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Post by Rita, Oh Yes! on Mar 25, 2006 6:37:00 GMT 9.5
Hmm, well... not at all, yet, unfortunately. It will, though, I promise. The bunny has not gone. It's just being swamped in RL crap. I've had to concede defeat on the dark!Neville fic and maybe even the crossover being done before the end of the month. I'be just suddenly become hideously aware of how close April 5 & 6 are - on the former I have an 800 word journalism project due, and on the later I have a 2500 word media essay AND a 2500 word creative writing project due (and the CW has to be original, of course). So my fic bunnies are all on hold, unforch.
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Post by Rita, Oh Yes! on Mar 18, 2006 5:22:13 GMT 9.5
Linkage, himiko?
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Post by Rita, Oh Yes! on Mar 17, 2006 8:57:23 GMT 9.5
Ah, therein lies my problem. I write so much fic that my original stuff is seriously neglected. I've started back up with it recently, but fic takes up a hell of a lot of my time.
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Post by Rita, Oh Yes! on Mar 17, 2006 8:45:34 GMT 9.5
*nods*
I almost exclusively write one-shots, and the 35 includes at least four or five fics thare just drabbles - a few hundred words at most though.
I am somewhat inhuman, though. I managed to write 24 fics last year - that's one every two weeks.
Life? What's life?
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Post by Rita, Oh Yes! on Mar 15, 2006 11:27:59 GMT 9.5
Geh, I think the two challenge fics have a minimum of 1000 words each. But I have a feeling the idea I have for this one will be a multi-chaptered thing - about for or five. I don't write *long* fic, five chapters would be rather monumental for me. Out of my 35 pieces of fanfic there are only four that are more than 2 chapters long.
Bloody hell, I've written 35 pieces of fanfic?
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Post by Rita, Oh Yes! on Mar 15, 2006 4:06:41 GMT 9.5
Thanks for that info! I put 'Sarum' into google and found a few pages that suggest it is close to a place called Avebury, which is the home of the largest stone circle in the world. Googled Avebury, and found a few interesting sites: www.sacredsites.com/europe/england/avebury.htmlwitcombe.sbc.edu/earthmysteries/EMAvebury.htmlQuite a bit of info, but I found the first one particularly intriguing. Points of interest: there is some evidence that this ditch was once filled with water, thereby giving the inner stone rings the appearance of being set upon an island - The lake, maybe? Avalon? Only 1500 meters south of the main Avebury rings stands Silbury Hill, the largest, and perhaps the most enigmatic, of all megalithic constructions in Europe. Crisscrossing the surrounding countryside are numerous meandering lines of standing stones and mysterious underground chambers, many positioned according to astronomical alignments. Underground caves, you say? Like Mab's? I think the stone circle in the film is on top of a hill, isn't it? Maybe? I could be wrong, though. Or maybe it's right near the lake. I can't remember! *wail* In the 14th century, and perhaps earlier, the local Christian authorities, in their continuing effort to eradicate any vestiges of 'pagan' religious practices, toppled, broke up and buried many stones. And see, her fears were justified, weren't they? I think the caverns are really interesting - in the traditional myth, it is a (crystal) cave in which Merlin ends up trapped. It intrigues me that the Merlin series was supposed to be all about Merlin, but left that element of the story completely out of it. Perhaps that's just because they didn't want to ruin their sappy Hollywood ending, since it was Nimue who ended up turning on him in most versions of the story (sometimes Morgana and Nimue become the same person. Others, not). It strikes me a as a bit mysoginistic that they left that out, actually, but that's probably a different discussion. In the film 'Excalibur' I think there are a set of standing stones above/close by the crytsal cave, also. And I see I'm going to have to write this damn thing rather soon (or at least start on it). Three fics in the next fifteen days? Reckon I can do it? It's rather annoying when plots want to devour your brain.
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Post by Rita, Oh Yes! on Mar 13, 2006 10:12:18 GMT 9.5
Mmm, yes, the movie was rather medicore, but the series is LOVE. I wrote a Rita/Endora fanfic a little while ago, so I think I'm just going to build on the connection I made there. I'm tempted to put Endora into a room with Albus Dumbledore and see what happens
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Post by Rita, Oh Yes! on Mar 13, 2006 9:48:37 GMT 9.5
*nods*
I figure it probably doesn't matter a hell of a lot for this one, because the film, the original myth and the religions are quite different, so it's going to be a blend of everything enough that the exact locations of the stones is probably not a massive issue.
