the refuge from nowhere

04:12 pm - BEST THING I'VE SEEN ALL DAY ...

First still for Passion with Rachel McAdams and Noomi Rapace

Plot: An erotic thriller in the tradition of “Dressed To Kill” and “Basic Instinct”, Brian de Palma’s PASSION tells the story of a deadly power struggle between two women in the dog-eat-dog world of international business.

( best thing ever for movieverse fans below cut )

And, Paul Anderson (Moran) is in it. WELL, YES, I WILL WATCH THIS MOVIE AND IMAGINE SOME WONDERFUL AU'UNIVERSE FOR THE SH MOVIES. YES, THANK YOU.

Current Mood: chipper

11:39 am - Fandom Appreciation Challenge 2012 - Day 3

Fandom Appreciation Challenge 2012 - Day 3

DAY 3: Send or leave feedback on three challenge fanworks.

Transubstantiation (982 words) by athousandwinds
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Brideshead Revisited - Waugh
Rating: Explicit
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Charles Ryder/Sebastian Flyte
Summary: Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you.</p>

The Piano (1652 words) by stainofmylove
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Battlestar Galactica (2003)
Rating: Explicit
Warning: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Dubcon
Relationships: Leoben Conoy/Kara Thrace
Characters: Kara Thrace, Leoben Conoy
Summary: Time to wake up, Kara Thrace.</p>

Addiction (801 words) by dashakay
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Battlestar Galactica (2003)
Rating: Mature
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: William Adama/Laura Roslin
Summary: He watches her with half-mast eyes, enjoying the view.</p>

Bonus challenge for 5 points: Rec a challenge or comm on your journal. The Fandom Appreciation Challenge doesn't count. Feel free to link to your rec in the comments.

I recommend The Semi-Annual Porn Battle Challenge.

Current Mood: exhausted

10:15 am - Fandom Appreciation Challenge - Day One

Fandom Appreciation Challenge - Day One

DAY 1: On your journal, rec three fanworks by people you don't know and whose works you haven't read/watched/listened to/looked at before.

I knew this much (2698 words) by heartequals
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Twin Peaks
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Gen(ish)
Characters: Albert Rosenfield, Dale Cooper
Summary:

For Amatara. She requested a story dealing with the “Call me crazy, but on you...” scene in 2x15. This story takes place almost immediately after that scene. Albert hates emotional conversations, but he hates seeing Cooper pulled apart even more.

Things have changed between Andre and Tori.

Once winter set in, it was hard for them to keep warm in the hut.

Current Mood: accomplished

02:11 pm - Hmmmmm ...

The Smallville Slash Archive is being transferred and displayed wholesale sans authors' individual permission over to the Archive of Our Own via OTW's "Open Door" policy, which is opt-out -- meaning you have to make an AO3 account, delete your stories -- or at least the stories you can prove are yours? -- and then delete your account if you wish -- that is, if you ever get the notice sent to what may be an out-of-date email account.

I'm not crazy about this, not only because I have sock stories there that I don't want to go anywhere else and I'm pretty sure the email accounts I'd have to use to verify those stories are long gone. Not only do I not want to "claim" them, I don't have the means to claim them -- unless they'll take some other email -- or just my word under a sock mail, but then again, what's to stop anyone from approving or deleting stories as they wish if that's the case?

Here's a comment that sort of sums up my feelings on the OTW discussion post regarding the wholesale importation *and* immediate public display by azarias:

"Then import them privately, and mark them on the AO3 end as not having permission, then delete all of those before making the collection public. Or export the database elsewhere, do your sorting there, and then import to AO3. Since you're moving the stories to a completely new codebase, there are a number of ways to resolve this, none of which require you to put the stories up publicly on AO3 and put the onus on the authors to know you've done it, and register an account with your site in order to be able to correct your mistake. Perhaps none of those ways are as convenient as just archiving them all at once and calling it a good job, but sometimes doing a job right takes a little extra effort.

The clock isn't ticking. Hard drive space is cheap: you can hold the "indeterminate" stories indefinitely until such time as the author contacts you with permission. I have a folder full of fanfics from dead sites. I suspect most of us do. I keep them because I don't want to lose the stories, but what I don't do is post them on another site to make sure they stay accessible online!

You're not talking about rescuing a baby here. You're talking about archiving fanfics. There's no justification for trampling over authors' rights and basic fannish courtesy from an overwhelming need to save these stories. Yes, it's sad when stories disappear from the Internet, but if the options are let them disappear, or take them without asking, the latter is not the right choice. The right choice is to find a middle path and take only the ones the authors agree to let you take."

I also wonder what the response would be if Fanfiction.Net started importing and displaying fics from sites that hosts no longer wished to maintain sans authorial permission. (And I have nothing against FF.N, I post there as well as AO3 -- I'm just thinking that particular species of benevolence wouldn't sit so well.)

