Jul. 9th, 2007

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I went down to Newbury Comics in the Providence Place Mall to get season one of Bones, used, but it was already gone; someone had bought it. I had a very intense debate with a friend over whether to get Stargate SG-1 season three or the Star Wars original trilogy -- both used and thus cheap -- and ended up getting neither one. I know: I suck. On the other hand, we did get tickets to see Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix on Wednesday, so hurrah for that.

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Okay. Seriously have to work on the ten-page project for class now.
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Ah, the week of a thousand LJ entries begins. *girds loins*

I'm working on this story for class -- our ten-page final project -- tentatively called "Now Let the Fire Bathe Us", about Expanda woman who (and I mentioned this briefly before) accidentally sells her soul to the devil in return for bringing her husband back from the dead. )

Now I just have to make the devil subtly evil. BE SUBTLY EVIL, DAMN YOU. Because with the initial story, I was told my devil was kitsch and cliched, so I'm trying to compensate by making him an All-American eyecandy high school football player. Thus, the subtly evil part.
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Argh, now I'm trying to figure out what music the mysteriously malfunctioning car radio is playing while Ellie Browder talks with the devil. So far we've got "Hell's Bells", "Highway to Hell", "The Devil Went Down to Georgia", and "Crossroad Blues."

Yes. Because that's not subtle at all.

Well, I guess it helps that my MC's drunk. And driving, but then you have to consider that she just watched high school football and her husband's dead, so that makes it -- not all that much better, but more explainable. And the devil's in her passenger seat, but she doesn't quite realize that yet.

ARGH. DIE YOU BASTARD DIE. Any other music suggestions?
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I have mentioned before that Star Wars breaks my fucking heart, right?

*weeps*

This is probably why I spend so much time trying to make it All Better in my own fucked up Bedlam kind of way, which basically consists of making the galaxy a Very Very Dark Place. Not that that's not, oh, let me think about it, canon. But at least Anakin isn't evil! He has, however, finally come to the place where he realizes he really kind of sucks at being a Jedi -- which is ironic, because by the time he reaches that place, there are no Jedi anymore. The Order has been destroyed. On the bright side, he wasn't the one who did it.

I am, of course, speaking of the Anakin in What Is Lost. I'm kind of hoping to get back to him -- I've been writing some more of him in the sequel which has no title. The untitled sequel has a little more Obi-Wan in it, though, but I'm not sure how that's going to go. If I go for it, it'll deal more with the larger repercussions the lack of Anakin going evil had on the Star Wars 'verse (which is to say: Padme, the twins, Palpatine, Darth Cidal -- his identity! Revealed! The horror!).

And there's the other SW AU I'm dying to write, "The Most Dangerous Man in the Galaxy." Which is a crossover. Sort of. Involving time travel. Er, fine, I'll be explicit: it's what happens when the Obi-Wan and Anakin of early RotS (like, on the Invisible Hand kicking Dooku's butt early) end up on Hoth in ESB. Yes. Because there's so little intersection between the prequel trilogy and the original trilogy, and it kind of breaks my heart that there isn't anymore, because there should be. There seems to be a lack of taking into account the fact that both stories take place in the same universe, that they're tied together -- I mean, to an extent you've obviously got Anakin turns into Vader and is redeemed by Luke, hurrah!, but beyonds that and a little bit of alas, Obi-Wan goes to Tatooine and spends twenty years going slowly insane among the sands, but it seems like there's a whole sub-genre of Star Wars fic that's barely been breached, and it makes me sad.

It's also one in the morning, so I think I'll just...go now.

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