Write Every Day: Day 19

[the_siobhan]

Last night's Trek movie was First Contact. This is one of the few I've seen before and honestly I didn't remember much about it - not because I thought it was a bad movie, because it was actually fine. But because I was so outraged at the whole Borg Queen plot line. Here you have the guiding intelligence of a species that is so powerful it has conquered untold civilizations and the thing it most wants is... a boyfriend. Are. You. Kidding. Me.

(And yes, I have seen the argument that she is comparable to the queen bee in a hive, and I don't buy it for one second. The queen bee is not the boss, she has a job. And if she doesn't do her job the hive will just murder her and grow a new one.)

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Some of my neighbours have organized a shovel party tonight to try and clear some parking spots. Honestly, this city is so hopeless.

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After movie and sushi I only had the energy for an alibi sentence.

Day 19 Tally:
china_shop

Day 18 Tally:
china_shop luzula badly_knitted sylvanwitch trobadora alightbuthappypen shadaras nafs brithistorian yasaman carenejeans cornerofmadness miss_squiddy sanguinity the_siobhan


Day 17 Tally:
badly_knitted alightbuthappypen sylvanwitch trobadora shadaras china_shop nafs cornerofmadness brithistorian yasaman carenejeans luzula the_siobhan miss_squiddy

Day 16 Tally:
china_shop badly_knitted trobadora sylvanwitch shadaras luzula nafs cornerofmadness yasaman carenejeans the_siobhan brithistorian miss_squiddy

Day 15 Tally:
ysilme badly_knitted sylvanwitch miss_squiddy luzula trobadora shadaras china_shop nafs brithistorian chanter1944 cornerofmadness the_siobhan yasaman carenejeans

Day 14 Tally:
trobadora badly_knitted sylvanwitch shadaras nafs cornerofmadness luzula yasaman ysilme miss_squiddy china_shop chanter1944 the_siobhan carenejeans



Day 13 Tally:
sylvanwitch trobadora badly_knitted nafs cornerofmadness yasaman luzula carenejeans the_siobhan miss_squiddy shadaras ysilme china_shop brithistorian chanter1944

Day 12 Tally:
china_shop badly_knitted trobadora sylvanwitch sanguinity shadaras nafs cornerofmadness yasaman carenejeans luzula miss_squiddy ysilme brithistorian chanter1944

Day 11 Tally:
badly_knitted trobadora luzula sylvanwitch shadaras china_shop yasaman brithistorian cornerofmadness sanguinity carenejeans the_siobhan nafs miss_squiddy ysilme chanter1944

Day 10 Tally:
china_shop badly_knitted trobadora shadaras nafs chanter1944 cornerofmadness carenejeans the_siobhan sylvanwitch yasaman brithistorian miss_squiddy ysilme

Day 9 Tally:
china_shop badly_knitted sylvanwitch trobadora luzula shadaras nafs cornerofmadness carenejeans ysilme miss_squiddy chanter1944 the_siobhan yasaman brithistorian

Day 8 Tally:
badly_knitted luzula sylvanwitch nafs trobadora brithistorian cornerofmadness china_shop carenejeans shadaras the_siobhan ysilme chanter1944 yasaman

Day 7 Tally:
china_shop badly_knitted chanter1944 sylvanwitch trobadora nafs brithistorian cornerofmadness ysilme shadaras luzula sanguinity the_siobhan carenejeans yasaman

Day 6 Tally:
china_shop luzula trobadora sylvanwitch badly_knitted shadaras nafs sanguinity brithistorian cornerofmadness yasaman carenejeans greylock the_siobhan chanter1944 ysilme

Day 5 Tally:
china_shop miss_squiddy badly_knitted trobadora shadaras nafs sylvanwitch cornerofmadness brithistorian yasaman luzula the_siobhan carenejeans chanter1944 ysilme

Day 4 Tally:
sylvanwitch badly_knitted trobadora china_shop shadaras nafs brithistorian cornerofmadness luzula ysilme carenejeans miss_squiddy the_siobhan yasaman chanter1944

Day 3 Tally:
china_shop badly_knitted luzula trobadora sylvanwitch shadaras chanter1944 nafs cornerofmadness brithistorian yasaman miss_squiddy ysilme carenejeans the_siobhan

Day 2 Tally:
trobadora alightbuthappypen sylvanwitch badly_knitted china_shop nafs sanguinity yasaman brithistorian cornerofmadness sakana17 carenejeans ysilme the_siobhan luzula shadaras chanter1944 miss_squiddy

Day 1 Tally:
sylvanwitch badly_knitted alightbuthappypen trobadora brithistorian nafs cornerofmadness sanguinity carenejeans miss_squiddy shadaras the_siobhan china_shop yasaman ysilme luzula chanter1944

Let me know if I missed you and you can jump in any time.

