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muchabstractedNo update for you!
Actually, it's more that there is little to update you on. My life is much the same; though I do now have an office again at work. This makes it easier to do therapy with people. It also means that the three years worth of collected Stuff For Work that I have, that was residing in my house, is now out of my house. YAY! The most important thing of the last three months or so is that I have finally consented to let myself use the awesome Bread and Badger octopus soap dispenser in my bathtub.
The woman behind Bread and Badger said that she was working on a steampunk design. I am all about that. As soon as that comes out, I'm getting a steampunk spice shaker and a moustached spice shaker. I will have So Much Fun pretending that scary steampunk things are coming out of the steampunk spice shaker. Like, um, victorian engine poison. I don't know, it seems cool in my head. Fortunately for my wallet, I think it'll be a while before she completes it.
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thistlerose gave me Harry Potter, Star Trek, Pirates of the Caribbean, and the Dark is Rising.
Harry Potter: I have to choose between Remus and Sirius again? Remus is easier to justify: he's bookish, intelligent, wants to be a good person, a charismatic teacher, and a person of sense. Sirius, on the other hand, is an overly attractive near-genius who spent half of his life in jail because he was framed and also because he was a jerk.
From the distance of years of reading Sirius/Remus fanfic, and then years of not reading Sirius/Remus fanfic, it currently strikes me as easier to love Remus. Therefore, I prefer Sirius. At the moment. But mainly because I want to be difficult.
Star Trek: Leonard McCoy. He's a good friend, he's grumpy, he's loyal, he tells off anyone who he thinks is wrong (while paying some attention for appropriate time and place, unlike certain others I could mention), and he's really, really good at caring for people. He acts on his opinions. He's an actual adult. I couldn't possibly tell you what I mean by "He's an actual adult," but I vaguely feel that this is a rare situation in TV and Movie characters.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Captain Jack Sparrow. I don't have much of an explanation for this, other than that he is Captain Jack Sparrow and brilliantly conceived and acted; and in fact, suspect that I would have a different answer if I saw the movies again or had thought about them more to begin with, just to have a more interesting answer.
Dark is Rising: Bran. As evidenced by my deep love for McCoy, I have a thing for characters who are difficult on the outside but full of strength and caring. (Hopefullyrymenhild will not kill me for reducing Bran's character to one sentence. He's more complicated than that! But that is why I like him best.) Bran is not, in fact, an actual adult, but given that he is supposed to be an adolescent at the time of the books, this does not bother me. He's an adolescent in wonderful and interesting ways.
Actually, it's more that there is little to update you on. My life is much the same; though I do now have an office again at work. This makes it easier to do therapy with people. It also means that the three years worth of collected Stuff For Work that I have, that was residing in my house, is now out of my house. YAY! The most important thing of the last three months or so is that I have finally consented to let myself use the awesome Bread and Badger octopus soap dispenser in my bathtub.
The woman behind Bread and Badger said that she was working on a steampunk design. I am all about that. As soon as that comes out, I'm getting a steampunk spice shaker and a moustached spice shaker. I will have So Much Fun pretending that scary steampunk things are coming out of the steampunk spice shaker. Like, um, victorian engine poison. I don't know, it seems cool in my head. Fortunately for my wallet, I think it'll be a while before she completes it.
Okay, Meme. Comment and I give you four fandoms. You repost and list your favorite character from each, with explanation. Just in case you are wondering whether or not you want to click, there will be no surprises here. Only not-surprises and rambling.
thistlerose gave me Harry Potter, Star Trek, Pirates of the Caribbean, and the Dark is Rising.Harry Potter: I have to choose between Remus and Sirius again? Remus is easier to justify: he's bookish, intelligent, wants to be a good person, a charismatic teacher, and a person of sense. Sirius, on the other hand, is an overly attractive near-genius who spent half of his life in jail because he was framed and also because he was a jerk.
