February 2012
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Time for some more Watson. Russian!Watson.
I feel that Tumblr could use some more Russian Watson. Does everyone agree? Well, it doesn’t matter, because I have my DVDs out and I’m about to start screencapping!
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January 2012
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Fandom! I need your help!
I have a friend who’s somewhat new to Tumblr and there’s a fan-pic he might’ve missed. *gasp of horror* It’s a little fan comic strip of Matha being generally great while the Doctor mopes about Rose and then Donna shows up, grumpy and in no mood to humour him.
I can’t find it! Someone, send me a link, or photo reply, or just reblog it again with the tag...
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December 2011
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November 2011
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A Game of Thrones read-n-blog project
Short story: I’m re-reading A Game of Thrones. I have thoughts about it! Thoughts can be found here: http://secondtime.madeoffail.net/. Thoughts are meant to be funny and will hopefully entertain you.
Long story: I’ve decided to re-read A Game of Thrones to get a fresh start on the series, instead of picking it up where I left off (book 4) and filling in gaps with Google and...
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Photoblogging: An Ordinary Miracle (1978)...
I can’t believe I survived that! That took hours! It’ll take me some time to recoup, but once my fingers are able to fing again, I’ll do one of the Russian Sherlock Holmes, I promise. I know my previous Sherlock Holmes one wasn’t anywhere near as detailed as this one.
For those who want to see the actual movie (and it’s worth it, it’s a magical film that I will...
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Something’s afoot. Wizard demands to know what Hunter is doing up, and Hunter shushes him, lest he spook the bear.
Bear is asking Princess to go back to the house and she snaps at him, then apologizes. She’s not afraid anymore and she’s made her peace with this strange love of hers. It’s time for… The Kiss!
Hunter takes aim.
The Kiss continues. Some...
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Wizard has been up late writing, it seems. He says it’s all his fault, but what can he do about it?
“Yes, it’s your fault. Why did you start all this? I warned you.”
He did it for her. He wanted to write her a story about love. He brought all these people here so they would entertain her, make her laugh and cry (she’s crying).
Some of them are more...
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Bear apologizes for the crashy-ness of his entrance and orders everyone out.
Wizard is not amused by Bear’s ability to break through his anti-bear shield magic. Bear threatens Wizard with death (people threaten each other with death a lot in this movie, but has anyone actually died, aside from Emilia’s unfortunate husband, years before the movie takes place?). Emil thinks this...
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Princess asks everyone not to fuss. She’s happy to see everyone, she’s having a good day. She’s been able to find long-lost things without even looking for them, she can only remember nice things, and little blue birdies made her bed while the mice bathed and dressed her.
“Did they tell you I’m going to die today?” Well, if you’re going to be a...
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King calls for his nanny, I mean his AdMin. AdMin rolls in on his version of the pimpmobile, pats King on the head, gives him his bottle, and puts him down for his nap. (Yes, I do mean that figuratively. I know that with this film, you can never quite tell.)
AdMin is smarming that the doctor has assured him Princess only has pre-wedding jitters and will be fine any day now. The effect of this...
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Denial’s not just a river in Egypt, Denial’s the river King is fishing from. Prime Minister tries to put his new “I will not tell lies” slogan into action by attempting to tell King that things aren’t just peachy keen, but King senses trouble and tries to run away.
Not so fast! Prime Minister has tasted the freedom that comes from hitting rock bottom. He looks...
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Emil tries to talk Wizard into doing something about this mess, but Wizard yells at him for being spoiled and wanting a happy ending. Yes, you fairy tale being, how dare you demand closure from your creator! I bet all authors have this conversation with their characters.
So why won’t Wizard let Bear come? So that Princess can meet her end calmly and with dignity. Emil, your god is an...
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Wizard sits down with Emil, who’s eating breakfast, and asks about the doctor. What doctor? Emil are you ill? But it’s not Emil, it’s Princess. Doctor says she may die, no one wants to believe it, but that doesn’t seem to help.
WiWi peevishly notes that Wizard promised her to forget about all this. If by “all this” she means the fairy tale, then...
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WiWi! Hi, WiWi! We haven’t seen WiWi in ages and she’s sad. You can tell by the laboured way she’s washing the dragon painting off a mirror.
Wizard looks older. Tired. He says he’s starting to forget “this music.” What music? That music that’s playing right now? I didn’t know he could hear it too! Breaking the fourth wall!
“That’s...
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By the time Hunter and App make it down the stairs, Wizard is gone. Action music kicks in and Bear takes off his jacket. Oh, this is not going to a good place…
“Do you want to kill your 100th bear?” Suicide by Hunter. It’s like a fairy tale version of suicide by cop, I guess. Because his emo is an emo that’s never been emoed before!
Bear’s logic is that...
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King was listening at the keyhole as promised, so he doesn’t need explanations. Princess wants to leave, but King is trying to see the silver lining.
“So what he’s a bear, at least he’s not a weasel.”
They could train him! He could become their dancing bear!
Princess loves him too much to subject him to that. “Goodbye forever” she says and leaves...
