Daibhid's Journal

Okay, let's do this.

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Yes, the Discworld Year of the Justifiably Defensive Lobster is at an end, and as we enter the Year of the Incontrovertible Skunk, it's time for me to look at my fic and think "Was that all?"

(I actually meant to do this on the 2nd of January holiday, but I got distracted by sorting out my fic list. I've added a couple more categories, inserted a couple of things I forgot to add at the time, and most importantly, finally fixed all the LJ links, nine months after I deleted it and a year and eight months since I moved to Dreamwidth.)

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Yep, it's that time again...
(EDIT: Now with links!)
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Memed from john_amend_all:

Give me two characters from different fandoms you know I'm familiar with, and I'll give you a dialogue happening between the two of them. Without justifying how the crossover would work, how their worlds clashed or how they could even meet each other. Just a silly crossover conversation with no backstory, for fun.

Memed from pedanther and lost_spook

1) What was the first Shakespeare play you read or seen performed?

I remember my art teacher used to take us to Shakespeare plays; I think the first one was The Taming of the Shew.

I studied Macbeth for English class. I can't remember if that was before or after I tried reading Hamlet to see if it helped me make sense of my dad's copy of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.


2) What is your favorite Shakespeare play?

Hmm. I think possibly Macbeth. I'm not even sure why; as a Scot I should probably by outraged by its total ahistoricity. But it's just really well done, so you don't worry about that until afterwards.


3) What is your least favorite Shakespeare play?

Hmm, again. Shrew irritates me for multiple reasons. Titus Andronicus is kind of gross.


4) Who do you think wrote Shakespeare; are you a Stratfordian or Oxfordian?

Stratfordian; the arguments against seem pure snobbery. 500 years from now, there'll probably be people arguing that a man who went to High Wycombe Technical High School couldn't possibly have written the Discworld novels...

My favourite argument that maybe Shakespeares's plays were written by Shakespeare was given at the tour of Shakespeare's house; in the recreation of John Shakespeare's glove workshop, the guide said that there were some quite technical references to glove-making in the plays. And what would the Earl of Oxford have known about that?


5) Which Shakespeare plays have you read or seen or seen performed?

I think I've read most of them; I have a Complete Works that I bought when a trip to Europe stopped off in Stratford. I remember seeing Shrew (as mentioned above), Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth (several times, including a fantastic open-air performance at Cawdor Castle!) and A Midsummer Night's Dream. I'm not ruling out the possibility I've seen others and don't remember, though.

I'm assuming "seen performed" means live. On TV, I remember watching the BBC animated versions of Dream and Macbeth, the modern dress Macbeth with Sean Pertwee, the modern dress Twelfth Night with Mel Smith as Sir Toby, Romeo + Juliet, and I have vague recollections of a version of Julius Cesaer where they were wearing togas over doublets...

(I also watched all of ShakespeaReTold, but while I enjoyed it I don't think that counts any more than West Side Story, Throne of Blood, The Lion King or Gnomeo and Juliet...)

Since it doesn't look like anyone else is going to guess, here are the results:
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I'm probably going to get very stuck on these but ...

Memed from john_amend_all:

Give me one of my stories, and a timestamp sometime in the future (after the end of the story), or sometime in the past (before the story started), and I'll write you at least a hundred words of what happened then, whether it's five minutes before the story started or ten years in the future.

Memed from pedanther and john_amend_all

(Hey, remember last year when I tried to do this with only two ficlets? That was awkward.)

Stats:

List of completed fics:

None.

...

Hang on, let me just do a recount.

List of completed fics:

None.

Well, shoot.

So, once again, my obscure musical tastes have spoiled everything forever...

(Having said that, my f'list is filled with Discworld fans. Why have none of you heard Wintersmith yet? It's brilliant.)

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My characters were:

1. Wally West/The Flash (DC Comics)
2. Sandy (Absolute Power)
3. The War Doctor (Doctor Who)
4. Dr Bunsen Honeydew (The Muppets)
5. Jack Dodger (Dodger)
6. Otto Octavius/The Superior Spider-Man (Marvel Comics)
7. Mycroft Holmes (Sherlock)
8. Eddie Watts (That Puppet Game Show)
9. PC Peter Grant (Rivers of London)
10.Gytha "Nanny" Ogg (Discworld)
11.Queenie (Blackadder II)
12.Arnold J Rimmer (Red Dwarf)
13.Lt Cmdr Montgomery Scott (Star Trek relaunch movies)
14.Lobsang (The Long Earth)
15.Fitz Kriener (Doctor Who EDAs)

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