I'm not against importing and saving the work (I do it myself with right click ---> save as for my favorite fics just in case) just the display of them sans express permission given. There's really no need for that.

04:01 pm - Last bit on Elementary ...

Here, this says it better than I can.

-- Tumblr fandom is all "booooo, we wanted homoerotic subtext!" Ugh! This is why we can't have nice things. We already have Granada and Ritchieverse and BBC and Billy Wilder and the old Russian version and the new Russian version and the one where they're mice!! Those still exist, Lucy Liu isn't going to retroactively be in all of them! (Although it would be cool if she was.) There's seriously room for a het AU! Also, maybe there will be another girl character and we can write femslash. Also, a week ago you were all saying you were never going to watch it anyway, so shut it!

-- I mean, as far as I'm concerned, either way it's a win: a completely platonic het buddy pairing cop show, which practically never happens, or canonical Holmes/Watson, which also practically never happens.</i>

and ...

I said it in the tags of another post but I’ll go ahead and put it in the text of this one: Elementary/Sherlock fandom - or at least the segments of you that are concern trolling about this? There’s something really, really gross about claiming that an alleged desire for actual LGBT representation is underpinning the hand-wringing re: “Oh, no! A girl!Watson?” when what’s really going on is fretfulness that something might get in the way of a potential slashy subtext. Slashy subtext =/= actual queer representation. Queer representation would be actual queer text. If you (general, concern trolling Elementary/Sherlock fandom ‘you’) just want your slashy subtext to be unimpeded, say so. That’s a hell of a lot less disingenuous than pretending that your outrage that CBS didn’t cast White Male Actor #2 as Watson has anything to do with actual social justice.

"Touched on in several other points. Acting like this is an erasure of a gay couple to appease the ‘homophobic American audience’ (oh okay) is plainly false. First off, American tv is FILLED with bromances like Holmes and Watson, where there is a super close bond, tons of gay jokes, but in the end- the creators and the show are like ‘lol sorry just friends.’ To act like US tv would be adverse to something like that? It’s practically the norm these days. And that’s what Holmes and Watson in the BBC version are. This isn’t to discourage shippers, but over and over the show and creators have assured us that, despite what the fans see, it’s not romantic. Thus there is absolutely no homosexual erasure here (jokes about being gay when characters aren’t gay isn’t ‘lgbt representation’), and this is purely a case of people not remembering that fandom is not canon. (http://accioharo.tumblr.com/post/18450908228/10-things)

I'm done for today, before my head explodes.

Current Mood: blah

01:19 pm - HEAVENS, NO

WON'T ANYONE THINK OF THE BLESSED PURITY?????

(Except for the part where male Holmes and Watson are rly, rly, gay. Together! We can fudge that bit!)

This is what I get for reading the Lucy Liu tag on Tumblr. That was a mistake. I just end up making childish graphics.

Current Mood: angry

11:33 am - Never Change Fandom, Oh Wait You Didn't ...

Love how much easier it is for Sherlock fans to accept Watson as a RODENT than as a woman, ala Basil of Baker Street.

Your slash goggles — they’re cutting the blood off to your brain, okay? The White Cock version of Holmes and Watson is not an endangered species nor will it be anytime soon.

Lucy Liu will be a FANTASTIC Watson. (A better Holmes, actually, but we can't have everything.)

I plan on watching the shit out of this show, especially because I'm thinking that with Liu on board it will be free of the scummy racism rampant in BBC's "Sherlock" which, after the horror of "The Blind Banker" I'd rather claw my eyes out than ever watch again.

At least one can hope.

Current Mood: cheerful

06:22 pm - I'd Say Get These Things Off My Face, BUT ...

Basically, my slash goggle have gone into overdrive.



That's Jeremy Lin, a former unknown who took over for Carmelo Anthony (who is holding his hand there) while injured. Carmelo's injury made Lin a superstar and I'm sure there's rivalry and insecurity which will be overcome by ...

RULE 34.

Right????? RIGHT???????????????????

Where be the basketball RPS/RPF anyway?

Current Mood: bouncy

06:25 pm - Here ...

... have another.



And suddenly both their dresses being cut out of the same curtain is endearing somehow.

06:01 pm - *happy sigh*

Oh, RPS, why do you make me so happy?



MY WORK HERE IS DONE.

Current Mood: horny

09:50 am - Like A Winner

The video proof is here.

Why Madonna Still Has It:

-- Arriving like the late Liz Taylor in Cleopatra. \o/

-- Very tasteful, yet still amazing, costuming and dancing.

-- Extremely respectful of the venue. Her clever and sexy nods to collegiate football were not unnoticed by the actual sports fans in the audience. How unusual for a half-time Super Bowl performer to remember that they are the hired help, not the main act.

