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LotR rec
(aka. Gondor has no clothes. Gondor NEEDS no clothes.)
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ponderosa121:: M'dear?
Wanna see Faramir's ass?? Or asbroknangel87 so wonderfully states: A chance for Faramir, captain of Gondor, to show his quality.
::leer::
Love the dimples. I really do.
Needless to say, this is not worksafe...
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Eminem rec
(aka. The dark moody w00bie)
This drawing of Eminem pointed out byinkbug is so incredibly incredibly neat. It's one of those things that I can't stop staring at.
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Good Omens / Dogma rec
(aka. Their Love is so angelic!)
One Big Happy Pantheon a crossover by K.A. Rose
Good Omens and Dogma and all the insanity and hilarity of both, one of the best crossovers I've read and I LOVE it's brand of humor:
girlwithjournal for finding the link for me!)
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Pic rec
(aka. The OMGWTF)
::pokes the soft-serve gay ice cream crew::
Look at the second picture here.
I swear to god, Orlando Bloom looks like the bastard lovechild of Antonio Banderas.
(The first pic is of Sean Bean looking ruggedly outdoorsy)
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PotC rec
fabu has made Will appreciation icons!
This is, shall we say, a little more than long overdue...ah, poor Will, it's either he's ElizabethInPants or the BornAgainPirate or the YoungJack, and really? He's not.
His logic can be *just* as opaque and impenetrable as Jack's, only it's from a different angle. And, even MORE difficult, he's the character that changes the most in course of the movie, which means that Will is freqently inconsistent in his consistency. Will is in That State of Change, which I think most fanfics picked up on, but is therefore fiendishly difficult to keep the character consistent within himself and still accomplish all of a slasher's objectives.
Heck, I think it's almost as bad as the difference between fanon!Draco and canon!Draco...
And thus, the Will Turner Defense League was dubbed...
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Random Pondering
(aka. What's in a Name?)
Nowhere is it so apparent as in HP fandom:
DM: Potter!
HP: Malfoy!!
DM: Potter.
HP: Malfoy...
DM: Harry?
HP: Draco!
Both: ::SNOG!::
MiscCharacter: I'm going to call you Severus.
SS: You're touched. Really.
MiscCharacter: I'm still alive! You love me!
...and, heh, I've done it myself. Partly it's the implications and history behind the names, which is obvious, but
that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
Would it, really? Certainly the inherent identity of the rose doesn't change upon it's naming, but the perception of the object so identified does.
Example: some roses don't have scent, and others don't look like the sterotypical rose. If given a flower that smells like nothing, looks like nothing you know, would it have the same emotional impact as a rose?
Another example: would Draco have looked at all redeemable if that very first someone or other hadn't declared him to be?
Which, in itself, is an interesting statement: Draco was not redeemable until someone saw him as redeemable.
so it has been said,
so it shall be done
A name as identification and identifier, a true name, a false name, a non-name?
What's the order with Aragorn's multiple names? The nameless, kingdomless king that drifts in the woods.
That greasy kid the Half-Elven's daughter fell in love with. (Snape=Aragorn?, ::sporfle:: Harry=Frodo, Ron=Sam, Draco=Legolas, Hermione=Gimli, Sirius=Boromir?? XD)
From antiquity, people have recognized the connection
between naming and power.
And what's up with our dear Agent Sands? He wears his father's name like a fanny pack, or at least avoided exposing the soft-underbelly of his personal names until two rather important balls of flesh had been torn away from him.
(Yes, that was intentional.)
And our dear El Mariachi, named despite himself? for himself? did he shed his old name like an unused shell? does he not trust to give his name again? does he not care what his old name is? Does he not care who he is?
Does he *realize* what people have named him as?
I think he does. And the near arrogance of it and the confidence of it is most lovely to see.
The man with no name? Or the man the people named?
Name a thing,
and you'll have power over it.
And what of the man who names himself?
Captain Jack Sparrow, despite his shiplessness.
Jack Sparrow. except when...
"Jaaaaaack." Barbossa says to him, in dulcet tones of familiarity.
"We named the monkey, Jack."
