How did I lose a day
Jan. 18th, 2020 10:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cornerofmadnessI had so much planned for this day. I accomplished jack. To start with I had put the heavy microfiber sheets on the bed. How do I describe these thing? They aren't really sheet, they're like a matched set of microfiber blankets. They are heavy. I got them mail order almost as soon as I moved here to off set the fact that my apt leaks heat like a sieve. They're insanely warm. I don't even bother with winter PJs (and now menopause is making them pointless anyhow). Maybe it's the weight. Maybe it's the cold outside, snuggly inside. I don't know but I SLEEP with these damn things. I slept until 1030 when Mom called.
And I told her I'm gonna eat a breakfast burrito and go to Kroger's before the weather gets bad. Instead I sat for my morning tea and played on the internet....and suddenly it was 1:00 and I hadn't eaten. I ran to Kroger's, lost another hour somehow and then it was 3:00 pm and I hadn't eaten yet. THen ELD called and then I'm eating at 730 for dinner and now it's nearly 11 and I haven't done a THING. Yikes.
So I did nothing all day so let me do the
In your own space, promote at least one canon that you adore (old, new, forever fandom).
Okay some of my old/forever fandoms don't need a lot of promotion. The Buffyverse is a bit of a juggernaut even after all these years and Star Trek is iconic. So let me talk about my brand new fandom. (hush ELD) Prodigal Son. It has been forever since I've been this taken with a new fandom. Even the Buffyverse and Fullmetal Alchemist didn't suck me in like this. In fact in both of those cases, I didn't like it on first watch/read and it took evil_little_dog prodding me to give them a second try and then I fell in.
To be honest after the first episode of Prodigal Son I wasn't sure I was going to watch more. There were a few things that were too over the top. On the other hand, I was VERY interested in the idea of the son of a serial killer (Malcolm Bright) growing up to be a forensic profiler. (In fact in Dec 2018 I had started my own story with the son of serial killer but it's urban fantasy and he sure as hell isn't as put together as Malcolm Bright).
It didn't hurt that Lou Diamond Phillips was playing Malcolm's mentor (and ersatz father), Gil Arroyo. I've always been fond of Lou. With Michael Sheen playing Dr. Martin Whitly imprisoned in a psychiatric hospital (shades of Hannibal Lector of course), Bellamy Young as Jessica Whitly, Malcolm's socialite mother not to mention the rest of the cast, it was very ably acted so I gave it another chance.
I never watched the Walking Dead so I didn't know Tom Payne (Jesus on TWD) so he was new to me and holy crap could this young man portray pain and suffering well. He made me believe Malcolm was a broken toy (and he is. He suffers PTSD, depression anxiety and perhaps a borderline personality, he's literally my Faolan had Faolan had the support Malcolm does).
Anyone who knows me knows broken character fascinate me. My head is also full of serial killers. This show could have been written for me (or by me if I'm honest). I watched it the next week just to see did I really want to see this or was it too over the top for me. By week three I was writing fanfiction. I was completely taken by the storyline and cast. It's a great cast. Not only do we have fantastic actors it's also very diverse. Lou's Filipino, Keiko (Dr. Tanaka) is Japanese, Jack and Aurora (JT and Dani) are African and then there is Malcolm and his family, which should have been the epitome of white privilege (quite literally being old money rich) but are so excluded from society by the actions of Martin. The characters are still developing of course and there is so much more to explore.
Who is the girl in the box? Why did Jessica tell her son 'Your father is a serial killer but I'm still the monster' (what happened between them), how aware is Martin that Gil (the man who arrested him) has taken over the father role with his son? Did Martin and Watkins force 11 year old Malcolm participate in a murder? How far will Malcolm's mental state deteriorate? It's a rich and fertile field.
And what makes this such a special fandom for me is that I have never been one of the first into a fandom and I've been in fandoms for 40 years. Three weeks into this new show and I'm there with fanfic. The first was from![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
comment_fic on LJ where I was the first to ask for fanfic and then someone else echoed it with a bookstore AU and I wrote it. I don't even LIKE AUs for the most part but I wanted to do something anything for this fandom that I wrote it and people liked it. Within days I did more canon compliant stuff. In less than three months I'd written 25 stories. One of which (still working on it) is nearly a full length novel at nearly 57K and still growing (my actual novel I've been working on for more than year isn't that long but that's more because RL has been too hard for world building)
It's a surreal, heady experience to be in the forefront of a fandom, to be among the first to walk there. I have some people who have bookmarked every last one of those 25 stories. I have a few writing me beautifully thought out and positive comments that I wish my pro stuff would get. I've found people on twitter who talk to me all the time now because of this fandom. It's been a huge boost to me after a year that was a dumpster fire personally to put it mildly.
