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1. Everybody who knows anything about British politics in the last 20 years should go read the THoC shared AU on the lolitics meme.
The House of Commons is an AU that postulates that BBC Parliament is in fact Britain's longest-running sitcom/drama, and the AU exists entirely in the form of press clippings with behind-the-scenes articles and interviews with actors on the show.
It encapsulates everything that draws me to RPF fandoms: the fact that things happen and characters get starring roles that would *never* happen in a fiction verse, because they would simply be too overdramatic and too unlikely and to difficult to sell; the way we use RPF both to comment on real events, and to re-write them into a better world; the layers of reality and unreality, that wrap public figures' personae, both in RPF and in the mainstream press; the alternating detachment and overinvestment that come with modern media coverage, the way press information is filtered and turned into a story; and also the sheer collective fun of it all, of course, all wrapped up in a lovely package of fluffy fourth-wall-breaking meta fic.
It currently exists as six "articles" on the anon meme and growing, and they are all, universally, brilliant. Even if you usually squick on RPF, you should still go read; the stories are all about the fictional 'actors' who play the RL characters and their experiences, so it shouldn't trip anyone's privacy buttons (and it's g-rated, of course.) I love it so much.
(The other really amazing group AU currently going over there is the Strap!Verse, which postulates that party loyalty in the British Parliament is really enforced with whips. And canes. And straps. And bare-hand spankings. But I don't suggest you try that one unless you are already comfortable with RPF kink. And have an afternoon free - it has about 30 heavily interconnected stories already.)
2. 10 O'Clock Live is really happening! 10 O'Clock Live is the new weekly British fake news show starring David Mitchell, Charlie Brooker, Jimmy Carr, and Lauren Laverne. As someone said on the Charlie Brooker community, this is either going to fail miserably or turn into the next Top Gear.
In the meantime, the new trailer on Youtube is making me very very happy. :D
Also HIGNFY is back, and I am totally writing a boarding school AU where Paul and Ian are classmates and make life hell for all of the teachers, because they can't be expelled now that Ian has photographic evidence of Headmaster Deayton's little coke-and-whores problem. (Causing trouble in Mr. Clarkson's chemistry class is difficult, though, because he usually manages to accidentally set something on fire himself before they get a chance to.)
3. Oh, if anybody wants an invite to the SEKRIT TORRENT SITE for British television, I have two to give out now!
(I believe the SEKRIT TORRENT SITE for Australian/Canadian/occasionally another Commonwealth country television is still in open membership; if you want to know how to sign up I can tell you.)
Also, if anybody wants an invite to Demonoid, I am not sure how many I have? But probably enough for anybody here who asks for one. Lots.
I also have an AO3 invite and lots of DW invites, while I'm at it.
Drop a comment here or a PM and I'll PM you with a code if you want any of those, first-come-first-served, no questions asked.
4. I am still not doing NaNo with a barely-disguised lolitics RPF sci-fi AU, but I did reactivate my NaNo account. With its less-than-10,000 user number. I may try to find any of y'all who are doing it this year and buddy you there, if I can figure out who.
Also I went and drew a cover image for it. Because I'd been staring at lots of great old SF paperbacks covers from the '70s while cleaning the things, obviously, and not because I'm actually going to write the thing.
But, I know a couple of times on![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
gimp_gate people have asked for tutorials with scanned art and comics-style work. Would anybody be interested in a detail tutorial on my method for taking a pen-and-ink drawing and turning it into something that looks like this - computer colored and shaded and vaguely slick - using nothing but freeware, a digital camera, and a laptop touchpad?
The House of Commons is an AU that postulates that BBC Parliament is in fact Britain's longest-running sitcom/drama, and the AU exists entirely in the form of press clippings with behind-the-scenes articles and interviews with actors on the show.
It encapsulates everything that draws me to RPF fandoms: the fact that things happen and characters get starring roles that would *never* happen in a fiction verse, because they would simply be too overdramatic and too unlikely and to difficult to sell; the way we use RPF both to comment on real events, and to re-write them into a better world; the layers of reality and unreality, that wrap public figures' personae, both in RPF and in the mainstream press; the alternating detachment and overinvestment that come with modern media coverage, the way press information is filtered and turned into a story; and also the sheer collective fun of it all, of course, all wrapped up in a lovely package of fluffy fourth-wall-breaking meta fic.
It currently exists as six "articles" on the anon meme and growing, and they are all, universally, brilliant. Even if you usually squick on RPF, you should still go read; the stories are all about the fictional 'actors' who play the RL characters and their experiences, so it shouldn't trip anyone's privacy buttons (and it's g-rated, of course.) I love it so much.
