a flicker of the future could've saved the cindered sister

[hardparade]

THIS IS AN ANNA POPPLEWELL APPRECIATION POST. (Mostly.)

She did a photoshoot for THAT magazine, which isn't actually out yet, but there are behind-the-scenes pictures from it which are gorgeous.


















I am much more in favour of these clothes than her NMAs dress. *gazes* CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR EVERYTHING, ANNA. Oh, there is also this picture from the NMAs, though, which is beautiful:



But sadly there aren't any pictures of Anna and Georgie together (besides those ones of them in the audience) or with James. And speaking of sad things, her new project—Brave New World—wasn't picked up by NBC, so that really sucks. :(


In other news, I've been watching a ridiculous amount of TV. I'm watching Game of Thrones and The Borgias, and generally enjoying both. Game Of Thrones, I'm less sure about—some of it really disturbs me, and I know that's kind of the point, but I just feel kind of nervous and uncertain about it. But I do like it! It gets like +1000 points for the incest and the slash. I really like The Borgias a lot—shipping Cesare/Lucrezia, obviously, and generally enjoying François Arnaud's face, and also there was consensual whipping which I approve of. I find the Cesare/Michelotto relationship really interesting. And now I want to read A Song of Ice and Fire and lots of books about the Borgia family, but I still suck at reading lately.

I'm also watching Camelot which, um, is not so good. I don't know, maybe Arthurian legend shows just don't do it for me, but it's just kind of boring, and really at this point I'm only watching for Eva Green and her OVERALL AWESOMENESS, being all crazy and powerful. (Also maybe a little bit for Jamie Campbell Bower.) What else? Baffled by the Fringe season finale, and growing increasingly concerned about the state of House (and also suddenly shipping Chase/Thirteen, where did that come from??). Rewatching the first season of The O.C., because I kept seeing stuff on Tumblr and getting nostalgic. I got so much of my music taste from that show back in the day, it's amazing—at least twice an episode, I'll be like "hey, I like this song!...oh, this is where I first heard this song."

In the past week or so I've also been marathoning Community and Parks & Recreation and wondering why I didn't do that sooner. SO GOOD, YOU GUYS. I don't actually laugh out loud that often at TV shows, and it's not like I don't find them funny, but it's more like...I appreciate the clever writing and I'm amused, but I'm not actually cracking up, you know? But both of these shows have been making me laugh regularly. Especially the flu episode of Parks & Rec. My Dad actually came in and asked me what was wrong because I was laughing so hard. "I can't go home! I have to get ready for the Chamber of Secrets!" "...Commerce." SPEAKING OF WHICH: I love Ben Wyatt. Can we talk about Adam Scott and his delightful face?

Can we talk about any of this, actually? I've basically just been sitting here watching all this TV and not really talking about it.

AND FINALLY, a meme which could be fun maybe if anyone is interested:

Mini-DVD Meme: Pick any paragraph or any passage of between 500-600 words from any fanfic I've written and comment to this post with that selection. I will then give you a DVD commentary on that snippet of what I was thinking when I made or wrote it, why I wrote it, what's going on in the character's heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment means in the context of the fic, and anything else you'd expect to find on a DVD commentary track.

My masterlist is here but I guess if you pick something I wrote ages ago I might not remember what I was thinking at the time. :/

Comments

[likecharity.livejournal.com]

Oooh. Well, I know I wanted to get like, a clear division in there, between Cook&Effy and Freddie, and particularly to have it seem (to Freddie, at that moment) like Cook was the one in charge of the situation. But mainly to make it clear that he felt like he was facing a couple, you know? And in that bit, I wanted there to be some uncertainty as to how Cook and Effy were treating him, like I wanted them to be acting cool (Cook's greeting, offering him the coke) but for there to be some animosity there as well.

I always find it quite hard to a) get inside Freddie's head and b) write about drugs, haha, and it's been a while now so I can't quite remember what else I was thinking. It's just kind of the moment that kicks everything off - like, I like to think what happens later would have happened without the drugs, but it changes the way they're all acting a little bit and makes them more hyped up and ready for something.

And yeah - there's been SO much raving about Community and Parks & Rec! That's why I ended up watching them, I was just seeing them everywhere and people say they're like the best shows ever. I hope you enjoy them! I was mostly getting P&R from torrents. There are some downloads here (http://fuckingbruges.tumblr.com/post/5447977184/parks-and-recreation-download-links-the-series), but some of the links are broken.

[aubade-saudade.livejournal.com]

ty for the links! \o/


yeah, when Cook said "you made it" it kinda felt like there was some sort of an accusation there/challenge. then at the same time it's like there's this weird power imbalance somehow, except that Cook is as vulnerable as anyone else there because then why else would he say "you made it"? something rly insecure/needy just underneath.

you're really good at creating this kind of thrilling kind of doomy/dready pit of yr stomach tension. and yeah, it's a bit about peer pressure but it kind of reminds me of novels about the 1920's where people were trying to cut themselves out of these predetermined roles or whatever but the more they rebel the more trapped in another way they seem. idk. i just rly liked that one. it was all 3-somey but deep too and made Effey seem all Daisy-like in a weird way, which i rly like. <3

thanks for the insight!

[likecharity.livejournal.com]

You're welcome! I hope they work.

Yes! It's like Cook trying to gain the power/control in the situation, because deep down he doesn't feel like he is. I mean, that's a big part of his relationship with Effy in my eyes anyway - he's taking her from Freddie and constantly taunting Freddie with her, because underneath it all he's terrified of Freddie and Effy getting together and Freddie leaving him. Basically. But that's probably my slash-goggles view of things. XD

Ooh, thank you. Tension is something I really like in what I read, so I guess I put a lot of it into my own writing. XD I know what you mean about the further the rebelling goes, the more trapped they feel - Skins in general is like that, which is why I never got why people thought it was ~glamourisng~ drug use - it was basically kind of saying "doing drugs won't solve your problems, look how messed up these people are anyway."

You're welcome! :)