drove to see it in this rattling green Ford station wagon, probably in June, at the Big Edwards in Newport Beach CA, a HUGE screen with this amazing sound system so when the Tantive and the ISD come rumbling overhead, you felt and heard them before you saw them.
I was entranced, enthralled, amazed, and utterly alone in my fascination and devotion. I wouldn't find a cadre of like-minded Star Wars fans until college.
OK, I've got a guest post tomorrow and the launch of the Athena's Daughters Kickstarter!!!
There are some fic responses buried in this December meme, and I'll get to those, eventually, but they will come later, dates notwithstanding. Possibly even January. I'm sorry, but eh, too much other writing that pays the mortgage. Also, hmm, TBH I was going to post something "Christmasy" in Golden Age Narnia that Harmony_Lover requested but it involved characters and situations that recently engendered a couple of things I really would have been better off not reading and that started the never-ending I suck death spiral, so yeah, nothing is going to be forthcoming regarding Narnia for a little bit until I lick my wounds and yank the bandaid off, which will have surely stuck to skin and hurt like hell. It's been better than it used to be -- I 've not had anyone tell me I'm going to hell for months -- but I'm assuming that's because I'm just not posting much and really the negativity roils even when I don't post....
Moving on,
yalumesse yalumesse asked about 5 favorite female characters, and for this, with one exception, I'm going to go with ancient history.Leia Organa -- probably my first serious fannish experience and for all the obvious reasons.
Mara Jade -- as Zahn wrote her in the original Thrawn trilogy. I've written about and written Mara before and I so admire her intelligence, her competence, the way she's overcome her past, the way she found agency, and her loyalty and lack of ego. I'm not sure if I would like her as a friend but I'd want her in my corner.
Ellen Ripley -- I've only seen Alien 1 and Aliens each once, in the theater, and never watched them again because they so terrified me. But that has not stopped me from loving Ripley for all she stood for, the universe she occupied, and the place she occupied in the development of science fiction and women IN science fiction. I feel the same way about Sarah Connor in the Terminator movies too. What's most interesting about Ripley though is that unlike Sarah, she doesn't go the full militarization route -- she battles the Queen in a big piece of loading equipment, all to save Newt. It was for me an indelible moment of female empowerment and maternal strength -- by both the Queen and Ripley.
Miss Piggy and Miss Phyrne Fisher -- for many of the same reasons -- the clothes, the feminism, the success, the confidence, and self-defense moves and the hot boyfriends.
And speaking of Star Wars,
redsnake05 asks about 1977. I was in high school and things were the pits at home. Disco and the Bee Gees. There was a worsening energy situation and gas prices, Jimmy Carter became President, Mikhail Baryshnikov's amazing Nutcracker was on TV (something I would see on stage the following year). The Rankin-Bass Hobbit was on and I loathed it. The Silmarillion was released -- I have the first American edition and it was both thrilling and disappointing. I paid for it with my own money, the dust jacket says $10.95 and bought it at a B.Dalton. I was deeply into horses and was riding and showing my horse, Teddy, and doing speech and debate. My speech topic was .. hypnotism, I think. And then Star Wars, in May. All my friends at the barn were talking about it and who would "get" Leia. Appalling, I know, but we were 16. I finally drove to see it in this rattling green Ford station wagon, probably in June, at the Big Edwards in Newport Beach CA, a HUGE screen with this amazing sound system so when the Tantive and the ISD come rumbling overhead, you felt and heard them before you saw them. I was entranced, enthralled, amazed, and utterly alone in my fascination and devotion. I wouldn't find a cadre of like-minded Star Wars fans until college.
OK, I've got a guest post tomorrow and the launch of the Athena's Daughters Kickstarter!!!
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Speaking as a defaulter: it wasn't you or your prompt, I promise. In my case it was work/school/holiday stress. My recip has fantastic prompts, particularly for the thing we matched on. I just couldn't swing stressing over a fic exchange while stressing over all the other things too.
I should just not sign up for Yuletide, honestly. Or at least not till I've graduated. Because finals week of fall term is always going to be the second week in December and work stress is always going to ramp up in or right after finals week. Nobody's allowed to schedule off the last two weeks of December, you see. Too busy. And of course Giftmas Day falls right in there too. So if I don't get Yuletide written in the first couple weeks of writing time, it just isn't getting done.
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That is so interesting to hear about 1977. The first possibility I thought of was the dawn of punk, but Star Wars and your first fan experience is also awesome.