24 2 / 2013
Some LBD thoughts…
1. Very excited to see how Bing’s reappearance plays out.
2. Also (Lady) Catherine’s storyline.
3. And Darcy’s reappearance, of course.
4. But mostly still uncomfortable with how the Wickham storyline played out. I feel like there’s still a gaping story-hole with many, many things unaccounted for as of yet - perhaps this is intentional: Lizzy is kept in the dark and the conveyance for the story is HER diaries, so I keep telling myself to give the creators the benefit of the doubt.
However, as it currently stands, they gave Gigi agency while taking it away from Lydia. The Lydia of the books might have had a tragic end, but she’s oblivious to it and in the end, it was her choice. Darcy asked what she wanted, she wanted to be married to George (as unwise a decision as the audience knows it to be), and she gets precisely that.
5. Clearly, in the Lydia-Wickham storyline there was abuse. It’s an effective way of showing the danger of George in a 21st century storyline but again, why make it about abuse if no one will address the matter as such? I feel like a group of writers so cognizant of the fact that their audience is made up of a large percentage of impressionable young women would at least pay lip service to the fact that abuse is what went down, and that Lydia is AWOL because she’s getting help and getting better, please respect her privacy at this time, yadda yadda yadda.
6. I miss Charlotte.
7. I really adore this fanfic ( The Opposite of Love is Indifference (on AO3)) because of how it characterizes how Lizzie deals with the fallout of all of her misjudgements — which is something that I don’t think any of the adaptations, not even the book itself, really does justice to. Emma gets to wallow a bit in hers (“I seem doomed to blindness”) but Lizzie has just as much reason to question herself and her future assessments but it doesn’t get the time to properly explore those feelings.
04 2 / 2013
Fangirl Challenge: 3/10 favourite female characters —-> Lix Storm (The Hour)
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04 2 / 2013
04 2 / 2013
One does not simply choose the next book adaptation
So by far the most common question (or suggestion) I’m getting is about the next adaptation. As I said on my AMA (just pointing you there because I answered a lot of questions about the show there), we haven’t set on it yet.
Now in the spirt of the “simply” meme. One does not simply choose a…
This has my brain going off in so many fun directions. On the one hand, I really don’t think the Brontes work - I think the stories are too dark and isolationist to function well in a social media platform.
Austen is awesome - though I think Emma gets disqualified because there is a definitive, mainstream modern adaptation (Clueless, holla!) - I think Sense & Sensibility vlog-brothers style would work best. Or possibly Northanger Abbey. I adore, adore Persuasion, but Anne Elliot is a very internal, closed off character who wouldn’t be a video blogger. Mansfield Park is difficult: specifically because it features a difficult heroine, who has more stuff happen *around* her than *to* her or *by her agency*.
I was originally thinking that they must be doing Little Women - I can see Jo as a storyteller (another grad student who falls for her TA, Beher?) BUT L.M. Montgomery? I was never an Anne of Green Gables girl, so I can’t say that an adaptation of the series would speak to me. BUT BUT BUT… if they do My Blue Castle, I think I will pass out from sheer euphoria. It’s a story that I think very much speaks to growing up, even though the main character is slightly older when her transformation begins. She has consistent, funny commentary on her life, even though in the book, she has no one to hear her. She builds her own support network of outcasts, a better family than the one she was born into. So fingers crossed for Valancy and Barney!
16 1 / 2013
On Loneliness: Art, Life, and Fucking Human Beings
“I’ve been thinking about whether, on average, people are lonelier in real life than in novels,” Elizabeth Bachner wrote recently in the opening to an essay about (among other things) the novel Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann. I don’t have an answer, but the question makes me think about how much of life is about loneliness and efforts to cure or soothe loneliness, and how much of art is about loneliness and efforts to cure or soothe loneliness; and how loneliness is a word — easily enough spoken or written, like death or love – but really it’s a deep sadness, which is also a force, driving so many of our desires and actions, and at the same time shameful and hidden and nearly impossible to live with, out in the open, in any authentic way.
(Source: worldneedsanotherblog)
24 12 / 2012
21 12 / 2012
The X Files | Millennium
I thought it suited the date, seeing as tho it’s 12/21/12
Timely gifs are timely.
21 12 / 2012
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Evelyn ‘Evy’ Carnahan - The Mummy (9/30)
“Look, I… I may not be an explorer, or an adventurer, or a treasure-seeker, or a gunfighter, Mr. O’Connell, but I am proud of what I am.”
”And what is that?”
“I… am a librarian.”
Bonus happy Ardeth Bey and derpy Rick O’Connell
