Assorted fandom babblings
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icepixieQuery: Since three is sacred to the Minbari, does that mean they really, really like waltzes? (Someone should write that fic.)
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Ideas for two vids are poking me, but they would require rewatches of the entire runs of BSG and the X-Files. Since both are on Netflix Instant, this is in theory not completely impractical, as I could figure out which episodes I need clips from and then just have those discs sent to me to rip from, but that is a LOT of TV, even if I just do one of the vids.
The first is a Six- and Baltar-centric BSG vid to "Calling," by Leona Naess. I think of it as a Six-and-Baltar vid largely because of the second half of the chorus, because both could be such unpredictable characters at times. (Also, of course, there's the line about angels, and, well...) I can see it in my head; in addition to maybe fading to white with each transition in the second half of the chorus, I would make sharp cuts to highlight the emphasized beats that come right before the last syllable of each line of the chorus's first half, and I think it would look really cool.
The second is a Scully vid to Hem's "Leave Me Here," because she is really just so tragic sometimes, and has kind of a horrible life, but remains still so very, very strong. I can't see it as well in my mind as I can the first one, but I think it could be pretty. It's just that there are NINE SEASONS of the show to wade through if I ever make the vid.
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Someone has written CSI fic set...at my undergraduate institution. I...um. Somehow, these two things just do not co-exist in my head. I've never watched CSI, but I'm reading these fics where the characters are running along the Gap Trail and see the old steam engine, or go to the butterfly garden at the BFEC and then haul themselves up the hill to campus to visit the market, and my head is kind of exploding. I've read, like, X-Files fic where Moose & Squirrel come to Nashville and not had this kind of reaction. I think here it's perhaps because Gambier and Kenyon are so small and off the beaten path that it's hard to imagine people who are not me and my friends there. Lower Broad or Centennial Park--eh, hundreds of thousands of people pass through there every year. It's easy to see fandom characters there. Middle Path, NOT SO MUCH.
(Also, oh god, I just did a search at FFN, and there are like five Twilight fics set there. I don't even want to know.)
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And in non-fandom-but-related-to-that-last-bit things: Allison Janney and Josh Radnor, both Kenyon alumni, are starring in a movie about a liberal arts college, to be filmed at Kenyon. The plot sounds like unwatchable hipster tripe of the highest order, but hell. I think I have to Netflix this when it comes out.
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Ideas for two vids are poking me, but they would require rewatches of the entire runs of BSG and the X-Files. Since both are on Netflix Instant, this is in theory not completely impractical, as I could figure out which episodes I need clips from and then just have those discs sent to me to rip from, but that is a LOT of TV, even if I just do one of the vids.
The first is a Six- and Baltar-centric BSG vid to "Calling," by Leona Naess. I think of it as a Six-and-Baltar vid largely because of the second half of the chorus, because both could be such unpredictable characters at times. (Also, of course, there's the line about angels, and, well...) I can see it in my head; in addition to maybe fading to white with each transition in the second half of the chorus, I would make sharp cuts to highlight the emphasized beats that come right before the last syllable of each line of the chorus's first half, and I think it would look really cool.
The second is a Scully vid to Hem's "Leave Me Here," because she is really just so tragic sometimes, and has kind of a horrible life, but remains still so very, very strong. I can't see it as well in my mind as I can the first one, but I think it could be pretty. It's just that there are NINE SEASONS of the show to wade through if I ever make the vid.
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Someone has written CSI fic set...at my undergraduate institution. I...um. Somehow, these two things just do not co-exist in my head. I've never watched CSI, but I'm reading these fics where the characters are running along the Gap Trail and see the old steam engine, or go to the butterfly garden at the BFEC and then haul themselves up the hill to campus to visit the market, and my head is kind of exploding. I've read, like, X-Files fic where Moose & Squirrel come to Nashville and not had this kind of reaction. I think here it's perhaps because Gambier and Kenyon are so small and off the beaten path that it's hard to imagine people who are not me and my friends there. Lower Broad or Centennial Park--eh, hundreds of thousands of people pass through there every year. It's easy to see fandom characters there. Middle Path, NOT SO MUCH.
(Also, oh god, I just did a search at FFN, and there are like five Twilight fics set there. I don't even want to know.)
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And in non-fandom-but-related-to-that-last-bit things: Allison Janney and Josh Radnor, both Kenyon alumni, are starring in a movie about a liberal arts college, to be filmed at Kenyon. The plot sounds like unwatchable hipster tripe of the highest order, but hell. I think I have to Netflix this when it comes out.
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Date: 2011-06-02 04:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-06-02 04:39 am (UTC)GAAAAAAAAAAAAAH HEAD ASPLODE
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Date: 2011-06-02 06:04 am (UTC)Now I want to stalk these authors and figure out who they are.
Except for the part where I just realized--because I somehow stumbled into befriending a freshman when I was a senior, and she now has a job--that people who were freshmen when I was a senior? Just graduated. So literally I do not know a single current student. a;lkjkldsakjasjfkffkjfkljs
Anyway, I still think it's hilarious that there's fanfiction set at Kenyon, and will be reading all of them (periodically wiping the tears of blood from my eyes) at the next possible opportunity.
And I'll definitely be illegally downloading that movie once it comes out. Thanks for the heads up! I will continue to hope against hope that if Janney is an English professor, we'll get to see some of the actual English-y things on campus.
(Also I didn't know that Josh Radnor was a Kenyonite! That makes me happy. yay successful Kenyon alums; I wish I were you.)
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Date: 2011-06-02 05:40 pm (UTC)ME TOO. I think the CSI author is someone who lives in Mt. Vernon, from the pictures in her journal and the complete lack of mention of dorm life. (I AM SUCH A STALKER.) I haven't read the Twilight fics because I do actually draw a line somewhere and apparently that's it.
So literally I do not know a single current student.
Hahahaha YEAH. It's been two years since I knew a current student.
Anyway, I still think it's hilarious that there's fanfiction set at Kenyon
Hilarious and SO, SO, SO STRANGE.
I will continue to hope against hope that if Janney is an English professor, we'll get to see some of the actual English-y things on campus.
LET THEM DO A SCENE WHERE SHE TEACHES IN THE SUNSET SEMINAR ROOM THAT'S ALL I ASK PLEEEEEEEEEAAASSEEEEEE. (Philo would be acceptable as well.)
yay successful Kenyon alums; I wish I were you.
Ditto.
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Date: 2011-06-02 05:43 pm (UTC)I've used MacX DVD Ripper Pro as well, which is nice, but gives you an annoying black border along the left side of every clip. Handbrake is a bit more difficult to use, but worth it.