Botcon 2010 (or, How I Spent 3 Days at Disney and Didn’t Have to Shoot a Damned Mouse)

Blogger’s Note: This was originally typed up on June 28th and appeared over at LiveJournal. I’ve made a few edits to remove coding that only works on that site and reposted it here as well.

So I’m back in Tallahassee safe and sound (although Sunscream really wanted to just take a goddamn nap and fuck whether we were at a gas station when she did it about 90-some miles from home, but my girl started up again after I asked someone if they could give me a jumpstart…) and taking another day off from work just to rest and relax and get my usual Sunday chores done in the time I have so that me and Li don’t have to explain why we’re going to work naked for a couple of days. So I figured I’d write up a quick little post on my impressions of Botcon.

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Rant of the Moment: Department of Redundancy Department

I know that my last few posts here have been film reviews – and wow, has it really been close to a year since my last new post? – but there are times in my randomocity that other thoughts cross my mind and I feel the need to get them the hell out of my head. Today, oddly enough, seems to be redundancies and just how much they piss me off with the overuse of them.

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Movie Review: G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

So, I just got back a little while ago from seeing G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, and I come away with mixed feelings. On the whole I enjoyed the movie, but if you’re a major fan of the original 1985 series and/or any of the subsequent comic adaptations, then you might want to give this one a pass.

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New Review Coming Soon!

Possibly as soon as this weekend. The BFF and I area making tentative plans to go see G.I.Joe: The Rise of Cobra on Saturday morning, the earliest possible showing. Should we do thusly, a review will be coming quickly thereafter.

…although I still maintain that NEST in the TF:RotF universe is a branch of the Joe unit, and Hawk is bitchy because Lennox gets to play with the giant alien robots.

Follow-Up to Movie Review: On the Subject of Tentacles and Robots

Click here to see the original movie review post.

Honestly, I’m a very odd woman. I consider myself to be perfectly normal, but other people who think themselves normal give me strange looks when I start talking about Transformers in any way. One part is likely because – holy shit! – I’m an adult woman who enjoys something that was and in many ways still remains thought of only in conjunction with men and boys, while the other part is probably because I sometimes babble on as if I honestly think I can call up Optimus Prime on the phone and have a chat with the guy.

Although admit it, that would be fucking awesome.

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Movie Review: Revenge of the Fallen

So, I went to the 10:00 showing of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen this morning. I went in with mixed feelings, as I did enjoy the first film so long as I took it as a completely separate world related in no way to the original G1 series. (Because from a “G1 is the only good series” standpoint, the movie would be a massive disappointment. But I do like explosions and I do like giant alien robots, so all was well for me on that front.) Plus, as usually happens, most of the reviews either loved it or hated it, which doesn’t influence me in any way but does make me a bit cautious.

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Musing About….

Well, it’s been a very long time since I’ve written here. And that’s mainly because… I don’t know if I’m truly cut out to do the professional author thing.

I honestly haven’t even had a flicker of inspiration on anything original in quite some time. Oh, I can edit the hell outta Katherine’s stories prior to her sending them off to her publisher, and I can write fanfiction like nobody’s business, but when it comes to creating brand new characters and worlds, I freeze the hell up.

So, for the time being at least, I’ve relegated myself to the role of Katherine’s unofficial editor. I get paid in hugs and meals, and a small dedication at the beginning of each book. Not a terrible reward for helping my best friend realize her dream.

And now, I’m off to finish my orange juice and try to write some more on one of my current Transformers fanfics. The one I’m thinking of working on tonight? The next chapter of Hush.

Idle Thoughts

Some days are just better than others, and that’s pretty damned close to gospel truth.

Yesterday was not a good one. I got up feeling horrid – some upset to my stomach that eating breakfast didn’t really help and a bit of a nagging headache – yet in my usual stubborn way attempted to get in a full work day anyway. Needless to say, I only made it until about 11:30. Thankfully my supervisor is awesome and let me take the rest of it as sick time and go home to rest up.

I still have the whole headache deal, but my stomach feels much more settled than it was thirty-odd hours ago.

I’m fairly sure – at long last! – how I’m going to work the novel. Still no title as yet, but I try not to worry on that with even short pieces and fan fiction until I have a general idea of the story. All I’ve got clearly in mind is that there are three main protagonists, and although they mesh together well one of the three is almost literally a ‘fish out of water.’

It’s odd, though, how we all as individuals choose to relax. I spent a good four hours after resting up yesterday playing The Sims 2; I’m always more relaxed after playing for a while, and while I don’t understand it I am pleased that I can usually get in a good night’s sleep afterward. I slept fairly well except for my cell phone screaming that the battery was dying at 3 this morning. Ugh, and I was sleeping so nicely, too….

Current Mood: annoyed with the headache
Currently Reading: various stories on fanfiction.net

Test Post

This is only a test. Had this been an actual post, there would have been something of substance here rather than this silly little note.

All kidding aside, hello and welcome. I’m D. Marie Butler, the odd creature who will be rambling on about something or other at any inopportune moment. I’m currently doing research and background work for my first as-yet untitled novel, and when the draft is ready will be shopping it around. I already have one publisher at the top of my list, as they’ve been wonderful thus far to my dear friend Katherine Bell so they’re all right in my books.

Hopefully I’ll post something other than mindless rambling next time.

Current Mood: sleepy
Currently Reading: Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett