Comments | ariadnes_string: in which I catch up with the rest of the world

ariadnes_string

in which I catch up with the rest of the world

May 08, 2012 12:28

In which I catch up with the rest of the world

By seeing Avengers and reading The Hunger Games (okay, listening to it, on audiobook).

( y'all already knew that I wasn't a comic book gal, right? )

runninghot, old_n_grumpy, books, meme, movies

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thesmallhobbit May 8 2012, 16:54:28 UTC

I am right in thinking that I've got time to write for Running Hot II aren't I? There's a couple of prompts I fancy, but I have other things I must do first.

ariadnes_string May 8 2012, 16:58:08 UTC

yes, absolutely! It'll be open at least til the end of May, longer if people are still writing (and I never entirely close up the prompt posts)

yay that you're thinking of writing something!!

linaerys May 8 2012, 16:57:51 UTC

*clings*

No one is kicking you out of fandom!

I wanted to see her make an ethical decision and act on it. The fact that it never happens started to drive me nuts.

I read enough YA that I was mostly curious how the author was going to keep Katniss from having to kill anyone "in cold blood". I would have been (pleasantly!) very surprised if she had.

Ender's Game is the only YA-esque book I can think of that I've read where the hero purposely and pre-meditatedly attacks, and even Orson Scott Card wimps out and tells us that it's because it's the only way to win decisively and never have to fight again. Even though the book is supposed to be anti-war, and it does examine a little bit what happens to Ender, to me it always seemed rather convenient that he gets to win, and THEN mourn, and in some ways the book spares him that choice as well when it matters the most.

ariadnes_string May 8 2012, 17:09:12 UTC

*clings back* I wanna stay!

That does become the narrative hook of the middle of the book, doesn't it?

It wasn't so much that I wanted her to kill in a premeditated way (though that would have been pretty interesting). If anything, I more wanted her to decide not to--but then to really face the consequences of that decision, to have a more overt kind of resistance to the rules. It was interesting that the novel chose to have her learning to manipulate the representations of the games, but on the other hand, the killing thing was like having your cake and eating it too.

I'm somewhat put off from reading the next book, but I'm sure I will, because my son wants me to.

anniehow May 8 2012, 18:40:07 UTC

Oooh, I heard a lot of good things about Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner!

...Wait, you know stuff about Magic Mike??

ariadnes_string May 8 2012, 19:51:41 UTC

he's really good--kind of the most surprising thing in the movie (since one has seen most of the other characters before, or their like)--he has probably the best line at the end.

Well, I have seen a "cop" stripper routine in the preview for Magic Mike, and stills of some kind tuxedoed action. i doubt they contemplated an elf routine--ladies don't dig elves all that much.

everything I know is here: magicmikemovie

Did you see last night's House? I haven't yet :(

liliaeth May 8 2012, 20:12:20 UTC

I think though that part of why Katniss doesn't go after the other tributes, is because she's better than that. Because allowing herself to see the other tributes as the enemy, rather than realizing as she did at the end with Cato, that he's just as much a victim as she is, is what allows the Capitol to win ( ... )

liliaeth May 8 2012, 20:40:24 UTC

(still wondering how this ended up here instead of in response to the post....)

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ariadnes_string May 8 2012, 21:07:51 UTC

No need to defend it--I could completely see why people love it, and I enjoyed it thoroughly myself (which is saying something for me and YA fiction). Plus, I love any number of things that are indefensible myself. It's me who should be apologizing for my inability to like things about games. And you know my taste for violence runs towards things that would never be allowed in YA novel....

I hear you about being blocked! I was surprised I managed to get out a ficlet, hackneyed as it was. If you could prompt it would be awesome to have some hockey or Walking Dead prompts. If there's anything I can prompt that will tempt you, let me know! (Warrior? that would be some awesome fever!fic, just saying).

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ariadnes_string May 9 2012, 14:35:31 UTC

Let's shake you ;)

Warrior prompts here, here and here

I have modified one to make it better! no--I'm not prodding you, not at all ;)

taste_is_sweet May 8 2012, 21:12:40 UTC

I haven't thanked you yet for restarting Running Hot. Thank you. I'm so glad you're doing this! I have an idea for a H50 fic that would work for two of the prompts, but I'm terrified of how long it would probably take to write it...

I love your prompts, btw. It makes me wish I were in the fandoms so I could answer any of them.

I'm sure I'm as grumpy as you (though I do enjoy superheroes)! I personally hate first-person, present-tense narratives. I don't mind them at all in third person, but the idea of reading something that's meant to be going on precisely that very second while looking out through someone else's eyes has always struck me as both silly and the author taking an easy out. Of course I'm neither published nor famous, so you may take several grains of salt with my less-than-esteemed opinion ( ... )

ariadnes_string May 8 2012, 22:12:26 UTC

You're very welcome! I've been planning to re-start it for the past six months or so, but rl has been so nutty it's taken a long time.

I say go ahead and write whatever grabs you--there's no time limit on when prompts can be filled--and more H50 fic from you would be great!

I had the same problem with the first-person present tense narrative. It gives immediacy, sure, but every once in a while you're like, huh? Collins pulled it off, though, which is impressive.

I guess the author couldn't reconcile having Katniss the hero actively trying to kill anyone.See, this is exactly what it felt like--which made the fact that she never needed to find out what her choice would be seem like a dodge on the novel's part. If she had, though, it would be a very different book for young readers--so, you see why I'm not great with YA fiction ( ... )