I didn't need another plot bunny at ALL, you know, but this one started eating my brain last night and now I really want to write it. I didn't need some totally random Merlin fanfic taking hold of me when I have to write both a Harry Potter/Bewitched crossover fic and a dark!Neville fic before the end of the month. I sign up for way too many challenges.
*facepalm*
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Post by Rita, Oh Yes! on Mar 12, 2006 20:08:12 GMT 9.5
Does anyone know what the rock formation featured in the film is? The one Mab melts out of in the beginning, and the one that she is seen haunting a bit later on? Is it the Kings Men stones (in Wales, I think?), or some other formation? Is it a real formation, or just some random Hollywood recreation of many?
Completely random, acadamic question and not BECAUSE Y'ALL HAVE GIVEN ME A RABID PLOT BUNNY OF DOOM AND I NOW MUST WRITE MAB FANFIC BEFORE IT EATS MY BRAIN, DAMN YOU for any reason at all.
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Post by Rita, Oh Yes! on Feb 5, 2008 3:10:05 GMT 9.5
I like the idea of Mab/Nimue femslash. But other than that, Nimue is kind of boring
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Post by Rita, Oh Yes! on Jan 3, 2007 0:49:35 GMT 9.5
I watched this one New Year's Eve with my bottle (or two) of wine. What a beautiful, amazing, tremendoudly sad story.
I love Poliakoff, and his ability to direct people so flawlessly. And Queen Mary's restraint is absolutely amazing. It says so much... with saying so little.
Miranda never ceases to amaze me, and it's like I want to say everything but I can't find the words to describe everything I want to say.
Also, has anyone else who's seen this seen 'Gosford Park'? Apparently, in GP, the hunting scene is a direct intertextual eference to 'The Rules of the Game'. I couldn't help but notice that Polikoff seems to have referenced GP himself. Michael Gambon shooting ducks and 'why can't I hit anything?!' and the King hiding in the communications room in that one scene (that actor was also in GP, and hid below stairs for a scene and ate jam). I have to think it was intentional - how could it not be, with the same actors? But if so, I wonder why. It was brilliant, but I do have to wonder why. So many people would probably miss that.
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Post by Rita, Oh Yes! on Dec 28, 2007 12:39:11 GMT 9.5
I think you have to watch it as a stand-alone. It's not really a sequel, despite the presence of Sam and Miranda. There's no mention of anything that happened in the first one - it's as if Nimue never existed, for one - and there's a rather gaping plot hole between the two films (at the end of Part one of Apprentice, for those watching from home) which stops Apprentice from being a follow-on.
Worth the watch, though. I like seeing Merlin as a teacher - I think one of the lines Jack says mirrors young Merlin, too. 'If there is some spark, fan it' - is that ripped straight from the original? It sounded familiar, but I don't have a copy of Merlin on hand (don't actually own it, for shame). Interesting how he, like Mab, is full of his own wisdom and arrogance and won't accept that the new generation will decide things for themselves.
PS. working on the Sisters in the land of the dead idea. Cracktastic.
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Post by Rita, Oh Yes! on Dec 27, 2007 2:05:17 GMT 9.5
Okay, so I just watched this. This post will contain spoilers. Sooo.... it wasn't as bad as I had expected it to be. Actually I found it quite enjoyable, and Miranda, as always, hot. I remember some reviewer saying she looked 'her age' in this one, and if by that said reviewer was talking about the beautiful lines around her eyes, then THANK GOD FOR THAT. Because she is amazing and gorgeous and hot. And wow, there were some interesting moments in that. Interesting echoes between LotL/Jack and Mad/Merlin. I really really really want to see the scene that came before the Lady conceived, seriously. >.>. Maybe I should write it. Also have this little bunny about the sisters in the Land of the Dead being all like 'what the fuck, sons!' Should write that too. The ending of this, though. WTF. The last ten minutes was like the most contrived shit I have ever seen. They should have cut it off with the grail and the new camelot. Really should. Honestly, I thought the pig was cute if a bit random throughout the film, and then it started TALKING? ! That was just..... no. Seriously, where did they pull that shit out of their arse? If you have to use a talking pig to get your point across, the film should be over. Really.
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Post by Rita, Oh Yes! on Apr 4, 2006 7:51:12 GMT 9.5
Aha! You have now given away the secret to controlling your mob!
*proceeds to take over world*
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Post by Rita, Oh Yes! on Apr 1, 2006 20:38:35 GMT 9.5
The movie might be a bit violent if you have an angry mob as the camera crew. But then it might turn into softcore porn if you bring out the cheering, enthusiatic one.
*ponders this*
*keeps thoughts to self*
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