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purple_cube asked for my fannish timeline over the past ten years - which fandom I most associate with each year etc.

Picking one fandom for some years was really hard, because it turns out I’ve always been multifannish, which the nature of livejournal encouraged. But here goes!

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Current Mood: nostalgic
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The Autobiography of Jane Eyre - Episode 50 to Q&A#4

Quite honestly, I put off watching ep 50 Dischordant because ( Read more... )

And that’s where the posts end on this page, but there seem to be more episodes on YouTube (which I’m happy to focus on, because I rarely found that the tweets or pictures added much). I suspect less ( spoiler/speculation based on the book )

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The Autobiography of Jane Eyre

I rewatched episode 43 Kidnapped ( spoiler ) I also rewatched episode 45 because I could...

Thus prepped, I watched new stuff - Episodes 46 to 49

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I had to stop there, but that’s fine, because I’m busy speculating to myself about how they’ll handle ( upcoming stuff from the novel )

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( My adapted end-of-year meme (posted earlier in the year than I managed last year )

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( As ever, no allowances for people who haven't read the book )

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I’ve found that this page lists all the vids and occasionally other stuff in order: hurrah.

Episodes 31 to 40, which is basically Jane at the Reeds.

( An attempt to summarise my reaction. )

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Recs for fic or vids from the following fandoms: Alice (2009) - 1; Community - 1; Dredd - 1; The Good Wife - 1; Harry Potter - 1; The Incredibles - 1; Jake 2.0 - 1; The Lizzie Bennet Diaries - 1; Man of Steel - 1; The Mindy Project - 1; MirrorMask - 1; Nashville - 1; Once upon a Time - 1; and Revenge - 1.

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Jane Eyre is number 12 in the Observer’s top 100 novels, and Robert McCrum explains why here. As I’d been watching a lot of The Autobiography of Jane Eyre over the weekend, this jumped out at me:

Charlotte Bronte takes her audience by the throat with a fierce narrative of great immediacy. Jane Eyre's voice on the page is almost hypnotic. The reader can hardly resist turning the next page, and the next…

In an extraordinary breakthrough for the English novel, borrowing the intimacy of the 18th-century epistolary tradition, Charlotte Brontë had found a way to mesmerise the reader through an intensely private communion with her audience. We, the author, and Jane Eyre become one. For this, she can be claimed as the forerunner of the novel of interior consciousness.

The adaptation was having a similar pull on me, as did LBD at times - my tendency is to watch these vids in blocks that are as long as television shows. It’s partly the format – ‘diarist’ speaking to viewer, but it’s also wondering how they'll adapt a beloved story factor.

Anyway, thoughts about episodes 21 to 30.

( Makes no allowance for people who haven't read the book. )

Hmm, might as well have posted my response episode by episode, as that jumped a little all over the place.

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I heard about The Autobiography of Jane Eyre a while ago, kept the link, was reminded of its existence by redbrunja this week, was intrigued and watched a batch of episodes last night and a pile more this morning, so I’m up to episode 20. I've had one window open with the Story list and been mainly watching the vids on YouTube.

I have thoughts, which I have tried to synthesise rather than dumping my reactions to each episode, but it still got long. ( spoilers up to episode 20, references to The Lizzie Bennet Diaries and I presume you've all read Jane Eyre ) I want to know what they’ll do next. Even though I know what happens next.

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Yesterday, I finally posted all the fic that I’d posted to Dreamwidth to Archive Of Our Own. Yay! It only took me years to do so. If I were going to archive my fic elsewhere, I might not be as determined to post everything there. This still means that I need to repost fic that was only posted at lj and ff.net (and Geocities, it’s that old) to both DW and AO3. It will probably also take ages, but I’ll warn if I get a burst of energy and start spamming.

For now, here are some links that I found interesting, most of which are Internet old. ( Georgette Heyer quote icons; The Hour meta; The Lizzie Bennet Diaries pics; Much Ado about Nothing interview; Pacific Rim meta; Paradox talk and a list about the awesomeness of Farscape. )

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I read that it was Rowling's lawyers (or one of them) who let slip that she was Robert Galbraith. I'm sure that those few who went and bought the book and enjoyed it are feeling smug. Despite having endured The Casual Vacancy more than enjoyed it, I daresay I will read the book at some point.

