Working out the kinks ...

My penchant for wanting to discuss symbolism does sometimes overextend my grasp; I'll admit that upfront. But there's something I wanted to bring up based on a DMC discussion I saw in a subset of someone else's REALLY GOOD LJ discussion (it's in the one about the dice, for anyone who's heard of/read that one).


( Second, and possibly third, movie spoilers discussion of Will and James as characters )

One of the wonderful things about the women's movement has been that by and large, in this country at least (I'm only American; I can't speak for any other nationality), it's considered just as normal for a young woman to not be a virgin, as it is for a young man. I'm not suggesting that's any great feat to be lauded for either gender; what I'm saying is that the sexual double standard for women isn't rigid like it used to be. In most quarters, I would term sex as a "live and let live" situation for men and women. I would say very few men expect their brides to be pure for the marriage bed, as opposed to what their grandfathers and great-grandfathers might have expected.

Of course, I'm more impressed by the fact women have a chance at all the same careers as men (well, maybe not Calvin Klein male underwear model) - a side effect not only of the women's movement, but long before that, mostly originating in WWII and the need for domestic labor as most of the working-age men went off to war. I experience the benefit of that all the time, by being a journalist.

( Someone is going to call me an old prude, but at my age and level of life experience, I've decided I don't really mind what people think of my opinions. )

So anyway, I'm innocently trolling my f-list when what do I happen upon but a new lovely little bit of prose by tessabeth. It's just some R-rated POTC Turrow goodness, with massive spoilers for DMC; don't go to it if you don't want to know!


Jack sees him, again, open-mouthed and shocked and trembling at the glory of the first touch of someone else’s mouth on his body.


And for more inspirational meta, check out my past few fandom entries ...

There's no real way to bring up this discussion without a cut.

( Definite DMC/third movie spoilers and speculation )

Yes, more DMC discussion. But instead of bitching and moaning this time, I actually come bearing grand insight for writers on my f-list.

( Don't read if you don't want spoilers for either DMC *or* POTC3 )

Oh, PLEASE, tell me what you think.

I belong to a DragonCon community, and someone posted in it a fan movie made for "Dead Man's Chest." There's not really any spoilers in it, per se - nothing you haven't seen on TV in the commercials, at least. Just a bunch of running around by guys in REALLY good costumes and a really superb Jack Sparrow impersonation.

http://community.livejournal.com/dragoncon/703245.html

(The reason I'm posting the comm link instead of simply the video is so that the person who posted it - who helped make it - can receive the proper comments/credit for it.)

My sister and I went to see "Dead Man's Chest" again yesterday. I liked this viewing better, because I knew what was going to happen, and I could just sit back and watch technique and execution and such.

( I shall cut for spoilers yet again. )

I just arrived home from Borders (where I picked up the LOVELY new Rolling Stone magazine, BTW, with Pirate Jack on the cover - RRROWWRRR!), and while I was perusing the magazines, I found one called "Film Fantasy" specifically about POTC. I think it's one of those one-time vanity things a publisher might put out to supplement income and cash in on a hot trend - sort of like those magazines that concentrate on LOTR when a new movie is coming out, and the like?

ANYWAY ... some of our very own writers in LJ are listed in the very back of the magazine as part of a "top 10" recommendation of fanfic online about POTC. honorat, tortuga_black, and geek_mama_2 are listed, as well as several other writers I've not heard of. (I just scanned the descriptions of the list, but I don't think they covered slash. I believe the magazine is probably aimed at teenagers.)

They have a paragraph description of each story and the praises of it, why it's in the magazine. It's called "Film Fantasy" and is published by Bauer Publishing as part of its "Life Story" series - I can't find anything online about it, but you can find it at Borders (and possibly other stores) for $10 right now.


EDIT (July 2): I picked up a copy of the magazine. The compilation of these stories is credited to G. "ErinRua" Atwater, which the magazine states is webmistress of a POTC site, captainjack.t35.com/FanFic.html (I have seen this page before, and I suspect so have a few of you). I cannot find, however, who actually picked these particular stories.


( Genfic Recommendations Ahoy! )

Wow! When it rains, it pours!

More Turrow (Jack/Will for you majority holders out there, *G*) art from vejiita4eva can be found here. Go now and drool over it. And if you haven't seen the rest of her stuff on her journal, look at it, too!

*does the happy Peanuts dance*