Happy Sunday!
Aug. 30th, 2020 02:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hilsI had a Eureka moment last night when I was trying to get to sleep and realised exactly what was missing from my recently completed fic. There's a key scene, which was kind of the inspiration for the whole story, that I somehow forgot to write. I am an idiot. At least I figured out why I felt so unsatisfied when I 'finished' it on Friday.
I've made a start on editing the stuff I've already written and I have a beta on standby so things are progressing nicely. I'm honestly in awe of people who post fics without a beta. I don't know if it's a confidence thing but unless it's something really short like a Tumblr prompt fill I absolutely can't post a fic without someone else checking it over first.
I should probably do some more editing this afternoon but I'm kind of itching to finish The Lost Tomb Reboot. I've only got 4 episodes left so I could totally get it done today. Maybe I'll do that and then tomorrow can be a writing/editing day.
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madamoisellebon and I started Lost Tomb 1 last night. One of my mutuals on Twitter specifically asked me to tweet my reactions so I took some notes and did a retrospective Twitter thread.
So far I'm really enjoying it, and it's reminding me what I loved about about Reboot before we got stuck in the Warehouse 11 storyline. I just want an action/adventure show with the occasional creepy scary bit.
From what I've heard it goes a little downhill from here but we'll see what happens. Bon and I enjoyed it so much we're going to watch the next 2 episodes tonight.
It's nice seeing a younger, more innocent version of Wu Xie who still has the occasional Terrible Plan but overall is a little more cautious. I like the actor playing him too. He's very earnest and you can see him just absorbing any information he can. I love that it's also setting up the relationship with his uncle (the one that is missing in Reboot). I think Reboot did a good job of using the prologue to explain that Sansheng was the only one who encouraged Wu Xie's interest in tomb raiding but it's nice to see them going on an actual adventure together.
Also loving that the show introduced two female characters within the first 20 mins. Granted they haven't been seen much since but it's still a step up from Reboot.
So, yeah, initial verdict is good. We'll see how it continues.
We had a lot of fun streaming My Strange Friend last night. It still makes very little sense but when you're doing a group watch that doesn't really matter. We had 11 of us on the stream last night which was so much fun. I love that technology lets a group of people from various countries (I think we had the UK, Germany, France and US representing) watch a TV show together like that. We all laughed a lot.
This morning I watched another episode of Street Dance of China with the Australians and, again we had people from the UK, Europe and the US also watching. We all got a bit emotional towards the end and if a bunch of people from a variety of countries all crying down their microphones over a dance show isn't representative of fandom I don't know what is.
I've made a start on editing the stuff I've already written and I have a beta on standby so things are progressing nicely. I'm honestly in awe of people who post fics without a beta. I don't know if it's a confidence thing but unless it's something really short like a Tumblr prompt fill I absolutely can't post a fic without someone else checking it over first.
I should probably do some more editing this afternoon but I'm kind of itching to finish The Lost Tomb Reboot. I've only got 4 episodes left so I could totally get it done today. Maybe I'll do that and then tomorrow can be a writing/editing day.
As planned
So far I'm really enjoying it, and it's reminding me what I loved about about Reboot before we got stuck in the Warehouse 11 storyline. I just want an action/adventure show with the occasional creepy scary bit.
From what I've heard it goes a little downhill from here but we'll see what happens. Bon and I enjoyed it so much we're going to watch the next 2 episodes tonight.
It's nice seeing a younger, more innocent version of Wu Xie who still has the occasional Terrible Plan but overall is a little more cautious. I like the actor playing him too. He's very earnest and you can see him just absorbing any information he can. I love that it's also setting up the relationship with his uncle (the one that is missing in Reboot). I think Reboot did a good job of using the prologue to explain that Sansheng was the only one who encouraged Wu Xie's interest in tomb raiding but it's nice to see them going on an actual adventure together.
Also loving that the show introduced two female characters within the first 20 mins. Granted they haven't been seen much since but it's still a step up from Reboot.
So, yeah, initial verdict is good. We'll see how it continues.
We had a lot of fun streaming My Strange Friend last night. It still makes very little sense but when you're doing a group watch that doesn't really matter. We had 11 of us on the stream last night which was so much fun. I love that technology lets a group of people from various countries (I think we had the UK, Germany, France and US representing) watch a TV show together like that. We all laughed a lot.
This morning I watched another episode of Street Dance of China with the Australians and, again we had people from the UK, Europe and the US also watching. We all got a bit emotional towards the end and if a bunch of people from a variety of countries all crying down their microphones over a dance show isn't representative of fandom I don't know what is.