Sounds like a ghost story to me

still doing lit reading
(also sleeping, sort of at random)

"The real becomes the spectral, the past alien, the familiar strange; the lost home (heimlich) and the uncanny (unheimlich) coincide."

Which reminds me of the much neglected plot bunny.
Odds of my actually going and writing it increased today as I started idly listing the research I need to do, and trying on different pubs for size.

What do you think would be the essential features of Giles' local? Would he just go wherever was nearest? Is matching it with RL characteristics of pubs in Bath at all important?

... Since matching would involve finding out what said pubs were like in the 70s, 80s *and* now, I'm leaning towards not-important.


Also need to find out more about diwali, and how 'home' or 'homely' would be a different idea in relevant different cultures.
So far I read one page on the BBC children's website. I'm vaguely embarrassed that such a data source could vastly enlarge my personal knowledge. Seems like I ought to know more about people.

... I mean, I don't know more about people I'm related to, or what their house would look like at christmas, or indeed what *they* look like lately, but somehow that doesn't give me liberal guilt quite the same way...

Note to self

If you go to google maps and type in "Bath oak" then you get a little arrow pointing at a middle of nowhere place near Oak Street.

A made up place in roughly this area is where Giles is.

I have no idea about plausibility. I'm sure I poked maps a lot when I was inventing the place in the first place. Unfortunately, if/when I wrote down the results, I didn't put a useful tag or note to self on it. Which makes it harder to find.

*sigh*

... see is difficult figuring where the nearest pub is if I haven't decided where nearest is in general.

There's an oak street and an oak ave, and oak street has more pubs near it.

Including 2 that show up on the BBC guide for gay pubs.
The BBC have a guide for many things.


ANYways, I know I figured out the distance from invented-place to the hospital last time, and I think it comes out about right this way, and also it is near Wells Road, which is obviously handy.


... Fictional geography is trickier than it looks. I mean, if I was being really precise, I'd have to figure out where a guy of his socio-economic background would be likely to be.
Instead I just make stuff up. Making stuff up is much more fun than research I have no idea how to do.

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I had a thought about the last Torchwood ep, being trapped in roles defined by gender and sexuality, and how Jack might feel stuck in late 20th / early 21st century, and how he could have changed so much the people who worked with him had to wonder about his sexuality rather than, for instance, having very many demonstrations.

It can wander off into being about Owen and Gwen as well. Not so much Tosh or Ianto on account of them not being there. Though I could apply the same thought tools to other episodes.

Thing is this thought keeps on falling out again whenever I sit down to poke at it.

Gender and sexuality norms and roles, changes therein, and being trapped by. Tis a big Thought.



I've been reading more lit essays. I've decided it helps if I've read the books they're about. Otherwise they're generally sort of meh. But the whole book was on the reading list, not just the essays with words like 'Ibsen' in the title, so read it I am.

Sulk about it I might. Later.

Deal breakers?

I was talking about Torchwood recently to two different people, and both of them responded by saying if I felt that way about it I should just stop watching.

Which... I'm not going to do before the end of the season.

But there are some things they could do that could get me to bail out.



So, what would be the breaking point for y'all, f-list? What things could a fiction you started out as a fan of do that would get you to quit watching?


So far with me? Mostly killing characters. ( Read more... )

So I guess the other thing, especially with relatively new shows, is that the show isn't what I hoped it would be, that it keeps focusing on the stuff I was hoping it would drop, or it simply doesn't develop, or alternatively develops too far and winds up all the storylines I was into without developing more.
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So, I was wondering, what can get you to turn off?



... and how come, when DC comics keep giving me every single factor on my hell with this list, I can't seem to bring myself to quit them?