HISTORY MIDTERM OVER. One of the extra-credit questions was "Name at least six other students in this class". :D Seriously, I wish you guys could all take this teacher's classes, he's awesome
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RE: Girl!Phantom and V! The Opera (with girl!V, of course): *____* Where do you come up with this stuff? This makes me want to mount a production, like, STAT. It also reminds me of the all-female Twelfth Night I saw a few years ago; I have a friend acts with this theater company that femswaps the classics. Idk, MAYBE WE COULD WORK SOMETHING OUT?
Also, can you imagine a gender- or femswapped Taming of the Shrew??? I want this yesterday.
Re: Writing characters of color: What about getting a race!beta? That is, someone (or better yet, more than one person) who would read your writing exclusively with a critical eye toward issues of race and representation? It might even be helpful to start a comm for writers who want that kind of targeted feedback.
I still need to see Watchmen! I was hoping to read the comic first, but I might cave.
Where do you come up with this stuff? I have very, very long bus rides to and from school. IDK SOMETIMES MY BRAIN GOES PLACES AND SENDS ME POSTCARDS FROM THERE. But HOMG FEMSWAPPED SHAKESPEARE FUCK YESSSSSSSSSSSSS *____
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'TIS PITY HE'S A WHORE: WHEREIN A PICKUP ARTIST IS CURED OF HIS POINT-TO-SCHLONGERY
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Remember the chapter with Valerie? The lesbian movie star who got locked up for being a lesbian and then sent that gorgeous account of her life through a crack in the wall to whoever would read it next? The great love of her life was named Ruth. Valerie was told Ruth killed herself, and I know The Man In Room Five was considered a man by the entire staff of that camp, but. It would be so awesome and heartbreaking and gorgeous if V turned out to be Ruth, who had survived the suicide attempt and was taking revenge for her marginalization by society and Valerie's death and trying to bring ~*~art~*~ back into the world and yeah.
Plus it would explain part of the ending (i.e., why no one goes "hay wait V sounds like a girl now").
I'd like to incorporate characters of color into my own writing, because I feel like in fantasy one of the few places where "write what you know" applies is sort of damaging and only contributing to a bigger problem.
I agree with this completely.
AHHH PHANTOM. I remember when I was a big-eyed teenybopper and and so, so obsessed with that fandom. I still kind of love it though, crack and all.
Phantom was like... really, when I think about it, it was the first opera I ever heard, and an introduction to where people's voices could go. And then I saw Whistle Down The Wind when it was in tryouts in DC, and that godawful movie version of Phantom, and basically I want to show Andrew Lloyd Webber a picture of Anne Rice and go "YOU DO NOT WANT TO BE THIS, SIR ANDREW, FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY GET AN EDITOR OR SIX".
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Also, can you imagine a gender- or femswapped Taming of the Shrew??? I want this yesterday.
Re: Writing characters of color: What about getting a race!beta? That is, someone (or better yet, more than one person) who would read your writing exclusively with a critical eye toward issues of race and representation? It might even be helpful to start a comm for writers who want that kind of targeted feedback.
I still need to see Watchmen! I was hoping to read the comic first, but I might cave.
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I JUST WANT TO MAKE A LIST OF THE BEST FEMSWAPPABLE SHAKESPEARE AND OMG AND LIKE
'TIS PITY HE'S A WHORE HAHAHA
But first, remind me again who Ruth is? Was she one of V's victim's? It's been a few years and, well, memoryfail.
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um anyhoo
Remember the chapter with Valerie? The lesbian movie star who got locked up for being a lesbian and then sent that gorgeous account of her life through a crack in the wall to whoever would read it next? The great love of her life was named Ruth. Valerie was told Ruth killed herself, and I know The Man In Room Five was considered a man by the entire staff of that camp, but. It would be so awesome and heartbreaking and gorgeous if V turned out to be Ruth, who had survived the suicide attempt and was taking revenge for her marginalization by society and Valerie's death and trying to bring ~*~art~*~ back into the world and yeah.
Plus it would explain part of the ending (i.e., why no one goes "hay wait V sounds like a girl now").
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I agree with this completely.
AHHH PHANTOM. I remember when I was a big-eyed teenybopper and and so, so obsessed with that fandom. I still kind of love it though, crack and all.
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