Five Questions Meme again
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osprey_archerSimply cannot resist the five questions meme! This set is from littlerhymes. As always, feel free to ask for questions if you’d like some.
1. If you could pluck one out of print author from obscurity and bring them to light again, who would you choose?
Okay, it would have to be D. K. Broster, so that some bright young spark of a television producer could discover her work and make incredibly slashy miniseries out of The Wounded Name, specifically. I want eight episodes of Laurent with hearteyes and Aymar thrashing feverishly on the bed and gentle forehead caresses and Laurent actually fainting from looking after Aymar so lovingly and gentle handclasps and the entire fandom screaming KISS KISS KISS KISS and they exchange manly kisses but it’s France in 1816 so what do those kisses MEAN and Aymar gets TORTURED and Laurent sits at his FEET and rests his head against Aymar’s KNEE and they share a bed by the SEA and—
Um, so, anyway, yeah. I just feel that this is a show we all deserve, you know?
2. Sofia Coppola is going to direct a new movie and wants to know your thoughts - what is your advice to Sofia?
FOLLOW YOUR HEART SOFIA! Don’t let yourself be trammeled by my opinions!
But if Sofia really insisted, I would say that she’s at her strongest with period pieces: The Virgin Suicides, Marie Antoinette, The Beguiled. She’s got a great pastel goth thing going, girls in fluttering white drifting through the sunlight in dark stories full of death. I’m seeing, like, something about the Romanov sisters maybe. Or I’d love to see her take on an adaptation of Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca or My Cousin Rachel.
3. When you have visitors, what's the one thing you recommend they do in your local area?
I always drag them to Von’s, the local book/record/bead/rock/stuffed animal/novelty store, which has a death trap used book department in the basement where you pick your way through the piles of books between the shelves. Amazing. 10/10 would risk death by book avalanche again.
4. Please tell me something about your cats.
I have two cats, Bramble and Baby Boy. Bramble is a sweet and snuggly black cat who is also a stubborn adventure boy: he was so obnoxiously insistent on sneaking outside (usually when I needed to go to work) that we eventually formed a detente where I sometimes let him out for a Bramble Ramble and he, in return, does not sneak outside without leave. This mostly works except when he can see another cat outside, at which point he has to bound out to greet his friend, because he’s convinced that all other cats are his friends even if they don’t know it yet.
Baby Boy is a well-upholstered tabby with a sweet round face and big round eyes who has become slowly more affectionate in the year since I got him. (I adopted him because in his previous home he was being bullied by a three-legged cat half his size.) He is not a lap cat, but he likes to lie beside me on the chaise or on the bed, not close enough to touch so I don’t know he’s there until I try to get up to go to the bathroom and accidentally kick him. He accepts this without rancor. More even-tempered than Bramble. He comes out to greet guests and allows them to pet him while Bramble is still observing from the kitchen.
5. What's something you want to bake or cook, but haven't got around to/haven't found an opportunity?
Oh, I’d love to make a raised game pie, like they make on the Great British Baking Show, except much less fancy of course. I even have the fancy fluted mold (my mother bought it years ago in France and to the best of my knowledge never used it either), but I’m so intimidated by the hot water crust!
littlerhymes. As always, feel free to ask for questions if you’d like some.1. If you could pluck one out of print author from obscurity and bring them to light again, who would you choose?
Okay, it would have to be D. K. Broster, so that some bright young spark of a television producer could discover her work and make incredibly slashy miniseries out of The Wounded Name, specifically. I want eight episodes of Laurent with hearteyes and Aymar thrashing feverishly on the bed and gentle forehead caresses and Laurent actually fainting from looking after Aymar so lovingly and gentle handclasps and the entire fandom screaming KISS KISS KISS KISS and they exchange manly kisses but it’s France in 1816 so what do those kisses MEAN and Aymar gets TORTURED and Laurent sits at his FEET and rests his head against Aymar’s KNEE and they share a bed by the SEA and—
Um, so, anyway, yeah. I just feel that this is a show we all deserve, you know?
2. Sofia Coppola is going to direct a new movie and wants to know your thoughts - what is your advice to Sofia?
FOLLOW YOUR HEART SOFIA! Don’t let yourself be trammeled by my opinions!
