#greengeometry

Yes! I have it downloaded but haven’t watched it yet. I’m excited because I’m pretty sure whoever wrote it based it lightly on the UChicago Scav (which is also what birthed GISHWES). 

Correct! About a week, yep.

Gosh, it’s been a long time. I’m pretty sure I actually did make mixes for a few of my longer fics -- I believe Sweet Home also had a playlist -- but either they were never published or they were lost to the sands of time (and the hack of my Livejournal in 2008). 

When I’m writing longform I often do come up with playlists, not even so much music that I listen to while writing (I have a very hard time with audio input while writing, so it’s usually silence or white noise) but just songs that I think vibe with the story. I just don’t always think to share them, especially since often the songs I’m listening to aren’t all available on sharing sites like Spotify (I don’t actually know how Spotify works. I still get most of my music in downloaded DRM-free MP3s.)

For example, this is the playlist I made for Six Harvests. It’s pretty modern in relative terms -- it’s not like O Brother Where Art Thou, which drew on era-specific music -- but I love the idea of pairing pop music and a dust bowl aesthetic.

Old Crow Medicine Show - Wagon Wheel

Queen & David Bowie - Under Pressure

Marc Cohn - Walking in Memphis

Stevie Nicks - Landslide

Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth

Norman Greenbaum - Spirit in the Sky

The Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star

The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army 

The Traveling Wilburys - End Of The Line

Aw, happy slightly belated birthday Joci! My cryptids are celebrating her birthday with Naps Atop The Heated Mattress Pad. 

greengeometry replied to your post “so i'm watching sleepless in seattle with my mom, who's always loved...”

thanks for the insight! i have to admit i asked this about halfway through the movie and then proceeded to finish it, and it was very cute and touching in the end (and my mom kept saying 'you've got to see the beginning!' whenever i complained about it). also, yeah i was under a year old when it came out so i definitely missed the cultural zeitgeist of it lol

Now I want to rewatch the movie, I’m wondering how it actually has aged. I might see if I can find a copy. Although as I recall the beginning was basically just Tom Hanks Being Super Sad.

I totally did rewatch it. It actually holds up pretty well though it moves SUPER SLOW.  But I’m not wrong, the entire start of the movie is Tom Hanks Being Super Sad. 

prairie-grass replied to your post “I’ve owned cats before, but never a bonded pair - I’m familiar with...”

I really really hope they keep being frands. Both my mum and my brother got two kittens so that they would be friends which worked great as babies but when they grew up they were really competitive and grumpy with each other. Are your two actually related? In these cases the kittens weren't and I've always wondered if that would make a difference.

They are indeed sisters, though I don’t know if that will help as they grow older. They do seem to be very close, though. I think they’ve only been separated twice in their lives, once when they were spayed (for which they were both unconscious anyway) and the second time when I took them to the vet and Polk had to be taken out to have her ears washed. Dearborn got very freaked out by that. 

When I came in to adopt them, they were sleeping curled up with each other in their litterbox. I was like “Yep, those are the goobers for me.” 

niennanir replied to your post “I would like to counter previous anon's comparison of Dearborn & Polk...”

I'm going to go with Steve (Polk) and Bucky (Dearborn)

Ahahaha, I had to think about this for a while, because my idea of Bucky and Steve is skewed by @buckykingofmemes and @memecaptainsteverogers. :D But yeah I think in canon, Polk is definitely more like Steve and Dearborn is more like Bucky -- not TRYING to get in as much trouble but always ENDING UP in way more. 

Oh man. Sleepless in Seattle. A BLAST FROM THE PAST. 

I don’t know how old you are so I don’t know if you were around for Sleepless in Seattle in the cinemas in 1993 but it was, culturally, a massive hit. It was one of those movies you had to see just so that you’d get the jokes on late night television.  

I haven’t seen it since probably the late 90s, and I’m sure it hasn’t aged well. But I think one of the reasons it was so popular, especially among women, was exactly the things you’re talking about. Because all you would need to do is swap the pronouns for this to be almost any other romcom like...ever. 

Tom Hanks doesn’t want any of what is happening to be happening. It’s not that he’s not doing anything; he’s trying to raise his child and recover from a shattering loss, he’s doing internal work, emotional work. But he is the passive half of the main romantic couple for the majority of the film. He doesn’t want to talk to a radio therapist about his dead wife, he FOR SURE doesn’t want the national attention it brings him, he doesn’t want a new relationship, he just wants to sulk on his houseboat forever. In the rain.

Meg Ryan is the aggressor, which is very rarely ever the woman’s role in these films. She’s the one who follows him around, who imperils her relationships for him, who JUST KNOWS that if she can convince him, he’ll be hers forever. For a woman to be in that role TODAY, let alone 25 years ago, is generally 100% unacceptable to Hollywood -- you only see women doing what she does in horror films or as the “funny” B-story about the pathetic man-hungry best friend. 

But Sleepless in Seattle pulled it off -- they put the woman in the male role. And that was so rare, and done so charmingly, that people lost their shit over it without even realizing that was why.