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[Galagraphia]

Aww, Tank, this is one of my most favourite! I just want to hug them both.

[SurelyForth]

Galagraphia wrote...

Aww, Tank, this is one of my most favourite! I just want to hug them both.

It is adorable! And it needs to be added to my rotation of thread reviving pics. Unfortunately, the Alistair thread has been fairly active this past week, so not as many opportunities to  throw down Pounce and Anders as there used to be.

Picture! Today is Smut Thursday in the Ali thread. Since most days are Smut Days here, I decided to go with Destruction Porn:

Modifié par SurelyForth, 30 septembre 2010 - 12:24 .

[LupusYondergirl]

@Gala: thanks!  I wanted to do something that was non-romance since I don't very often and it seemed to fit the bill.
I know what you mean about reading things in translation.  The one I have for Crime and Punishment is supposed to be the closest an English speaker can get to reading it in Russian in terms of the tone, pacing, and mood.  
While I'd love to learn Russian, since reading Tolstoy as it was written sounds fantastic, I suspect it's not something I could accomplish by the end of this semester.
I can't wait to see what sort of plan Anders came up with in your comic!

@jenn : Thank you!  I got the idea almost immediately when you posted.  Real life has this plot to keep me from writing fanfic in a timely manner, though.


And why why why am I awake now? My first class isn't for two and a half hours. And I was having a (admittedly bizarre) Anders dream. Tried to go back to sleep, but noooo....

It was a really bizarre dream. I have a friend who was also an English major, and we have a friendly Brit lit (me)/ American lit (him) rivalry. We sit on his balcony and talk books for hours, sometimes until dawn. In the dream Anders was with us. He, apparently, prefers Dickens to Twain.
I do not know what this means. Other than maybe I shouldn't chat about Dickens versus Twain online while writing about Anders in another window just before bed.

Modifié par LupusYondergirl, 30 septembre 2010 - 12:36 .

[jenncgf]

Gala: Noted! I'll post to the prompt when you're ready.



Lupus: added!



Tankgirly: Your pic is just as nice as the other one!

[sabreene]

Anders seems like he would like some of Twain's comments and views about life. They both have that little bit (or lot bit) of irreverence. But I haven't read either in about ten years, and sadly, my brain doesn't hold on to proper information that long, so I really can't compare them except for very generalized hazy ideas from the past.

I also don't know why I'm up at this hour. Or rather, why I have not yet gone to sleep at this hour. At least I got to catch up on everyone's prompts!!

@Lupus & Surely -- I loved your stories! My brain isn't working well enough to give a very coherent response, but, I really enjoyed them both!

@Gala - I love the expressions on young!Anders face. It's so good already, that I can't wait for when it's finished!

@Tankgirly -- you had me at pounce!

Modifié par sabreene, 30 septembre 2010 - 01:02 .

[SurelyForth]

sabreene wrote...

Anders seems like he would like some of Twain's comments and views about life. They both have that little bit (or lot bit) of irreverence. But I haven't read either in about ten years, and sadly, my brain doesn't hold on to proper information that long, so I really can't compare them except for very generalized hazy ideas from the past.

I was going to say the same!

*has literary crush on Mark Twain in no way informed by sitting next to  this picture, but in huge, glorious poster form, for two years in high school*

[LupusYondergirl]

Twain and Dickens had very similar attitudes and beliefs about a lot of things. Both were fiercely populist and abolitionist.

That's why my friend and I debate them so often. It could easily be said Twain was the American Dickens, or Dickens was the British Twain. Except Dickens came first.



Surely: holy crap! Why Mr. Twain, I had no idea...

[SurelyForth]

LupusYondergirl wrote...

Twain and Dickens had very similar attitudes and beliefs about a lot of things. Both were fiercely populist and abolitionist.
That's why my friend and I debate them so often. It could easily be said Twain was the American Dickens, or Dickens was the British Twain. Except Dickens came first.

Surely: holy crap! Why Mr. Twain, I had no idea...

I had dreams about that poster. I wrote about one once for an assignment and my teacher photocopied it and handed it out to every teacher in the English department. Fortunately, most of them knew me quite well and thought it was hilarious rather than insane.

My childhood love for Dickens was all but destroyed by having to read Hard Times in 8 hours, whilst sick with the flu.

Modifié par SurelyForth, 30 septembre 2010 - 01:43 .

