Snowflake, and a single link

[flamingsword]

Link to the Relationship Anarchy manifesto, Bc I keep forgetting to read it.


Snowflake Challenge #3: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

In your own space, tell us who, from one of your fandoms, would you most want to have dinner with (or tea, or a random afternoon visit), And why? This could be a creator, an actor, a costumer, a set designer, a director, a character, a composer, anybody! What would you talk about? What are you dying to know? Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Hmm. Possibly Taika Waititi? And we could start off talking about fanfic and creativity and playing with tropes, and move onto cracking bad jokes about the current US path to fascism. Come to think of it, maybe get some pointers on writing humor in dark situations. But conversational drift happens, so I have no idea where that would end up or what would get covered in the meantime. And as long as this is happening in imagination-land, we could meet for lunch at my favorite Vietnamese bakery, 85 Degrees, and we could eat egg tarts and matcha sponge cake and drink frou-frou coffee and teas. COVID? What COVID?

Or possibly talk to Robin Standefer and Stephen Alesch of Roman and Williams who did the set design for Practical Magic about setting a visual mood and the role of decor and atmosphere in everyday life. Ye gods, I am as big a fan of that house as I am of that entire movie. I wish someone would publish the floor plan and engineering documents for that house. Not that I’d be able to build one, but I betcha a dozen people would do it just in the US. *sigh*

Comments

[paulamcg]

Oh yes, let's take it all to imagination land! :) Enjoy your evening out - and the rest of the challenges, too. ♥

[flamingsword]

<3

[osidiano]

omg I also loved that house, and their garden <3 <3

[flamingsword]

I have seen and helped weed gardens that witchy, but never been in a house that was designed to re-home tiny witches. I want a space of my own to decorate like that.

[sjh2009]

Oh yes, I've almost forgotten what eating out is like, lol. Such a lovely idea.

[flamingsword]

You go to a place where there are people who it is safe to be around, in a pleasant environment that you did not have to clean. You pay people to wait on you hand and foot, and they bring you food that you didn’t make on dishes you don’t have to clean. It sounds like a daydream, and we used to take it for granted.

No more.

[sjh2009]

No, there's a lot of things those of us alive today will never take for granted again. Although sadly I'm sure some will!

[silveradept]

That's a fantastic house, yes indeed, and I think it would be illuminating to talk to the people who were responsible for creating it as it was in the movie.

[flamingsword]

Thank you! 💕

I like talking to people who know things that I don’t, and trying to understand and emulate as much of their perspective as I can.

[shipperslist]

*gasp* Taika Waititi! Yes!

[flamingsword]

Have you seen his TED talk? He is such an amazing dorkstar, and a precious cinnamon roll. I want to look inside his head and see how his brain works!

[shipperslist]

No, I haven't, thanks for the tip!