Miscellany

[bironic]

1. One year in, ignazwisdom's and my Star Trek TOS rewatch continues apace, with great nostalgia and humor. We recently started season three. Here is iggy's latest writeup, on Elaan of Troyius. Episode recap tag / Full tumblr. All NSFW on account of URL and icon, heh

Comments

[franzeska]

My theory is that the house party where Mary came up with Frankenstein never happened, so Byron never wrote his story and never inspired Polidori to write his. It actually kind of makes sense.

[bironic]

It's as good an explanation as any in a reality where an author's fictional creation can live in the author's own world.

(But then, are we to give JM Rymer all the credit for establishing the vampire genre in Byron and Polidori's absence?)

[franzeska]

Perhaps in a world where vampires are 1. real and 2. gross, face-eating monsters, nobody ever does establish the sexy Lord Byron vampire genre. (Wow, the worldbuilding implications of the Shelleys are kind of interesting, aren't they...)

[kassrachel]

Just wish there were a link to the full post. Looks like that's not journal standard, though.

I may be missing something here, but when I clicked on your link, it appeared to go to the full post, with photos and everything. :-)

[bironic]

Ah, whoops, I meant that I wished the journal article would link back to my post (and to the websites of those who were interviewed)!