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Not Exactly Follow Friday (Again)
It says ... something ... about just what kind of a dork I am that I went to see Iron Man II, and while there were many things about the movie that I liked and would enjoy discussing, the actual squee!OMG! moments?
TESSERACTS!
DOUBLE PENDULUM!!!
...I guess I am still a math geek at heart.
Also, a double pendulum (aka "Chaos Machine") is the best symbol for movie!Tony ever. I could go on and on about the scene with Tony and the double pendulum.
If I was the sort of person who could make things like that, I would figure out how to make a wind-up clock with a double-pendulum tick. I have wanted to for years. Since I can't, I am so tempted to go down to the cave tonight and build me just the pendulum, counterweighted to swing a long time like the one in the movie. With a box of scraps.
(Note: this is not cut because neither the pendulum nor the tesseracts have any actual spoilery significance whatsoever; they were set dressing. Thus my enormous levels of geekery.)
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Click on this cut if you would like to see some racy vintage postcards of silent-movie era Hollywood Bathing Beauties.
Four of the cards are watermarked "Mack Sennet Comedies", who you can find quite a bit about on the internet, and they were in my grandfather's effects. Now you know as much about them as I do.
If you are not interested in racy vintage postcards of women wearing bathing costumes I would dearly like to own, then we clearly have very different tastes in postcards. But perhaps you would be more interested in one of these posts I have recently made on dreamwidth communities:
At![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
sca_attire, photographs of me wearing nothing but a period linen shirt! I understand some of you are interested in that sort of thing. Also featuring: discussion of crossdressing while re-enacting, and me whining about how sewing is hard.
Attopgearslash (locked) and crossovers (unlocked), Part One of the Top Gear/Dr. Who(/Torchwood/Sarah Jane/Big Finish) crossover of doomy doom! (Featuring: men who love their cars and/or spaceships too much, and also bonus multimedia enrichment downloads.)
Atpoetry, this week I am posting an elaborate four-part stealth argument-by-example for poetry as fanwork: NASA RPS from 1970, three variations on Dover Beach, and about a Flemish tapestry. And also some very silly things.
And atcommon_nature, an account of a trip to the beach, in which there are kites, hidden treasures and fossil-hunting.
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Also, overcome by election coverage (OMG, I have discovered that it is possible to be fannish over election results for countries that *are not mine*! So exciting: all the fun, 75% less stress. Hooray!) I have started writing up a post - probably to be posted topunditfic - entitled "A Guide To British Fake News for Americans". Are there any British persons reading this who would like to look it over before I post it, for blatant errors?
I also now really, really want the alternate future where David Mitchell started the revolution, Charlie Brooker led it, Andy Zaltzman ended up Home Secretary, and mtf!Patchula J. Oliver spent years in prison after Bristol Palin was elected President of the USA. (They write these things *for* us, guys.)
And finally, if you would like to be on my "obsessing over diversity, privilege and appropriation re: my original characters as an excuse to not actually write anything in their universes" filter, first post to go up soon entitled "wow I have a lot of trans* characters", please click here:
TESSERACTS!
DOUBLE PENDULUM!!!
...I guess I am still a math geek at heart.
Also, a double pendulum (aka "Chaos Machine") is the best symbol for movie!Tony ever. I could go on and on about the scene with Tony and the double pendulum.
If I was the sort of person who could make things like that, I would figure out how to make a wind-up clock with a double-pendulum tick. I have wanted to for years. Since I can't, I am so tempted to go down to the cave tonight and build me just the pendulum, counterweighted to swing a long time like the one in the movie. With a box of scraps.
(Note: this is not cut because neither the pendulum nor the tesseracts have any actual spoilery significance whatsoever; they were set dressing. Thus my enormous levels of geekery.)
***
Click on this cut if you would like to see some racy vintage postcards of silent-movie era Hollywood Bathing Beauties.
Four of the cards are watermarked "Mack Sennet Comedies", who you can find quite a bit about on the internet, and they were in my grandfather's effects. Now you know as much about them as I do.
