Quiet Sunday so far
Mar. 18th, 2007 03:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
matrixrefugeeDad has to work this afternoon, but we managed to get to Mass at Holy Trinity in spite of this and also the St. Patrick's Day parade in South Boston. I'm taking it easy today: hey, Sunday's a day of rest, after all.
Rule of thumb when trying to rent movies: Never try renting an Irish Mob movie around St. Patrick's Day. Especially if said movie is set in Southie (South Boston) and you live about twenty miles northwest of the city. This will be the third time I've tried to rent "The Departed" and every. Single. Copy. At Blockbuster. Was. Out. I did manage to rent "The Prestige", which I've been trying to rent, and which Mark has highly reccommended to me more than once. Will be watching it momentarily, unless I get a brain flash idea for one of the current writing projects.
Finished reading "Fool Moon" (I wanna see more of the back story on Billy and the Alphas. Those kids are cool! And we know I like werewolves.) and am much of the way through "Grave Peril". And as a sure sign I'm fairly deep into the Dresden Files fandom: I'm already cringing at the thought of bad fanfics showing up. For starters, if Thomas appears in the TV series, I'm anticipating Harry/Thomas slash. This despite the fact that Harry at one point says (in a different context, but it still needs to be pointed out to the would-be slash writers), "I'm not gay."
I can think of more stuff I don't wanna see:
--Harry/Morgan slash: Just because they butt heads, doesn't mean it's TWU WUB. Morgan gets on Harry's case because he (Morgan) is a stickler for keeping order, and Harry just about defines "maverick". Harry gets on Morgan's case because he gets a jag out of rattling Morgan's cage.
--Harry/Michael slash: Hello? Michael is a conservative Catholic. And he's married to a woman. And they have several kids. And he doesn't really approve of Harry's activity with Susan. Add this up, I'd assume he's most likely either 1.) the definition of straight, or 2.) bisexual and keeping the other half of his tendencies in check because acting on them does not jibe with his moral code, end of story.
--Harry/TV-verse!Bob slash: The bit in the most recent episode where Bob steps into Harry's space to demonstrate that two entities *can* occupy the same spot, and Harry tells him to cut it out was a "You're asking for badfic!" moment, to me at least. We won't go into Harry/Book-verse!Bob slash, since that would just about define "squick", plus either version of Harry is far less perverse than either version of Bob. I don't think he even wants to *think* about what Bob gets into when he lets the spirit of intellect go a-roaming, much less be part of anything involving said spirit of intellect gone a-roaming...
--"Harry's-long-lost-teenaged-sister-just-not-mentioned-in-the-books-or-the-show": Let's get a few facts straight: Harry's mother died when he was born. His dad died when he was a kid. Harry himself appears to be in his mid to late thirties (book-verse) or his late thirties to early forties (TV show-verse). The only way he'd have a sister that young is if she came from an embryo frozen in a fertility clinic and said embryo was adopted and/or gestated by some infertile couple (But I don't think Harry's parents had the money to keep embryos in deep-freeze storage, and for that matter, this sort of thing wasn't widely done thirty-forty years ago.). Or if she was Harry's half-sister by way of his father and she got spirited away by the faeries. (Stars and stones, I think I might have cursed that one into existence... Well, if the writing was good, I'd be cool with it.)
--Fluffy Harry/Murphy romance: Now, I could see these two becoming more than friends in canon or in fanon, but to quote a bit from a recent podcast on Jim Butcher's blog: "It wouldn't be bunnies and daisies". Murphy might have a well-hidden vulnerable side to her, but it doesn't mean she's going to suddenly become a sweet young thing once she and Harry cross certain lines with each other. And I don't think Harry's exactly a mushy romantic either. Old-fashioned gentleman, yes, but he's too much of a wiseguy to suddenly start writing syrupy love notes or something.
There's a few more, but they seem to be escaping me...
Rule of thumb when trying to rent movies: Never try renting an Irish Mob movie around St. Patrick's Day. Especially if said movie is set in Southie (South Boston) and you live about twenty miles northwest of the city. This will be the third time I've tried to rent "The Departed" and every. Single. Copy. At Blockbuster. Was. Out. I did manage to rent "The Prestige", which I've been trying to rent, and which Mark has highly reccommended to me more than once. Will be watching it momentarily, unless I get a brain flash idea for one of the current writing projects.
Finished reading "Fool Moon" (I wanna see more of the back story on Billy and the Alphas. Those kids are cool! And we know I like werewolves.) and am much of the way through "Grave Peril". And as a sure sign I'm fairly deep into the Dresden Files fandom: I'm already cringing at the thought of bad fanfics showing up. For starters, if Thomas appears in the TV series, I'm anticipating Harry/Thomas slash. This despite the fact that Harry at one point says (in a different context, but it still needs to be pointed out to the would-be slash writers), "I'm not gay."
I can think of more stuff I don't wanna see:
--Harry/Morgan slash: Just because they butt heads, doesn't mean it's TWU WUB. Morgan gets on Harry's case because he (Morgan) is a stickler for keeping order, and Harry just about defines "maverick". Harry gets on Morgan's case because he gets a jag out of rattling Morgan's cage.
--Harry/Michael slash: Hello? Michael is a conservative Catholic. And he's married to a woman. And they have several kids. And he doesn't really approve of Harry's activity with Susan. Add this up, I'd assume he's most likely either 1.) the definition of straight, or 2.) bisexual and keeping the other half of his tendencies in check because acting on them does not jibe with his moral code, end of story.
--Harry/TV-verse!Bob slash: The bit in the most recent episode where Bob steps into Harry's space to demonstrate that two entities *can* occupy the same spot, and Harry tells him to cut it out was a "You're asking for badfic!" moment, to me at least. We won't go into Harry/Book-verse!Bob slash, since that would just about define "squick", plus either version of Harry is far less perverse than either version of Bob. I don't think he even wants to *think* about what Bob gets into when he lets the spirit of intellect go a-roaming, much less be part of anything involving said spirit of intellect gone a-roaming...
--"Harry's-long-lost-teenaged-sister-just-not-mentioned-in-the-books-or-the-show": Let's get a few facts straight: Harry's mother died when he was born. His dad died when he was a kid. Harry himself appears to be in his mid to late thirties (book-verse) or his late thirties to early forties (TV show-verse). The only way he'd have a sister that young is if she came from an embryo frozen in a fertility clinic and said embryo was adopted and/or gestated by some infertile couple (But I don't think Harry's parents had the money to keep embryos in deep-freeze storage, and for that matter, this sort of thing wasn't widely done thirty-forty years ago.). Or if she was Harry's half-sister by way of his father and she got spirited away by the faeries. (Stars and stones, I think I might have cursed that one into existence... Well, if the writing was good, I'd be cool with it.)
--Fluffy Harry/Murphy romance: Now, I could see these two becoming more than friends in canon or in fanon, but to quote a bit from a recent podcast on Jim Butcher's blog: "It wouldn't be bunnies and daisies". Murphy might have a well-hidden vulnerable side to her, but it doesn't mean she's going to suddenly become a sweet young thing once she and Harry cross certain lines with each other. And I don't think Harry's exactly a mushy romantic either. Old-fashioned gentleman, yes, but he's too much of a wiseguy to suddenly start writing syrupy love notes or something.
There's a few more, but they seem to be escaping me...