Sister Time!

[bloodyrosemccoy]

My sister is here! Hooray!

Dang, I love it when she visits. Who else can I go from discussing the publishing industry to gleefully squealing at a Let's Play of Five Nights at Freddy's* to contemplating the attributes of fairy jail in the Disney Fairyverse** with?

It's good to have people who get me.


*If you haven't seen it, I warn you that even with Markiplier's delightful self-comfort chatter in that video, that video and the game itself is fucking TERRIFYING. I haven't had so much fun watching most actual horror MOVIES as I have watching that LP.

**Have I mentioned that I LOVE the Disney Fairies? Especially the movie versions. For one thing, Peter Pan has been thoroughly bussed from the movies (I think it's technically before Tinker Bell meets him, which I'm fine with), and Tink has a much more likable personality. More importantly, though, they're girly as unicorns in a meadow full of rainbow glitter, and yet Tinker Bell is also an ENGINEER. You can totally be a girly mechanical engineer! The Fairies say so, god dammit! (And the latest movie, The Pirate Fairy, has a SCIENCE FAIRY who does experiments and alchemy and stuff! IT'S GREAT.

Comments

[fadethecat.livejournal.com]

I love the Disney Fairies! The movies are a bit predictable, but in a pleasant sort of way, and I really enjoy the cheery practicality of the fairy society. (Even if I'm sort of waiting for the inevitable revolution against the caste-based monarchy.) And it's so much fun to see the cycle of "scientific experimentation leads to disaster, disaster is fixed by MORE SCIENCE."

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Fairies: Science Responsibly!

I do like the worldbuilding and how they use their talents to build up society. And I like that the queen seems to be more of an administrator than a true ruler. I do have questions about the assignation of a job on the day one is born, but they seem to be broad enough talents that you could find SOMETHING you like in them. (Unlike the books that have things like "cake-frosting-talent fairies" or other painfully specific ones.)

On the other hand, I got stupidly excited when the latest movie introduced the possibility of SWITCHING talents! Tink's already caused an industrial revolution--AND a social one with the Winter Fairies!--and now we're on to a scientific revolution that could lead to even more social rearrangement! THESE MOVIES ARE SECRETLY REVOLUTIONARY!

[fadethecat.livejournal.com]

I have not read any of the books; are they worth picking up, or will they just drive me batty in trying to reconcile worldbuilding elements thrown in without sufficient thought? (Cake frosting talent fairies, REALLY?) But I will totally wait for Tink's revolutions to sweep fairyland, one movie at a time.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

They seem to be trying harder to have a Victorian/Edwardian nursery fiction style, so the worldbuilding is a bit different, and the tone is pretty cutesy. And the talents get WAY too specific, like I said--Tink is a "pots-and-pans" talent, which isn't so awesome as her mechanical engineer status of the movies. There are a few other characters who aren't in the movies (Rani is kind of interesting), but honestly they seem less developed and likable. (Vidia, for one, is a lot more fun in the films as a passive-aggressive but still likable friend.) And they mention Peter Pan--the films are set before Tink went to hang out with him; the books afterward--and it's rather difficult to add him into the mix. I like it when they're distanced from him. But they're definitely different universes. I'd give the books a pass, but you might want to try them for yourself.

[fadethecat.livejournal.com]

Eh, I'll probably pass, then. It's not like I'm short on reading material. Thanks for the run-down on them.

[westrider.livejournal.com]

I think I need to check these movies out :D

[hrhleia.livejournal.com]

Family is great - especially when they get you.

I was surprised by how much I liked the Fairy movies - I watched one on a whim, and then the rest when I was recuperating from surgery and needed something light. I love the progression of Tink's character and affect on the society, and how her questioning of tradition makes everyone else so very uncomfortable. Plus fairy science!

But it makes it really hard to reconcile with her portrayal in Peter Pan, which is a movie I love despite its problematic elements. I was keeping them as kind of separate universes in my head, but the Pirate Fairy made that trickier, as they seem to be gradually trying to meet up.

I read at least one of the books before seeing the movies and liked it, but long enough ago that I don't remember the details. If there are too many contradictory elements, I will probably end up treating them like my fanfiction, as slightly different AUs that are equally canon.

[cougarfang.livejournal.com]

My little sister and I have developed a somewhat esoteric language based on references to books we've both read, since all through our childhoods she'd pick up any book that I've finished and laid down, and vice versa. Nobody groks us the way we grok each other :)

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

My siblings and I basically speak in code. It's really fun when we get caught up in it, but really frustrating for anyone else who happens to be standing by.