This Place to Be

Sherlock! So much love.
I love the look of it. It reminds me a little of Queer as Folk, I don't even know why. Something about the framing, maybe, or all the cabs. The text messaging thing is great.

I also like how little it is about crazy, nasty serial killers. There's Moriarty, but he's the only "crazy" killer. The taxi driver was borderline, but had understandable motives; could rationalise it. Likewise the Black Lotus deaths make sense in the context of their 'business'. The other deaths are accidental, people getting caught in situations that get out of control.

I've watched some British crime shows that are particularly awful about mental health and trauma and basically implying that people who murder other people do it because they are "mad" and they have been "sent mad" by abuse (usually sexual).

I do get every now and then struck by the rhetorical question: why are there not more non-White characters in this show?

( This got long and rambling )

So, yeah. It hasn't stopped me really enjoying the show (and using up all my high speed download to get more). But it is kind of distracting sometimes. I keep wanting to recast secondary characters.

I've just started watching Community. No one knows each other yet. Troy and Abed have barely spoken to each other yet! (I have to wait til Tuesday to get more episodes.)

Also continuing my rewatch of The West Wing. Just watched The Falls Gonna Kill You. Had to check to make sure that there was CJ/Abbey fic somewhere because ♥

Books I have read so far this year:
Italian Renaissance Art by Laurie Schneider Adams. Good overview of everything, but the writing wasn't great.
The Kingdom of Gods by N K Jemisin. OMG! ♥ everyone!
Payback by Margaret Atwood. This was very well written and interesting.

Helen Frankenthaler died.

I knew her for her colour field paintings, but until the reference in the NY obituary, I did not know that she was also a printmaker. She created some extra ordinary woodblock prints.

I could do further academic research into Helen Frankenthaler's woodcuts. Also in how her body of work is reinterpreted after her death.

I said that I wouldn't get this done by the end of the year, didn't I?

( On content and ratings )

In other news I have an appointment with a new optometrist today. Getting contact lenses again! I could very well have them in time to go on holiday week after next, which would be marvellous. That just reminded me that I have buy my ticket to go away, so I've done that now. That also involved a phone call.

Work keeps scheduling me for fewer hours than I've been expecting. I'm not very efficient at the moment, but there is definitely work available and I said I was available and they put me. Now they've taken it back. I'd really appreciate the money, even though having the extra time today has meant a whole lot of stuff has gotten done.

I want a Steve/Tony icon.

Tomorrow is the Trans Day of Remembrance.

I think it will be no internet day for me, which is kind of interesting, because the only other day I feel as much like that about is Good Friday. Anyway, there are also a lot of things on tomorrow, so I'll be out of the house most of the day. And I start work at 2 on Mondays, now, three hours earlier than I used to. (Money is good. It's only for a couple of months.)

TDoR is a wear yellow day. I have yellow nail polish. I went searching for yellow clothes and found none. I do, however, have a yellow badge that says "♂ some assembly required" so I'll be wearing that all day. Even at church. And my Transphobia kills badge. And my favourite, which says "We are everywhere/We want everything."

Days of Fanfic today is about canon v fanon:

Do you prefer canon or fanon when you write? Has writing fanfic for a fandom changed the way you see some or even all of the original source material?

Fanfic reading and writing has absolutely changed the way that I watch/read things in general and sources when I return to them. I'm more aware of subtle elements of physicality than I used to be. How people move and where they look and the opportunities and spaces in texts.

That said, I would never write based on fanon that was contradicted by canon, except for shows like SGA or the Avengers-verse where there is so much more canon than I am familiar with, where so much more of my consumption of the show is through fic than the source. But I do try very much to be aware of what is canon and what is fanon, and actually avoid answering questions or using info that I can't trace to canon for sure. In terms of characterisation, or more oblique kind of stuff, I'm happy to go where the story needs me to go. If it's wandering into out of character (based on canon, but also where fanon has established a suspension of disbelief), then the story is wrong. So, I'll write to canon, but if it's in the opposite direction to fanon, I'll try to explain myself more on the way.