-- The 'pulling away of the field like a blanket' graphic was breathtaking. (I saw this on my friend's new 72 inch flatscreen HD TV so ...) The candles! The stars! The cheesy "WORLD PEACE"!

-- Her Phantomness of the Opera ending was exactly right.

-- Her guest stars were fabulous (CEE LO, MY TEDDY BEAR HUSBAND!) except for M.I.A. who is a dullard, a childish git with her 'edgy' middle finger to an audience of a few billion. (Dude, there are MUCH more interesting obscene gestures than that ... you weren't even trying!)

Bascially Madonna is the Empress. And the Giants won. This game completed me.

Current Mood: awake

08:00 am - Porn Battle Day Two!

Day Two of Porn Battle #13!!!

I posted this:

A Delicate Matter, Sherlock Holmes (Ritchieverse), Holmes/Simza, alive

I enjoyed these:

bedtime ritual; gone with the wind; melanie/scarlett o' hara, smoke

Beneath The Wolf Moon, Ladyhawke, Isabeau d'Anjou/Etienne Navarre, adore, at last, forever

Current Mood: busy

02:22 pm - Porn Battle - Lucky Thirteen!

Porn Battle has started!!! This time on DW and LJ. I'm posting the shorter pieces on LJ, the longer ones on DW to take advantage of the longer comment limits.

I wrote and posted this today.Song Remains The Same, VicTORIous, Tori Vega/Trina Vega Fluffy smut, warning for sister/sister-incest.

I enjoyed this so far:

ART: "Hair", Sif/Loki

From the Vasty Deep, Pirates of the Caribbean (movies), Kraken/Ship, unbidden" (Author chooses not to warn for this story)

It's early times yet. Yummy! :D :D :D

Current Mood: amused

10:46 am - FICLET: Benefits of Worry

Title: The Benefits of Worry
Author: ingridmatthews
Rating:Mature
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (2009) RPF
Relationship:Robert Downey Jr./Jude Law
Words:1187
Summary:Jude is tired. Robert is worried. There are benefits to all this.


( fic below here )

Current Mood: depressed

05:45 pm - Game of Stuff

Yeah, it's been a while. Nothing to report that's not whinging on the RL front and there was nothing fannish I was up to sharing so (except on Tumblr, where I'm here: http://www.tumblr.com/blog/ingridmatthews.)

Saw SH: A Game of Shadows and ...

I didn't love it. I loved *some* parts of it, but overall, I was so irritated with certain characterizations I mostly just retreated into head canon and now live there.

The good?

( not used to cutting anymore, but not-very-spoilery opinions below here )

And lastly, why does Vronsky from the new "Anna Karenina" movie = Lord Flasheart?

Current Mood: bitchy

08:58 am - FIC: Home, Once Over (PG, aGoS spoilers)

Title: Home, Once Over
Author: ingridmatthews
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Genre: Angst, Missing Scene
Summary: In the boxcar with a wounded Holmes, Watson yearns to go home.
Note: An auction-fic for the generous and gracious esteefee.

( the fic is beneath here )

Current Mood: anxious

10:28 am - Our latest charmer ...

I've been having some health problems as of late, and as is my wont, have been curling up in a cave of my own making, but this caught my eye and I wanted it out there for my own sanity:

via impertinence

This stuff is all over my flist, so in case you're curious: Fassbender, the guy who plays young Magneto in the new X-Men, allegedly beat up his girlfriend a few years ago so badly he broke her nose, made her blow out her kneecap, and burst an ovarian cyst. here are links:

http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/45223583.html

http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2010/03/23/michael_fassbenders_ex_requests_restra

http://www.imdb.com/news/ni1855413

As someone who spent many years as an advocate for battered women, the thought of seeing this batterer's face all over fandom for how ever many months it takes before its onto the next big thing skeeves me big time, so it's just as well that I'm caved up for a while.

Current Mood: depressed

07:01 pm - Your Ass Is Up NOW ...

I'm busy with various things (writing, spring cleaning, etc.) but this commercial cracks me up because....

OMG, THAT'S MY FATHER, RIGHT THERE. HAHAHHAHAHAHA. Wonderful.

Current Mood: amused

08:44 pm - Happy Easter!

"Christ's victory upon the Cross was not merely over death. It was over the owner of death, who was Satan.

The Devil was reduced to powerlessness, because of Christ's reclaimation of Death and His singular transformation of it, of endless darkness turned into Eternal Life.

And so the Son of God destroyed the one great work of the Devil, the inevitable promise of nothing turned into Heaven itself, an opening of Salvation for all."

Current Mood: chipper

03:05 pm - AO3 Profile Page

Very good advice to fill our your profile page on Archive of Our Own with various permission to allow podficcers/artists/other writers access to your work without having to go through the email-go-'round with you.

As always, my work is up for grabs for anything; podfics, remixes, sequels, I don't care. Just link me back to it so I can enjoy it. :D

Current Mood: chipper