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Jun. 30th, 2011 11:21 amYesterday I splurged and bought Fables: Witches and Rose Red. Bellflower Totenkinder ♥ ♥ I hope she's not gone for good - sure, she walked off into the sunset with that boxer guy, but you can't get rid of anyone in Fables. All those dead characters came back in Haven, after all, and there's too much buildup in this Cult of Blue thing for me to believe Boy Blue is never going to be seen again in any shape or form. Bellflower's not even dead, just going into voluntary retirement. And she's immortal.
Someday I will do Red Riding Hood cosplay. That's how my hair looks now, you know.
Maybe it's just me, though, but I felt like Snow White and Rose Red's backstory wasn't planned out from the beginning. It's like he decided going in that Snow was going to be the lead, and then wanted to wow readers a bit with including Rose since she's much more obscure. And he's been making it clear that Snow is from both SW&RR and SW&7D since early on, but the flashback in Rose Red felt less like, "And now I reveal the elaborate way Snow can be both Snows!" and more, "Oh, gosh, how can I connect these two conflicting stories?"
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Started reading Talk of the Ton, one of the romance novels I picked up at the book sale. It's a collection of four novellas, with the first one by Eloisa James. You know, there's really only one thing she does that annoys me - she gets clothing just right and most mores as well, but she always works on the assumption (that basically all others do as well) that men of the past didn't want to get married, that they'd avoid it unless in love or forced by financial/familial necessity. But that seems very, very presentist to me. It might also come about from people seeing that historical women had few options beyond marriage but men didn't, so making the assumption that men didn't care much about it? From what I can tell, though, men generally did want to get married - generally speaking, it conferred adulthood and respectability, and it meant having someone to take care of your home and make sure things were running smoothly. Which is selfish etc. but I find fairly understandable. I guess it would be harder to plot out novels if the heroes actually did want to get married, though.
Gramma brought these lingerie gowns she had in a closet when she came up for Owen's graduation. They are in such great condition (though a little smelly) - one is definitely my great-grandmother Ardis's high school graduation dress, which would be ca. 1919, I think? and there's a little white baby's dress (with adorable tiny swastikas on the yoke) that was probably hers as well. And then there's another that I think may actually be her mother's - Mertis's. (Yes, their names were Ardis and Mertis. And my grandmother's is Phyllis.) It seems to be ca. 1909 which would be too early for Ardis to have worn it. Must do research!
Adorable piece of R/Hr art, hey.
Someday I will do Red Riding Hood cosplay. That's how my hair looks now, you know.
Maybe it's just me, though, but I felt like Snow White and Rose Red's backstory wasn't planned out from the beginning. It's like he decided going in that Snow was going to be the lead, and then wanted to wow readers a bit with including Rose since she's much more obscure. And he's been making it clear that Snow is from both SW&RR and SW&7D since early on, but the flashback in Rose Red felt less like, "And now I reveal the elaborate way Snow can be both Snows!" and more, "Oh, gosh, how can I connect these two conflicting stories?"
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Started reading Talk of the Ton, one of the romance novels I picked up at the book sale. It's a collection of four novellas, with the first one by Eloisa James. You know, there's really only one thing she does that annoys me - she gets clothing just right and most mores as well, but she always works on the assumption (that basically all others do as well) that men of the past didn't want to get married, that they'd avoid it unless in love or forced by financial/familial necessity. But that seems very, very presentist to me. It might also come about from people seeing that historical women had few options beyond marriage but men didn't, so making the assumption that men didn't care much about it? From what I can tell, though, men generally did want to get married - generally speaking, it conferred adulthood and respectability, and it meant having someone to take care of your home and make sure things were running smoothly. Which is selfish etc. but I find fairly understandable. I guess it would be harder to plot out novels if the heroes actually did want to get married, though.
Gramma brought these lingerie gowns she had in a closet when she came up for Owen's graduation. They are in such great condition (though a little smelly) - one is definitely my great-grandmother Ardis's high school graduation dress, which would be ca. 1919, I think? and there's a little white baby's dress (with adorable tiny swastikas on the yoke) that was probably hers as well. And then there's another that I think may actually be her mother's - Mertis's. (Yes, their names were Ardis and Mertis. And my grandmother's is Phyllis.) It seems to be ca. 1909 which would be too early for Ardis to have worn it. Must do research!
Adorable piece of R/Hr art, hey.
