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rivendellrose I have been listening to Heather Dale's "Trial of Lancelot" CD at work and let me tell you, things are about 50000000000x funnier if you've just finished watching the BBC Merlin. (Which I have been! I ACTUALLY FINISHED IT ON MY OWN! THIS IS AMAZING, GUYS! AMAZING!) Though it does sort of remind me of all the parts I didn't really care about for Arthurian legend--I was never a fan of the romance aspect (insert fistshaking joke at halcyonjazz here for being FRENCH!!!! and the French being the ones who introduced the whole Arthur-Guinevere-Lancelot triangle thing), and most of the readings we did in school bored me to tears. Because a lot of them tended to be the romances, which--I don't think I have the right mindset to really let myself get immersed in really dense old text like that; I know it was traditional of the time, but that's why, despite my love of mythologies and other religious practices of long ago, I will never be a scholar. I can't hack the text and never felt the overwhelming desire to train myself to it. This may be why a lot of my friends are making wistful I-miss-school noises around me, and I'm like \o/ YEAH WORKING AND READING IN MY FREE TIME. \o/
I think I got sidetracked. :|a
However! I have learned that I have a really difficult time writing for a lot of live-action shows for whatever reason; sometimes it's that I can't hack the settings and enviroment (I have never been roadtripping across the country and Americana is a concept more than a way of life to me, and honestly most of my knowledge of classic rock comes from hanging out withzinjadu or katmaxwell), or the dialogue, or whatever! Even Supernatural, whose first season still has so much I really love (URBAND LEGENDS GHOST STORIES KYAA KYAA), never really clicked for me. So I wonder why it is that I actually want to write Merlin fic; I blame the fact that it does have this enormous and amazing mythological basis behind it--even if it's anachronistic and hardly historically accurate and I really have no knowledge of Britishims either \o/ it has that kind of actual history connected to it. IDK, I'm still puttering at that Hetalia/Merlin crossover. And reading a ton of fic; given the time my attention wanders at work I think I have made a pretty damn good effort to read everything that mildly interests me in the fandom. THIS IS BAD NEWS, GUYS! IT MEANS I GET BORED AND THEN I WHINE A LOT BEFORE WRITING STUFF MYSELF. And if I do that people should point me to--resources that I can read up for research, because at least I can be anachronistically correct, if historically incorrect. :(
In other news, man, I feel like I should use my DW more, especially since there are a handful of people I am very fond of who've rather permanently moved there, but. I almost feel like I should do something different with it--less of important all my stuff from my LJ to my DW (though I suppose I could :|a), but it's like buying a shiny new notebook at the store--you want to put NEW stuff in it! cool stuff! fancy stuff! but there's only so much content in my head and also remembering to USE it. My life is a series of mildly-humorous or -irritating events loosely connected by good moods and occasional emo, so there's not really much to talk about, there. Ahhhhhh. /o\
Hrrrrrm. SUGGESTIONS GO HERE?
My cat is so cute, guys. SO CUTE. I should take more pictures of him and force them upon the internet.
rivendellrose I have been listening to Heather Dale's "Trial of Lancelot" CD at work and let me tell you, things are about 50000000000x funnier if you've just finished watching the BBC Merlin. (Which I have been! I ACTUALLY FINISHED IT ON MY OWN! THIS IS AMAZING, GUYS! AMAZING!) Though it does sort of remind me of all the parts I didn't really care about for Arthurian legend--I was never a fan of the romance aspect (insert fistshaking joke at halcyonjazz here for being FRENCH!!!! and the French being the ones who introduced the whole Arthur-Guinevere-Lancelot triangle thing), and most of the readings we did in school bored me to tears. Because a lot of them tended to be the romances, which--I don't think I have the right mindset to really let myself get immersed in really dense old text like that; I know it was traditional of the time, but that's why, despite my love of mythologies and other religious practices of long ago, I will never be a scholar. I can't hack the text and never felt the overwhelming desire to train myself to it. This may be why a lot of my friends are making wistful I-miss-school noises around me, and I'm like \o/ YEAH WORKING AND READING IN MY FREE TIME. \o/I think I got sidetracked. :|a
However! I have learned that I have a really difficult time writing for a lot of live-action shows for whatever reason; sometimes it's that I can't hack the settings and enviroment (I have never been roadtripping across the country and Americana is a concept more than a way of life to me, and honestly most of my knowledge of classic rock comes from hanging out with
