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Five Things
1. All my yuletide research and plotting is done and I'm 3,000 words into writing! ...and still have two more main characters who haven't even been introduced yet.
2. One of the few surviving myths about Heimdall is that he's really into m/m/f threesomes, and I feel like Thor fandom has been severely underusing that fact. (The whole "crossdressing Thor" thing was also at least partly his idea, for the record.)
(This is the REFRAIN of his poem: He knew well | wise words to speak, / He rose from the board, | made ready to sleep; / Soon in the bed | himself did he lay, / And on either side | the others were.)
3. I am easing back into tag wrangling very slowly, and the first fandoms I claimed off the unclaimed list were As Time Goes By, Earthsea, the Muppet Show, and Pokemon: Magikarp Jump. I feel like this is a scathing yet accurate summary of me as a person, somehow.
4. Before reading Astolat's recent fic, I knew basically three things about G1 Transformers canon:
a) They are More Than Meets The Eye
b) Optimus Prime is the leader of the Autobots, Megatron is the leader of the Decepticons (and NOT an archangel. Probably?), and between them is literal eons of high epic tragedy.
c) Starscream is some kind of fighter jet who transforms into a walking talking trash fire.
d) There is a transformer who turns into a GIANT CASSETTE TAPE. As camouflage. On Earth. At some point, some poor writer had to make this make sense in a cartoon.
....it amuses me greatly that so far d) has been most relevant to understanding Astolat's fic.
5. I made a persimmon pudding with locally gathered persimmons! I had never cooked a pudding from scratch before (unless flan counts) so I didn't really have a good idea of how it was supposed to come out, but I've wanted to try one for years. I really like the taste, but I made the mistake of trying it warm out of the oven, and the texture was basically "pumpkin pie that somebody has already chewed up and spit out once." I'm not sure it that was how it was supposed to be or I screwed up cooking it. (I'm pretty sure I got the amount of egg wrong - it's hard to tell what size egg with older recipes - and I know I was a little short on persimmon, and I pulped it with a potato ricer because it was too tedious even for me to do by hand, and all of that could have screwed up the texture.)
I am told it is much better chilled by people who tried it after me, but now I am kinda too scared to try it again.
2. One of the few surviving myths about Heimdall is that he's really into m/m/f threesomes, and I feel like Thor fandom has been severely underusing that fact. (The whole "crossdressing Thor" thing was also at least partly his idea, for the record.)
(This is the REFRAIN of his poem: He knew well | wise words to speak, / He rose from the board, | made ready to sleep; / Soon in the bed | himself did he lay, / And on either side | the others were.)
3. I am easing back into tag wrangling very slowly, and the first fandoms I claimed off the unclaimed list were As Time Goes By, Earthsea, the Muppet Show, and Pokemon: Magikarp Jump. I feel like this is a scathing yet accurate summary of me as a person, somehow.
4. Before reading Astolat's recent fic, I knew basically three things about G1 Transformers canon:
a) They are More Than Meets The Eye
b) Optimus Prime is the leader of the Autobots, Megatron is the leader of the Decepticons (and NOT an archangel. Probably?), and between them is literal eons of high epic tragedy.
c) Starscream is some kind of fighter jet who transforms into a walking talking trash fire.
d) There is a transformer who turns into a GIANT CASSETTE TAPE. As camouflage. On Earth. At some point, some poor writer had to make this make sense in a cartoon.
....it amuses me greatly that so far d) has been most relevant to understanding Astolat's fic.
5. I made a persimmon pudding with locally gathered persimmons! I had never cooked a pudding from scratch before (unless flan counts) so I didn't really have a good idea of how it was supposed to come out, but I've wanted to try one for years. I really like the taste, but I made the mistake of trying it warm out of the oven, and the texture was basically "pumpkin pie that somebody has already chewed up and spit out once." I'm not sure it that was how it was supposed to be or I screwed up cooking it. (I'm pretty sure I got the amount of egg wrong - it's hard to tell what size egg with older recipes - and I know I was a little short on persimmon, and I pulped it with a potato ricer because it was too tedious even for me to do by hand, and all of that could have screwed up the texture.)
I am told it is much better chilled by people who tried it after me, but now I am kinda too scared to try it again.
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My only other major Transformers memory of note is that Megatron turns into a gun, which seems like a terrible idea for the leader, because he is fully dependent on someone else to not just go 'eh - whatever dude' and let his ass fall to the ground. (Which amuses me probably more than it should.)
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I had a vague memory there was a giant gun and that was also pointless, but I had not realized it was Megatron! Wow. I don't think anybody has ever had him transform in any of the fic I've read (not just Astolat's, although most of the other stuff has been other continuities, 'cause very few people seem to write G1 plug'n'play.)
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Nothing like a cartoon that was created for the sole purpose of selling toys.
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I don't even know, man.
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