Meme see, Meme do

[rthstewart]

Really bad week.   I've been dealing with babysitting and cooking for many, many children not my own through 4 days of snow-related school cancellations and power outages and I'm very much understanding that the Donner Party probably turned cannibal and ate their young first. We've lost power, again, and have been camping out either in cold dark houses or in light, overly warm houses filled with children I am babysitting while the parents are all at work.  Oh, and the $20 ice cream cake for the kid's birthday tomorrow melted. So, I've been alternating on the Blackberry between increasing frantic work emails coupled with a growing panic that maybe things are repeating and I did something wrong in the latest chapter of AW. Again.  So, I'm trying not to cry or angst, because really, I'm just being stupidly insecure. 

Also we had 30 enormous donuts that were supposed to go for the class party (canceled due to snow) and I never want to see another glazed donut again, ever.  Or Mac and Cheese and hot dogs.   On the plus side, as workers crawled home in the a nightmare of ice, snow, and gridlock this week, I was at home babysitting 6 children ages 12 and under and did not have to 1) sit in my car for 8 hours trying to go 10 miles; 2) get stuck and run out of gas in a snowstorm; 3) park the car and walk home as many did, then have to find the car the next day after it was towed; or 4) give up and sleep in a gas station or check into a motel where you pay by the hour. 

I'm still not King but I do have Power as of this morning. So, I'm now in my own house, with own firewall, with light and heat and I spent 4 hours actually doing writing work that pays and cursing junior staff who don't understand how to redline documents.

And now I have fallen to the meme-side and I lovingly blame the f-list, including snacky  metonomia  lady_songsmith  anastigmatfic and animus_wyrmis who have been circulating these memes.  And then Ana went and posted a fabulous one involving Glendon, Edmund, and a tree, and now I just HAVE to play along because I have a BAD RL WEEK and FIC ANGST. 

So, these are the memes:

• Ask me a fandom-related question in the comments. This can be fandom specific, general, or about fandom/lj stuff/fic writing/etc. in general. Questions can be as wacky as you want. Ask me about tv shows, characters, fanfic in general, fandom issues/meta, anything about any of my stories specifically.

OR

• Give me the title of a story I've never written, and feedback telling me what you liked best about it, and I will tell you any of: the first sentence, the last sentence, the thing that made me want to write it, the biggest problem I had while writing it, why it almost never got posted, the scene that hit the cutting room floor but that I wish I'd been able to salvage, a short excerpt, or something else that I want readers to know.

OR

• Name a character and I will tell you:

a) a fact about them from my personal canon
b) a reason he/she sucks
c) a reason he/she is amazing
d) a thing that I'd like to see happen to them
e) someone that I can't ship that character with

 

Comments

[mrstater.livejournal.com]

Oh my...that does not sound like a fun week! Being cooped up indoors even with your own child is enough to make a person turn to cannibalism. (Are you in New England, with this extreme weather? My in-laws are all in MN and it makes me very glad to live in TX!)

A for the meme...since I'm a new friend I'll just go for a more general getting-to-know-you one and choose #1:

What's your favorite moment in the Narnia books? In the films to date, what's your favorite deviation from book canon? (And least favorite, while we're at it.)

[rthstewart.livejournal.com]

Waves! I love Prince Caspian and especially the Romp, the Bacchanal, the Trees (which are so Macbeth and LOTR), the lusty revelry, and really everything about it. It is beautifully written and those sections have significantly formed my vision of the naturalistic Narnia.

As for films, I really liked the Nazification/war elements in LWW -- turning Jadis into this Aryan goddess, the wolves as the SS, Tumnus as the collaborator. I also liked beefing up the role of Liliandil in VDT. I found it very effective. As for least favorite, heh, I really loathed Edmund's characterization in VDT and the castle raid in PC. I don't like my heroes stupid.

[mrstater.livejournal.com]

I love Prince Caspian and especially the Romp, the Bacchanal, the Trees (which are so Macbeth and LOTR), the lusty revelry, and really everything about it. It is beautifully written and those sections have significantly formed my vision of the naturalistic Narnia.

I have to confess, that bit of PC has always been to me what the Tom Bombadil bits are to FotR--I've never quite gotten why they're there, but props to the people who do and enjoy them! (Really I need to re-read PC; as a kid it was always my least favorite of the books, I think because I didn't get the Baccanal at all, so I tend to skip or skim it when I'm re-reading the Chronicles.)

As for films, I really liked the Nazification/war elements in LWW -- turning Jadis into this Aryan goddess, the wolves as the SS, Tumnus as the collaborator.

Oh, me too! The prologue with the Blitz I thought really added a nice dimension of characterization, particularly for the boys.

I also liked beefing up the role of Liliandil in VDT. I found it very effective.

In concept I like this, except that A) the whole "Blue Star" thing was a little too Blue Fairy from Pinocchio IMO, and B) why didn't Caspian get to say that fabulous line about kissing the princess to wake the sleeper? It's so funny when he lays the mac down and gets rebuffed, but they decided to go for "You're most beautiful" instead. (In general the screenplay bugged me like that--great dialogue in the book that got sacrificed, inexplicably, for trite dialogue.)

for least favorite, heh, I really loathed Edmund's characterization in VDT and the castle raid in PC. I don't like my heroes stupid.

That happened a lot in VDT because of the way they rejigged the order of the story. They had to come up with new reasons for the characters to do things/go places, and they just ended up being stupid. :(

[rthstewart.livejournal.com]

In fandom, I'm definitely an outlier in my fondness for PC the book, my dislike of PC the movie, and in my general meh with regard to the Dawn Treader book. I actively disliked most of the DT film as well. I prefer my tales linear and I don't like things that make me cringe and stupidity usually makes me cringe. There is a reason why I am so fond of book!Faramir and book!Eomer.

The whole follow the blue star was very Disney -- I liked it only because it potentially gave us the opportunity to develop Liliandil as something other than a nameless womb.

[mrstater.livejournal.com]

There is a reason why I am so fond of book!Faramir

I love him, too. And movie!TTT drove me crazy. Urgh.

[lady_songsmith]

The only thing stupid in the castle raid was Caspian.