Ack!

[kungfuwaynewho]

Ugh, I've been so bad about posting and reading my flist in the past few months, which is to say, I basically have been doing neither.  I haven't been posting because I pretty much have nothing to post about - I work, and then I work, and then I write, and sometimes I do laundry and clean house.  I occasionally eat.  And it's not like I had been slacking off all year to find myself with my back against the wall come screenplay submission season; I have been writing steadily and consistently since September on the two scripts I'm submitting this year.  But this always happens anyway, and it's a particularly bad one this year.

I am really, really happy with the script I wrote this year, though.  Definitely the most polished first draft I've ever put together.  One of those where once I got the idea, the main plot was just there, ready to go.  There was some work on details and the nuts and bolts of scene building, but I didn't have to futz about with "oh how should this end" and "all right, I have a story, now what's the character arc and theme?"  So that was exciting.

I'm trying to get a revision done on a script I wrote last year; I didn't finish it in time for the first two competitions, and I'm very doubtful I'll get it done for Nicholl on May 1 (considering I'm on page 21, ahahaha).  But I should definitely have it done for AFF on June 1, and considering that's always been the competition I've done best at, that's what I'm primarily worried about.

So I'm going to start trying as best I can to catch up on like a three month backlog of flist; if you find a cascade of comments from me, that's why.  (And if you don't, that doesn't necessarily mean I didn't read, but just that I may have become overwhelmed in trying to comment on everything.)  I missssssss you guys, though.  I've felt very isolated lately, because obviously I haven't been really able to go out and do stuff with IRL friends, either.  Once a week I've been going out to eat with some friends from my writer's group, and that's kinda been my social lifeline.

(Sadly, one thing I've really, really missed is having the time to write fanfic.  I have all these stories in my head, but no time to write them down.  As soon as I'm past June 1, I'm definitely going to set aside a certain amount of time a week to write just for myself, just for fun, because whhaaaa.)

To add something of substance to this post: the first clip from the new season of Arrested Development!  I'm so excited I can hardly stand it.

Comments

[congo]

If you needed the time away for any reason, then it was good that you weren't around. That said, I sure am glad you're back. <3 I've missed you! Good luck on all the writing, both scripts and fic! :)

[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

Welllll, it's not like I literally couldn't have posted or checked my flist. But sometimes when you don't do it for awhile, it's hard to get back into the swing of things. You know?

I've decided in June I'm going to finally start the B5 comm I've talked about in the past. For real. And I'm going to do a proper rewatch! (Instead of just obsessively rewatching the same like dozen J/D scenes...)

[nenya_kanadka]

Ooh, the aforesaid B5 comm! I have been as sporadic as you in my LJ attendance of late (HI AND HUGS, by the way!) but I am excite at this possibility. <3

I am bogged down mid-rewatch, myself, somewhere in season 3. I think shit just got real with some of what the Shadows are doing, and I got depressed, and wandered off. But, you know, I should get back to that. Instead of watching the same dozen Delenn/Lennier scenes, LOL.

*dances about, hugging you* HELLO AND HI! <3

[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

HELLO AND HUGS AND HI!

Yeah, I think I might just start putting the comm together at work this week instead of waiting for June, because I know me, and if I don't just DO THINGS then I tend to put them off until I never do them. So.

Yeah, my rewatch made it all the way up to like 1x04, so it was reallllly effective. I would probably just start from the beginning. Sometime. Maybe.

[nenya_kanadka]

The problem for me if I start my rewatches over at the beginning, is that I always get stuck at the same damn spot in the middle again. :P But if you only made it up to the fourth episode...well, I guess I'd say it depends on how badly you want to see Midnight On The Firing Line and Soul Hunter and Born To The Purple again... :P

*glomps you even more, just because!*

[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I think I'll skip Soul Hunter at the very least. Blech.

[vjs2259.livejournal.com]

I really, really need to do a B5 re-watch. If you want company and support? I wish to hell it was still on Netflix cause that's so much easier but I can/should/will? drag out the dvd's.

What B5 comm? *pricks ears* I haven't done so well maintaining no shadows, but my j/d impetus (all fanfic really) is sporadic at best these days. So busy. So not liking it.

I miss you, too

[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I have all the DVDs, but I just tend to watch my downloads, which aren't as good in terms of quality, but they're right there on my computer. So.

