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[bookshop]

I got a blackberry for christmas and have since been spending like 80% more time away from my computer or something ridiculous, because now (cue choirs of angels) i can check email and access the internet from everywhere. except i can still barely type on it, lol. i tried to update lj from the movie theatre tonight and i kept accidentally

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[amanuensis1]

*blinks* Wow, I saw The Lady Vanishes ages ages ages ago, and I don't remember that at ALL. Must have been too young and naive to think they meant it that way. That's so cool!

[bookshop]

well, it is presented as a comic situation but after watching umpteen hitchcock films you *know* he meant to present it that way - there's an endearing moment (and i say that guardedly because even when he is at his most charming and romantic, it's always a bit like watching a charming home movie as filmed by a psychopath whom you know has 18 bodies in the cellar) when the maid enters, and the clad-in-boxers British guy tries to shield his friend, the shirtless guy, from her site by stretching his arm across his chest. It's very cute.

Also! Every time I watch that film my respect for it grows. What a great plot! They're on a train! Everyone is lying! How could someone vanish on a train! And then it all ends in a shootout, and a KICKASS OLD LADY ESCAPING THROUGH THE WOODS IN A HAIL OF GUNFIRE. I mean how much more awesome does it get? :D

[amanuensis1]

*resolves to rewatch*

[sistermagpie]

That movie is definitely made of cool. Kick ass old lady FTW!

Also, Desperaux sounds scary. And yeah, I haven't read the book but something tells me that there's probably no lines in it like "And as they entered the Ratworld, they noticed that everyone was darker than people up above and fake Oriental music started to play like in a Fu Manchu movie..."

[jorajo]

Ugh. I'm so tired of that played out stereotype that all fat women are insecure and jealous, secretly dreaming to be the pretty pretty thin princess who will finally be loved and accepted once she is not a fatty. As a fatty myself, I AM OFFENDED BY THAT STEREOTYPE. BECAUSE IT IS WILDLY UNTRUE.

Now I will not see that movie.

In other news, I loved both the book and the movie of The Devil Wears Prada. It is win.

[loftily]

You should join shelfari!

[bookshop]

What is shelfari!

[loftily]

It's a site where you can keep track of the books you've read, you're reading, and the ones you plan to read, like a digital bookshelf with ratings and whatever else you want to add. I like it most because I can keep track of the books I want to read, since I always forget, and also because I can scan friends' bookshelves to see what books they like and recommend. Here is my profile!

[shengen]

I say this all the time, but oh my god, you guys, the Devil Wears Prada fandom is incredible. Reading the fanfic is basically like having an orgasm. Yeah, it pretty much is just like that.

THIS IS SO TRUE YOU SHOULD TOTALLY WRITE FOR IT. Except that, and I say this with complete seriousness, I think that I would die of happiness if suddenly, in addition to all the awesome authors out there already, I could read DWP fic written by you, too. But oh, if you ever wrote for Devil Wears Prada, my death would be so completely worth it. :DD

[bookshop]

awww. thank you so much. <333333 but you know, in equal seriousness - I don't feel like I need to write anything for this fandom because what's there always leaves me feeling completely sated. In all other fandoms I've ever written in, I've written based on a gnawing hunger to fill a void I felt was missing from what I saw around the fandom. (In H/D I never quite specifically did what I set out to do, when I started writing LUW. I started it because I wanted to write a certain fic, and then I got waylaid and the need to write that particular sort of fic went away over time, til it became a need to write it for different reasons, which is okay). In all the other fandoms, though, I wanted to write in the blank spaces. In DWP, I feel like there just *aren't any.*

[shengen]

Ohhh, for me it was the ending scene of the movie where Andy and Miranda just looked at each other on -opposite- sides of the street that made me leave the theater with a great big gaping hole in my heart. No, but I think I get what you mean. I think I get that feeling with Hikago; the canon is already perfect but then the fic and the fandom makes it even more perfect, if that's even possible. :D I'm just happy already knowing that you love Devil Wears Prada, too! Though, you know, if ever in the future you see a void in the DWP fandom and feel the urge to write fic, I for one will not object at all.