Shopping

[wiseheart]

Yeah, I can do the boring entry thing, too. ;)

Mum and I were shopping today. We went to the Campona Shopping Centre, which is easy to reach from where we live (you don't even have to change the bus). Not that we'd particularly need anything, just because we like the place. It's relatively small, reasonably structured and pleasant.

So, we went there and dropped in the Internet Café, which is on the upper floor of this really god bookstore (the coffee they sell is fantastic). The store keeps English books, too, not many, but a lot of classics in the Penguin paperback edition. In a fit of Gier I bought three of them.

So, I'm now the proud owner of Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott, The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer, Tales from Shzakespeare by Lamb, The Black Arrow by Stevenson and Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales, chosen and credited by Gordon Jarvie.


These, together with Tolkien's collected works and the Earthsea books that ithilwen sent me, should extend my miserable English vocabulary a little. Maybe it would be less of a pain to write Tolkienfic in English.

When I started writing in the Tolkienverse, at first I didn't worry too much about grammar and style and vocabulary. I just wrote the stories as they came. Soberly seen, they are probably a lot weaker than my later stuff. But writing made a hell of a lot more fun when I didn't worry al the time about these things. And about canon.

Just to get something straight: I have great respect for canon. In all of my fandoms. And I'm all for grammatical correctness, too. One should respect one's own work, after all. But there seems to be a disturbing tendency among readers and fellow writers, one that I've discovered on many forums I sometimes visit, GAFF being the mean one among them. People, who are devoted to a particular fandom, don't really care about if a story is good or not. All it seems to count nowadays is whether or not it matches "canon" perfectly or not.

Actually, I can understand canon sensitivity if we are talking about fandoms of great literary worth. Like Tolkien's books. Or Shakespeare fic. Or anything else like that. But getting one's pants in a knot because of Buffy?? For God's sake, Joss Whedon changed his mind about what'd be official for the Buffyverse almost every season. And I could list half a dozen other fandoms where the same intolerance is shown.

Another thing what I really don't like is when people tell me that a crossover between fanon A and fanon B would never work. I don't believe that. Some crossovers would be certainly rather hard to pull out, but a really good writer could make almost anything work. Almost.

So, I defiantly stuck to my opinion that the Buffyverse and Kindred could work together. God knows it's not easy, and I'm not one hundert per cent sure that my version would work out in the end. But it is doable, and I like keep trying.


I found a way around FSFF's refusal to accept my stuff. Lasse-lanta succeeded to upload one of my stories from her PC. So I hope that - once school starts again - I'll be able to upload from there. It seems that my ISP is the culprit that interefers somehow.

Comments

[julesaello.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I can do the boring entry thing, too. ;)

I LIKE those kinds of entries... ;-) Gives me an idea about everyday life of people I'll probably never meet in person...

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

You know, the two of us actually do have a reasonable chance to meet. At least we live on the same side of the pond and not that far from each other.

[jilba.livejournal.com]

Ohh, lots of reading to do. And do stick with your crossovers; how do the other people know where you're planning to take your story anyway?

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Trust me, I won't let anyone forbid me what I want to write. Crossovers are so much fun, exactly because you have to combine the two canons and balance them against each other.

Actually, everywhere but in Tolkien's universe, I prefer AUs and crossovers to canon fics. Writing an AU gives me the chance to change what I didn't like in the original. I only wish people won't ignore the AU label and expect that everything went according to canon. As if I wouldn't stay as close to canon as possible anyway...

[jilba.livejournal.com]

I have to agree. AU lets you explore what would have happened if character A took choice B in their behaviour instead of what they really did. In Tolkien fanon, what if the Fenorians didn't swear an oath to recover the Silmarils, but simply one of revenge against Morgoth? No Kinslayings, different first age.

Cross overs are a bit the same, you can have heaps of fun! Witness the dreadful things I did in a Monty Python/Silm cross over!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Or what if the women of the Noldor kicked their idiotic husbands in the nuts (especially those of the wives and daughters-in-law of Fingolfin and Finarfin) and shut them into the doghouse until they re-claimed what little brains they possessed?

Hmmm. I'm afraid I don't know a thing about MOnty Python - that kind of humour will forever be incomprehensible for me - but I'd like to se what you've done. Which story is that?

[jilba.livejournal.com]

YES!!! Chained those idiotic males and their egos in the doghouse for a while! What annoys me is that likely the Valar were going to start planning a move against Morgoth a la War of Wrath, but let the Noldor go learn a hard lesson. You know, sometimes I wonder: if the Kings and Princes of the Noldor were so brain-dead, what were the ordinary Noldor men like? *shudders*

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1677806/1/

Is the link to cross over with the Quest for the Holy Grail. I have a very good friend here in Australia who could never understand Monty Python until I explained, 'don't try to understand this stuff. Just accept it, and accept the weirdness as normal, and their strange logic as if that's how everyone thinks.' She's been able to find some of it funny now. Good luck, and please, let me know what you think as non-python fan.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

It certainly was an interesting exprience. I still not get the python part of it - it seems I'm not the person for British humour - but the part with the coconut was hilarious. *g*

[jilba.livejournal.com]

Yes, the coconut IS hilarious. I recommend watching the original, just to see how totally silly that one scene is.

Thanks for the comment!

seal of my heart

[(Anonymous)]

please will you read more about it. i love this story so much. please continue.

Re: seal of my heart

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I most certainly intend to continue it. I've just run into a block.

[the-wild-iris.livejournal.com]

Glad that you're managing to keep hold of your convictions about writing, especially in the face of so much fandom hysteria :) The word 'canon' itself drives me crazy. I stopped visiting the GAFF board because I couldn't stand to see it anymore.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yep, I can definitely relate. The sort of self-proclaimed superiority and smug self-righteousness that had infested the whole board makes me want to vomit sometimes. People use a tone that makes you feel you're an idiot if you happen to disagree with them.

Too bad, I actually used to like the snark. But again, a lot of the regulars seem to have left for good, and the rest plus the new ones just aren't the same.