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Cliquey Cliquey Clique Clique!

I am a member of 5 cliques of size 14

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A near-forgotten DDDverse ficlet.

So, I was trawling through the files of the famiglia's computer, when I chanced upon this. It was written quite a while ago, and I was sure I'd posted here. A quick look through my LJ suggests to me I didn't, and so I'd like to rectify that here now. It was beta-read by anneu53714 so at least one other person has read it!

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A near-forgotten DDDverse ficlet.

So, I was trawling through the files of the famiglia's computer, when I chanced upon this. It was written quite a while ago, and I was sure I'd posted here. A quick look through my LJ suggests to me I didn't, and so I'd like to rectify that here now. It was beta-read by anneu53714 so at least one other person has read it!

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Useless Information and Other Nonsense

So Louise told me to be more interesting earlier. I'm not sure I can be, but it is a while since I actually said anything of interest.

As many of you know, I've constructed an insanely complicated family tree for the Daoimear de Dan universe. I've been using a family tree program that seemed to bollock up the other day, and aside from nausing up Bathsheba Borgia's (Narcissa Richards Malfoy Black's mother's) file, it totally deleted from memory the very first file inserted so many months ago- Harry James Potter. Fucking typical. Least I remember, roughly, what he's done, etc. Is now sorted out and I've discovered that I've got 170 people in it so far.

This reminds me of a review I got on PK about Sirius/Narcissa just the other day. The reviewer (who has been mentioned here before) had a go at me, shouting 'incest' despite me saying in several places that this was written BEFORE OotP gave us specific genealogy for Narcissa (that bitch Joanne! *snickers*). I don't mind people saying it's weird if I hadn't said that HPDDD had been written before OotP, but I have and frankly it annoys me to no end that people don't read the little note at the top of the sequel and the ficlets and the note in the HPDDD summary. Anyway.... I have decided that Bellatrix & Andromeda exist (father Cephus Black, mother Agrippina Malfoy) and they are still Sirius' cousins. Am I making any sense at all?!?!

It all just indicates my ability to concentrate on incredible minutiae (is that the word?) while ignoring the bigger picture. It's like that episode of Absolutely Fabulous where Eddie and Pats go all the way to New York to check out a door handle for the burned out kitchen. In that time, Edina's daughter Saffy manages to redecorate the entire kitchen.

Also... Helen of Troy was on Sky Movies Mon/Tues, and my daddy taped it for me. Despite it being quite obviously 'made for TV', it does manage to deal rather better with some of it (I've only seen the first half so far) than Troy did. But I'm sorry, I buy the idea of Matthew 'Tony in Coronation Street years ago' Marsden as Paris even less than I buy the idea of Orlando Bloom as Paris. Sienna Guillory was actually pretty good as Helen- although anyone would be better than Diane 'Vacuous Cardboard' Kruger. Hell, I'd be better than Diane Kruger and I couldn't even launch a ship in a bottle.

But, that said... it was still total 'made for tv' territory. Rufus Sewell even sucked somewhat and the idea of James Callis as Menelaus made me piss meself laffing. I know most of you won't have a clue who he is, but a few years ago there was a TV series here called Sex, Chips and Rock n Roll in which he played a dandy drummer in the 60s called 'The Wolf' with looong black hair, libido out to here, etc etc. The idea of him as Menelaus still makes me laugh. That said, was cool to see Maryam d'Abo since seeing her recently in The Living Daylights.

Cool things about Helen Of Troy: It not only mentions the fact the war took 10 years, but makes a point about it. Cassandra plays her part, while Briseis is mercifully nowhere to be found. Hell, Clytemnestra is there too. It has a lot of the detail Troy didn't bother with (presumably so we could get all that Achilles/Briseis stuff we so wanted.). We even get the goddesses at the start, man!

Not-so-Cool things about Helen Of Troy: Total TV movie territory. Some of it is badly done. Sienna Guillory isn't bad, but she's not great either. Matthew Marsden seems under the impression he's still in Coronation Street judging by his performance. Even Rufus Sewell doesn't put in his usual high standards. James Callis, while fabulous as Justin De Vere Montague/The Wolf in Sex, Chips and Rock n Roll, just plain doesn't work in this. Perhaps I am hindered by thinking Brendan Gleeson (some 20/30 years older than Callis) was actually pretty good at it in Troy.

Plus, Matthew Marsden Vs. James Callis one-on-one fight: stupidest, least convincing thing I ever saw. There was even some hair-pulling at one point.

