His Dark Materials | Twilight | Emotional state

[bironic]

One of the local Little Free Libraries had a copy of The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman and that finally motivated me to start reading His Dark Materials after all these years. People were super into them around the time we were going to Harry Potter aca-cons and of course there've been a million fannish AUs but I never got around to trying the series, other than going to see that forgettable film adaptation.

After an uncertain start, I got really into it, especially the human-dæmon relationships. I hadn't realized how into it until I found myself choking up at the descriptions of Tony clutching his dead fish, the dæmons suffering in & after breaking out of their storage jars and Lyra's limp agony when the villain clutched Pantalaimon. Also I hadn't realized how explicitly Pullman described what happens between dæmons when their humans get frisky together. Many years late to this party.

I bought the other two books yesterday and will read them in & around the new Harry Potter one that I pre-ordered but haven't picked up yet.

Obv. there are things to enjoy and things to critique and thinky stuff about Pullman's reaction to C.S. Lewis and the Church but we are not here for in-depth analysis right now. Work is rough these days as we undergo managerial transitions and as a result my entertainment has swung toward pleasure and comfort. See also: I've taken a break from vid-research movies and just rewatched the Twilight series. Well, that's sort of for vid research too, but a different project, and I wasn't taking notes. And I rewatched the beginning of the terrible-but-I-don't-care TV show Roar from 1997, because my heart.

Was sad to miss con.txt this weekend and all the friends who go with it. At least there's only a week and a half 'til Vividcon. Hang in there, self: Hugs and vids and conversation and mini-vacation are nigh.

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[bironic]

Oh, thank you! I've been afraid to dive in. The name Minisinoo sounds familiar - I wonder if I've read some of her stuff before.

[mific]

She's a Native American pro writer who also wrote extensive fanfic in x-men, then Harry Potter (fond of Cedric Diggory), and a little Twilight. She was drawn to Twilight by the Native American aspect, but writes Edward character pieces as well. She was ending her interest in fanfic around the Twilight phase, and disliked the Meyers Mormon-issue stuff. Her work tends to be character-driven and not tropey, gen or het with a bit of slash. Only short pieces in Twilight but some of her Harry Potter works are more epic.
I used to be in Twilight fandom when I first discovered fandom at all, so if you develop any fave characters let me know and I'll see what I can find to rec.

[bironic]

Cool; thanks for the background!

I've been afraid to dive in to Twilight fic, heh. I liked Carlisle -- or wanted to like him -- and was disappointed the movies and books didn't give us much about his history. Guessing there isn't much fic about him, either, but you never know. Other than that, I may be pretty non-choosy about pairings/moresomes, if you have favorites you'd like to recommend?

[mific]

My time as a twifan was so long ago I haven't kept any recs, but a quick search turned up these two writers, for Carlisle.

Gisellelx (Giselle-lx)
https://www.fanfiction.net/u/1877538/giselle-lx
[And a subset of these that the writer chose to upload to AO3:
http://archiveofourown.org/users/gisellelx/pseuds/gisellelx/works?fandom_id=289943]

This one also seems like a good writer - and esp. likes Carlisle:
Malianani
https://www.fanfiction.net/u/1564908/Malianani

BTW, this is a site to download multi-chapter etc. stories from ff.net as ebooks, instead of having to use their interface: https://fanficfare.appspot.com/