weialala leia!

[ontology]

So, I've realised an interesting fact about myself. Most of you will probably not be surprised.

When I enter a new fandom, or am rediscovering an old one, I attempt to connect it to Eliot somehow. Um, yes. While I was waiting to get sleepy last night, I paged through my Complete Eliot and decided that Angel (so far the most likely candidate for Elioting) might find certain passages of Ash-Wednesday and The Hollow Men rather apt. A bit of Rhapsody on a Windy Night, too. Um, yes. I have a feeling it is too late; therapy cannot do me any good now. (But just look at them, will you? I mean really.) And hey,

Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow

-- reminds me of Simon Tam rather a lot. Oh dear. I haven't really found anyone in any fandom who suits The Waste Land, although I can see River quoting:

A woman drew her long black hair out tight     
And fiddled whisper music on those strings     
And bats with baby faces in the violet light     
Whistled, and beat their wings
And crawled head downward down a blackened wall     
And upside down in air were towers     
Tolling reminiscent bells, that kept the hours     
And voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells.

And most of you lot know that T.S. Eliot is Remus Lupin's favourite poet. (Shut up. He is. Look at Preludes! And Prufrock! They were practically written about him! And, um, I actually possess about half a draft of an entire Remus-fic based on Rhapsody on a Windy Night. Yes.) And that Four Quartets was written after Mr Eliot took a spin in the TARDIS (definitely post-Time War, because there are references all over the place). And ressie_noldo and I decided once that the Weialala Leia are an alien race, but that's beside the point.

So, this is Banui's brain on, er, madness. Yes. Going away now.

(Stuff about Life later, maybe. I've been having a few days half-out of the world, which is nice, but I also feel about three times as absent-minded as usual, and I've always been terrifically absent-minded.)

Comments

[faeriemaiden.livejournal.com]

All Slayers are American like...all Watchers are British? :p Seriously, though, I don't get the whole One Slayer thing -- it's completely impractical. Buffy's so busy in Sunnydale she doesn't have any time to go off to, say, Europe, and from the tales Spike and Drusilla bring, it seems to me that Europe could use a Slayer. And what about the East Coast? And, you know, all of the other continents? Surely there's more than one Hellmouth, even?

So, when you move to California, you should go Angel stalking. Yep. Then maybe we could get that television show about you and Roberto fighting vampires. You could join Angel's team.

Maybe Kendra is related to Tia Dalma. :DDD

[suangelita.livejournal.com]

I doubt all Slayers are American... Angel was vampire-fied before the United States of America existed. And Spike killed 2 Slayers, and I don't think they were American either. HAHA! I'd *love* to see a chick in a Regency gown fighting like Buffy does... Or in a hoopskirt... can you imagine?!?

I don't wanna join Angel's team. I want it to be about us on our own. With no Angel to distract viewers. ;)

This isn't 'cause I don't like Angel (because I DO!), it's 'cause I like Roberto and myself more. ;)

Maybe she is... freaky odd, that...