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the_dala at 08:38pm on 13/10/2005
the_dala at 08:38pm on 13/10/2005LJ keeps logging me out when I navigate away from the page no matter how many times I set 'expire' to 'never.' WTF, LJ? What the Eff?
Don't know what's going on with Mrs. C. Tina has my room number now and said she'd call when there was news, or whenever she just needed to talk. My parents were also supposed to call if anything happened to my cousin Chris who was missing on Tuesday, and I cannot talk about that right now because I don't have the energy for the anger. My message box is empty, so I am trying to concentrate on other things.
I have eighty-four thousand books I should be reading, but I couldn't resist picking up The Ruins of Ambrai by Melanie Rawn, which has been...enlightening. I read the first two books of the still uncompleted Exiles trilogy in eighth grade. I guess that must be a particularly formative age, because I have stolen from this novel. Copiously. Without ever realizing it. Oh, I don't mean names or direct quotes or anything overt like that. Mostly it's interaction between character types, or the feel of a scene -- rereading it now, I can see that I've been writing fic (or, even more blatantly, less-original-than-wee-Dala-thought fantasy) and going for this impact or that feeling. I did steal one thing in particular. I was totally baffled as to how Jack Sparrow's absent offspring appeared at the end of "North and South," but now I realize exactly where he came from. He's Val's illegitimate son, even though the circumstances were quite different.
Val. Oh my god, Alin and Val. I can't even describe my love for them. Hands down my favorite same-sex relationship in any media, and one of my favorite 'ships of all time. If you want to read some slashy fantasy, Alin and Val are for you. I even remember a girl hitting on Cailet at some point, but mostly, it's Alin and Val, and they are more than enough.
It's kind of funny. I loved the books, but I couldn't finish rereading them because of a particular point in The Mageborn Traitor I didn't really want to reach. I just never realized how much my impressionable younger self loved them. I'm trying to be objective about the writingt. The female dominance concept irks me when I think too hard about it. All the reversed-role details are winking coyly at me and sometimes I wink back, because it's interesting, but sometimes I don't want to wink back because I can't remember how well the characters are able to shake off the chains of a horrendously inequal society in the second book, which takes place well into the protagonists' political regime. It's got a huge cast of characters (all with names stemming from fifteen or twenty saints -- it's freaking hard to remember some of them) and an exhaustive amount of detail, but I'm so comfortable in the world of Lenfell that I don't mind.
Sucks me in after all these years. I even sat in class tonight making up an ideal cast list. I got pretty into it, too. I even managed to narrow Collan down to a combination of seven actors. Because it beat cramming for my Museum Studies midterm, I will share the list with you whether you like it or not. The three sisters first, of course, and then in haphazard order of who occurred to me. Mostly chosen for physical resemblance, though influenced by certain performances in cases where I don't actually remember the character's coloring and whatnot.
Cailet Ambrait: Alison Lohman is Cailet.
Sarra Ambrai: For six years I have tried to get the image of Carrie Fisher as Leia out of my head for Sarra, because she simply has to be blond, and if you make Carrie Fisher blond you take away her Leia-ness which is the main appeal of the casting choice in the FIRST place. Pondering, I thought, "Why not Keira Knightley?" I tried to banish the thought, but it won't go away. She could be blonder than Carrie Fisher, and she could do the Blood arrogance.
Glenin Feiran: I thought Jamie King for purely aesthetic reasons, but now I'm thinking Kate Winslet is a more subtle choice. Plus, I love her.
Gorynel Desse: Morgan Freeman for ordinary Gorsha, Taye Diggs for young Gorsha in Cailet's mind. I don't care if that makes no sense. It's my imaginery movie, dammit.
Auvry Feiran: somewhere between Robery Lindsay and Geoffrey Rusch.
Taig Ostin: Ioan Gruffudd, because he can do the intense.
Avira Anniyas: crap, I don't know. The image of Professor Richardson as Anniyas will not vacate my mind.
Alin Ostin: Alan Tudyk, only without the Arms of Sex because Alin's meant to be very slight.
Valirion Maurgin: I wanted him to be Jack Davenport, but Greg Ellis has claimed the role and refuses to relinquish it.
Bard Falundir: Don Cheadle, aged ten years or so.
Imilal Gorrst: Gina Torres. Because she's a warrior babe.
Lady Lilen Ostin: Lucy Lawless.
Gerin Ostin: Mel Gibson
Verald Jescarin: Daniel Dae Kim. He looks like he could grow things.
Sela Trayos (I think?): Rosario Dawson. Tamsa would be the prettiest kid in Roseguard.
Elomar Adennos: First I was thinking Paul McGann, but he's too handsome. Adrien Brody's the most attractive ugly person I can think of, which is perfect for Elomar.
Lady Agatine Slegin: Emma Thompson.
Scraller Pelleris: Pete Postlethwaite. Because he freaks me out.
Tarise Nalle: Jocelyn's pretty maid/friend from "A Knight's Tale."
Golonet Doriaz: Rufus Sewell.
Grandmother Allynis: Maggie Smith.
Leninor Garvedian: Katharine Hepburn. Because together those two would be awesome.
Collan Rosvenir: last of all because, much like George Cooper (although I don't love Col quite as much as George), I find him impossible to pin down. Nobody's quite right, but all together...Johnny Depp/Nathan Filion/James Purefoy/Errol Flynn/Paul Bettany/Ewan McGregor (he's got the best hair, but is alas too short on his own)/Bruce Campbell. That would be Collan.