If you are not interested in racy vintage postcards of women wearing bathing costumes I would dearly like to own, then we clearly have very different tastes in postcards. But perhaps you would be more interested in one of these posts I have recently made on dreamwidth communities:
At
sca_attire, photographs of me wearing nothing but a period linen shirt! I understand some of you are interested in that sort of thing. Also featuring: discussion of crossdressing while re-enacting, and me whining about how sewing is hard.At
topgearslash (locked) and crossovers (unlocked), Part One of the Top Gear/Dr. Who(/Torchwood/Sarah Jane/Big Finish) crossover of doomy doom! (Featuring: men who love their cars and/or spaceships too much, and also bonus multimedia enrichment downloads.)At
poetry, this week I am posting an elaborate four-part stealth argument-by-example for poetry as fanwork: NASA RPS from 1970, three variations on Dover Beach, and about a Flemish tapestry. And also some very silly things.And at
common_nature, an account of a trip to the beach, in which there are kites, hidden treasures and fossil-hunting.****
Also, overcome by election coverage (OMG, I have discovered that it is possible to be fannish over election results for countries that *are not mine*! So exciting: all the fun, 75% less stress. Hooray!) I have started writing up a post - probably to be posted to
punditfic - entitled "A Guide To British Fake News for Americans". Are there any British persons reading this who would like to look it over before I post it, for blatant errors?I also now really, really want the alternate future where David Mitchell started the revolution, Charlie Brooker led it, Andy Zaltzman ended up Home Secretary, and mtf!Patchula J. Oliver spent years in prison after Bristol Palin was elected President of the USA. (They write these things *for* us, guys.)
And finally, if you would like to be on my "obsessing over diversity, privilege and appropriation re: my original characters as an excuse to not actually write anything in their universes" filter, first post to go up soon entitled "wow I have a lot of trans* characters", please click here:
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 38
I would like to be on the original fiction filter:
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I'm not a Brit, but I'd be happy to look it over as an American with a degree in politics from a British university...
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Or I should!
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I only have one day left of my assigned week of daily
(And possibly even do the meta that I've been leaving unspoken about why that sort of thing is completely accepted, legally ethically and culturally, --when it's poetry.)
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I have to admit I was sort of creeped out by the posting of that one horribly anti-Semitic Canto of Pound's the other week, though. And by "sort of" I mean was, period.
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..yeah, there've been a few things posted there that I found problematic (and I skip a lot of the posts). I think the only thing to do about it is to drown them out in volume, and start discussion when necessary in comments (which I've been too chicken to do.) I think one thing to remember is that they aren't necessarily meant to be recs? I'm posting poetry that I want people to see and think about, not necessarily approve of wholeheartedly. I mean I posted one with the word "Bitch" in the title and some ambiguous misogyny going on in the poem, which something I normally find problematic... and I'm sure at least somebody found the explicit NASA RPS I posted problematic, too.
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Yes, I very much chickened out about commenting on that one. Well, going forward...
But yeah, that's the issue, it's hard to divine the poster's motivation from the posts, so I at least dither about how to pitch my prospective comment. Which is really all my personal issue.
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Omg, please do. That scene was hands down my favourite in the movie (which I loved, all over - I was pleasantly surprised for a sequel, but then, RDJ *is* Tony Stark, and it's hard for him to disappoint that way.) Man. Is there good movieverse Iron Man fic? I've read next to none but love the whole 'verse so much.
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The posting slowed down a lot between the two movies, and it seemed to be mostly Tony/Pepper (much of it quite good, but I have zero enthusiasm for watching Pepper get sucked even further into that trainwreck) so I haven't really been keeping up with the fandom except as it overlaps with Avengers comicsverse fandom. Here's my delicious recs in that fandom, but they're mostly crossovers or comicsverse-y, I'm afraid. If you explore the ironman tag, though, you should find more.
