A Lightkeeper's Log

Title: Forbid What Is Evil
Author: lilacsigil
Fandom: Marvel Comics (Captain Britain and MI:13)
Words: 2,500
Rating: PG
Summary: Jac knew that it was hard to become a vampire, but she didn't understand what Dr Hussain would be facing after Dracula turned him.
Notes: Someone wrote fic with Faiza in it! Someone who wasn't me! She's not the focus though, it's Jac's POV on Faiza's whole family, and it's toughtful and beautiful and angry in the right ways.

Seven Nation Army
Vidder: charmax
Song: "Seven Nation Army" by Effcee
Clips from: Doctor Who, Sarah Connor, Battlestar Galactica, The Matrix trilogy, Transformers, I Robot.
Notes: Rainbow Coalition Vs fascist robots. Very satisfying and well edited too.

Also, some of the solicits are out fof December, and despite the rumours a new (and presumably stupider) Event, there are a couple of things that make me bouncy and squeeful. The covers of Nomad: Girl without a World #4 and New Avengers Annual #3, for example. Look at all the shiny women!

I remember a while ago that I fic meme was going around wherein some would write a popular pairing like Sam Carter/Jack O'Neill from Stargate, only crossing over fandoms, so it would be Sam Winchester/Jack Harkness or something equally silly. The idea amused me greatly at the time, and though I never actually did it. I've been mentally compiling a list of names.

It's possible that I have too much time on my hands. Not that I'm avoiding dishes, or anything.

( Here's what I could think of off the top of my head. )

Doctor Who
Your Time Is Now, Martha Jones
Vidder: Kate
Music: "Butterflies and Herricanes" by Muse
Clips from: Series Three.
Notes: Martha/Being Awesome. This is the best Martha vid ever! Unfortunately, I've lost the link to it. If you see it around, please let me know where it is.

Life on Mars
Club Foot
Vidder: charmax
Music: "Club Foot" by Kasabian
Clips from: the first series.
Notes: Sam/Going Crazy. Sam/Gene (sort of). rohan_lady wanted a kick ass, fast-paced vid for this series. Here it is. Lots of hitting things and running about.

Multi
I Enjoy Being a Girl
Vidder: absolutedestiny
Music: "I Enjoy Being a Girl" by Sandra Allen
Clips from: all ofBuffy and Firefly, first two seasons of BSG, some stuff from Veronica Mars and Alias (not my shows).
Notes: Women/Kicking Ass. Now with more irony. Kara, Buffy, Sydney, Zoe and Veronica enjoy just being girls sometimes. They have a different interpretation of what that means than Rogers and Hammerstien originally did.

Stargate: Atlantis
Teyla's Party (about seven down)
Vidder: chayiana
Music: "Here for the Party" by Gretchen Wilson
Clips from: first three seasons.
Notes: Teyla/Everyone. Teyla/Hitting Things with Sticks. Our girl having a remarkably good time. I love Teyla vids. SGA goes disturbingly well with country music, which leads us to...

Coming to Your City (near the bottom)
Vidder: Miruku Koohii
Music: "Coming to Your City" by Big n Rich
Clips from: first three seasons.
Notes: Team/Mass Destruction of Random Things. Sheppard/Everyone. Dear Pegasus Galaxy: Be afraid. Be very, very afraid!

Torchwood
In These Shoes
Vidder: un4scene
Music: "In These Shoes" by Kirsty MacColl
Clips from: 201 "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang"
Notes: Jack/Everyone. John/Himself. Self described as hilarious and wrong, which about sums it up. The editing is a bit slow in a few places, but it's a great song, and a great interpretation!

Adore
Vidder: hollywoodgrrl
Music: "Ava Adore" by the Smashing Pumpkins
Clips from: Torchwood up to 201 "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang." Doctor Who 311 to 313 (though not particularly spoilery).
Notes: Team/Jack. John/Jack. Jack/Doctor/TARDIS. One of the many things I love about this show is that it is inarguably So Very Pretty. This vid really shows that off with smooth editing, a catch song and a good dose of angst. I've watched it ten times today and still find it oddly hypnotic.

I'm posting this locked to start. All critique and comment welcome. Please tell me if I'm being horrible/ignorant/condescending/outright offensive. That way I will hopefully look slightly less idiotic when I link it to the main ibarw list and people who don't know me see it.