...is a Captain, by any other name, just as swish, without a boat to slide on?
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...mehp, enough for now, back to being ass-raped by my assignments. (as for yesterday's thing, I ended up begging help like the desperate needy thing I am. =P)
(aka. Gondor has no clothes. Gondor NEEDS no clothes.)
::pokes
ponderosa121:: M'dear?Wanna see Faramir's ass?? Or as
broknangel87 so wonderfully states: A chance for Faramir, captain of Gondor, to show his quality.::leer::
Love the dimples. I really do.
Needless to say, this is not worksafe...
[]
Eminem rec
(aka. The dark moody w00bie)
This drawing of Eminem pointed out by
inkbug is so incredibly incredibly neat. It's one of those things that I can't stop staring at.[]
Good Omens / Dogma rec
(aka. Their Love is so angelic!)
One Big Happy Pantheon a crossover by K.A. Rose
Good Omens and Dogma and all the insanity and hilarity of both, one of the best crossovers I've read and I LOVE it's brand of humor:
Aziraphale crouched down beside Ellen, and the toddler looked up at him. He cooed. "It's not every day you meet a Christ child, is it?"(much love to
"It's not all it's cracked up to be," Bethany said wearily.
"No?" said Aziraphale, letting little Ellen grasp one of his extended fingers and shake it excitedly.
"It's a complete nightmare, trying to wash her," the woman explained. "She keeps crawling on top of the water. Or turning it into grape juice."
girlwithjournal for finding the link for me!)[]
Pic rec
(aka. The OMGWTF)
::pokes the soft-serve gay ice cream crew::
Look at the second picture here.
I swear to god, Orlando Bloom looks like the bastard lovechild of Antonio Banderas.
(The first pic is of Sean Bean looking ruggedly outdoorsy)
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PotC rec
fabu has made Will appreciation icons!This is, shall we say, a little more than long overdue...ah, poor Will, it's either he's ElizabethInPants or the BornAgainPirate or the YoungJack, and really? He's not.
His logic can be *just* as opaque and impenetrable as Jack's, only it's from a different angle. And, even MORE difficult, he's the character that changes the most in course of the movie, which means that Will is freqently inconsistent in his consistency. Will is in That State of Change, which I think most fanfics picked up on, but is therefore fiendishly difficult to keep the character consistent within himself and still accomplish all of a slasher's objectives.
Heck, I think it's almost as bad as the difference between fanon!Draco and canon!Draco...
And thus, the Will Turner Defense League was dubbed...
[]
Random Pondering
(aka. What's in a Name?)
Nowhere is it so apparent as in HP fandom:
DM: Potter!
HP: Malfoy!!
DM: Potter.
HP: Malfoy...
DM: Harry?
HP: Draco!
Both: ::SNOG!::
MiscCharacter: I'm going to call you Severus.
SS: You're touched. Really.
MiscCharacter: I'm still alive! You love me!
...and, heh, I've done it myself. Partly it's the implications and history behind the names, which is obvious, but
that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
Would it, really? Certainly the inherent identity of the rose doesn't change upon it's naming, but the perception of the object so identified does.
Example: some roses don't have scent, and others don't look like the sterotypical rose. If given a flower that smells like nothing, looks like nothing you know, would it have the same emotional impact as a rose?
Another example: would Draco have looked at all redeemable if that very first someone or other hadn't declared him to be?
Which, in itself, is an interesting statement: Draco was not redeemable until someone saw him as redeemable.
so it has been said,
so it shall be done
A name as identification and identifier, a true name, a false name, a non-name?
What's the order with Aragorn's multiple names? The nameless, kingdomless king that drifts in the woods.
That greasy kid the Half-Elven's daughter fell in love with. (Snape=Aragorn?, ::sporfle:: Harry=Frodo, Ron=Sam, Draco=Legolas, Hermione=Gimli, Sirius=Boromir?? XD)
From antiquity, people have recognized the connection
between naming and power.
And what's up with our dear Agent Sands? He wears his father's name like a fanny pack, or at least avoided exposing the soft-underbelly of his personal names until two rather important balls of flesh had been torn away from him.
(Yes, that was intentional.)