[Galagraphia]

@Lupus, you don't want to read Tolstoy in Russian, most of people I know hated how he wrote, it's too difficult to read even for native speakers. I enjoyed it though, but because I was equally stubborn and curious to find out who would marry who in the end



Funny, I never thought about comparing Twain and Dickens, but I think Anders would prefer Dickens, they have this positive humor and optimism, Twain is more ironic or sarcastic, I think (but I didn't read much of him). We must ask David Gaider about it!

[Miri1984]

As people, Anders would prefer Twain - Dickens was a right bastard IRL, although I love his writing. Twain is on my list of literary figures I would adore to have a drink with. Although looking at that poster I would try to arrange it for one of those swim-up bars!

[LupusYondergirl]

Twain is practically a religion in my hometown since he lived here briefly and the main branch of my city's library has his original manuscript of Huckleberry Finn. It's actually pretty amazing to see the stack of entirely handwritten papers. I love seeing anything in an author's handwriting. I suppose that's something we've lost and probably won't get back, now that I think of it. Kind of sad.

I think the only thing that moved me more, as an obsessive lit geek, was the James Joyce collection at my former uni. It had something like 10 or 15,000 pages of his handwritten notes, working copies, and manuscripts, including almost all of his Finnegan's Wake notebooks. Just seeing his thought process in the rough notes was overwhelming. Completely, utterly brilliant. (but then, if I have a love who could steal me from Shakespeare, it's James Joyce)

(Oooh, and the entire handwritten manuscript for A Christmas Carol is scanned and online, speaking of Dickens.  It's rather neat.  And I love that story, which is honestly one of the most hardcore pieces of left wing propaganda I've ever read, but it's so finely done most people don't even know they're being lectured.)

And to get it on topic, here's an Anders pic I hadn't seen before.

Modifié par LupusYondergirl, 30 septembre 2010 - 06:51 .

[Spikus]

NM

Modifié par Spikus, 30 septembre 2010 - 06:56 .

[SurelyForth]

LupusYondergirl wrote...
I think the only thing that moved me more, as an obsessive lit geek, was the James Joyce collection at my former uni. It had something like 10 or 15,000 pages of his handwritten notes, working copies, and manuscripts, including almost all of his Finnegan's Wake notebooks. Just seeing his thought process in the rough notes was overwhelming. Completely, utterly brilliant. (but then, if I have a love who could steal me from Shakespeare, it's James Joyce)

Aww. Joyce is the reason for the Pervstache. One of my literature professors loaded our reading packet with the letters Joyce wrote to his wife. It was completely random, usually in the middle of another story or article. We never covered them at all, they were just there. My prof eventually admitted he included them as an easy way to tell who had actually done the assigned reading- the students who couldn't quite look him in the eye during discussion.

Modifié par SurelyForth, 30 septembre 2010 - 06:57 .

[LupusYondergirl]

Oh.
My.
God.
The Joyce letters to his wife?! Holy CRAP. They take filthy to a whole new level. While all being finely crafted examples of the English language at its best. Quite a contradiction.
I think I would have died if my Joyce professor assigned those.

But... my Joyce professor was a priest. So that would have added a new layer of WTF to the discussion.

Modifié par LupusYondergirl, 30 septembre 2010 - 07:18 .

[Galagraphia]

 I did it:



of no, 3 hours left to sleep... *dies*

[LupusYondergirl]

bwahahahahahaha.

That is fantastic! I love it!

[Miri1984]

@Gala - Oh. My. God. Anders on a broomstick. I love you soooo much.

[Avilia]

@Gala - that's epic. I'm in awe of your imagination.

[SurelyForth]

*giggles madly at the last panel*

Gala, you rock so f*cking hard.

Modifié par SurelyForth, 30 septembre 2010 - 09:55 .

[Giggles_Manically]

LOL at Anders.



That last panel is the very definition of WTF!!!

[Sarah1281]

Anders the witch...

[jenncgf]

Gala,  you win seventy billion internets this week.  That was hilarious! 

Let me repeat:

HIL-FREAKING-ARIOUS!!!

<3<3<3<3<3<3<3

(posting to the group now)

[jenncgf]

Oh, and Galagraphia: You should absolutely put this week's comic on the first page of this thread. I keep going back to it and laughing all over again!

[frostajulie]

Lupus Yondergirl that was so lovely and bittersweety. Makes me want to just grab that mage and give him a hug.

[LupusYondergirl]

Thank you! I'm not sure why so many of my prompts have been sad lately. I normally don't DO sad.

I suppose I need to get my angst out somewhere.

Glad you liked it!