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So, during the 20 minutes before I left for church on Sunday, I may have committed this fic_corner treat...

To Dream a Dream (469 words) by Alixtii
Fandom: Alice In Wonderland - Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Related Fandoms
Characters: Alice (Alice in Wonderland), Alice Liddell, Original Female Character

Summary: The dreams haven't stopped for Alice Liddell, but she has learned to control them.

( To Dream a Dream )

( How could you say that? )

Plain Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4cu0i3B13A

( I'm just curious )

Plain Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwUEENb5jlw

( So go there and do it. )

Plain Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX1Vvisc4RM

( Go ask Alice )

Plain Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tpv3HM_M_hs

( Spoilers for 319 )

Plain Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfYxl7FSQLA

( Mac meets Lauren )

Plain Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHSP_QPvbgw

Apparently, this year--i.e. the first year I've signed up for 3_ships--is the first year that 3_ships will be disallowing incest. Which means that Simon/Kaylee/River threesome I was so looking forward to requesting is out. Sad.

Luckily, Mac/Madison is not technically incest. And there are loads of other interesting potential threesomes, and while I did keep on going, "No, wait, that's incest," I did finally manage to pick four, three f/f/m and one f/f/f.

Speaking of incest, I watched Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (the film, obviously, I didn't sit staring at the books) trusting it to be 'cestastic, and it mostly was, but that was a pretty certain conclusion seeing as I brought my trusty 'cest goggles. ( Spoilers start here )

Otherwise, I wonder if they committed the cardinal sin of adapting children's stuff which is funny: they made it a comedy. Now, I get the feeling that maybe the source books don't really take themselves too seriously, as I'm assuming Jude Law's narration was suppose to capture the whimsy of the original. But I know of plenty of other movies which have committed this sin (it's a common mistake, for reasons I don't pretend to understand). The original texts of Scooby Doo, Inspector Gadget, or what have you are not comedies. They are funny, yes, just like Buffy was often funny, but they took their premises seriously--or at least I, as a young viewer, did so. Inspector Gadget is a thrilling action-adventure series about a teenaged girl with a really cool book, and the way the movie version wasted Michelle Trachtenberg was a crime. (Doing Inspector Gadget as a movie right would so hit so many of my kinks!) I saw the cartoon series Men in Black first and was sorely disappointed when I saw the movie which inspired it--a mere Will Smith comedy that didn't take its science fiction premise seriously.

Speaking of adaptation, I also a version of Jane Eyre that had Anna Paquin in it, and there I think the film was harmed by overly slavish devotion to the original, as if the filmmakers felt they had to tell the same exact story that Charlotte Bronte had hundreds of pages to tell in under two hours. It seemed clear that what they thought the book was about was (or at least that the story they wanted to tell, or thought would sell, was) a love story, making that Jane's central character arc, but if that is the case then all of Paquin's scenes--despite being the best scenes in the movie--were completely superfluous and took away time from developing the story they really wanted to be telling, so that ( probably gratuitous spoiler cut )

seems completely pasted on.

Seriously, dudes: figure out what story you (you, not the original source) are telling, and then tell it. Skipping step #1 is so not optional.

Except in Hollywood it seems it kinda is.

( Book meme )

Gakked from witchqueen, with some alterations:

Post a link to your fan fiction. The goal is this -- when you spot the meme, click on the link to that person's fanfic and pick something you haven't read before or never commented on when you did read it. The goal is to send feedback for something that you genuinely love reading. Point out lines you loved, style choices you adored, that hot little thing that happened in the middle of the smut. Anything that you love to pieces.

You can do it as many times as you want for anybody you want but hopefully you should try to do it every time you see the meme. This way, for the next week or so, people will be getting all kinds of nice comments from people about their stuff, and I don't know about anybody else, but that always makes me happy. :) Plus, you might read something new that you missed before.

My fic index, as always, is here.

Also, in one meme or another I saw on my flist, there were the questions "Do you believe in heaven?" and "Do you believe in abortion?" For the record, I don't believe in anything. Instead, I utilize cognitive models to structure my experience. (Heaven is beyond experience, so meaningful human thought about it just isn't possible; the best for which we can hope is to resort to metaphor.) I am pro-choice, a feminist, a Christian, a Discordian, etc. but I don't believe in any of them--they are patterns of belief--or, more acurately, of interpretations.

I don't usually rec things on my flist, but I'm enjoying this too much not to make sure everyone takes a look: bookishwench is writing Jayne Eyre, transporting the Firefly character to early nineteenth-century England and forcing him to dress up in drag. Oh, too much fun!

(I haven't read Jayne Eyre but general cultural literacy means I pretty much know/am spoiled for the entire plot, and I have read novels by both Charlotte and Emily.)

It's a WIP but it's not as if there's all that much suspense about how it ends, obviously, although I'm certainly eagerly waiting the next installment. Part One; Part Two; Part Three.