Saturday. In the park.

[asimplechord]

♣ I posted fic! This was written for schlicky in the we_pimpin Fall Festival Exchange.

the next Spielberg (AO3) or here, at the comm
Ray/OFC, Brad/Walt
teen to mature || ~3100 words
It's lack of porn that fucks countries up. Lack of porn is the root fucking cause of all global instability. (Or: Ray’s ultimate career choice is down to Brad and Walt.)

[schlicky, I plotted an entire alternate reality Casablanca crossover, where the civil war never ended b/c the Confederacy never invaded the Union - Ray was the equivalent of Sam, Brad was Rick, and Nate was Ilsa - but I fail at follow-through, and that's why you got something specific for the picture without much plot. Sorry, bb.]

♣ Killer Elite. IDK, I was expecting one thing, given the content of the trailers I'd seen, and what the movie delivered was... not quite that? Not bad. Clive Owen and Jason Statham got to be bad-asses, with lots of fighting, anyway.

♣ Finished reading the book about the Rehnquist/Roberts Court. I should probably move on to Oryx and Crake, since a bunch of friends are doing a bookclub and that's the next book, but I have Rafa and CJ Chivers' The Gun and Ilona Andrews' On the Edge, so I'm having a hard time settling on a single book.

♣ New seasons of Criminal Minds and Castle both started this week. I thought both were fairly predictable, but at least with Criminal Minds premiere, that story arc is finished. I’ve never been particularly fond of JJ as a character, but the way that CBS got rid of her and Prentiss was cheap, and now that they’re back hopefully the show will go back to episodic individual cases, which I much prefer.

♣ Houston BestFest is happening in midtown this weekend! Local bands plus national ones. (Against Me! :D :D :D CAKE :D :D :D) 10-10 today, 10-8 tomorrow. Rail service is cancelled b/c of construction in the med center (again), but if parking is full near the park, there’s still a bus that will get you there.

Comments

[goshemily.livejournal.com]

Omg Nate as Ilsa and Brad as Rick. Like. There is a ton of stuff in this post that shd be commented on (boooooooks!) But my brain is stuck there. Yesssssss.

[asimplechord.livejournal.com]

See, part of the problem was that it started out as Brad/Ray in my head, with Ray as the Rick character and Brad as the Ilsa equivalent (from my original flailing at why_me_why_not: Where Ray runs a bar, and is a stop on the underground railroad and involved in spying on the South (in MD, of course, which never actually seceded but still remains southern in many ways). Brad and he had a thing a while back when Ray was based in DC, but the area got too hot and Ray had to leave, but Brad wouldn't give up his official position at the Marine Barracks, as SNCO to Captain Fick. It probably can't end well, but I want alllll the angsty Brad/Ray where they are on the same side but in different ways, and Ray likes Nate, knows that nothing is going on between him and Brad, but sort of hates him too, because he knows that if Brad didn't believe unreservedly that Nate will make a difference and finally end this endless war, he'd still be with Ray.), but somehow it morphed into Brad/Nate, because that is just HOW MY BRAIN WORKS. And since the exchange was supposed to be Ray-based, making an entire AR that was Brad/Nate was really not appropriate, right? Except now I WANT this fic to exist.

BOOKS. I seriously had moments of wanting to throw The Nine against a wall. Hard. The author kept talking about how the Court shifted leftwards after Bush v. Gore, and I was like, BZUH? I DO NOT THINK YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT LEFT MEANS.

[goshemily.livejournal.com]

I WOULD READ THIS STORY SO HARD. Both of them, really. SO HARD. Casablanca is one of my favorite movies, and. FEELINGS.

[schlicky.livejournal.com]

Oh, hush, you. I loved it. ♥ ♥ ♥

It'll be interesting to see where they go with both Castle and Criminal Minds. :)

[asimplechord.livejournal.com]

I just had such plans to writ a plotty, long fic, and that... was not what happened. Which, given my utter lack of inspiration in the last year, should not have come as a surprise, but it DID. :(

They can only get better, right? (That's what I'm telling myself, anyway.)