And, concluding this post and this one, part three.

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A follow up to this - rather shorter, at under ten minutes, but now that I listen back to it, with really weird sound.

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I've mostly lurked here, but I recently did an audio commentary on wyncatastrophe's Legends of a Fall, Introduction to the Museum Studies Edition - not planned, just whatever entered my head as I read it (so, lots about my personal tastes, not a lot of rigorous analysis) - and she thought it would be appropriate to the community here. So here's the first part, ( Read more... )

Note: the text I analyze here is rich and complex, and multiple readings would be possible. I hope that some of you will undertake them. But I chose to focus my analysis on the way Ferus plays out his sense of Ryn through the ficlet as the constant in his shifting universe of inner and outer realities, largely in an effort to tie-in with my meta ( Read more... )

So here we are again, belatedly diving back into estora 's fabulous fic, available here: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5609369/26/From_The_Ashes. Estora, your comments, as always, are solicited! Sorry this took so long; my analysis cannot possibly do your text full ( Read more... )

Reposted from my own journal, a reading of selonbrody 's marvelous ficlet, Thirteen Steps to the End of the World.

*Available here: http://selonbrody.livejournal.com/11390.html

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So tonight I am very happy to be discussing a new fic. I hesitate to call this a close reading. But it is a reading of Dark of the Stars, by darth_eldritch. The text is action-packed, but I have chosen to focus on the use of tropes and commonplaces to enhance and extend its potential meanings; other readings would surely be possible. My interpretation is ( Read more... )

So it's time for another round of reading. This time we're tackling the third section of Chapter 26 of From the Ashes, by estora . You can find the chapter under discussion here: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5609369/26/From_The_Ashes . I encourage you to read it! But ( Read more... )

Well, folks, I'm back for another round of my close-reading: Chapter 26 of From the Ashes, by estora - go read it, it's fabulous. Anyway. Tonight's project is the second segment of the chapter, so grab some cookies - and your beverage of choice - and hold on while two Jedi heat up the training salle and the text ...

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Tonight I'm going to embark upon a largish project of closely reading a chapter of estora's fic, From the Ashes. Because it's quite long, and covers a lot of (con)textual ground, I'm going to be breaking it into bits. estora, your comments are solicited ( Read more... )