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[tsuki_no_bara]

1 my flist! what are your favoring stories/myths/folktales/etc about hell/the land of the dead/the underworld/faerie/etc (yes i know one of those is not like the others)? how you get there, why you get there, how you get out of there, what/who else is there, etc etc

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[wolfling]

my favorite folktale/myth about faerie/hell/etc is Tam-lin, at least partially because it's the woman who's the hero rescuing her lover who is the helpless captive, but also I just really dig the imagery in it. I've always loved it, and I have mentally inserted various fannish pairings into it over the years though never actually sat down and wrote out the fic that could result.

[tsuki_no_bara]

i'm 99.44% sure i only know that folktale because of the novel tam lin by pamela dean. it's always nice to read a story in which the girl does the rescuing, too. also, you should totally write the au. :D

[amw]

It occurred to me I haven't read many stories where the main plot is about hell outside of antiquity. One of those stories I found has stuck in the back of my head is Inanna's descent to the underworld from Sumerian legend. I don't think there are any remains of the whole story, but it was reconstructed from references elsewhere. What I find so interesting about it is that it offers an odd, fragmented insight into a culture from thousands of years ago that had very different customs to us but appears to share fundamental aspects of the human experience.

You can read the outline on Wikipedia. I can't remember where I have read more about this, but I do remember about 10 years ago I was on a big Ancient Middle East kick and read a bunch of books around the topic, including a fairly loose/poetic translation of Gilgamesh and a man-tastic historical fiction take by Robert Silverberg. I wish I could remember if either of those dig deeper on the Inanna story. Perhaps I just filled in all the blanks in my head, because with such a bare and

[tsuki_no_bara]

i'm vaguely aware of inanna as a mythological figure, but i don't know anything about her descent into the underworld, so this is pretty neat, fragments and all.

"man-tastic historical fiction", heh.

Not in any particular order:

[nomercles]

Congratulations Ye Curlers! Tortellini sounds amazing, as does meatball sub, as does Chinese, and damn it, now I'm hungry. You can keep the cookies, though, as long as you tell me what kind they are

Re: Not in any particular order:

[tsuki_no_bara]

one box of caramel delights (which i still think of as samoas), one box of shortbread, and one box of thin mints. the shortbread and thin mints are in the freezer, because frozen thin mints are THE BEST, and if they're in the freezer i can't see them and forget i have them, and won't eat them all in like three days.

i haven't eaten the tortellini yet and even tho i'm not hungry (i had the leftover chinese for dinner), i want them. it's not even shark week and i want to eat everything in sight. >.i am in fact kind of concerned that i'm not starting the story close enough to the action, except if i did that, there isn't enough action for 20k words. my first bang had about 9k of intro, which was a little less than a third of the whole fic. but the ending didn't go on and on, and so far the ending of this one does. ugh, writing. why so hard

[amnisias]

I've checked out the 2 new time travel shows that have come on on wikipaedia (Time After Time and Making History) but neither of them sounded that good. And since I've already picked up Timeless my ratio for 'not that great' time travel shows is met, I'm afraid. Though I'm pleased to say that Timeless has gotten better as it moved away from the story of the week format and developed some bigger arcs. Let me know how Making History shapes up, one never knows....

[tsuki_no_bara]

timeless did get better! altho i still don't think they ever took full advantage of the time travel, or used it in a particularly inventive way. (i mean, going back in time to various major historical events isn't exactly earth-shatteringly creative.) making history is mostly just silly - the time machine is a giant duffel bag - but if you're into silly half-hour comedies about a loser type dude and his slightly stick-up-the-butt historian friend, plus some HIGHLY anachronistic feminism from paul revere's daughter, i'd say check it out. the characters and their relationships are actually kind of cute. and it's only been two episodes, so it could get better or worse.

[dear_tiger]

Wait, there's another semi-historical time travel show going on right now? At least this one doesn't take itself seriously, which I appreciate.

Curling sounds like such a nice sport! And a total opposite of hockey.

Also, 18K \o/ Now write the beginning. (Or write some more ending! Sometimes you gotta.)

[tsuki_no_bara]

there are two! making history is about a guy who discovers a duffel bag that's really a time machine, and uses it to go back to revolution-era boston because paul revere's daughter thinks he's the coolest. he somehow manages to prevent the american revolution and returns to his own time to convince a history professor friend to come back to the past and kick-start history. it's intentionally dumb but kind of cute. the other one, time after time, is about hg wells using his time machine to send his friend jack the ripper to modern-day new york, because... i'm not sure what the thinking is there. i haven't seen it but i'm guessing it's more of a serial killer show than a time travel show. it probably takes itself more seriously than making history.

curling is a very nice sport! we don't go in for bench-clearing brawls like hockey players do. but, you know, it's also a canadian sport, and canadians are a nice bunch of people.

but there's so much ending! it just goes on and on. >.< and i have no idea what the beginning even is