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Oct. 23rd, 2003 01:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
demeter918
Working on fics while taking a lunch break between classes.
I finished Mansfield Park a few days ago and just rented the movie (the most recent one) and watched it. On the whole, I may have actually the movie (maybe) better, since the Fanny in MP is somewhat... well, a ninny. I hate saying that, but reading it right after Pride and Prejudice may have been why. The professor did it deliberately since Austen had written MP after P&P, but I couldn't imagine seeing a more different female protagonist or less appealing one. There's something to be said of morals and 'goodness', but the fact that Fanny has literally been molded by Edmund gives me a little nauseated twinge.
The movie, while making Fanny far more 'spunky', does the injustice of liberally changing too many things for my complete liking. It's a good movie, and it reverberates some of the themes very shrewdly, but otherwise - the fact that the video case advertises the movie as an 'erotic movie made hotter by the sexy young stars" (or close to that) was particularly jarring. However, they did keep the delightful pug, who I found one of the (unintentional it may be) funniest additions. The parallels between inbreeding and MP was too much to ignore.
My current novel is Frankenstein which isn't anything new, because I read this back in high school. But after reading the first fifty pages, it's pretty amazing what you can forget in five years. -_- A lot of the smaller details had been forgotten, and only the big plot points were even vaguely kept in my mind. Probably because I wasn't all that fond of Frankenstein in the first place. But it's a good read, if not because it's intriguing to think of the possibility of procreation without the need of the ever-useful female. If men could consent to bearing children themselves, it might spark a revolutionary change. Maybe. -_- Never mind.
I just got the Trigun DVD set. I really love this anime, but for some reason, though I adore Meryl/Vash fluffiness, I can't quite grasp their feeling in writing. Even less so with Milly and Wolfwood. Individually, they're fairly easy to rip apart and then put back together, but together, the dynamics completely change for me, and I'm almost mystified on what to do with them. And I just cannot see Wolfwood/Vash. Yes, they're cute and adorable and utterly right (in more ways than Meryl/Vash) in certain senses, but all I feel is friendship and a deep, brotherly connection. However, I can definitely see the Legato/Knives, Knives/Vash, and Midvalley/Legato superlove. XD
So anyways; the last two days have been pretty much beautiful autumn days. Midterms next week! -_-
I had lunch lately with an old friend, and it's kind of sad how far we've grown apart. There were uncomfortable silences and rehashing of old talks, but our paths have diverged so much that there's little same. Architecture and Humanities, apparently, don't mix as well as they might have.
Favourite new song: "Run" by Collective Soul
Vaguely thinking: challenge is good. So... to challenge myself, I wondering whether I should write about my least favourite HP slash couple: Remus/Sirius. It would be a little hard to write Sirius civilly, and that in itself would be a feat considering that I feel an unfettered sense of loathing sometimes when I think about him. Even after he died. -_- Losing sympathy is definitely not a good thing. And my fics treat him less than admirably. *sigh* It's under consideration.
There's something I was going to talk about... but for the life of me, I can't remember. ^^;;
I finished Mansfield Park a few days ago and just rented the movie (the most recent one) and watched it. On the whole, I may have actually the movie (maybe) better, since the Fanny in MP is somewhat... well, a ninny. I hate saying that, but reading it right after Pride and Prejudice may have been why. The professor did it deliberately since Austen had written MP after P&P, but I couldn't imagine seeing a more different female protagonist or less appealing one. There's something to be said of morals and 'goodness', but the fact that Fanny has literally been molded by Edmund gives me a little nauseated twinge.
The movie, while making Fanny far more 'spunky', does the injustice of liberally changing too many things for my complete liking. It's a good movie, and it reverberates some of the themes very shrewdly, but otherwise - the fact that the video case advertises the movie as an 'erotic movie made hotter by the sexy young stars" (or close to that) was particularly jarring. However, they did keep the delightful pug, who I found one of the (unintentional it may be) funniest additions. The parallels between inbreeding and MP was too much to ignore.
My current novel is Frankenstein which isn't anything new, because I read this back in high school. But after reading the first fifty pages, it's pretty amazing what you can forget in five years. -_- A lot of the smaller details had been forgotten, and only the big plot points were even vaguely kept in my mind. Probably because I wasn't all that fond of Frankenstein in the first place. But it's a good read, if not because it's intriguing to think of the possibility of procreation without the need of the ever-useful female. If men could consent to bearing children themselves, it might spark a revolutionary change. Maybe. -_- Never mind.
I just got the Trigun DVD set. I really love this anime, but for some reason, though I adore Meryl/Vash fluffiness, I can't quite grasp their feeling in writing. Even less so with Milly and Wolfwood. Individually, they're fairly easy to rip apart and then put back together, but together, the dynamics completely change for me, and I'm almost mystified on what to do with them. And I just cannot see Wolfwood/Vash. Yes, they're cute and adorable and utterly right (in more ways than Meryl/Vash) in certain senses, but all I feel is friendship and a deep, brotherly connection. However, I can definitely see the Legato/Knives, Knives/Vash, and Midvalley/Legato superlove. XD
So anyways; the last two days have been pretty much beautiful autumn days. Midterms next week! -_-
I had lunch lately with an old friend, and it's kind of sad how far we've grown apart. There were uncomfortable silences and rehashing of old talks, but our paths have diverged so much that there's little same. Architecture and Humanities, apparently, don't mix as well as they might have.
Favourite new song: "Run" by Collective Soul
Vaguely thinking: challenge is good. So... to challenge myself, I wondering whether I should write about my least favourite HP slash couple: Remus/Sirius. It would be a little hard to write Sirius civilly, and that in itself would be a feat considering that I feel an unfettered sense of loathing sometimes when I think about him. Even after he died. -_- Losing sympathy is definitely not a good thing. And my fics treat him less than admirably. *sigh* It's under consideration.
There's something I was going to talk about... but for the life of me, I can't remember. ^^;;
