30 days of fanfiction meme (day 23)

23 – When you post, where do you post to? Just your journal? Just an archive? Your own personal site?

Things are admittedly sort of fragmented. XD; Everything up to 2007 is on my personal site (the earliest posted stuff was probably around 1998). Everything from 2002 and beyond is somewhere on this LJ. Everything between 2002 and 2007 is on FFN, unless it was too short or too PWP. Everything after 2007 is on AO3, plus a couple of the "important" stories, plus some "b-sides and rarities" that were never archived anywhere. So everything should be mirrored on the Internet at least once. I don't want to be in every conceivable archive - I mean, I could have tried for an account at Teaspoon or the like, but I'm lazy. XD And it's hard to keep track of, when you have to prune and maintain your "social media footprint" huuurgh.

If I were posting a fic tomorrow, it would go up here, be mirrored at DW, then linked from a post in the major active fic comm (if that exists) a few days later. (There are optimal times and days for posting to fic comms, aren't there? XD Wednesday and Thursday, mornings or early evenings EST.) Then, once I was sure I wasn't going to fiddle with the text anymore, it'll go up on AO3.

Fantasia reviews

sub_divided was here all week - she's now headed down to Boston c/o Bing XD. A few Nuits d'Afrique shows, lots of movies. These are mostly going to be quick, because I've had time to whittle my thoughts down.

Ip Man (The Prequel): Arguably better than the second movie, despite absence of Donnie Yen, and increasingly outlandish plots attributed to evil would-be colonialists. I mean, it's pretty clear which parts must've hewn fairly closely to RL, and which were pastede on. XD; Ip Man is such a low-key protagonist (the anti-Bruce Lee in some sense... I really want them to hoist the third movie in the trilogy out of development hell, guys; not the Wong Kar Wai one, that's a whole other beast) that it's no bad thing for the movies to be a bit more low-key as well.

Another Earth: Co-written by Brit Marling, the lead actress, who spends a lot of time letting her body language speak for her. Essentially a tearjerker human drama in which the SF element acts as deus ex machina and brickbat metaphor, but also a love letter to a certain idea of space exploration - an elegiac one, despite the film assuming Virgin as de rigueur method of transportation rather than NASA. (This came... two weeks?... after the U2:360 show I watched from my bedroom window, during which Bono managed to ambush me with unexpected emotion(tm) with harping on the leitmotif of "Space Oddity".) It's more a Sundance film than Fantasia or even SXSW; you can tell because it brought out humourless science dudes on imdb. Such a scenario would have disastrous consequences on Earth's gravity, yes, fancy that. XD

Trollhunter: Immensely likeable gonzo nature mockumentary about a dude who blase-ly works a job no sane human being ought to hold down. Deploys horror movie flourishes of the "Blair Witch" strain, but way too funny to be truly scary. (Words that sound the same in Norwegian and English: "troll piss".) The screening was preceded by a stop-motion animation short about a troll, narrated by Max Von Sydow - a troll double header, as it were - which served as a helpful brush-up on the mythology, so by the time the put-upon eponymous protagonist started tying goats to bridge posts the audience was legit dying.

In light of the recent news, it's worth one's time to watch a film that makes Norway seem like a nice place to live. Not because of the weather - the majestic landscapes look dingy and muddy in digital video, and it's always damp when it's not snowing outright - but because the underlying satire on social democracy is an affectionate one. The veterinarian who worries about the cruelty of troll euthanasia via blacklight; the wildlife agency with its endless licenses and forms and bumbling coverups that no one bothers to uncover. If that's the worst it gets, one thinks... At one point the Scooby Doo kids hire a new camerawoman. Ixnay on redblooded Christian men, they ask the trollhunter, but what about a devout Muslim woman? The dude is taken aback, then shrugs. "You know, I haven't a clue," he says. "I guess we'll find out."