Second Nature! WOOOO!

[teddog]

catsarah's post on Wu Wei had me reconsider my lack of fandom website work. Most of the web work that I do now is all... WORK related. I haven't sat down and done something webby that has no purpose and no potential for gain.

So, I decided to blow off a Saturday, because I had nothing better to do and Sunday is usually my art day. So, I now present...

MORE ABOUT SECOND NATURE THAN YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW
http://teddog.com/pog/secondnature.php

Which isn't that much, because there's not that much there. The one thing that I did leave out is that there's a bizarre passing reference in one episode to Enrico having suffered during the CBC cutbacks of 1984. I figured there wasn't enough material to back it up as being a canon truth, but I can reuse it for my own evil designs later.

So, if odd fic shows up in the next week, there you go. :D ::bribes slwatson to write it::

Also - that "By the Season" link? It's going to be like that for the Reality One stuff. WOOHOO.

Comments

[catsarah.livejournal.com]

Yay!

I know the post was about "art" but it really applies to anything one wants to do, be it writing or what have you. Julia Cameron speaks about this in "The artist's way" where she gets people to get up first thing in the morning and before starting the day or interacting with anyone, take a notebook (not a computer screen, but a pen and paper sort of thing) and for half an hour just write ANYTHING, stream of though, dreams, no structure no mind to content or form. She calls it the "morning pages".

Glad you did that :)

[commanderteddog.livejournal.com]

The original post was about art, but I found it so easy to apply to everything else in the world. :D

It reminds me of a chat I had with my stepgrandmother. She was a successful business woman in that whole "personal motivation" sector and I was just a college student recovering from the death of my father several weeks earlier. Anyway, she took me out to dinner one night and on the ride over, I made the comment that I wanted to look for a CD (for some fanfic/RP soundtrack and references, but I didn't tell her that). She railed me, saying "What are you going to get out of what? What goals are you going achieve? None, so why focus you attention on that?"

It served as nothing but a reminder that we as a society are often obsessed with doing something "productive"

I'll have to try the "Morning pages" idea. Right now, I've started setting aside Sunday afternoons as my sketch-for-the-stake-of-sketching-while-watching-MST3K time, which as improved my happiness GREATLY in only two weeks and I almost always come out with something finished. I know that's not the point, but I love colouring a ton too. It's relaxing. Although, I'm wondering if I could flip into "Daily sketch blog" mode.

[catsarah.livejournal.com]

I try to take a half hour every day/night to sit with my book and sketch. I can send you the URL for my scrapbook on DA if you like so you can see what I mean.

I can also look up the specifics on "daily pages" if you like. If you can't take time every day, than one day a week (which is also recommended, though I think in the book the "one whole day" is monthly) is great!

And I have a whole load of anxiety around being "productive" so this Wu Wei is something I need to embrace for my own sanity.

[lee-in-limbo.livejournal.com]

Ah, Second Nature. :) Nice.

Lee.

[commanderteddog.livejournal.com]

Yes, I wrote a site page centered around a throw-away joke! :D

[lee-in-limbo.livejournal.com]

I always enjoyed the convoluted way he tried to work the PoG episode theme into his description of 'next week on Second Nature...'.

Lee.

[commanderteddog.livejournal.com]

Another thing that was sadly lost in the reruns. :( A lot of times, they'd have someone from the station speak over them.

But yeah, they were often some of the most uniformly funny jokes on the show, because they were often extremely well done puns or simply surreal. It almost made you want to see how strange Second Nature really was - one I always remember is "A musical salute to the noble gases". It's a goofy joke on its own, but I want to see that played straight!