aria: ([misc] keep calm and call batman)
valinor spider party ([personal profile] aria) wrote2011-08-30 08:50 pm

three fandomy things

i. In the next few days I am road-tripping with [livejournal.com profile] 10littlebullets and [personal profile] srevans down to Dragon*Con, to meet up with [livejournal.com profile] 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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[personal profile] caliena 2011-08-31 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
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 ;_;
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[personal profile] caliena 2011-08-31 02:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Everything's too far for me...
I hate living in Germany and being addicted to British/American TV Series/Musicians...
januar: Toph from Avatar: The Last Airbender pointing straight out ([atla] toph)

[personal profile] januar 2011-08-31 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
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.
starlady: Aang with fire (aang can be asian & still save the world)

[personal profile] starlady 2011-08-31 05:32 am (UTC)(link)
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.
Edited 2011-08-31 05:33 (UTC)
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[personal profile] starlady 2011-08-31 05:43 pm (UTC)(link)
…Or you could use the Chinese names for the Harry Potter characters!
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[personal profile] starlady 2011-08-31 08:23 pm (UTC)(link)
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.
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[personal profile] tiltingheartand 2011-08-31 12:49 pm (UTC)(link)
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.)
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[personal profile] lowkey 2011-08-31 07:20 pm (UTC)(link)
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
lowkey: (Sometimes a man wants to read.)

[personal profile] lowkey 2011-08-31 07:28 pm (UTC)(link)
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.
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[personal profile] lowkey 2011-08-31 07:33 pm (UTC)(link)
... stare at it despairingly every day. :D

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