I May Have Briefly Considered Purchase Before Coming To My Senses.

[rionaleonhart]

Today, two other girls and I had to present to my Approaches to Grammar workshop group. It was not until twenty minutes after it ended that I realised I had concluded the session with '"...and witnessed is a lexical non-finite passive participle!" *JAZZHANDS*'

DEAR SELF: SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH YOU.

Then I went into a Zavvi, saw One Tree Hill DVDs and immediately cracked up laughing. I've never even watched One Tree Hill! There is just something intrinsically hilarious about Chad Michael Murray!


Here is something I just stumbled across in a Notepad document from about half a year ago:

You know what I'd like to see? A Groundhog Day-type fic written from the point of view of someone who isn't the person caught in the time loop. Endless permutations of the same day, the viewpoint character unaware while their companion becomes more and more distressed. I'm just interested in seeing whether it would work, really.

THIS IDEA IS AWESOME. WHY DID I NOT POST ABOUT IT BEFORE? I'm tempted to use it for my Art of Short Fiction assignment, actually.


I cannot stop watching videos of Jensen and Jared on YouTube. These guys are amazing. Here is a clip that particularly amused me: 'Let me rephrase that: what's your odd question?' (At the beginning, Jared is (adorably!) put out because all the questions the fans are asking are for Jensen.)


According to my tag counts, this entry officially makes Supernatural the most talked-about fandom in this journal. I should probably make some sort of ridiculous manip post to celebrate this.

Comments

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

Some of it could be the standard Groundhog's Day approach: wake up, go through the standard morning routine, cut that bit down to the bare minimum once it's established.

Some of it would be tricky, as you'd need a progression that the main character didn't know was happening. Otherwise it would just be "He's being weird."

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

Background stuff going on, maybe? Or, like in Groundhog Day, where Bill Murray started to learn the piano, you can have the POV character go 'hang on, when did you learn that?'

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

They could definitely be surprised by the changes. Especially if it was a story more about the person in the time loop doing a lot of little things around town or wherever.

Also, when the X-Files pulled it off, they did have a degree of memory leaking through to other characters. Nothing solid for most of the story, just weird impressions and things.

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

And with every bit there're more changes.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

That would be tricky, because what was done wouldn't stay done. So unless the time-looped one was doing more each day, instead of merely different things, there wouldn't be more changes.

Unless you're talking about the memory bleed-through. That would cause all sorts of weird effects and impressions. Like hesitating over a cup of coffee because of an odd feeling, when the previous day you'd spilled it all over your pants.

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

Well, there'd be moments where the time-looped one would grab the coffee because the POV character keeps spilling it.

And yeah, probably more, and then it'd the end it would be utterly jarring.

But it's definitely tricky.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

In a way, it's easier with the memory bleed. It lets the changes keep building. And I like the idea of the POV character waking up...unsettled after one of the nastier days. Like they had a disturbing dream they can't quite remember.

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

Well, when they did in Stargate, Jack ended one of his timeloops kissing Samantha, so if the Timeloop Character did something like that to the POV character, they could start the timeloop vaguely feeling like they were just kissed or whatever it is that happened.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

Or suddenly and inexplicably finding themselves thinking about what it would be like to kiss so-and-so at the same time of day as the previous kiss, yeah.

It could be fun to write.

[rionaleonhart]

Man, I love you guys. You just do all the 'how can I make this work?' thinking for me.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

Glad to help, ma'am. *tips hat*

Part of my brain, annoyingly enough, is still going "How can I make this work for Top Gear?" Especially with the scene where Richard does something horribly dangerous, gets killed, and Jeremy spends the rest of the day sulking and telling everyone not to get worked up because it won't matter tomorrow, and they're all horrified and worried.

The rest of my brain is slightly appalled that I accidentally caused an outbreak of 'I don't normally read Wincest, but I'd read that' at fanficrants. I need to get better at not encouraging Wincest, don't I?