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Anime, fanfic, and costuming
I come to my desk in the middle of the morning with a stomach full of breakfast cereal and a pot of licorice mint tea. I've been blasting through Princess Tutu this week at the rate of a disc a day. I blame this both on the excellent AMV I saw at Fanime, and on the fact I have a Edel costume in the works. Unfortunately, this is going to come to an end after (if) I manage to purchase disc five today. Well, theoretically there are the fansubs around here somewhere so I can use those to get to the end of the story. The ends of stories being important things, you see, as Fakir is discovering.
Somehow I've also started fanficcing the series (despite not having reached its end, generally a bad idea). I already know some of what I've written will need changing and I have a vague idea of how, but I think it will work. As the song says, after all, "every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end." I actually ended up discussing fanfiction with the clerk at DVD Planet last night, when I was purchasing disc four of Tutu (they were sold out of five so he put in a reorder) and the director's cut of Kingdom of Heaven. It came up because Goonies was playing on the TV behind him and I have this vague urge to cross over Goonies and Pirates of the Caribbean. It's do-able... either One-Eyed Willie meets up with Jack&Co. in PotC time, or... well, we know there are curses and such that would make having PotC charas swaggering around in modern time a viable option as well. The main problem for me would be writing Capt. Sparrow. Straight-forward characters are easy, but his motivations, mindset, and mannerisms are... well, chaotic, shall we say. But that idea's pretty low on Muse's list anyway.
Somehow I've also started fanficcing the series (despite not having reached its end, generally a bad idea). I already know some of what I've written will need changing and I have a vague idea of how, but I think it will work. As the song says, after all, "every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end." I actually ended up discussing fanfiction with the clerk at DVD Planet last night, when I was purchasing disc four of Tutu (they were sold out of five so he put in a reorder) and the director's cut of Kingdom of Heaven. It came up because Goonies was playing on the TV behind him and I have this vague urge to cross over Goonies and Pirates of the Caribbean. It's do-able... either One-Eyed Willie meets up with Jack&Co. in PotC time, or... well, we know there are curses and such that would make having PotC charas swaggering around in modern time a viable option as well. The main problem for me would be writing Capt. Sparrow. Straight-forward characters are easy, but his motivations, mindset, and mannerisms are... well, chaotic, shall we say. But that idea's pretty low on Muse's list anyway.
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And I know what you mean about ficcing before you reach the series end. Do I ever know. ^^;;; I've written my own ending to Please Save My Earth and X, of course, and I'm currently writing (mentally) an end to Cluster Edge. At least it's a fun exercise.
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Ffnally, I love it because it's a series that really depends on a knowledge of opera, as the episodes are heavily based on various operas. Which is why I got to the point of saying "Oh no! Not THAT theme!". I grew up on opera, so I appreciate the references.