In the end, it was a lot like the Attila the Hun TV movie I saw starring that Gerard Butler dude (dude in Lara Croft II)- not fabulous, but entertaining enough. If the people making Helen of Troy and the people making Troy had pooled the best of each, somewhere they might've got the right mix of everything and made a half-way decent movie.

Anything else to report? I really don't think so. My room is beginning to look like my room- ie, there's tons of shite everywhere. Fucking terrible headache. And that's about it. My life is a whirligig of fun and excitement.

Useless Information and Other Nonsense

So Louise told me to be more interesting earlier. I'm not sure I can be, but it is a while since I actually said anything of interest.

As many of you know, I've constructed an insanely complicated family tree for the Daoimear de Dan universe. I've been using a family tree program that seemed to bollock up the other day, and aside from nausing up Bathsheba Borgia's (Narcissa Richards Malfoy Black's mother's) file, it totally deleted from memory the very first file inserted so many months ago- Harry James Potter. Fucking typical. Least I remember, roughly, what he's done, etc. Is now sorted out and I've discovered that I've got 170 people in it so far.

This reminds me of a review I got on PK about Sirius/Narcissa just the other day. The reviewer (who has been mentioned here before) had a go at me, shouting 'incest' despite me saying in several places that this was written BEFORE OotP gave us specific genealogy for Narcissa (that bitch Joanne! *snickers*). I don't mind people saying it's weird if I hadn't said that HPDDD had been written before OotP, but I have and frankly it annoys me to no end that people don't read the little note at the top of the sequel and the ficlets and the note in the HPDDD summary. Anyway.... I have decided that Bellatrix & Andromeda exist (father Cephus Black, mother Agrippina Malfoy) and they are still Sirius' cousins. Am I making any sense at all?!?!

It all just indicates my ability to concentrate on incredible minutiae (is that the word?) while ignoring the bigger picture. It's like that episode of Absolutely Fabulous where Eddie and Pats go all the way to New York to check out a door handle for the burned out kitchen. In that time, Edina's daughter Saffy manages to redecorate the entire kitchen.

Also... Helen of Troy was on Sky Movies Mon/Tues, and my daddy taped it for me. Despite it being quite obviously 'made for TV', it does manage to deal rather better with some of it (I've only seen the first half so far) than Troy did. But I'm sorry, I buy the idea of Matthew 'Tony in Coronation Street years ago' Marsden as Paris even less than I buy the idea of Orlando Bloom as Paris. Sienna Guillory was actually pretty good as Helen- although anyone would be better than Diane 'Vacuous Cardboard' Kruger. Hell, I'd be better than Diane Kruger and I couldn't even launch a ship in a bottle.

But, that said... it was still total 'made for tv' territory. Rufus Sewell even sucked somewhat and the idea of James Callis as Menelaus made me piss meself laffing. I know most of you won't have a clue who he is, but a few years ago there was a TV series here called Sex, Chips and Rock n Roll in which he played a dandy drummer in the 60s called 'The Wolf' with looong black hair, libido out to here, etc etc. The idea of him as Menelaus still makes me laugh. That said, was cool to see Maryam d'Abo since seeing her recently in The Living Daylights.

Cool things about Helen Of Troy: It not only mentions the fact the war took 10 years, but makes a point about it. Cassandra plays her part, while Briseis is mercifully nowhere to be found. Hell, Clytemnestra is there too. It has a lot of the detail Troy didn't bother with (presumably so we could get all that Achilles/Briseis stuff we so wanted.). We even get the goddesses at the start, man!

Not-so-Cool things about Helen Of Troy: Total TV movie territory. Some of it is badly done. Sienna Guillory isn't bad, but she's not great either. Matthew Marsden seems under the impression he's still in Coronation Street judging by his performance. Even Rufus Sewell doesn't put in his usual high standards. James Callis, while fabulous as Justin De Vere Montague/The Wolf in Sex, Chips and Rock n Roll, just plain doesn't work in this. Perhaps I am hindered by thinking Brendan Gleeson (some 20/30 years older than Callis) was actually pretty good at it in Troy.

Plus, Matthew Marsden Vs. James Callis one-on-one fight: stupidest, least convincing thing I ever saw. There was even some hair-pulling at one point.

In the end, it was a lot like the Attila the Hun TV movie I saw starring that Gerard Butler dude (dude in Lara Croft II)- not fabulous, but entertaining enough. If the people making Helen of Troy and the people making Troy had pooled the best of each, somewhere they might've got the right mix of everything and made a half-way decent movie.

Anything else to report? I really don't think so. My room is beginning to look like my room- ie, there's tons of shite everywhere. Fucking terrible headache. And that's about it. My life is a whirligig of fun and excitement.