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Poor LJ. Remember in the olden days (...2002) when we all used to post about eight times a day? I've abandoned it for Twitter. And because not a lot's been happening since those few weeks of birthday/Hawksley madness. I meant to do a ravey post about how incredible the National Theatre's production of Medea was (I saw the cinema broadcast - it must have been mindblowing in the theatre, and if Helen McCrory doesn't win every award ever there's something terribly wrong with the system) but never got round to it and the moment's kind of passed. It was stunning though. I'm too one-track minded about 16th/17th century theatre to have paid much attention to what came before it. I mean, I've seen Greek plays before and enjoyed them but this is the first performance that's ever really ~moved~ me, on a level with Ralph Fiennes' Prospero and the first time I saw Othello done right. It was honestly one of those moments when you feel like your life's on the brink of changing direction completely. I'm looking at reshuffling things so I can study classical Greek language and literature for my final year. IT WAS THAT GOOD. I want to know everything. I want to know all the history and context and the way the rhythms work. Wish I could have seen it in person but I'm super thankful the theatres are all doing these cinema broadcasts now because I never would have made the effort to go it if it hadn't been right there. I don't know, I'll probably stick with the English as I've been planning all along, but THE URGE IS THERE. Maybe I'll just do it as an extra for fun.
yuletide is nearly here :D Fic exchanges are pretty much the only fannish things I do these days (don't currently love any tv shows or whatever enough to invest that much time and heart year-round) and this is the big one, so I'm feeling way over-excited. I've been re-reading my old gifts the last couple of days. Not a dud among them, I've been so lucky every time I've taken part. Please read these stories!
YT 2009:
after the fact (The Nightmare Before Christmas)
YT 2010:
The Road to Villa Mercedes (Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid)
Four Photographs from a Steamer to Bolivia (Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid)
Passage to Bolivia (Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid)
Yes... this was the year I got three Butch/Sundance/Etta stories and spent the whole of December and January in a daze :P
YT 2011:
Smudged Ink (Billy Elliot)
YT 2012:
Complications (Alice - Tom Waits)
YT 2013:
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman (Omar Rayyan - Works)
Eighteen Hundred and Froze to Death (Spirit Houses - Die Booth / Byron and Shelley and Shelley and Polidori and Clairmont CROSSOVER OF MY HEART)
If you've never participated before YOU SHOULD. It's the highlight of my year. Also it's responsible for my favourite fic I've ever written and my #1 favourite fic OF ALL TIME (flawless sequel to The Sting complete with twisty heist and period-appropriate undressing details hnnngghh) so it's worth a shot. It seems to bring the best out in people somehow. There's always a bit of wank somewhere but even that's delightful in its own special Yuletidey way :P
Also exciting: I scored a collection of old photos for a fiver and they're breaking my heart a bit?! I just hate that people can ever bear to SELL their old family pictures, especially ones as personal and obviously precious as these. It depresses the hell out of me. On the other hand, at least they've got a good home now...? They're later than the ones I normally collect but I had to have them.
Written on the back in pencil is "GRAF SPEE GOING DOWN IN MONTIVIDIO HARBOUR". She was a German cruiser damaged in WW2's first naval battle on 13th December 1939 (the only part of that I had to google was the exact date - Powell and Pressburger made a film about it :P also my grandad was in the Navy and a massive nut for ships. Funny what random trivia you don't realise you've remembered) and then scuttled. Not sure how helpful this is for dating because it looks like a photo of a photo, so it could be any time after that really.
Dreadnought served from 1906 and throughout WW1, and was scrapped in the early 20s. I googled Bacon and he was her first captain, dismissed in 1909, so the clipping must be from 1906-09. Wonder who the guy under the X is.
And on the back:
:D :D :D These are the things I live for. Photos are personal anyway but the ones with something written on the back, especially names, feel so much more solid somehow.
<3
yuletide is nearly here :D Fic exchanges are pretty much the only fannish things I do these days (don't currently love any tv shows or whatever enough to invest that much time and heart year-round) and this is the big one, so I'm feeling way over-excited. I've been re-reading my old gifts the last couple of days. Not a dud among them, I've been so lucky every time I've taken part. Please read these stories!
YT 2009:
after the fact (The Nightmare Before Christmas)
YT 2010:
The Road to Villa Mercedes (Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid)
Four Photographs from a Steamer to Bolivia (Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid)
Passage to Bolivia (Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid)
Yes... this was the year I got three Butch/Sundance/Etta stories and spent the whole of December and January in a daze :P
YT 2011:
Smudged Ink (Billy Elliot)
YT 2012:
Complications (Alice - Tom Waits)
YT 2013:
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman (Omar Rayyan - Works)
Eighteen Hundred and Froze to Death (Spirit Houses - Die Booth / Byron and Shelley and Shelley and Polidori and Clairmont CROSSOVER OF MY HEART)
If you've never participated before YOU SHOULD. It's the highlight of my year. Also it's responsible for my favourite fic I've ever written and my #1 favourite fic OF ALL TIME (flawless sequel to The Sting complete with twisty heist and period-appropriate undressing details hnnngghh) so it's worth a shot. It seems to bring the best out in people somehow. There's always a bit of wank somewhere but even that's delightful in its own special Yuletidey way :P
Also exciting: I scored a collection of old photos for a fiver and they're breaking my heart a bit?! I just hate that people can ever bear to SELL their old family pictures, especially ones as personal and obviously precious as these. It depresses the hell out of me. On the other hand, at least they've got a good home now...? They're later than the ones I normally collect but I had to have them.
Written on the back in pencil is "GRAF SPEE GOING DOWN IN MONTIVIDIO HARBOUR". She was a German cruiser damaged in WW2's first naval battle on 13th December 1939 (the only part of that I had to google was the exact date - Powell and Pressburger made a film about it :P also my grandad was in the Navy and a massive nut for ships. Funny what random trivia you don't realise you've remembered) and then scuttled. Not sure how helpful this is for dating because it looks like a photo of a photo, so it could be any time after that really.
Dreadnought served from 1906 and throughout WW1, and was scrapped in the early 20s. I googled Bacon and he was her first captain, dismissed in 1909, so the clipping must be from 1906-09. Wonder who the guy under the X is.
And on the back:
:D :D :D These are the things I live for. Photos are personal anyway but the ones with something written on the back, especially names, feel so much more solid somehow.
<3