Drowning in plot bunnies! Send halp!

First, a few items of squee:

1. Saw Star Trek in IMAX on Monday. The screen was so large, I thought I could see through time. Love love love.

2. Star Trek audio book arrived in the mail! As I mentioned before, it is read by Zachary Quinto. So excited to have a long drive ahead of me on Thursday. I'm actually interested to hear a version with more fleshed-out details. I guess that's the sign of a good plot, eh?

3. Dollhouse AND Castle are renewed? How could life be better?

4. My class on writing sex begins next week! This is how I envision the first night: "Hi, I'm Jill, and I write kinky gay porn based on television and movie characters. Can I get an amen? No? Er... A howdy, at least?"

Now, on the fic front:

1. My heroes_exchange fic is done and turned in (uh... obviously, since it was due last week). There's some great stuff going up over there, so go check it out!

2. After seeing the Trek movie a second time, it's possible I started writing another K/S fic. Uh oh! This one may or may not involve emotionallyvulnerable!Spock.

3. The first of my two Sweet Charity fics is underway, and it seems to be turning into a larger arc than I at first anticipated. Not that that's a bad thing; it's actually sort of exciting, since it's a fandom in which I've never written. I've been getting in some high-quality writing during my commute because the story is flowing like nobody's business. Yay Pretender!

4. I'm also working on a Nathan/Peter fic for fic_finishing this month. It's slow going, but it's going.

The upshot of all this fic activity is that if I get stuck on one thing, I can always pick up something else to get the pen rolling again. However, if I expect to finish all this before the end of the month, I need to stop mucking about on LJ and get back to work, damnit!

Also, I have two invite codes from Dreamwidth, so let me know if you want one.

Last post of the night, I promise.

First of all, run don't walk to check out Zachary Quinto's GQ photo shoot. Man on a motorcycle. Looking sexy. Not kidding.

Second. It occurred to me upon a second viewing (and I can only be excused from missing it the first time because I was deafened by the awesomeness of the movie) that Chekov's accent bothers me a little. Only a little, because I understand it's a convention borrowed from the original series, but listen here.

*puts on professor glasses and prepares to be pretentious* I speak Russian. I used to live in Russia. I have heard many Russian accents. I've served as a Russian dialect coach for actors. And although it is true that Russians tend to confused "w" and "v," there is no reason on God's green earth (or space) that Chekov would be unable to say "Victor." There is a V in the Russian alphabet, but no W. Russians have trouble pronouncing W, not V. Let me quote my own guide to Russian accents for actors:

W and V. There is no “W” sound in Russian, so foreign words with “w” in them are rendered with a “v” sound, as in “Vashington” or “vaffel.” In rendering Russian words or any proper noun into English, there is no way for a Russian speaker to determine if a “v” sound should be changed to a “w” sound or remain a “v” sound except to memorize each individual instance. Hence, native Russian speakers are likely to either fail to replace “w” with “v” (saying the name “Villiam” instead of William), or erroneously replace a “v” sound with a “w” sound (saying “wadka” instead of vodka). When a “w” sound begins a word, such as in “one,” Russian speakers add a “v” sound to aid in pronunciation, as in “vorld” for world “voman” for woman.

So I'll Victor Victor you, writers! But I'm just being nit-picky, because otherwise Star Trek is <3, and so is Whiz Kid Chekov.

ETA: Many have now kindly pointed out that Anton Yelchin has addressed this issue in interviews to my satisfaction. So I forgive him. But just be aware that real Russians do not talk that vay.