Dear Chrissie,
Nov. 3rd, 2007 04:05 pm♥ ♥ ♥
I got your postcard!
I got your postcard!
Nov. 3rd, 2007
Points of Semi-Interest
Nov. 3rd, 2007 11:01 pm1. Some recs to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
fanthology for last month's theme Trained Killer here. I SERIOUSLY MEANT TO DO THIS THIRTY DAYS AGO.
2. Also on the I Meant To front, finally got around to updating the wordpress with posts from September and October. (These are just repeats of stuff already posted here, don't bother.)
3. New journal layout! It's only a standard Expressive, but it has a patterned background and horses, so it makes me happy. Also: no more usericons on individual entries, since I only ever use the one anyway. I was getting tired of layouts that cage entries in boxes, separated from friends and lovers.
4. Someone should have told me when I decided to do filters that I'd end up posting eight entries under filter compared to seven not. -_-; This journal is usually more public so...to the real life friends I know are reading, sorry! It's work stuff so I don't want it out in the open. I don't suppose you'd consider subscribing to a newsletter, M, S?
5. Meme. Name a fandom you know I know and I'll tell you:
1. The first character I first fell in love with
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now
3. The character everyone else loves that I don't
4. The character I love that everyone else hates
5. The character I used to love but don't any longer
6. The character I would shag anytime
7. The character I'd want to be like
8. The character I'd slap
9. A pairing that I love
10. A pairing that I despise
EDIT: Saw Saving Face, a lesbian romantic comedy, with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
emblem and her boyfriend on Friday. (Also sesame_seed's cousin, and her friend, who brought birthday cake.) It's a really good movie. The main character is a Chinese-American doctor in residency in Flushing, who falls in love with a Chinese-American ballerina/modern dancer, but their relationship falters because the main character is afraid to act affectionately in public.
Receiving equal screentime is a subplot about the main character's mother, who moves in with MC after she becomes pregnant (at 48!) and refuses to say who the father is. I'd say that the movie has something for everyone, but despite hilarious diversions like the succession of eligible Chinese bachelors set up on blind dates with the mother, I really think it's better if you're at least sympathetic toward lesbian couples. I would not, for instance, show this movie to my parents as a prelude to "I want to marry him." (But I would show it as a prelude to "I want to marry her.")
I toldemblem that the movie was spot-on on a number of points, and she assumed I meant the Asian Parent parts, but I actually meant the relationship dynamics. XD; In both cases, the writer reaches straight for obvious cliches -- but hey, they're cliches because they're true. *g* The movie is a little bit like My Big Fat Greek Wedding in that sense, though it's more moving, and the actors are more attractive.
fanthology for last month's theme Trained Killer here. I SERIOUSLY MEANT TO DO THIS THIRTY DAYS AGO. 2. Also on the I Meant To front, finally got around to updating the wordpress with posts from September and October. (These are just repeats of stuff already posted here, don't bother.)
3. New journal layout! It's only a standard Expressive, but it has a patterned background and horses, so it makes me happy. Also: no more usericons on individual entries, since I only ever use the one anyway. I was getting tired of layouts that cage entries in boxes, separated from friends and lovers.
4. Someone should have told me when I decided to do filters that I'd end up posting eight entries under filter compared to seven not. -_-; This journal is usually more public so...to the real life friends I know are reading, sorry! It's work stuff so I don't want it out in the open. I don't suppose you'd consider subscribing to a newsletter, M, S?
5. Meme. Name a fandom you know I know and I'll tell you:
1. The first character I first fell in love with
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now
3. The character everyone else loves that I don't
4. The character I love that everyone else hates
5. The character I used to love but don't any longer
6. The character I would shag anytime
7. The character I'd want to be like
8. The character I'd slap
9. A pairing that I love
10. A pairing that I despise
EDIT: Saw Saving Face, a lesbian romantic comedy, with
emblem and her boyfriend on Friday. (Also sesame_seed's cousin, and her friend, who brought birthday cake.) It's a really good movie. The main character is a Chinese-American doctor in residency in Flushing, who falls in love with a Chinese-American ballerina/modern dancer, but their relationship falters because the main character is afraid to act affectionately in public. Receiving equal screentime is a subplot about the main character's mother, who moves in with MC after she becomes pregnant (at 48!) and refuses to say who the father is. I'd say that the movie has something for everyone, but despite hilarious diversions like the succession of eligible Chinese bachelors set up on blind dates with the mother, I really think it's better if you're at least sympathetic toward lesbian couples. I would not, for instance, show this movie to my parents as a prelude to "I want to marry him." (But I would show it as a prelude to "I want to marry her.")
I told
emblem that the movie was spot-on on a number of points, and she assumed I meant the Asian Parent parts, but I actually meant the relationship dynamics. XD; In both cases, the writer reaches straight for obvious cliches -- but hey, they're cliches because they're true. *g* The movie is a little bit like My Big Fat Greek Wedding in that sense, though it's more moving, and the actors are more attractive.