House is dead; long live House!*

Well, it's been eight years now, and in the time that this show has been on the air, a.) the word 'bromance' has somehow become a Thing, something I believe House/Wilson is at least partially to blame for, and b.) said word 'bromance' has been used, by House, to describe his relationship with Wilson. I feel like I could tease this into something profound about homoeroticism and the pop culture ouroboros, but I think I'm just going to boggle instead.

I drifted away from House a couple of times while it was on the air and caught up later, most recently when I heard that it was going to be ending, so I would be prepared for the big send-off. Although I don't know that I would recommend the last season as objectively good or even watchable television, I did personally find a number of things to squee over:
( Spoilers/rambling about House season 8 )

So then there was a final episode. And ( spoilers, briefly. )

*Not actually a spoiler as such.

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I kind of really want to vid Tony/Pepper to the Dar Williams song The Ocean. Actually, I kind of want to vid Tony/Pepper to every other song that comes up on shuffle lately, but this one has stuck with me.

... I'm going to have to learn how to actually make a vid, aren't I. Dammit.

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I'm regretting now that I didn't find a cave or something four years ago when I saw Iron Man and devote myself to consuming vast quantities of Avengers-related comics (which would, of course, later be recapitulated in a five-minute training montage). I just want to write all the porn and find myself hampered by a lack of paracanonical knowledge to draw world-building detail from. I mean, seriously, how are you going to set a sex scene on a planetoid if you're not sure how its gravitational pull would affect visiting humans?

Speaking of source canon knowledge, we probably would have seen The Avengers again yesterday if it hadn't been for the release of the latest messy and rather self-indulgent Tim Burton/Johnny Depp/Helena Bonham Carter collaboration, Dark Shadows. You see, a while back This American Life reran their Conventions episode, and we learned that my mother had been a youthful aficionado of Barnabas Collins and his gothic doings. In fact, she said, when her family went on vacation in 1967, her friend Carla made copious notes for her so that she would be apprised of everything that had taken place in Collinwood. My brother and I both being huge genre dorks, naturally we thought this was amazing, and when we heard about the movie with Johnny Depp, whom my mother will watch in literally anything although she denies that this constitutes a crush, we knew we were going to be taking her to see it.

Even better, before we actually left for the movie, my mom combed through all of her keepsake boxes and actually found a letter from Carla with her recap! I have transcribed it for posterity and your reading pleasure ( below. )

The movie itself was not bad, although it relies pretty lazily on fish-out-of-water humor and Johnny Depp's funny reaction faces to everything. To be fair, Johnny Depp does have some very funny reaction faces.

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I will freely admit that the only reason that I got into the whole Avengers thing is my profound and abiding love of the Iron Man movies and Tony Stark. There were things I enjoyed about the Captain America and Thor movies, yes, but they were still basically homework that I had to get through so I could watch the new Iron Man movie (and, like homework, I totally put it off and didn't finish watching Thor until the last possible minute, in the car on Friday afternoon). I flatly refused to have anything to do with any Hulk movies; I asked my brother if he thought there was anything I needed to know from them, and he gave me this pop quiz:

Him: What does the Hulk do?
Me: Smash?
Him: You're good.

I mention this only to underscore the fact that, post-movie, they are basically all my favorites. Especially the Hulk. Did not see that one coming in a gigantic pair of trousers.

I was fortunate enough to get to watch it with the aforementioned brother, late Friday night under the influence of large doses of caffeine, all circumstances which enhanced my enjoyment greatly but also militated against sharing said enjoyment in any coherent manner. Here, therefore, are some ( belated and not particularly coherent thoughts. )

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... by which I mean the television program. I do not actually recommend revenge as a way of life.

Last night, ( mildest of mild spoilers for last night's Revenge ). Aww, OT3.

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I just finished reading the Queen's Thief books while primed by ellen_fremedon's post on the subject, so I couldn't help noticing that Sounis's reemergence in A Conspiracy of Kings forms a perfect natural sedoretu. I ship all four marriages kind of a lot, but the het couples are obviously too cute to break up.

(Incidentally, can I just praise the craft that goes into writing four books in a series that each end with the exact same plot twist? It's like M. Night Shyamalan directed four movies that each end with the revelation that Bruce Willis is, in fact, dead. [That probably would have been a better reveal at the end of The Happening.] That takes serious writing chops.)

I won my copies of The Thief and The Queen of Attolia from Worldbuilders 2010, so Megan Whalen Turner drew a cow in the front of my book. ( It is adorable: )

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On a lark, I decided to try my hand at Script Frenzy, which is like NaNoWriMo only with scripts and in April. I did not, particularly, have any ideas that I was planning to turn into a screenplay, teleplay, play, graphic novel or similar. I did not particularly have any ideas that I was writing at all.

I decided to write a screenplay. A big, Hollywood-type of screenplay, since obviously it's never going to be made by anyone, so I might as well give myself an ample budget. Then I thought for a while about big, Hollywood-type movies that are never going to be made that I want to see, and I came up with: Gay James Bond. Which is to say, a spy very similar to (and not any more realistic than) James Bond, who is also gay, and has lots of gratuitous on-screen sex.

I have read all the Bond books, but the only Bond movie I have seen more than two minutes of is the 2009 Casino Royale, and of course I have never written a screenplay, so this should be interesting. So far I seem to be rattling along at a breakneck pace courtesy of all this lovely whitespace that takes up two-thirds of a properly-formatted screenpage.

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I bought a supporting membership for Chicon 7 so I could nominate, read and vote for the Hugos this year! Nominations are due by the 11th, and I've sorted what I'm nomming for Best Novel, because novels are a thing that I actually read on a regular basis. When it comes to the various lengths of shorter fiction, zines, artists, editors, fan writers (apparently not the same as fanfic writers, alas), &c., I am essentially a blank slate. As, at the moment, is my ballot.

Feel free to recommend nominations for these categories! I will happily consider any suggestions and nominate things on your behalf.

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Check out cliosfolly's Old Spice Chaucer (the poet your poet could write like). It is a thing of beauty.

(I'm on a pilgrimage!)

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I found a nigh-pristine first edition of Trojan Gold on the clearance shelf at my local Half Price Books for a dollar! Hardly a priceless incunabulum, to be sure, but it pleases me greatly. It joins my two mass market paperback copies, which have been demoted to 'copy for reading' and 'copy for reading in the bathtub' respectively.

I finally turned off anonymous comments on LJ. I would have liked to have left them on, but deleting all the stupid shoe spam was starting to seem like a part-time job. Since I have yet to be spammed on DW, however, anonymous comments are still on there.

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