question and answer session

[bedlamsbard]

lassiterfics has asked me a few questions...

1. What was your first favorite book?

First favorite book? Honestly cannot remember. There is a pretty good chance it was this illustrated children's version of The Odyssey -- the funny thing being here that I grew up with The Odyssey, and I know the story, and I love it a whole lot, but I've never actually read the actual Odyssey, even in translation.

2. Tell me about your favorite memory of winter.

Let us discuss the fact that I moved two thousand miles away from home to get away from winter...what, no? No? Okay. Um. You know, generally I just find winter kind of annoying and vaguely terrifying, and I don't think there are any specific favorite memories. Except. You know that feeling where it's friggin' freezing outside and you can't feel your toes or your fingers or your ears or your cheeks, or, well, anything, and then you go inside and it's warm and you can sit in front of a fireplace and listen to the flames crackle and drink hot chocolate? That's pretty good. (Yes. My house has a fireplace. Not favorite memories of winter include having to stomp outside in the FREEZING COLD, get the sled, manhandle logs onto the sled, drag the sled back to the mudroom to fill up the woodrack, and then repeat the process several times. THEN go inside.) Also, my birthday is in winter. I'm just sayin', here.

3. Top three fave foods?

Tekkamaki (tuna rolls), Hershey's milk chocolate, really good fresh-baked sourdough bread.

4. Okay so like, if a talking bird or a girl with pointy ears, or a wizened man in strange clothes barged into your life and said you MUST SAVE THEM. YOU MUST SAVE THEM ALL BEFORE THEY DIE. "This magic dagger will guide your way!" they insist. What would you do?

Well, there would be a couple moments of shocked blinking, and then some carefully trying to warn them away or get them help that is not me, but then I'd probably try to help and let them drag me around. Unless it was the talking bird. Because I have the worst ornithophobia ever; it is horrible. I'm sorry, birds are terrifying. But, I mean, there would be some attempts to back away and distract their attention, but if they're persistent they would probably end up with me eventually.

5. What word/phrase do you say too much?

LIKE. Because I am a teenage girl. Also, um, y'all, because I am distinctly not Southern. And occasionally I go through other phases where I say some phrase all the time -- the year of "OH DEAR" for everything was before I got on LJ...actually, in retrospect, it may have been before I got into fandom -- but I don't think I'm in one right now. Could be wrong, though.


In other, non-related news. I now own Stardust the book and Stardust the movie for, uh, research purposes. And...I like the movie better, because WTF Gaiman, that was your ending? Dude.

Also, now I want to write the fantasy quest story where it's the putupon single father that has to go on all the adventures in order to bail his questing son out of, like, jail or something. YOU KNOW. Because I like Dunstan better than I like Tristran/Tristan, and also, I am kind of in the mood where I want to turn tropes on their heads. Also, wouldn't it be awesome?

Dear father,

My greatest apologies for the lateness of this message; I know that you said to keep in touch, but I have been otherwise occupied, and it has been difficult to find ways of communicating.
[...several lines of dancing around the subject...]
Through no fault of my own, I have found myself in prison, and I need someone to stand surety for me so that I may leave. Father, you must understand that I did not do the terrible things they are accusing me of, nor would I call on you for anything that was not the direst of needs. I beg you to come and aid me; I understand that this will take you away from your business and I am fully prepared to repay you for any losses that you may suffer during the interim.

Your loving son

Comments

[lassiterfics.livejournal.com]

Tuna is my favorite sushi/raw-fish thing! And I TOO HATE THE WINTER. I was not bred for these climes! I say 'or whatevs' waaaay too damn much.

Yeah, Stardust is actually my least favorite Gaiman book. I just feel like in general he can do and has done so much more with magic.

lololol Tristran's letter

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

I liked it up until the end. And then I was like, "WHAT. WHAT. THAT IS NOT AN ENDING OH MY GOD." As a general rule, I do not like Gaiman. And yet! I got the book for research. For Sing the Sun.

We are totally using movieverse canon with occasional bookverse asides (like, uh, we do with a certain other fandom! which does not need naming), because movieverse is slightly more awesome. *hands*

Next high fantasy story I write: the single father who has to go bail his questing son out of jail in Faerie. Because TEN TIMES MORE AWESOME than the questing son getting himself screwed over in the first place.

[lassiterfics.livejournal.com]

for research. For Sing the Sun.
YOU ARE A TROOPER

we haven't actually used that much stardust canon at all, so i'll go wherevs. i may accidentally use bookverse canon because i have neither book nor movie with me and we'll see what my memory (and the internet) churns up.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

mmm, yes, i don't think there's much difference so far as what we write, just mostly that we don't have the fair every nine years and the babylon candle works differently. also that the land's called stormhold and not faerie, although on second thought, we could just call it faerie and have done. because that works too.

COMBING MOVIEVERSE AND BOOKVERSE IN CONFUSING WAYS SINCE 2008: LASS AND BEDLAM.

[lassiterfics.livejournal.com]

refresh me, how does the movieverse babylon candle works?

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

think of where you want to go, light it, and you're gone! which is why i wanted the trickster to give one to lucy while she's still in england, because it's a fast, easy way to get her to faerie/stormhold.