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Random Rambles, Thinky Thoughts
Nov. 16th, 2022 03:06 amTwo posts in a week, what is this world coming to??????
1 - Happy Birthday, AO3! Now that you are 13, you're an adult. You can now be called to the bimah and read from the Torah.
It's funny, I actually wasn't in fandom at the moment of AO3's birth, but I was at the cusp of it (I published my first fic on March 9, 2010). And it's really is a weird thing - for years, I'd resisted AO3, no one in White Collar posted there, except as an archive or as part of challenge. White Collar had been completely rooted in the old LJ community style of fandom, and while I love the readability, the security and stability, the searchability, the safety of AO3, I really do miss the community and friendship that I found, right out of the gate, when publishing on LJ.
Can't go back, not sure I want to go back, but I can mourn the loss.
2 - Writing has become very hard for me. I don't know why. Okay, yeah, I've got some personal shit going on, work is kicking my ass, this time of year is rough, but it's never been THIS bad (years past, I've written 100k between November 1 and the end of the year). Is it my fandom? My OTP? I wonder if it's because I haven't actually seen any of the essential media for it in decades and I'm basing much of my ideas off of all the really excellent fic I've read.
Waa waa waa, cry me a river...
( Here's a list of my current works in progress, oldest to newest: )
3. On a completely different note, back at the start of the pandemic (or maybe even before), I discovered the joy that was the Bon Appetite Test Kitchen YouTube channel, it was just a delight. And like so many seemingly delightful things, it had a very ugly underpinning to it. The work environment was toxic, the POC test cooks were treated like dirt, disrespected, and poorly (or often, not) paid compared with the white talent. One of them, Sohla El-Wayll, had the courage and the grace to go public with how badly she'd been treated (and paid), which resulted in the complete collapse of the BATK channel and the exodus of most of the talent.
In the fallout, Sohla took a lot of heat, but she got herself some excellent representation, landed a three-month gig on YouTube's biggest food talent, "Binging With Babish", a slot on Food52, a cookbook deal, several Food Network appearances, and a "show" on the NYT Cooking YouTube channel, first solo and then with her husband, Ham. It's called "Mystery Menu" and it is the most delightful 25 minutes imaginable. The pair of them are sweet, crazy, creative, have so much talent as both chefs and on-camera personalities - I watch and wonder why they don't have their own network show.
Well, apparently, Sohla does. She's a judge on HBO Max's new series, Brunch, and it has gotten stellar reviews from the New York Times (in case you think that's a weird show for HBO Max, remember that HBO is now owned by Discovery, which owns the Food Network). I'm probably going to splurge on a subscription, or at least a trial, I love Sohla just that much.
I also love brunch.
4. Has everyone seen the new commercial for Belvedere Vodka? God, I want to lick Daniel Craig's ... biceps.
5. The Twitter meltdown.
I knew it was going to be a shitshow, but I didn't think it was going to be this much fun to watch.
I'm sure I have other things I can natter on about. But I'm chilly and I'm tired, and I think I'm going to take my fat ass to bed.
1 - Happy Birthday, AO3! Now that you are 13, you're an adult. You can now be called to the bimah and read from the Torah.
It's funny, I actually wasn't in fandom at the moment of AO3's birth, but I was at the cusp of it (I published my first fic on March 9, 2010). And it's really is a weird thing - for years, I'd resisted AO3, no one in White Collar posted there, except as an archive or as part of challenge. White Collar had been completely rooted in the old LJ community style of fandom, and while I love the readability, the security and stability, the searchability, the safety of AO3, I really do miss the community and friendship that I found, right out of the gate, when publishing on LJ.
Can't go back, not sure I want to go back, but I can mourn the loss.
2 - Writing has become very hard for me. I don't know why. Okay, yeah, I've got some personal shit going on, work is kicking my ass, this time of year is rough, but it's never been THIS bad (years past, I've written 100k between November 1 and the end of the year). Is it my fandom? My OTP? I wonder if it's because I haven't actually seen any of the essential media for it in decades and I'm basing much of my ideas off of all the really excellent fic I've read.
Waa waa waa, cry me a river...
( Here's a list of my current works in progress, oldest to newest: )
3. On a completely different note, back at the start of the pandemic (or maybe even before), I discovered the joy that was the Bon Appetite Test Kitchen YouTube channel, it was just a delight. And like so many seemingly delightful things, it had a very ugly underpinning to it. The work environment was toxic, the POC test cooks were treated like dirt, disrespected, and poorly (or often, not) paid compared with the white talent. One of them, Sohla El-Wayll, had the courage and the grace to go public with how badly she'd been treated (and paid), which resulted in the complete collapse of the BATK channel and the exodus of most of the talent.
In the fallout, Sohla took a lot of heat, but she got herself some excellent representation, landed a three-month gig on YouTube's biggest food talent, "Binging With Babish", a slot on Food52, a cookbook deal, several Food Network appearances, and a "show" on the NYT Cooking YouTube channel, first solo and then with her husband, Ham. It's called "Mystery Menu" and it is the most delightful 25 minutes imaginable. The pair of them are sweet, crazy, creative, have so much talent as both chefs and on-camera personalities - I watch and wonder why they don't have their own network show.
Well, apparently, Sohla does. She's a judge on HBO Max's new series, Brunch, and it has gotten stellar reviews from the New York Times (in case you think that's a weird show for HBO Max, remember that HBO is now owned by Discovery, which owns the Food Network). I'm probably going to splurge on a subscription, or at least a trial, I love Sohla just that much.
I also love brunch.
4. Has everyone seen the new commercial for Belvedere Vodka? God, I want to lick Daniel Craig's ... biceps.
5. The Twitter meltdown.
I knew it was going to be a shitshow, but I didn't think it was going to be this much fun to watch.
I'm sure I have other things I can natter on about. But I'm chilly and I'm tired, and I think I'm going to take my fat ass to bed.
