happy new year: burning the furniture for warmth

[faeriemaiden]

I find it faintly disturbing that my very first post of the new year was a frantic cry for academic help. Well, hopefully it is prophetic of the Year to Come -- the academia bit, I mean, not the frantic cry for help. Anyway, it turns out that essays are really fun!, especially when they're simultaneously very fannish and very academic. In fact,

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[faeriemaiden]

Ah yes, I also fell in love with time travel, Time itself, alternate universes, and such magical mind-bendy things thanks to Doctor Who also! (And possibly a little of A Swiftly Tilting Planet. Ooh, The Devil's Arithemtic!; I, too, read that many times as a child, and it pleases me to know that Jane Yolen is even more a force for literary awesome in the world than I had suspected as a child.) And yes -- the show now isn't even something I would tune into if I didn't have the background of previously loving it. It's silly and juvenile -- which makes the nihilistic fatalism even weirder and more jarring -- and doesn't excite me with fascinating ideas. And it isn't even pretty to make up for it! Hmph! I can forgive perhaps too many things in favour of pretty cinematography.

Re. Sherlock Holmes, it is tremendously fun! And pretty and clever and, um, amply supplied with eye-candy (for both the fangirl and the costume geek in me, actually; mmm, Watson's slightly rounded collars...WHAT?), and while I am sure it has got faults somewhere it is far too entertaining for me to notice them.

[tempestsarekind]

A Swiftly Tilting Planet! I definitely should have included that in the previous comment; I read that book every Christmas holiday for years.

It's silly and juvenile -- which makes the nihilistic fatalism even weirder and more jarring

Yes! Humans are wonderful...except for the part where we apparently all go mad and turn into floating metal balls, and then go back in time and start killing our ancestors. Now that's a future to look forward to--except maybe I wasn't supposed to notice, because of the cameos from famous people and the Master's evil dance party?

Also, there is nothing wrong with fangirling slightly rounded Victorian collars. :)