Getting Into Trouble

[omorka]

Well, I got my guts together and signed up for scifibigbang, on the grounds that I seriously need to get the Buckaroo Banzai/Eureka crossover out of my head, and if I put it on a deadline I have a better chance of making it happen. Yup, that's right, I signed up to write something other than the Current Obsession. Okay, so it's the previous fandom obsession. Y'all remember that I don't fall out of love, right? Mmm, Fargo. Sorry, where was I?

This is not to say that the Current Obsession is not still eating my brain; I submitted a whole slew of prompts for it to everyfandomfest's inaugural fest. I will probably post a slew of Eureka prompts, and possibly some Whoniverse ones, as well. So far it seems Western-fandom-skewed, but that may simply be where the owner has managed to pimp the comm so far. I'm also still working on a prompt from smallfandomfest, which is currently rolling and thrashing and deciding if it needs to be epic in scope or not. I kind of hope it doesn't, but I don't suspect it will cooperate. And I have a separate Ray story in the works, one of the ones I had fully outlined during TAKS (don't look at me like that; it's really boring while the kids are testing, and I needed to not fall asleep, and this one is PG-13 and only peripherally slashy) and am finally working on when the fest-fics are starting to grind.

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In almost-but-not-totally unrelated news, We finally watched De-Lovely for Movie Night, and I enjoyed it a lot. I'm weird about things set in the period from 1910 to 1940 - there are things about that period that represent, for me, a road not taken that I think we really screwed up as a society, given that we ended up with the 1950s. At the same time, there was the potential there to do things right, things happening in the teens and twenties and even thirties that could have gone entirely other places. Did that even make sense? I'm not sure it did. Anyway, there's a faint echo of the Romantic Era in that time that I like, and dear gods anything that exists in reaction to the Victorian Era can't be all bad anyway. (This is why I prefer decopunk to steampunk, BTW. Steampunk has to be Edwardian before I can get the bad taste of Victoriana out of my mouth.) Anyway, the film has a stunning cast and a great framing device, and the scene with Cole and "Jack" singing to each other onstage was OMFG hot. (Hee, I keep forgetting how good Barrowman's voice actually is.)

Also, the Spouse was watching the Blu-Ray of ID4 this afternoon, and I came and said "Wait, is that who it looks like?" and had to go IMDB it. I had totally forgotten that Adam Baldwin was in that movie. He sure plays a lot of military guys, doesn't he? Then again, with a chin like that, it's that, G-men, or superheroes, right? (Or, as it happens, all three.)

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[princejvstin.livejournal.com]

Also, the Spouse was watching the Blu-Ray of ID4 this afternoon, and I came and said "Wait, is that who it looks like?" and had to go IMDB it. I had totally forgotten that Adam Baldwin was in that movie.

Wow, I didn't even realize that. Hunh.

[awbryan.livejournal.com]

Then again, with a chin like that, it's that, G-men, or superheroes, right?

Or Big Damn Heroes. :)

These days I think of the fifties as a fifteen-year mass hysteria brought on by the equally massive PTSD of the Depression and the Second World War -- and the heavy propaganda usage during that time. There are just too many patterns where trends we think of today as "sixties" started from hearthflames cultivated through the thirties, forties, and fifties.

That must have been a really brain-twisting time to live through. Mass media was just coming into usage, and there were neither societal checks-n-balances or inbuilt resistance to Big Lies as there is today. On top of that, the multiple crises pushed meme usage far past sane levels -- and people were not acting too smart under stress anyway. David Brin's portrayal of WWII as necromancy isn't all that far off the mark, but there were other nasty spirits raised up in those years too. The media-mills cranked up as a response to the Crash and reigned supreme until McCarthy overstepped... and even then it took ten or twenty more years for them to grind into the dust. (Then they were reanimated as the zombies known as the Right Wing Media, but that's another story.)

The sixties and *particularly* the seventies went a little overboard in reaction (IMHO) but it wouldn't have been so extreme if the repression of the fifties hadn't been equally extreme.

[quantumduck.livejournal.com]

I look at what the great war did to population and morality right when wild new technologies spread music and news at an alarming speed. The following decades were a struggle for the establishment to catch up and build its numbers so we could have morality controlled THROUGH mass media.