Last year I had the random idea to start up a quasi-landcomm challenge comm for B5. I say quasi because while I like the idea of prompts/challenges, I don't think it would be sustainable to do actual teams and points and such. It all makes sense in my head, haha.

I always forget to cross-post to no shadows, but honestly I haven't written any actual legit fic in a while anyway - mostly just drabbles and little ficlets based on prompts. And I DEFINITELY gave up on getting everything mirrored at AO3. Stupid real world! Getting in the way of our fandom!

[vjs2259.livejournal.com]

A challenge would be nice, but I really have to do some re-watching. The voices in my head are fading :) Might be an impetus to actually DO it though.

AO3's import from LJ is working pretty well now. You just have to trim the extraneous remarks, at least I do. Cause I tend to make a lot of them and I'm striving for it to be a story archive, not a reflection of my life like LJ. I haven't tried it from ff.net; used to be awful though. I'm getting lazy at tagging again :(

[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

I'll have to try the import function; the last time I was adding stuff it was frakking with my paragraph and section breaks something fierce.

[congo]

Oh, I sure know what that's like. But I really do hope you're back for good now. :D

Yes please! Any chance you'll be doing that on dreamwidth? I mean, there is babylon_5, but it's dead. The last few posts were in 2011.

I wish we could all rewatch a few episodes together. Not the whole thing, that would be too much work, but I remember when a whole bunch of us on twitter were more or less watching it at the same time and just constantly flailing. Maybe there should be a rewatch comm? With an episode or two a week?

(Instead of just obsessively rewatching the same like dozen J/D scenes...)
That sounds suspiciously like my last four or so 'rewatches'.

I've probably asked this before, but did you ever watch Crusade? If not, you should! And if yes, you should rewatch it! :p

[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

I...can try to do it on dreamwidth? Heeee. I did actually sign up for a DW journal but haven't ever done anything with it. It can't be too hard, I would imagine. I know you can cross-post individual entries, but I wonder if you can cross-post a whole comm? I'll have to look into it.

Yes! I think trying to schedule a full and complete rewatch is too hard, and things come up - when I was a part of beyond_the_rim, which was just a rewatch comm, it was like an episode a week, and while I enjoyed the posts and comments, I rarely actually ever watched the episode. Which is sad. But I think maybe every other week or once a month voting on an episode to watch together would be a ton of fun, and much more manageable.

I haven't watched Crusade. I think the fact that it takes place in the B5 universe but has neither John nor Delenn kind of soured me on it? It's weird. Sometimes I just love a world and want more of it and I don't care how or who with (the BSG world, for instance - fucking LOVED Caprica). And sometimes as much as I love that world, I'm so in love with a character or two that without them, it's like...what's the point? So I'll probably watch it at some point, but IDK.

[congo]

Your choice, obvs, but I selfishly want it to be on dreamwidth because I'm going to make my move over there permanent after my big trip this summer/autumn. It's really not any more (or less) complicated than DW. That reminds me, I wanted to make a huge post about DW "vs" LJ (less "vs" than more comparison and things you might want to know about DW, stuff like that). You can crosspost individual entries in personal journals, yes, but you can't crosspost a whole comm. That said, if there are comms for something on both LJ and DW, you can regularly import the LJ entries to the DW comm. Sadly, this doesn't work the other way around, LJ doesn't have that feature. So you'd have LJ + DW entries on the DW comm, but only the LJ ones on the LJ comm.

See, I missed beyond-the-rim completely, so I wouldn't even mind a full rewatch, but I can also see all the problems that would bring, so individual eps would be a-okay with me.

hgajsdhkjghasd HELLO, ARE YOU ME? I felt the exact same way. I refused to even watch the post-series films that didn't have Delenn or at least Sheridan in them. One of my best friends (thatandall) did watch it back then, though, and predicted I would love the/a ship in it, and when I eventually did give it a try later (when I stopped being all 'meh, this doesn't have Delenn in it' and started thinking of it as a separate show), I fell in love. Not necessarily with the show, although there's an episode set on B5, for example, and the entire feel is similar, and that just kind of made me homesick for the entire verse? In a weird way? But I did fall in love with Lochley (whom I didn't much like on B5) and Gideon and the ship and last night I even finished my first fic for the show. So long story short: I think you should give it a try. If only for Lochley, who is so much more snarky and fabulous in it than she was on B5. (I assume they made her more subdued on B5 because she would've been a lot like Susan otherwise, and that would've probably seemed like a 100% replacement of the character, you know?) Hearts in my eyes, etc etc.