I wasn't really going to post anything at all for this, but I sort of got called on that in this post by mahoni, so here goes:

I read about half the articles and sites linked from the ibarw, and didn't actually feel hugely educated. I took enough sociology and anthropology in college to know the facts of racism in North America, white privilege and all that. I have commented on race and the portrayals thereof in shows that I watch. I still couldn't think of anything to say (hey, challenge: try to read all of those in an afternoon without your brain melting). I tried to think about ways that I had been racist (which was fun, considering my white guilt and deeply engrained embarrassment squeak), or racism I had seen around me. Most of the articles were about African American or Hispanic people, which, living on the west coast of Canada, haven't been huge issues in me life (though -insert only vaguely true comment about having black friends here-).

Something I have a little more experience in is what is called in this country "The First Nations" (aka Native Americans, aka Indians, aka any number of terms which will never, ever appear in this blog). This is a lump term for incredibly diverse groups of people traditionally speaking about sixty different languages (that's just in Canada), living in every climate imaginable, and following many, many different faiths. In the media, First Nations people appear to be rather homogeneous, when they appear at all, which is rarely. The people I grew up around are almost invisible in the media I watch the most. I remember Skeena Reece, a First Nations comedian, commenting about watching a YouTube video with a First Nations child in it, "So I watch this thing, thinking, 'Okay, little girl, now how are you going to represent me and all my people.'" (Good paper on that here).

In all of sci fi/fantasy on TV, I can think of four reoccurring First Nations characters, one of whom is actually Hawaiian, and therefore probably should not be included in the category (though as they technically are a "first nation," and they faced similar colonial policies, and, frankly, because I have so few examples otherwise, I'm counting Hawaiians. If anyone finds this offensive, I will change it). None of them are women. I have no doubt that others have posted more detailed, squeeful, and fitting tributes to these characters, but this seems the best I can do.

( Cut for Length, Pictures and Spoilers for season three of BSG and seasons one and two of SGA )

Since the crew didn't come in because of dubious weather conditions and a lousy forecast, of course it was good flying weather for last two days. Now that they're supposed to try again tomorrow, it's pissing buckets and blowing a gale, with no visibility to speak of, and the swell's picked up. I'm sure that Mom will get in, but I don't see anyone slinging supplies in this muck. Perhaps it will blow through.

I made a sort of Thai fried rice for dinner; I'm looking forward to fresh groceries on Thursday. Cooking Without Ingredients is getting old.

I see that the movie that I hated the other night scored 94% on the Rotten Tomato Meter. There's no justice in the world, clearly. On the bright side, there's links to some hilarious negative reviews of 300, which really make my world a better place (especially the Village Voice one).

We watched the last of the we-have-to-see-before-Mom-gets-back-because-she-won't-watch-it-again films tonight. So far I'm 2/4 on liking that selection. The ones I did like were Schindler's List and Vera Drake. Then there was the Movie that Shall Not Be Named, and The Machinist (tonight's fare), which I found predictable, tedious, unsympathetic, and generally lacking in point.

I have decided that I won't spend any more time being pissed off at Ron Moore after this. He's so not worth the effort. However, one last spew: ( spoiler for 316 Malstrome )

Writer's Meme: Sometimes it's okay to pimp yourself out. Post a list of your top five favourite fics you've written, regardless of fandom or the reason you love them.
I'm enjoying everyone else's responses immensely, and it's kind of pathetic to respond when I only have maybe seven fics to my name, but since linaelyn tagged me (and everyone else on her flist) here it goes. In chronological order:

To Walk in Dark Places Lord of the Rings, gen, PG-13. Forty years before the Fellowship, Denethor is captured by the forces of the Dark Lord. Aragorn must journey into the Land of Mordor to rescue him. My first fic that wasn't Original Series Star Trek Mary Sue, and my only finished long story. I am thus absurdly fond of it and it's connection to my early days of the 'Net and the Tolkien boards (even if it seriously needs revision, doesn't really get going for a few chapters, and ends rather abruptly). I still stand by my characterisation, and I loved writing Denethor and Aragorn sniping at each other. Also, I think this is one of the few LotR plots that no one else ever thought of.

The Splinter Master and Commander, gen, PG. A drabble. I originally got my LJ to participate in the M&C fandom here, which I did by writing quite a lot of drabbles. It's where I met most of the core member of my flist. This is, I think, the best of them, capturing a tiny moment in the movie, and reflecting on what might have been.

