three fandomy things

[aria]

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.

Comments

[caliena]

I am so so jealous you are going to Dragon*Con ;_;

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 ;_;

[aria]

Aw! I'm sorry it's too far away for you to reasonably attend!

[caliena]

Everything's too far for me...
I hate living in Germany and being addicted to British/American TV Series/Musicians...

[januar]

YES to everything under iii. Now you have me wondering who everyone else is. All I know is, Azula -has- to be Bellatrix.

And I completely support Hogwarts as a bending school fic.

[aria]

Omg, Azula basically IS Bellatrix. Especially if presumably Ozai is Voldemort. (Meanwhile, Ty Lee: MOST HILARIOUS DEATH EATER EVER. I think awkwardly in this analogy Mai ends up being Narcissa. Um.)

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.

[starlady]

Literally my first reaction to A:TLA was, "This is the show all the Harry/Hermione shippers should watch!" Because…it's so true. Except Sokka is more…original than Ron, I'd say.

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.

[aria]

It really is! Hilariously in both cases I am both deeply in support of the canon pairing and also happy to just SHIP EVERYTHING. (I am entirely for Harry/Ron/Hermione and Zuko/Katara/Aang! On the other hand, I'm for Zuko/Sokka without prompting but you'd have to be pretty convincing to get me to care about Ron/Draco.) And yeah, they did different sidekick things with Sokka than they did with Ron. Eh, I still love both of them.

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.

[starlady]

…Or you could use the Chinese names for the Harry Potter characters!

[aria]

THIS IS SUCH A DELIGHTFULLY ELEGANT SOLUTION. I ... do not know what they are, though, or what they would be rendered in Roman characters? If you know where I could find this out, that would be awesome. (And then I have to figure out where everyone's from! And also what the conflict is, because obviously it's not Avatar Harry vs the Fire Nation. I expect the Dursleys are a well-to-do Earth Kingdom family who haven't told anyone they have the Avatar, both because Voldemort is looking for him and because for whatever reason they are very much against bending. ANYWAY.)

[starlady]

The Dursleys are clearly forerunners or founders of the anti-bending group in Legend of Korra.

Here is a great post on the names in the mainland & Taiwanese translations.

[tiltingheartand]

So jealous of you going to D*C. (If you feel a weird sensation behind your eyelids this weekend, no worries, it's just me attempting to live vicariously. I promise I won't stay long.)

[aria]

Hee, noted! I am entirely happy to have vicarious passengers in my brain when they let me know so nicely beforehand! Seriously, though, I'm sorry you can't go! And hopefully I will have an enthusiastic con report at the end of this.

[lowkey]

So I am trying to write a NOVEL, too, and I really like the writing-advice-things that you sometimes reblog on tumblr. JUST SAYIN

[aria]

Oh, awesome! And yeah, tumblr sometimes has surprisingly good writing advice! Like that Palahniuk quote about thought verbs; I want to pin it to my wall and stare at it despairingly every day. :D

[lowkey]

I don't know about you, but I'm at the "man, I write the best ideas with pen and paper, but typing is so much faster" stage.

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.

[lowkey]

... stare at it despairingly every day. :D

Juxtaposition of "despairingly" and ":D": quoted for truth.