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timepiececlockAm I staying up all night to watch PT and knit? Yes. And yes, I knit now! I started tonight. I'm making a purple scarf. It's great. I can't purle though, the book's explanation just confuses me.
Disc 1
I had forgotten the actual degree of abrupt little asshole Fakir was in the first episodes. I mean, really. He's quite the nasty bitch.
I'm "eh" about Mytho's dub VA; he's alright for the soft-spoken stuff, a little jarring for the louder stuff. Ahiru/Duck's dub VA is quite talented; some of those lines must be murder on your throat. Rue's English voice is lovely and Fakir's is positively splendid. I still wish they had used his actor for Sasuke in the Naruto dub.
I'd forgotten how often, in these first episodes, they repeat the line that the princess is fated never to be with the one she loves. Ahiru says it about five or six times, Drosselmeyer says it twice that often, and even Rue repeats it once. I know how that dialogue reads in the beginning of the show, but having seen the end and knowing how the cards fall... that prediction takes on new tragic meaning, as does Drosselmeyer's fanatic insistence that the audience "never forget that Ahiru, as her true self, is a duck." It's something the audience and Ahiru forget over the course of the series... we start to see her as a girl who turns into a duck, not a duck that turns into a girl. That change in perception (or misperception) correlates with the fact that as the series progresses, Ahiru begins to operate as if it were that way, particularly in her relationships with the other characters. It reminds me so much of The Last Unicorn, as Ahiru is forever changed by being human, and what her true identity is begins to blur as she becomes more than what she was. The transformative aspect of this series is beautiful. The first half of the series we discover who these characters are as pieces of them are revealed... the second half of the series takes those newly-revealed characters and this time transforms them.
Disc 1
I had forgotten the actual degree of abrupt little asshole Fakir was in the first episodes. I mean, really. He's quite the nasty bitch.
I'm "eh" about Mytho's dub VA; he's alright for the soft-spoken stuff, a little jarring for the louder stuff. Ahiru/Duck's dub VA is quite talented; some of those lines must be murder on your throat. Rue's English voice is lovely and Fakir's is positively splendid. I still wish they had used his actor for Sasuke in the Naruto dub.
I'd forgotten how often, in these first episodes, they repeat the line that the princess is fated never to be with the one she loves. Ahiru says it about five or six times, Drosselmeyer says it twice that often, and even Rue repeats it once. I know how that dialogue reads in the beginning of the show, but having seen the end and knowing how the cards fall... that prediction takes on new tragic meaning, as does Drosselmeyer's fanatic insistence that the audience "never forget that Ahiru, as her true self, is a duck." It's something the audience and Ahiru forget over the course of the series... we start to see her as a girl who turns into a duck, not a duck that turns into a girl. That change in perception (or misperception) correlates with the fact that as the series progresses, Ahiru begins to operate as if it were that way, particularly in her relationships with the other characters. It reminds me so much of The Last Unicorn, as Ahiru is forever changed by being human, and what her true identity is begins to blur as she becomes more than what she was. The transformative aspect of this series is beautiful. The first half of the series we discover who these characters are as pieces of them are revealed... the second half of the series takes those newly-revealed characters and this time transforms them.
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hey random comment
Date: 2008-01-30 07:27 am (UTC)I've written 130 fics, some of those collections of shortfics or drabbles.
I frequently not only forget the stories I wrote, I forget whole FANDOMS I wrote for. I'll be browsing somewhere and end up linked back to one of my older fics and I'll be like, "Whoa, I totally forgot I wrote that! Hey...that's not half bad. Neat!"
Re: hey random comment
Date: 2008-02-03 05:10 am (UTC)You could probably tell from my occasional review that I read your work on a regular basis (though I generally review so rarely nowadays for all that I never stop reading). I've read 'Don't Look Back', if you still remember the details of that one - "Faye in his mouth, Julia in his eyes." O_O Such a great last line, by the way; it encompasses so much of their triangle with so few words. I don't know if you've written CB beyond that fic, though; you've prompted me to go back and look. *is a fanfic magpie*
I'm not surprised that you forget some of your fics with a whole store of 130, but fandoms? You're too young, too young for that yet! :P I understand what you mean, though. Sometimes I go back and reread some of my old-but-not-glaringly-bad work and can't really recognize that writer as myself. Once while I was suffering a really bad writer's slump, I read one of my better fics (not on my FFnet profile, though; I wanted to ~reform~ before re-uploading anything to FFnet) and got jealous. It was kind of ridiculous.
I have a question: I know you've planned plenty of longfics and started several of them, but why haven't you finished any? (I can tell that you intend to finish the Katara/Zuko ones, though.) I hope this question doesn't seem as offensive as it might, especially coming from a fan of your fics; honestly, I don't mean to pressure you about finishing them or whatever it might sound like! I'm just curious as to why; did you lose interest or not like the fic? -- that sort of thing.
I haven't finished the longfic I attempted either, nor do I intend to. Having written it as a teenybopper, it's irredeemably bad, so I'm going to take it as the memory of a great learning experience and just let it die.
Re: <-- *in Haggard's country*
Date: 2008-02-04 05:43 am (UTC)I've just drifted from fandom to fandom and back again so often, that I completely forget to revisit the older ones. I know what you mean about not recognizing your own fic-- my fic style varies dramatically from fandom to fandom, probably because I approach different characters differently. I also reflect the style of my fanfic peers in that community, sometimes.
The question's not offensive: I just usually don't have the will to commit; I think up great story ideas but I lose interest before the writing is complete, or I run into a problem that I don't want to take the time to overcome. The reason I haven't written the epic CB fic I thought of was that I lost the outline and found it a year later, but by then it'd been about 18 months since I'd even watched the show, and I no longer felt comfortable writing the characters. I could have always rewatched and fixed that, but there's always something NEW to watch...