primeideal

Okay well...that was certainly...an episode that happened.

( not the ending, arguably not even AN ending. )

Seriously, major spoilers below! And I’ll admit it could be mostly wishful thinking at this point, but a couple things I had thoughts about that were too spoilery for my main reactions post:

( spoilers ahoy )

(I went to WorldCon! It was great! I met

seekingferret and

ursula and can confirm they are real life humans! I have a lot of thoughts and feelings about filk, but I'm not sure how much of that blogging is going to be under this name versus my wallet name. Maybe later!)

( Read more... )

Fishy business. (Again, no direct book spoilers, but lots of things that might be foreshadowy.)

( Should have put a ring on it. )

The title of this episode is a line from book two about prophecies or whatever that has...basically nothing to do with this episode, cool.

( Hasty bump )

In which there are some fakeouts, some dancing, and a doll. (A reminder, this is spoilery for book stuff.) Also, a couple new icons via

sheliak and

tar_valon, thanks!!

( This bump has always wanted to see the world )

Communication skills, we have them. (Sometimes.)

( The Tinkers will steal your bumps )

In which we go to the spooky cursed city and do spooky cursed things.

( Trollocs will not follow us through the cut tag )

This blog is about to become Wheel of Time: The Show: The Squee liveblog. I will spoiler-cut each episode, but be aware that this is coming from a (very enthusiastic) book fan, so there may be hints or references to later book events. If you want a completely un-spoiled experience, don't read.

( But it was A beginning. )

Still trucking along on a next-gen epic, but considering offering some of my stories for the Harry Potter Rare Cliche remix. Anything among this list people would like to see up for grabs??

I don't really post much here anymore, but you can read some of my thoughts about writing for the HP Darkarts fest on Tumblr. I'll post again if I blog more about it. :)

Like many readers, some of my preferred ships in the Harry Potter books (Harry/Luna and Ginny/Neville, but that's a story for another time) didn't pan out. Like many readers, I amused (and continue to amuse) myself with fanfic, written and read.

I've also come to conceptualize Harry's journey in different ways from when I started, informed--yes--by some of Rowling's later interviews. There was one when she was asked how she got the idea for the series, and she said she'd been riding on a train when the idea popped into her mind--boy who doesn't know he's a wizard goes to wizard school. To her, this begged the obvious follow-up question; why doesn't he know he's a wizard? Couldn't his parents have filled him in on this detail? Well, his parents were dead.

And so right away, from the onset of the series, we have the thematic importance of mortality; even in the first book starring eleven-year-olds, we see death in the background and in the Forbidden Forest. As for Harry, the absence of his parents is important to his character--the Mirror of Erised scene shows his desire to meet his immediate and extended family, beyond the Dursleys who raised him. While his greatest wish has changed by the end of the book, as the stakes raise for him and the world, his original hopes remain the same. By the end of the series, we're able to see Harry raising a family of his own; becoming part of the Weasley clan is a proxy for him to achieve this, and while it still doesn't perfectly fit with the way I see the characters, I can tell why it makes sense.

I followed along with Pottermore, not for the minigames--surprise, surprise! ;) But because I'd rather have seen more of Rowling's backstory details. I assumed it was taking the place of the print encyclopedia she'd been toying with for some time, and I was interested in the tidbits of the magical world that didn't make it into the books. (But that were there all along! I recognize that when compiling a long, coherent page, some amount of editorializing has to be done from "tidbit piles." In a few cases, maybe making up more facts than the unseen backstory would be suitable, to organize a single topic. But it was impossible to tell how much of the Pottermore backstory was being made up new on the spot...which should maybe have been even more of a red flag than it already was?) In one or two cases, I drew on the Pottermore details to flesh out specific characters in a story; more often, I'd just use surnames that had been mentioned as wizardly, to spare me the trouble of making up something completely new for OCs.

Other fans chose to disregard the Pottermore backstory. As was, and remains, their prerogative! Given that I too still write pairings and scenarios that are AU from the books, it would be wholly hypocritical of me to insist on compliance with even more "canon." Nevertheless, while I've enjoyed the artistry of some of these deliberately-Pottermore-noncompliant pieces, in general they're not my scene. There's often a vibe of "how dare Rowling not do justice to the love and lust lives of my favorite characters, the books are so hung up on eleven-year-olds who want families. Bo-ring." Well. It's almost as if the world of fanfiction didn't wholly fall into the scope of the series' viewpoint character. News at eleven.

As for Ron and Hermione, they were the couple that I could see. I, who have demonstrated weaknesses time and again in reading between the lines, in picking up on subtle social cues, on knowing or caring about romance at all--I could see it coming, and it came. I had no dog in the fight; I didn't see enough of myself in Hermione to project onto her, and indeed, I would never get invested in a romantic subplot because of my romantic goals (I'm not sure I have any, but then that's another story too).

