Just had a bit of a lightbulb realisation moment re: Painting Layers of Love and now I don’t know quite what to do.
It’s late so hopefully things will look better in the morning. I hope so because I made myself sad.
Ugh 11pm is much too late for these deep thoughts.
So I gave myself a new plot bunny
Can somebody please tell me how come there are only 5 DAYS left in October? Please? Seriously, I was chugging along and then bam, it’s like being hit by a 2 by 4. Little things slip but /shrug no big deal right? There’s time
And then suddenly there’s no time
Yesterday rather than do anything about this I did absolutely nothing instead, because losing an entire day is definitely the way to help *rolls eyes at self*
Before Thursday I need to:
– finish my series bible
– plan two more fics
– create a book bible for PLL
– outline PLL
My tutor will also email more homework at some point because rather than give it to us in class, she likes to surprise us mid-week/day before class. I also have a play I should have read (and haven’t) preferably before Monday’s lecture, but definitely before Tuesday’s seminar.
I would also like to:
– finish the Garcy fic I’ve left languishing half finished for weeks
– finish the formative assignment due for the 5th
Yet I refused to get out of bed this morning and it’s nearly noon and I haven’t started yet
Dammit self
Synopsis: Monster, deriving from Latin, meaning ‘to demonstrate’ or ‘to warn’. They reveal, make evident, often uncomfortably so and thus was the case with Helena George Wells.
Notes: Look I finally wrote a thing for fanfic fridays! *dance* not anything on the list but hey words are words right? 🙂
So after watching the season 2 finale I was driven to put pen to paper before starting season 3. I’m spoiler free so I have no idea how accurate this is, I just had to write it down. Anyway, enjoy! 🙂
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End Note: I may do another because Myka talking Helena down the way she did *slow whistle* I may have to ship them. Could that have screamed lovers anymore than it did? Made me look back and think “hmm is that one of Myka’s shirts HG is wearing?” Or “that smirk means something” but I digress. I really can’t wait to find out what happens next. The one thing I ‘do’ know is that HG returns as I googled screaming as I didn’t want to say goodbye. I love her.
In the same vein as the post I just reblogged, I took far more pleasure than I should have last year in writing a mini-dissertation on the power structure of the goa’uld (from Stargate SG-1), precisely because it was ‘popular’ source material.
I took even more pleasure in the fact that I got a first class mark for it.
Yeeeah I went on a bit /facepalm
*insert some ranting about academic snobbery*
I was talking with someone the other day who said that my uni “prided itself on producing many literary writers of great reknown” and I’m afraid we both then had a little snigger about pretentious rubbish which is mean and wrong. I mean it’s ok that I think that but I should phrase it differently because it implies a value judgement which is incorrect. What I should say is that it’s not to my taste, which is kinda the whole point I’m driving at.
Literary fiction isn’t the only kind of worthy fiction in the world. Just because something is popular doesn’t mean it’s not good. The problem with me stating my opinion on this is that I’m not a graduate, I don’t have any kind of academic pedigree to give my opinion any merit. I firmly believe that there is a lot to learn from all kinds of literature, every genre, literary or popular, hell I firmly support fanfic as I find the transformative nature creative and fascinating.
I respect all words. True I don’t enjoy everything in existence but then who does? In my naughty moments I call it pretentious twaddle but even as I say it I know that’s not right. I just really wish that the respect was returned and that academic institutions quit preaching that literary is the only fiction worth a damn.
As a side note, on the literature side of the coin (as opposed to just the creative writing), I really wish we’d study more variety. 95% of it is old white men, usually written a hundred years ago or more. The excuse trotted out is that those things have “stood the test of time” but in whose opinion? Sometimes I think that we only think things are important because we’ve been told they are so many times we don’t question it.
If we’re looking at literature in the scope of history, then damn straight we need to read older works. If we’re just analysing literature for form or technique, then why not read modern stuff? Why not read ‘popular’ works? Not everything has to be literary and not everything should come from Europe. Now yeah there are a few exceptions but those exceptions only highlight how uniform the rest of the curriculum is.
/grumble /grumble
(I don’t hate my degree btw, I’m just frustrated)
I just added a picture set of libraries to my queue, hardly the first one I’ve reblogged either – towering stacks of books set in jaw dropping buildings is kinda irresistible.
Anyway it reminded me of how disappointed I was seeing the actual library in The Librarians (aka the Reading Room, or the symbolic representation of the library) because it wasn’t jaw dropping inspiring at all. Honestly my university library with the endless stacks of floor-ceiling book shelves is more impressive.
^^ see what I mean?
Picking from that aforementioned library picture set I think it should have looked a little more like this:
or this
Moar books, books as far as you can see, books with rails, books with ladders, books that say “hello this is a library” and feels like it’s a few thousand years old. That book collection supposedly hearkens back to the library of Alexandria and it feels more like the children’s section at Barnes and Noble.
Source: this post
I feel like Captain Kirk in my classes. Like Scotty should be standing there going:
“She likes that seat.”
I get very grumpy if I can’t sit in the same place every week. That’s my seat *hides*
So I went to a painting session put on yesterday by the Art Society. This doesn’t match my sketch very well because the brushes were huge and I had no control. I know a bad workman blames the tools but I’m a kindergarten painter and need all the help I can get heh.
I wanted to put the quote on the book “I’m offering you a life of mystery, adventure and a chance to save the world every week, twice before Friday.” But I’m lucky I got ‘library’ on there in a legible fashion.
We also have a Stargate as I’m incapable of having a brush/pen in my hand and not drawing one, the Earth gate symbol, a spaceship and a sort of half hourglass to symbolise HG Wells and half tree of knowledge /shrug.
Just fan things 🙂
1-3pm has to be one of the more annoying 2 hour blocks for class /whine Add on travelling time and it’s too early for lunch but then starving by the end.
Although I do count myself lucky I don’t have another class directly afterwards as that would suck.
Aaaand I seem to be thinking with my stomach today *rolls eyes at self*
Has anyone else ever wondered about Peter wearing two suits during Infinity War. Like how did he not go “web” and just web himself inside the suit as both suits responded. Was he getting Karen in stereo? Or was there some kind of super “if statement” going on, where the cloth suit did
if ($ironSpider == ‘yes’) {
shutDown();
}
Considering the cloth suit came first, was there some kind of backdoor update when the Iron Spider was made in case this eventuality ever happened? I mean, that is some bug testing, thinking “hmm, he might be wearing the first suit when he suits up” because like who would expect that?
Tony Stark is one hell of a programmer guys.