geek fun

I had a wonderfully geeky night last night, hanging out with zinjadu, ryunohi and maymargaret. We watched... hmm... "Soul Hunter," "Born to the Purple," and "Eyes" for Babylon 5, and "Train Job" for Firefly. Everybody liked the silliness that is first season B5 (and, once again, I made killing gestures at Sinclair during one of his big speeches... that seems to happen frequently), and there was much mockery and love. And then much oo'ing and sighing over the prettiness that is Firefly, particularly after the total crap special effects budget and such of B5.

I'm sure I had other things to say, many of them involving how horribly much I adore both those shows, but my brain is kind of spazzing right now.

Oh, and basil recipes from NPR! Because when MSN is screwy, the Seattle Times and the PI won't load. Also because I love basil.

reading list and meme

Reading list continued:

( Reading list )

And the Classical personality meme that's been going around: ( Yeah, pretty accurate )

hugo notes, and firefly fic

Because everybody in sf fandom is talking about it... the Hugos. First off, I'd like to note that Browncoats have reason to celebrate - Serenity won whatever-the-heck the Hugos call the film category! Go us. Oh, and if you search YouTube there's a great video of Morena delivering Joss' acceptance speech on behalf of the cast/crew. It's very cute.

Unfortunately, something else that happened at the event kind of ruined my good feelings about this. There's a ton of other wonderful posts about what happened (sigelphoenix in particular, out of people that I know personally), but that one is a good summary, although I somewhat disagree with the writer on what should be done. Internet censuring is not the answer. The answer is a swift and unequivocal response from the professional science fiction community, telling Ellison and the rest of the community that this kind of shit is just not acceptable. And that's exactly what I'm not really seeing, and it makes me unhappy. I know there are a lot of good, well-known and respected male writers of sci-fi out there who are usually on the front lines against this kind of shit, and I'm honestly pretty angry that none of them have said a thing yet. What the fans say, in the end, isn't really an issue here. Ellison is hardly at a point in his career where he gives a flying fuck what the plebes on the internet think of his behavior, if he ever would have (and some vague impressions of his general demeanor give me the sense that he wouldn't have). One would hope that the opinions of his professional colleagues might mean something.

(Also, is it just me or is Connie Willis saying that Ellison has "done worse" even more disturbing than anything else in this whole disaster? If you'll excuse me, I'll just be over here being very glad that I've never read any of his books... and devoutly wishing that he had nothing to do with other things that I love. Ugh.)

Anyway. Fic. It's a bit abrupt and unedited, and I'm sorry that it took me so long!

Quite a while ago, I put out an offer for story requests, and storydivagirl asked for Mal/Kaylee, no bashing of Simon or Inara, and the quote "Why do you put me on a pedestal, I'm so high I can't see the ground below..."

( Simple Dreams )