a++ would smuggle into space again

This is DVD commentary for girl in the war.

Fair warning: I'm planning to include large swathes of original drafts of this story in my commentary. That means that this is going to be really, really long. And self-indulgent, but … well … that was a given.

( i got a girl in the war, paul, i know that they can hear me yell )

Kinda in the mood!

Drop me one of my fics in a comment and I'll write DVD commentary for it.

In other news, I am on a stranger's computer. This is not quite the case -- she's in my class, she's awesome, and she's retired this one in favor of a newer, hotter model -- but still, her user name is her real name, and every time I look up at the clock, I see her name, and suffer a brief existential crisis.

Also she left me logged into Facebook, Gmail, and, horrifyingly, Amazon. I say horrifyingly because I clicked on rachelmanija's review of a m/m romance before I made this connection. Then instead of deleting it from my viewing history, I logged out. She is definitely going to see this. She is definitely going to judge me. I am definitely going to stab myself in the face.

(My computer is in the lab because it cannot accurately modulate its own battery use, and its sleep sensor is broken. It's currently named Tony, but when I get it back I'm renaming that sucker Jade. And then I am installing Snow Leopard and playing Portal until my fingers fall off.)

I'm going to miss this icon.

Reveal time! I wrote:
parthenogenesis, the Girl Who Owned a City, for dictator_duck,
Lovelace and Babbage vs. The Christmas Death Spider From Beyond The Atlantic, The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage, for hradzka,
On the Initial Conditions of a Partnership, Gentlemen of the Road, for giddygeek, and
Five stories the Reader never began, If on a winter's night a traveler, for me livrelibre.

Under my cut are a lot of thoughts on the process. Yes, I wrote this ages in advance. As an apology for tl;dring all over everywhere, here is a pdf of Gentlemen of the Road formatted for ereader (courtesy of elf, who betaed for me) and here is the CD "Elvis Perkins in Dearland," which contains Doomsday, which is my favorite song of the moment. Think "Holland 1945" meets "Prenzlauerberg."

( four stories, three-day deadlines, two turtledoves, and a chatlog about crack crossovers. )

I am not doing my homework. In consequence: below, DVD commentary for the fisherwoman and the iron mage. But first, two recs.

1) So it was just eid_ka_chand/eid_fic, and some excellent stuff was posted, but basically the only other thing in a fandom I know was by the inimitable dhobikikutti, Not One But Too. And I guess it was pretty lucky that it was INSANELY AWESOME UN LUN DUN/HAROUN & THE SEA OF STORIES CROSSOVER FIC. It definitely stands up if you've only read Un Lun Dun, because the first time I read it I'd only read Un Lun Dun, and then I went to the library and read Haroun and the Sea of the Stories, and then I went back and read the fic and it was even more amazing. If you like wordplay, you'll love Deeba Resham, Slam Poet.

2) I'm normally pretty gun-shy about shows that are called "smart" and "high quality" by fandom because they have previously included Supernatural, Merlin, Smallville, Stargate: Atlantis, and Burn Notice. (BURN NOTICE. BURN NOTICE!) If I do watch them, I am wary of recommending them on again, because studies (Heroes, Psych, Murdoch's Mysteries, Kings, NCIS) have shown that I am not very good at judging the difference what is a good show and what makes me squee. So the fact that everyone's been all THE MIDDLEMAN!!! for months means nothing to me. People have also been all THE JONAS BROTHERS!!! for months, but I still have not bought those CDs. "Ha ha," I said to myself, petting my imaginary Persian cat of sophistication and superiority. "Those fools! Just because it has Natalie Morales and Matt Keeslar and nerd humor and leather and crime-fighting and vampire puppets and robots is no reason that the show can't be painfully mediocre!"

I'm guessing you can see where this is going. It's all up on alluc.org, although episodes 9 through 11 have to be found by following the links in Chinese at the bottom of the page on tudou.com. I'm not going to lie and say it has no problems because it does: it follows tropes very clearly, and in some cases (the Sino-Mexican Revelation) that means some ridick racial stereotypes. But most of the time it doesn't. The main character is an ass-kicking photogenic young Cuban artist and it passes the Bechdel test, and its race modification, almost every episode.

( and now, the 'main' event )

jesuitfluff, I am so sorry this took so long.

( When to Lie, and How: possibly less entertaining commentary )

schiarire asked for let me through, paper and fist, which is funny because for a fic I didn't initially want anyone to read I think it's some of my better writing.

( paper and fist, the Big Gay Love Dissertation edition )

Destroy Everything You Touch, for deutscheami. Written for Heidi too, way back when. Seriously, go read the fic first, because it's like 300 words long.

( destroy everything you touch: director's commentary )

polaris_starz requested: DVD commentary for this.

It is called "the mirrors of versailles" because I wanted to do a series set in places I didn't go this year in Europe. Also, Juilliard is like the physical embodiment of Versailles, so it's kind of funny.

If you haven't been, Versailles has this hall with mirrors down its whole length, and it's beautiful and gaudy and ridiculous and just a little terrifying.

( the mirrors of versailles SPECIAL EDITION )