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Happy Thursday things. And a ficlet!
Nov. 1st, 2007 01:32 pm1) ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kassrachel pointed out this article about a new Joss Whedon TV series starring Eliza Dushku. That’s just nifty.
2) I’ve just listened to a cover of “Don’t Fear The Reaper” by Nick Cave and Enya. It was wrong in many, many ways. But still, the fact that Nick Cave and Enya entered a recording studio together -- and the world didn’t end, despite the coming together of musical matter and anti-matter -- is really kind of cool. Even if the results of their collaboration are scarier than this reaper I’m not supposed to fear.
3) So I go offline for two weeks, and J.K. Rowling outs Dumbledore. (Coincidence? Yeah, probably.) There’s an interesting essay in the NYTimes about Dumbledore’s sexuality and whether or not it matters (you’ll have to register with the Times to read it, but it’s free). I’m particularly intrigued by this paragraph:
Her heroes are the hybrids, the misfits, those of mixed blood, all bearing scars of loss and love: the half-giant Hagrid, the mudblood Hermione (whose parents were not wizards), the poverty-stricken Ron, the orphaned Harry. Perhaps speaking of Dumbledore as gay was just a matter of creating another diverse rebel against orthodoxy.
Go down the ranks of the Order of the Phoenix and you get yet more examples: the werewolf Lupin, the uncertainly gendered Tonks, the estranged-from-his-evil-family-and-wrongly-imprisoned-for-twelve-years Sirius, etc. So far, so good. But it seems to me – and I preface this by saying that I’ve never been into Potterverse slash, so I don’t have a vested interest in proving this one way or the other – but anyway, it seems to me like this is all an eloquent argument in favor of the gayness of Draco. ( Cut for VERY vague DH spoilers. )
4) I watched SV 7.04 and 7.05 -- "Cure" and "Action" -- yesterday. Holy crap, Smallville! Two really good episodes in a row! With clever plots and juicy Clex scenes and seriously fascinating canonical meta! Dare I hope that this is a trend? ( Some spoilery comments follow. )
5) “Action” has inspired a wee little addition to my 69 Love Songs project. It’s a bit dopey, I admit. But it had to be done. (I am, as always, Lex’s bitch.)
( Love Song #34: My Only Friend )
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kassrachel pointed out this article about a new Joss Whedon TV series starring Eliza Dushku. That’s just nifty.2) I’ve just listened to a cover of “Don’t Fear The Reaper” by Nick Cave and Enya. It was wrong in many, many ways. But still, the fact that Nick Cave and Enya entered a recording studio together -- and the world didn’t end, despite the coming together of musical matter and anti-matter -- is really kind of cool. Even if the results of their collaboration are scarier than this reaper I’m not supposed to fear.
3) So I go offline for two weeks, and J.K. Rowling outs Dumbledore. (Coincidence? Yeah, probably.) There’s an interesting essay in the NYTimes about Dumbledore’s sexuality and whether or not it matters (you’ll have to register with the Times to read it, but it’s free). I’m particularly intrigued by this paragraph:
Her heroes are the hybrids, the misfits, those of mixed blood, all bearing scars of loss and love: the half-giant Hagrid, the mudblood Hermione (whose parents were not wizards), the poverty-stricken Ron, the orphaned Harry. Perhaps speaking of Dumbledore as gay was just a matter of creating another diverse rebel against orthodoxy.
Go down the ranks of the Order of the Phoenix and you get yet more examples: the werewolf Lupin, the uncertainly gendered Tonks, the estranged-from-his-evil-family-and-wrongly-imprisoned-for-twelve-years Sirius, etc. So far, so good. But it seems to me – and I preface this by saying that I’ve never been into Potterverse slash, so I don’t have a vested interest in proving this one way or the other – but anyway, it seems to me like this is all an eloquent argument in favor of the gayness of Draco. ( Cut for VERY vague DH spoilers. )
4) I watched SV 7.04 and 7.05 -- "Cure" and "Action" -- yesterday. Holy crap, Smallville! Two really good episodes in a row! With clever plots and juicy Clex scenes and seriously fascinating canonical meta! Dare I hope that this is a trend? ( Some spoilery comments follow. )
5) “Action” has inspired a wee little addition to my 69 Love Songs project. It’s a bit dopey, I admit. But it had to be done. (I am, as always, Lex’s bitch.)
( Love Song #34: My Only Friend )
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