The Turtle Jourtle

I had a dream that I received my art assignment for the Professionals Big Bang, but that the person whose story I was assigned didn't want me making the art to go with it. They got very angry and chased me around an underground maze (as one does). I think we came to some kind of understanding eventually, though.

Things Not to Do in the Middle of the Night #241: reread Bodie Lost and Bodie Found

I'm making progress on a new Pros vid after roughly six months of alternating false starts and apathy. I have a point of view and a brainstorming grid, and I've begun filling in clips. Now the only question is: Will people still love me if I use a country song?

This post provides links to to all of my reader's choice posts from the Man from U.N.C.L.E. Section VII (section7mfu) comm's Writer's and Reader's Choice series.
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Something I've found to be important in vid making is to have a point of view in mind. Who is "I"? Who is "you"? Who is "we"? I try to let my vids speak for themselves, so I haven't labelled them on AO3 or YouTube as having particular points of view (as I have my few fics). Nevertheless, almost all of them do, at least per section. In my first vid, "Behind Blue Eyes", Cowley, Bodie, and Doyle each got a verse.* My slash vid, "You Baby", uses Bodie's point of view. "We are the Champions" is Cowley POV, with the verses' "I" referring to himself and the refrain's "we" referring to his organization as he sees it. "Who'll Stop the Rain" is very clearly a Doyle POV vid, and "Just a Little Light" is split between Bodie and Doyle, with each getting half (and with “you” referring to the other partner throughout). The only exception to the rule is "Life During Wartime". While the song uses the first and second person, the vid has a third-party POV that looks on at the Lads' world (or so it seems to me). I think it still works; the difference makes it the least emotional of my vids, though.** At any rate, I have had several vid ideas incubating for some time, but showing no signs of pipping. And I think I might have moved one of them closer to maturity tonight by deciding firmly on a point of view.

See this journal entry for an index of the LiveJournal posts associated with my vids.

*(Although I think one of the weaknesses of that vid is that it's a bit hard to follow the structure. I may produce a second edition at some point.)

**(ETA: I suppose the song choice probably affects this, as well. The song “Life During Wartime” is a bit tongue-in-cheek; it's not as sincere as the others.)

I've never posted a meme before. I got this one from gilda_elise, whose post was linked in the Pros Newsletter.

1) How many stories have you posted?
Three.
(Also 6 vids and a bunch of photo manipulations.)

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Tonight I've been playing with a tool that shows the most frequently used words in a chosen text, minus a list of very common ones ("the", "of", and so on). I found the list generated by my recent fic What We Are evocative:( Read more... )

I had an UNCLE dream! I spent a good part of last evening writing a message about MFU fanfic, so I guess I had it on the brain. In my dream, Illya and Napoleon were, for some reason that did not survive waking, supervising school standardized testing in Texas. *g*

This is an index of LiveJournal posts associated with my fics.

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

What We Are

The Professionals

Faith and Reasons

Black Bun, White Paper

Enjoy.

I have a compilation of mid-century Christmas radio hits. Among these, which is the song that makes me cry every time I hear it?

Is it the Roy Orbison tear-jerker "Pretty Paper"?
Is it the wistful "I'll Be Home for Christmas"?
Is it "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas", which is so apt this year?

No. It is the novelty song "Snoopy's Christmas", the hero of which is a cartoon beagle.