From the distance of years of reading Sirius/Remus fanfic, and then years of not reading Sirius/Remus fanfic, it currently strikes me as easier to love Remus. Therefore, I prefer Sirius. At the moment. But mainly because I want to be difficult.
Star Trek: Leonard McCoy. He's a good friend, he's grumpy, he's loyal, he tells off anyone who he thinks is wrong (while paying some attention for appropriate time and place, unlike certain others I could mention), and he's really, really good at caring for people. He acts on his opinions. He's an actual adult. I couldn't possibly tell you what I mean by "He's an actual adult," but I vaguely feel that this is a rare situation in TV and Movie characters.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Captain Jack Sparrow. I don't have much of an explanation for this, other than that he is Captain Jack Sparrow and brilliantly conceived and acted; and in fact, suspect that I would have a different answer if I saw the movies again or had thought about them more to begin with, just to have a more interesting answer.
Dark is Rising: Bran. As evidenced by my deep love for McCoy, I have a thing for characters who are difficult on the outside but full of strength and caring. (Hopefully
rymenhild will not kill me for reducing Bran's character to one sentence. He's more complicated than that! But that is why I like him best.) Bran is not, in fact, an actual adult, but given that he is supposed to be an adolescent at the time of the books, this does not bother me. He's an adolescent in wonderful and interesting ways.
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Date: 2010-09-12 09:44 pm (UTC)Have you read Carol Kendall's The Gammage Cup (1959)?
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Date: 2010-09-12 10:46 pm (UTC)It's a children's novel; it has problems, but it does some unusual things and you might like my favorite character. He has awesome powers of cranky.
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Date: 2010-09-12 10:55 pm (UTC)And, four fandoms for you, should you choose to meme about them! Slings & Arrows, Avatar: The Last Airbender, the Iliad, and The Lady's Not For Burning.
Unrelatedly, you know Theatre@First is doing The Lady's Not for Burning in February?
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Date: 2010-09-12 10:57 pm (UTC)Thank you! Will try.
Unrelatedly, you know Theatre@First is doing The Lady's Not for Burning in February?
Yes! I want to see it so much.
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Date: 2010-09-15 12:15 am (UTC)With the exception of The Boy with a Cart (1938), all of my non-Lady Christopher Fry is in boxes, but I have good memories of A Sleep of Prisoners (1951), which is a sort of dream-quest mystery play, and The Firstborn (1948), with a no longer quite human, God-demented Moses.
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Date: 2010-09-14 04:56 am (UTC)Understandable. I was thirteen when my grandparents took me to see a production at the Theater at Monmouth in Maine; I loved it instantly and ever since. It was one of the first plays I ever bought.
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Date: 2010-09-15 12:09 am (UTC)I give Tam Lin points for including it, though. Also The Revenger's Tragedy.
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Date: 2010-09-15 12:11 am (UTC)If you know who to call . . .
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Date: 2012-06-14 03:52 am (UTC)Don't ask how I found myself looking at this post a year and a half on, but the director of The Lady's Not for Burning actually said a few months ago that she's thought of directing The Revenger's Tragedy. I made incoherently enthusiastic noises. So much want.
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Date: 2010-09-12 11:32 pm (UTC)Hmmm. Naomi Novik's Temeraire series, Mabinogion, Orphan's Tales, Avatar: The Last Airbender
That was difficult, given the number of additional fandoms I have rejected by dint of already knowing enough of your answer for them.
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Date: 2010-09-13 12:54 am (UTC)I am so grateful to Magpie for introducing me to her work.
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Date: 2010-09-13 12:56 am (UTC)I first saw her stuff at ArtBeat, back when she was still in the area. I couldn't the little robots, bought a votive holder with one.
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Date: 2010-09-13 01:06 am (UTC)...Unrelatedly, did you know that Lush is selling little bath bombs in the shape of robots?
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Date: 2010-09-17 03:09 am (UTC)That was a great scene, where Maria goes off at the party. It was more fun upon realizing that she was the stage manager, which I somehow didn't figure out for a while.