Things that have entertained me lately, for various reasons, in no particular order:
Two Lumps;
bridge crossings;
the sad decline of epic-writing since the mid-90s;
Ewan McGregor;
a truly driven artist. Also Le Morte d'Arthur, which I am currently rereading. I'd forgotten just how plain wacky it is, and now, of course, I'm seeing them all as anime
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It seems that only a little canon is needed and at some point the rest of it becomes a burden to some fanfic writers? I can understand the looks-issue with characters that exist both in books and film, or real people (from biographies, or VIPs) being used. When the source is not even a play but a TV series though, I do not see why the image has to differ.
This is going to haunt me for a while, I know :)
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bodily authenticity is quite often taken as the epitome of canonicity.
and of course there's a spectrum. like, i couldn't do what james does below and simply not care that it's another actor. when i read daniel, i see shanks and not spader. and like zoe below, i do often let my feelings for the actors bleed into my like or dislike for the characters. but i think the thing is that we ought to be *aware* of doing that [and, as i've argued before, i find it problematic to be lectured against RPS where i literally play with a highly constructed image] by people who bodybleed all over the place and thus erase any firm fiction/reality boundary.
[sorry, torch for being all over your lj...anything to not work :-) and i wonder whether ces will give me the "reality" lecture now :-)]
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but changing Draco's hair to red (though i will always support everyone's right to write these stories and retain my right to not read them :-) is not quite the stuff of the OP, is it?
or maybe we're just agreeing? :-)
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The stuff of the what? I was just trying for a non-incidentary example here, you know :S
*g* noooo idea. I have not heard the term body-bleeding before today, I think, and it would be a rare thing if someone agreed with me (completely).
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