if you're not a SMF-goer, you prolly won't get this. be warned.
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on the surface, "a ritual drama weekend re-enacting the Persephone/Demeter/Hades story on a decommissioned Coast Guard base with 300-odd pagans" sounds fun but sort of repetitious after a few years and not all that life-changing. And yet it is Utterly Transformative; EVERY DAMNED TIME.

SRSLY. what IS it about that festival?!!!

Tags: smf/sickle, spirituality
Fuzzy or Emo?: Blessed
Brought To You By:: Heather Alexander

putting aside all debate on whether it lacked the spirit of thought-provoking-ness of the Roddenberry era (i personally save most of my thought-provoking moments with media for in-home quiet consumption, not for any cinema outside the arthouse), or whether it accomplished what it meant to simply by breathing new life back into the series, garnering new fans who will hopefully then go check out the source material the way Romeo + Juliet did, etc etc...

just answer me this. who all thinks the new Trek movie has (aside from reminding us why we go see movies in the theater anymore: it was just plain FUN!!!) has reignited (in a whole new, angsty way) the first ever and ultimate slashy triangle of Kirk/Spock/Bones?!

methinks we'll be seeing a lot of new slashfiction from those boys, LOL.
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TOS was my first fandom, starting when i was three, to the point where i wouldn't even watch TNG till this year. It will always be great to see the original id/superego/ego combo of the original crew together again...in any oddball alternate form. They at least got the cowboy-frontier flavor of the original that separates it from later series; the energy they lacked in a more settled and civilized galaxy.

and FUN! did i mention fun?! (and hee, i spotted a blooper! *iz proud of herself for noticing a detail*)
let the slashing begin!!!

*goes to re-watch "Mind Meld"*

Tags: dorkery, fandom, geekness, star trek
Fuzzy or Emo?: bouncy
Brought To You By:: Nichelle Nichols' cassette, hee!

okay, so i had my usual 'being chased by someone with endless resources' dream again...this time set on some wooded lakeshore filled with widely-spaced cottages and blackberry brambles (aka somewhere between here and Canada, LOL)...and i'm leading the others who are also fleeing (other bits of my consciousness, i assume in these situations; it's never just me but "me and all my people", lol)...and i run into Angus and Tim and (i think?) Karin and a few other warm-fuzzy SMF-related people (maybe five or six people renting the place for a weekend or something, approximately half Canadians and half from this side of the border)...and despite the risk to themselves they selflessly and bravely let me/us into the cottage they're vacationing in... And they're all canning or cooking or something relaxing and homey and totally unsuited to mayhem and thus sort of epitomizing the peace i seek in such dreams but cannot stop long enough to enjoy; and all i/we can hope they'll hide us, y'know, for old time's sake, what with the choppers flying overhead and the cops or whatever whacking down the bush and getting closer and closer, etc...and i know i'm putting my peeps in danger hiding in their place, and breaking in on their vacation and all and i hate to do that...and i dunno if its my conscience kicking in or fear of being trapped or what, but damn if i don't end up having to leave and start running again.

grr. well, maybe it was just the dream's purpose to keep me running? stupid mind.

i hate my bizarre 'being randomly and endlessly chased' dreams. i thought i was over them. i have been chased through Aes Sedai gardens by Elaida; through a shopping mall's back rooms by Imperial Stormtroopers and Grand Moff Tarkin (as Han and Leia, no less); through a ghetto in California by cops/ gangbangers/ rapists/ all of the above... But i never expected to find SMF-related folks, especially CANADIANS, whom i tend to trust in matters of fleeing from misguided (usually all-too-american) authority, to show up in one of them!!! poor folks. always getting dragged into our stupid conflicts, LOL!!!

*hugs them for being awesome*
see, Angus; even mostly-gay girls dream about you! like a port in a storm, hee! *pets Angus and assorted other Canadians and the rest of the SMF-goers*

Tags: dreams
Fuzzy or Emo?: aggravated
Brought To You By:: "Closer To Fine" by Indigo Girls