Books

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I'm now exactly halfway through The Time Traveler's Wife.

I think I'm in love with Henry. And maybe a little in love with Clare too. Can I be in love with both of them? And in love with them together?

-- but really, Henry. I mean, my god. A sexy hot librarian who also can do an assortment of illicit and dangerous things and runs around jumping through time and space? Who can do illicit things and run around in time and quote famous literature to you while doing so? How could anyone NOT be in love with Henry, I ask.

Though I admit I don't know if I'd want to be his wife. That would be hard. I'd be his girlfriend, though.


EDIT: My brain just did a fantastical leap of fandom (as brains are wont to do) and now it (my brain) is trying to think of ways that Henry could be compared to a grown-up Fakir from Princess Tutu. Is that weird or what?

Comments

[easytodistract.livejournal.com]

>>>Can I be in love with both of them? And in love with them together?

Y.E.S.

For example, I am in love with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. I am in love with Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. I am in love with Catherine Willows and Gil Grissom (and I want to add Lady Heather into the mix too).

[http://users.livejournal.com/_rednovember/]

AHHH I JUST LIKE SKIPPED THAT WHOLE POST BECAUSE I'M STARTING THE BOOK TONIGHT.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I was really very vague, and everything I mentioned you find out in like the first 20 pages. The book jacket is probably more spoilery.

You'll love it!

[jakia.livejournal.com]

A sexy hot librarian who also can do an assortment of illicit and dangerous things and runs around jumping through time and space? Who can do illicit things and run around in time and quote famous literature to you while doing so?

Never read/heard of the book, but I think I'm in love as well. ::drools:: That's hot, right there.

[jakia.livejournal.com]

Hey babe, do you mind if shamelessly steal er...borrow some of your dialogue from your AU modern-day high school (http://community.livejournal.com/katara_zuko/176962.html#cutid1) drabble thing that you posted a while ago? Please? It's for the good of fanfiction. (and a drabble. Beat that.)

I'll give you credit. Will that work? I just can't think of any other dialogue that fits the scene better than what you've already written, seeing as that's what gave me the idea and whatnot.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

My inclination is to say yes, but at the same time, I'm very leery because those dialogue bits are first-draft, and I never intended to widely disperse them in that form (which is why I haven't put that on ff.net yet.) If it were finished I'd probably be more likely to agree, but the fact that I'm not done with it makes me wary of parting from it.

Which scene in particular are you interested in?

[jakia.livejournal.com]

Here's what I have written:

She twitched ever just slightly. “I don’t want to go to the dance.” She laid her head back down on her bed. “I want to go back to bed.”

“No you don’t.” He was positively grinning. “You want to go to the dance.”

She put a pillow on top of her head. “No, I don’t. Go away.”

“Liar.” He laughed at her gently. “You’ve done nothing but complain to me all week about how much you wish some boy would ask you to go and whether or not it was proper for a young lady to attend without an escort.”

She blushed furiously. “Well, I don’t want to go now, so it doesn’t matter.” An idea found its way into her mind as she poked her head out of the blanket curiously. “What about you? You hate these sort of things. You told me just yesterday you wouldn’t go even if they made you. Why the change of heart?”

He shrugged lightly at her. “What about you? You've wanted to go to this thing so badly you were frothing at the mouth.”

She glared at him. “I do not want to go—and I do not froth!”
X
(please say yes please say yes)

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I hate to say it but...no.

You can take the general idea of the discussion (a dance, he wants to go and she doesn't but does), and credit isn't strictly necessary because ideas themselves are free. But I don't want you to take my dialogue. Especially not for a drabble, where dialogue is even more important than normal, because it has to account for so much and there's little space to work with.

The sentence about Katara frothing-- it's one of the better speech lines in the AU outline, and especially so because a lot of AU Katara's dialogue is OOC and that is one line that I can actually imagine Katara saying.

Sorry, no, no, you can't have my dialogue. But the dialogue you have on your own is good, and I'm sure you can think of an alternative that suits your fic even more than mine does.

[jakia.livejournal.com]

Drat.

::kicks drabble::

Ah well. Must go think of something else now.

Thanks for the imput anyway,

jak

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Thank you for asking first. Afraid you just hit a tender spot with me; my dialogue is my baby and I can't give my baby away, whether its good or bad.

[jakia.livejournal.com]

Think this works as a replacement?

"--You told me just yesterday you wouldn’t go even if they made you. Why the change of heart?”

He shrugged lightly at her. “What about you? You’ve talked about nothing else for more than a week, and now that I’m offering to take you you don’t want to go? I find that hard to believe.”

She glared at him. “I don’t want to go, Zuko.”
X

(was that part about frothing the only bit you had a problem with? Not any of the other stuff?)

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

That is all your dialogue, not mine. The basic lay-out of the conversation is the same, but that's alright. I'm not gonna haggle over that-- heck knows I've read enough fic where I wanted to take a scene and rewrite it my own way.

You've added stuff I didn't-- Katara being tired, her mind-changing, Zuko's sudden change of heart. All of that is yours, not mine (in mine, Katara never said she wanted to go, Zuko can just read her well enough to see it, and Zuko generally doesn't talk about dancing at all so he would never have had a conversation saying he wouldn't go even if they made him-- actually, my Zuko would never allow for the possibility that someone not his uncle or father could "make" him do anything, he'd simply say "it's not happening" and leave it at that. And now he's not going because he likes dancing or even wants to go, but he knows Katara is secretly wishing he'd ask her, and although he doesn't want to go dancing he does want to take her out and make her happy, and he'll enjoy it just because he's with her.)

It's the explicit dialogue-lifting that really bothers me. What you have there seems fine.