~~ bang bang (I hit the ground)

Saw Kill Bill. (No spoilers, I think). Wish I had something coherent to say about it, but you know, one tires of long rambling over-intellectual posts on the nature of teenage gay wizard sex, ahahahah. <3 What Diane Duane's book really should've said was, "so you want to be a Teenage Gay Wizard (tm)", ahahaha. Nevermind me, I amuse mysef, thank you.

Love the soundtrack, so so soooo much. Love the movie, I think. In retrospect, it's better than the second Matrix and definitely better than Underworld (heh). Quentin Tarantino is my sort of guy, believe it or not. Him and David Lynch-- ohyes. I actually really really liked Pulp Fiction, though I'm guessing most people wouldn't think I'd be "the sort" at first glance, but I actually adore well-done action & violence & dark humor & the works. I mean, if I was a movie buff only for stuff like Waking Life and Ghost World and Willow, I'd never end up going to the movies. Dude, who can resist a movie with -style-? That's what they're -made- of, aren't they? That's where the child-like joy is, isn't it?

Kill Bill has enough style to basically carry off its comicbook antics. It's all flashy and smooth and like a shiny slice of pop-culture, drenched in Japanese sensibility sexily entwined with bright garish splatters of Americana. The bits shot in Japan were just-- so fannish, in a way, it just made my fangirl heart happy. I don't even know what to say about the anime bits, because they were obviously tailor-made to make me melt into a gooey puddle of squee. Some gorgeous, gorgeous animation, the best I've seen since Waking Life.

Kill Bill is such an odd little pop-culture confection, both deeply traditionalist and significantly post-modern in its sensibilities-- taking pieces from a dozen different cinematic and storytelling traditions and twisting them into something glittery and brilliant. The Bride is a brilliant character, like a ready-made legend, and yet there's this sincere life in her that is partly the brilliant writing and partly the equally brilliant acting. The femmeslash and Lucy Liu were just-- OMFG. I realized that the only reason I don't "do" femmeslash is because the chemistry is usually nowhere -near- this quality, though obviously this didn't really go anywhere. Mmmm, subtext. So many winks to so many quarters in this movie; guh.

I adored the stylistic aspects of this movie-- the "chapters", the sporadic voice-overs and other methods of experimental storytelling, the lighting shifts-- going from anime to normal footage to b&w to silhouettes was just amazing. I mean, usually the creativity you see in popular film these days is all special effects and bigger badder monsters-- this is all a breathless combination of old-style and new, all made startling and smooth and fitting.

Sigh. I love how tongue-in-cheek and self-deprecating and totally-in-genre Tarantino's movies are at the same time. Wah. I love how he plays to convention while distoring it and innovating simultaneously. I love Japan. I love swords (OMG TEH SEXY!!1 >:O aaack). I love homicidal bubblegum-popping Japanese school-girls (hello, fetish! shwiiiing!!-- I kept thinking that throughout). I love showdowns in snowy gardens. I love funky badass kung-fu mind-power!heroines. In the end, I'll remember that last scene in the snow and the guh-omg-the-sex sword-fight and just. All the swords. And the tidbits of Japan. I'm a mad otaku and I was Pleased, man. heeeeeeee. And did I mention the anime bit? Because that was seriously orgasmic.

And the soundtrack kicks just a -scary- amount of ass. Nancy Sinatra. Who knew?~:))
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Also. eeeeee, Caaasssiiiiieeeeee!.....!..!!! <3333!
*does the OMGMAILOMG dance and squeeeeees* :D :D :D.

~~ the labors of love <3

So why do you love the things you love? Why do you love the pairing(s) you love? Why do you write the pairings you love?

After switchknife asked me in my poll from the day before yesterday to write some Harry/Snape (or Snape/Draco as Ish asked), I was thinking yeah, maybe I should branch out (more). You know, broadening horizons = a good thing, whatever. And I like broadening horizons-- my mind likes stretching. I mean, most people don't realize I -have- written plenty of things besides H/D (ahahaha 'cause they don't read those things), but only Harry/Ron as far as Harry-slashed-with-someone-else. I've never slashed Draco with anyone else, either. Just a bunch of weird het, incest and Harry/Ron/Hermione, I guess o_0

But anyway. I was reading TromboneBorges's `A Suitable Preparation', which is a good fic, nothing flashy or breathtaking, but solid-- and then Harry & Draco kissed, just like that. And suddenly, I saw stars. I flushed and I think I even got a little breathless. No, seriously. Dude. This is why I write (and read) this pairing. This is why. It's the only pairing that does this to me, in -any- fandom, man.

Am I just a freak? I dunno (well, I know I am, but). It's like, when Harry kisses Draco, I feel kissed. I feel infatuated all over again. I'm all wobbly knees and stupid grins and OMG HE REALLY LIKES HIM and. Dude, it's the good crack, yo.

So yeah, my mind likes stretching, but there's no passion in it. I don't write fanfic because it's an intellectual exercise, mostly-- then again, I don't write -anything- because it's purely an intellectual exercise, unless it's a gift for a friend, in which case it's also a labor of love. That's why writing really obscure pairings no one's written before baffles me-- I mean-- what's to be fannish about, there? Only the world, and the world doesn't motivate me like that. I mean, that's why I -began- writing fic-- because I was just so full of wow and guh and morepleaseohgodkisshimagainHarry.

I'm not even an H/D "shipper" in the plebey sense-- I don't buy into the "accepted fanon" of sexiness or whatever. I don't agree with a lot of shippers' interpretations of the pairing, I don't like a lot of fic, etc. But. Harry/Snape is hot sometimes, but in a very base way, and only when it hits those certain kinks. Medium-grade Harry/Draco slays me with a little kiss, man. I guess that's why I don't really identify with people who have heavy kinks they wanna see explored in fanfic of a specific pairing, say-- like, a certain sort of sex, interaction, what have you. I just. I'm not in lust. I'm in love.

Man, I (still) swoon at a smile.

EDIT - ( Dude! I found an over-thinking angle on this! Woohoo! It's all about the happy! )

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EDIT#2 - sigh. I'd forgotten how good Aja's smut was :(( waaah. Want moooore :((