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falling_voicesFinals: ACED. Fucking yes. Excuse my French. Also:
1. I have a new laptop! it's all… there, pretty and shiny and smiling at me from my desk. I shall attempt not to break it within the first week.
2. re: The King's Speech. It was excellent. Overall well-played, well-researched, very charming and emotional, though maybe somewhat too predictable. But it was extremely well-written, sometimes touching and sometimes hilarious, and, as such, it didn't matter so much if the pace was sometimes getting lengthy. In the end, though, it didn't have much of a movie feeling but rather more of being right there with them seeing it happen; not so much in the way of a documentary, because the general mood and colours play made it quite clear it was at least partly fictional, but it could have been an artistic documentary played by famous actors, which I suppose in a way it was. I was especially charmed by the play on textures and nuances, the clean lines, the outfits — it had something so very British, all the clubs and costumes and beautiful accents ♥
3. At The Library, Yesterday Afternoon: A Scene.
SARA emerges from the elevator, looks around, directs herself towards the English section of the library. The DISPLAY looms up in the horizon.
THE BIG DAMN COMPLETE SHERLOCK HOLMES ANNOTATED EDITION: Looooooooooook at meeeeeeee…
SARA recoils, attempts to look at something else, and in doing so turns herself towards —
THE ILLUSTRATED JANE AUSTEN & THE COMPLETE JEEVES&WOOSTER STORIES: Looooooooooook at ussssssssss…
SARA: Oh my god. Turns back, forgetting that this way liesmadness THE BIG DAMN COMPLETE SHERLOCK HOLMES ANNOTATED EDITION.
THE BIG DAMN COMPLETE SHERLOCK HOLMES ANNOTATED EDITION: Look! there are three volumes of me! I weigh about as much as a small whale! I contain all the original illustrations, the entire stories and novels, several essays, at least seven different prefaces and introductions by seven different people, about a bazillion appendixes, and quite a few speculations on the homoerotic subtext in-stories, if my back cover is anything to go by. I only cost a small fortune. Bring me home?
SARA, inching past: I can't, I'm broke, I just bought a laptop, there's no room left on my shelves where would I put you, stop looking at me like that —
SARA ducks out, finally making her way past the DISPLAYS and into the English section.
THE PARIS WIFE, THE FREEDOM WRITERS DIARIES, ALICE (I HAVE BEEN), I AM AN EMOTIONAL BEING, CHAPMAN'S ODYSSEY, EVERY OTHER BOOK ON THE SHELVES: Hello!
SARA: Oh my god. Why did I come here again?
(I needed The Tempest for my Lit. class, as a matter of fact. I ended up buying Wicked as well, which had the benefit of being on sale, and besides it kept eyeing me.)
(Also, fun fact for the day: Alice (I Have Been) had recommendations on its dust jacket, one of which being from… Diana Gabaldon. It's essentially Alice in Wonderland fanfic. I don't know whether she wrote it before her fanfiction-related flouncing of a few months ago, or after, but in any case the hypocrisy is staggering).
4. I am writing! Gods. Yes. That feels good.
1. I have a new laptop! it's all… there, pretty and shiny and smiling at me from my desk. I shall attempt not to break it within the first week.
2. re: The King's Speech. It was excellent. Overall well-played, well-researched, very charming and emotional, though maybe somewhat too predictable. But it was extremely well-written, sometimes touching and sometimes hilarious, and, as such, it didn't matter so much if the pace was sometimes getting lengthy. In the end, though, it didn't have much of a movie feeling but rather more of being right there with them seeing it happen; not so much in the way of a documentary, because the general mood and colours play made it quite clear it was at least partly fictional, but it could have been an artistic documentary played by famous actors, which I suppose in a way it was. I was especially charmed by the play on textures and nuances, the clean lines, the outfits — it had something so very British, all the clubs and costumes and beautiful accents ♥
3. At The Library, Yesterday Afternoon: A Scene.
SARA emerges from the elevator, looks around, directs herself towards the English section of the library. The DISPLAY looms up in the horizon.