(Side-note: Same with Caprica; I refused to watch it at first, then gave it a tentative try while still being all 'meh, this doesn't have Laura Roslin in it' about it, gave up after a few eps, and then started it again properly a few months later and fucking LOVED it, too.)

[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

Well, if Crusade put hearts in your eyes, then I'll have to check it out. Someday...

(Yeah, I haven't watched the movie that has neither Sheridan nor Delenn, and the one with no Delenn frustrated me because IT WOULD HAVE BEEN SO EASY TO PUT DELENN IN IT. I mean, sheesh. Ugh, they would have been all cute and married.)

(I still need to finish Caprica, whoops. It's on my list of shows I can't bear to watch the end of because then it's over and I have no more. See: Pushing Daisies, Deadwood, Dollhouse, etc.)

[congo]

Do itttt! It's a little weird, but then again, no more so than S1 B5 was. And of course the network axed it right before the episode that actually would've gotten the plot-ball running... But still. Now that I've talked about it so much, I'll have to throw in my brand new DVDs tomorrow and do a quick rewatch. It's only thirteen episodes or so. Lochleeeeeeyyyy!

(Same here, yes. Urgh I know, the worst missed opportunity I have perhaps ever seen.)

(Do that, too! Caprica's ending is amazing, imho, especially the last five minutes of the finale. Hands down my favourite five minutes of television ever. I used to 'save' episodes for the future, too, of my favourite shows (or in Farscape's case, I refused to watch PKW for months because I was convinced everyone would die), but I don't anymore because I'd be too scared of spoilers? That said, I still haven't seen BSG's The Plan, but not (only) because I want to have some BSG left for when I miss it really badly, but also/mostly because No Laura Roslin. I might've done something similar for TNG when I watched it for the first time a while ago, but I was already close to 100% spoilered for the show, and I'd actually watched the finale at some point while I was still watching S3 or something, solely for the kiss. /priorities. ANYWAY. Do finish Caprica. All my feeeeeeelingssssss.)

[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

I'll have to see if it's on Netflix! Otherwise, I think my library has it.

At this point, I'll need to just do a straight-up Caprica re-watch. (Oh, the horror.) Another part of the reason I didn't finish is that after I heard it was canceled, I was just too heart-sick to watch anymore.

Haaaaahahaha I totally watched Attached and the TNG finale back when I was in S3, too! For kisses! OMG, the extent of my Picard/Crusher shipping was ridiculous. Aaaaand then I've watched the S6 premiere and stopped. So I still have TNG to finish, too. It's pathetic, really.

[congo]

Ah, you Americans and your Netflix. And libraries that have DVDs! Jealousssss. Fingers crossed you'll find it, though!

Excellent choice. Yeah, see, and I only really started when it was already cancelled, so I skipped that particular feeling and went right to 'why are all the good shows already over???'.

Heeee! Brain twins. Same here about the shipping extent. And somehow, when I fall out of a show eventually, I also fall out of the ship, but with these two, it didn't happen. I still kept looking for fanfic, still made my way through the horrible canon novels for a mere glimpse at a ship scene, and I'm even still writing fic right this very second. (Ofc that might just be my urge to actually finish some of my WIPs at the mo.)

ghakjsdhkjgasd YOU ARE RIDICULOUS. I have gotten verbal tomatoes thrown at me for saying this, but season seven might actually be tied for my favourite season. I can't believe you stopped that early on! How? WHY??? Clearly, you need to take a month off work just to finish all the television.

[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

I usually stick with a ship until something comes along to replace it - I continued to read Spike/Buffy for years until Adama/Roslin showed up. Actually, hardcore shipping Picard/Crusher and John/Delenn simultaneously was kind of a first-time experience for me.

I KNOW I'M RIDICULOUS. Okay, I vow to start watching TNG again. I'll watch a celebratory episode Friday! (I have a big deadline on Wednesday, so yeah.) I keep meaning to write some P/C fic, but I'm ascared of writing fic in the Trek universe because it's like so established and I'm such a naif, really. (I've watched like half the first season of TOS and then 5 seasons of TNG, plus a couple movies, the end.) Although maybe I shouldn't let it bother me, since my only plot bunnies are (1) various holodeck shenanigans and (2) fixing the end of Attached.

