january world
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salinea*stares at the screen* Hmmm, I should update shouldn't I ?
My connection went broken last week end. I was much busy nonetheless. Had a roleplaying game (Nephilim), and spent the saturday night to sunday morning watching the Lord of the Ring, long version, with a friend.
T'was the first time I was watching the long version, and it did improve on some points (Faramir isn't completely as bad as he was before, but still not on par with the book version) There was much fun, and much making fun of the movie as we went, and much cheering at the apparition of my favourite character (which is the Balrog, in case you wonder ;) and much comments about the slashiness of some scenes (and that though the friend in question is very much a straight male... I strive to corrupt where i can)
Classes on monday, we were supposed to give our topic for for the Method of Research and Analysis, and I still didn't have one, so like an idiot I said fanfictions. Stupid me. Not that it doesn't make a good subject, in general, just imagining explaining to my teacher that a lot of what I'm going to write about is porn.
Reading, I finished re-reading This Alien Shore by Friedman, which concluded by great re-reading cycle of that amazing writer. This book is still as fucking good, and still makes me wish there was a roleplaying game adapted from it, because, wow, I love the society descripted, especially the Guerans, and the use of the myth of Babel; and the rationalization for aliens that are nonetheless humans. There's very few books that explore so well the theme of otherness - and how people are always alien to each others - and the so many compromises and codes we need to use to relate to each others. I was stricken re-reading it, by some similarities with the Culture verse (by Ian Banks) and with Aristoi by Walter Jon Williams. Not thematics, but technicological and ideas... i think those might be recent trends in current Space Opera with a flair for hard science.
Then the other day, I was suddenly reading with voracity a great number of (very good)Good Omens fics, for some reason, with a spare Harry Potter or Coldfire thrown in the middle of it. I still have a great trouble believing any slash set in the Coldfire trilogy, for several reasons (biggest among those is that Coldfire is made to be both a paramount of a certain type of gothic novel and a certain type of antihero, and a satire of thereof.. which includes the debunking of redemption by romantic love in such cases) On the other hands, there's no reason it would be totally out of the question,... but in the fics I read - though they were well written and in character - didn't convince me one bit and it was all coming out of the blue.
So I went from reading those fics to take Black Sub Rising out of the shelf and start reading it. Which is bad - Friedman's too good a writer and with way too few books out for me to read so much of her that I might get burned out. Arrgh. Then it was bad timing because I got a call from my bookstore, they have recieved Howl's Moving Castle at last and kept a copy for me. And of course, once I was there, I had to buy Ursula Leguin's Changing Planes (damnit I don't even know what this book's about !) and LK Hamilton's Seduced by Moonlight (because, even though the Merry Gentry book are bad pseudo-porn with little plot thrown in and way too many pretty men in love or lust with theMary Sue main character it's just got enough good ideas about the world to make you wish it wasn't. And keep you hoping. Oh, and it's the kind of enterteining crap you read very quickly and easily too.) Well, I also got myself Banks' lattest book (the Algebrist) to offer my dad for his birthday (which was yesterday, but i'll give it to him tomorrow evening, we're going out with the family for the occasion)
All those recent purchase left me but with one conclusion : I need money. Therefore today I was working with my mum - which was very tiring and very fastidious. And to make things better, Kraken's exalted game online, which is on Thursday evening, has still as many players as last time showing, which is to say, only Mayumi and I. So, no game. *dead*
And tomorrow I get to do more boring and wearisome work.
Great.
Well, at least I can finish reading Black Sun Rising...
And then of course, I've got this impression that my lattest fandom is currently falling apart. Well, people have been saying they were getting tired of it quite often lately, but it's like a little implosion of it right now. Or maybe I'm just more sensitive to it because I am starting to get weary of it as well. Cute fandom, you know, but the wank made my head hurt. And it's only nearly one year I started getting into it. Much less I was /succeeding/ getting into it. That's got to be one of my shortest time with a fandom; if I don't have the time to write some of those fics I wanted to do, I'll be sad, still. But I'm starting to feel very blased and cynical about it.
And there's lots of self-loathing in that, as well.
My connection went broken last week end. I was much busy nonetheless. Had a roleplaying game (Nephilim), and spent the saturday night to sunday morning watching the Lord of the Ring, long version, with a friend.
T'was the first time I was watching the long version, and it did improve on some points (Faramir isn't completely as bad as he was before, but still not on par with the book version) There was much fun, and much making fun of the movie as we went, and much cheering at the apparition of my favourite character (which is the Balrog, in case you wonder ;) and much comments about the slashiness of some scenes (and that though the friend in question is very much a straight male... I strive to corrupt where i can)
Classes on monday, we were supposed to give our topic for for the Method of Research and Analysis, and I still didn't have one, so like an idiot I said fanfictions. Stupid me. Not that it doesn't make a good subject, in general, just imagining explaining to my teacher that a lot of what I'm going to write about is porn.
