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darchildreMedia I Have Consumed Lately:
- Today, I went to see X-Men: First Class. Which I thoroughly enjoyed. Because how can one not enjoy a story that is that much about the epic love between Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr? It was fab.
- Have now finished season 5 of Supernatural. Turns out I have a new addition to the list of Things Sara Is Easy For In Fiction, and that is British demons named Crowley. I...did not realize that was a category that was ever going to contain more than one character*, but Supernatural!Crowley fills me with immense amounts of glee. I kinda want to be him when I grow up (minus the complete amorality and disregard for human life, of course).
- After talking about Stephen Asma's On Monsters at Wiscon, I bought it for my kindle. I'm very much enjoying it so far, even though the first few chapters are very much Monsters In the Ancient World, which I don't care about very much.** Soon, though, I will get to read about more modern monsters. Also, there is a section on torture porn, which the discussion at Wiscon has made me very interested to read, though not interested enough to actually start investigating the genre. (Yet.)
*Though, considering that I have found, to date, three characters who fall in the character type of "Dark haired angry guy with the personality of a junkyard dog and only one eye" (which I thought was probably the most oddly specific character type I had), I probably shouldn't be quite so surprised.
**I don't start caring about monsters until they can have a conversation with you. I have a hard time considering things like griffins and dragons and such to be monsters, honestly. I tend to class those more as "creatures" or "magical/mythical beasts". For me, I guess, calling something a monster requires both a definite connection to humanity and intent on the part of the monster. I am most interested in monsters that are obvious Other but also obviously humanish and, ideally, have been othered through a choice on their own part. Which, I suppose, explains why I've never been terribly interested in werewolves - they have their otherness thrust upon them, most of the time. Zombies, likewise - can't have a conversation, not their fault. Zombies are fun, sure, but they're not interesting in and of themselves.
- Today, I went to see X-Men: First Class. Which I thoroughly enjoyed. Because how can one not enjoy a story that is that much about the epic love between Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr? It was fab.
- Have now finished season 5 of Supernatural. Turns out I have a new addition to the list of Things Sara Is Easy For In Fiction, and that is British demons named Crowley. I...did not realize that was a category that was ever going to contain more than one character*, but Supernatural!Crowley fills me with immense amounts of glee. I kinda want to be him when I grow up (minus the complete amorality and disregard for human life, of course).
- After talking about Stephen Asma's On Monsters at Wiscon, I bought it for my kindle. I'm very much enjoying it so far, even though the first few chapters are very much Monsters In the Ancient World, which I don't care about very much.** Soon, though, I will get to read about more modern monsters. Also, there is a section on torture porn, which the discussion at Wiscon has made me very interested to read, though not interested enough to actually start investigating the genre. (Yet.)
*Though, considering that I have found, to date, three characters who fall in the character type of "Dark haired angry guy with the personality of a junkyard dog and only one eye" (which I thought was probably the most oddly specific character type I had), I probably shouldn't be quite so surprised.
**I don't start caring about monsters until they can have a conversation with you. I have a hard time considering things like griffins and dragons and such to be monsters, honestly. I tend to class those more as "creatures" or "magical/mythical beasts". For me, I guess, calling something a monster requires both a definite connection to humanity and intent on the part of the monster. I am most interested in monsters that are obvious Other but also obviously humanish and, ideally, have been othered through a choice on their own part. Which, I suppose, explains why I've never been terribly interested in werewolves - they have their otherness thrust upon them, most of the time. Zombies, likewise - can't have a conversation, not their fault. Zombies are fun, sure, but they're not interesting in and of themselves.
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Date: 2011-06-06 06:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-06-06 01:32 pm (UTC)The ones I was thinking of were Space Commander Travis (from Blakes 7), Sandor Cleagane (from A Song of Ice and Fire) and Hagan Gebicung (from...well, Nordic mythology, but the one I'm specifically thinking of is from Stephen Grundy's books, Rhinegold and Attila's Treasure.)
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Date: 2011-06-06 04:00 pm (UTC)