One of the Two Kinds of People in the World is the kind of person who always compares the current dreadful state of things to Better Days, and I can just imagine Inara's Pater being one of them.
Eeee! Now that was more fun than a barrel full of lithe, oiled acrobats of dubious virtue. I love the way you used language here, remolding Austen in a wry, deft fashion that preserved its dry humor and made it work in new and different ways. And the contrast of Austen-locution with Firefly-locution made the whole thing even more wonderfully amusing. Awesome work!
I come from a modest background, where the barrels are only large enough for one acrobat, or possibly two if petite.
THAT truly was a highlight of morbid and creepifyin'. Was it Darla or Dru who gave her guy a heart she found in a quaint little shopgirl? Poss. they, like chefs, were taught never to waste anything.
During a prolonged stay at the juncture of No and Where
You make everything more interesting with such delicacy. ;) I look forward to enjoying the rest tomorrow -- I must arise ere the sun and traverse the wicked tundra way too early.
She is so pretty and so agreeable, and surely the skills she displays in her work may be turned to domestic use." {{Of course that is what everyone says to me, and I resent it}}
Now there's a truth universally acknowledged. :)
How marvelous! This was just the kind of slyly hilarious cheer-up I was hoping for.
My cousin Ruthyanne had a buck rabbit looked like that once. Only Simon's got dimples and his teeth don't stick out.
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In a fusion, a certain amount of smooshing and smoothing is necessary to make one source text work with another. Kaylee refused to be as much of a doormat as Harriet Smith, so "Emma" had to yield to "Firefly," whereas I'm afraid I had to be mean to Nandi to make her Eltonian enough. Maybe she didn't talk back to me because she was grateful to be resurrected!
Thanks for writing this! I am amazed at your ability to blend the two worlds (though I probably shouldn't be). Somehow the Firefly characters and voices are perfect and yet the spirit of the story rings true to the Austen source.
I don't pretend to understand how, only that I am impressed by the result.
Glad you like it. I think what set me off was doing an "Emma" re-read and thinking that Inara's relationship to Kaylee is also a combination of mentoring and hectoring not entirely without an erotic component (because Emma is always going on about how pretty Harriet is).
Also, I can really see Inara being, as Harriet!Kaylee says, a nosy Parker, and being much more interested in Simon because Kaylee is.
I can quote big chunks of Firefly dialogue without necessarily remembering what episode the scene comes from, which to me is a sign of a show with a dialogue gorilla* which not only makes it easier to hear and reproduce their voices but gives me a clear conscience about relocating them to other plots, because TPTB weren't overly concerned about THEIR plots.
*One of my first-ever meta posts was about what constitutes the 600-lb gorilla in a particular media property
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but even in this decadent era, a colossal price upon one's head is no substitute for a marriage settlement.
Hee!
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One of the Two Kinds of People in the World is the kind of person who always compares the current dreadful state of things to Better Days, and I can just imagine Inara's Pater being one of them.
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And hey, you saw the creepy O'Keefe thing. I didn't think anyone was going to find that, or I'd have slapped a warning label on it.
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THAT truly was a highlight of morbid and creepifyin'. Was it Darla or Dru who gave her guy a heart she found in a quaint little shopgirl? Poss. they, like chefs, were taught never to waste anything.
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You make everything more interesting with such delicacy. ;) I look forward to enjoying the rest tomorrow -- I must arise ere the sun and traverse the wicked tundra way too early.
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I hope your coachman has kept the matched bays in good condition, and you have a smooth ride in despite of the congelation.
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Now there's a truth universally acknowledged. :)
How marvelous! This was just the kind of slyly hilarious cheer-up I was hoping for.
My cousin Ruthyanne had a buck rabbit looked like that once. Only Simon's got dimples and his teeth don't stick out.
Plus I adore your inner Kaylee. 'D
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In a fusion, a certain amount of smooshing and smoothing is necessary to make one source text work with another. Kaylee refused to be as much of a doormat as Harriet Smith, so "Emma" had to yield to "Firefly," whereas I'm afraid I had to be mean to Nandi to make her Eltonian enough. Maybe she didn't talk back to me because she was grateful to be resurrected!
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I don't pretend to understand how, only that I am impressed by the result.
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Also, I can really see Inara being, as Harriet!Kaylee says, a nosy Parker, and being much more interested in Simon because Kaylee is.
I can quote big chunks of Firefly dialogue without necessarily remembering what episode the scene comes from, which to me is a sign of a show with a dialogue gorilla* which not only makes it easier to hear and reproduce their voices but gives me a clear conscience about relocating them to other plots, because TPTB weren't overly concerned about THEIR plots.
*One of my first-ever meta posts was about what constitutes the 600-lb gorilla in a particular media property
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