THE BIG DAMN COMPLETE SHERLOCK HOLMES ANNOTATED EDITION: Looooooooooook at meeeeeeee…
SARA recoils, attempts to look at something else, and in doing so turns herself towards —
THE ILLUSTRATED JANE AUSTEN & THE COMPLETE JEEVES&WOOSTER STORIES: Looooooooooook at ussssssssss…
SARA: Oh my god. Turns back, forgetting that this way lies
THE BIG DAMN COMPLETE SHERLOCK HOLMES ANNOTATED EDITION: Look! there are three volumes of me! I weigh about as much as a small whale! I contain all the original illustrations, the entire stories and novels, several essays, at least seven different prefaces and introductions by seven different people, about a bazillion appendixes, and quite a few speculations on the homoerotic subtext in-stories, if my back cover is anything to go by. I only cost a small fortune. Bring me home?
SARA, inching past: I can't, I'm broke, I just bought a laptop, there's no room left on my shelves where would I put you, stop looking at me like that —
SARA ducks out, finally making her way past the DISPLAYS and into the English section.
THE PARIS WIFE, THE FREEDOM WRITERS DIARIES, ALICE (I HAVE BEEN), I AM AN EMOTIONAL BEING, CHAPMAN'S ODYSSEY, EVERY OTHER BOOK ON THE SHELVES: Hello!
SARA: Oh my god. Why did I come here again?
(I needed The Tempest for my Lit. class, as a matter of fact. I ended up buying Wicked as well, which had the benefit of being on sale, and besides it kept eyeing me.)
(Also, fun fact for the day: Alice (I Have Been) had recommendations on its dust jacket, one of which being from… Diana Gabaldon. It's essentially Alice in Wonderland fanfic. I don't know whether she wrote it before her fanfiction-related flouncing of a few months ago, or after, but in any case the hypocrisy is staggering).
4. I am writing! Gods. Yes. That feels good.
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Date: 2011-02-26 05:21 am (UTC)AAUUGGHH KING'S SPEECH WHY DO I KEEP PUTTING THAT OFF?? Everyone I talk to seems to agree on two things: that it is amazing, but that Doctor Who had a better Churchill.
And thus Diana Gabaldon manages to remind me of the Daily Show and Jon Stewart commenting that Iran has managed to weaponize irony in regards to Libya. Which really can't be a good thing. That woman... I think she doesn't actually know what fanfiction is, which in its own special way is even worse than hypocrisy. Like, she thinks that as long as you get money for it it isn't fanfic? If you're getting money for fanfic, then that's copyright violation. But if no one holds the copyright, then it's not fanfic? Blargh. This woman needs to go away.
Honestly, I think the world as a whole might be becoming more accepting of fanfic in general. I mean, there's all these books published in the last ten years or so, like as you mention Wicked, Alice (I Have Been), all the Sherlock Holmes ones chief among them The Beekeeper's Apprentice, The Looking Glass Wars. And the internet's definitely helping. Without it writers really wouldn't have a way to freely distribute their work, which would make everything that much more illegal. Things are certainly getting interesting.
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Date: 2011-02-26 06:01 pm (UTC)Doctor Who definitely had a better Churchill, but TKS's one wins points for surprising the shithell out of me. In other news: go see it! It's wonderfully played and perfectly-filmed, if anything.
God, I don't even know. None of what she says makes sense, but I had a LOL moment in the library and three uni friends looking at me strangely from the side shelves. (Granted, I wasn't even aware they were there, or I might not have started laughing like a hyena.) And, just, apparently anything whose author has been dead for long enough is fair game? Doctor Who? I don't even know. Some people are a mystery.
I had a long discussion with my dad about fanfic yesterday, actually, him being against and me obviously for. He decided that Shakespeare and Homer didn't count, for some reason, and that Wicked was commercialist claptrap. He only shut up when I mentioned Wide Sargasso Sea. But people in general are becoming more accepting of fanfic — except you have to avoid calling it fanfic, in which case they relate it to fourteen-years-old writing self-insert stories, and everything goes to hell. That's a bit depressing. But things change, yeah? And the Internet is helping, definitely. I wonder where we might be in ten years, about that.