AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[minoanmiss]

I just watched this. I scared my roommates with my reaction.

"'Star Wars Episode IX' Official Teaser (2019) | Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, John Boyega" (Watch on YouTube)

*screams and screams and also screams*

Comments

[gingicat]

Wolf is having difficulty catching his breath from worry over you. Still.

[bikergeek]

So *that's* what that godawful racket was.

[musyc]

*screams with you*
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.

[kore]

DID YOU SEE THE SHOT OF REY AND ROSE

[gingicat]

I went back and looked for it! Where was it?

[kore]

Argle, now I can't find her -- I might have seen a promo picture but I was sure I saw it in the trailer!

[sabotabby]

Title is bad but it looks REALLY FUCKIN GREAT

[bikergeek]

I like your userpic. I wish I'd seen it back in high school, when my English teachers were saying that SF wasn't "real literature".

[sabotabby]

Literary fiction is a genre there I said it

[kore]

Literature is ALL fantasy! It's ALL MADE UP (this drives academics into a frenzy)

[sabotabby]

Depressed middle aged prof having an affair with a younger, hotter woman is a trope, pass it on.

[minoanmiss]

Oh my GOD that trope. Ugh.

In general I... I keep trying to figure out how to phrase this. I think that unless one is deliberately writing a roman a clef, one's fiction should not be too precisely autobiographical. For instance, I'm not going to write a coming of age novel for a Jamaican immigrant girl living in NYC with abusive parents -- it's too undigested. But I've used my childhood to write about a girl living with an abusive art, a slavegirl breaking free, an abusive sexual relationship, and other stories.

So as much as I roll my eyes at the sad professors lusting after students, I also roll my eyes at them for not being imaginitve enough to at least change the circumstances or set the story in space or think about how things would be different if the professor were a woman or something.

[sabotabby]

I always get worried when I write a character that's too much like me that people think that I'm writing about myself. Like, I went on this date with this guy once—it didn't work out for other reasons—but basically I got to know him a bit platonically. He published a book and I bought it. And it was pretty good, but it was about a neurotic 30-something Tamil guy in Toronto who has bad luck in dating, and was transparently autobiographical. Which was fine

but

there was one sex scene involving a carrot and a girl who was into that

and it was very detailed

quite memorable actually

I don't know if it was autobiographical, but literally anyone who had ever met him and read that would at least wonder if he'd had sex with a girl who demanded that carrots be involved, and it meant that every time I ran into him after that I couldn't not think of carrots.

Profs lusting over their younger students IN SPAAAAACE would be so much better than 99% of all literary fiction.

[minoanmiss]

AUGHGHGHHGHGHGH CARROTS

You have an excellent point, and also, CARROTS

[sabotabby]

Few sex scenes in novels have stuck with me like that one but I’m such a socially awkward person that I could never ask him if it really happened.

[kore]

Before the whole MPDG became a thing I used to call it "Popsy-and-fossil pairings."

[sabotabby]

OH GOD YEAH IT IS

[kore]

Title is totally WTF and BETTER refer to Rey adopting the Skywalker name, or having a new Jedi force of 'Skywalkers' or something, rather than her not being Nobody from Nowhere. //does not trust JJ Abrams

[sabotabby]

I don't either.

There's going to be fucking time travel.

[annonynous.livejournal.com]

Let's hear it for incredible backflips!

Ann O.

[julian]

yessssssssssssssssssssssssss

[rachelmanija]

OHHH YEAH.

[mekare]

Haha I saw it last night and was dumbfounded by the end.

[ljwrites]

You also broke the blog skin lmao. Yeah, it looks pretty awesome!

[princessofgeeks]

So v. excited. So glad they found an non icky way to put Leia in there.

VBG

[vettecat]

So many questions! I'm still depressed about Carrie Fisher passing away right before the film that was supposed to focus on her, but I'm hoping they managed to salvage it in a way that makes sense.

[squirrelitude]

I don't know what happened here, but when I see this post on my Reading Page (but not on your own journal!) the embed is a YouTube video for "Instant Pot Chongqing Ox PENIS Soup Recipe Test".

Looks like a Dreamwidth bug, since viewing the embed iframe directly shows the right video. Extremely odd.

[minoanmiss]

The Ox Penis Soup video is the previous video I posted on my DW. Obviously, I don't know why it's displaying in this post, but at least that's where it came from.

[squirrelitude]

Ah, thanks! I'm going to blame a caching issue, then.