Calle's Journal, of sorts

 I just watched the movie "Gunpowder Milkshake" on Netflix. It's extremely much in my taste. Actually, it's a movie so ridiculously well aligned with my taste that I wrote fanfic for it more than a decade before it was made. Way, way back I wrote a series of fics about the Librarian Attack Force, and this movie fits perfectly into that universe.

This is a very surreal experience.

 If someone wants an AO3 invite, I have nine of them to send out.

Also the ongoing Tumblr stupidity prompted me to upgrade this account to paid again. So there's that.

I just discovered that my story was the longest one in all of femslashex. By only about 500 words, but still.

Hello.

So you got saddled with my FemslashEx requests. I'm sorry. I hope it's not too bad.

These are the things I require in a fic. As in, if these aren't there, I'll stop reading.

• Reasonably correct spelling. It doesn't have to be perfect, but I don't want to have to guess at alternative words to figure out the meaning of the sentences, if you see what I mean.
• Reasonable grammar. As in, please choose a tense and stick with it. Yes, you can have various segments of your story in different tenses, if that's what the story demands. I just don't want that thing were it flips wildly from past to present between sentences.
• Please don't write in the second person. At all. Very, very few people are good enough writers to get away with that. And that includes professional writers. So unless you're the ghost of Italo Calvino, please don't. At least not in this story.

That's pretty much it.

 I just noticed that one of my stories on AO3 has passed ten thousand hits. That feels like a lot.

So yesterday I watched the initial double episode of The Librarians. Which sucked so bad I have to post about it. Most of all, it felt like a cheap plastic imitation of Warehouse 13. Where the white cis-male SUPER-IMPORTANT main character who is SUPER IMPORTANT seemed like he tried to imitate the frantic confusedness of Matt Smith's Doctor Who. Except, you know, without any of the backstory, charm, or eventual "oh, that's what he was on about" that makes it sort of fun with the Doctor. And at the end they had to force in a kiss between the SUPER-IMPORTANT main character and the female main character, just to prove his heterosexuality.

Do not watch this. Go re-watch Warehouse 13 instead. It's much, much better.

Just got to the bit where they all get sent back to Fairyland. And so far the one thing I just can not deal with is Aurora being with Wren from Pretty Little Liars. I mean, she could have had Mulan and she goes with Wren?

ETA: Really the only reason I'm watching this is Regina. Regina is awesome.

In spite of having an increasingly large backlog of unwatched TV series episodes, many of which I know I like (like Warehouse 13), the only one I've actually been watching is a new one: Orphan Black. I don't even remember why I started watching it. I heard it mentioned and wanted something to see that I didn't care about, I think. The concept sounded reasonably interesting, with the clones and the very-near-future SF. In any case, I got hooked.

Like nearly all shows I like, it's got a lot of interesting female characters. Only in this one almost all of them are played by the same actor, Tatiana Maslany. Who is incredible. I'd never heard of her before, but holy shit can she act. It's happened on a few other shows I've seen that some actor has played different versions of the same character. Alyson Hannigan did it on Buffy, with vampire!Willow. Anna Torv and Jasika Nicole both did it quite impressively on Fringe. But Maslany here simply blows away anything else I've seen. She plays a whole bunch of characters, and they are all so different. Yes, part of it is dress and hair and makeup. But there's also postures and mannerisms and accents and movement patterns and facial expressions and... If I didn't know they were all the same woman, I'd be certain that Allison is taller than Sarah. She looks taller! There has been many scenes where two of them were in shot at the same time, and you'd never guess that they can't have both been there playing against each other.

Also, after half the season I can't even guess where the plot is going, but I really want to know. It's obvious that a lot is going on that Sarah doesn't know yet, but I'm sure that she'll find out. Or that it will find her out...

Oh, and there's obvious crossover potential with Lost Girl! It simply can't be a coincidence that Bo's mother is posing as a detective in the same department Beth was in.

http://www.sprakradet.se/15922

This post exists exclusively to get Google to index that link. The page it leads to is in Swedish, so most of you won't be able to read it. But the basic story is this: There is a group of linguists who every year compile a list of new words in the Swedish language. This list is descriptive, in spite of what our old-style media keeps screaming. For 2012, the list was to include the word "ogooglebar". Which would be "ungoogleable" in English, I guess. It was defined as "not possible to find on the Internet by using a search engine". Google's lawyers protested this, and wanted the linguists to change the definition to specify "Google" instead of saying "search engine". The linguists refused, on the grounds that that is not how descriptions work. The suggested a few different phrasings that would serve to protect the status of "Google" as a registered trademark. Google accepted none of them. So in the end, the linguists decided to retract the word "ogooglebar" from the list of new words.

To retract it from the list very, very publicly.

One of the arguments from Google's lawyers was that the list only had a single reference to the use of the word "ogooglebar". Well, today there are more. A lot more. And you can find them using any search engine you want.

Fuck you, Google. Fuck you right up the MapReduce.

My second fic for the year also turns out to be for Pitch Perfect. Primarily. It crosses over with D.E.B.S., Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Harry Potter, Doctor Who and Lost Girl. It can reasonably be labeled "crackfic".