I have hopes that we will see more non-Tony/Pepper coming out of this movie, since we now have Tony/Natasha and Pepper/Natasha and Pepper/Happy and Tony/Nick and Natasha/Nick and Ivan (who was hot as *burning*) and much more canon for Tony/Rhodey to play with...
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(And I loved what you were doing in
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Funny, I almost think I'd prefer gen (well, as gen as its going to get with Tony) fic of Iron Man, though this is Not Usually The Case. I think I could handle Tony/Anyone (oooh, I remember reading Tony/Peter Parker from basingstoke that had Tony's voice down perfectly), actually, but probably not actual Romance, capital R etc. I will scroll through your recs - I'm happy with crossovers and slightly confused reading of fandoms I don't know!
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I am generally all about gen, but I think I have reached the stage of BOFQ-dom where I've stopped even expecting a fandom to have a really active gen presence and just hope for it to have enough variety of ships that I can find something fun anyway.
I do remember there being some pretty good Tony/Pepper that was not at all capital-R-Romance-y, but I don't know if I bookmarked any of it, hmmm. If you've read Vanity Fair and the Tony/Peter one (which I know is in my bookmarks) you may've read most of the others I would rec anyway.
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Oh, just me with that thought, then?
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Postcard number 3's little rolled stockings/socks omg, adorable.
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...but I love the stockings on all of them. Even if it makes NO SENSE at the beach. Especially the stripy ones on #6.
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Spoilers for IM2 in whitetext to spare people's eyes:
(I couldn't enjoy IM2 as much as I wanted to because EXTRA ELEMENTS for the periodic table THAT HAVE STABLE HALF-LIVES are my number one pet peeve of comic book and movie science and it just killed my enthusiasm so fast. THIS IS NOT FUCKING POSSIBLE ACCORDING TO SCIENCE. I DO NOT CARE IF YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE A GENIUS. IT'S NOT. RICHARD FEYNMAN'S - or, well, insert favorite physicist or chemist here, I just have a massive awkward crush on Richard Feynman and it pleases me to imagine him as a secret zombie ninja - ZOMBIFIED CORPSE WILL NOW COME TO YOUR DOOR AND KICK YOU IN THE FACE.)
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I agreed with you about WHITETEXT SPOILERS, except then I realized, TESSERACTS!!
You see, according to Star Trek bookverse physics (among other things), there is a to-be-discovered section of the periodic table that contains elements whose orbitals and spins are not restricted to three dimensions; and since there *were* four-dimensional projections in those notes he was working on, I have decided that what Tony actually did was kick some electrons out of four-dimensional space and discover the first dilithium-series element.
It's still comic-book physics, but at least that fanwanks it enough that it doesn't make my head hurt. Plus, it makes it a Star Trek prequel. :P
What still hurts my head is "OMG, I am dying of heavy metal poisoning! Therefore I will look to see if I can find another heavy metal to use instead! Because it's not like all heavy metals are poisonous or anything!"
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... sob I suspect I would enjoy that theory more if that very same problem weren't one of the things that drove me nuts about Star Trek's science. THEORETICALLY, IT'S POSSIBLE, but I am still pretty sure those would not be something safe to stick in a human body! Unless, you know, you wanted a human body sprayed in living color all over the backwash of history and the future or something. Not that I've given this theory thought or anything before and realized "this is only good for BREAKING THE UNIVERSE", no, couldn't be.
AHAHAHAH YES THAT TOO.
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I have very little knowledge of British politics, but I await the Guide excitedly!
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British politics is being very exciting at the moment. Also: very slashy. Basically, a rather adorable young man named Nick has two choose between whether he wants to go to bed with David or Gordie, while they both court him with meticulous sincerity, and the whole nation is watching. And nobody in the media is missing out on the opportunity for slashy double entendres.
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We certainly don't do it that way here in America, and as far as I can tell, here's the summary of why people voted in the recent British elections: people didn't like Cameron and the Tories just sort of on general principles; people didn't like Brown and Labour for quite specific personal reasons; and people liked Clegg and the Lib Dems but didn't want to vote for them because they were afraid if they did, the people they didn't like would get in.
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