Sophinisba Solis

-I posted a paragraph about the Brazilian movie Madame Satã over at lgbtq_recs. I also made this icon (Dreamwidth only) for Leonera, the movie I recced last week. I've been having fun playing with Photoshop over the last few days and making some Treme icons for kink_bingo. (I had also intended to finish a long-ish podfic before the amplificathon deadline tomorrow but I haven't felt like working on it, so I haven't.)

-omg summerpornathon! Over 56,000 words of sex toy fic by 78 different authors written last week and posted on Friday. So far I've read and voted on one of the three sets of 26. Almost all the ones I read were really good! Fun and hot and inventive and with a lot more variety than I was expecting. Still, I feel so overwhelmed, and I have no idea what to say at any of the party posts, eep, so shy and not wacky enough! And the new challenge just went up, and of course it looks awesome (kink grab bag!) but also eep!

-The June 10th edition of NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour starts off with a discussion of X-Men: First Class. Not an especially substantive one, but as with most episodes it made me laugh and made me happy. They also talk about all the awful previews they (and I - twice!) saw before that movie, and about the recent silliness over whether YA fiction has gotten too dark. Could be a nice introduction to the podcast if you haven't listened before.

-I think people who are interested in the subject have already seen thingswithwings's new vid The Price and accompanying thoughts on manpain, but, well, here are those links again! As someone with a long history of enjoying watching men cry over their guilt (ha ha she used so many of my favorite Mulder moments) I have many reactions and feelings! Which I probably won't post about, but the reading and processing has been good. Someone also linked me to cesperanza's reaction post The Missing Link, where my friend and I agreed that Ces makes some smart and interesting points on her way to a conclusion we totally disagree with. :) Good discussion in those comments too - a nice treat to see people with different perspectives making a real effort to understand each other.

-Man, I'd love to read some good meta about manpain and the new X-Men movie, especially if someone wanted to put it in conversation with marina's post about Erik as a Holocaust survivor and/or happydork's less impressed post about that, and idk a bunch of other good meta that I haven't read. That is a post where I would lurk like whoa.

Did the last fic update until Sunday's author reveal at remixthedrabble today and it seems I didn't forget anything this time because nobody has e-mailed to ask why their drabble didn't get posted. Hooray! Also, another remix of my fic went up! I was so thrilled that a certain Mystery Author (whose name I know but won't say just yet) decided to remix "Just to Keep It", a short fic I wrote for Yuletide 2008 for the book and movie The Hours! Go read Just to Keep It (The Hindsight Remix)! It's a remix of a fic about a minor character who appears in only one scene of a book that no one else has ficced! It is full of regret and beauty! ETA: It is by theswearingkind!

Here are some of my other favorites from what I've read so far, in no particular order. I know who some of the authors are but have forgotten others. I am editing it after the reveal to add the authors' names.

• The Chronicles of Narnia: Velocity Girl (The Wild Things Remix) by paperflowered - Susan gen, as much of a runaway hit as the fest has managed. It's very powerful and well done.


• Harry Potter: Picture Perfect (The Forgiveness Remix) by velvetmouse- slightly creepy Snape/Lily. I especially recommend reading this alongside the original, Photo Failure, by verus_janus.


• Doctor Who: Millipede (The Bones of the Hand Remix) by aralias - Ten/Martha, awesome character voices and character insight in 100 words.


• Merlin: Sweets for the sweet (The Ophelia Remix) by xsmoonshine - "Sweets for the sweet" would be a fine alternate title for the original, flowers and other small tokens by bewarethesmirk, a lovely Gwen/Morgana from Gwen's POV. The remix is Morgana's side and it is different and it is awesome.


• X-Files: This is Not Written (The Work In Progress Remix) by iamsab - G-rated Mulder/Scully. WIPs are not supposed to be eligible for remixing but we made an exception for this one because it's just that clever.


• ETA OMG: SGA: Practice Theory (The Agency Remix) by sabinelagrande - John/Rodney and more cleverness but also sex - yay!/ETA

I am also really pleased that I've heard from all three of the people for whom I wrote remixes and I think they were all pleased, or at least they had the decency to pretend to be. :) And the most enthusiastic comment was on the drabble I was most excited about myself, so that made me feel really good. ( More on remixthedrabble and remixredux09 )