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."

[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 :)