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* My post on personal stories got picked up for the 4th Asian Women Blog Carnival \o/, which I'm pretty excited about. It looks like there's some good stuff over there so def check it out. This year's theme is "storytelling, or reclaiming our selves through our words". Unsurprisingly the first thing I read is a poem about Manila and, speaking of land=body,

zempasuchil, remember that Hetalia fic you never wrote that I gave you feedback for? 'When the Waters Rose'? This is kind of like that, but set in the Philippines. "our middle ground exists / where floodwaters rise / to meet sinking shores"

* I'm beginning to wonder if I forgot about something important that happened last season in Heroes, 'cos what the hell is going on. On top of dumb superpowers. Why haven't I dropped this show yet?

* I'm assuming that things like Queen Victoria, Demon Hunter are riding on the coattails of Pride & Prejudice & Zombies. I'm not a big Victorian lit fan nor am I a zombie nerd overmuch, but I do like the idea of the two of them fused together. So. Are these books any good?

* I'm not even in Trek fandom, but I just read and liked this fic by

bravecows, which is set in a Starfleet Academy in Malaysia, featuring two female OCs who talk about why is it that only Westerners ever get assigned to certain missions and also why the Starfleet computer can't understand their accents. In other reccing ball news, I am also a fan of this Ty Lee/Azula fic and this Arthur/Gwen fic.

* The world needs more Ty Lee/Azula.

* I could make a legit Merlin reaction post but I'm kind of pooped, so have this two-word review instead: GAAAAIIIIUUUUUSSSSSSS! PENNNNNDRAGONNNNNSSSSS!

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fantasyecho embeds YouTube vids of Western pop songs being played on traditional Malay/Indonesian instruments. *_*

* And, for the hell of it:
- No Doubt's "Hella Good" vs. The Prodigy's "Girls (remix)"
- MIA's "Bucky Done Gone" vs. New Order's "Blue Monday"

And my favorites from DJ Earworm:
- 'No More Gas'. A dozen pop songs over Kanye West & Estelle's "American Boy".
- 'Together As One'. U2 (One), The Beatles (Come Together), Mariah Carey (We Belong Together), Diana Ross (Someday We'll Be Together).
- Top 25 pop songs from 2007, over Rihanna's "Umbrella".
- more for lulz: Kelly Clarkson's "My Life Would Suck Without You" vs. Coldplay's "In My Place"

You guys got mash-up recs to share?

* I'm gonna hunt for dinner and send at least one job application before bed. (man i was so productive last week)

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All my favourite mash-ups are ancient (as in, they've been on my high-rotation playlist for years now), but they are as follows:
- Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" vs Destiny's Child's "Bootylicious" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BW-VDZ_XpA)
- Enya's "Orinoco Flow" vs. Prodigy's "Smack my bitch up" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CTJqwX-AwM) (I have a different version of this in MP3, which perplexes me. I think it's maybe better.)
- Beastie Boys' "Intergalactic" vs Dandy Warhols' "We used to be friends" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6L5k_SLtF7g)

Plus, not sure this technically counts as a mash-up, but it's a CLASSIC: NIN - Closer (the Super Mario mix) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys3oP7Ax6nM)

I used to have those first and third songs, I wonder what happened to them. The NIN Super Mario is precious! lol Enya should do industrial rock full-time. Thanks for these.

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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies has some funny bits, especially if you're really familiar with the novel, but for the rest it is mostly verbatim text from P&P, with random violent scenes that occasionally contradict each other on the new internal canon. But for any judgement I hold over this, I am still intrigued by Queen Victoria hunting things that go bump in the night. She is not AT ALL amused.

It does not appear that she is! Z brought my attention to Mr. Darcy, Vampyre (http://www.amazon.com/Mr-Darcy-Vampyre-Amanda-Grange/dp/1402236972) and omg dude, scroll down and check out the "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought" section. Austen remixes are really on the up and up!

Oh that poem is beautiful. I kind of want to write that fic, I've been putting it off for winter break but it was the thing I was thinking of sending into the creative geography journal.

I found P&P&Z kind of boring. Entertaining for the illustrations, but otherwise I didn't bother reading past the first 40 pages or so, since it's essentially weird things about zombies spliced in briefly with most of Austen's text. This Queen Victoria thing sounds more creative, though, and I totally approve of that. Also there's something out there coming called Mr Darcy, Vampyre, I do believe.

mashups are my favorite. this one is pretty lulzy - Take Me Out (for a Milkshake) - Franz Ferdinand/Kelis mashup.

I just totally checked out vampire!Darcy's Amazon page (http://www.amazon.com/Mr-Darcy-Vampyre-Amanda-Grange/dp/1402236972) and LOLed forever at the "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought" section. Ms. Austen, you should be proud! XD

Mash-ups are THE BEST. Especially when they make me forget/question which song a particularly line/riff belongs to.

