Meme, Shakespeare, Parent Trap

[alixtii]

1. Yourself: Deictic.
2. Your Lover: Intelligent.
3. Your Hair: Long.
4. Your Mother: Fun.
5. Your Father: Fun.
6. Your Favourite Item: Book.
7. Your Dream Last Night: Rapid Eye Movement.
8. Your Favourite Drink: Tea.
9. Your Dream Home: Large.
10. The Room You Are In: Messy.
11. Your Pet: Missed.
12. Who You Are Now: Student.
13. Who You Want To Be In Ten Years: Professor.
14. What You Want To Be In Ten Years: Comfortable.
15. What You're Not: Social.
16. Your Best Friend: Ecclectic.
17. One of Your Wish List Items: Soundtrack.
18. Your Gender: Priveleged.
19. The Last Thing You Did: Read.
20. What You Are Wearing: Clothes.
21. Your Favourite Weather: Cool.
22. Your Favourite Book: Pulpish.
23. The Last Thing You Ate: Bagel.
24. Your Life: Metaextual.
25. Your Mood: Mellow.

The femslash06 written for me was posted. I mention it because it was one of my wildcard fandoms--specifically, As You Like It. I like it when Rosalind and Celia want to jump each other bones, because that play is teh gay, even for Shakespeare.

Speaking of which (sorta), I've been considering various possibilities for crossovers (in part for the Maltilda/Jenny I still owe Ari), and just still cannot get over the WTF question of how in the world Annie James found Oreos and peanut butter in the middle of London. (There'd be Americana stores that could possibly sell these items, sure. But the movie implied that these are consistent staples in the James household.)

Okay, back to my critical theory paper.

Comments

[m-phoenix.livejournal.com]

I seem to be spamming your lj today, but I just had to say -- there's 'As You Like It,' femslash, and it was written for you? How cool is that. Of course there should be femslash, just as there should be every possible variety of 'Twefth Night' slash because along with AYLI the play is pure subtext, only without the sub. I really must go and read...

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

Shakespeare slash isn't exactly rare, but as in most fandoms the femslash only makes up a small percantage of the total amount of Shakespeare fic.

And yes Twelfth Night, or What You Will is also very much subtext-sans-sub just like As You Like It. Apparently what they willed and how they liked it was very, very queer. Or maybe it was just the eponymous "you" (since Shakespeare wasn't very consistent on the thou/you distinction anyway) who really, really liked fem/slash.

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

Twelfth Night love!

[m-phoenix.livejournal.com]

Twelfth Night love!

Definitely! Viola/Olivia/Orsino = OT3 *g*

[pinkdormouse.livejournal.com]

cannot get over the WTF question of how in the world Annie James found Oreos and peanut butter in the middle of London.

Is that Oreos containing peanut butter, or Oreos and also some special kind of peanut butter not occuring in the average UK supermarket?

Come to think of it, I'm sure Oreos, like Tam Tams, do sometimes pop up in otherwise ordinary UK supermarkets.

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

What, no direct link to the femslash06 fic? I have mad hate on for As You Like It because it is pastede on like whoa, but it is seriously the gayest of Shakespeare's plays (and after I read it I totally wanted to rewrite it with all the gay made explicit because that's the only way it makes any sense).

Also: I had to look up Deictic and I like it a lot.

(You misspelled Privileged, though.)

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

http://community.livejournal.com/femslash06/15783.html

Oh, W.S.'s comedies totally made me realize just how much of a hack the guy was. Especially since AYLI has so much metatheatricality in it and it's all just used for cheap laughs. My respect for the bard has been radically diminished ever since. (Shh! Don't tell karabair.)

But AYLI is definitely the gayest of the plays. A rewritten version would be awesome (which is why I suppose I requested the fic).

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

I knew from early on that Shakespeare took pre-existing plots and just tweaked them (certainly defensible if he improves them). And Twelfth Night is him getting the twins/mistaken-identity plot right, but so often he does it poorly (admittedly my feelings on this are colored by the fact that I don't like this plot device). As a 9th grader I loved some of the language in Romeo & Juliet even though the plot itself made me rageful. I don't particularly dislike Shakespeare, but I don't have any special love for him either. But then, I'm a Bad English Major who only half-jokingly says she doesn't like anything.