One Last Time Pirates of the Caribbean, gen, PG. Norrington visits Governor Swann's house, and Elizabeth, one last time. Hey, I kind of sort of predicted the second movie (what's the opposite of getting Jossed?). I seem to be a fan of repression in my writing, which is odd as it tends to annoy my in RL, but this is the very best of British Repression, from me, for you -g- I am very happy with how I managed to capture James' bitterness without over doing it.

Awakenings Sherlock Holmes, slash, PG-13. Holmes wakes up to a surprise, and for the first time in his life he has no idea what to do next. I wrote this for bronzelionel while trying to write something else. He beta'd it into coherence, and it has some lovely tender Holmes/Watson moments. I think this is the most romantic of my stories.

Lost and Found Supernatural, het, PG Ten years down the road, Dean's not the only one who's having trouble letting go. I married off Sam! This is more of a fragment than anything else, a little snapshot of life-that might-have-been I wrote during the first season (which definitely shows). I had a lot more back story and even forward story figured out, but it never could work itself out on the screen. I think that the outsider's POV worked, as did the rather subdued relationship between the boys.

Consider yourself tagged, if you like. If not, don't.

So a few days ago, monkeycrackmary posted a bit of meta called "Why Joey and Ross could hug Chandler after Chandler got engaged to Monica": the making-safe of male intimacy in a heteronormative television, using Supernatural as a primary example. (which one should be warned references incest, but is very insightful and well worth reading). It's a bit depressing though, especially after watching all the Het, Het, and Here, Have Some More Het in BSG this week. (really, I'm fine with het, but it's not the only option out there you know, and Moore and Eick are hypocrites for not acknowledging it).

Today marycrawford (yeah, my flist is beginning to look like the Bible what with all these Marys -g-) posted I'd Like to Take You to a Gay Barn, which includes a copy of the most wondrously gay piece of television ever aired in the United States at prime time. See this icon, the one I've tagged "Gay Porn" -- she made that from that scene. Seriously, go watch!. It will put a smile on your face on this grey Monday morning. There's hope yet, I tell you!

Also,
Egg Island Day Eighteen: Brother's Post, There Be Whales Here, Gardening, and the Tale of Two Nipples.
Egg Island Day Nineteen: Ye Old Tractor, Saint Mark, and Pictures.

I have a love hate relationship with this show.

Right now I hate it beyond coherent words.

ETA: Look, my mood icon has Jack. Jack is shiny. I will look at Jack about to hang and feel better.

ETA2: Clearly I need a brain scrubber, because even Jack isn't making the bad taste go away.

I have been given ANGST, and I am happy. In other words, I'm back into BSG. -hugs returned show-

Also, Laura Roslin in shirtsleeves = hotter than fire

Battlestar Galactica: I have to hype myself up for by watching a bunch of season one vids. Not a good sign for future viewing.
Doctor Who: On hiatus until Christmas (and only the one episode then)
Stargate: SG-1: On hiatus until MARCH, then cancelled after ten episodes and a few movies.
Stargate: Atlantis: On hiatus until God knows when.
Supernatural: Not filling me with the GLEE that it used to, but still going strong, thanks God.
Torchwood: The Writers are in serious need of getting their shit together, because this show is really bad right now. As in actually painful. What a disappointment.

Okay, so I still have one, anyway. I've heard that Robin Hood has acquired another woman, so I may look into that.

And there's always Hercules -g-

Am I the only one who has to firmly quash violent urges when faced with any sort of publicity for the new Charlotte's Web movie?

I really want a Young!Jason/Alcmene icon with caps from "Twilight" but am too busy to make it right now. Is there any hint of that in Young Hercules? Also possibly an animated one of Callisto and Ares playing Rock Parchment Dagger. How to tell muccamukk's current fanish obsession: look at the ratio of icons per fandom.

I am also interested in the relationship between Hercules and Zeus. My weakness for parent offspring dynamics strikes again, and I may pick up this theme. More BSG research material tonight anyway.

I think that "You Drive Me Crazy" by Greg Brown would make an excellent Hercules/Iolaus vid. This is probably not a good sign re: my mental well being. I am however, puzzled as to why I have never seen a Greg Brown vid to anything. For example: "Spring Wind" would be good for Hercules; "If I Ever Do See You Again" for Aragorn/Arwen; "Small Dark Movie" for Sam Winchester; "'Cept For You and Me, Babe" for Adama/Roslin, and I'm sure I could think of more if you gave me a minute. Folk Music = unexplored gold mine.

Think I'm coming down with a cold.

ETA: OMG! YAY!