This is only for those who made the greatest impression in the first two-thirds of the first book, mind. I told you there was a metric crapload of characters.
Anyway. Mel Rawn. Not sublime, but really good.
Don't know what's going on with Mrs. C. Tina has my room number now and said she'd call when there was news, or whenever she just needed to talk. My parents were also supposed to call if anything happened to my cousin Chris who was missing on Tuesday, and I cannot talk about that right now because I don't have the energy for the anger. My message box is empty, so I am trying to concentrate on other things.
I have eighty-four thousand books I should be reading, but I couldn't resist picking up The Ruins of Ambrai by Melanie Rawn, which has been...enlightening. I read the first two books of the still uncompleted Exiles trilogy in eighth grade. I guess that must be a particularly formative age, because I have stolen from this novel. Copiously. Without ever realizing it. Oh, I don't mean names or direct quotes or anything overt like that. Mostly it's interaction between character types, or the feel of a scene -- rereading it now, I can see that I've been writing fic (or, even more blatantly, less-original-than-wee-Dala-thought fantasy) and going for this impact or that feeling. I did steal one thing in particular. I was totally baffled as to how Jack Sparrow's absent offspring appeared at the end of "North and South," but now I realize exactly where he came from. He's Val's illegitimate son, even though the circumstances were quite different.
Val. Oh my god, Alin and Val. I can't even describe my love for them. Hands down my favorite same-sex relationship in any media, and one of my favorite 'ships of all time. If you want to read some slashy fantasy, Alin and Val are for you. I even remember a girl hitting on Cailet at some point, but mostly, it's Alin and Val, and they are more than enough.
It's kind of funny. I loved the books, but I couldn't finish rereading them because of a particular point in The Mageborn Traitor I didn't really want to reach. I just never realized how much my impressionable younger self loved them. I'm trying to be objective about the writingt. The female dominance concept irks me when I think too hard about it. All the reversed-role details are winking coyly at me and sometimes I wink back, because it's interesting, but sometimes I don't want to wink back because I can't remember how well the characters are able to shake off the chains of a horrendously inequal society in the second book, which takes place well into the protagonists' political regime. It's got a huge cast of characters (all with names stemming from fifteen or twenty saints -- it's freaking hard to remember some of them) and an exhaustive amount of detail, but I'm so comfortable in the world of Lenfell that I don't mind.
Sucks me in after all these years. I even sat in class tonight making up an ideal cast list. I got pretty into it, too. I even managed to narrow Collan down to a combination of seven actors. Because it beat cramming for my Museum Studies midterm, I will share the list with you whether you like it or not. The three sisters first, of course, and then in haphazard order of who occurred to me. Mostly chosen for physical resemblance, though influenced by certain performances in cases where I don't actually remember the character's coloring and whatnot.
Cailet Ambrait: Alison Lohman is Cailet.
Sarra Ambrai: For six years I have tried to get the image of Carrie Fisher as Leia out of my head for Sarra, because she simply has to be blond, and if you make Carrie Fisher blond you take away her Leia-ness which is the main appeal of the casting choice in the FIRST place. Pondering, I thought, "Why not Keira Knightley?" I tried to banish the thought, but it won't go away. She could be blonder than Carrie Fisher, and she could do the Blood arrogance.
Glenin Feiran: I thought Jamie King for purely aesthetic reasons, but now I'm thinking Kate Winslet is a more subtle choice. Plus, I love her.
Gorynel Desse: Morgan Freeman for ordinary Gorsha, Taye Diggs for young Gorsha in Cailet's mind. I don't care if that makes no sense. It's my imaginery movie, dammit.
Auvry Feiran: somewhere between Robery Lindsay and Geoffrey Rusch.
Taig Ostin: Ioan Gruffudd, because he can do the intense.
Avira Anniyas: crap, I don't know. The image of Professor Richardson as Anniyas will not vacate my mind.
Alin Ostin: Alan Tudyk, only without the Arms of Sex because Alin's meant to be very slight.
Valirion Maurgin: I wanted him to be Jack Davenport, but Greg Ellis has claimed the role and refuses to relinquish it.
Bard Falundir: Don Cheadle, aged ten years or so.
Imilal Gorrst: Gina Torres. Because she's a warrior babe.
Lady Lilen Ostin: Lucy Lawless.
Gerin Ostin: Mel Gibson
Verald Jescarin: Daniel Dae Kim. He looks like he could grow things.
Sela Trayos (I think?): Rosario Dawson. Tamsa would be the prettiest kid in Roseguard.
Elomar Adennos: First I was thinking Paul McGann, but he's too handsome. Adrien Brody's the most attractive ugly person I can think of, which is perfect for Elomar.
Lady Agatine Slegin: Emma Thompson.
Scraller Pelleris: Pete Postlethwaite. Because he freaks me out.
Tarise Nalle: Jocelyn's pretty maid/friend from "A Knight's Tale."
Golonet Doriaz: Rufus Sewell.
Grandmother Allynis: Maggie Smith.
Leninor Garvedian: Katharine Hepburn. Because together those two would be awesome.
Collan Rosvenir: last of all because, much like George Cooper (although I don't love Col quite as much as George), I find him impossible to pin down. Nobody's quite right, but all together...Johnny Depp/Nathan Filion/James Purefoy/Errol Flynn/Paul Bettany/Ewan McGregor (he's got the best hair, but is alas too short on his own)/Bruce Campbell. That would be Collan.
This is only for those who made the greatest impression in the first two-thirds of the first book, mind. I told you there was a metric crapload of characters.
Anyway. Mel Rawn. Not sublime, but really good.
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