somniloquence

In a fit of...madness or desperation for something to write or whatever, I signed up for the intoabar challenge, where you pick a character and fandom, and they meet a character from another fandom you've volunteered to write, who's randomly assigned by the mods. I signed up with David Rose from Schitt's Creek, which has been my happy place viewing for a while now (I watched the David and Patrick episodes over and over after Endgame), although I had no idea that I had the Pop! channel and so just missed season 5 but stupid Netflix isn't getting S5 till freaking October, and the Pop app won't let me watch them either. This is a pestiferous vexation, as Moira might say.

But anyways, the hilarious thing is that the person from the crossover fandom I was most afraid of getting is exactly who I got, so David is going to meet up with Roque from The Losers. This will be an incredible challenge--not only is David's voice highly, highly idiosyncratic, but Roque isn't exactly loquacious and when he does talk, he's usually yelling at someone or threatening to kill them. I have a ~vague sort of idea, but haven't been able to piece enough together yet to start writing, but fortunately I do have a killer title, which for me is a huge part of the battle because I can't write without one.

I just finished a book that was a heavy edit, and it's always so stressful because I get the same amount of time to work on it as a light edit, but it ends up with me practically rewriting someone's story. I have to query so much stuff, and make suggestions about rewording or revising a section that the work becomes exhausting, I'm just drained. And no, they don't pay me better. But I could tell immediately that this writer comes from fandom: there were so many little telltale signs, stuff that's common in fanfic but not really in pro fiction. Sometimes it was funny, other times it was as exasperating as when you come across it in fanfic.

Do people who've become obsessed with Good Omens know that there's a Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab category of perfumes for it? (I can hear all the "I hate perfume" stuff now, but I can tell you that a lot of commercial perfumes, the kinds people douse themselves in, are much worse than perfume oils like BPAL sells.) I always feel like people don't know that. Proceeds from them are split between the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund and the Orangutan Foundation. My favorite of the scents was Famine, and I recall liking Mr. Young, War, Hastur, Agnes Nutter, and Sister Mary Loquacious. I think Pollution was good for me, too, although it looks like it's currently out of stock. Anyways, that's your public service announcement for the day.

Today, I have two very different sort of recs, because fandom is my fandom and I love how creative and interesting people can be. (This is for yesterday and today.)

Invisible Man links. This is a really cool post from arduinna where she talks about updating a comprehensive listing of fanworks for the show Invisible Man, in light of a rewatch someone has organized for the series. A lot of my friends were seriously into IM/I-Man fandom (oh how things have changed, since most people see IM these days and think Iron Man), and I just love the fact that something like this exists and wish some of my older fandoms had a resource like this and someone who cared enough to update things. If you think you might be into checking it out, start with this post, and join the rewatch, linked in the post.

If you're a vidder or vid fan, trelkez has organized a cool challenge to Make a Vidshow Using Only Your Own Vids. Basically, it's a chance for vidders to curate their own work by a theme they want to, and obviously vid fans would get to reap the rewards of seeing a vidshow of works chosen by the artist themselves. I'm not sure if I'll have time to do something for the deadline, but I kinda love the idea--vidders especially don't get to have much of a response to their works, or blow their own horns. I really hope my fellow vidders will participate, or if you know someone who vids, prod them to join!