zinjadu or katmaxwell), or the dialogue, or whatever! Even Supernatural, whose first season still has so much I really love (URBAND LEGENDS GHOST STORIES KYAA KYAA), never really clicked for me. So I wonder why it is that I actually want to write Merlin fic; I blame the fact that it does have this enormous and amazing mythological basis behind it--even if it's anachronistic and hardly historically accurate and I really have no knowledge of Britishims either \o/ it has that kind of actual history connected to it. IDK, I'm still puttering at that Hetalia/Merlin crossover. And reading a ton of fic; given the time my attention wanders at work I think I have made a pretty damn good effort to read everything that mildly interests me in the fandom. THIS IS BAD NEWS, GUYS! IT MEANS I GET BORED AND THEN I WHINE A LOT BEFORE WRITING STUFF MYSELF. And if I do that people should point me to--resources that I can read up for research, because at least I can be anachronistically correct, if historically incorrect. :(In other news, man, I feel like I should use my DW more, especially since there are a handful of people I am very fond of who've rather permanently moved there, but. I almost feel like I should do something different with it--less of important all my stuff from my LJ to my DW (though I suppose I could :|a), but it's like buying a shiny new notebook at the store--you want to put NEW stuff in it! cool stuff! fancy stuff! but there's only so much content in my head and also remembering to USE it. My life is a series of mildly-humorous or -irritating events loosely connected by good moods and occasional emo, so there's not really much to talk about, there. Ahhhhhh. /o\
Hrrrrrm. SUGGESTIONS GO HERE?
My cat is so cute, guys. SO CUTE. I should take more pictures of him and force them upon the internet.
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I actually have a lot of difficulty writing for live action shows as well; I love Merlin, but I'd be more nervous writing anything there despite the fact that it is a GIANT ANACHRONISM with minimal brainpower (which is why I love it) just… because. And most of it IS because my live action fandoms tend to be shows that I'm really happy with the text, or, if I want to examine it, it's more from a meta standpoint and less from a fanfiction standpoint. But there's also something there about the media. (I also feel pretty awkward about books, but I can get over it if I imitate the style.)
…Really, I'm just babbling a lot. And I wish there were more stories that dealt with urban legends and folklore in a way that I could wholeheartedly adore, because ♥ ♥ ♥
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I think--part of my problem with live-action shows is that I have a harder time disconnecting the actors from the characters they play? Like, there are very few seiyuu (or western VAs, even!) that look much like the characters they play, so I have this weird RPF?!?! disconnect, which is something I meant to add in the entry itself and forgot. XD Merlin is kind of a departure for me because I do want to fic it, and man, I was always so indifferent to Arthurian legends, growing up. The closest I got was (IS) my love of Susan Cooper. AND WOULDN'T THAT BE FASCINATING. IN MY HEAD IT IS.
If there were more urban legend/folklore stories, I would be all over them--sob, Supernatural, why do you sometimes make me feel guilty for liking you! :'(
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♥ SUSAN COOPER ♥ Even then, though, I wasn't really interested in the Arthurian legend aspect so much as the rest of the story and how the legend was framed. And yet I've read Le Morte d'Arthur of my own free will, somehow. (IT ONLY REINFORCES MY INDIFFERENCE ;;)
That and fairytales, and, rrr, I kind of want to write my own so it can be JUST WHAT I AM INTERESTED IN, but I don't think I'm that skilled. IT IS A GOAL TO WORK TOWARDS :(b
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I enjoyed the Arthurian aspect in how it fit into the rest of the story? Like, I thought it was amazingly cool when Bran's heritage was revealed and his backstory, but as a whole, I was just sort of ... yeah, indifferent. XD (I've read, uh, Gawain and the Green Knight--I was more interested in the fact that Tolkien had translated it, really--and. Some romance or other by wossisname, the french guy who wrote lots of Arthurian things? Christian something-or-other? IT BORED ME STIFF.)
I would love to actually write a serial or something with urban legends and fairytales and stuff--I sort of have that with one of the Catfish projects? BUT I HAVE BEEN SLACKING ON THAT, so ahhhhh. /o\
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I'm at work now, but poke me some evening if I forget!
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(Sorry for taking so long to reply, I've had no access to the Internet lately.)