For now I'm currently reading and loving The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern. I'm in the final stretch, and as soon as I close my laptop, I'll be finishing it tonight, I hope.

A quote:
"Secrets have power," [...] "And that power diminishes when they are shared, so they are best kept and kept well. Sharing secrets, real secrets, important ones, with even one other person, will change them. Writing them down is worse, because who can tell how many eyes might see them inscribed on paper, no matter how careful you might be with it. So it's really best to keep your secrets when you have them, for their own good, as well as yours."

But the main thing I wanted to say was that over the past several days, I have been reading an amnesia! fic that’s lampshaded the trope, somewhat, bless – I wouldn’t be reading it if I didn’t enjoy the trope. ( Ruminating on said trope in fanfiction. Also spoilers for/discussion of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, Tin Man, The Lizzie Bennet Diaries and Avengers Assemble )

Current Mood: hot
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I keep watching stuff and don't have a chance to tidy up my thoughts and post before watching more stuff. This harks back to Saturday, when I watched The Lizzie Bennet Diaries - episode 90 to 100.

( Episode by episode reactions )

And now, there are Sanditon vids, I see from Gigi's Twitter feed – I hadn’t heard about them via fandom, which suggests it's not bothering with them. I don’t know whethere I will either, as I don’t love the Domino concept, but I do like Gigi. I read the ghost written completed ‘Sanditon’ once and hated it. There was about one paragraph that felt like vintage Austen and that’s all I recall. So, I don’t know.

I do hope I see more of all the LBD actors on other stuff. I mostly thought they were great. I will be interested in how LBD affects other literary adaptations, webseries etc.

As for the whole phenomenon, ( possibly spoilery summary )

And hey, it inspired some ficcing from me. Now I hope to read other people’s! Please rec all awesome LBD stuff to me, as I've been avoiding it to stay unspoiled. Fic, artwork, meta etc is welcome - esp. gen, Lizzie/Darcy, Jane/Bing and crossovers.

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Conditioned by the hype, I’ve started rewatching the first (hilarious) episodes of Arrested Development. It’s lovely knowing that there are new episodes to come. I hope to get them on DVD. (Sorry, Netflix.) Ideally, I’ll be unspoiled.

I then watched the Lizzie Bennet Diaries, from Lydia’s ep 28 (Special Two) to Ep 89

( this is the pared down version of my reactions )

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Pride and Prejudice: Having a Ball

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Predictably, I later rewatched ep 78 of The Lizzie Bennet Diaries ( Read more... )

And then from Lydia’s ep 23 to ep 82

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I only stopped viewing to watch The Hunger Games on DVD.

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The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, from 'Dear Lizzie' to Ep 78 'The Lizzie Trap'

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The subject line was brought to you by the fact that I was watching Americans on a screen talking about Christmas in April.

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I'm pleased to hear that Pitch Perfect is getting a sequel (same writer, might be a while).

Most of this post would have been up last night if LJ hadn't been down, so it's an extended one.

The Good Wife 4.13 The Seven Day Rule

Really good episode. ( watched live. )

Person of Interest 1.22 No Good Deed

I thought this would be the season fianle, but it wasn’t. ( watched on Demand five )

The Mentalist 5.18 Behind the Red Curtain

AKA the one fans of the Lizzie Bennet Diaries might want to catch a few minutes of. ( watched live )

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Last night, I had some time to fill before OUAT started, but not enough to squeeze in a sitcom – who decreed that they have to be thirty minutes (including adverts) anyway? - so I watched some The Lizzie Bennet Diaries. It’s been a while.

( episodes 71 to 73 )

I need to watch the next episodes sooner, but I've been so busy catching up on stuff that's airing now. Revenge is the only show I'm still lagging on because of Easter; everything else I need to catch up on is because of scheduling.

OUAT 2.02

( rambles )

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Three linked fills for the prompt Any, Any, Hogwarts AU at the Three Sentence Fiction ficathon 2013.

( Watch Out, Hogwarts, (spoilers for Lydia’s first vlogs) gen (126 words) )

( Watch Out, Gryffindor gen (60 words) )

( Watch Out, Kitty Bennet, gen (drabble) )

Current Mood: IDEK

One thing I’ve been wondering since watching the last batch, what is it with ( spoiler? )

Anyway QA7 to ep 70 (yes, I'm coming along apace.)

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