DVDs and runner beans
I can do the DVD commentary meme now that I have something to work with. From ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
philomytha:
Pick any passage of 500 words or fewer from any story I've written, and comment to this post with that selection. I will then give you the equivalent of a DVD commentary on that snippet: what I was thinking when I wrote it, why I wrote it in the first place, what's going on in the characters' heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment means in the context of the rest of the fic, lots of awful puns, and anything else that you’d expect to find on a DVD commentary track.
I have listened to approximately two DVD commentaries (because I really prefer to hear the soundtrack) but never mind that. Commentary on writing is more fun.
On a completely different... wait, I can link them. Were I doing a DVD commentary for "Lewis" episodes "Life Born of Fire," "The Quality of Mercy," and at least one other I can't think of right now, there would be a point where I started saying something like "Oh my God look at the gorgeous scarlet runner beans" and then "Oh look, runner beans again" and so forth. I mean, the number of shots with a character's head framed by runner beans just got funny after a while, and this is not a show that spends a lot of time in gardens. BUT I NOTICE THESE THINGS, OKAY. If I get around to grabbing some screencaps, I may do a post for Grow It Eat It, although it will have to say "Look, people, at the gorgeous English scarlet runner beans. We really can't grow them here." Though God knows I keep trying. But summers where it hits over 95 F on a regular basis just do not work for heat-sensitive plants (plus, Mexican bean beetles adore them).
Well, that's gardening for you: always wanting something you can't have. I may manage to score a community garden plot (Brit. allotment) to replace my increasingly shady vegetable garden, thanks to today's conversation with my friend who administers the county program; not by circumventing the rules, mind you, but by being told exactly how to use them to get what I want. Hopefully the next time we get weeks of scorching temperatures and no rain I'll still want it.
philomytha:Pick any passage of 500 words or fewer from any story I've written, and comment to this post with that selection. I will then give you the equivalent of a DVD commentary on that snippet: what I was thinking when I wrote it, why I wrote it in the first place, what's going on in the characters' heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment means in the context of the rest of the fic, lots of awful puns, and anything else that you’d expect to find on a DVD commentary track.
I have listened to approximately two DVD commentaries (because I really prefer to hear the soundtrack) but never mind that. Commentary on writing is more fun.
On a completely different... wait, I can link them. Were I doing a DVD commentary for "Lewis" episodes "Life Born of Fire," "The Quality of Mercy," and at least one other I can't think of right now, there would be a point where I started saying something like "Oh my God look at the gorgeous scarlet runner beans" and then "Oh look, runner beans again" and so forth. I mean, the number of shots with a character's head framed by runner beans just got funny after a while, and this is not a show that spends a lot of time in gardens. BUT I NOTICE THESE THINGS, OKAY. If I get around to grabbing some screencaps, I may do a post for Grow It Eat It, although it will have to say "Look, people, at the gorgeous English scarlet runner beans. We really can't grow them here." Though God knows I keep trying. But summers where it hits over 95 F on a regular basis just do not work for heat-sensitive plants (plus, Mexican bean beetles adore them).
Well, that's gardening for you: always wanting something you can't have. I may manage to score a community garden plot (Brit. allotment) to replace my increasingly shady vegetable garden, thanks to today's conversation with my friend who administers the county program; not by circumventing the rules, mind you, but by being told exactly how to use them to get what I want. Hopefully the next time we get weeks of scorching temperatures and no rain I'll still want it.