random fanstuff
Jan. 3rd, 2006 02:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wombat1138Still have Martian Death Flu, now with exciting new ooginess. I shall spare everyone the details.
For some reason, the wombat-consort and I recently attempted to character-map Futurama and Firefly onto each other. It doesn't always go smoothly, what with numerical discrepancies between the main ship crews and, well, stuff, but here's what we came up with:
Leela = Zoe : Kicks ass, takes names, chews gum.
Bender = Jayne : Sarcastic tank dude.
Zoidberg = Simon : Doctor doctor, gimme the news.
Brannigan = Mal : This pair-match seems so wrong, and yet so right. Maybe it would help the correspondence if someone were to lose his trousers.
Professor Farnsworth = Shepherd Book : Ditto. Except for the trousers.
Fry = Wash : No good reason except for general demeanor.
Amy = Kaylee : Ditto. Trousers still maybe optional.
However, I'm pretty sure that no amount of shamelessness can map Hermes out to River. At least I hope so.
Meanwhile, came up with some odd thoughtlets after re-reading HP:HPB and pondering whether the "Half-Blood Prince" bit was a red-herring waste o' title after all. Possibly none of them are novel, since I haven't been plugged into the fandom, but hey, they're mine and they sprang from my brain cell boingy boingy and now lie in congealing tie-dyed stalagmites. Wait no, that last bit is just my piles of used handkerchiefs.
First of all, there's the whole question of how the "Harry Potter and the [Thing of Foo]" titles have worked out in the past. Sometimes the Thing of Foo is a magical Egg McGuffin; sometimes it's a Colonel Bogeyman (or in American versions, Boogerman) to stay away from. I'm not sure exactly how to articulate how the Order of the Phoenix fits in, except that it could be bundled with its immediate predecessor in the mangled phrases with which some compatriots and I were once tormenting an urchin in a chatroom by pretending we couldn't remember any of the HP titles: "Harry Potter and the Bucket of Spicy Wings".
Was Harry actually Ordained as a Phoenician in HP5? If so, then maybe that particular Thing of Foo ended up shading into the usage pattern for HP6, where the significance of the Thing of Foo isn't centralized in the purple-sequinned half-Minneapolitan himself or in the specific knowledge he writes down (unlike Tom Riddle's diary, the parallel tome from HP2) but rather in the "Thing of Foo" describing a select company which kind of includes Harry, and yet kind of doesn't.
See, secondly, one of the main themes of HBP seems to be the importance of matrilineality. (Perhaps this was to be considered inevitable what with JKR's oft-touted status as a single mother at the time of initial authorship.) It's difficult to tell what chibi-Snape thought of his mum, but he seems to've used her old books (or at least her Potions text) when attending Hogwarts and consciously used her maiden name as a basis for his own pseudonym. Despite the good looks and intelligence of the young Tom Marvolo Riddle, Voldy-chan seems to've derived his entire sense of self-worth on his magical abilities to terrify and dominate-- abilities which he'd inherited from poor despised Merope, whom he'd automatically dismissed as "weak" since childhood under the assumption that otherwise she wouldn't have died.
And then there's Harry, whose most powerful protections againt Voldemort were based on his mother's blood-- not just Lily's sacrifice of her own life for his sake, but also Petunia's grudging acquiescence ("offer" isn't really the right word, is it?) of sanctuary.
There may have been additional thoughtlets along those lines, but now they have gone away. Perhaps that means it is time to partake of another pint or two of tea, soup, or possibly even both.
For some reason, the wombat-consort and I recently attempted to character-map Futurama and Firefly onto each other. It doesn't always go smoothly, what with numerical discrepancies between the main ship crews and, well, stuff, but here's what we came up with:
Leela = Zoe : Kicks ass, takes names, chews gum.
Bender = Jayne : Sarcastic tank dude.
Zoidberg = Simon : Doctor doctor, gimme the news.
Brannigan = Mal : This pair-match seems so wrong, and yet so right. Maybe it would help the correspondence if someone were to lose his trousers.
Professor Farnsworth = Shepherd Book : Ditto. Except for the trousers.
Fry = Wash : No good reason except for general demeanor.
Amy = Kaylee : Ditto. Trousers still maybe optional.
However, I'm pretty sure that no amount of shamelessness can map Hermes out to River. At least I hope so.
Meanwhile, came up with some odd thoughtlets after re-reading HP:HPB and pondering whether the "Half-Blood Prince" bit was a red-herring waste o' title after all. Possibly none of them are novel, since I haven't been plugged into the fandom, but hey, they're mine and they sprang from my brain cell boingy boingy and now lie in congealing tie-dyed stalagmites. Wait no, that last bit is just my piles of used handkerchiefs.
First of all, there's the whole question of how the "Harry Potter and the [Thing of Foo]" titles have worked out in the past. Sometimes the Thing of Foo is a magical Egg McGuffin; sometimes it's a Colonel Bogeyman (or in American versions, Boogerman) to stay away from. I'm not sure exactly how to articulate how the Order of the Phoenix fits in, except that it could be bundled with its immediate predecessor in the mangled phrases with which some compatriots and I were once tormenting an urchin in a chatroom by pretending we couldn't remember any of the HP titles: "Harry Potter and the Bucket of Spicy Wings".
Was Harry actually Ordained as a Phoenician in HP5? If so, then maybe that particular Thing of Foo ended up shading into the usage pattern for HP6, where the significance of the Thing of Foo isn't centralized in the purple-sequinned half-Minneapolitan himself or in the specific knowledge he writes down (unlike Tom Riddle's diary, the parallel tome from HP2) but rather in the "Thing of Foo" describing a select company which kind of includes Harry, and yet kind of doesn't.
See, secondly, one of the main themes of HBP seems to be the importance of matrilineality. (Perhaps this was to be considered inevitable what with JKR's oft-touted status as a single mother at the time of initial authorship.) It's difficult to tell what chibi-Snape thought of his mum, but he seems to've used her old books (or at least her Potions text) when attending Hogwarts and consciously used her maiden name as a basis for his own pseudonym. Despite the good looks and intelligence of the young Tom Marvolo Riddle, Voldy-chan seems to've derived his entire sense of self-worth on his magical abilities to terrify and dominate-- abilities which he'd inherited from poor despised Merope, whom he'd automatically dismissed as "weak" since childhood under the assumption that otherwise she wouldn't have died.
And then there's Harry, whose most powerful protections againt Voldemort were based on his mother's blood-- not just Lily's sacrifice of her own life for his sake, but also Petunia's grudging acquiescence ("offer" isn't really the right word, is it?) of sanctuary.
There may have been additional thoughtlets along those lines, but now they have gone away. Perhaps that means it is time to partake of another pint or two of tea, soup, or possibly even both.