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babydraco (babydraco) wrote,
@ 2009-01-29 18:55:00

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fandom, narnia

The dishes are here and I love them! But I think my mother thinks I'm lying when I say they were a gift. She said "Hurry up and open the box, I can't stand the suspicion! I mean, the suspense."

"Well, that was a great Freudian slip" I said (I had a minor financial screwup this month and they're probably thinking "she bought more stuff?"

YES

Yes. This person summed up what I was trying to use ten paragraphs to say, but in a sufficiently generic way that it doesn’t offend, either. I’m not going to waste ten paragraphs of ranting but yes, that is the short and simple version.

Sci Fi author Michael Burstein is giving a talk in Boston this weekend on Superman and Moses.

Realizing that person was a Capricorn, especially after comparing them to the more irritating behaviors of other Capricorns I have known really helped. I'm still bothered but I knew it wouldn't do any good to say anything. Because that’s what’s hilarious about Astrology. It doesn’t, contrary to popular belief, tell you what's going to happen to you, it tells you what you're going to do about it.

Lucy just can’t be a Capricorn or a Scorpio, even though St. Lucia Day is in December, but she can be a very late winter/early Spring sign, Lucy is an Aquarius. She symbolizes the coming of the light, and the unfreezing of the water (Peter says “when Aslan bares his teeth, winter meets its death” which Lucy replies to with “when he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again”). An Aquarius is exactly the sort of person who’d love to dance barefoot in the forest with fauns, you know, “mystic crystal revelations and the mind’s true liberation” etc, etc. The hippie sign. Lucy also symbolizes Mary Magdalene, whose sign is Aquarius (He’s the fish and she’s the water, see?)

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	rebeccama 2009-01-29 08:52 pm UTC (link)
	That is a great Freudian slip! If you haven't heard Fox is doing VOTDT! :) (Reply to this) (Thread)

	babydraco 2009-01-30 04:11 pm UTC (link)
	I know! It is FOX, so I'm a little worried but if they keep all the same people on board it should be okay. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	the_obscure 2009-01-30 12:31 am UTC (link)
	Re fanficrants: funny, I thought I heard you before deciding on what's canon and what isn't, supporting denial, and nodding to the idea that some moves by some PTB were ooc. (and yes, I have a more apt icon but chose not to use it) (Reply to this) (Thread)

babydraco
2009-01-30 05:09 pm UTC (link)

I guess that post was a bit *too* generic.

There's "I don't like this one thing so I'll skirt around it or pretend it doesn't exist/I have legitimate concerns about this one aspect" and then there's "I deny the widely acknowledge point of the series."

I believed in a Buffy pairing that was only interview canon. But I'd never claim the whole show should've revolved around my quasi fanon. I'd never refuse to acknowledge that the show is, in the end, about Buffy, or say that Whedon was wrong for making it all about Buffy. Deliberate feminist themes and the metaphor of "Growing up as horror movie" is what the show is about, *not* my fanon, *not* my favorite pairing that doesn't feature Buffy, no matter how much I wanted it to have a larger role. My fanon existed in the spaces where there was no canon to use, not a universe I built because I disliked what the show was actually meant to be about.

and yes, I have a more apt icon but chose not to use it)

Sigh. Then why mention it at all?

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	threeoranges 2009-01-30 02:40 am UTC (link)
	Oh goody! :D No chips, no cracks? She said "Hurry up and open the box, I can't stand the suspicion! I mean, the suspense." BWHAHAHAHAHA! Offer to forward her to me if she doubts you: I don't mind if she takes you up on the offer but I suspect she'd be too embarrassed to... (Reply to this) (Thread)

	babydraco 2009-01-30 04:09 pm UTC (link)
	They're all fine. My parents live their lives based on three principles: 1) The government is out to get them. 2) They need to deny themselves pointlessly to prove they have moral fiber. 3) Whatever I say, I'm probably lying. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

threeoranges
2009-01-31 08:07 am UTC (link)

My parents live their lives based on three principles:

1) The government is out to get them.
2) They need to deny themselves pointlessly to prove they have moral fiber.
3) Whatever I say, I'm probably lying.</i>

I shouldn't laugh, but... MAN!! XD

Mind you, your last govt. probably WAS out to get them. Am reading Naomi Wolf's "Letter to a Young Patriot: The End of America", and the detailed comparisons she gives between Bush's new laws and Nazi laws are quite... pterrifying.

Oh, "Incantation" also arrived at the library and enjoyed it (as far as it is possible for such a narrative to be "enjoyed"), but it is SCREAMING out for a sequel don't you think? I want Catalina to get hers!

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babydraco
2009-02-01 05:38 pm UTC (link)

I know. It's pretty funny now that I don't live there. They're getting better though.

Oh, "Incantation" also arrived at the library and enjoyed it (as far as it is possible for such a narrative to be "enjoyed"),

I can think of so little historical fiction for the YA crowd that actually ends well.

but it is SCREAMING out for a sequel don't you think? I want Catalina to get hers!

She was so horrible. That was the worst part, how all the people they trusted turned into monsters so quickly and easily. There has to be some way she'll pay for it.

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