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Downton Abbey fanfiction resources
I really wanted a page where I could store and update everything that I have created or that have been created for me related to my fanfiction in one place, mainly because tumblr likes to make things disappear from my tags and I don't want to lose anything. A website would be more useful but I don't know anything about that so it's going here.
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Dear Yuletide Author...
I've never written one of these before! Last year I was stupid and didn't really understand what I'm doing. I feel a bit silly writing to somebody I don't know, though I'm very grateful you're reading ( Read more... ) -
What's REALLY going to happen in Episode 8
Over on the Downton forums I called the Patrick plot. This means I have a grand knack of accurately predicting the future plot direction of this show.
I should point out here that I have NOT read ANY of the massive episode 8 spoilers that have got the fandom so het up. I have no insider information. Anyone who puts GENUINE spoilers in these ( Read more... ) -
Bakhtin Basics
For literary theory seminar next week we have to read (among other things) a 25 page article by the Russian formalist (I think he's a formalist?), M. M. Bakhtin. It was an article called "Discourse in the Novel" from "The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays" (1972) and translated by Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist. As far as I can tell the essay ( Read more... ) -
Romance is the genre of fantasy, political and sexual [...] the genre of desire and of rebellion
One of the nice things about the course I'm not currently doing very much work for, is that it is really tapping into something I've been thinking a lot about, namely "What is a romance ( Read more... ) -
"Pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked"
OK, I promised eolivet an analysis of that intriguing line of Mary's from S02E03 "The truth is we're very much alike so naturally I think she's perfect".
I've already written about it quite a bit in this post so this will quote and use that (because I'm lazy).
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I think of him now and again, I wonder how his journey ends.
EDIT: Unlocked for eolivetOnce upon a time I was a Doctor/Rose shipper. I shipped them from the first season, with Christopher Eccleston. In fact, judging mainly from the fact that I thought the first season was the best written and had the most coherent overarching plot (with beginning, middle and end!), I'd probably describe myself in retrospect as more ( Read more... )
