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alexseanchai) wrote2014-04-29 01:36 pm
alexseanchai) wrote2014-04-29 01:36 pm
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meme!
Pick a number and I'll post a little something.
01) Abraham's Daughter
02) Auld Lang Syne
03) Black Velvet Band Medley
04) Breath of Life
05) Child's Play
06) Church Grimm
07) Clever Hans
08) DCLXVI
09) A Heart to Let
10) Jacobs' Ladder
11) Leah Far-Sighted
12) Left Allemande
13) Self-Rescuing Princess
14) A Song of Angry Fen
15) A Storytelling of Crows
01) Abraham's Daughter
02) Auld Lang Syne
03) Black Velvet Band Medley
04) Breath of Life
05) Child's Play
06) Church Grimm
07) Clever Hans
08) DCLXVI
09) A Heart to Let
10) Jacobs' Ladder
11) Leah Far-Sighted
12) Left Allemande
13) Self-Rescuing Princess
14) A Song of Angry Fen
15) A Storytelling of Crows
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Intersectional feminist retellings of Grimm fairy tales. I have yet to read my Grimm collection to see which I want to retell, beyond these:
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I'm really excited about this one, I just don't know enough to write it yet--this is the one where a shipful of people destined for prison labor on the moon colony are redirected to a habitable planet in another solar system, because the (white American) people who intend to settle that planet don't want to do the hard work of making sure it's a comfortable place to live. I haven't decided whether the planet is already inhabited when my prisoners get there--that may be too many issues for one book, I'm not sure.
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I so do not know enough to write this one yet, and I won't for quite a while, I don't have time to do the reseach--you know Arcade Fire's song "Abraham's Daughter"? I basically want to explore the implications for the Abrahamic religions, as experienced by (probably) a series of mothers and daughters, if the Akedah went as spectacularly differently as the song says.
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Gist of the song is, Isaac had a sister (possibly Rule 63!Ishmael, possibly not). When Abraham took Isaac up the mountain for the sacrifice, it was aborted not by divine intervention but by sisterly intervention.
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Music is all very well, say some, but only for purposes of appreciating High Culture: opera, classical, real music, nothing too popular with the masses or too enjoyable to make. Jewelry and other little trinkets—inferior materials and craftsmanship, say some, and certainly not worth the money that could be better saved for real jewelry. Magic? Pah! Sleight of hand is nothing but trickery, and who wants to be tricked? say some, and as for real magic, pah! again: there is no such thing.
Stories? Escapist fantasy, say some, and those with the talent for composing them should better spend it on writing real literature.
Some would not much enjoy the Lancaster Area Renaissance Festival.
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Intersectional feminist retellings of the stories collected by Joseph Jacobs! For given values, since the centerpiece of the collection is the novella Ceallach An Gannon and the Daughters of Maire, which bears very little resemblance to the story Jacobs collected entitled "The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire" except that our Sidhe was born in the morning, named at noon, and went in the evening to the king of Erin, happy ending being marrying the king's daughter.
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Intersectional feminist retellings of the stories of Hans Christian Andersen. Which is about all I've got unfortunately; I do plan on doing Little Mermaid, Thumbelina, and Snow Queen, but beyond that I dunno.
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