shallowness

Sense and Sensibility ep 2 – ‘A Parting and a Journey’

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Over the past few weeks, I’ve posted nine threesentence fills in four batches, all rated Universal or PG at most. ( Links and a little bit of meta. )

In the cinema:

Companion is, arguably, a film you should know as little as possible about before going to see, (I had seen the trailer, which maybe gave too much away) although I’d say it’s probably not a date move and it got a 15 certificate in the UK, mainly for violence. I thought the script was excellent. ( spoilers ) It was scored by Hrishikesh Hirway of The West Wing Weekly, and the song choices are very good.

I posted about Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy here. I laughed and I cried and thought bits of it were a mess. I should perhaps issue the trigger warning that the first thing on screen is the Miramax logo (ew), which speaks to when the first Bridget Jones movie was made.

On streaming (Prime):

I watched Modern Persuasion (2019) and enjoyed it and as it’s the kind of thing I’d rec if it were a fic, I thought I’d reference it here. Yes, the title is clunky, but accurate: Persuasion is transferred to twenty-first century NYC but lets the premise breathe there. I loved most of the translations to the new setting ( Read more... ) So, if watching a Persuasion modern day AU by people who love the original appeals to you, it’s worth a look. (Admittedly, it’s no Clueless or Lizzie Bennet Diaries.)

The Wanting Mare (2022) was described as sci-fi, and I suppose it is, but not hard sci-fi, they use modern-enough tech (electricity, modes of transport, guns) and the folk tale elements are stronger. You could just as well call it science fantasy. It’s way more about the atmosphere than the plot, and though you get some answers, it sticks to its mysteries, and the ending left me with a completely different interpretation of what we’d seen. I found it really powerful. The trailer gives you a good sense of the mood, but a misleading sense of what will happen. (It’s rated 16+, mainly for brief but graphic injuries.) Give it five or ten minutes after the mumbling opening scene, and see if the sound of the sea, the use of montage and the glimpse of horses have drawn you in.

First recs post of the year! Fanfiction recs in the following fandoms: Arrival, Community, Gilmore Girls, Jupiter Ascending and Lizzie Bennet Diaries.

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On the bright side, I wrote more fic than last year! I wrote a Hart of Dixie ficlet, a Harry Potter three-sentence fic and posted a one-shot for Sanditon in March. (It makes for a total of 2,694 words.)

On the Table, Hart of Dixie, AnnaBeth/Lavon, post 2.13 ‘Lovesick Blues'. Summary: After AnnaBeth, er, went into Lavon’s place. Teen, 290 words.
Read it here on DW
or at AO3

we rise together. Harry Potter, Luna, Ginny, Neville, set during ‘Deathly Hallows’). Written for the threesentenceficathon prompt ‘any, any OT3, thinking, feeling, doing’. 120 words.
Read it here on DW
or at AO3

Cub, Sanditon, Leonora Colbourne, Mrs Wheatley, Alexander Colbourne, Augusta Markham. Set before season 2, assume season 2 spoilers. Summary: How Leonora came to have short hair. Universal, 2,284 words.
Read it here on DW
or at AO3.

( About that. Not long. Skipped the questions again. )

Due warning, I had a LOT of thoughts and feelings about this ep.

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I reposted a ficlet over the weekend. Home (Smallville) G. Whitney Fordman (background Whitney/Lana, Clark/Lana). 250 words. Summary: Whitney never got to find out who sent him the copy of The Torch.

I’m on holiday and realised I should try to repost some fic here and at AO3 (past experience tells me I might run out of steam before I run out of fic to repost. I’ve been trying to do this since I joined Dreamwidth.) This ficlet is from the time when I was posting way more fic (June 2006), but it’s only been available on my LJ and ff.net. I probably said on the former that, because I was shipping Chloe/Whitney then, in my mind, it was Chloe who sent Whitney the copy of The Torch, but there’s no canonical justification for that, and it would have been a nice gesture for anyone from Smallville to do so.

In other news, Sanditon series 3 will be on ITVX this week! Despite its ridiculousness, there’s no denying I’m invested.

Over the past few weeks, I watched In The Heights (on Amazon Prime), and I enjoyed its energy and dancing a lot, but…there wasn’t really a standout song, and it was probably too long with too much crammed into it. Did it need the framing device AND the timestamp? ( spoiler? )

I loved Everything, Everywhere All At Once. It's a multiverse movie about a Chinese-American mother with a grown daughter and caring for her father living a disappointing life! And, obviously, MICHELLE YEOH stars in it. (I bet everyone doing a fight scene in this film practiced very hard.) I was so impressed by how clear its throughlines were (Ke Huy Quan did a particularly fine job) and delighted by how odd it was ( examples ) It’s surely one of the oddest Oscar-bothering movies ever.

I also watched Dune, and while it is a movie best seen on a big screen, I couldn’t when it was out, and that’s that. I enjoyed it a lot and hope to see part 2 (in the cinema). The production values were immaculate and it did a fairly good job of keeping the plot strands clear given that visions played such a big part. I've always avoided 'Dune' in the past because of a gut reaction to the concept of sand worms. ( spoiler? ) I simultaneously liked how Villeneuve handles communication and thought there were some mumbly bits. If I watch it again, I’m putting on the subtitles (and delighting in the fact that that’s an option for me.)

And then I went and checked and, yeah, Rebecca Ferguson isn't old enough to biologically be Timothee Chalamet's mother. Oscar Isaac is barely old enough to biologically be Timothee Chalamet's father, and even if Chalamet was playing younger than his age and blah de blah far future ageing technologies for the Great Houses, that's just typical Hollywood.

I’ve also just read and really enjoyed ‘From Darkness Into Light’, the follow-up to The Memoirs of Lady Trent. I loved that it wrestled with the implications of the big reveal in ‘In The Sanctuary of Wings’ for the generation after. Audrey was a chip off the old block (i.e. Grandmama Isabella. I could have done with more of her mother.) I enjoyed the narrative device of telling the story via various media – especially the translations (and the footnotes/commentary). Having been slightly disappointed by ‘In The Sanctuary of Wings’ (not the big reveal, but the scaffolding around it, I suppose), I loved how this follow-up expanded the world.

we rise together. Harry Potter, Luna, Ginny, Neville, set during ‘Deathly Hallows’). Written for the threesentenceficathon prompt ‘any, any OT3, thinking, feeling, doing’. 120 words.

( we rise together: shallowness )

Title: Cub
Fandom: Sanditon
Rating: Universal
Characters: Leonora Colbourne, Mrs Wheatley, Alexander Colbourne, Augusta Markham.
Summary: How Leonora came to have short hair.
Author's Note: Set before season 2, assume season 2 spoilers. Young lions are called cubs, regardless of gender. 2,284 words.

( Cub: shallowness )