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timepiececlockFinally watched "Appa's Lost Days" last night. If I didn't already love this little show to its bloody bits, I would love it after this. An entire episode devoted to a non-speaking, flying, white buffalo and how he escapes the terrible fate of ------spoiler-----, -------spoiler-------, ---spoiler---, and ------spoiler------. I just love this show.
This also strikes me as a great episode to transcribe and attempt to novelize in fanfiction form. I was trying to pick an episode to attempt this, but I find the mix of slapstick kiddie humor with the dramatic storyline distracting; it works visually but would be hard to capture in writing. Especially since a lot of the humor of Avatar relies on the visual "cute" factor, particularly with Aang. This episode, however, has almost no humor (it was quite dark by A:TLAB standards), and is perfect for long descriptions. Now that I've started Ivanhoe (and no I still have not finished The Amber Spyglass, but I will), I'm getting an overhwleming desire to break away from my standard dialogue-heavy style of fanfic and write in long, descriptivy* paragraphs. It'd be a pleasant style change.
We'll see what happens, though I doubt I'll get much writing done this week considering I have to go to jury duty all day tomorrow. Should get lots of time to read, at least. And after jury duty I have other stuff occupying me all week.
To finish my entry... a fic rec!
READ THIS NARUTO FIC. It's dark, sexy, actiony, tense, and of all things Kakashi/Sakura pairing. Yeah, I know. But trust me on this one. And skip the summary, because it really doesn't do the fic justice.
*if you were wondering, no that is not a word.
This also strikes me as a great episode to transcribe and attempt to novelize in fanfiction form. I was trying to pick an episode to attempt this, but I find the mix of slapstick kiddie humor with the dramatic storyline distracting; it works visually but would be hard to capture in writing. Especially since a lot of the humor of Avatar relies on the visual "cute" factor, particularly with Aang. This episode, however, has almost no humor (it was quite dark by A:TLAB standards), and is perfect for long descriptions. Now that I've started Ivanhoe (and no I still have not finished The Amber Spyglass, but I will), I'm getting an overhwleming desire to break away from my standard dialogue-heavy style of fanfic and write in long, descriptivy* paragraphs. It'd be a pleasant style change.
We'll see what happens, though I doubt I'll get much writing done this week considering I have to go to jury duty all day tomorrow. Should get lots of time to read, at least. And after jury duty I have other stuff occupying me all week.
To finish my entry... a fic rec!
READ THIS NARUTO FIC. It's dark, sexy, actiony, tense, and of all things Kakashi/Sakura pairing. Yeah, I know. But trust me on this one. And skip the summary, because it really doesn't do the fic justice.
*if you were wondering, no that is not a word.
