silent night

[callioope]

...it's been very quiet, I hope everyone is enjoying their holiday and time with family! (and I also hope everyone who needs a little alone time can squeeze some in! family can be fun but also overwhelming) (also maybe everyone is hurrying to finish their secret santa gifts? who knows!)

Slowly but surely, I am making my way through the food travel AU! As I mentioned in my last goals post, I read them before (more like a speed-read), but am now going back and commenting. Four down, five to go! (Because I'm not counting my own obviously) I can appreciate them much better when I'm not trying to take notes to prepare for writing my own chapter, ha. Seriously some very sweet moments in there, between the food & the fluff! 

(Also, yes, I know, no goals post last Sunday -- it's the holidays, consider this a sort of goals post, lite edition)

I prepped an album for some of the places mentioned in At the Confluence of History and Hope (these are my personal photos, so! there's that). I've written a plan for some visual reference posts I plan on posting to tumblr (photo sets with excerpts; these will include photos of food) but I've been too busy with family stuff to move further than that.

Husband and I went to see On the Basis of Sex last night and it was amazing! Great story, great writing, and of course Felicity was fantastic. Especially enjoyed the line, "...could topple the whole damn system of discrimination..." because, well, you know I couldn't help but think of a certain other line...

Also went to see the Zoo Lights tonight and they were very beautiful! I kind of want to incorporate that setting into a fic somehow. (The bright, multi-colored lights seem to float on their own in the dark sky... and everyone on the ground is weirdly silhouetted, you can barely make out a face, sometimes a person is barely more than a shadow, barely noticed until you run into them!) Maybe an alien world? Some beautiful alien bio-luminescence? Oooh, maybe the caves where Jyn and Lyra's rebel cell resides in my You've Got Mail in-universe AU? Hmmmm will have to ponder!

Comments

[foreverinasmile]

I am DYING to see On the Basis of Sex and I hope to next week!! Glad to hear that it's good!!

Your pictures are BREATHTAKING! I haven't done much traveling in that part of the world, but now I really want to! The two pictures with the columns in the water with the almost erie lighting remind me of something that I can't place- where is that? I need to visit there! The food travel au is pushing all my travel buttons and I want to go everywhere! I haven't traveled much in Europe, but I did live in Japan for a couple of years after college. After I read an installment, I picture the show having their second season in the Far East!

Sounds like the lights were amazing, and I definitely think that you should write more about them ;-)

[callioope]

Thank you, my husband took most of the pics! & I also used Google's auto fix to edit some of them.

The pics of the columns in the water were taken at the Basilica Cistern. I understand cisterns are sort of a common European installation?

And yeah, I think it'd be really cool if they did a season 2 in the Far East! I'd certainly be down to read it. I know when the project first started, many moons ago, there was also talk of doing something in the US. Personally I think the Far East would be cooler and I think there are a lot of fans located there that could easily write them!

[foreverinasmile]

Ah ha! The Cistern is something that I saw in the movie Inferno (which stars our girl Felicity Jones!). Conveniently, my husband was watching it today and the ending takes place in a cistern much like the one in your picture! That was going to drive me nuts!! I knew I recognized it!

Honestly, I'd read the food travel au anywhere they want it to take place! It's so fun to learn about other cultures through this story!!

[callioope]

Oh hey that's cool! I've read both Angels and Demons and The Da Vinci Code, but never read Inferno! I'll have to check it out if the movie stars Felicity and takes place in Istanbul!!! (Also, I mean, I do love Tom Hanks as well.)