Answering more questions

[petronia]

I will have to take this and this down soonish, so grab them if you haven't yet!

I realized while paging back that I forgot to post visuals of Taylor Swift, so here's a video of her performing an unreleased song:

...Actually, she reminds me of Reira. XD; She even dresses like Reira - hat, frilly summer dress, cowboy boots. You don't get to see her DIAMOND-ENCRUSTED GLITTER GUITAR in this vid though, that shit is awesome.

canis_m asked about fic I'd be writing (or thinking of writing) if I had the leisure to do so. It's a good question. The reason I've finally started to post about my quote fandom unquote is that - after three months - I've run out of stuff to read and watch. XD;; Someone will have to do something to get in the papers and keep the data trail fresh... But if you flipped the switch to Output right now I'm not sure what you'd get. Obviously with RPF there's no fuzzy border to the "narrative universe" and you define your own boundaries, so maybe it's just how my brain works, but in my head it's BIG and COMPLICATED. Musically speaking it's an arbitrary hub with avenues of investigation leading in all directions. Culturally speaking it attaches to this whole context with which I wasn't conversant (then Puu and Yosi started banging on about the Mighty Boosh and NMtB and it got weird fast XD;). There's a fashion aspect, and a fandom studies aspect, and so on. In NYC we talked over ramen re: basic strategies for writing fic, one of which is to take whatever series one's into and dump it willy-nilly onto paper with the rest of one's current brain content, no matter how tenuous the link. I suspect as time passes I gravitate toward fandoms that allow me to do this more efficiently. I mean, JoJo is basically like this, right, one can write anything. XD; You'll never forge a narrative connection that's too improbable for JoJo. The question is, what do you prioritize.

For instance, we all know I'm never going to write straight-up Pete/Carl fic, because that's not far out enough. XD I'd rather write about Hedi Slimane. Wouldn't Hedi Slimane make a great POV character? XDD Hopefully he's not taking a break for too long. Contemporary art gigs are all very well, but the celebrity manorexics of the world are going to run out of trousers.

(That reminds me: I haven't talked about the NYC museum exhibitions yet. Er, stick it on the list. XD;)

Something else I want to write: an SSBB story based on one of Ezra Pound's Cantos. This is related to the above, for reals, but it'll take another ten paragraphs to lay out why. Well... here. For starters. And the whole Greek mythology thing (thanks for that, I'll never be the same again XD). And:

Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea,
London has swept about you this score years,
And bright ships left you this or that in fee,
Ideas, old gossip, oddments of all things.

There was another story I would've written for the current issue if I'd had the time, set in the same universe as the first SSBB piece I wrote, the fantasy one... and the cover stories I never completed. As starlighter harangued, more PORN! I think at this point I would really enjoy having a whole year in which to do nothing but write, the tank is filled to overflowing.

Manga, books, job, and shopping will go in another entry. XD

Comments

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Which canto? There's a lot of them...

[petronia.livejournal.com]

II! An easy one with no Chinese in, and a narrative and all. XD

(I'm not sure sometimes if Pound understood Chinese, or if he just had this mental image of what it was like to speak Chinese.)

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

I thought that was kind of a given, that Pound had this kewl fangirl theory about how Chinese worked without the least knowledge of the language itself. Based entirely off its reading and nothing to do with speaking.

(Doubtless due to coming at it from Japanese where 1 kanji = 'now how do you read that here?', but I was slightly kerblonxed when I finally realized from watching Woxin subtitles that 1 hanzi = 1 Chinese word. Wait that's too simple it *can't* work like that...)

[worldserpent.livejournal.com]

Ezra Pound? He didn't know Chinese, and was also rather misinformed on the entire topic.

http://www.pinyin.info/readings/texts/ezra_pound_chinese.html

[moderntime.livejournal.com]

OMG. Hedi Slimane fic. This would make my heart pitter-patter in happiness.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Yeah, weirdly I think a number of people would actually be interested in that!

[canis-m.livejournal.com]

same universe as the first SSBB piece I wrote

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