#majorelorne

[lehdenlaulu]

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Ship that you have as an OTP: 🌹

Faramir and Éowyn are my OTP of all OTPs and I’m still pressed to think of a literary romance that comes even close. ♥

 Ship that you secretly like: 💚

I don’t like things secretly. :D Even if something is unpopular or obscure, or even slightly problematic.

Ship that you used to have as an OTP: 💙

I was a Buffy/Angel girl as a teenager. :D They gave me All The Feels, and I still might sniffle while watching ‘I Will Remember You’, but I’m not really into it anymore.

Ship that is canon but you don’t ship: 💤

Oh so many. Like I’ve said, the Status Quo Canon type of ships tend to somewhat bore me, I need a proper build-up. “These characters are in love because we said so” is a tricky thing to pull off, and usually it doesn’t work for me.

Then there are the ships that become canon instead of something I was rooting for, like Jack and Kate on LOST (honestly by the end I was rooting for Kate to stay single or run off with Sayid, let Jack and Sawyer have their dick-measuring contests among themselves).

[janeaustentextposts]

I don't get the compulsion of the producers of Austen adaptations to age up the characters. Mr Darcy, in all adaptations, seems to be a particular victim of this, but Col. Brandon also seems to get a raw deal. Do you think, in some cases, it's to reduce the squick of massive age differences?

Aging up Brandon doesn’t really reduce age-gap squick, but maybe it’s similar to the problems people face when casting for Hamlet–when a character is so iconic in the canon of Western drama and literature, producers and directors may just feel more comfortable with a more established actor taking on the role, even if the role is literally what we would know as a college-age young person or even a teenager. Olivier played Hamlet in his 40s, and David Tennant, Kenneth Branagh and Mel Gibson were all in their mid-thirties. Age-appropriate literal undergrad Hamlet is rare. Richard Burbage was in his early thirties when he originated the role, (but then boys are playing girls in every show so I can’t even begin to get into how squirrelly things are in Elizabethan theatre,) and some lines in the text seem to indicate that Hamlet is around 30, but these lines are not present or are sometimes altered in other folio versions of the play, and there’s other evidence that Hamlet may be no more than sixteen during the events of the play. (If he’s 30, why would he still be attending university and not able to take the throne upon his father’s death?)

Anyway, I think in modern screen castings it’s a case of not wanting to take risks on younger actors with these roles, instead hand-waving the ages in the text in order to bank on actors with greater professional clout.

[anghraine]

I'm halfway through your Jane Austen fic First Impressions and I'm caught up with your epistolary sequel, and I wanted to tell you how much I'm enjoying them. It seems that at the moment you're mostly known in the rogue one fandom, but I hope you continue writing in an Austen vein. They're better than half the published fanfic of her works that I've read!! (Also, after writing in that style for a while, do you find yourself talking like you've just stepped out of a period drama? Or is that me?)

Oh, thank you very much! It’s pretty interesting for me, because for a longgggg time I was overwhelmingly known as an Austen fic/meta-writer, no matter what else I did. And Austen fandom was definitely the one in which I was the most known. But these days my most-read stuff is largely for other fandoms, apart from a grey-ace!Darcy fic and the fluffy engagement fic I wrote at 19; on Tumblr, the vast bulk of my followers are here for SW.

It’s genuinely surreal to realize that just one of my RO fics is over 20k longer than all the First Impressions fics, tbh. It was a very ... significant effort at the time (a year planning and months writing). 

But thank you very much about it! It has its flaws, but is still one of my personal favourites, and was a total pleasure to dream up and write. 

Yes, I do still have Austen fics in my queue. I’m more or less an Austen scholar professionally (I mean, I’m just starting my PhD, but she was my focus through my MA and before), and I def tend to go there more when I’m analyzing her work. So I don’t see that ever drying up completely, though obviously I’m going to be very busy.

WRT the style ... hm, to some extent. I do kind of have to jerk myself out of it to write other things (to some extent; I think there’s still probably a lot of lingering formality). And I’ll find myself now and then using period-specific vocabulary. I remember that once I walked to a piano lesson, and started saying pianoforte instead!

