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ndnickersoni have this thing going on where i feel unsteady and hyper-alert at night. i hope it ends soon.
just read this awesome calvin & hobbes fic by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
hollycomb which i stumbled onto. (for the record i haven't read the one everyone was having fits of the vapors over during ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
yuletide so i don't know if this one is comparable.)
i have oreos but i think i want cheesecake brownies.
i also really want to read a specific kind of book, but i don't know for sure if it exists, and it's impossible to do this kind of thing except by personal referral. i want to read a book where the heroine is at least vaguely contemporary and has some sort of unique psychic power, which she's coping with but is not yet comfortable with, but i don't want her to live in a fantasy environment where this is commonplace. the girl with the silver eyes is a prime example of what i want, but it's YA, and i don't really know IF this kind of book exists in "grown-up" lit, the "girl is involved in some sort of specific incident and develops psychic powers," much like alex mack or, to a lesser degree, the tomorrow people. mostly because i don't want this psychic power to end up drawing her to some alpha male who then basically becomes the strong dashing hero to her distressed damsel. superhero stories and comic books are good for this kind of plot, i think, and i do enjoy comic-book-based movies, but i've discovered that the comic book itself has to be very, very good to keep my interest. for example, i made it through watchmen (i wanted to read it before i saw the movie), and that one had an intriguing plot, but my other forays into comic book-dom have not been as successful, and i think we can all agree that watchmen is rather unique.
it's not that i'm opposed to reading about a guy in this situation; i just feel that it's more common for a *guy* who develops this kind of ability to have any number of options available to him, fic-wise, where a *girl* will have little option but to suddenly be magnetically drawn to a man. i know how strong that pull is; i'm writing that kind of story.
so i guess i want to see an example of how this can be done well.
on a different note, a local blockbuster is going out of business so i picked up the wire season 1 since i've heard so many good things about it, and i hope they were right. also got bedknobs & broomsticks, chinatown, coraline, and miss pettigrew lives for a day (odd combination, no?). then i wanted to get the movie, made about the same time as bedknobs, where the kids are kidnapped by the child-catcher(?) and the male lead acts like he's a toymaker and he "makes" this amazing dancing ballerina with a turn-key, and she is a real girl, and she dances in front of the court, and there are also maybe some floppy dolls? possibly tumbling clowns? i think this may be the annette funicello version of babes in toyland that i'm remembering. for a while i thought it was chitty chitty bang bang but that was the one with the toot sweet and there was a lot of candy.
(on a related note, there are cartoon lions on the cover of bedknobs & broomsticks, and i had no recollection of that at all; i just remembered a bed, and angela lansbury. and, like, absolutely nothing else.)
need to buckle down if i'm gonna get mystory_lottery stories done. four down, three to go.
just read this awesome calvin & hobbes fic by
hollycomb which i stumbled onto. (for the record i haven't read the one everyone was having fits of the vapors over during yuletide so i don't know if this one is comparable.)i have oreos but i think i want cheesecake brownies.
i also really want to read a specific kind of book, but i don't know for sure if it exists, and it's impossible to do this kind of thing except by personal referral. i want to read a book where the heroine is at least vaguely contemporary and has some sort of unique psychic power, which she's coping with but is not yet comfortable with, but i don't want her to live in a fantasy environment where this is commonplace. the girl with the silver eyes is a prime example of what i want, but it's YA, and i don't really know IF this kind of book exists in "grown-up" lit, the "girl is involved in some sort of specific incident and develops psychic powers," much like alex mack or, to a lesser degree, the tomorrow people. mostly because i don't want this psychic power to end up drawing her to some alpha male who then basically becomes the strong dashing hero to her distressed damsel. superhero stories and comic books are good for this kind of plot, i think, and i do enjoy comic-book-based movies, but i've discovered that the comic book itself has to be very, very good to keep my interest. for example, i made it through watchmen (i wanted to read it before i saw the movie), and that one had an intriguing plot, but my other forays into comic book-dom have not been as successful, and i think we can all agree that watchmen is rather unique.
it's not that i'm opposed to reading about a guy in this situation; i just feel that it's more common for a *guy* who develops this kind of ability to have any number of options available to him, fic-wise, where a *girl* will have little option but to suddenly be magnetically drawn to a man. i know how strong that pull is; i'm writing that kind of story.
so i guess i want to see an example of how this can be done well.
on a different note, a local blockbuster is going out of business so i picked up the wire season 1 since i've heard so many good things about it, and i hope they were right. also got bedknobs & broomsticks, chinatown, coraline, and miss pettigrew lives for a day (odd combination, no?). then i wanted to get the movie, made about the same time as bedknobs, where the kids are kidnapped by the child-catcher(?) and the male lead acts like he's a toymaker and he "makes" this amazing dancing ballerina with a turn-key, and she is a real girl, and she dances in front of the court, and there are also maybe some floppy dolls? possibly tumbling clowns? i think this may be the annette funicello version of babes in toyland that i'm remembering. for a while i thought it was chitty chitty bang bang but that was the one with the toot sweet and there was a lot of candy.
(on a related note, there are cartoon lions on the cover of bedknobs & broomsticks, and i had no recollection of that at all; i just remembered a bed, and angela lansbury. and, like, absolutely nothing else.)
need to buckle down if i'm gonna get my
story_lottery stories done. four down, three to go.