Omorka's Lair

Okay, so I had a transcendental moment at, of all things, a health food grocery store this evening.

I’ll put the story behind a cut because it’s kind of long, and if you follow me on Twitter you probably already read it. It involves Phil Collins and me unsuccessfully looking for barley flour.

( Phonomancy from an odd place )

( Mythology )

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( Fanart & Fanmix feels )

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( History )

Water. Trauma. Air. Memory. Tears in rain, courage in the flood.

Nammu, Tiamat, Enlil, Marduk. Powers that be, bless me, bless these my children, pass us by.

Paraphrasing @papapishu over on Twitter: Celebrate May Day as our foreparents did, by joining/strengthening our unions and by dancing a properly phallic Maypole!

There is something about putting on body glitter and a tie-dyed dress with a couple of holes/snags that is a size too large for you that makes one want to not do anything for the rest of the day. Or, at least, nothing that does not involve rather a lot of skin-to-skin contact. Alas, the Secondary had a gig this evening and no one appears to be doing a Maypole. (I don't know what the CUUPs group is doing, but I can't deal with UU internal politics anymore. CMA has enough internal politics to last me for years.)

Those of y'all who have followed me for a while know that the Spouse is as big a geek as I am, but largely in different fandoms. For example, he's much more (or, from a different perspective, less selective) of an anime fan than I am. While we do have some shared fandoms (we were both Whovians before being a US Whovian was cool), for the most part we head to different panels at cons.

The Spouse actually got me into Channel Awesome and its siblings, more or less by accident; someone linked him to one of Todd in the Shadows's reviews, and he got really into them, then started showing them to me. I was curious about the people who were showing up in the cameos and crossovers, so I started watching some of the other producers; the Spouse did the same for Rap Critic but seemed content to stop there for a while. I'm not sure which of us landed on Chez Apocalypse first, but I started mainlining Brows Held High while the Spouse went for Folding Ideas. Eventually we ended up both watching the others' discoveries. I went from there to the CA anniversary movies, which the Spouse declined to watch on the grounds that he was interested in the reviews themselves, not the fictional bits (we'd run into the same issue when we'd discovered MovieBob a couple of years before - Spouse didn't want to watch the Game Overthinker reviews because of the storyline bits).

I more or less goaded the Spouse into watching the Brad Tries reviews by accident, and from there he picked up the Midnight Reviews and then the Cinema Snob reviews on his own. He seems to be enjoying those, but is much less interested in the Film Brain reviews, either BMB or the Projector ones, which seems odd to me, since the Spouse is as big an Anglophile as he is a Japanophile and Film Brain's reviews are pretty review-y rather than riff-y.

Anyway, the Spouse is a much bigger comic fan than I am - I've mostly been a Marvel girl since before puberty, while the Spouse has ranged across multiple publishers for roughly the same amount of time and has been more interested in the creators. So he'd been aware of Linkara for a long time, but not particularly interested in watching him. When I started marathoning At4W last summer, the Spouse was vaguely interested in what I thought, but not at all interested in watching with me - mostly because he was actively turned off by the storyline, again. However, because this last year or so has been so light on storyline because of the movie, the Spouse has sat through several episodes with me and gotten interested enough to watch some, but not all, of the back episodes. On the one hand, I'm happy to share this with him. On the other hand, the skipping around drives me absolutely batshit, especially when we jump from a relatively recent episode all the way back to the early ones where the sound is awful. There are positives to sharing a fandom with one's spouse, but I really wish he'd either just watch the new ones as they came out or attempt to watch the old ones (even if he skips the ones he'd not interested in) in chronological order.

My being exhausted all this week has meant that I have gotten barely any writing done. I got the last two scenes of the Big Bang fic that I'd already finished fleshed out, but the less plotty, more smutty one is only half done.

Well, I say half done. It is in terms of word count for the Bang. In terms of eventual story length, I'm guessing this is currently closer to a quarter, possibly a fifth, of the total word count.

Sometime in the next few months, we gonna have us some smut, I tell you what.

New song I need to learn on autoharp: Toad the Wet Sprocket's "Walk On The Ocean."

I know the lyricist has said that the verses are loosely based on an actual vacation trip he'd taken to an island and that the chorus is just stream-of-consciousness nonsense riffing off the imagery in the first verse, but I'm pretty sure I can sing it in a manner that makes it clear that (in my reading, at least) it's absolutely about an encounter with the naiads, nereids, and dryads.

And I'm about 99% sure said encounter involved sex.

This is mostly a reminder to myself to post some Owlcon-related thoughts here later. But in the meantime, con happened, no huge mishaps, we had facilities issues on Saturday but they did eventually get resolved with no harm done, and we might need to expand our LARP space for next year.

And now I can get back to writing things other than Mythos LARP characters.

Fandom meta for Atop the 4th Wall, everyone else can ignore.

Okay, just us? Here goes:

( Because apparently I'm obsessed with relative ages and heights in any fandom )

*sigh*

Another vacation over, another completely screwed-up sleep cycle. Although in this case this was not 100% my fault; my stupid trick stomach contributed (my entire caloric intake today has been two large slices of cheese toast and two cups of hot tea with sugar and lemon).

On the other hand, it's been a good week for fandom news in general, after a few depressing ones, so that's nice. Lots to look forward to!