chocolatepot | Several different subjects (Reply)

Okay, you got me, I'm a lot more sympathetic to Arya now. Mainly, this is because I had thought it was going to a "she has to pretend to be a boy/get secret lessons" and I've been tired of that for a while, almost as long as I've been tired of "young person has to keep magic/SF thing a secret in their bedroom" plots.

With Dany and Lucrezia - I really like that their political marriages a) aren't shown to be unremitting sadness, they deal with the bad parts (respectively, by making her husband have sex her way and by injuring him so he can't have sex) and b) give the women more power. More shallowly, I like that each led to a costume change.

I feel like Showtime either learned from Tudors or else Borgias just inherently has better stuff than Tudors - or maybe it's just that I don't know every single move every character is going to make? The first season of Tudors was horrendously slow, and Henry was unsympathetic through the whole thing, but Borgias is moving right along and Leo is awesome. Juan can DIAF, though.

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Last night I cut out the pieces for my shift and started sewing; unfortunately, I made the sleeves the weensiest bit too tight, so I took them apart and pieced a bit in to make them a little wider. I worked a bit more on that while I watched the above.

Tomorrow I am going to go to the TKTS book at Times Square and get a seat at How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, which is a great show in and of itself and also stars DanRad, so. I've been a bit weird-feeling all day, I think because of anticipating the social strain of standing a line for an hour or so and then actually going to an actual show on my own.

Linda Baumgarten* says in What Clothes Reveal that a bride today "might still don a wedding dress with long, full hoopskirts based on fashions of a century earlier" in explaining fossilization of forms in court dress, but I have no idea why. Bridal gowns have always fit what fashion said skirts could do. With English court dress, women wore 1740s hoops for about a century, even when regular dress was tall and slim. That is fossilization. Wedding dresses have basically been regular dresses in white until fairly recently, and you see them all through the 1920s, '30s, and '40s with slender skirts. Anyway. It puzzles me why she used that as an example.

For this month on eMusic, I bought two CDs of music hall/vaudeville songs. They're making me want to go back to the novel I started writing for my first NaNo, which involved a soprano who topped the bill at a small theater in New York, and a comedic stage magician who was actually a real magician and the younger son of a society family. (It may have a been a little influenced by Mairelon the Magician.) I only did three pages (hey, I was a freshman) but in my head it got interesting.

IS THAT MEGAN FOLLOWES ON HOUSE???

* ETA: I knew spelled her name all wrong when I was going to sleep. I was quite tired last night.