Ordinary World
In which Manhattan hesitates, Laurie goes to Jupiter, and Dan is left behind in a post-apocalyptic NYC to save Rorschach from himself.

Hey, Jupiter
Mutually Assured Destruction.
Survivors
Fallout

Interlude
beautiful and strong by twotiming

A Failure to Communicate
Détente
Epilogue

And the sprawling road trip sequel...

Exiles
In which Rorschach and Dan go on the road in search of Walter's long-lost father.

Nostalgia
The dream of the other
A Soldier's Things
Comme je suis libre
Showing Me Home

And the even-more-sprawling sequel to that...

Empire
“Did you really think that, after everything we’ve done, you’d get to have a happy ending?”

Our man in Mexico
Stains
Midnight
vulgar kings on their dirty thrones
Children of Manhattan
Epilogue


Fortunate Son
Five times Adrian Veidt showed mercy, and one time he didn't.

Clockwork Gentlemen: Whitechapel
Mainly concerning the Exploits of our noted Gentlemen Adventurers as they encounter Wondrous Mechanical Men, defeat a Vicious and Dastardly Criminal, and retrieve an Errant Top Hat from a Most Pernicious and Beguiling Lady of the Night.

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II
III
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Title: Red, White, Green, Black
Author: I am not admitting to writing this
Fandom: That would spoil it
Disclaimer: Tomohiro Nishikado's, not mine.
Rating: PG-13 for violence
Warnings: See subject line.
Summary: We have always been at war with someone.

( I see nothing here that anyone sane would want. )

A ginger hobo.

Hey kids!

As you probably know because I haven't shut up about it, I was at Comic Con last weekend. After that, I ran off to Seattle to hang out with an old friend of mine, hence the belatedness of this post. (It's crossposted to my other journal that gets updated more often, so feel free to friend that if you want.)

So Comic Con was amazing. I have totally gotten over my con-fear—everyone was amazingly friendly and I got to meet all sorts of awesome people (including the lovely snarkitysnarks and kijikun, and I bought too many books. Well, the right amount of books. It's probably good that my suitcase is only a certain size or I would have spent like a month's salary on comic books. You know I'm capable of it.

This entry is mainly paparazzi photos from SDCC because I am a big dork that way. You have been warned.

( massive geekery under the cut )

Okay, jealous yet?

P.S. Which one of you pervy bastards asked Zack Snyder about The Handshake during the live chat? ILU.

* Answer: Richard Kelly wrote and directed Donnie Darko.
** I ran into morgoid (yay!) who asked me who I was dressed up as. I was kind of, "uh, I always dress like this."

I made it into hall h and just saw the Warner bros panel. tWas pretty sweet but the audience questions from fanboys hurt me in my feminist place. Though apparently twilight demonstrated fangirls are just as bad. Was several meters away from jeh and rdj. Now waiting for miyazaki and have 3d glasses so I'm blogging in 3d

I'm skeptical as to whether all of this linking and changing one's location to Tehran actually works to hide Iranian bloggers from the authorities, but I think it's kind of a cool show of solidarity, and there's not much else we can do here but make symbolic protests. If I were more tech-savvy I'd set up a proxy server, which seems a bit more concrete.

Oddly, despite our large Iranian population here, I haven't heard of any protests happening locally. Though I expect something will happen this weekend.

I made a pie that is relevant to your interests.



Unfortunately, I have never made a pie of this sort before, and it turned out a bit fail in regards to structural integrity. I still hold out hope that it will be tasty, however.

Confidential to lienne: See you in an hour!

(Cut n' paste from The Other Journal; apologies to those who see it twice.)

Because you clearly don't have enough Watchmen reviews on your friends list.

Non-spoilery reactions: It's no secret that I, like all the fanboys, believe Watchmen to be the Greatest Graphic Novel Ever Written. Unlike the fanboys, though, I don't consider it or any other book sacrosanct.

It's unadaptable, though. Not because of the complicated narrative that sprawls four decades or so, which is what everyone seems to point to when they talk about it being unadaptable, but because what makes it really great (as opposed to just an incredible story with incredible characters), is that it's a comic book that redefines what the medium can do. In order to live up to that, the movie adaptation would have to redefine what movies can do. It doesn't. Maybe if Gilliam or Aronofsky had directed it and made it more of an art-house film, but—probably not. I still enjoyed it and will probably see it an embarrassing number of times, and it's definitely the best adaption of a Moore comic, not that that's saying very much.

[A friend of mine] had an excellent post, which I now can't find, about the upcoming new Star Trek movie and how geek movies these days have to be all GRIMDARK and SRS BUSINESS, with all of the camp drained out of the source material. He attributed it primarily to homophobia (while unintentionally ramping up the homoerotic subtext by making movies so male). And of course, these movies invariably end up seeming less mature and less serious than if they'd just left the camp in.

To me, that's the movie's biggest flaw. There are still some silly bits, but there's a definite attempt on Snyder's part to weed out as much of it as possible. So there's a minimum of spandex and a lot of slow-mo. Part of what I love about the comic is what everyone seems determined to fix—the faded, out-dated costumes and colour schemes, the rampantly silly bits ("RRRAWWWL!"), the shit that makes Moore step back and have Hollis say: "Wait, what were we thinking? We were wearing underwear on top of our pants," or something to that effect.

( spoilers! )

The next post will involve me being in a goofy costume.

P.S. So has fandom exploded with crazy yet? I've been a bit tied up today.

snarkitysnarks wrote another AU song. And it is WIN. Go have a listen.

Ganked from around:

Post a single sentence from each WIP you have (or as many as you want to pick). No context, no explanations. No more than one sentence!

1. She was a grasshopper in a den of ants, humming to herself as the winter rolled in.

2. They can’t demand more; they grow the wheat, but the seeds bear death inside of them, destroying themselves after each harvest, and Hernando travels the dangerous roads to Post every spring to beg for more from the city’s great storerooms.

3. They are the proud and unhappy daughters of dying countries.

4. I find myself drawing a stranger's face, and stop myself only when, in horror, I realize that it seems more familiar than yours.

(The last two don't really count, as they're more plotbunnies than WIPs.)

Part one, part two, and part three.

( In which there are too many top hats for our humble authoress to keep track of, and everyone knows Kovacs' mother )

Your humble narrator apologizes for the delay in updating her penny dreadful. Part one is here, part two is here.

( Wherein the Ripper enters the fray and makes a number of observations concerning our heroes )

For your perusal, I present a daguerreotype of the Lady Jupiter, c. 1868:


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My two favourite completely minor characters.



( Under here )

Crossposted to watchdom.