I lost my fake ID, but you lost the motel key
How today has gone: the noises I just made on discovering a not completely empty bag of cough drops in the farthest corner of the counters in the kitchen are more traditionally associated with the lottery. Have some links.
1. I am delighted that![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
sholio has made a gifset of Bill Maxwell from The Greatest American Hero (1981–83): "FBI agent and absolute weirdo."
2. Courtesy ofmoon_custafer: cogent thoughts on having feelings about problematic art. "And so if Harry Potter or BA or Voltron or whatever other problematic thing was your lifeline it's okay to be upset that it was yanked away from you by bigoted creators and racist corporations and bad writing. It's okay to mourn that thing, to miss the joy it brought you, to think back on the good memories you had of it, to not want to jump on the hate bandwagon, to be upset when people mock the people like you who cared about it."
3. Courtesy ofashlyme: Judith Bingham's Salt in the Blood (1995), a maritime ghost story for chorus and orchestra, full of chanteys and fragments of ships' logs. I want a libretto.
P.S. Courtesy of my father: "Meet the Sea Slugs That Chop Off Their Heads and Grow New Bodies." It should maybe come with a content warning for video, but personally I cannot resist statements like "Self-amputation, known as autotomy, isn't uncommon in the animal kingdom. Having the ability to jettison a body part, such as a tail, helps many animals avoid predation. However, no animal had ever been observed ditching its entire body."
1. I am delighted that
sholio has made a gifset of Bill Maxwell from The Greatest American Hero (1981–83): "FBI agent and absolute weirdo."2. Courtesy of
moon_custafer: cogent thoughts on having feelings about problematic art. "And so if Harry Potter or BA or Voltron or whatever other problematic thing was your lifeline it's okay to be upset that it was yanked away from you by bigoted creators and racist corporations and bad writing. It's okay to mourn that thing, to miss the joy it brought you, to think back on the good memories you had of it, to not want to jump on the hate bandwagon, to be upset when people mock the people like you who cared about it."3. Courtesy of
ashlyme: Judith Bingham's Salt in the Blood (1995), a maritime ghost story for chorus and orchestra, full of chanteys and fragments of ships' logs. I want a libretto.P.S. Courtesy of my father: "Meet the Sea Slugs That Chop Off Their Heads and Grow New Bodies." It should maybe come with a content warning for video, but personally I cannot resist statements like "Self-amputation, known as autotomy, isn't uncommon in the animal kingdom. Having the ability to jettison a body part, such as a tail, helps many animals avoid predation. However, no animal had ever been observed ditching its entire body."
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Just don't ask me how long it took to remember which books were written by Robin McKinley and which were written by Patricia McKillip.
(To be fair I've avoided the movie due to being too attached to the book, and now I'm looking it up on Rotten Tomatoes and being amused by the reviews: "A fine book fights gallantly to escape from its straitjacket, but eventually lies down and allows itself to be trampled underfoot by bad ideas.")
I rather suspect that any time your instinct says "I'm too attached to the book," you should listen to it, unless somebody who knows you well and whose judgment you trusts tells you that you'll like the adaptation.
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People who know me well and whose judgment I trust have told me all sorts of favorable things about Miyazaki's Howl's Moving Castle (2004), but I still don't think it's going to happen.
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As someone who really loves the book and has also seen the movie, I say stick to your guns on that. The movie was very beautiful and nothing whatsoever like the book.
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I think it's because the shift is so abrupt and in the middle. If you're going to do something wildly different with your source, I prefer it to be signaled right at the start -- like, Constantine is an absolutely terrible Hellblazer movie, but since its starting scenario is "so let's say John Constantine is American," you kind of knew that going in. As a result, even my husband (who's a big Hellblazer fan) likes the film, because he can take it on its own terms.
I also suspect the midpoint veer in Hauru no ugoku shiro means it doesn't set up its eventual theme very well, but I'd have to watch the movie a second time to verify that, and . . . I don't really wanna. :-P
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Plus Tilda Swinton.
The original book of Howl's Moving Castle is one of my very deep childhood imprints and I just don't want to see it done wrong and everything I have heard about the differences—including this conversation—suggests I would not be able to parse them as anything other than wrong.
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There are no flaws in this argument.
The original book of Howl's Moving Castle is one of my very deep childhood imprints and I just don't want to see it done wrong and everything I have heard about the differences—including this conversation—suggests I would not be able to parse them as anything other than wrong.
Since there is a 99.999% probability that you're correct, that is the right choice. I am in the same boat, except for the bit where I did watch it and didn't like it, and while I'm not going to magnify the problem to the point of saying my life would have been better if I hadn't watched it, I don't think my life would be in any measurable way impoverished by the lack.
(Man, I wish I still had my Howl icon that I used when I was blogging my way through DWJ's entire body of work.)
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Can you point me toward the image it came from, at least? (It sounds like a tremendously useful icon.)
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Hah! That is also the first edition I read (and still own) and the first image I associate with the book, but I have seen so much fanart since, I didn't know if you'd drawn your icon from another source.
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