anghraine: choppy water on a misty day (sea)
[personal profile] heckofabecca responded to this post:

OH MY GOD I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO REMEMBER THE NAME OF WIZARD'S HALL FOR YEARSSSSSSS

I replied:

Glad to help! I haven’t read it since I was a kid, but it’s always stuck with me—maybe because it was such an influence on what I decided to write.

[personal profile] heckofabecca responded:

Dude the whole quilt of people and their names was SO DARK!!!!

I replied:

yesss

[personal profile] lotesse responded:


wizards hall is so good. did you ever read the pit dragon trilogy? I loved those

I replied:

I didn't!

toomerrymaiden said:

I loved the incarnations of immortality, it's a shame

I replied:

Yeah. :\

I mean, they always had their Anthony issues, but there was a lot that was really interesting and engaging about them (especially On a Pale Horse and With a Tangled Skein IMO). But he’s … blech.

gemmamelon said:

I, too, want Emelan, and was, just the other day, vaguely imagining Mara Wilson as Rosethorn, because I think she’d be able to be appropriately spiky while having a warm relationship with child actors that would also show through, on screen.
anghraine: an illustration of moiraine damodred, a dark-haired woman in fancy fantasy clothes with a blue drop over her forehead (moiraine)
In this age of remakes and adaptations (though pretty much all ages are ages of remakes and adaptations tbh), I sometimes imagine adaptations of my childhood/adolescent faves. Off the top of my head and in no particular order:
  • Jane Yolen’s Wizard’s Hall (super formative, could make a pretty cool, sometimes creepy, film)
  • The Witch of Blackbird Pond (just … great, probably fits a mini-series better)
  • Sweet Valley Twins (maybe this already exists? it would be terrible, but I inhaled them as a kid)
  • Agatha Christie in general (definitely exists, though the quality is variable … I really disliked the version I saw of Cards on the Table)
  • She-Ra (exists, is great)
  • The Belgariad and the Elenium (I would prefer the latter, with Liberties taken to deal with some of the Eddingsisms, but the former might be more cinematic. I once had an AU where as a fairly minor background detail, the Elenium was made in place of GOT, but with the same cast, like Lena Headey as Sephrenia, etc …)
  • LOTR, esp Gondor (of course there are the movies, but a) their treatment of Gondor is terrible on a lot of fronts, and b) I think LOTR is better suited to TV anyway, and in my dreams, really high-quality animation)
  • Wheel of Time (in the works, I’m lowkey terrified)
  • Daughter of the Empire (no idea how this would be done)
  • Incarnations of Immortality (I don’t really want money going to Piers Anthony, so no, even though it’s conceptually one of my fave takes on Death)
  • Pern (??? I would mostly watch this for Lessa. Probably super expensive to make as a series, which it would have to be)
  • Valdemar (I DON’T EVEN KNOW)
  • Tamora Pierce (I love Emelan best, but Tortall would be cool, too!)
  • So You Want to Be a Wizard (it seems like it would be very cinematic in some ways and not at all in others, so I’m not sure, but if someone could make it work, awesome)
anghraine: illustration of hooded luke; text: born to fight (luke [born to fight])
For no particular reason, some of my fave characters I headcanon as aro-ace:

- Luke Skywalker, #1 space ace always and forever

- Obi-Wan Kenobi genuinely does not get what all this fuss is about

- Tar-Telperiën gets it but does not give a single fuck

- Boromir, her true heir

- Charlotte Lucas!

- Emily from “The Knight’s Tale”; just leave her alone, y’all

- Mary Lennox, who is a kid but never changes in this regard

- Trisana Chandler :D

Tagged: #i love them all :) #there are some characters where i'm tempted to lalala at some aspect of canon and imagine that way (moiraine! aredhel!) #but these are the ones where i genuinely read them that way #(don't @ me about expanded universes)
anghraine: sherlock holmes [benedick cumberbatch]; text: i'm bored & your porn is boring (sherlock)
Maybe I should just have hatred empowers us as a tag.

It’s rather awkward when you run across conversations you’d really like to be involved in but … you aren’t, and even if it wouldn’t be inappropriate to butt in, it feels sort of pointless. So I’m just going to be passive-aggressive and declare this

UNPOPULAR OPINION FRIDAY

Read more... )
anghraine: vader extending his lightsaber; text: and now for the airing of grievances! (distressing damsel)
I have ... a lot to write: Revenge, by far the more epic of my au_bigbang fics, only squeaked past at 12k, I have to critique two chapters for class, finish Lucy (Season 1!), and I have a couple of fifty themes bouncing around my hard drive. And I have a few posts I've been thinking about too - Luke and Leia are fundamentally pretty similar; why I'd love to see Darcy/Fitzwilliam; how being asexual doesn't, in my experience, get easier over time and in some ways gets much worse; and Black family headcanon.

But then I saw all these awesome thirty days memes, and thought they looked fun and amazing, but I never actually finished the one I was working on! So I'd better do that.

procrastinating! )

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