And our dear El Mariachi, named despite himself? for himself? did he shed his old name like an unused shell? does he not trust to give his name again? does he not care what his old name is? Does he not care who he is?
Does he *realize* what people have named him as?
I think he does. And the near arrogance of it and the confidence of it is most lovely to see.
The man with no name? Or the man the people named?
Name a thing,
and you'll have power over it.
And what of the man who names himself?
Captain Jack Sparrow, despite his shiplessness.
Jack Sparrow. except when...
"Jaaaaaack." Barbossa says to him, in dulcet tones of familiarity.
"We named the monkey, Jack."
...is a Captain, by any other name, just as swish, without a boat to slide on?
[]
...mehp, enough for now, back to being ass-raped by my assignments. (as for yesterday's thing, I ended up begging help like the desperate needy thing I am. =P)
A Rose is a Rose is a Rose
Hmm... It's interesting. I pretty much can't find a fic hot when the characters change what they call each other. I like it when the use of last names changes from a sign of real dislike into a sort of inside joke. It's much more interesting to me to see that sort of interior change. I hate (hate, HATE, HATE) fics where an overt name change substitutes for an actual change in characterization. Granted, a writer can use the name changing thing and still be subtle, but it really never works for me. Once I know someone by a certain name, I will always think of them as that name and it really doesn't matter whether they are fictional or real or whether it's their actual name or a stupid nick name I first knew them by. (A number of college friends come to mind.)
I'm not a big H/D fan anyway, so I don't really care what they call each other, but I always get annoyed at Snape/Black fics where Sirius actually calls him "Severus". ("Sevy" is even more clearly an abomination that must DIE! ...along with 'Mione, Hermy, Siri, Rus, Remy, Sev, and pretty much any nickname other than "Ginny".)
I have the same reaction to an anime fandom I used to be part of, actually. There was this one character that everyone, probably up to and including his wife, knew by his last name. In fanon, he invariably does the name switcharoo and sometimes even gets a deplorable nick-name. Ugh. Well... Actually, he already has a stupid nickname in canon, but it's one of those bad-ass, you've killed lots of people sort of nick-names that random third parties use to refer to him when he isn't there.
Re: A Rose is a Rose is a Rose
heh, I agree with the cringing over the "Let's Nickname Severus!" movement; as for H/D it's not even the pet names that I wince at but the fact that, if the one in any way, shape, or immaterial form decides to call the other by their first name, then it's truwwww loooooove. ::rolls eyes::
as for the anime fandoms? ::giggles:: bless them, but they're young. And I used to be part of that, so I can't throw stones...
Re: A Rose is a Rose is a Rose
Yes. H/D is probably the most obvious pairing for finding fics where the name thing has supplanted the character development thing. < insert more ranting here >
Young? I suppose some of the fandoms haven't been around for that many years, but neither would I call them young. As for the fans, I have reason to think that a number of the worst offenders in the RK fandom were far from the teeny-bopper morons I'd like to believe they were. *sigh* Damned anime fandoms. I avoid them now, though I'll go back to writing anime, or rather manga fanfic once I read enough of Yu Yu Hakusho to be able to inflict some really excessively canon-filled Yusuke/Kuwabara on the world.
Re: A Rose is a Rose is a Rose
Is it just me, or does "Hermy" sound sort of... pervy? As for Snape, I get the feeling that calling him by a nickname of any sort (especially a cutesy one such as "Sevvie") would be to invite an attack of withering sarcasm and possibly get you poisoned. Dumbledore and Remus (and Possibly Minerva, I can't recall for sure) call him Severus (Quirell/Voldemort did too). The entire rest of the world (including most of his teaching colleagues), call him Snape. I think he's just one of those people who choose to go by their last name. If your first name was Severus, wouldn't you?
The only nickname he's ever had in canon is "Snivellous," which for some reason rarely appears in slash fics.
And as for "Remy"... I'm a long-time X-men fan, so when I see Sirius, for example, call his lover "Remy," part of my brain short-circuits and becomes insistant that he's getting it on with Gambit. Which would be brain-breakingly hot, but is probably not what the writer had in mind.