flying too high with some guy
Jan. 20th, 2024 10:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pensnestI have been very remiss about posting here, mostly because I have spent entirely too much time wandering through Reddit and becoming depressed about Fandom These Days. There's an AO3 subreddit where most of the participants seem to be children who like to show off how many views they've had, be faux-astonished at praise they've received, or whine about the stupidity of some of their commenters. It all seems so trivial. Also, they all seem to post chapter by chapter, white hot from under the typing fingers, and I have very little patience for that.
I should probably wean myself off Reddit. Far too easy to waste time there.
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We have just watched The Buccaneers on Apple TV. It's a mixed bag, but overall, was worth watching. Looks lovely. Mostly filmed in Scotland (which explains the slightly French feel of some of the castles), and the costumes are very pretty. It also makes very little attempt at authenticity—music is modern, dancing is on the scale of "can you waltz? No? never mind, try it anyway, while we tie this hobble around your knees to make sure you don't go anywhere'. What annoys me far more is Getting The Bloody Titles Wrong, which I really should be over by now, but dammit! The second son of—well, the Brightlingsea lord must be a Duke or a Marquis (which I think they'd have made much of if he were, so he isn't, because nobody on the production team has realised he needs to be) to have a second son entitled to be called Lord, but the second son in question is not called Lord Firstname Surname, and his wife isn't addressed as Lady Husband'sFirstName, either, so they are just all over the place and I have an irrational hatred of this stuff. Grump.
However. Apparently it's more a teen romance thing than actual historical drama—it shows—but the relationships are interesting. I feel for the main heroine's dilemma in trying to figure out which beautiful chap to marry. I feel for the one who starts the season with her wedding, because she *really* didn't know what she was getting into. I feel for the abused wife who doesn't realise what is happening to her (the portrayal of the abusive husband is shudder-inducing). I feel for the lesbian lass who is trying to figure out how to be who she wants to be. And the other characters—the men, the parents—are really well drawn too, and have all kinds of quite interesting and logical problems and points of view.
So it is a series that is All About The Romance and the pitfalls, and not at all about trying to be in any way accurate to the actual behaviours of people at the time. And as such, it works surprisingly well. I found myself caring about these people, and the ramifications of Nan's situation in particular. If only I didn't get so cross about the damn titles.
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I've not done any Snowflake Challenges so far because I've done them before and have nothing new to say. However, I guess I can point people towards my newest fic, which is actually a good nine months old (I missed Yuletide this year), so here it is for anyone who might be interested in reading a White Collar fic and missed it last year: The Fundamental Things Apply.
I should probably wean myself off Reddit. Far too easy to waste time there.
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We have just watched The Buccaneers on Apple TV. It's a mixed bag, but overall, was worth watching. Looks lovely. Mostly filmed in Scotland (which explains the slightly French feel of some of the castles), and the costumes are very pretty. It also makes very little attempt at authenticity—music is modern, dancing is on the scale of "can you waltz? No? never mind, try it anyway, while we tie this hobble around your knees to make sure you don't go anywhere'. What annoys me far more is Getting The Bloody Titles Wrong, which I really should be over by now, but dammit! The second son of—well, the Brightlingsea lord must be a Duke or a Marquis (which I think they'd have made much of if he were, so he isn't, because nobody on the production team has realised he needs to be) to have a second son entitled to be called Lord, but the second son in question is not called Lord Firstname Surname, and his wife isn't addressed as Lady Husband'sFirstName, either, so they are just all over the place and I have an irrational hatred of this stuff. Grump.
However. Apparently it's more a teen romance thing than actual historical drama—it shows—but the relationships are interesting. I feel for the main heroine's dilemma in trying to figure out which beautiful chap to marry. I feel for the one who starts the season with her wedding, because she *really* didn't know what she was getting into. I feel for the abused wife who doesn't realise what is happening to her (the portrayal of the abusive husband is shudder-inducing). I feel for the lesbian lass who is trying to figure out how to be who she wants to be. And the other characters—the men, the parents—are really well drawn too, and have all kinds of quite interesting and logical problems and points of view.
So it is a series that is All About The Romance and the pitfalls, and not at all about trying to be in any way accurate to the actual behaviours of people at the time. And as such, it works surprisingly well. I found myself caring about these people, and the ramifications of Nan's situation in particular. If only I didn't get so cross about the damn titles.
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I've not done any Snowflake Challenges so far because I've done them before and have nothing new to say. However, I guess I can point people towards my newest fic, which is actually a good nine months old (I missed Yuletide this year), so here it is for anyone who might be interested in reading a White Collar fic and missed it last year: The Fundamental Things Apply.