[congo]

Yeah, since show = ship for me 90% of the time, that's about the same for me, but I do fall into and out of fandoms pretty heavily, so usually, I'm either 100% in or 100% out. And I almost never really fall back in. I might rewatch something, sure, but the second time around (not counting the million rewatches I do while I'm still really in the fandom the first time) never quite gets me back into the fandom? That said, I have had hardcore OTPs at the same time, especially with shows that were still airing (Leveraaaaage, I miss you so).

VERY GOOD. I expect at least some LJ flail. Duuuude, all I remember of TOS is the opening credits / theme song and that it made my mother laugh a lot. TNG is the only Trek I have consciously seen episodes of. And I've written P/C. So I don't think you'd have anything to worry about. Hell, it's not exactly the best 'verse in terms of canonity anyway. You'd be surprised at how often I've read 'Beverly's green eyes' and stuff like that in the canon novels.

my only plot bunnies are (1) various holodeck shenanigans and (2) fixing the end of Attached.
cackle cackle that sounds familiar, yes. Fixing Attached has been on my to-do list for a while. But you'd do a much more fabulous job, so go go go! Wriiiite! Waaaah-pshhhh!

[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

OMG EYE COLOR. One of my biggest pet peeves in fic and yeah, especially in canon novels. (Though honestly, fic on the whole tends to be so much better with details of canon than the so-called official novels; the writers of those aren't usually actual fans or anything.) Like, you can write that John Sheridan has brown eyes (or OMG I did actually see blue eyes for him once I was like WTF have you even watched B5 do you even go here) or that Delenn has green eyes, but these things will not actually be true. (Honestly, I don't even like seeing a reference to Delenn's blue eyes, either, because they're not really blue. HER EYES ARE GRAY, FOLKS, THEY'RE GRAY.)

Yeah, there have been a lot of shows I've loved over the years, but unless I have a serious ship interest, that love never really goes to the next level. The only real exception to that I can think of is Angel - I never really shipped anyone hardcore there, but definitely one of my most favoritest shows. I do think I'm getting sucked into Jaime/Brienne on Game of Thrones, though. Eeeeeeeee.

Haha, okay. Whipped, will write. I actually told myself this weekend that once I finished this script (hopefully by Wednesday, we'll see) that I was going to like legit schedule myself a certain amount of fic writing time a week. Because I miss writing fic so much. (Sad?) I only have like a page to write to finish the next chapter of Metamorphoses - I wrote the bulk of it like ugh fucking MONTHS ago and just need to rewatch parts of the relevant episode for quotes and such. So yeah.

[congo]

YEP. (That is so true, though. I can just about imagine the creative process there 'What colour were Delenn's eyes again? Green? Blue? Eh, green sounds about right.' >:||||) hkjhgasd see, and I've always seen Sheridan's eyes as blue. But then, my language also doesn't have a word for 'hazel' in terms of eyes. Word on Delenn's eyes, though. The greyest, and I love that so much because A MINBARI WITH GREY EYES WHO WORKED ON THE GREY COUNCIL. Winning.

Yup yup, same here, but my exception is Leverage. I mean, I probably would've loved Stargate (SG-1 only tho) just for the show itself, too, but the ships were an added bonus. And if not for OTP, I never would've started watching BSG, for example.

Great choice, yes. Go do that. Metamorphosesssssssss I am so excited. I gotta re-read the whole thing, but that's not a problem because it's on my iPad yaaaayyyy!

[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

Yeah, hazel eyes are tricky, because they can look straight-up green sometimes depending on the light and what the person is wearing. I can see, since they're so light, how they could be read as blue, though BB's look more on the very-light-brown end of hazel. (I legit once had a lengthy conversation with someone about John and Delenn's eye color, LOL. I've thought about it too much a lot.

Yeah, this upcoming chapter of Metamorphoses was the one I asked my flist about, like, eight months ago if people would be unhappy if a canon-compliant fic went non-canon in terms of having a first kiss earlier than happened on the show. Yeah....

(Though I think I did end up taking the kiss out, sowwy.)

(Unf, that icon. I CANNOT WITH YOUR FACE, BB.)

