Sophinisba Solis

trascendenza sent out the remixthedrabble assignments on Tuesday and gave us the option of writing one, two, or three ficlets. I love that she is so flexible. So far I've done two and a half, and they're not due until the 20th. This is a very nice feeling, as I'm usually the kind of person to put off writing until very close to the challenge deadline.

I was thinking it could be fun to write some new drabbles and other ficlets in fandoms that I share with other regulars at the comm, because that will make me more remixable for future rounds and because writing ficlets is fun.

If you would like to help me out, there are two kinds of prompts I'm looking for: three words (one or two of them can be character names), or five things (as in, five things Aragorn would like to do to Frodo in bed, five ways Zeke gets romantic with Casey, etc.).

Fandoms: Harry Potter (most likely to actually get written), Heroes, Brokeback Mountain, Pan's Labyrinth.

This afternoon I went to see the movie Talk to Me with my parents and my aunt and uncle. The guys weren't so enthusiastic by my mom and my aunt and I really loved it. It's about Petey Greene, a radio DJ and talkshow host from Washington, D.C., and takes place mostly during the late 60s and early 70s (the costumes! omg the hairstyles!!). Don Cheadle plays Greene and Chiwetel Ejiofor (he was the Operative in Serenity and Luke in Children of Men) is Dewey Hughes, the radio program director who hires him and later becomes his manager. There were times when I thought the narrative dragged a little, but the relationship between the two men was fascinating and both actors did a fantastic job. ( an excerpt from a review )

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ETA: There are a lot of other things playing, so if you have other suggestions please comment.

ETA2: I can't edit the poll, but PotC isn't actually out yet, so please don't vote for that one. *leans toward the cheap one*

I should say though that I had two awesome movie experiences last weekend. On Friday night I saw Children of Men and was blown away; it's one of the most powerful things I've seen in a long time. If you're like me and you like your disturbingly plausible future dystopias, I highly recommend this. ( Read more... )

On Saturday morning I went to a special screening of The Lives of Others, with the director, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, there to take questions from the audience afterwards. This is one of the other movies up for best foreign-language film and, though it didn't move me as much as Pan's Labyrinth, it was very absorbing and well done. It's set in East Berlin in 1984 and is about a Stasi officer who has to spy on a playwright (and his girlfriend) to find out if he's loyal to the government.

I love that the word Orwellian is used in reviews of both of these movies.

( The director talked about writing. )

I also watched A History of Violence on DVD this afternoon. Viggo was fantastic and I liked the movie very much, but I'm home alone in a snowstorm and the way the house creaks in the wind sounds like someone walking around downstairs and is FREAKING ME OUT.

Dude, there are more than a thousand fics at this year's yuletide, and all the ones I've read are really frickin' good. All of them just so right for the characters and the universes they're writing in. Here are a few more recs, but seriously, just go browse! Here's the index sorted by fandom. ( Colbert Report, Northern Exposure, MASH, Brick, fairy tales )

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Also, a slashababy rec! ( Viggo/Elijah )

The organizers of both challenges have made it nice and easy to leave feedback – just click on the links at the bottom of the stories. /lecture

Thanks to geniusartist for the link to Annie Proulx's short story, Brokeback Mountain. Probably copywright infringement by whoever posted it, but I'm grateful anyway. And also more or less destroyed.

By the way, are all my fellow Elijah angst fans reading geniusartist's lovely and heartbreaking fics? You can get a taste of them on her Mirrormere page but should then friend her journal for more recent chapters. And even if that's not the kind of fic you're into, she's a delightful person and her other entries are also good reading.