If you'd like to see the show, it returns on Monday (I hope it gets renewed in the fall which since Fox keeps calling it, it's #1 show I should think it must) If you want to read my Prodigal Son fanfic you can find it here.
Have a fan vid of it
or the real reason I like Malcolm so much :
And I told her I'm gonna eat a breakfast burrito and go to Kroger's before the weather gets bad. Instead I sat for my morning tea and played on the internet....and suddenly it was 1:00 and I hadn't eaten. I ran to Kroger's, lost another hour somehow and then it was 3:00 pm and I hadn't eaten yet. THen ELD called and then I'm eating at 730 for dinner and now it's nearly 11 and I haven't done a THING. Yikes.
So I did nothing all day so let me do the
In your own space, promote at least one canon that you adore (old, new, forever fandom).
Okay some of my old/forever fandoms don't need a lot of promotion. The Buffyverse is a bit of a juggernaut even after all these years and Star Trek is iconic. So let me talk about my brand new fandom. (hush ELD) Prodigal Son. It has been forever since I've been this taken with a new fandom. Even the Buffyverse and Fullmetal Alchemist didn't suck me in like this. In fact in both of those cases, I didn't like it on first watch/read and it took evil_little_dog prodding me to give them a second try and then I fell in.
To be honest after the first episode of Prodigal Son I wasn't sure I was going to watch more. There were a few things that were too over the top. On the other hand, I was VERY interested in the idea of the son of a serial killer (Malcolm Bright) growing up to be a forensic profiler. (In fact in Dec 2018 I had started my own story with the son of serial killer but it's urban fantasy and he sure as hell isn't as put together as Malcolm Bright).
It didn't hurt that Lou Diamond Phillips was playing Malcolm's mentor (and ersatz father), Gil Arroyo. I've always been fond of Lou. With Michael Sheen playing Dr. Martin Whitly imprisoned in a psychiatric hospital (shades of Hannibal Lector of course), Bellamy Young as Jessica Whitly, Malcolm's socialite mother not to mention the rest of the cast, it was very ably acted so I gave it another chance.
I never watched the Walking Dead so I didn't know Tom Payne (Jesus on TWD) so he was new to me and holy crap could this young man portray pain and suffering well. He made me believe Malcolm was a broken toy (and he is. He suffers PTSD, depression anxiety and perhaps a borderline personality, he's literally my Faolan had Faolan had the support Malcolm does).
Anyone who knows me knows broken character fascinate me. My head is also full of serial killers. This show could have been written for me (or by me if I'm honest). I watched it the next week just to see did I really want to see this or was it too over the top for me. By week three I was writing fanfiction. I was completely taken by the storyline and cast. It's a great cast. Not only do we have fantastic actors it's also very diverse. Lou's Filipino, Keiko (Dr. Tanaka) is Japanese, Jack and Aurora (JT and Dani) are African and then there is Malcolm and his family, which should have been the epitome of white privilege (quite literally being old money rich) but are so excluded from society by the actions of Martin. The characters are still developing of course and there is so much more to explore.
Who is the girl in the box? Why did Jessica tell her son 'Your father is a serial killer but I'm still the monster' (what happened between them), how aware is Martin that Gil (the man who arrested him) has taken over the father role with his son? Did Martin and Watkins force 11 year old Malcolm participate in a murder? How far will Malcolm's mental state deteriorate? It's a rich and fertile field.
And what makes this such a special fandom for me is that I have never been one of the first into a fandom and I've been in fandoms for 40 years. Three weeks into this new show and I'm there with fanfic. The first was from
comment_fic on LJ where I was the first to ask for fanfic and then someone else echoed it with a bookstore AU and I wrote it. I don't even LIKE AUs for the most part but I wanted to do something anything for this fandom that I wrote it and people liked it. Within days I did more canon compliant stuff. In less than three months I'd written 25 stories. One of which (still working on it) is nearly a full length novel at nearly 57K and still growing (my actual novel I've been working on for more than year isn't that long but that's more because RL has been too hard for world building)It's a surreal, heady experience to be in the forefront of a fandom, to be among the first to walk there. I have some people who have bookmarked every last one of those 25 stories. I have a few writing me beautifully thought out and positive comments that I wish my pro stuff would get. I've found people on twitter who talk to me all the time now because of this fandom. It's been a huge boost to me after a year that was a dumpster fire personally to put it mildly.
If you'd like to see the show, it returns on Monday (I hope it gets renewed in the fall which since Fox keeps calling it, it's #1 show I should think it must) If you want to read my Prodigal Son fanfic you can find it here.
Have a fan vid of it
or the real reason I like Malcolm so much :
