Miscellaneous

[sholio]

I have the house to myself tonight and some uninterrupted Internet time, so I am getting through the rest of the DVD commentaries and answering comments (STILL SO BEHIND) and generally hanging out online; hello!

My sister and I have managed to watch an absolute fuck ton of One Piece over the last 2-3 days. We got through the entire Water 7 arc and are now into Enies Lobby. It should be no surprise to ANYONE that I'm all over Franky and Iceberg -- adopted brothers who fight all the time but actually adore each other and then cruel fate separates them, GEE THAT DOESN'T SOUND LIKE MY KIND OF THING AT ALL. And Robin I already liked; now she's falling rapidly into favorite-character territory. Franky, on the other hand, I was seriously indifferent to (even having met him as one of the crew in a much later arc), until we hit his backstory and then BRB, FALLING LIKE A TON OF BRICKS, IS ANYONE SURPRISED WELL NO NOT REALLY. I also really love the slow build with both Robin and Franky's heel face turns and integration into the crew. I don't think earlier story arcs did anything quite as complicated as what's happening with both of these characters; even with someone like Nami, who starts out as an antagonist, it was a lot more straightforward and less one-step-forward-two-steps-back. Anyway, I'm really enjoying it.

Assorted links from around my flist:

There's an interesting post at selenak's journal about the fannish term "manpain", like "Mary Sue", coming to be used so generically that it's useless. (Also, I suppose it's a sign of how much time I've been spending on Tumblr lately that my instinctive reaction to finding a thoughtful post was first of all "reblog it so my friends can read it!" No no, self, we have a way of handling these things on LJ, WE LINK TO STUFF.)

I also jumped into a discussion at chordatesrock on dark hurt/comfort and how fandom deals with trauma. Interesting topic and it made me ponder a bit.

There's also a link in the above post to this absolutely amazing comic strip that has a beautiful metaphor for the true worth of creativity that others deem worthless.

Oh hmmm, what else. It looks like both festivids and yuletide are taking signups now. I'm not doing either one of them this year (though I may try to do a festivids treat; I really do want to get back into vidding!).

Comments

[recessional]

. . . I have thoughts about the trauma post except I can't make them word. I have forgotten how to word. My thoughts are like, "Well to deal with that you just do the Thing." And like in my head "the Thing" is like this whole-concept, and trying to explain it is like trying to explain the colour red.

Why words. Augh.

[sholio]

This is pretty much why I haven't replied to 90% of the interesting posts that have crossed my flist/rlist in the last few weeks. HOW DO WORD.

I think your fic is a really stellar example of how to do trauma and h/c without shoeboxing it into a "hurt --> comfort --> fix --> all better!" plot scenario, though.