Rewatching Serenity last night and thinking about dialogue; specifically, Joss Whedon's very real knack for turning dialogue into speech. Haven't seen it in forever, and it's so easy to fall into, people talking in their own very real idioms; loving, hurting, becoming.
A sketch of River came out; but honestly what I had in mind was the work of
the_grynne and
hereswith, because they always manage to show me River the person, while she's busy living River the experiment, the legend. I have some re-reading to do this week, you guys. ;)