I thought it might be a good time to update you on stuff, since I’ve been seemingly MIA since I moved to Toronto. Here we go!
LOST NUMBERS - I have been writing pieces of songs, but with the band back in Vancouver, it looks like we won’t have any real updates until 2015. I know our two fans are freaking out right now, bless their hearts. If you don’t know my band, we write folk-pop about mythology and video games and stuff. Our EP can be downloaded by donation (suggested donation $0) at http://lostnumbersband.bandcamp.com
THE JENOVA PROJECT - You may not know this but I novelized the popular video game Final Fantasy VII some years ago and this winter I took to a second pass - a complete new draft of the first book in the series has been, uh, drafted, and I’m looking for beta readers WHO ARE NOT FANS! If you or anyone you know are a) constructive critics and b) not final fantasy fans and c) open to reading an action/fantasy story, send me a PM or reblogply or however this works.
IMPROV - Getting back into it! Recently I performed at FOOT: Festival of Original Theatre. A colleague of mine had devised (through some unspeakable arithmancy) a system that allows improvisers to interact with a scrim, a camera, a projector, and a kinect *while they are improvising* so we could play fun new games like “Play with yourself on stage” and “record normal sentence from a volunteer and proceed to thoroughly humiliate their projector-born ghost” and my favourite game “infinite Xander.” Improv is my priority over acting, it looks like (exception: Stratford)
BLANKVERSE - has been getting some bad press, to my dismay! I was gonna say “can’t please em all” but this is a topic I care a great deal about and the more discussion we can have about it the better so here we go!
(Please know that these are my views only and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the producers. Ryan Caron, a producer, has already released a very eloquent apology — before I continue I insist you read it because I agree with every letter.)
So apparently there is the idea that our genderblind casting (and maybe also my genderblind writing?) wasn't so much "blind" as it was a thinly veiled scheme to turn disgusting immoral ho-mo-sexual indiscretion into nice PG heteronormative paste. It's a sensible enough hypothesis, but it's not a great theory.!Confirmation Bias — you are obviously intelligent enough to be outspoken on social justice issues so I don’t need to explain it. Please beware that you aren’t falling prey to it. Dig deeper before bashing us. Some of the writers are queer/gay/poly (myself included) and some of the producers are queer and as a writer/actor I know for a fact that Will is pursuing more sex with men than women on this show. If it isn’t apparent enough, that’s GREAT! Let’s get that conversation going. But include us, because WE ARE ALL ON THE SAME SIDE.
What I love about web series is being unchained from the Hollywood bullshit we would usually have to deal with. Our priority was genderblindness, it was assumed by me that every character was some degree of pansexual except for those whose sexualities are irrelevant (it is my belief that Liz - and the monarch who inspired her - was asexual). It is a very very unfortunate coincidence that the two clearest “pairings” are both M/F, but it IS a coincidence.
I am sorry that I didn’t catch it. For the record, my OTP is Will/Henry. It wasn’t until I watched the show that I realized how little of the subtext comes through when all these Het pairings bowl over everyone else.
I apologize. I’m new at this. Also, thank you for calling us out on our bullshit. We came by it honestly, but it smells just as bad.
Let’s work together to make the next thing better okay?
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