mamajoan

Eons ago, in another lifetime, I used to write fanfic. ;)

I put in a smiley face because I know that some of you probably think of me as a fanfic writer foremost, among the first few phrases you'd use to define me; whereas others will probably be more like "you WHAT?!" And it probably relates to when you met me, of course. But that's not the point of this post.

It's interesting to look back and see how consumed I was by fandom and fanfic for a while, and how abruptly that obsession seemed to die off. And no, it wasn't because of my entering the parenting world, although that probably hastened it along. But that's not the point of this post either.

The other day, out of the blue, I found myself thinking about a fanfic that I had conceived and even started to sketch out but never actually wrote. I find myself coming back to that story and those characters in my head very frequently. It's a story set in the Buffyverse, but not involving many (any?) of the actual characters from BTVS. Yet, it relies heavily on the world-building of BTVS: the concept of the slayer, the watcher, Watcher's Council, and so forth.

I keep coming back to it in my mind, trying to find a way to make it work as a story without relying on the Buffyverse. I feel like if I try to craft a whole new setting for it, it's going to feel impossibly derivative, like people will read it and go "geez, you are SO ripping off Joss." But I don't want to write it as fanfic either. That seems kind of pointless. Are people even still reading, let alone writing, Buffyverse fanfic any more? I guess they probably are, but I feel so removed from that world, it might as well not even exist from my perspective.

The whole debate is moot anyway since I never have time to write. But I can still think about it, can't I?

I hadn't checked the email address for the Badfic website in a long time. So I checked it just now and found this gem:

Subject: ozx and buffy
Body: if i ever get to know you i swear i will tear your ass limb from limb you fucking bitch you can go fuck your gramma as far as im conserned buffy and oz dont do that stuff you bitch

Um... okay, first of all, what is this "if i ever get to know you"? Talk about an incentive to NOT get to know someone. ;) Second, "tear your ass limb from limb"? I don't know about your ass, but mine does not have limbs. Third, why are you so "conserned" about my sex life? Or my grandmother's for that matter?

Hee hee. People are dumb.

(in case you're interested, I imagine this is referring to this story, which actually was the inspiration for the badfic site. It still makes me giggle every time I read it.)

Odd things that occur to me while driving
On Vulcan, would automobile brake lights, traffic stoplights, and stop signs be green?

Further evidence that my child is a genius
This morning I absentmindedly hummed just a few notes of "My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean" and Isaac said, "my bunny song?" I think he thinks the song is about a rabbit ;) but the point is, he named that tune with only a snippet of the melody!

Red Sox stuff
OK, call me a traitor or whatever but I'm glad that Embree is gone, and I don't care that he was starting to improve. It isn't good enough. We need reliable pitching, in a serious way. Also, I am excited about Adam Hyzdu rejoining the team, partly because he's a good player, partly because he's hot ;) and partly because we need more consonants on our team. ;) And finally, say what you will about Dan Shaughnessy, but I personally thought his column today about the amazing disappearing Manny was pretty funny.

LJ icons
I have been slowly building my icon collection since getting my permanent account. I believe you can see all my current icons here if I did the link correctly. I heart my new icons! Especially the one attached to this post, which I took with permission from the very kind tzikeh.

Weather
It's still hot, but at least the humidity has broken. You know how everyone says "it's not the heat, it's the humidity"? Well, that is SO true, or at least it has been over the last week or two. I can handle temps in the 80s-90s fine, but with the very high humidity we were having along with it, it was just brutal! Of course, it could still come back, but for now, I'm enjoying the break. I just wish my apartment would get the clue and cool off a bit too. Ugh.

Food/kitchen/gadgets
I really badly need a new kitchen timer. Mine died, and the other day I had a scary incident where I put on some eggs to hard-boil and then lay down for a nap. Over an hour later I woke up and thought, "what's that smell?" OMG! That could have gotten ugly. Clearly I should not be allowed to cook anything until I get a new timer. O.O

The very next day I went to CVS looking for a new timer, but couldn't find one. (So instead I bought new batteries for my smoke detector. It's a start.) Since then I've checked two grocery stores and one didn't have timers and the other only had one for $12. WTF? Don't people use timers any more? Am I wrong that $12 seems awfully expensive?

Boobs
I think my boobs are shrinking!! They looked smaller in the mirror this morning. Maybe it was my imagination. I just hope this isn't going to necessitate the purchase of more bras. I hate bra shopping.

I forgot to post last week that I finally finished watching the "Queer Eye" episode featuring five Red Sox players. I found it underwhelming and kind of blah. As a "Queer Eye" episode it wasn't that great, and as a Red Sox fan experience it was only mediocre. I think that having five guys to do instead of just one made it a lot harder to really delve into the guys' personalities, and the entire show suffered as a result. Oh well.

It still had some really fun moments though. I LOL'd at the part where Carson was going over "signs" with the kids. "One zhuzh, we bunt. Two zhuzhes, we steal. And when I flip my hair like this ... that's just me fixing my hair, disregard it." LOL! I've taking to using the term "zhuzh" with Isaac, when I get him dressed while lying down and then stand him up on the changing table and fix his clothing. *blush*

I'm also watching a thing that I TiVo'd from the TV Land channel, about the history of gayness or perceived gayness on TV. It features a whole bunch of gay celebs and writers (including Liz Friedman, one of the head writers from "Xena," whose accent reminds me unsettlingly of techn0goddess) talking about the early days of TV when gay people "knew" which characters were gay, and moving into more recent TV with overtly gay stuff, etc. It's not anything that's news to me, but it's fun to hear the gay celebs talk about it and analyze it, and see clips from the old shows that support it, etc. Oh, it's called "Tickled Pink" in case you want to check for reruns.

Hey, I hear Nick Brendon is going to be in a new show this fall(?). Anyone know anything about it? Is it supposed to be any good?