Snowflake Challenge #1-#6

[regshoe]

I'm not up to whole posts for snowflake_challenge this year, but I wanted to participate in a smaller way, so here are some mini-answers for the challenges posted so far. :)



Challenge #1, Update your fandom information, I have done by updating my Dreamwidth profile.

Challenge #2, Talk about your fannish origin story, I did in this (locked) post from a few years ago, and since the relevant stuff is in the past it hasn't really changed!

Challenge #3: Talk about a fannish opinion you hold that has changed over time.

I have ceased to be an adaptation-hating book purist! I was never very extreme—I liked the Lord of the Rings films, for instance—but I did believe that an adaptation was good insofar as it was faithful to the original: it could be nice to see the characters interpreted by actors or appreciate the music in a good soundtrack, but changes from the book were always bad. But then, well, Kidnapped happened, and I think it did pretty profoundly alter my understanding of what an adaptation that's not sticking to the letter of the original can do. It changes so much—plot, language, mood and style, all that music—and it completely gets at the heart of the book's story, interpreting it for a new medium and audience, commenting on it, bringing out new aspects of it. It's an absolute joy and it's really good.

Challenge #4: Since this is the start of a new year, this challenge will be to set your own goals! Of course we can all make large or ambitious goals, remember that small and/or short goals are also good!

My fannish goal for this year is to do as much as it's a good idea to do, and try not to do more than that.

Challenge #5: Talk about what has improved in your life thanks to fandom.

I have made some wonderful friends. You lot are really the best, you know ♥

Challenge #6: Share your favourite piece of original canon.

Well, I have lots of favourites, but:

So we've got to keep going, you and I. Knowing that more adventures still await us, and that every mile we cover is making our companions smile.

You might think you know the ending, but you've got to walk on to find out. Turn the page, trust the author. Davie, you are so young. You will grow. You will live the life of a gentleman. You will feel and learn and taste and travel. You will see fully who you are and all that has made you. You will come into your kingdom. And then one moonlit evening, years from now, when the fear and threat have subsided, you'll be walking by your house, considering your beautiful Scotland and you'll stop. And take out that silver button, and know that he was always there. But that also, now, he's...

[Please picture me, still lying on the floor crying, just reading this bit in the transcript again. I love this play so much ;__; ]

Comments

[prisca]

Mini answers are fine. I love the last one, though I have to admit I have no clue what play this might be.

[regshoe]

Thank you! Aww, I'm glad you like the quote—it's from the stage adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped, by Isobel McArthur :)

[potentiality_26]

Your change of mind re:adaptations is so interesting!

[regshoe]

Thank you! It was a good change of mind, I hope.

[musyc]

My fannish goal for this year is to do as much as it's a good idea to do, and try not to do more than that.

That is an excellent goal.

[regshoe]

:) Glad you think so.

[scintilla10]

and it completely gets at the heart of the book's story, interpreting it for a new medium and audience, commenting on it, bringing out new aspects of it. Oh, yes, I love when adaptations can do this! Love this.

I love your goal for yourself as well; what an excellent thing to strive for. <3

[regshoe]

Oh, yes, I love when adaptations can do this! Love this.

:D It's such a good thing.

And thank you, I hope so. :)