Fic of the Day: Watchmen

I stayed up to watch Craig Ferguson because tomorrow is Inuit Day and thanks to my own Queen-among-Women Mother, we have the day off! (Mom was on the Calendar Committee) Usually I only get to watch Craig on Fridays, so color me tickled. And! He did a puppet thing with a French snail named Josh. I love the puppets. I cackle every time Wavey waves at me. And Josh's cute little Scottish-French accent only made the fact that they substituted 'ooh-la-la!" for the usual bleep that much funnier.

And since it was after midnight, I went ahead and did a 31_days fill. I probably shouldn't write this late at night so I'll go to bed now and try not to dream of hypnotic snails.

Fic of the Day:Watchmen

For 31_days. It's a short one, and kind of sad, but I wanted to get back into the swing of it. I don't think I wrote for 31_daysat all last month, I had so much else to do. But Daylight Savings Time completely slipped my mind so I have an extra hour.

It's the morning after Halloween, and my email is full of Christmas shopping notices. They don't waste a minute, do they?

Stumbled upon this link whilst reading a Watchmen fic and now I can't stop watching it!

Had a weird Watchmen/Neverending Story dream.

The Nothing had come to Karnak while everyone was there. So, the big fortress is being picked apart and everyone is dodging debris as it falls. Rorschach blames Veidt for it all, and gives a more righteous version of the Gmork's final speech. (Something like "Took away peoples' hopes and dreams of peace and assumptions of safety. People who have no hopes are easy to control." etc.)

Veidt accuses him of living in a fairy tale. Time to grow up and face reality. And then everybody fights while Jon looks on and the Nothing rages outside and at some point I wondered through with an armful of paperwork. That's my cameo, the Karnak underling too insignificant to even poison. I had a mortal dread of Bubastis because I was pretty sure she was what had brought the Nothing here. She looked awfully smug for homemade hearth candy.

Well, back in March, I flew from Barrow to Fairbanks to see Watchmen. I couldn't get a rental car for financial reasons so I got a cab from the hotel and stayed at the theater all day. Considered it time and money well-spent.

So, it really wasn't too much of a stretch to begin my plot to go see the Director's Cut in Minneapolis this weekend. Living where I do, movie tickets are pretty much useless without plane tickets. Spending the summers in rural Appalachia doesn't help.

However, the theater mentioned on the website has no knowledge of the event and no idea where else it might be happening. I harassed two separate employees and the manager for that information. No luck, which is sad. I was looking forward to seeing proplady too. Drat. Despair.

The good news is that instead, I have a baby shower to cater, which would've trumped all plans anyway. Sisters take precedence over fangirliness, no matter how obsessive.

Fic of the Day: Watchmen

First one in a month and written with no shift key. Trying to get back in the swing of things. Maybe I'll even draw something before long.

Fic of the Day: Watchmen

All I really want is to eat a whole lot and then go to sleep. I've already eaten more than is technically required to keep me coherent and non-ravenous until morning. It was a nerve-wracking crazy day with the munchkins. As far as I can tell they've all been exposed to that X-Files gas/spore that ramps up all the agression and makes them turn on each other like baby hyenas. They fought all frickin' day! Tears and screams and spit and mucus and it's another Wednesday in D-Wing. Grr. It makes me cranky too. And hungry.

Fic of the Day: Another Watchmen one.

I once read a short story about someone who fell sick and never got better and just wasted away and no one could tell why. Then the poor person died and they were cleaning out the bed linens, and the pillow was so heavy... And when they shook out the pillowcase it wasn't a pillow in there at all, but a giant, bloated tick that had been feeding off the sick person's head the whole time.

Think of that the next time your ear is pressed to your pillow and you feel some of the stuffing shift. Uh-huh.

The reason I am thinking of that is that I seem to be being drained into my chair. I've had a vampire couch before. Also called the thorazine couch, once you were on it, it took forever to get off it again. Chores to do? Maybe in a minute or two. Or tomorrow. Hungry? Maybe there's someone you could call to bring you food. Bathroom? You can hold it a little longer.