So to the interview. We'll have to wait for the full article to get context, I assume. But if the Ron/Hermione ship was more motivated by Rowling's desires than literary reasons? Then that's a point in favor of Rowling's desires, and a point against Literature per se. (I'm keeping score. I'm not a fan of Literature with a Large L, but it has a lot of fans rooting for it.) I have little interest in the opinions of the movie actors, in and of themselves, never mind their directors, so that's out.

We don't have any specific context on Harry/Hermione, minus some (clickbaiting?) headlines, so I'll have to wait for that. For now, I'll echo the sentiment that Harry and Hermione's friendship was a great thing to read in and of its own right, without any romantic entanglements. And that's not about Being Edgy or Political or Making Important Statements about Women Succeeding in Their Own Right, sans their Relationships with Protagonists; it's about friendships being great in their own right. Among, you know. Eleven-year-olds. Viewpoint character scope; it matters, a lot.

(Edit: forgot to mention, I'm not upset at the thought that Ron and Hermione might want counseling; not because anything strikes me as unhealthy about their relationship, in and of itself, but the amount of stresses they've gone through from ages eleven through eighteen is rather substantial. I feel like "well go see a counselor" has been bandied about, at least in real life, for much less.)

So, the upshot is a reminder that between Rowling's post-series pronouncements, and my gut, my gut wins out. Not your gut. Not the actors' gut or anyone associated with secondary canon. Not your favorite critic's gut, not some pretentious or disingenuous post-Gutist philosopher.

My gut.

And, I'll maybe be re-blogging some Ron and Hermione stuff to Tumblr too.

Another Yuletide in the books...and movies and plays and videogames and Other Media... ;)

I got assigned to write fic based on the hilarious Font Conference CollegeHumor video. Among other things, this made me aware of the existence of the sequel, Font Fight, and my recipient's prompts inspired me to write a fix-it fic for Helvetica and other character "deaths." Full disclosure; I usually use Windows, and am not very familiar with Helvetica, but that didn't stop me.

Of course, no Font fic would be complete without actual fonts, so I got to learn some Ao3 skin tricks to display as many different fonts in-text as I could!

Font of Every Blessing (3258 words) by primeideal
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Font Conference
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Times New Roman/Wingdings
Characters: Times New Roman, Comic Sans, Wingdings, Helvética
Additional Tags: fonts, Character Death Fix, Show Creator's Style for Full Effect, Yuletide 2013
Summary: Between rumors that Helvetica's been resurrected, and attempting to communicate with Wingdings, there's lots to keep Times New Roman busy. Fortunately, Comic Sans is always ready to save the day.

When the nominations came in, I saw several fandoms that, while not requested by the same people, seemed to work well together. Along with the Font Conference, there was Printing and Typesetting (anthropomorfic), (horror) Windows 95 Tips, and Minesweeper, where I'd already written about the adventures of sisters Timer and Mines Remaining. It all boiled over into a big crossover, which included wizards, pangrams, and me learning more about getting ASCII characters to display in HTML so that all of Wingdings' "dialogue"--such as it is--would come through.

Wing-ding-dings, or, The Fox (7454 words) by primeideal
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Font Conference, Printing and Typesetting (Anthropomorfic), Windows 95 Tips, Minesweeper
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Comic Sans, Wingdings, Mines Remaining, Lazy Dog, Timer
Additional Tags: Multiple Crossovers, Quests, fonts, Yuletide 2013
Summary: When the Quick Brown Fox is abducted by agents of the nefarious Windows 95, it's up to superhero Comic Sans--and his sidekick Wingdings--to brave the pitfalls of the minefield and reunite the fox with his faithful companion, the Lazy Dog.

I've had "Chess" (the musical) on my mind on and off for a while; specifically, the 2008 version of Leonid Viigand. I was glad to have an excuse to write more about him for Yuletide, and, as usual with me, shoehorn everything into my contrived chronology because I care more about matching the timing of RL chess tournaments than I should. Oh well.

Bit by Bit (4101 words) by primeideal
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Chess - Rice/Ulvaeus/Andersson
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Leonid Viigand
Additional Tags: 5+1 Things, 2008 concert version, The fifth thing is the AU, Yuletide Treat, Yuletide 2013
Summary: Five cities Leonid Viigand was moved to (and one he wasn't).

Here's to a storied new year!

I might be overreaching here, but I was daydreaming today trying to figure out what I like so much about Battle Royale. I'm wondering whether it has something to do with how it does and doesn't play with the conventions of a certain "Rule of Three."

(Rambling and spoilers on Tumblr!)

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