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three fandomy things
i. In the next few days I am road-tripping with
10littlebullets and
srevans down to Dragon*Con, to meet up with
rayruz & all their various fandom friends. I am ridiculous excited, because making fannish friends at cons is one of my favorite hobbies; also, I fully intend to do my best to act like a sane and friendly fan at Mark Sheppard and Mary McDonnell. I am a wee bit stressed, not because I am worried I will do something embarrassing in front of famous people of whom I am fond, but because I am not entirely sure how I will deal with basically four days straight of crowds of this magnitude. And I am getting sensory overload just looking at the program PDF. I'm still fairly sure this will be an awesome time, though.
ii. Other things I am fairly sure of: the universe is definitely hilarious enough to send me my actual Pottermore invite over D*C weekend. Tumblr is driving me slowly mad with all its talk of wands and Sortings and &c; but I've waited thirteen years for my owl, so I guess I can wait a little longer. In fact I will happily wait until next week! I do not want to miss, say, a panel about Time Lord ethics just because I really want to know whether I'm actually a Ravenclaw or not.
iii. In between chipping away at my NOVEL (right now it is NOVEL, in allcaps, because that's how it sounds in my head), this week I rewatched Avatar: the Last Airbender. It was ... really interesting, to follow up with AtLA right after rereading Harry Potter. Seriously, I could make a chart. Aang is Harry, Katara is Hermione, Sokka is Ron, Roku and Sozin are Dumbledore and Grindelwald, presumably Zuko is Draco, &c -- and it's fun to see how the canon ships would have to shift, or how obviously all Draco needed was Uncle Iroh. But really, it makes me deeply appreciate how many stunningly awesome ladies Avatar has, and how it treats nearly everyone as redeemable. It also makes me want to write bewildering fic in which Hogwarts is a school for benders and Harry is the worst avatar ever.
Anyway. Fear not, D*C compatriots, I am conversant in many fandoms! It will not be all ridiculous fusions all the time! Just some of the time.
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ii. Other things I am fairly sure of: the universe is definitely hilarious enough to send me my actual Pottermore invite over D*C weekend. Tumblr is driving me slowly mad with all its talk of wands and Sortings and &c; but I've waited thirteen years for my owl, so I guess I can wait a little longer. In fact I will happily wait until next week! I do not want to miss, say, a panel about Time Lord ethics just because I really want to know whether I'm actually a Ravenclaw or not.
iii. In between chipping away at my NOVEL (right now it is NOVEL, in allcaps, because that's how it sounds in my head), this week I rewatched Avatar: the Last Airbender. It was ... really interesting, to follow up with AtLA right after rereading Harry Potter. Seriously, I could make a chart. Aang is Harry, Katara is Hermione, Sokka is Ron, Roku and Sozin are Dumbledore and Grindelwald, presumably Zuko is Draco, &c -- and it's fun to see how the canon ships would have to shift, or how obviously all Draco needed was Uncle Iroh. But really, it makes me deeply appreciate how many stunningly awesome ladies Avatar has, and how it treats nearly everyone as redeemable. It also makes me want to write bewildering fic in which Hogwarts is a school for benders and Harry is the worst avatar ever.
Anyway. Fear not, D*C compatriots, I am conversant in many fandoms! It will not be all ridiculous fusions all the time! Just some of the time.
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I want to go, to, even if just for The Crüxshadows...
(Okay, I'd see a lot of different things, but they are the main reason.)
Stupid ocean between me and the Con ;_;
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I hate living in Germany and being addicted to British/American TV Series/Musicians...
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And I completely support Hogwarts as a bending school fic.
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The only problem with the Hogwarts as a bending school fic is that it presumably either takes place in Britain and all the awesome invented Asian cultures are erased, or it takes place in the AtLA world and all the kids at the bending school have really weird Anglicized names. Approach the first is simpler but slightly skeevy! Approach the second makes my brain hurt! So it may have to stay conceptual.
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Really, though, I appreciate all the show's shoutouts to the greats of SFF, not gonna lie.
ETA, I forgot: WRITE IT. You know you want to.
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And I would like to! However, as I have also lamented above, the problem with the Hogwarts as a bending school fic is that it presumably either takes place in Britain and all the awesome invented Asian cultures are erased, or it takes place in the AtLA world and all the kids at the bending school have really weird Anglicized names. Approach the first is simpler but slightly skeevy! Approach the second makes my brain hurt! So it may have to stay conceptual.
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Here is a great post on the names in the mainland & Taiwanese translations.
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Also, the think the "crap that's is a great idea too bad I am IN THE SHOWER/ON THE BUS/MOMENTS FROM SLEEP" stage is here to stay.
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Juxtaposition of "despairingly" and ":D": quoted for truth.