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Re: British politics... so, I hear the sequel to Into the Spidervers will be titled Spiderwoman: Judgment Day?

Truly, it was a glorious day yesterday, but today the depressing guess has grown in me that the horror clowns on both sides of the Atlantic will just brazen it out. In the US, the Right have become so fanatic and radicalized that they seem incapable of mustering anything like the sense of responsibility that sent Nixon running in the end, and in Britain, Brexit has become an ideology to trump, no pun intended, all other ideologies to its followers, whose policy, if it can be called that, basically amounts to "we had to destroy the village in order to save it". I mean, yes, they've utterly unmasked themselves. (Sovereignity of parliament? Not if its members do anything we don't like. Sovereignity of British courts and British laws? Nah, judges are "enemies of the people" (Stalin says hello). United Kingdom? To hell with North Ireland, Scotland, and Wales.) But I doubt anyone brainwashed by Brexit fever will care. You know what, I prefer Stephen King novels. Sure, a great many of the cast may die, and if you're really unlucky, the glimpse of the afterlife makes things even worse, but generally people make more sense, and fanatics get foiled before it's all over.

On that note, I've only begun to check out this delightful Stephen King fanfiction exchange: Some Find Solace is a creepy h/c delight of a story in which Trisha (from The Girl who loved Tom Gordon), Carrie (White, of course, from guess which novel), Jesse (from Gerald's Game) and Dolores Clairborne (another titular heroine) all meet.

My own assignment for [community profile] startrekholidays has arrived. There aren't prompts as such, but there are several relationships I think I can work with. After a rewatch of key episodes. Oh, the hardship! :)
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Ever since the news of the Joss Whedon Much Ado broke, there have been all kind of delightful interviews with the actors involved. Now, one of the few who aren't from the Jossian pool of actors from shows past and movie present were the comedy duo BriTANIck, aka Brian McElhaney and Nick Kocher, who play two of the watchmen (and thus have their scenes with Nathan Fillion); they were interviewed by a Shakespeare blog, and their replies were fun to read, until my mind came to a grinding hold when they were asked about favourite Shakespeare play, favourite villain, and Shakespeare character who Joss Whedon is most like:


Nick: I'm a huge Shakespeare fan, it's really hard to narrow it down. I'm a big fan of Julius Caesar (I really want to play Marc Antony someday) and Othello, but my favorite scenes are in King Lear and Henry IV pt. 1. My favorite Shakespeare villain is Richard III.

Joss's Shakespeare character: Henry V, he's charming, fearless, and having worked with him once we would happily follow him into war with France. If Henry V was alive today, Firefly never would have been cancelled.


...

Okay then, thought I, are you saying Joss is a guy with daddy issues who ditches his friends as soon as they become inconvenient, gets a sadistic glee from messing with the minds of people who like him and leaves the big messy production he started in a chaotic and increasingly bloody state once he withdraws dies?

....

Well, okay, except for the friends bit. (I think even die hard anti Whedonians have to admit that he's very loyal indeed to his writers and actors. No "I know thee not, old man" from Joss.) Also, I suspect the truth is that Nick simply doesn't connect Hal from Henry IV with Henry V., but I still am cheaply amused by this comparison. Not to mention I doubt Hal/Henry would have saved Firefly. He'd more likely revealed he was on Rupert Murdoch's side all along and become CEO of Fox himself, going on to finance Roland Emmerich making a tv show out of Indepence Day instead.

Speaking of Joss, the [community profile] buffyversetop5 this year was as always Spike heavy, but there was one post full of stories about my girl Darla, and I found a fantastic one I hadn't known yet: Devouring Time. In which Darla visits Tanzania in 1969. Which is very familiar to me, so I loved the premise alone, but the execution is sublime. A great Darla character portrait, and the use of location is sublime.

(I did read one of the Spike recs, this hilarious comparison between canon Spike and fanon Spike, which made me wish the author would write this about various other fanon woobies such as Snape.)

Location is of course one major reason why Middle Earth as filmed by Peter Jackson came across so spectatular in the LotR movies, and I was both nostalgic and filled with anticipation after reading the latest Hobbit set report.

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