Jan. 28th, 2009

bedlamsbard: natasha romanoff from the black widow prelude comic (Default)
I don't think anyone understands how much this excites me.

I grew up on Burroughs, of course -- Tarzan first, then Pellucidar and the Mars and Venus books, as well as most of his other novels. His Barsoom stories were never my favorite, but damn. If they can pull this off -- and it'll be damn hard; Hollywood's never done a good Tarzan movie and I don't have particularly high hopes that they ever will, but John Carter of Mars is something else entirely -- then damn. *crosses fingers*

Come on, Hollywood, you did Narnia! I know you don't fuck up everything! One wouldn't think Burroughs would be so hard to transport to the screen, but I think it's the sheer amount of crack in some of those books, mingled with some of the seriousness there. (And Burrough is fucking awesome, man. AWESOME. That explains so much about what I write, doesn't it?)

You know who would make a good John Carter? Ben Browder. (My dad and I had this conversation before he went to Thailand and I came to New Orleans; I think it was Ben Browder who I said would make a good John Carter. I know I said Christian Bale for Tarzan/John Clayton. Browder might have been David Innes, though. *frowns*)

Yeah. I grew up on early twentieth century pulp fiction. GO ME.
bedlamsbard: natasha romanoff from the black widow prelude comic (destiny (faerie-dance))
I feel like I have been studying all day. So much studying. Got up at 7:00, went to breakfast, went to 8:30-9:45 Victorianism class, studied Japanese kanji, read The Medea, went to 1:00 Literary Investigations class, read an article about free Athenian women, studied more Japanese, and that doesn't seem like all that much, but I feel like I have been doing more. *frowns* I know I haven't been writing, and I only bopped around on the Internet at little bit.

Meanwhile, I have Peter Pevensie in my head trying to work the "Jack and Jill went up the hill" rhyme into, I don't even know, something to do with Narnia. Okay. Why did no one tell me that Peter post-PC is really fucking psycho? Like, not even in that vaguely sociopathic way he is in PC (well, my PC). By a few years on, it's not even that he doesn't care, it's that he's highly amused by it all. Although in Narnia, Christ Jesus, he's cynical. I mean, look at this:
And yet this is Narnia, and there’s not a damn thing in Narnia that isn’t steeped in his own history. Not the ground beneath his feet, not the stones on which Caspian’s castle stands, not even the broad expanse of the Great River, which bringest back the memory of the past to him as if he was standing on its banks in the fullest flush of summer, head turned back to the sun and his country humming in content around him. He can’t not look back: he doesn’t dare look forward, because if there’s anything he’s learned in the past decade it’s that Aslan’s left nothing for him in Narnia except for the crises that will never cease, because history is a cyclic poem and even those that know what the past has wrought are doomed to repeat it. Peter’s been here before; he’ll be here again. That’s certain. There are few enough things that are.
bedlamsbard: natasha romanoff from the black widow prelude comic (happiness (mata090680))
Man, I don't even know what I'm doing. I'm googling Islamic and Persian and Moorish architecture to try and describe the castle of Cair Paravel, because I'm trying to figure out how the Calormenes changed it from the castle that Caspian originally built, which has elements of both Telmarine and Narnian (using the original castle of Cair Paravel here as a basis) architecture, but has had additions built on in the three hundred years since. But meanwhile it's been taken over by the Calormenes, and they're obviously going to be doing something.

...I need more color. It's grey and boring. That's a Telmarine thing -- I can't see the Calormenes keeping it that way or the Narnians standing for it.

Maybe just the outside is colorless?

...dude, if I have to figure out a floorplan of the castle, I am going to be so pissed. I mean, I sincerely doubt I am, not that much happens in the castle and I haven't even done a floorplan of Cair Paravel (the original), and I write there much more option. I have, what, three chapters that involve the castle? Possibly more.

Wait, now I appear to be looking up Spanish architecture. Well, at least that's closer to what the Telmarines would actually have been building. Dude, I don't even need to know this stuff, except apparently Peter's on high alert.

...I need to fuck around with my icons again. I feel like I hate them all, except for Susan. Why are there so many more happy Susan icons than there are happy Peter icons? Or at least ones where there's warmer shading for Susan.

ETA: IT IS WINTER. OF COURSE THERE IS NO COLOR. Also, why are there no Cair Paravel icons? I don't want to dig around in the icons of four years ago because I will never find anything, but still.
bedlamsbard: natasha romanoff from the black widow prelude comic (destiny (faerie-dance))
...right, okay, Peter is completely mad. England drove him crazy! Aren't we glad we've figured this out? That boy wears masks like other people wear clothes, and changes them just as quickly. Does he even know who he is anymore? Really, I mean? What do you have left when all you have are masks?

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