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| Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 | | 9:47 pm |
| | Thursday, October 29th, 2009 | | 10:53 am |
They call me Polyphonte - a BtVS Greekmythpastiche!drabble (no warnings, no spoilers)
Troy, many years BC...
In the midst of battle I fought, but I did not fight the Greeks. Lamia, hissing their poisonous calls, were my foe. Their glinting fangs were bared in the moonlight. I sliced cruel heads from scrawny shoulders. Blood on my hands; my own, or theirs? I cannot tell.
I saw many men die that day, but men are not my world. They call me polyphonte, slayer of many. All I know is death and fleeting love. Dark hands in the night, of god or man. I am the dark. I am the barrier against the dark.
| | Wednesday, September 16th, 2009 | | 5:20 pm |
| | 7:31 am |
| | Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 | | 2:16 pm |
| | Sunday, July 5th, 2009 | | 1:18 pm |
| | Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 | | 9:44 pm |
| | Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 | | 12:15 pm |
| | 9:49 am |
I invented a new word today: swotspectation
This describes the feeling of eager joy tinged with fear that girlie swots (in the mould of Hermione from Harry Potter, or Willow from Buffy) feel when they're waiting for exam results/a mark on something that they feel it's their birthright to do well on. If they get a bad mark in the end (ie an A-, or not enough complimentary waffle from the tutor or whoever at the bottom)....can you think of a word that would describe their utter crushing noncomprehension and disappointment? Their pleasure at a fellow swots bad mark would presumably be swotenfreude (I know that doesn't work with the german but whatever. My journal, my linguistic rules). | | Thursday, June 18th, 2009 | | 4:05 pm |
| | Wednesday, May 27th, 2009 | | 12:33 pm |
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| | Tuesday, May 26th, 2009 | | 7:23 pm |
Buffy the (new) Movie
If they make a Buffy movie, I would like it to be set in the future with the woman who plays Lilly on Gossip Girl playing an older Buffy, matriarch of the slayers. Hmm... but who should play older!Willow and Older!Xander? Also, there should be flying cars. I've been waiting for my flying cars since about 1999. | | 11:23 am |
Roundheads and cavaliers
I just read the opening paragraph of an article in the Times which says: "When I was a child, my grandmother used to divide people into roundheads and cavaliers: roundheads liked to make rules and stick to them and cavaliers gloriously liked to break them and confess their sins." ...which is really weird. I used to do the same when I was a child. Does that mean I was born an old woman who Benjamin Buttoned her way through life? I still think it's a good way of divvying people up. Though it doesn't have to be Roundheads and Cavaliers... could do it with Buffy characters. I'd say Buffy's a Cavalier, as is Spike. Angel's a Roundhead. So's Willow. (Although Willow does break rules in a serious way, she believes in the value of rules deeply - to the extent that eating a banana not at lunchtime is a big deal).I suppose I wouldn't phrase it in quite the way in terms of breaking rules...I'd say that Cavaliers are just more liable to see rules as bendy, while Roundheads have a more rigid approach. This may not be historically accurate, it was just my childhood perception of the two ways of being. It could also be Milton vs Blake... or...can anyone think of any similar categories? Or would you divvy things up completely differently? I think I do see vague categories (with loads of overlap and exceptions) of people - largely RULES versus IMPROVISATION. For example, Willow likes to learn the rules and develop expertise. Buffy likes to ignore the rules and make things up as she goes along. Angel's perhaps a halfway house now I think about it. He does change things around, though I feel he often still respects the idea of order and rules even if he doesn't necessarily follow said rules. Anyway, this whole post came out of the strange feeling I got when I read that opening paragraph. Have you ever had that experience, where you thought you were the only person who saw the world in a certain way, but then you heard someone else expressing your secret ideas? (I suspect I have a different attitude to the distinction than this journalist's grandma, but still... it's so specific, we must have some aspect of brain twinning across time :D). | | Thursday, May 21st, 2009 | | 10:47 am |
I'm waiting for my man...
I have that Lou Reed song in my mind this morning. I was listening to him on my ipod, but not that song - or even that album. Strange. But I'll always like Iggy Pop and David Bowie better. I'd like to listen to "The Idiot" again. Haven't ever since I got rid of my tape player and all my tapes - so many things I haven't replaced on itunes/CD. Much of it was teenage nonsense (I don't think I really need to buy "The Butthole Surfers" again...though I'm tempted to get Dinosaur Jnr again). On a different topic, I was having a discussion earlier about whether you can rank TV shows (or anything, really). On the whole, I'm anti-ranking (it makes you blind). It's too like top trumps and not enough like proper discussion. Though ocassionally a bit of the old "boo" "hurrah" can be fun. In that context, I'll always be Team Buffy over Team Angel or Team Firefly. | | Wednesday, May 20th, 2009 | | 11:19 am |
| | Monday, May 18th, 2009 | | 9:39 am |
Oi, French, no!
Spaceballs is NOT a parody of Star Trek. Is the Guardian/Observer ever going to realise they need to employ factcheckers? That getting-the-names-of-countries-wrong thing in the geographical supplement was awful, but, surely anyone between the ages of 25 and 40 would know that Spaceballs = Starwars? Who did he think the "dark helmet" guy was supposed to be making fun of in Star Trek, exactly? A very shy Klingon? But the new ST film was brilliant. Really, really recommend it as a fun night out. I hardly know anything about Star Trek, but I've watched enough in patches (repeats on Sunday afternoon type stuff) for the film to be very funny, and rather exciting as an idea, the way it opens up all kinds of possibilities for future films...even a TV show? Though the big explosions etc were cool so perhaps a TV show would seem a bit of a damp squib after so much BOOM! | | Saturday, May 16th, 2009 | | 6:53 am |
| | Friday, May 15th, 2009 | | 4:16 pm |
I am not what I am
I just did one of those "which shakespeare character are you?" quizzes. I came out as Viola. Weird. I was pretty sure it would be Falstaff, or possibly Prince Hal. | | Monday, May 11th, 2009 | | 1:21 pm |
Can I rest now, Buffy? *sizzles*
I am tired. I want to sleep. But have to work. Sleeeeeeep! Poppies will make you sleeeeep! In other news: Dollhouse finale....I think I have to watch again (and sleep) before I can say anything coherent on the topic. Buffy never left me quite as brain-boggled as this! What I will say now is, Dollhouse is fascinating from a moral standpoint - the position it puts the viewer in. It's like a trap for the mind, but a trap that you're not even sure is entirely a trap. Are these people irredeemable? Is there a potential for good in the Dollhouse? How should you feel about someone whose job is somewhere between madam and slave trader, and yet... charming and witty and seemingly humane to some people? And then there's Topher. Bless his cotton socks. (While part of my brain screams: "He's a sociopath". |
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