Things I'm thinking about

[rivkat]

Still not caught up.  Maybe I'll get to see SPN tomorrow? In the interim, shallow TV thoughts:

Vampire Diaries: Okay, I admit that Damon has fewer redeeming qualities than Lex Luthor. But damn, does he hold the eye. I’m now ready for Damon/anyone (or /everyone), though Damon/Alaric and Damon/Bonnie are probably my favorites.

Fringe: PI Dunham/Lt. Broyles = unfh unfh unfh hot. Olivia Dunham in her forties hair and curled eyelashes, talking on her cellphone or getting the patent office guy to show her the files on his computer = hot and hilarious. (Incidentally, image-based search in Walter’s mind is very advanced!) PI Dunham = almost as awesome as Agent Dunham. Thanks for taking the chance on a crazy musical, Fringe!

I’m totally shocked that Roundup Ready seeds have led to the evolution of … Roundup-resistant superweeds. Who could have seen that one coming?

In terms of creativity and copying, have a letter from Vincent van Gogh:

What I’m seeking in [copying works by Millet], and why it seems good to me to copy them, I’m going to try to tell you. We painters are always asked to compose ourselves and to be nothing but composers.

Very well—but in music it isn’t so—and if such a person plays some Beethoven he’ll add his personal interpretation to it—in music, and then above all for singing—a composer’s interpretation is something, and it isn’t a hard and fast rule that only the composer plays his own compositions.

. . . . I place the black-and-white by Delacroix or Millet or after them in front of me as a subject. And then I improvise colour on it but, being me, not completely of course, but seeking memories of their paintings—but the memory, the vague consonance of colours that are in the same sentiment, if not right—that’s my own interpretation.

Heaps of people don’t copy. Heaps of others do copy—for me, I set myself to it by chance, and I find that it teaches and above all sometimes consoles.

Comments

[giandujakiss]

Damon/Bonnie

pleasepleasepleaseplease

[cathexys]

OMG how much do I love Damon? He's more Spike than Lex on the morality scale, but clearly people dealing with him KNOW that. I'd love for someone to write some good long TVD fic...but until then, i have to rewatch the show!!! :)

[scy]

I have been writing Damon/Bonnie, and now am writing Damon/Alaric, which I agree, is a LOT of fun. *nods firmly* Plus, Alaric is nicely complicated.

[rivkat]

Yay! I am (at least briefly) caught up and I hope to watch the last two eps in near-real time.

[scy]

I am also really pleased with the way they have been developing relationships, of various types, because now? HERE is the payoff, all those LITTLE things? MATTER. <3s. And that is good writing and acting at work.

[livrelibre]

Co-signed on Fringe. And of course image-based search would work like that in Walter's World!

And I love that bit from van Gogh.

[brownbetty]

To be fair, it's not the roundup-ready seeds which have led to roundup-resistant weeds, it's roundup itself, much like antibiotic resistant bacteria are caused by antibiotics.

[rivkat]

Fair enough, though Roundup and Roundup Ready were sold as a perfect package. The party never stops with genetic engineering!

[sorrel]

Olivia was so smokin' in that episode I almost didn't know what to do with myself. Seriously, the way she walked? That swaying-hip aggressive stalk down hallways and into bars? Holy shit, I almost combusted. I was seriously incapable of looking above her waist when she was walking anywhere.

[seperis]

Damon wears eyeliner. That's totally worth empathy.

scy wrote Damon/Alaric and Damon/Bonnie, if I remember correctly. I need to catch up on my VD reading.

[vito_excalibur]

I’m totally shocked that Roundup Ready seeds have led to the evolution of … Roundup-resistant superweeds. Who could have seen that one coming?

I need that Tom Tomorrow icon a friend of mine has (who? I don't know! Could be you!) that says "No reasonable person could have foreseen this logical consequence!"

[wordsatourbacks]

PI Dunham/Lt. Broyles = unfh unfh unfh hot.

YES! You are the first person I know of (besides me) to feel this way.

Olivia/Esther was unexpectedly great, too.

[meret]

Thanks for the roundup link. Interesting!

[darkemeralds]

I'm short of time so let me just fly-by with a) I LOVE THIS POST b) VanGogh fanart FTW and c) Thanks for sayin' about the last ep of Fringe, because I, too, thought most everything about it was made of wonderful.

[rivkat]

Fringe! I love it more than cake. Hunh--the XF had its forties episode too, now that I think about it. I'm pretty sure this one was better.

[snarkyducky]

thank you for sharing those words from Van Gogh..
it has something with the way he worded it i just can't describe..

and I find that it teaches and above all sometimes consoles.

♥