some things about me
Dec. 11th, 2012 01:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
laurajvALL RIGHT, fellow humans and/or aliens and/or AIs. I am sure some of us won't suit? It is always unreading list/defriending-OK around here; I find it a little sad that has to be said because I tend to assume it. But there you go.
These days I am mostly watching Elementary (characters, I love you. Crime plots, you are not the greatest, but you're getting slightly better) and Beauty & the Beast (which is stealing ALL THE BECHDEL PASSES from all other television, apparently). I also watch a lot of documentaries, QI, and rather too much Dara O'Briain standup.
I used to mostly write slash, and now I mostly write gen (when I have time to write). I am not sure why, but I might blame Highlander fandom, which I love, and which has some of the greatest gen writing around, and characters who can easily bounce from lovers to not to back again over the course of centuries.
On a personal level, I'm a humanist, a skeptic, bi, and a het-married mother of two small kids. I haven't posted much the last year because the younger child was born in January; I'm hoping to improve on that in the coming year. I knit (fairly well), crochet (well), cook (well), and sew (poorly). I dislike squares (the shape, not the personality type). I am attempting to get my act together to apply to grad school because what I really need is another master's degree, amirite?
I abuse parentheses.
These days I am mostly watching Elementary (characters, I love you. Crime plots, you are not the greatest, but you're getting slightly better) and Beauty & the Beast (which is stealing ALL THE BECHDEL PASSES from all other television, apparently). I also watch a lot of documentaries, QI, and rather too much Dara O'Briain standup.
I used to mostly write slash, and now I mostly write gen (when I have time to write). I am not sure why, but I might blame Highlander fandom, which I love, and which has some of the greatest gen writing around, and characters who can easily bounce from lovers to not to back again over the course of centuries.
On a personal level, I'm a humanist, a skeptic, bi, and a het-married mother of two small kids. I haven't posted much the last year because the younger child was born in January; I'm hoping to improve on that in the coming year. I knit (fairly well), crochet (well), cook (well), and sew (poorly). I dislike squares (the shape, not the personality type). I am attempting to get my act together to apply to grad school because what I really need is another master's degree, amirite?
I abuse parentheses.
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Date: 2012-12-12 12:38 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-12-12 02:20 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-12-12 02:42 am (UTC)I don't know about Beauty and the Beast, but I've been watching Once Upon a Time recently and am impressed with how much they emphasize female characters and their relationships. Seems like if one is going to update fairy tales, doing so in a way that emphasizes female agency is a pretty great way to do it.
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Date: 2012-12-14 03:43 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-12-12 04:23 pm (UTC)Also, I was tearing my hair out over the crime writing on Elementary. It was like the crime plots were written by someone fired from CSI or Law & Order, whereas the dialogue was written by a first-stringer.
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Date: 2012-12-14 03:42 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-12-13 10:13 am (UTC)(characters, I love you. Crime plots, you are not the greatest, but you're getting slightly better)
Pretty much my feelings on the matter!
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Date: 2012-12-13 04:36 pm (UTC)