Omorka's Lair

So I got in my Yuletide nominations. Just in case anyone was interested, they were RGB (characters: Ray, Egon, Janine, Winston), Last Starfighter (Alex, Grig, Centauri, the Beta Unit), and Phonogram (Seth, Silent Girl, Kohl, Emily).

If anyone wants me to write them Peter-fic for Yuletide, you'll have to nominate him separately, as I could only list four characters and I was guessing that he'd be the one most likely to be listed by someone else.

I had a hard time choosing characters for Phonogram, and I feel bad about choosing Emily over Lloyd, but I wanted to make sure that someone who had only read Rue Brittania wouldn't get locked out of asking or writing for it.

I didn't put up Eureka because I still haven't caught up on the canon, and I really wish I could have listed Pirate Radio (so much fun writing for it last year) or Real Genius, but I want to write in these more.

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Eureka. I'm sure Tesla High needs a number theory and non-Euclidean geometry teacher. (Or I could teach my current courseload, but I've never really liked middle school.)

I posted a version of this comment elsewhere a while ago, but: there have been several people drawing parallels between fandom and folk religion. The existence of the Thor movie - that is, a film based on a comic book based on Norse religion and folklore - has made things interestingly complicated in that department.

In particular, someone was complaining about movie!Loki being a woobie, and I pointed out that it was clearly delibarate - someone (I suspect JMS) wrote him as the biggest Draco In Leather Pants ever - but that, given the source material for the source material, it wasn't necessarily out of character. After all, there are still Lokismen and Lokiswomen among the Asatru, and not all of them are the Nordic equivalent of Discordians; some of them see him as a compelling deity in his own right from the myths, with complex but sympathetic motivations.

Then I pointed out that Loki is, in his shapeshifter aspect, a genderbender god, and there aren't that many of those. (Thor's been known to cross-dress, but that was just that one time. I digress.) In fact, Loki has three children; he is father to two of them and mother to one, and that one is an eight-legged horse.

Or, to put it another way, in the source material to the source material for the movie, both the genderswap fic and the furry mpreg are canon.

My interlocutor was not amused.

Anyone call for more Walter Peck? Cracked has an unusual perspective. (Jennifer makes an appearance, too, as does a non-existent Zener card.)

And yeah, if they didn't violate a couple of building codes, it's because nobody thought to make completely insane uses of the power grid illegal . . .

Ganked from several people on the flist:

Go look at your blog journal. Find the last Fandom-related thing you posted. The characters in that post are now your team-mates in the Zombie Apocalypse. How screwed are you?

Penny and Lloyd from Phonogram. Whether or not we're screwed depends on how long we have to prepare and whose music collection we're preparing with. If I have all of mine and the Spouse's collections and they each have an iPod, and we have more than a couple of minutes, I think we're okay, especially if Lloyd thought to get Kohl's phone number. We should be able to stun them, set them on fire, and then throw up an SEP field to get the hell away (thank you, Michael Penn, for "Invisible").

Now, that's if I'm being completely honest. If I just use the last post that had the tag "fandom," the only characters mentioned are Team Tunafish from the Bureau 13 novels, and I'm safe as houses. Iron-beam framed houses with reinforced concrete foundations and steel shutters. And a pair of proton beam cannons on the roof. With appropriate protective sigils on all the doors and windows.

(The one before that is Zane and Fargo, and we already know how that turned out.)

This post by neededalj is really about Survey!Fail, but it encapsulates pretty much everything that I find enraging about both the educational trend towards "brain-based learning" (*blech*) and the whole "gay brains" trope.

Ganked from a couple of different people on the friendslist:

Give me a character and I will give you my:

+ OTP for them.
+ Runner-up pairing.
+ Honorable mention(s).
+ Crack pairing(s).
+ Ship everyone else seems to like, but I don't. (alternately: ship I like that everyone else seems to hate)

Saw the first pink evening primroses along the roadsides on Thursday; now they're all over the place. The oaks are having sex with everything around them. The wisteria are just starting to open.

Spring Break started Friday. Need to do some spring cleaning over the break; the kitchen, in particular, needs a little work.

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Went to Con-Jour III this weekend. Went to two games, neither of which made (well, apparently one of them did, but over an hour after I'd given up waiting and left). Attended several panels, none of them spectacular, although I did get a few ideas from some of them, especially the costuming panel, which was very well attended. I did enjoy Jody Lynn Nye's, the guest of honor's, contributions to the panels. (Wonder if the organizers would take my suggestions for a couple of panels for next year?)

I spent a big chunk of Saturday in the cartoon!Venkman uniform, although I forgot my elbow pads. The local Ghostbusters troupe, the Houston Area Ghostbusters, were out in force, and I spent a while hanging around their table in Artists' Alley. They do self-insert/OC costuming rather than being one of the original four, but they all said a cartoon continuity costume would be welcome in their group, so I might need to work on a second outfit. They also tipped me off to an eBay auctioneer who does custom name patches.

Of course, if I'm going to do that, I need to actually come up with at least a trap prop, and possibly a meter - the pack's probably a ways off yet. (Most of them had the commercial movie-prop meter, which is cool but not accurate for what I want to do.)

The Spouse had to work during the day Saturday; he ended up bringing cheshirebast down after they closed the shop, which I wasn't expecting, but I enjoyed showing him around the con. Unfortunately, since it's a university con at a school that shuts down early, there wasn't a whole lot going on after 9 pm. We swung back by this morning, although Spouse and I were late - there was some sort of walk-a-thon going on down Allen Parkway, so we had to go way out of our way to get onto I-45.

Still a very small con, although certainly not as small as the first year. I was a little disappointed in the dealer's room, although I did pick up three things (all of them jewelry). It's probably just as well that the Mythos troupe didn't try and put a game on - we might well not have made. OTOH, I ran into the gaming coordinator for Apollocon, and she's interested in having us there - and might be able to pull enough strings to fix our volunteer issue. She's at least going to ask.

A recut trailer for My Favorite Movie - set to the Inception score.

( What is it, Ray? )