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I was trying to demonstrate to someone how to cut out objects in Corel PhotoPaint, and then this just… kinda happened. :-D

(Will probably be a tad funnier if you've seen SyFy's Dominion...)

( Random silliness )

PS: I've also recently written a shitload of Dominion fanfic. Feels good to be back in the writing game, and the fandom is super fun because the show's creator proactively interacts with the fans in a way I've never seen before. I've made quite a few new online friends. It's been very rewarding. Now all we need is for SyFy to announce renewal. Might be touch and go, but it's hard to say. I'll be so pissed if the show gets canned.

Sometimes there are TV shows I watch where I ask myself afterwards why I kept watching them, because all rational thought defies the notion. One of them is SyFy's Helix -- a scientific fail-fest on so many levels.

( <insert terrible elevator music> )

I suppose this is a entry mostly addressed to my fic-writing friends. I'm in a bit of a dilemma, and maybe you guys have some helpful feedback for me. So I'm writing this story right now. I kinda doubt (m)any of you will know the fandom. Yet another obscure Canadian TV show from a few years ago with pretty much zero fandom. It's called Whistler (yes, after the skiing resort in BC). But that's actually only circumstantial.

Most of you know me as being partial to whumpy scenarios. And this is kind of a whumpy problem. The show actually did the whumping for me, cause the series ended on a huge cliffhanger for the pairing I'm writing for. A truck plowed into their car, and we don't find out what happened after that. But that's actually also circumstantial.

What I'm struggling with is the damn hospital conversation, in particular the one after character x wakes up from three days of unconsciousness. I've already given my best to forego the much cliched character-wakes-up-to-find-lover-by-bedside scenario by having character x wake up while character y isn't there, but she of course goes there after the hospital calls to say character x has regained consciousness. Cue awkward conversation with character x loaded to the gills with sedatives and pain meds.

You know, it's not so much that I don't think I can write it. It's more that I've already written it too often, for other fandoms (i.e. White Collar). And I just feel like I'm repeating myself a hundred times over, and I'm bored with it and frustrated with myself over it. Sure, I could just skip that part and move on a week or so, but that'd feel like a cop-out.

It always annoys me that on most TV shows, when a character wakes up after serious trauma, they're immediately fully alert, they don't seem to be in any pain, and they can hold a perfectly lucid and long conversation. Yeah, not exactly real life, people, right? But the thing is that real life is often not very good drama, which I'm pretty sure is why the TV shows tend to gloss over that part. My problem is that I want to write realistically, but I also want to write halfway interesting drama. And finding a middle ground there is so very difficult.

So, what are your experiences? Any helpful hints you might have for me? Anyone wanna write the scene for me? ;-)

This is almost freaky. I wrapped up a ReGenesis fan fiction recently (not beta’ed or posted yet) that’s about a flu outbreak and its connection to a (fictitious) anti-flu medication that I called Rivira (active ingredient tadalivir), and that I postulated would be a standard flu treatment like Tamiflu.

( Here's where it gets weird. )

In a theatre play in Recklinghausen. It was fantastic, and just a little surreal. And now I have to go grocery shopping, which feels way too mundane in the wake of today's events. Still, life is more fun when there is bread on the table and edibles in the fridge. I think I need to cave to mundaneness.

I already did this last year, but it bears annual repeating. May 10 is World Lupus Day. And I think it's only appropriate to spread the word.



( Lucy wasn't only in the sky with diamonds, she also had lupus. )

Hee, this is hilarious! I love it when fans give in to silly notions.

( Purple shirt, you're so tight it hurts. )

... how can you not love these two?

( Are you wearing any pants? )

And I'm gonna be the only one around here squeeing about it, but I don't care.

The 10th Anniversary ACTRA Awards
Nominees for Outstanding Performance – Male:
Shawn Doyle (John A: Birth of a Country)
Peter Outerbridge (John A: Birth of a Country)

\o/

And well deserved, because I've seen the film, and both were fantastic in it. So there. Fingers crossed.