But if Sofia really insisted, I would say that she’s at her strongest with period pieces: The Virgin Suicides, Marie Antoinette, The Beguiled. She’s got a great pastel goth thing going, girls in fluttering white drifting through the sunlight in dark stories full of death. I’m seeing, like, something about the Romanov sisters maybe. Or I’d love to see her take on an adaptation of Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca or My Cousin Rachel.
3. When you have visitors, what's the one thing you recommend they do in your local area?
I always drag them to Von’s, the local book/record/bead/rock/stuffed animal/novelty store, which has a death trap used book department in the basement where you pick your way through the piles of books between the shelves. Amazing. 10/10 would risk death by book avalanche again.
4. Please tell me something about your cats.
I have two cats, Bramble and Baby Boy. Bramble is a sweet and snuggly black cat who is also a stubborn adventure boy: he was so obnoxiously insistent on sneaking outside (usually when I needed to go to work) that we eventually formed a detente where I sometimes let him out for a Bramble Ramble and he, in return, does not sneak outside without leave. This mostly works except when he can see another cat outside, at which point he has to bound out to greet his friend, because he’s convinced that all other cats are his friends even if they don’t know it yet.
Baby Boy is a well-upholstered tabby with a sweet round face and big round eyes who has become slowly more affectionate in the year since I got him. (I adopted him because in his previous home he was being bullied by a three-legged cat half his size.) He is not a lap cat, but he likes to lie beside me on the chaise or on the bed, not close enough to touch so I don’t know he’s there until I try to get up to go to the bathroom and accidentally kick him. He accepts this without rancor. More even-tempered than Bramble. He comes out to greet guests and allows them to pet him while Bramble is still observing from the kitchen.
5. What's something you want to bake or cook, but haven't got around to/haven't found an opportunity?
Oh, I’d love to make a raised game pie, like they make on the Great British Baking Show, except much less fancy of course. I even have the fancy fluted mold (my mother bought it years ago in France and to the best of my knowledge never used it either), but I’m so intimidated by the hot water crust!
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Date: 2025-01-06 02:35 pm (UTC)And I'm just going to draw hearts around your Wounded Name thoughts, yes yes yes to all of that and also DIVING INTO THE RIVER and SWOONING and all of it, we'd need a really brave and visionary producer to go for it all the way.
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Date: 2025-01-06 03:21 pm (UTC)YES of COURSE we have to have the diving-into-the-river introduction, and the two of them sitting naked in the inn afterward (wrapped in sheets! but nonetheless! sheets that should slip to show off their leanly muscled torsos and ofc Aymar's jartier...). Plenty of swooning. So much longing. Seven episodes of the viewers screaming NOW KISS and then finally after Aymar's name is cleared they do.
Not sure how to deal with Avoye in the adaptation. What if she's Aymar's sister so she can still have her plot relevance but also doesn't get in the way of the Aymar/Laurent romance?
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Date: 2025-01-06 08:48 pm (UTC)--Rebecca West, The Fountain Overflows
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Date: 2025-01-07 10:05 am (UTC)...Oh, go on then. You've twisted my arm, I can hold out no longer. Questions please! :D
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Date: 2025-01-07 04:27 pm (UTC)1. If you could pick one book to be made into a movie, which book would you pick, and what would the adaptation be like?
2. What draws you to classics?
3. Please tell me about your vision for a perfect tea party.
4. What have your kids been up to lately?
5. Best book you read in 2024?
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Date: 2025-01-07 01:24 pm (UTC)Von's sounds amazing, I love an old bookstore with WAAAY too many books piled up!
Raised game pie... omg...
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Date: 2025-01-07 04:21 pm (UTC)IMO the sign of a good used bookstore is that you are at least SLIGHTLY worried about death as you navigate the aisles.
My raised game pie might end up being a raised beef pie, as I have no idea where I'd get game. Could probably get duck? Duck and cranberry sauce might be good? Have not even gotten to the point of looking for recipes tbh.
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Date: 2025-01-08 11:35 am (UTC)Beef might work better than duck - duck is so fatty and game is lean? Maybe there is a speciality artisan butcher in your town that can help...
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Date: 2025-01-08 02:09 pm (UTC)I'll have to check out the meat offerings at D&R. They have the fanciest meat in town I believe.
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Date: 2025-01-08 02:10 pm (UTC)Yes, come risk death by book avalanche! Soon I will have a guest room... everyone can risk death by book avalanche...
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Date: 2025-01-08 05:57 am (UTC)Sounds like an excellent place.
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