Vid recs, and writer-fan encounters of the classic type

[selenak]

Firstly, more vid recs:


Terminator movies/ Sarah Connor Chronicles:

Land: this one is epic, using the multiple timelines premise from the show and the time loop premise from the movies to fantastic effect, matching footage from both. Sarah, John, the time loop of John's existence, and all the possibilities.

Star Trek:

Swing: this vid is just pure joy. TOS from Uhura's point of view, with a side line of "why Uhura is awesome". Old time fans will love it, and as for fans who never watched a single episode of the original show and just came on board with the new movie, I defy you to watch this and not hum along and wanting to be on the Enterprise. (Just as long as you get to hang out with Uhura instead of being a red shirt, of course. *g*)

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Now, I've said before that if classic German literature were a fandom, Goethe and Schiller would be slashed like no one's business with all the slash fodder they so generously provide. Reading the new Rüdiger Safranski book about them reminds me they also provide precedents for writers versus fangirl encounters. Well, how would you describe the following encounter with Germaine de Stael when she was visiting Weimar (which, btw, also reminds me that French was the English of the 18th century in that Madame correctly assumed it didn't matter that she hardly spoke any German because everyone she wanted to talk to spoke French:

Madame de Stael: *meets Schiller, declares he looks like a handsome dashing general, talks A LOT, explaining Schiller to himself*
Schiller: *writes to Goethe "ZOMG you have to come home she's analyzing everything to death HELP"*
Goethe: *comes back to Weimar*
Madame de Stael: I thought the author of "Werther" would be a dashing young man. You're middle aged, overweight, and you're having sex with your housekeeper. This is why you're not a man of the world even though you try to act like one.
Goethe: Do I care?
Madame de Stael: What you do in some of your dramas is so against good taste.
Goethe: The audience will get used to it.
Madame de Stael: How could you write such a dark ending for Werther?!? Don't you feel guilty because The Sorrows of Young Werther made people kill themselves?
Goethe: No. When I write something that feels right to me, I really don't care about the consequences.
Madame de Stael: I think German verse feels clumsy.
Goethe: I think French verse feels like tapeworm.
Madame de Stael: Well, that's it for now, boys, but I'm coming so back to Weimar with a friend once I've travelled to Germany some more!
Schiller: Do you think she meant that?
Goethe: *shrugs*
Madame de Stael: *returns with August Wilhelm Schlegel, whom she has paid 10 000 Taler to be her "literary advisor"*
Schiller: I'm outta here. *goes on an unplanned journey to Berlin within 48 hours of Madame's arrival*
Schlegel (a Goethe but not a Schiller fanboy): Schiller so is the wife in that relationship.

Comments

[monanotlisa]

::applauds::

Using my icon with a Schiller caption. & ;-)

[selenak]

Brushing up one's Schiller can be fun. :)

[siljamus]

Both this and the OTP-post are all kinds of awesome. Fandom has the most amazing corrupting powers *g*

Madame de Stael: I think German verse feels clumsy.
Goethe: I think French verse feels like tapeworm.

This reminds me in an oddly roundabout way of one of my German teachers at school who always claimed that English was for lightweights, French for wimps and German for Real Men and Women.

[selenak]

Fandom does. *g*

And well, I thought French was pretty tough myself, but yes, English is easy. Of course being German I'm not in a position to judge how hard it is to learn, but Mark Twain had some acerbic things to say on the subject. :)

[trude]

Goethe was old, fat and slept with women???!!! How dare you break my fannish dreams? [stops out of G/S-fandom]

(OK, if there really was a G/S-fandom I probably wouldn't have joined it in the first place, due having Schiller-issues since I was 17 and read Die Jungfrau von Orleans a few months after reading Shaw's Saint Joan. ZOMG, Schiller got Jeanne d'Arc wrong!)

[selenak]

Hihi, I felt similarly about Die Jungfrau von Orleans, but it wasn't a surprise to me - Schiller got Elizabeth Tudor wrong, big time, in Maria Stuart before that. (Also, one has to say in his defense the transcripts of the Jeanne d'Arc's trials weren't available when he wrote his play. Not that he didn't take massive liberties with what he DID available have as well.)This being said, Sir, geben Sie Gedankenfreiheit and Don Carlos in general make me forgive a lot, plus I do love the poetry. Oh, and a great many of the letters.

[cahn]

Madame de Stael: I think German verse feels clumsy.
Goethe: I think French verse feels like tapeworm.

I laughed really hard at this. This whole thing was just hilarious.