once upon a time, when wishing still helped...

[selenak]

I just saw that I have not one but two as yet mysterious and veiled stories in my gift box, so someone wrote a treat for me. This makes me very happy and even more gleeful at the prospect of Yuletide, which is good, since reading the news this morning is more inclined to make one hoping for satire or filled with rage. Or both. Reality is such a tv

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[airie_fairy]

"Or at the very least slap them with a fish, thank you, internet, for teaching me this non lethal alternative."

I think the internet must've learned that from Michael Palin and John Cleese. (Though in that case, it was arguably lethal.) Or maybe Susan Foreman.

[blpurdom]

People are actually flaming Mary Renault for shipping? REALLY? Wow.

I do think the Brothers Grimm would have been better off without this monstrosity. And the television program Grimm should be subtitled, "Not Getting the Point 101".

[selenak]

Mary Renault flamed for daring to ship Alexander with someone other than Hephaistion:

http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/46288.html?thread=211353296#t211353296

Not having watched either the film or the tv show, I'll take your word for it, but I have been assured neither has anything to do with the actual Grimms.

[blpurdom]

The film claims to be about them. It's really not. The program claims to be about their descendents, and also claims that they weren't writing fairy tales but writing about real-world monsters that only people with the magical Grimm genes can actually see, in order to fight them. After two or three episodes of this nonsense I stopped watching, to spare my very tired eye-rolling muscles. ;)

[masqthephlsphr]

Alexander/Hephaistion/Bagoas fan-drama. That's priceless.

[selenak]

I know.:)

[amenirdis]

Definitely Bagoas/Lydias! :D

[selenak]

*hearts pairing of wounded tragedy survivors making new lives to infinity*

[penknife]

Heh. I, er, may have contributed to that wank a bit. (But accusing Bagoas of being a Mary Sue is being wrong on the Internet!)

[selenak]

Indeed, and hence I say, Go, You! Sadly I'm used to more and more people using "Mary Sue" as a synonym for "character I don't like (who interferes with my ship of choice)" when it comes to female characters, but using it for a (historical) eunuch was new. Everything else was very old indeed, including the inaccurate accusation of "crying all the time". (Btw, given what his life was like, it would have made sense if he had, but he doesn't in the novel.) Very familiar from a thousand fandoms. Bah.