[congo]

Yeah, they're weiiiird. I just find it so interesting that we don't have a word for them in our language. Like, do people in my country just not have hazel eyes? Anyway, yes, I don't know. I think I deleted a lot of the BB photos I had on my laptop in a fit of rage after finding out he was a stinkin' Republican, but I'll have a look again on my external. Because I could've sworn I had pictures that his eyes looked 100% blue in.

Ah, that one! I remember that!

(Boo! Throws things. Put it back! Or, you know, make it a deleted scene or something.)

(The best face. Urgh.)

[nenya_kanadka]

Dropping in to say that I'm reading your thread and having the exact same feelings as y'all about Crusade and the post-B5 films. And I really missed Delenn in the movies (WHY NO MIRA, WHYYYY), but Crusade was pretty fun as a show in its own right. I did sit up and squee (and/or pine for my Real B5 Showwww) when Lochley or Stephen or any Minbari Rangers showed up. But I did fall for some of the characters and would totally have watched the show if it had continued. And 100% agreed on how much more awesome Lochley is in Crusade. Like, that one episode with Gideon and the conversation about Sheridan...worth the price of admission there on its own. XD

So yeah. :-)

If we did have a poll every month or so to pick an episode, and then all watch it and squee over it, I think that would be pretty rad. Doesn't seem like it would take much sustained investment, not like doing a whole rewatch. And it looks like there's a couple of us who'd want to do that?

[muccamukk]

From your link, Nenya.

I think the picking episodes idea is cool, though we'd have to have some kind of system in place so we didn't watch War Without End sixteen times in a row, which would be MY obvious preference.

I wonder if people might agree to Sten For An Episode, like pick your favourite and say why, then everyone watch it, and next time, someone else pick one. It might be easier than polls (though if we want to do polls, I have a paid account on DW, and could provide them there. I like DW better. All my icons are there).

It might be fun to have a fanwork fest for each episode, like making icons or flash fic/drabbles, desktops, mini playlists or whatever. I'm not sure if that would be too much work, or not, but maybe even just having a space for that?

[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

These are all great ideas; will poach as needed.

Ugh, War Without End. I totally watched selected scenes from that not even a week ago. Definitely one of the best, for sure.

[congo]

I can't see anything wrong with watching War Without End sixteen times in a row, I am just saying. ;) But yes, a system would be good, agreed!

[muccamukk]

I don't either, but I also support variety.

[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

Okay, I will watch Crusade this summer! You guys have convinced me!

I think Pick-An-Episode at the least sounds pretty squared away. Yay! This is fun!

[congo]

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[congo]

Couldn't agree more. The bit about Sheridan might just be my absolute favourite. Well, two bits, really. ;)

That sounds like a plan. Of course, that could also be done as part of a full rewatch; like you'd just pick the episodes you'd want to watch, right? A full rewatch is just too much to deal with, though, probably.

[un-crayon-rouge.livejournal.com]

Heh! Same here, not been on LJ for months and now peppering everybody's entries from three months ago with comments :-) Fancy meeting you here!

[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

Well, hello you!

[la-loony.livejournal.com]

Good to have you back :)

Glad to hear that the writing is going so good.

Reading all those things about the new season made me curious to watch Arrested Development.

[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

Hello! Yeah, going good, though I've hit sort of an "eh" block. I know what I'm writing and what comes next, but I've had a hard time working up the energy to sit down and write for the last few days. Stupid everything.

Curious to watch the new season, or curious to watch the whole thing because you've never watched any of it? AD is the best! You should definitely check it out if you never have. The pilot is seriously the best sitcom pilot that has ever been made, and is so so true to the rest of the show, so if you don't care for it then it's easy to know you won't care for the rest of the show. (Unlike other sitcoms, where it's sometimes S2 until they figure out what they're doing.)

[la-loony.livejournal.com]

It'll come back. I'm sure you'll finish it and it will be awesome :)

Oh to watch it in general. Idk I haven't heard from it much before I was around for a while on the internet. Might've never aired here in Germany and then things didn't come on my radar. But once it did my tv show schedule was already loadedxD
Will definitly have a look at it!

[ghanimasun]

Glad to see a post from you no matter how often it is! And good luck on your writing; I am confident you will do well!

[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

Hee, thanks! I'm pretty confident with my scripts this year, but we'll see, as always.