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.)

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[travellers-home.livejournal.com]

Lol! I love it when you ramble about your fandoms. I was talking with my flatmate late one night (much too late, I must say), and we were trying to come up with a reason why certain shows/movies/characters attracted us, while we found others uninteresting. Any thoughts?

[faeriemaiden.livejournal.com]

I had a sort of theory a while ago, only I never wrote it down and it got muddled by time, as most of my theories tend to do. Because my dad and I have been talking about popcorn films, and I realised that while I do like a good popcorn film, it has to appeal to me in a certain way -- it has to include something that makes it particularly fun for me, especially as I tend to prefer, um, more serious fare. So, like, my dad tends to enjoy action films when he wants something mindless: me, I like a good historical flick, like Pirates of the Caribbean, and I like clever dialogue, and sharp imagery. (You can totally get me to see a film by telling me that it's well photographed. I am a huge cinematography geek. ^-^) I often don't see the spark in the popcorn action films Dad enjoys, and he doesn't tend to really love the sorts that I do. I dunno, rambling.

I also realised that I tend to like characters who are more like me -- not in a narcissistic sort of way, but -- people I can really understand, you know? Which is why I love Martha best in Doctor Who, and Simon and River in Firefly, and Remus and Tonks in Harry Potter (who basically equal the two opposing sides of my very contradictory personality ^-^). And then there are things that just interest people, you know? I mean, some girls really like the brooding hero, or a spunky girl protagonist, and some people really like the deliverers of clever lines, and some people like the characters who seem insignificant at first, or useless, or annoying, and turn out to be awesome in the end and save the world. Me, because I'm a) a writer and like getting inside people's heads, and b) fascinated by psychology, I tend to find more complicated characters the most interesting -- characters with interesting motivations, characters who are confused or reluctant or contradictory. Maybe this has something to do with the whole relating theory, or maybe it's closer to the "what your storytelling, er, fetish is" thing, I'm not sure.

Also, not making any sense now. Going away. ^-^