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rionaleonhart) wrote2010-02-17 08:24 pm
rionaleonhart) wrote2010-02-17 08:24 pm
Me Has This Report.
Last night's episode of Newswipe featured a segment in which there were multiple Charlie Brookers! My mad desire to read Brooker/himself fanfiction is in no way abated by this. Anger and sarcasm and self-loathing and eventual sex! It would be marvellous.
(And completely ridiculous, obviously. Why has all the fanfiction I've wanted to read lately been for a completely absurd concept, a barely-existent fandom or both?
Actually, come to think of it, my writing's been on the unusual side as well; the most mainstream thing I've written in the past year has been a Merlin/Pokémon crossover. I suppose I'm more likely to write things if I have an 'if I don't write this, who will?' feeling about them. Basically, I'm just being hugely self-indulgent. (I am frequently amazed and delighted when people actually read my fanfiction, because I'm well aware that very few people wake up in the morning and think 'what I feel like reading is a fic in which Charlie Brooker teaches David Mitchell to train Pokémon'. I'm glad others enjoy it when I cater to my own ridiculously specific tastes!))
Anyway. Brooker/himself. Brooker meets his alternate-universe self in his own flat. They argue with and swear at each other a lot, and Other Brooker insists on dragging up all of Brooker's insecurities and parading them in front of him, thus interestingly redefining 'sadomasochism'. The other him is only ever present when Brooker is alone; there's an element of 'is this really me, or have I just gone mental?' running throughout the hypothetical fic and never quite resolved. Eventually, Brooker decides that, hallucination or not, he's shagging him anyway.
Er, for reasons. Good reasons. There's development or something. LOOK, IT WOULD BE AWESOME.
The thing is, I'm not a great fan of explicit sex scenes, so I'm not sure why I'm so keen on this. I think I want the sex just because they would still be sniping at each other the entire time, which would be rather fun, and there would be a fascinating clash of self-loathing and lust, and the lust would perpetuate the self-loathing because you're actually fucking yourself, how fucking narcissistic is that, that is literally the definition of narcissism.
Oh, my goodness, this is a dreadful entry. I'm so sorry.
(And completely ridiculous, obviously. Why has all the fanfiction I've wanted to read lately been for a completely absurd concept, a barely-existent fandom or both?
Actually, come to think of it, my writing's been on the unusual side as well; the most mainstream thing I've written in the past year has been a Merlin/Pokémon crossover. I suppose I'm more likely to write things if I have an 'if I don't write this, who will?' feeling about them. Basically, I'm just being hugely self-indulgent. (I am frequently amazed and delighted when people actually read my fanfiction, because I'm well aware that very few people wake up in the morning and think 'what I feel like reading is a fic in which Charlie Brooker teaches David Mitchell to train Pokémon'. I'm glad others enjoy it when I cater to my own ridiculously specific tastes!))
Anyway. Brooker/himself. Brooker meets his alternate-universe self in his own flat. They argue with and swear at each other a lot, and Other Brooker insists on dragging up all of Brooker's insecurities and parading them in front of him, thus interestingly redefining 'sadomasochism'. The other him is only ever present when Brooker is alone; there's an element of 'is this really me, or have I just gone mental?' running throughout the hypothetical fic and never quite resolved. Eventually, Brooker decides that, hallucination or not, he's shagging him anyway.
Er, for reasons. Good reasons. There's development or something. LOOK, IT WOULD BE AWESOME.
The thing is, I'm not a great fan of explicit sex scenes, so I'm not sure why I'm so keen on this. I think I want the sex just because they would still be sniping at each other the entire time, which would be rather fun, and there would be a fascinating clash of self-loathing and lust, and the lust would perpetuate the self-loathing because you're actually fucking yourself, how fucking narcissistic is that, that is literally the definition of narcissism.
Oh, my goodness, this is a dreadful entry. I'm so sorry.
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Admittedly, I have only sort of half-watched bits of the first series, but I did watch most of the finale. So, upon seeing Darken Rahl in the new trailers, promptly went "Wait, didn't Richard kill him?" and my dad went "...yup."
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Ah, but in the second series, Darken Rahl does some evil stuff in the Underworld. So he's still in the show, but in a sort of spirit form. It, er, sort of makes more sense in the context of the show.
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...Right.
I'm trying to watch the show with an open mind, but my dad is constantly going THAT ISN'T HOW IT HAPPENED IN THE BOOKS and i'm just like *facepalm* because I constantly get told off for doing that. BUT. I like it a lot.
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Speaking as someone who has read up to book 7 and didn't much like the series, I totally embrace all the changes from the books. It means the whole bit where Richard was kidnapped by the Mord'sith is shorter and has slightly less BDSMy implications, and there's less attempted rape. And Richard himself is less of a douchebag.
Basically, don't read the books, they're bollocks.