i've been meaning to say hi

[innie_darling]

Hi, everybody!

There's nothing particularly urgent going on here, but I've been wanting to say thanks for the love I got over at the Valentine's Day Game.

I've been reading some good stuff recently. I finished The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss the other day, which I would absolutely

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[alizarin_nyc]

I love being namechecked! Woot!

MILDMAY. The end.

I plenty of media I think to get me through the plane rides and shit-kickin' on the Kibbutz. Maybe I won't have to have Asi keep driving me to the bookstore in Tiberius with it's teensy English section!

That thing would make a REALLY GREAT FANNISH PROJECT. Vidders would be tasked to make trailers and stuff. It bears thinking on, yes!

CommuniSquee!

[innie_darling]

BRITTA!!!!!!! She is the greatest!

Yes, I think between The Virtu and The Mirador (MILDMAY MILDMAY MILDMAY) and 25 eps of Cabin Pressure, you should be set for a good while. Email me if you need more stuff, or links to fics, etc.

Do not forget the signal John can beam into the sky! Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-FOXMAN! (Also, vidders would be excellent recruits!)

[alizarin_nyc]

I love all the Community peeps, even the ones I don't like a.k.a Pierce. Fred Willard would be much better.

I like how I dropped a word in my comment... but YES, mucho media.

John... beaming his silver fox signal into the night sky. FOR THE WIN!!!

[innie_darling]

I used to love Pierce when he was after Shirley and clearly wanted to be Jeff's BFF, but the stuff he pulled around the time of the D&D ep was just too much. And I adore Fred Willard - for his turn on Pushing Daisies as well as the Christopher Guest movies - but can't see him being as much of a dick as Pierce has needed to be.

Seriously, you MUST organize a fic/vid/art fest around your idea!

[ivy03]

Man, this series is really making me want to write my Persuasion-by-way-of-Sherlock fic, in which Sherlock is Anne and John (in his greatcoat!) is Wentworth, though much less of a drama-queen dick.

OMG DO IT DO IT DO IT.

[innie_darling]

I really will, I swear! It's just that there are things that *must* be written first. But greatcoated John is too delicious an image to ignore!

[ivy03]

Though Sherlock is the least Anne Anne I could possibly imagine.

[innie_darling]

I know, but . . . maybe an Anne who retreats into scientific experiments rather than into her own head?

[ariadnes_string]

I wish I'd been there for your Doctrine of Labyrinths convo! I love them, too (except, like you, the last one), and I've just been re-reading The Mirador. So much love for Mildmay!

I listened to about half of the The Black Count before I had to return the audiobook to the library--I enjoyed it a lot, maybe I should go back and finish it. I truly hope someone has optioned it for a movie--what a story!

I am curious about LBD--how does one watch it?

Speaking of austeniana, have you heard about this?

[innie_darling]

We really should work on a way to beam you in for fangirl dinners so we can have these conversations in person! MILDMAY is the greatest - as I was saying to alizarin_nyc, he's the John to Felix's Sherlock, the Dean to Felix's Sam, and therefore the one that I go for: the one who can be amazing but is fine with being viewed merely as the sidekick.

I'm curious about how The Black Count would come across as an audiobook, because one of the best bits was the footnotes, which were fascinating and witty and basically offered starting points for SO MUCH HISTORICAL FIC. I hadn't thought about it, but you're totally right that it should be made into a movie - or miniseries, considering how much happens.

You can watch The Lizzie Bennet Diaries here. It is insanely addictive. I hadn't heard about the servants' PoV retelling of P&P - but I have to admit my hackles were raised by the way the whole idea of considering the servants' perspective was presented as a breakthrough innovation. READ SOME ACADEMIC JOURNALS, LADY.

[innie_darling]

Right?!? Lydia always grated on my nerves (though not, I have to admit, as much as Amy March from Little Women, since we're confessing dislikes), but the way the actress here plays her - so authentically young and convinced she's special and comfortable knowing that her sisters are looking out for her - manages to be true to the book and yet refreshing.

(Also, for your blog, for Sherlock: http://kottke.org/13/02/the-chemistry-of-snowflakes)

[innie_darling]

Aw, I saw the video being linked - glad you enjoyed it!

Yeah, Lydia in the book seems not just young but really thoughtless, given not only how she dominates Kitty and then is so pleased with herself for being the first married. Whereas the way they handled her situation in LBD seems more appropriate to the loud, exuberant, but still essentially loving person she is in the series.

[oxoniensis]

So many people are raving over LBD, but I tried the first episode and hated it so much! I feel like I'm missing something, some key to enjoying it, but I haven't a clue what! Anyway, glad you're enjoying it, and finding good books too.

[innie_darling]

It took me a few eps at least to get into things - I wasn't quite sure what they were trying to do, or if I'd be on board. But once they leapt over a few of the early hurdles, I committed to the ride, and I've really enjoyed it. If you've got some time, maybe give it another whirl?

[oxoniensis]

Yes, I might well do that - it wouldn't be the first time I disliked a pilot, but gave a show a second chance and ended up loving it.