Alright, people, here's the deal. Husband is out of town this weekend and I'm bored, so I'm going to go see the Breaking Dawn movie. (It's Brin's fault, I swear.) The nearby theater that serves pizza is showing it at 10:30 CST tomorrow, so I'll probably catch that one. If the theater isn't crowded and if it won't disturb anyone and if I can see to Swype, I may end up Twittering my pain at you. Or I may not, because I don't want to be That Guy in the theater. But I'm pretty sure 10:30 am on the day after Black Friday should be pretty darn empty. Oh, and afterward you will get a Twilight post on it -- I'll break into where we are in the book. Probably the 12/3 post, or maybe the 12/10 one.
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I'm going to go see the Breaking Dawn movie. (It's Brin's fault, I swear.)
Yay! I'm convincing, yes I am.
Oh, and afterward you will get a Twilight post on it -- I'll break into where we are in the book. Probably the 12/3 post, or maybe the 12/10 one.
Google Reader, in one of its occasional bouts of precognition*, said you were planning a sort of two-parter. Wouldn't that make it the 10th, or will there be an extra week between the two parts? (I swear I didn't read past the author's note once I realised the post did not exist proper yet.)
*I think this might be the first one that wasn't about Forever in Hell. (Personal Failure truncates her blog feed, so I can't spy on her much even if I wanted to.)
Google Reader, in one of its occasional bouts of precognition*
Haha, I wondered if anyone would notice that.
Blogger has a "publish on date: ......" feature that I use extensively. Pretty much everything on the blog is published automatically, even if I'm at the keyboard when it happens.
As it turns out, if you pick a publish date BEFORE today (by accident), you will accidentally post your post sometimes. (Seems to be a little random.) And you can't UNpost a post; you have to delete and make a new one.
I did that today TWICE. Because... apparently my brain has ossified? I'm not sure.
The two-parter isn't really, so much as it's me breaking up a long conversation into pieces and doing some of them on one post and others in the other. I usually like to follow the text directly, but Bella and Edward jump all over the place when they're talking. That's tomorrow -- 11/26 -- and next Saturday (12/3).
(It's Brin's fault, I swear.)
Wait. What? Where did Rambly Ramblings come from? I do not know this thing.
It's the "Forums" link on the tab up there. :D
I want to get a widget to show the latest post on the forum on the blog-proper, but no such thing exists at the moment. I'm talking to the Nabble folks.
I guess you missed the announcement this past Sunday, or didn't realise it was of interest?
I think the disconnect is that the "direct link" (as seen in the post) looks different. You don't see the blog "surroundings" so it looks like another site.
Ana, I highly recommend you watch The Spoony One's review of the BD movie, after you've seen it for yourself. (He spoils it all the way.) It is a work of sheer genius.
I will! Link? *puppy eyes*
There's also a Breaking Dawn thing at Movies in Fifteen Minutes. I didn't add M15M to my reader at first thinking it was dead, but I happened to be poking through. I've rectified that mistake now.
Apparently I'm still missing it, because all I see is a link to the other forum.
Here's Spoony's vlog on Breaking Dawn. Jonathan, thanks for the heads-up; normally I only catch Spoony's videos on thatguywiththeglasses.com, and this isn't up there yet.
I'm looking forward to your deconstruction of the movie, Ana... here's hoping it doesn't leave you too horrified to post!
Cleolinda almost made me want to watch it. I mean, in full. I planned to watch it anyway when it'll get to our TV screens, but to stop when Bella gets pregnant, because from then on it's a Squick City all the way down. Now I'm thinking that maybe I'll be able to get through all of this if I have her commentary in my head all the time. Like with Left Behind and Fred's commentary.
Ooh. Can I ask a favour? Don't wanna be all demanding, but could you put in some kind of comment on how triggery the pregnancy/birth scenes are likely to be? I'm curious to see the movie, but I had a ghastly birth experience and don't always do very well with fictional depictions; some kind of heads-up would be much appreciated.
Tell you what: if you do that, I'll deconstruct the first sentence of any book of your choice on my blog. Sound fair? :-)
Kit, judging by viewers' reactions I've seen, the possibility of it being triggery looks very high.
Oooh! My choice would be either:
1. Green Angel by Alice Hoffman ("I once believed that life was a gift.") So much cynicism and hope packed in that book!
2. Handmand's Tale by Margaret Atwood ("We slept in what had once been the gymnasium.") The whole book is about stuff that was once X and is now Y.
3. Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie ("ALL CHILDREN, EXCEPT ONE, grow up.") There are at least 2 ways in which this statement is not true. Would authors get away with that now? We would NOT. :P
(I offer choices because I've no idea what you've read and I've noticed that your decons really cover the whole book and how the first sentence ties in and it doesn't seem right for you to have to read a whole book to do a single sentence post! :D)
Now having said THAT... anything specific you'd like me to look for? I can definitely speak to violence and/or graphic gore, but is there anything else triggery I should evaluate? Oh, I can think of one: how concerned the others are for the life of the mother, but I *think* this one should pass that trigger-bar because Bella is Very Special to everyone. *crosses fingers*
This is Part 1, so I'm not even sure if the baby gets born. Does anyone know? Husband said something about people getting epileptic seizures in the theater from a bright lights scene, but I haven't had seizures in the past, so I'm not too concerned for myself.
Sorry for not noticing the request for linkage sooner.
http://spoonyexperiment.com/2011/11/19/vlog-11-19-11-breaking-dawn/#disqus_thread
It's long. Like, nearly feature-length long.
DOGGY!
OH MY GOD. Hour and thirty? Wow. o.O
Oh, who am I to talk? It took me 2 hours to write today's post. :P
I seconded the recommendation of Spoony's review before having actually watched it all the way through, so I didn't realize where it went in the second half. If this was anybody's first exposure to Spoony's reviews, that's not normally what he's like. The first half hour is fairly normal for him, but then the alcohol starts to hit and he gets less and less coherent. In the final half hour he gets pretty despondent, and I'm pretty sure that wasn't an act.
Normally he's sharp and snarky all the way through, so please don't judge him by this alone. He's had a hard time lately, it seems.
Anyway, the link probably deserves extra trigger warnings for depression, not to mention for all the stuff in the movie because he talks about it so graphically. Is it worthwhile at this point to edit my original comment again to add those?
Hmm, well, you're only about 2 posts from the link, so I guess this is trigger warning enough. Thank you, though, for the heads-up. :)
Well, there's also the earlier link I posted, but meh, it's probably not worth the time at this point. I think this whole thing is just be being overly nervous about making a good first impression.
Good first impression achieved, at least as far as I'm concerned. ;)
Thanks!
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