Vampire Darcy's Desire: A Pride and Prejudice Adaptation sounds better than Mr Darcy, Vampire. I'm amazed at how many adaptations there are! who knew there was all this published fanfiction out there?

Apparently the way to publish fanfiction is to have Moar Zombies & Sea Monsters?! I also hear there is a novel about the grown-up protagonist of 'Where the Wild Things' are. If 'Where the Wild Things Are', then why not Narnia, is what I wanna know :-O

Seriously?? that sounds so cool! oh, have you seen the movie? I haven't but I heard it was sort of creepy/emo. Wow, yeah, why not Narnia indeed! (Though I guess the argument is that they never grew up...? well. I'm sure Lewis would say they never *really* grew up - I'm actually not sure how old they got before Aslan sent them to Heaven.)

That's what I hear too, about the creepy and emo. I think I might be seeing it later this afternoon, not sure.

I think Lucy was only 18 when they died or something? Where is my anthology of Narnia profic, where is it?!

There's a timeline somewhere... okay this is the one Wikipedia says is Lewis's. It'd put Lucy at 17, Edmund 19, Susan 21, Peter 22. Eustace and Jill are 16?

GUESS WHAT I just had a conversation with my friend Nicole about the role of science in Avatar and suddenly had the urge to go back to Durkheim and Levi-Strauss and write about magic/science (that is, bending/science) and social categories of thought and totemism/castes and examine the development of social structures based on a "ruling element". maybe I will do that! well, someone needs to!

YES YOU PROBABLY SHOULD. Is Avatar fandom big on meta? There's so much to meta about!

I don't know! I don't actually know where the epicenter of Avatar fandom activity is... I'm just plugged in to the slash comm on lj, which is obviously not the prime place for meta to pop up. I kind of wish I knew the fandom better, but then again, I am kind of scared of what I've heard about crazy shippers.

That is what I've heard too! Kataang vs. Zutara? Tyzula is my favorite, and I also like Zuko/Azula but there is no fic for that. :(

Also the fandom is laaaaaaaaaaaaarge and i don't have really want to be sorting through all that.

Yeah. My friend told me that Zutara is baseless? I am not far enough to know. Somehow the first Avatar fic I got into was Sokka/Katara, I dunno, it's gotta be a holdover from Narnia that I go for the 'cest first. Tyzula is <3! There's definitely fic for Zuko/Azula! Maybe not much...? But I swear I've seen *some*.

Large and disorganized. Ugh. Navigating Avatar fandom is not a project I want to embark upon while in school, I have the feeling it would eat up entire evenings and give me a headache besides.

I wonder if it's kinda similar to Sokka/Azula in the sense that they WOULD have interesting interactions together if they ever interacted significantly at all, which they haven't thus far.

lol for serious, Pevencest what hast thou done to me. I'm totes for Arthur/Morgause/Morgana right now, I WANT IT.

Which is why we have fandom! Thank god for crack pairings and AUs! I do wish Avatar fandom would get crackier... but maybe I'm not looking hard enough.

I am not even there yetttt woman don't spoil me! I think I will definitely watch Merlin tonight :D because I sort of finished homework early today! yayyyy.

Avatar canon is cracked out to begin with though.

yikes okay lips are sealed, oh well I didn't spoil superhuge so GO FORTH!

The way to publish fanfiction is just to write it about something old enough to be in the public domain, and write something publishable/marketable in terms of length/genre/content. There's quite a bit of published Austenfic, for example, and I think there's a reasonable bit of Holmesfic, and people do all sorts with the Greeks and Romans, of course. And there are a fair few literary or literaryish published fics -- Wild Sargasso Sea being probably the best known.

Yeah I would love to find some more. I was really excited when I saw there was a sequel to The Secret Garden and immediately ordered it, but then... but then it kind of sucked. There was that anthology of Sandman profic a few years ago that was pretty good. I'm not big into Austen or Holmes, soooooo I guess the Internet will continue to be my primary dealer.

There's been some good stuff by people mucking about with classics (as in Greek and Roman). But I'm not sure if it'd be your thing?

I don't shun it but I don't seek it out. I'm a fan of "Odds 'n Gods" by Tom Holt? And I guess Mike Carey's 'Lucifer' is technically Sandman fic.

Yeah, I have a general fascination with intertextuality. I particularly love Christopher Logue's War Music both for what he does with Homer and for the way he uses Homer to talk about things like modern visual culture, but it's one of those slightly sad loves because I don't know anyone else who feels it in the same way.

General consensus on P&P&Z was that the concept was original and hilarious, but the execution was disappointingly pedestrian. It came as kind of a shock to me, as I'm used to reading amazing high-quality AUs in dozens of different fandoms, how could an AU this awesome possibly fail? I can already think of half-a-dozen fanficcers who would've kicked it out of the park in their sleep. Maybe the author should've spent some time in fandom. *grin*

Maybe the author should've spent some time in fandom.
I tend to think this a lot. For example, when the Narnia fic that Neil Gaiman wrote. So many people could have done it better. And they did!

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