#troisoiseaux

[amarguerite]

My immediate thought was "how can I pick JUST ONE?" but then I realized I read and re-read A Passion for the Absolute a truly embarrassing amount of times in high school so I'm going to have to go with that one. (Or the Charioteer fic that I'm blanking on the name of, where Laurie re-meets Andrew years after The End Of The Book...)

Oh gosh, those are such old fics! I’m glad that they’re still readable though! :D

[fixaidea]

9, 12, 19, and 29 for the bookworm ask!

9.what was the first book you read on your own?Oh my… I think it was about a cat who couldn’t jump so he had to carry around a ladder to climb on things? I read it aloud to mum - she was teaching me to read on that.

12. what are your favourite genres?Mysteries, historical drama/adventure and fantasy, and the combination of these.

19. how well do you take care of your books?I’m… trying. I’m not actively dog-ending them!!! …But they do travel around in my bag and that shows.

29. how do you organise your books?I’m trying to keep them grouped by genre, but authors come first.

[queerpyracy]

you can't just say you found a really fantastic 70k slowburn will turner/james norrington fic and then NOT give the link!!!!

I’M ONLY HALFWAY THROUGH BUT HERE I’M BURNING

[carterhaughs]

they did add a lot of stuff from the book --> tv show adaption of the handmaid's tale so if you see stuff you don't remember that might be why!

That’s probably part of it! I’ve forgotten a lot but I do remember that it was a very internal sort of book tightly constructed around the first person POV - which they’ve somewhat preserved for the show but I’m glad they’ve shifted focus outward some as well. Something I remember finding really disturbing was the hangings of malcontents in the books and Offred commenting on them in such a detached way, almost flippantly, because they were such a commonplace part of her world now. They made those scenes more personal via her connection to Moira - and I think it works for the show. Offred in the books seemed more bitter and cynical if I recall? She is on the show too but I feel like we see her reaching out more as well, which I like. One of my favorite things I’ve seen them doing is showing the solidarity between her and the other Handmaidens - that even in a world where the nature of their social caste leaves them isolated and mistrustful of others, including their own kind, they are still able to reach out to each other. 

[pilferingapples]

this is absolutely not the intended take-away of your bossuet post, but i completely forgot about the "chopped off his finger" bit in his intro and i absolutely want this to be included in fanworks from now on. the fandom's jumped harder onto vaguer descriptions; let this be the Cool New Fanon :P

I have been drawing him with the tip of one middle finger missing for YEARS so believe me I’m on board with this!:D  It’s a surprisingly subtle thing and easy to miss, though!

[amarguerite]

troisoiseaux replied to your post: one of my coworkers said she wouldn’t be watching...

wait what is this about margaret atwood knowing what homestuck is

she went to comic-con and someone in Homestuck cosplay took a photo with her, which she tweeted: https://twitter.com/margaretatwood/status/224351937250856960?lang=en 

i... uh. I mean, as someone who cut her eyeteeth on Hugo I’m not a huge fan of Death of the Author, since ignoring Hugo and Hugo’s life and intentions etc. means you lose out on a lot of stuff in Les Miserables, but I... just... pls. I don’t want to debate the ideological purity of someone I don’t know much about during morning coffee break on a Monday. 

[amarguerite]

troisoiseaux replied to your post: 5 and 16!

out of curiosity, why is the prisoner of azkaban your favorite hp book?

I think because the stakes are relatively low. I mean, high stakes in that Harry is nearly consumed by the walking embodiment of depression , Sirius Black’s life (and Buckbeak’s life) are on the line, and Harry’s future life is dramatically impacted, but the fate of the wizarding world isn’t on Harry’s shoulders for once. His choices mostly impact himself. That and Rowling’s use of magical creatures to describe specific human emotional states is pretty awesome...  boggarts (the personification of fear), can be beaten by banding together and laughing; Dementors (the personification of depression) can be defended against with really strong happy memories that magically turn into an animal that protects you (and even then, like, you have to have a lot of help to beat them off, and can’t always succeed; most wizards can’t cast Patronus charms). It’s so CLEVER, and it was one of the first times where I closed a book and thought about how the words on the page were working, not just what they were saying. Allen Liu describes close reading as taking a view from a window and then examining the window-- how it’s framed, how the texture impacts your vision, etc.-- and doing that, looking at that particular bubble in the glass that was Boggarts, and figuring out the pretty facile lesson that Rowling was Making a Statement About Fear using boggarts felt mind-blowingly brilliant to me at age 10. 

ALSO because Hermoine gets such a kick-ass plot? She travels through time! She punches Malfoy in the face! It’s great. 

[amarguerite]

for the sparkle meme, i'd say joan watson from elementary! super smart, the embodiment of "do no harm but take no shit", and-- hmm, i'm not going to explain this well, but i see a creative thought process and understanding of how people tick in joan's crime-solving powers that can be applied to you as a writer as well?

:O That’s so kind of you! I aspire to the level of no-nonsense style mixed with compassion that Joan Watson exhibits. Thank you! <3