Comments | cleolinda: Let's have some more Varney

cleolinda

Let's have some more Varney

Feb 20, 2011 15:42

Hello! I am doing a much better job of posting now! Basically, I forget that the first 4-6 weeks of every year are best spent hibernating productively. I really ought to just schedule that and spend November stockpiling some content to ration out while I'm buried in books and dying of whatever blarg is going around at the time.

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amelia_petkova February 20 2011, 22:09:42 UTC

She's even more awesome for firing a second time. She doesn't shoot the gun once and immediately succumb to the vapors, she just goes right ahead and shoots her attacker (with tusks!) again. Fangirling Flora, now.

rhoda_rants February 21 2011, 16:26:48 UTC

Totally lining up behind you there. Anyone feel like making a "heroine addict" icon for Flora?

colleenwebb February 21 2011, 21:01:31 UTC

Shall we go with a stock chick with gun image or do we want to assign her an actress/painting/model?

My contribution to the Flora Fan Club colleenwebb February 21 2011, 23:03:49 UTC

http://pics.livejournal.com/colleenpowell/tags/icons/

The girl in read with a gun is taken from a French cover of Phillip Pullman's Ruby in the Smoke.

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gabbygrl February 20 2011, 22:10:02 UTC

I guess this has something to do with the old stereoytpes about pain? Women are supposed to be better at dealing with stuff, aren't we? Because lo how we suffer &c.

See also: "the man cold."

ahirutwin February 20 2011, 22:27:54 UTC

Shit, if Edward had been alive then, he would've had the longest, whiniest pen-pal coorespondence with Henry. It would have been a thing of beauty the likes of which would be unprecedented.

Also, Flora is a badass and the real reason she stayed behind was so that she wouldn't have to deal with pussy meebling for God knows how many words.

pseu_trapd February 20 2011, 23:04:34 UTC

PLEASE MAKE THIS REAL?

fineprnt February 21 2011, 05:07:34 UTC

yesssssssssss

unicornhime February 21 2011, 13:48:30 UTC

i just *cackled* at that omg

lady_akatari February 20 2011, 22:28:03 UTC

Flora, you are hereby pronounced to be Excellent. As, of course, are this recap and you, Cleolinda.

♥

swevene February 20 2011, 22:39:27 UTC

This came at a perfect time-- the comparative literature class I'm in, Major Themes in Literature: Don Juan and the Vampire, has finally gotten to the vampire part and parts of Varney are on the list.

cleolinda February 20 2011, 23:13:44 UTC

Ooooh. Coincidentally, I am trying to find a recording of Strauss's "Don Juan" for thematic, writing-a-vampire-novel purposes. (I mean, I know where to find it, but iTunes keeps wanting me to buy entire albums of classical music performances and I just want one 17-minute track.)

I'm guessing that Byron was the point where Don Juan overlapped/segued into the vampire?

swevene February 21 2011, 00:10:17 UTC

Alas, no, I would have loved to spend some time on Byron's Don Juan (it sounded so interesting) but my prof mostly ignored it, beyond mentioning it a few times in class. We spent more time on the earlier Don Juan plays, El burlador de Sevilla, Dom Juan by Moliere, and Don Giovanni. I read Don Juan Tenorio on my own for a paper. We did watch Don Juan de Marco, though, which apparently takes a lot of inspiration from Byron (and has Johnny Depp).

I think the point of connection for the vampire and Don Juan is more in the taboos that they each break.

cleolinda February 21 2011, 02:59:26 UTC

Well, I also say that because Byron mentioned vampires in "The Giaour," and Polidori's "The Vampyre" was both first credited to Byron and said to be inspired by him. Lord Ruthven, therefore, is sort of a mingling of Byron, Don Juan, and the vampire in terms of taboos broken (especially when it's revealed that Ruthven outright seduced Aubrey's sister). I am actually really, really surprised that the professor didn't jump on this.

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