Reading, I finished re-reading This Alien Shore by Friedman, which concluded by great re-reading cycle of that amazing writer. This book is still as fucking good, and still makes me wish there was a roleplaying game adapted from it, because, wow, I love the society descripted, especially the Guerans, and the use of the myth of Babel; and the rationalization for aliens that are nonetheless humans. There's very few books that explore so well the theme of otherness - and how people are always alien to each others - and the so many compromises and codes we need to use to relate to each others. I was stricken re-reading it, by some similarities with the Culture verse (by Ian Banks) and with Aristoi by Walter Jon Williams. Not thematics, but technicological and ideas... i think those might be recent trends in current Space Opera with a flair for hard science.
Then the other day, I was suddenly reading with voracity a great number of (very good)Good Omens fics, for some reason, with a spare Harry Potter or Coldfire thrown in the middle of it. I still have a great trouble believing any slash set in the Coldfire trilogy, for several reasons (biggest among those is that Coldfire is made to be both a paramount of a certain type of gothic novel and a certain type of antihero, and a satire of thereof.. which includes the debunking of redemption by romantic love in such cases) On the other hands, there's no reason it would be totally out of the question,... but in the fics I read - though they were well written and in character - didn't convince me one bit and it was all coming out of the blue.
So I went from reading those fics to take Black Sub Rising out of the shelf and start reading it. Which is bad - Friedman's too good a writer and with way too few books out for me to read so much of her that I might get burned out. Arrgh. Then it was bad timing because I got a call from my bookstore, they have recieved Howl's Moving Castle at last and kept a copy for me. And of course, once I was there, I had to buy Ursula Leguin's Changing Planes (damnit I don't even know what this book's about !) and LK Hamilton's Seduced by Moonlight (because, even though the Merry Gentry book are bad pseudo-porn with little plot thrown in and way too many pretty men in love or lust with the
All those recent purchase left me but with one conclusion : I need money. Therefore today I was working with my mum - which was very tiring and very fastidious. And to make things better, Kraken's exalted game online, which is on Thursday evening, has still as many players as last time showing, which is to say, only Mayumi and I. So, no game. *dead*
And tomorrow I get to do more boring and wearisome work.
Great.
Well, at least I can finish reading Black Sun Rising...
And then of course, I've got this impression that my lattest fandom is currently falling apart. Well, people have been saying they were getting tired of it quite often lately, but it's like a little implosion of it right now. Or maybe I'm just more sensitive to it because I am starting to get weary of it as well. Cute fandom, you know, but the wank made my head hurt. And it's only nearly one year I started getting into it. Much less I was /succeeding/ getting into it. That's got to be one of my shortest time with a fandom; if I don't have the time to write some of those fics I wanted to do, I'll be sad, still. But I'm starting to feel very blased and cynical about it.
And there's lots of self-loathing in that, as well.
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February is book hoarding month..
Date: 10 February 2005 09:44 pm (UTC)I love This Alien Shore, it seriously kicks ass. I gotta reread it one day - and point agreed about Iain Banks, Aristoi I still have to read ( and buy! Got a shameful number of WJW bought and unread).
welcome back btw!
Re: February is book hoarding month..
Date: 10 February 2005 10:13 pm (UTC)I think this alien shore is best friedman book. I just don't like that the ending is a bit abrupt.
Re: February is book hoarding month..
Date: 10 February 2005 10:49 pm (UTC)About 50 cents books, nothing too exciting, one beat pb of Le Chartreuse de Parme, right in french ( one of my fave books all time, I will eventually read it in French. I already had a french copy but 50 cents come on), plus let me see, pt translation of a Marie Darrieussecq book ( never read anything of hers, but 50 cents and slim, I will try it), and one volume of the Heptameron ( not nearly as good as other medieval-renaissance stories, had read it, but still good enough to own for 50 cents).
Oh, and so know what you mean about Merry Gentry. Though I probably gave up on book 2. But drat it, there were cool ideas and scenarios in book 1, but the whole plot and universe seems full of holes more and more as Merry must have sex with everything. Bah.
Re: February is book hoarding month..
Date: 11 February 2005 09:06 am (UTC)what is the Heptameron ?
Yes, the book 2 was especially depressing in its plotlessness. But book 1 wasn't so bad, so we'll see. *is hopeful*
Re: February is book hoarding month..