(The other really amazing group AU currently going over there is the Strap!Verse, which postulates that party loyalty in the British Parliament is really enforced with whips. And canes. And straps. And bare-hand spankings. But I don't suggest you try that one unless you are already comfortable with RPF kink. And have an afternoon free - it has about 30 heavily interconnected stories already.)
2. 10 O'Clock Live is really happening! 10 O'Clock Live is the new weekly British fake news show starring David Mitchell, Charlie Brooker, Jimmy Carr, and Lauren Laverne. As someone said on the Charlie Brooker community, this is either going to fail miserably or turn into the next Top Gear.
In the meantime, the new trailer on Youtube is making me very very happy. :D
Also HIGNFY is back, and I am totally writing a boarding school AU where Paul and Ian are classmates and make life hell for all of the teachers, because they can't be expelled now that Ian has photographic evidence of Headmaster Deayton's little coke-and-whores problem. (Causing trouble in Mr. Clarkson's chemistry class is difficult, though, because he usually manages to accidentally set something on fire himself before they get a chance to.)
3. Oh, if anybody wants an invite to the SEKRIT TORRENT SITE for British television, I have two to give out now!
(I believe the SEKRIT TORRENT SITE for Australian/Canadian/occasionally another Commonwealth country television is still in open membership; if you want to know how to sign up I can tell you.)
Also, if anybody wants an invite to Demonoid, I am not sure how many I have? But probably enough for anybody here who asks for one. Lots.
I also have an AO3 invite and lots of DW invites, while I'm at it.
Drop a comment here or a PM and I'll PM you with a code if you want any of those, first-come-first-served, no questions asked.
4. I am still not doing NaNo with a barely-disguised lolitics RPF sci-fi AU, but I did reactivate my NaNo account. With its less-than-10,000 user number. I may try to find any of y'all who are doing it this year and buddy you there, if I can figure out who.
Also I went and drew a cover image for it. Because I'd been staring at lots of great old SF paperbacks covers from the '70s while cleaning the things, obviously, and not because I'm actually going to write the thing.
But, I know a couple of times on
gimp_gate people have asked for tutorials with scanned art and comics-style work. Would anybody be interested in a detail tutorial on my method for taking a pen-and-ink drawing and turning it into something that looks like this - computer colored and shaded and vaguely slick - using nothing but freeware, a digital camera, and a laptop touchpad?
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NaNo account is ronarfel. I have no plot this year and appear poised to try to write a seat of the pants meta-metanovel by default.
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(Would you like to borrow one of my spare plots? Name a genre and I'll give you a plot in fifty words or less.)
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But if you want to throw a plot at me, feel free!
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...Epic pirate rabbi sounds *awesome*.
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(Also, okay, I know only the very basics about S&A. I assume this is the relevant bit? "Oh, Anna is finally taking a vacation, in Bolivia. Well, apparently there's some kind of counter-revolution going on but I'm told that Anna has taken up with the leader of the revolutionaries." Can I ask: Why Bolivia? Because that's not really an area I would associate with violent regime change lately. In which case I'd be tempted to interpret "revolutionary" rather broadly...)
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The Bolivia thing... well, bear in mind that S&A is never the most realistic of shows, nor is it the most geopolitically sensitive of shows. The final season has a subplot involving a Bolivian folk music troupe that's trapped in Canada when there's a revolution back home, and Anna ends up getting quasi-accidentally thrown into a relationship with one of the musicians because she doesn't speak Spanish. I imagine the answer to "Why Bolivia" is precisely because the region has not been involved with violent regime change recently, and the writers were looking to avoid any relationship with reality.
S&A likes to loosely follow Shakespearean plots, and I kind of think something based on Coriolanus makes the most sense as the play that is more or less about a proletarian revolution? But some other play might be cool, too, I guess?
So where does that leave me? I guess I'm looking for a dark action farce plot based loosely on Coriolanus, set in a fantasyland/tropeland South America. With Bolivian music if possible? And if I can thrown in magical realist elements I'm sure it'd work, but I don't actually know the Popul Vuh, so if you want to point me in that direction remember to give me resources on how to learn more about that.
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And can I have an invite to Demonoid?
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Demonoid is being cranky about giving me another code yet - I might have to wait, or the last one I generated might have to be used? I dunno, I don't know much about the inner workings there. You are next on the list as soon as I can get another code!never mind, I have more now.no subject
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(...I parsed your username as 'sofa violet' for the longest time. I was imagining a consumptive Victorian heroine with her skirts spread about her as she lay palely back.)
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They're pretty strict about making you stay active too, though.
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Oh, that is fantastic. Thanks for the rec.
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