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petroniaI kind of wish I were at all able to read Tolkien fanfiction,** because most of the Hobbit meta/reviews/etc. strike me as wrongheaded and it's ticking me off. :/
** I can't. I mean, I can, obviously, I am made of stern stuff XD, but I don't take to them in the normal fashion (apart from a few clever AU parodies). This is a decade-long recurrent complaint, since Jackson started making his movies, and if we've known each other online that long you're probably bored of me kvetching about this. IIRC my 2001 solution was to read lotrips but I was aware even at the time that what I really wanted was gen fic. But Sabina, you say, what the hell is gen lotrips? Wouldn't that be, like, text transcriptions of fake Weta production video diaries?
YES.
EXACTLY.
TALK TO ME ABOUT MIRRORED 3D CAMERA RIGS AND SELECTING BETWEEN 2,391 CONCEPTUAL ARTIST RENDITIONS OF DWARF BEARDS.
Anyway. Thank goodness for Tumblr and Pixiv I guess. You know who is really into hobbit food pr0n and chibi versions of Kili and Fili? The Japanese. Who is surprised? Nobody.
** I can't. I mean, I can, obviously, I am made of stern stuff XD, but I don't take to them in the normal fashion (apart from a few clever AU parodies). This is a decade-long recurrent complaint, since Jackson started making his movies, and if we've known each other online that long you're probably bored of me kvetching about this. IIRC my 2001 solution was to read lotrips but I was aware even at the time that what I really wanted was gen fic. But Sabina, you say, what the hell is gen lotrips? Wouldn't that be, like, text transcriptions of fake Weta production video diaries?
YES.
EXACTLY.
TALK TO ME ABOUT MIRRORED 3D CAMERA RIGS AND SELECTING BETWEEN 2,391 CONCEPTUAL ARTIST RENDITIONS OF DWARF BEARDS.
Anyway. Thank goodness for Tumblr and Pixiv I guess. You know who is really into hobbit food pr0n and chibi versions of Kili and Fili? The Japanese. Who is surprised? Nobody.
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Date: 2013-01-05 04:37 am (UTC)(P.S. Attendant Husband caught a glimpse and praised your handwriting. <3)
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Date: 2013-01-05 06:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-01-05 04:42 am (UTC)i'd read about 3d camera rigs and selecting between 2,391 conceptual artist renditions of dwarf beards, too, fwiw :')
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Date: 2013-01-05 06:04 am (UTC)A part of me is holding out for Ono Natsume fanart. This is wrongheaded cos Ono Natsume is almost certainly holding out for Beorn.
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Date: 2013-01-05 05:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-01-05 08:34 am (UTC)Much like this 48 frames per second nonsenseIt's a writing issue, I think. I mean, I've read Narnia fic, that was fine. XD; I think with Tolkien, people either pastiche Tolkien, or are unable to rise to the level of Tolkien pastiche, whereas I suspect what's needed is writing as well as Tolkien but not sounding like him. And that's before one gets into all the opportunities for nitpicking #nerdrage.
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Date: 2013-01-05 05:21 am (UTC)Care to rec any AU parodies?
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Date: 2013-01-05 07:09 pm (UTC)