Sororial shenanigans

[petronia]

Sororial unit went to see Pirates of the Caribbean today, in the company of her fenchurch and chaperoned by my mum. (Incidentally, ladyjaida, you got yourself another vote for Bootstrap/Jack...) She returned, and we fell to talking. Ended up she gave me this YA novel, Le Trésor de Brion by Jean Lemieux, that she read for French class last year; which purportedly contains mention of - wait for it - a forbidden romance between an abbé and a pirate. Avoue que ça fait nouveauté. Her teacher told the class quite cheerfully that he assigned it because he was hardcore into pirates as a kid, but it had never occurred to him they could be gay. Apparently he thought this was nifty.

She says the book is eyeball-stabbingly bad. This I have to see for myself.

Speaking of which: before the OotP-mania dies down entirely (ha ha), if you haven't checked my site recently, my sister did another one of her hidden-word puzzles with vocabulary from HP5. Go print it out if you have Acrobat Reader. Use it to amuse kids even, if kids are a component of your life.

(For all that I talk about my sister as if she were a little kid, she's not. She's only a couple of years younger than the youngest person on my lj-friends, all of whom I think of as peers. A teenage fangirl, though, certainly, which is only one of the reasons I take the generic insulting of teenage fangirls a bit ad hominem these days.)

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[acadine.livejournal.com]

And lo, I take a moment to mock thee:

Weren't you the one saying that just wait, it was all downhill for the HP fandom post-Book 5, that these were their salad days, etc, etc? ;P

Have not yet seen LXG, but curse you for making me want to write Moriarty/Mycroft.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

I was not expecting HP5 to be (to quote ng) an angsty kidult book. Anecdotally speaking, it's inspiring canon devotion and ficcing urges in people who previously had neither. I mean, *you* weren't writing for it before, and neither was I particularly (except for the Lily/Narcissa thing which - astonishingly - missed being jossed, far's I can tell. I will merely have to tweak L's characterisation to make her less buddingly-squishy on James). 'Course I'm only writing it now because people asked me to, but hey.

I still expect it to kill a lot of epics, mind you; among other reasons because I find I can't read pre-OotP speculation anymore, and I can't be the only one. (Also, frankly, because I expect the BNF-structure at the top of the HP fenpile to implode any day now. They're as insane as the court of Caligula. I'm just waiting for the plebian legions to finally get fed up and rebel.)

MORIARTY/MYCROFT IS MY NEW FANDOM OF TWO *steals Harpy's icon*

[serendip.livejournal.com]

It's just cos she's younger. I talk about my youngest brother as if he were a little kid, in spite of the fact that he is only 4 years younger than me and older than say most of the people I know online. It's just the well in-grained sense of hierarchy. 'S all.

And the insult "teenage fangirl" is one that I take issue with only because it's not the age that people so much have issue with as in that perceived/assumed heady mixture of immaturity, hormones, self-centred, arrogance that supposedly only teenagers have. Which is really utterly ludicrious since most of the really obnoxious people I've seen online are my age or older. Sides, for insecurity to be properly compelling, one needs to foster it for years. Festering insecurity is a deadly, deadly thing. XD~

But, if there weren't obnoxious, immature people, I wouldn't have anything to do on the internet, so it's not as if I'm going to complain. XD~

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Is true - amazing how many 30-year-old teenagers there are out there. Ditto for the sense of hierarchy. XD

[z107m.livejournal.com]

heh, there are actually two major books with pirates and their dibs on some homosexual action, which in itself is really no surprise:

"Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition" by Barry Burg
which can be a pretty dry read, and at times outright speculative, but amusing enough in the way that it shines a while new light on these yo-ho-ho-men, and does provide some hard evidence. its especially touching reading about such tender affection some captains had for their "cabin boys". ^_-

and

"Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash" by Hans Turley
This one's actually more problematic than the first book, mainly for its sloppy scholarly research and narrative style. Otherwise, yeah, its amusing enough if you just keep your eyes open and sort out the good from the bad.

hope your sis has fun, her teacher sounds interesting.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Ah, thank you. Will try to track them down at McGill lib sometime. XD

(Yes, she seems to quite like that teacher.)