how is werewolf formed?
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lunabee34I got the most amazing package from executrix. Thank you so much. *hugs* Every single book in this box is something I want to read. :)
I finished Trigger Warnings. I didn't like it as well as Gaiman's other short story collections. The Sherlock Holmes piece was exceptional, and a couple other stories were very good but I was pretty take it or leave it on the collection as a whole. He included a fair amount of poetry in the collection, most of which I didn't care for, but one poem about a witch was wonderfully done. Glad to have read it, but nothing to re-read.
I've blown through Uprooted in the past couple days and will be able to post a review of that soon.
I want to read some very, very sad fic. Anybody have recs for tearjerkers? Any fandom or pairing, but I would be especially grateful for newish HP recs.
I keep thinking I am going to make some awesome meta-tastic post about Penny Dreadful or Game of Thrones and then not doing it, so here's the truncated version:
Game of Thrones: damn you, show, for making me root for Cersei. Show!Sparrow seems scheming and cruel in a way the book version didn't, and I couldn't help wanting her to get her revenge against him and those awful nuns. Please, please, don't be dead Jon Snow. I think probably that he's dead and Melisandre will resurrect him. Tyrion, Missandei and Greyworm ruling Mereen is kinda made of awesome. Jaime is going to raze Dorne to the ground. *hugs him hard* And Bronn still lives! Yay!
Penny Dreadful: what an uneven season. Some of my favorite moments of the whole show are from this season and yet it doesn't form the same cohesive whole as the first season. Dorian's story arc with Angelique was incomprehensible to me and completely divorced from the rest of the show. I love Brona's reveal that she's known about her origins the whole time and that she's going to be the big bad in the next season. Dorian was finally interesting in these last two episodes with her. I love that John Clare has decided that he doesn't want to kill Victor or set London on fire with Brona and I adore that he asked Vanessa to go with him. I equally adore that she would have gone with him if she didn't genuinely believe she's bad for him. When Vanessa told the devil, "Beloved, meet your master" and fucking destroyed that sucker, I may have squealed at the television in unholy glee. That moment was the money shot, my friends. I am less enthused that Sembene is dead; that was unnecessary and horrible, and I am convinced that on route to Africa, he is going to turn into a werewolf and not be dead at all. I loved poor, brave Ethan going to his death and instead being tricked into returning home. I just can't imagine the mechanism that will reunite them all in the next season. Looking forward to it, though.
Speaking of Victorian horror, I know that werewolf (and other skin-changer) stories already existed in folk tales and fairy tales, but is there a nineteenth-century novel that popularized the werewolf the way Dracula did for vampires? I suppose that The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a kind of werewolf story, but not really what I'm talking about. Did werewolves really only enter the literary public consciousness in the 20th century? Is there a seminal werewolf novel (trying to think of one and failing), or does our pop culture sense of werewolves stem entirely from film?
executrix. Thank you so much. *hugs* Every single book in this box is something I want to read. :)I finished Trigger Warnings. I didn't like it as well as Gaiman's other short story collections. The Sherlock Holmes piece was exceptional, and a couple other stories were very good but I was pretty take it or leave it on the collection as a whole. He included a fair amount of poetry in the collection, most of which I didn't care for, but one poem about a witch was wonderfully done. Glad to have read it, but nothing to re-read.
I've blown through Uprooted in the past couple days and will be able to post a review of that soon.
I want to read some very, very sad fic. Anybody have recs for tearjerkers? Any fandom or pairing, but I would be especially grateful for newish HP recs.
I keep thinking I am going to make some awesome meta-tastic post about Penny Dreadful or Game of Thrones and then not doing it, so here's the truncated version:
Game of Thrones: damn you, show, for making me root for Cersei. Show!Sparrow seems scheming and cruel in a way the book version didn't, and I couldn't help wanting her to get her revenge against him and those awful nuns. Please, please, don't be dead Jon Snow. I think probably that he's dead and Melisandre will resurrect him. Tyrion, Missandei and Greyworm ruling Mereen is kinda made of awesome. Jaime is going to raze Dorne to the ground. *hugs him hard* And Bronn still lives! Yay!
Penny Dreadful: what an uneven season. Some of my favorite moments of the whole show are from this season and yet it doesn't form the same cohesive whole as the first season. Dorian's story arc with Angelique was incomprehensible to me and completely divorced from the rest of the show. I love Brona's reveal that she's known about her origins the whole time and that she's going to be the big bad in the next season. Dorian was finally interesting in these last two episodes with her. I love that John Clare has decided that he doesn't want to kill Victor or set London on fire with Brona and I adore that he asked Vanessa to go with him. I equally adore that she would have gone with him if she didn't genuinely believe she's bad for him. When Vanessa told the devil, "Beloved, meet your master" and fucking destroyed that sucker, I may have squealed at the television in unholy glee. That moment was the money shot, my friends. I am less enthused that Sembene is dead; that was unnecessary and horrible, and I am convinced that on route to Africa, he is going to turn into a werewolf and not be dead at all. I loved poor, brave Ethan going to his death and instead being tricked into returning home. I just can't imagine the mechanism that will reunite them all in the next season. Looking forward to it, though.
Speaking of Victorian horror, I know that werewolf (and other skin-changer) stories already existed in folk tales and fairy tales, but is there a nineteenth-century novel that popularized the werewolf the way Dracula did for vampires? I suppose that The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a kind of werewolf story, but not really what I'm talking about. Did werewolves really only enter the literary public consciousness in the 20th century? Is there a seminal werewolf novel (trying to think of one and failing), or does our pop culture sense of werewolves stem entirely from film?
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Date: 2015-07-07 11:36 pm (UTC)