Fandom: Talking Meme: Lost Boys post-movie

Clearly, I'm carrying the December Talking Meme well into 2015, so if you want to leave any prompts, feel free to do so here or on the Master List.

Prompt by havocthecat: I'm on a Lost Boys kick lately, so what's your ideal post-movie scenario? Since The Tribe and The Thirst did not really deliver anything quality with regards to that.

The nostalgia is strong with this prompt. The Lost Boys was my second online fandom, and remains one of my favorites, both for the movie and the fandom itself, and because it brought me so many of my favorite people. I'm still friends with a bunch of people I met in early online Buffy fandom, but my bff came from Lost Boys, and we have a group of friends who are AMAZING. Creative and loyal and smart and wonderful.

I don't really have an ideal post-movie scenario. It really depends on what I've been thinking about most recently. Because I wrote Temptation, Like a Drum for Yuletide, my current favorite post-movie scenario veers far into fix-it fic, vampires surviving the movie, Star staying a half-vampire and learning to control the power that comes from walking between two worlds. Whether only David survives (horn not wood) or they all survive varies. Who makes Star a half-vampire again varies. Whether Michael becomes a vampire again varies. The core of it is created vampire family, Santa Carla, and Star maneuvering her worlds.

Sometimes I love stories about Star and Laddie learning to be human again, about the Emersons navigating a world in which they know monsters are real. The Frog brothers all grown up, hunting things, saving people. Lucy building a safe space for her boys in a city she knows is monstrous and corrupt.

Still really want to read and/or write a story about the werewolves of Santa Carla.

Personal: Countdown Day 1: Ten Random Facts

I've been seeing the Countdown Meme all over, thought I'd give it a try myself.

( Ten Days )

Day 1: Ten random facts about yourself.

1. I'm adopted. My birth mother was also adopted, and I know nothing about my birth father, so there's no family history available to me. This isn't a problem except when it comes to history of health issues.

2. I love marching band. I marched clarinet a couple years, color guard a few more years, did winter guard, and did one year of winter drumline because I also played the piano and therefore could do the piano-based percussion instruments.

3. My first pet was a horse. (My dad's horse, really, but he shared, and the horse loved me.) We'd walk around together and I'd tell him stories. He'd stand in the yard, look in the window and watch television with us. He was a big, tall delight.

4. I don't know how to skate, not roller skates, roller blades or ice skates. Mostly this is because I spent my very young years on a farm with no place to learn, and I have balance issues, so when I tried it a little as a teen, it didn't work. I'd still like to learn to ice skate sometime, because I freaking love hockey and figure skating.

5. I've been to 49 out of the 50 states here. I'm only missing Alaska.

6. I've worn glasses since I was around 7 or 8, and contacts since I was 10 or so. When I first got contacts, they wouldn't let me leave the optometrist's office until I could put them in myself, and I struggled. The woman helping me MADE ME TOUCH HER FUCKING EYE TO GET USED TO IT. FOREVER SCARRED.

7. I hate cooking for myself, but I'm learning not to mind cooking for other people. This morning, I made scrambled eggs, biscuits and white pepper gravy for breakfast. Delicious.

8. I have an upside-down horseshoe scar on the back of my head because my skull bones were fused when I was born (leading to a terrible birth experience for my poor birth mother), and the doctors had to fix them so my brain could develop. Normally I don't notice it (I have very course, very thick, very curly, and very long hair, so it's covered), but sometimes while putting product in it (usually leave-in conditioner), I'll catch it with my fingers. It feels weird.

9. I don't have pierced ears. I've had them pierced twice before. Both times, they healed over the backs of the stud earrings I wore. Because my body is weirdly awesome.

10. My favorite movie is Lilo & Stitch, followed a close second by Lost Boys.

Fandom: Jupiter Ascending

Life has pretty much sucked lately, mostly due to lack of work, insurance, and bipolar drugs, but I'm trying to remind myself of the good things. And one of the greatest things ended up being Jupiter Ascending. I'm behind on my movie trailers, so I hadn't even heard about it until multiple people contacted me about SPACE WEREWOLF CARLA THERE'S A SPACE WEREWOLF AND HE'S SHIRTLESS AND HOT.

It's like you people know me or something.

Because of (the lack of) work, I moved back to my hometown (and in with J), so I'm no longer near my favorite theater (with the red leather recliners and the bar and the adults-only screens), and the local theater is crap (it doesn't even have stadium seating!). However, there's a new theater a couple towns over that has (some) screens with the recliners, and J and I had to run an errand out there anyway, so we ended up going together. (My original plan was to go alone, because this is not J's kind of movie.)

You guys, JUPITER ASCENDING IS THE GREATEST MOVIE WITH A SKY-SURFING SPACE WEREWOLF I'VE EVER SEEN.

It was fun and funny and over-the-top dramatic and wonderful. It made me a fan of Channing Tatum. It made me want to watch it a hundred times and cheer every time. It made me want all sorts of stories about the supporting characters (CAPTAIN MOTHERFUCKING TSING IS THE GREATEST and Ibis and the hunters and Stinger's daughter Kiza, I LOVE HER ALREADY GIVE ME MORE GIVE ME MORE). Stinger and his bees. The way Mila Kunis dealt with that whole I've always loved dogs line and her face after and okay, her throughout the whole movie I love her. Jupiter and Caine and her reactions to "your majesty" from different people (and the kinky stories that must have come out of that, COME ON, Jupiter and Caine kink yes please).

The movie is beautiful and flashy and wonderful visually (minus a little bit of vertigo-inducing motion in the fight scenes; I intentionally did not watch it in 3D because I'd been warned).

BUT THE MOST IMPORTANT PART IS SPACE FUCKING WEREWOLF I NEED SO MANY MORE SPACE WEREWOLVES AND THEY WANT PACKS AND COME ON GIVE ME THE STORIES OF SPACE WEREWOLF PACKS.

And space dinosaurs. I know most people call them space dragons, but I read them as dinosaurs, and I am going to keep reading them as dinosaurs, because SPACE FUCKING DINOSAURS.

And now some links:

As much as I love the movie, marina wrote up a fairly detailed criticism of Jupiter's Russian background and the complete and utter fail of the movie.

Jupiter Ascending kink meme: jakink (I haven't read anything here yet, but I AM INTERESTED YES I AM FUCKING INTERESTED.)

Really liked what dhampyresa had to say here.


Okay, so interested in the kink meme I did a little reading.

Jupiter/Caine, Jupiter/Stinger, ABO

Jupiter/Caine, aftercare