Date: 11 February 2005 10:18 am (UTC)All of them? *shakes head smugly and condescendingly * - now what would you think of somebody who hated all manga? ;)
Sort of french novel again. A 16th century collection of stories, in the style of the Decameron or The Canterbury Tales. I love the storingness of it, though The Heptameron is not nearly as good as the Decameron. And I might on certain circunstances admit to some geekiness ;)
let me know about Merry gentry#3 please!
Re: February is book hoarding month..
Date: 11 February 2005 05:40 pm (UTC)The Heptameron sounds interesting, i'll have to check it out
Re: February is book hoarding month..
Date: 11 February 2005 09:16 pm (UTC)And about the Heptameron, oh, check instead the Decameron. Written in the 1350s just after the Black Plague, 100 medieval stories, some extremely crude not to mention ahem explicit, very anti-Church, extremely biased against Venitians, and just awesome. Everybody stole stories and plots from it.
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Date: 10 February 2005 09:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 10 February 2005 10:17 pm (UTC)Faramir, Legolas and Gimli, Merry and Pippin were my favourite characters in the book. Oh, and I was quite fond of Sarouman and Grima too... but the movie didn't come around with those characters. However it did turn the characters I though were sadly, badly done in the books - Eowyn and Boromir - around and made them great; so it wasn't all bad.
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Date: 10 February 2005 10:32 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 10 February 2005 10:46 pm (UTC)But still, don't rush your decision. Even if I don't comment, I do love your X fanfic and it'll be a shame if that's lost forever.
Besides, wankers are everywhere, want it or not.
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Date: 10 February 2005 10:50 pm (UTC)Actually, i'm not deciding anything. I'm just feeling a bit bleak about it. With a touch of irony "Hey, I usually quit fandoms, they don't quite me"
And thank you for that, that's very kind of you to say ^^ I would feel sad if I didn't find in myself to finish all the projects I have for fanfics... I hope that feeling will pass
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Date: 10 February 2005 10:56 pm (UTC)Even if nobody apart from some of my flist are actually going to appreciate them, that's enough.
And I still have lots of goodies to add to my Eriol shrine to leave the fandom.
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Date: 11 February 2005 09:10 am (UTC)And you're right, about the flist. That's what matters. We're fanficcers, we don't need a big audience ^^
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Date: 11 February 2005 10:59 am (UTC)Well, it's just that Tsukimine Shrine is filled with mature, open-minded people. I've never seen other CCS fandom group like that one so far. I dare you going to ccsakura, half of the posts are "hi im new here and i luv sakura add me 2 ur freind list thx" *shudders* Also, the ffnet section is a nightmare! In any language! (I bet the French one must be as bad as the Spanish and the English). 95% of the fics are bad written OOC!S+S and mega!OOC!E+T. So yeah, that must be the reason I don't let go: I have different things to say and different characters to use than most people.
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Date: 10 February 2005 11:06 pm (UTC)Fandom is what you make of it. If you enjoy it, and you cherish it, then it's yours to make what you wish with it.
The fandom is always "dying". *laughs* I mean, really. But we're still good. Friendships have been made, good works have been written, and there's much love in circulation.
*hugs* I'm keeping you in my thoughts - it's sounding like you've got a lot of things to deal with.
And I still need to make an icon for our OTP. ^^
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Date: 11 February 2005 08:52 am (UTC)true that. But I feel tired because sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who tries and it all falls on a deaf ear.
Friendships have been made, good works have been written, and there's much love in circulation.
Definitly true, and I do cherish all the friendship I made there *huggles*
whee ! Icon ! And thank you for being so kind, you're a dear ^^
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Date: 10 February 2005 11:25 pm (UTC)Wow, there are decent Good Omens fanfics out there? Joy! I will have to look for them. I thought it wasn't a book which would lend itself to fanfics, so I haven't looked before. ^^
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Date: 11 February 2005 08:58 am (UTC)I'm sure there'll still be people interested.
Good Omens have amazing fics. Mostly CrowleyxAziraphale slash. This is the place from which I found all those links. ^^
And I wouldn't have thought of it on my own either.
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Date: 11 February 2005 01:15 am (UTC)And I totally had something to say about fandom, but I forget what it was. At any rate, I'd still like to read your fics if you end up having the drive to write them. I still haven't read your latest drabbles, it's true, but that's because I've been too stressed to give them the attention they doubtless deserve. <3 <3 I will get to them when life slows down a bit. ^^;
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Date: 11 February 2005 09:05 am (UTC)Thanks, you're sweet ! I definitly understand being too busy to read fanfics, don't worry >_< And even if you don't at all, that's not a big deal.