PRINCESS MONSTER WIFE

It seems that my words are currently in an off phase, BIG CHANGE I KNOW, but I must break my silence if only to inform you all that there is a fest for fic about trans characters just starting and I AM EXCITE. So far I've prompted the following:

- HIMYM, Ted/Mother (oh unnecessary canon transphobia! all you have ever managed to convince me is that Ted should fall for a lady who "used to be a dude" and she is the best mom ever. Also Robin is egg donor. Headcanon until contradicted.)
- Skins, Franky/Mini because Franky is into people, and Franky is people, and Mini is into Franky, and we called it Minky, and it was good.
- Gotham Girls, Detective Selma Reesedale has like the least exciting secret ever when compared to the people she runs with in the police department alone. Besties with Montoya, y/y? Also, I feel she should probably have suspicions about Barbara Gordon. I really feel a lot of ways about DC ladies. *bites lip*

And I'm just getting started, so, you know, ... you should also ... ... ... start.


P.S. Beautiful Daughters is a short but lovely documentary about an all-trans staging of The Vagina Monologues, and it's on Netflix Instant. I just watched it. ;____;

First, a slightly belated exhortation slash enthusiastic recommendation:

ds9_rewatch! A GROUP DEDICATED TO THE RE-OR-FIRST-TIME-EVER-WATCHING OF THE VERY BEST TREK, DEEP SPACE NINE! People who should definitely participate in this: the Doofpire Amry, Meredith, Ariel, everyone who enjoys awesomeness. People who should definitely not participate in this: everyone who hates awesomeness. (If you are worried about acquiring the series: maybe just join the comm, and, uh, *clears throat*. Or ask me!)

Why is DS9 so great, you ask? Well, here is a handy-dandy intro post that I did not make, but heartily approve of. And here is a picspam of one-shot and recurring female characters that I did make, and am pretty okay with. But perhaps you have no patience for clicking on things and looking at pictures! FINE, be that way.

( have some words instead! )

ds9_rewatch is still only on the second episode, so there is plenty of time to catch up, and I haven't really been participating myself yet, but I do hope to. (Their discussion posts in particular excite me, since when I marathoned the show in 2009 I was doing it solo and didn't really have any way to process it with others.) SO LIKE

LET'S ALL DO THAT. (Even if we form our own little splinter group. Which I would be utterly okay with.)


And now, interview questions! One set from someone who has known me a long time, and one from somebody who has not, which I think makes for a nice balance.

From emilytheodd:

( concerning beer and punk rock, mostly )


And from elle_white:

( concerning art and people and feelings, I guess )

If you would like questions *and actually intend to answer them* I will give you some.

A few weeks ago a friend mentioned wanting to go back and rewrite a couple fics that she felt had really missed the mark. My first thought was the sad lesson of George Lucas -- surely he has taught us all the value of leaving it the fuck alone? But I was also intrigued in a way to do it better. We do DVD commentaries on our fics, right? We do fic-art big bangs where the one inspires the other. We allow others to remix our work. Why not remix our own work?

No. Why not remaster our own work?

Of course, remastering is old news to vidders, and I've seen iconmakers do it too, though not under that name. Why not fic too? Why not fanmixes? Hell, any fannish work. I think we've all done things that we later realized were flawed in ways we actually did know how to fix. With remastering, we're not pretending that the original piece never existed. We acknowledge that we tried and made something to the best of our ability. The old work will still exist as it was. We're simply applying the transformative principles of fandom to something we ourselves made.

Aw, hell. remaster_thyself. This is why I should never be left alone and unsupervised, for the record.


(Unrelated: I have three DW invites, if anyone needs one.)

IT'S A FICATHON!

Now collecting prompts for EVERY SINGLE CHICK in Star Trek XI! Yes, the mothers, the extras, and Nyota too! You don't have to be a member! Crack allowed! Go nuts!

Make me proud, bbs.