And it's happening again! I've already talked myself into going to get groceries and car heaters tomorrow after work instead of today. I'd say I needed a nap except I have to sit up to keep my head out of reach of whatever might be in the chair stuffing.

Fic of the Day: Another Watchmen one.

No time for more. Later for work.

Fic of the Day: Watchmen

Only Wednesday, and it's already the longest week ever. Still, the science fair went pretty well. I wore my Mr. Mittens shirt, courtesy of huntsman_77. I figure a cat shooting lasers out its eyes is perfect garb for a science fair.

Been watching this over and over.



Gotta love that they all rally against Batman.

I went to see movies yesterday. Bliss! I saw Watchmen and Coraline. There was a four hour lull between them though so I had to amuse myself on a street with nothing but hotels and boarded up apartments. Maybe not the best neighborhood for a lone female to be strolling around in, but I did. It was cold and the middle of a weekday, so I ended up just walking up and down the strip, just me and the snow and the aspens. And these two big honkin’ ravens that followed me for awhile.

Ravens are monster crows. These two swaggered along on foot, falling into step behind me and moved so that they were on either side. They were all but snapping their fingers. If they had been humans or dogs, I would’ve gone straight into fight or flight mode, but pride wouldn’t let me acknowledge that I was being intimidated by two birds, even if they were huge, Stygian eaters of eyes. So I walked on and they followed me, making creaky little comments back and forth between them. Maybe it was raven-talk for “Hey baby, where you goin’?” or maybe “She will succumb to the cold soon, my brother.” “Yes, soon.” “Then, we shall feast!” “Yes. Soon.”

I didn’t grow weak and falter, so eventually, they gave up and flew off. I also thought I saw taktukbrightsea at the theater with some guys going in to see Watchmen, but I wasn’t sure it was him and didn’t want to go over until I could get a better look, but they went in and I went in and it was too late. So if it was you, a belated hi!

But on to the movies: I really liked Watchmen. Everyone warned me it was violent, which I knew from reading the book so many times, but they all warned me about Dark Knight too, and frankly, the only scene that made me wince was poor brave Wanna-be-Bats being tortured. So, there was much blood in Watchman that didn’t bother me, and a sex scene that went on for about three times longer than was required. Even the giggling teenagers were checking their watches. Moving on please, to what was good.

There’s a reason that 12 of the 14 different WoD werewolf characters I’ve played have been Bone Gnawers. I dig scruffy. Don’t know why, don’t care why. Just do. So it should come as no surprise that Jackie Earle Haley’s portrayal of this put a grin on my face.* What Jackman’s Logan did for my liking for sideburns, Mr. Haley did for my liking of scruffiness. It’s baaaack!

And you know what? I’m gonna say it. I think Haley did a better job with Rorschach than Ledger did with Joker. Ledger’s Joker was the best part of Dark Knight, but he didn’t move me. Haley’s Rorschach did. And while I prepare to dodge incoming projectiles for that one, I’ll tell you something else I learned on this trip. Diet Pepsi Wild Cherry might as well be carbonated ditch water. Or maybe I just got a bad one. But bleah.

I also saw Coraline in 3D. It was so cute! I loved the cat, I loved Wybie, and I loved the poor Other Father. He was just so pathetic. And the Beldam was great! Her voice was perfect. The character design was very cool. I especially loved the wacky neighbors even if I can’t believe they actually had the one in sequined pasties. Whoa. Oh my God, is right!

Watching these two movies back to back gave me some weird dreams, but I’ll go into that later.



*I read on imdb.com that Robin Williams was rumored to have been considered for the first attempt at Rorschach back in the 90s. I’m having trouble imagining it.

Fic of the Day:Big Fish

It is still snowin' and blowin'. The house shook all night and the windows are bowing in and out. I had weird dreams about trying to get to a Barnes and Noble in a carnival crowd. There was also something about a shadow demon and Rorschach from Watchmen. That last is probably due to excitement over a weekend out in Fairbanks coming up where *gasp!* I will get to see a movie! Finally! I'm all giddy.