But formal language is the easiest for me to write in. I’m autistic, and it took a long time to break myself out of speaking that way constantly. So it’s pretty relaxing to go back to it.

[bethanyactually]

Because I'm bored and don't wanna go outside... hey!

Say hey! And I will answer the following:

1. First impression: This person loves Evan Lorne! They are all right in my book.

2. Truth is: You’re funny and you have excellent taste in TV and books and I’m excited to see you become a mum!

3. How old do you look/seem: Mid- to late 20s? Annnnd your bio says you’re 26. :)

4. Have you ever made me laugh: Yep!

5. Have you ever made me mad: Nope!

6. Best feature: Uhhh...your unapologetic feminism, just to name one!

7. Have I ever had a crush on you: Nah. 

8. You’re my: fandom friend, for space fandoms and Rainbow Rowell!

9. Name in my phone: n/a

10. Should I post this too? If you wanna!

[katiemcgrath]

majorelorne replied to your post: The next Doctor will be announced after the men’s...

Some people have said Kris Marshall, which I really hope isn’t true. Just give us someone who isn’t boring, male and white!

Oh, god... I hope not, he's so generic looking. I kinda want the person to be Welsh... I think the accent will be fun. Rod Gilbert, but as himself. Yes, that's sure to spice things up. "What's this? A spaceship, is it? A Tardis? Oh, fuck off, it's a spaceship."

[rxbxlcaptain]

I say Cassian is Ravenclaw cuz I think he's very intelligent and logical, but sometimes gets too caught up in his own head. Plus, K2 would totally be a Ravenclaw. Or a very aggressive owl. I think Jyn is Gryffindor. Just because she has had to do bad things to survive, doesn't make her any less brave or courageous.

I have to admit defeat and that you all have shoved me into the Jyn-Erso-Is-A-Gryffindor Camp :D (though I still maintain that, like Harry Potter, she would have done well in Slytherin)

K-2SO is, without a doubt, in Ravenclaw. (Or, as he would say, the chances of him succeeding in one of the other houses is less than one percent)

However, I just can’t see Cassian in Ravenclaw. Don’t get me wrong: Cassian Andor is incredibly smart and clever, both strong Ravenclaw traits. However, being smart doesn’t automatically put you in Ravenclaw. (If that was true in the HP universe, then Hermione Granger and Albus Dumbledore and Voldemort all would have been placed in Ravenclaw.) I feel like Cassian lacks the creative and innovative outlook that Ravenclaws have on life. Also, I feel that intelligence isn’t the number one trait (out of intelligence, ambition, bravery, and loyalty) that Cassian would value in his life (slightly ironic, considering he’s an intelligence officer), which rules out Ravenclaw for me.

Though, of course, these are all just personal headcanons and you all are free to be like “What nonsense is this chick talking about. Cassian Andor is OBIVOUSLY in [insert House here]”. Just my personal opinion ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[lehdenlaulu]

@majorelorne replied to your post: Anyway, I love how the actors are just casually...

What did he say???

I’ll quote the Collider article:

“Well I know what J.J. kind of intended, or at least what was sort of being chucked around. I think that’s kind of been undone slightly by [The Last Jedi]. I don’t know. I don’t know (laughs). I think Unkar Plutt is Rey’s real father.”

“There was some talk about, you know, a kind of relevant lineage for her. But I honestly don’t know, and I don’t know if anybody knows. We shall see.”

Doesn’t sound like JJ intended her parents to be some random drunks, does it? :p 

But we knew that, didn’t we? *sigh*

[lehdenlaulu]

@majorelorne replied to your post: @majorelorne replied to your post: Isn’t it...

I just think the dude playing Solo doesn’t come across as Han in the trailers AT ALL. Not in look, sound, attitude… however, Donald Glover as Lando… Brilliant casting on that.

I have to agree. I mean, obviously no one can copy Harrison Ford perfectly, but he just has... completely wrong energy, you know? Donald doesn't look exactly like Billy Dee Williams either, but he has the same vibe. I don't know if it's because he's the better actor of the two, but... yeah.