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I guess you can only have a telepathic conversation when your love is in sync, because they’re talking.
Music is ominous, Bear is repetitive, Princess is quiet.
Time for the truth! (Can you handle the truth, Princess?)
“If you kiss me, I’ll turn into an animal.” (He doesn’t mean that figuratively.)
“I’ll turn into a bear, but I don’t want...
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It’s Emilia and she’s not alone. She’s announcing Princess’s wedding to AdMin, but is unsteady. Looks like Emil’s deprogramming failed and she’s sliding back into her First Lady role.
The king is wearing an ermine mantle and the courtiers are decked out, but it becomes apparent that when Princess said “punt on my wedding dress” she meant...
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Musical number! AdMin walked into the room, grabbed for the gun and shot at her. (Missed apparently.) Princess meantime has decided that she’ll marry the first man she sees, and since that was AdMin, he’s the lucky guy.
Bear calmly threatens to kill AdMin, but AdMin waves him off. It’s not his first death threat of the day and not even the second.
King curls up on the...
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King is upset, because AdMin’s rousing speech on the nature (or lack thereof) of love now has him worried that this is all for nothing and his daughter is just ill. Emilia tries to argue, but it’s all cut short when a shot sounds from upstairs.
Bear runs into the room. I hope he used the key and didn’t break Emil’s brand new lock. Someone proposes that maybe Princess...
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King appears back in the main area and the courtiers start speculating on the odds of him ordering their executions again. King outlines the situation: she’s depressed and uncommunicative and he’s very upset by this turn of events. Which of the courtiers is volunteering to go comfort Princess?
“She’s going to shoot, Your Majest.” “Of course, but so what?...
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King accosts Emil with questions about his daughter’s well-being and Emil reassures him that she’s healthy and hearty. King wants to know if “that boy” is here and still in love. Affirmative!
Hunter appears, squacking about his favourite student needing medical attention because he (Hunter doesn’t know it’s a “she” yet) is feeling down. King and...
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First Lady appears at the top of the stairs, complaining that the candle in her room keeps going out.
“That’s not surprising, because I’ve been thinking of you. Emilia.”
“Damn me.” (This is something she says a lot.) They catch up. Turns out Innkeeper’s name is Emil. They used to be young and in love. Then he danced with another girl at a ball, and...
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Innkeeper wants to know if Bear is going insane. Bear isn’t sure. Innkeeper isn’t impressed with the possibility of psychosis in his snowed-in establishment. Bear wants to leave, he’s not afraid of winter storms, but Innkeeper points out how quiet it is: the storm has buried them completely in the snow. There’s no leaving.
Bear asks to be locked up because he’s...
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Photoblogging: An Ordinary Miracle (1978)...
We open to a shot of Wizard writing through fire. (That is, we’re looking at him through fire, he’s not writing through fire. I can make grammar happen.) Wizard looks like this story isn’t going as well as he’d hoped.
And then he really would have to write through fire because all his papers going up in flames. Wizard stares out the window, where he sees the image of...
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Pageboy Princess has the upper hand on Bear for most of the fight, but he manages to overpower her and she says uncle by screaming “Daddy!”
Bear realizes that this very girly boy with the same face and voice as the girl he loves is the girl he loves. She pushes him away and despite saying that he needs to forget her, he’s happy that she’s here.
Princess is not happy....
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Bear’s reasoning is that bear claws are shorter than hunter knives. What about a bear’s superior strength, Hunter asks. Shouldn’t have teased the animal, Bear replies. Hunter is very angry (you can’t see it, but he says he is). He must now shoot Bear for… I guess for arguing with him about whether or not it’s ok to kill bears? Hunter calls for new guy to bring...
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This is Hunter’s Apprentice (henceforth known as App, because screw typing “apprentice” again. Almost no one in this movie has a name!). He’s been thoroughly steeped in his master’s paranoia.
Hunter has been skulking in the shadows, afraid that the newcomers are hunters. He hates hunters. Stupid hunters keep following him and trying to take his accolades. He asks...
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The space/time portal behind Wizard’s dragon painting takes us to an inn at the snowy mountain top. A winter storm can be heard wooshing in the background and a fire is going in the fireplace.
Pageboy Princess is cleaning a rifle. Innkeeper is talking about the weather. Apparently, the weather is being especially foul, but that’s ok, because the Emilia Inn is well-built, like a...
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King wants to know where Princess is going, but she’s not telling.
Wizard approves of Princess’s rebellion. Of course he does. Does he care that this delicate palace flower is about to run off who knows where dressed like a boy? I’m beginning to think that Wizard is a bit of a jackass. Will it be fun when bears who aren’t in love with her eat her in the woods?!
King...
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Princess realizes that describing her new boyfriend as a brother and offering to kiss him in front of the entire royal court might not have been the best idea she’s ever had. She’s upset and King’s upset that she’s upset, so when she runs into a room upstairs, he chases after her. The sissy courtiers return Bear-less.
Wizard is not amused, and since this whole thing...