Brief notes

[petronia]

1) Finished Nouveau Doctor Who S2. Do they actually intend to run the full gamut of classic shoujo endings?? I don't like this one as much as the Slayers Next one last round. >:| >:| >:| Will live I suppose. Also the more I look at David Tennant's outfit the more I'm reminded of Jarvis Cocker.

2) Before Switzerland I went out three nights straight, due to multiple friend groups who were graduating and wanted to party. Grosso modo: the first night I met Superpitcher, the second night featured a stalled engine and three hours of driving off the island of Montreal, and the third night we were at a drag queen revue. The Ginette Reno impersonator was particularly good.

3) The St. Gallen Symposium was great fun, thought-provoking, and - around the edges of the experience - a bit disturbing. Tari made a post recently in which she pinned down the source of the discomfort exactly, but she's put it under filter so I can't quote it. ^^; It's really the same feeling as b-school, though, just heightened - and there were people who turned it to fuel hard-hitting questions at Russian industrialists and Balkan presidents and whatnot, so. XD; I'd encourage all the students I know to apply next year, if you have the least interest in international affairs and/or meeting Asian keeners from around the world other cool people and/or scoring an all-expenses-paid, chocolate-fountain-courtesy-of-UBS trip to Europe for the low, low price of a 2,000-word essay. For reals, guys. It doesn't even have to be an amazing essay, lord knows mine was crap. You can watch videos of the keynote talks here if you're interested. I've also been posting notes at the work Twitter, and will be blogging about some of the stuff in more detail - Misha Glenny's book, for instance, which I bought yesterday, albeit partially as ongoing research for Schwarzfic. XD;; Right.

I listened to a lot of Bon Iver and Graham Coxon's folksy stuff while I was there. Weirdly I had totally dismissed Bon Iver before this. But it was just that pastoral I guess.

4) Thanks for reblogging/reposting the survey! ...Need more guys to respond, though, that's the thing with my flist. XD; I forgot to mention there is an actual mockup of an actual site you can look at, although you should probably do the survey first. It's not functional except for the projects link but eh, if anyone needs a front-end designer/developer I'm at loose ends for a few months.

Comments

[two-point.livejournal.com]

The Misha Glenny book forced me to write my first Schwarzfic - much belatedly. It's an excellent read for many other reasons though and I've pushed everyone I know to pick it up. I look forward to seeing what you think.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha~ XD Well, it's not often one finds a book that covers exactly the breadth and depth of research needed for a story ($19.95 trade paperback at that)! He gave a great Powerpoint talk, too, complete with Morricone-soundtracked videotape of speedboat captures on the Adriatic.

[acchikocchi.livejournal.com]

the first night I met Superpitcher

.......do tell.


With you on Who S2 ending -- well, overall I preferred S1. Yes, Russell Davies does, in fact, run the full gamut of classic shoujo endings. XD Not sure how spoiled you are for seasons 3 and 4, if at all, so I won't say any more, but let's just say he missed his true calling as a director of Asian dramas... I say this with fondness! Great fondness!

[canis-m.livejournal.com]

I second this comment in all respects. XD Except for the bit about preferring S1.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

There isn't much of a story. XD;; Nowadays when I stay to the end of one of these "indie" techno nights I generally do say hi and thx to the DJ cos there are probably only two dozen people left and I have been hanging over the edge of dude's booth for twenty minutes anyway. (He played Animal Collective! It is a PLAGUE.) He kissed my hand though which was lulz - like, the full Musketeer "enchanté mademoiselle". Was invited to the afterparty by these other guys but it didn't seem like it was going to happen quickly and I was tired of standing about in the rain and didn't want to traipse around with the organizer crew without knowing anyone, so went home. Then I told cis about it and she was like "so did you ask him about the Clover thing" and I was like !!!orz.

[acchikocchi.livejournal.com]

the full Musketeer "enchanté mademoiselle"

Ahahaha why does that not surprise me at all. (And I was totally thinking of the Clover thing. XD)

[canis-m.livejournal.com]

RE: full gamut of shoujo endings, I have a tl;dr post about this (http://canis-m.livejournal.com/323611.html#cutid1) but it's spoilery for S4.

I bet you didn't cry, did you. I cried and cried. XD; Trajik separation is a no-fail trope for me, though. This is prolly due to my hatred of intra-relationship conflict; once OTP is OTP they mustn't have major emotional dissonance between them, therefore major strain on the relationship has to be inflicted from outside: insert death/imprisonment/amnesia/epic barrier between worlds here.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

I was too relieved there were no akchul tragic deaths. XD;; I have to say I don't like The Philip Pullman, though - I find it affecting but infuriating, because what it says is that The Laws of the Cosmos Hate Fun.

[canis-m.livejournal.com]

The Laws of the Cosmos Hate Fun

Yeah, and/or Happy Endings Are Too Disney. Which is just as infuriating, because it's not as if gratuitous angst endings are inherently more sophisticated, in spite of what many creators and audiences appear to believe.

[troisroyaumes]

Oh, oops, I forgot that changing crossposting policy meant that I should remember to give people access on DW again. ><; Sorry about that.

Ah, so is FanSupported going to turn into a real project? I like the idea a lot.