I just saw that I have not one but two as yet mysterious and veiled stories in my gift box, so someone wrote a treat for me. This makes me very happy and even more gleeful at the prospect of Yuletide, which is good, since reading the news this morning is more inclined to make one hoping for satire or filled with rage. Or both. Reality is such a tv show, it's not even a little bit funny, except that you have to laugh sometimes or wish to strangle someone. Or at the very least slap them with a fish, thank you, internet, for teaching me this non lethal alternative.
In more pleasant news, this week we had the 200th anniversary of the publication of a certain collection assembled and rewritten by two German professors. I've already written a post about why the Brothers Grimm were cool a while ago, so I'll simply relink it. Also, yesterday was Gauda Prime day, the coincidence of which makes me think hat the Grimms would have appreciated Blake's 7, though Jacob, being a member of the revolutionary parliament of 1848, would probably have hoped for another ending. Still, being fans of the then newly rediscovered Nibelungenlied, the Grimms would have gone with Gauda Prime and wouldn't have written fix its, as much as they'd have collected tales of what Blake was up to during s3 and s4. :)
I sometimes joke that the Grimms would be ideal for modern fandom if anything resembling their actual lives were written or filmed - they make both the Winchesters and Petrellis look distant and restrained in sheer sibling co dependency terms, they were Genius Abrasive Sarcastic Guy and Mild Mannered Social But Sometimes Passive Aggressive Guy long before Holmes and Watson ever were invented, and Wilhelm's wife Dorothea even joked about her two husbands, so they offer something for friends of threesomes as well - but maybe we're lucky a Grimm fandom doesn't exist, for with it would come shipper wars. Recently I checked out fail_fandom, which I sometimes do, and lo and behold, there were embittered Alexander/Hephaistion fans accusing Mary Renault of inflicting Bagoas, that Mary Sue, on their pairing. Which, as![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
amenirdis once put it, has to be one of the oldest shipping wars ever, seeing as Alexander himself inflicted Bagoas on himself. (Also, seriously, if you think Renault is anti-Hephaistion, you haven't read Fire in Heaven. There is a difference between what the narrator thinks and what the author thinks, by all Olympians, to stay in the period. Oh, and also, if Renault is writing any character as too good to be true, it's neither Bagoas nor Hephaistion, both of whom are very human and real, it's Alexander himself.) (I'm rooting for Bagoas/Lydias anyway, thanks, jo_graham, for giving me this alternative.) I shudder to think what would happen if fandom really had a go at the Grimms. Poor Dortchen would be accused of Coming Between Them (never mind that she didn't), and there would be complaints about a woman sullying the slash. Also, the arrival of Savigny in the lives of the brothers would give an out to those fans who really aren't into incest - what with him rescuing Jacob from librarian hell - and then the shipping wars would really commence....
Nah. They're better off without a fandom. I think?
In more pleasant news, this week we had the 200th anniversary of the publication of a certain collection assembled and rewritten by two German professors. I've already written a post about why the Brothers Grimm were cool a while ago, so I'll simply relink it. Also, yesterday was Gauda Prime day, the coincidence of which makes me think hat the Grimms would have appreciated Blake's 7, though Jacob, being a member of the revolutionary parliament of 1848, would probably have hoped for another ending. Still, being fans of the then newly rediscovered Nibelungenlied, the Grimms would have gone with Gauda Prime and wouldn't have written fix its, as much as they'd have collected tales of what Blake was up to during s3 and s4. :)
I sometimes joke that the Grimms would be ideal for modern fandom if anything resembling their actual lives were written or filmed - they make both the Winchesters and Petrellis look distant and restrained in sheer sibling co dependency terms, they were Genius Abrasive Sarcastic Guy and Mild Mannered Social But Sometimes Passive Aggressive Guy long before Holmes and Watson ever were invented, and Wilhelm's wife Dorothea even joked about her two husbands, so they offer something for friends of threesomes as well - but maybe we're lucky a Grimm fandom doesn't exist, for with it would come shipper wars. Recently I checked out fail_fandom, which I sometimes do, and lo and behold, there were embittered Alexander/Hephaistion fans accusing Mary Renault of inflicting Bagoas, that Mary Sue, on their pairing. Which, as
amenirdis once put it, has to be one of the oldest shipping wars ever, seeing as Alexander himself inflicted Bagoas on himself. (Also, seriously, if you think Renault is anti-Hephaistion, you haven't read Fire in Heaven. There is a difference between what the narrator thinks and what the author thinks, by all Olympians, to stay in the period. Oh, and also, if Renault is writing any character as too good to be true, it's neither Bagoas nor Hephaistion, both of whom are very human and real, it's Alexander himself.) (I'm rooting for Bagoas/Lydias anyway, thanks, jo_graham, for giving me this alternative.) I shudder to think what would happen if fandom really had a go at the Grimms. Poor Dortchen would be accused of Coming Between Them (never mind that she didn't), and there would be complaints about a woman sullying the slash. Also, the arrival of Savigny in the lives of the brothers would give an out to those fans who really aren't into incest - what with him rescuing Jacob from librarian hell - and then the shipping wars would really commence.... Nah. They're better off without a fandom. I think?
