To Yavin! (ANH 14/??)
May. 6th, 2012 03:30 pmI meant to finish this by/for the fourth, but ... yeah, we know how my scheduling goes. Anyway, back to Obi-Wan's nonexistent corpse.
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I've been searching for essays on SW for my theory class, and I didn't really think I'd have trouble finding them. On the upside, I really haven't had trouble -- but most of them are awful.
A lot of the authors half-heartedly tried to take on sexism - and, I mean, I think there's lots of sexism in SW? Both in-story and in its construction? But things like this version of "feminist" crit makes my skin crawl.
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A lot of the authors half-heartedly tried to take on sexism - and, I mean, I think there's lots of sexism in SW? Both in-story and in its construction? But things like this version of "feminist" crit makes my skin crawl.
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Escaping the Death Star! (ANH 13/??)
Mar. 13th, 2012 09:29 pmHa, two days instead of six months. I feel so accomplished. Warning for talking about things I dislike about the prequels, though. (I'm starting to feel this is a thing that needs to be warned for.)
This is more like part 12b, as I'm awake now and just continuing beyond the five minutes I managed to cover last time, but—anyway.
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This is more like part 12b, as I'm awake now and just continuing beyond the five minutes I managed to cover last time, but—anyway.
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I thought it'd been awhile since I did one of these, so I glanced back and...over six months. WTF, Elizabeth. In my defense, my DVD was non-functioning for most of that time and only got repaired about two weeks ago. But I'm still side-eyeing myself over my own comment from last time: I'm just hoping I actually finish them -- for ANH anyway -- before I turn twenty-six, heh.
My twenty-sixth birthday is on Thursday. ...Heh.
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My twenty-sixth birthday is on Thursday. ...Heh.
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Lucy commentary
Feb. 20th, 2012 10:12 pmI'm too distracted for anything more coherent, so here's my looong commentary on the next chapter of The Adventures of Lucy Skywalker (previous chapters are here, here, and here).
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response part nine (the end! really!)
Feb. 8th, 2012 09:18 amListening back, this is probably the weakest part - partly because I was fairly frustrated, and partly because I was really unclear and had to add in a ton of editorial remarks just to clarify what I meant. But here is the last part.
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response part 8 (more compare/contrast)
Feb. 5th, 2012 06:59 pmThis, even more than the others, is a continuation of the previous section, but narrows the focus on Luke and Leia. Luke-Leia is up there with Anakin-Luke for my favourite relationship in Star Wars, so I took advantage of the opportunity for a quasi-picspam and just stuffed every Luke and Leia-focused picture/set of pictures I have into the video space. Which, looking over it, led to some rather odd juxtapositions. (I'll post them properly in a few days. Uh, warning for thirty-year-old quasi-twincest - twins kissing with varying levels of incestuousness, at varying levels of canon.)
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response part seven (comparing Padmé)
Feb. 3rd, 2012 07:33 pmThis is where we get into the inevitable 'Luke is just like Padmé' thing, though even my speed-talking wasn't enough to fit it all into fifteen minutes. Anybody who knows me can probably guess why.
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response part five (heroic badasses)
Jan. 30th, 2012 10:40 pmYes, these go on forever, and I went off on tangents at pretty much every opportunity. This, of course, is one of them -- the whole thing is my response to maybe one paragraph, and at that, rather tangentially related to it. It's a little shorter, though, since I'm now trying to separate these into vaguely cohesive units, though.
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Response part three + commentary
Jan. 29th, 2012 12:46 amAt some point, I realized this was less about the fangirlblog post and more "Elizabeth has FEELINGS. About EVERYTHING. Hear her!"
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This response is completely off the top of my head and ended up being (1) way longer than I expected, so I'm posting it in bits and pieces, and (2) more fervent than I expected, so if you like Padmé and/or the prequels, you may not want to listen/read. But here we go. Oh, and the transcript necessarily includes the essay I'm reacting to, since I read it aloud and responded point-by-point (well, started to).
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This response is completely off the top of my head and ended up being (1) way longer than I expected, so I'm posting it in bits and pieces, and (2) more fervent than I expected, so if you like Padmé and/or the prequels, you may not want to listen/read. But here we go. Oh, and the transcript necessarily includes the essay I'm reacting to, since I read it aloud and responded point-by-point (well, started to).
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I will probably doing more audio things in the near future, because, honestly, it's about all I have time for at the moment. Back in ye olde days of 300-level classes, and only three of them, I had plenty of time for my sort of involved, rambly essays, which I just don't at the moment. But I do want to stay involved in my fandoms! So audio stuff that doesn't take as long, with transcripts when I can manage, so sort of like rambles, but more...spontaneous!
In related whatsits, I would like to do a reading of something I didn't write, in accordance with the whole hey-I-have-time-for-talking-if-not-much-else. So if anybody is willing to have me podfic a fic of theirs, drop me a line or a comment or something.
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In related whatsits, I would like to do a reading of something I didn't write, in accordance with the whole hey-I-have-time-for-talking-if-not-much-else. So if anybody is willing to have me podfic a fic of theirs, drop me a line or a comment or something.
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so I'm the subject of a Youtube review
Jan. 22nd, 2012 01:17 pmWell, The Adventures of Lucy Skywalker is, anyway. I stumbled across it the other day, and it was ... um, okay, kind of weird, because a good portion of the review is the reviewer just reading and occasionally interspersing commentary, and the way she reads it sounds nothing like how it does in my head (it’s awful, but I kept wanting to say ‘um, I put those stops there for a reason’). It's not the accent, either, just ... I don't know. The rest is a brief sum-up of her opinions that seemed mostly about some other fic she disliked, but she concluded that mine is more than adequate, which was nice? You can try to watch/listen to it here, if you want.
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whee + Elizabeth watches some fanvids
Jan. 7th, 2012 11:06 pmIn happy-making news, the ace bigbang is going to happen for reals, only it's going to be BETTER -- a full-blown people-who-aren't-straight-or-cis bigbang. I already babbled at ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
tulina and hl and biichan about it, but it's so awesome that I had to share with EVERYONE. Hmm, maybe somebody will put it on ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
fandomcalendar and there'll be participants on the dw side? That would be cool! Anyway, that's a thing (an awesome thing!!).
Speaking of which, I was just glancing at the most recent ... events, and found something beautiful. OMG. I love OT3s and ship them across all my fandoms, and somebody's already volunteered for my very favourite one. Maybe I could get up the nerve to suggest a prompt? ...eh, probably not. (I get ridiculously nervous about these things! But still, a OT3 prompt is a thing of beauty.)
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tulina and hl and biichan about it, but it's so awesome that I had to share with EVERYONE. Hmm, maybe somebody will put it on fandomcalendar and there'll be participants on the dw side? That would be cool! Anyway, that's a thing (an awesome thing!!).Speaking of which, I was just glancing at the most recent ... events, and found something beautiful. OMG. I love OT3s and ship them across all my fandoms, and somebody's already volunteered for my very favourite one. Maybe I could get up the nerve to suggest a prompt? ...eh, probably not. (I get ridiculously nervous about these things! But still, a OT3 prompt is a thing of beauty.)
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I'm behind on my memes and ... I'm not doing them today, either. But I do have the next chunk of my scene-by-scene rewatching of Star Wars, aka A New Hope. So here we go, SW (and TV Tropes)!
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I am a bad Northanger Abbey fan, and have never read this book. I hear it's long, dull and melodramatic and ... never got around to it. But now it's been assigned for a class, so I'm wading through it. If anybody wants to read along, feel free!
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