Comments

[trobadora]

For the 19th: I took a bit of a break after yesterday's deadline and instead of working on that thing, poked at the treat I didn't manage to finish for Candy Hearts. Didn't get far, though, the structural issue unfortunately didn't magically solve itself while I wasn't looking. *g*

[the_siobhan]

Sometimes walking away from something for a little while helps me figure out what the solution is. (Although I have to admit, sometimes the only solution I can come up with is "start over".)

Good working sticking with it, either way.

[china_shop]

20th: some edits to my flashfic and posted it; some notes for a possible (ambitious) thing. Am I going to embark on it in earnest? As yet undecided...

[the_siobhan]

Maybe it will tweak the muse. ;-) Good work!

[badly_knitted]

Truly doesn't make sense =/

Feb 19th - 2330 words, Two triple and one double drabble, and 5 ficathon fills.

The back of my jacket is finished, and I've started the first sleeve!

[the_siobhan]

Well done! On both words and jacket. :-D

[badly_knitted]

Thank you!

[shadaras]

Day 19: Alibi sentence

[the_siobhan]

Good work getting that alibi down.

[sylvanwitch]

Now I’m going to have to watch that movie again. It’s been so long!

On Day 19, I wrote an alibi poem.

[the_siobhan]

I liked every other thing about it.

Alibi poem sounds awesome!

[nafs]

Day 19 Also an alibi sentence day.

[the_siobhan]

Some days are just like that. Good work getting that alibi down.

[chanter1944]

Tagging in for days 16, 17, 18, and 19. :)

[the_siobhan]

Well done! I missed your past dates on today's post, but I'll get you caught up tomorrow.

[cornerofmadness]

right now I'd take the shovel party as my area has simply given up and you're on your own, follow the Amish buggies or something.

(also OMG yes that Borg queen thing, if I remember right the showrunner back then was a misogynistic twerp)

got 670 words on my women of the weird west story so that's something

[the_siobhan]

The city is saying three weeks to get the sidewalks ploughed, so I think people have just given up.

My girlfriend booed whenever Rick Berman's name came on the screen.

Good work on words!

[cornerofmadness]

Berman, yeah that's him. shudders

our snow isn't that deep luckily

[luzula]

Day 19: Edited and sent the chapter off to beta, adding 100 words to it in the process.

[the_siobhan]

Good work!

[carenejeans]

Day 19: 458 words!

Argh for more snow! And an unhelpful city. But at least you have good neighbors.

[the_siobhan]

Good work!

[greylock]

First Contact is fine. The Borg Queen idea just doesn't made sense for the Borg, n ever did. I lost track of what they did in VOY (made it worse), but if I remember Picard maybe tried to salvage the idea? Maybe.

But the idea Data was just a boyfriend gets worse. She's got a mighty thirst only Picard can quench later on.

You just have to roll with the idea the Borg were aliens for some reason and accept the crazy.

[the_siobhan]

Ruined a perfectly good villain if you ask me.

[greylock]

Every franchise well if it runs long enough.

[ysilme]

I was so outraged at the whole Borg Queen plot line. Here you have the guiding intelligence of a species that is so powerful it has conquered untold civilizations and the thing it most wants is... a boyfriend. Are. You. Kidding. Me.
THIS! First Contact is one of my favourite Trek movies, but this really is a major irritation. Ever sine I started to consciously thinking about plot I couldn't help thinking this plotline was force-created to make that Data plotline work, in the fashion of the boss demanding it against the opposition of the writer(s)... ;op


Checking in for days 16-20, still noodling away at that old fannish drawer fic. In addition to our reno project I'm currently having a super intense period of my voluntary job, so I'm more or less only managing an alibi sentence or so every day, but at least I DO manage it. ;op

[the_siobhan]

I liked every other thing about the movie.

Good work getting those alibi sentences down! I know how hard it is when things get overwhelming.

[runcible]

(nerd rage mode engaged)
I was so outraged at the whole Borg Queen plot line

YES EXACTLY THAT THANK YOU. The whole slinky-cat-suit-ed-ness of it all too was just... no. Like, I'm here for fetish cyber femme shit, hell yes and thank you, but that completely defanged what was scary to me about the borg. It was a machine that didn't stop and couldn't be pleaded with or reasoned with, because it operated at a scale that obliterated individualism the same way a combine harvester plows through and... now... what if... bond villain borg? ;)

(I know it really landed for some people and I respect that... but... I have been forever disappointed in that choice)

[the_siobhan]

Yes! Well put, that was exactly my problem with it.

The main plot lines of the movie - the borg on the ship and the events on the planet - were pretty good! I enjoyed them. But my memory of them was completely obliterated by the terrible choices that seemed to exist just so they could put in some sex.

(Actually I also remember the first meeting with the Vulcans, mostly because of the way tumblr grabbed it and ran.)