Linkspam: fannish/geeky, social justice, cute, misc.

[umadoshi]

Fannish/Geeky Things

There's a trailer for the upcoming Ancient Magus' Bride anime! [YouTube, ~1 minute]

If you ever want the bat wing necklace Claudia wears on Warehouse 13, this is where you get it. [Via Allison Scagliotti's Instagram.]

"Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman to Host ‘The Handmade Project’ Weekly Series at NBC"Via The Rec Center

Comments

[telophase]

I'm on Mallory's side, because when I watched ItW, what I got out of it was that every woman who had sex outside the bounds of legal matrimony ended up dead, and I'm kind of tired of that message. But it may be the same problem I have with reading Watchmen: I came of age in a world where the literary establishment had taken the interrogation of the stories that Watchmen and ItW started and had gone further with it already, so nothing in it seemed new or engaging to me.

Plus they both suffered from the problem of over-hyping: my expectations had been built so high that there was no way they were going to live up to them.

[umadoshi]

so nothing in it seemed new or engaging to me.

*nods* I have essentially the same problem with Watchmen. (It's also part of why I don't feel a burning need to go back and read much classic shoujo manga.)

I hit Into the Woods at a very good time for bonding with it--I was in high school and in love with musical theatre without actually being super well-versed in it, which meant I had no expectations at all when I saw ItW (via the film of the Broadway production--thank you, PBS!).

[telophase]

Had I hit it at the time I was into musicals (highschool, when Cats was big, or college, when EVERYONE I knew was into Phantom and Les Mis), it might have helped. I'd wanted to see it since I heard of it, but the touring company that hit our city came at a time I couldn't make it for some reason, even though my parents went. I eventually rented a DVD of a stage production, which might have been the same one you saw, and watched it about 8-10 years ago, which was obviously too late.

[umadoshi]

I suspect seeing the DVD version probably helps a lot with my love for the show. I saw it on stage once a couple of years ago and wasn't blown away--I think the show needs really strong performers. But also it's just really not for everyone.