But what about Keats?
Oct. 28th, 2011 08:18 pmFor two days in a row we've been having major internet outages - going out around 1 or 2 in the afternoon and not coming back until after 8pm. Really massively tedious, and there isn't anything we can do about it. My dad's already called the cable company, and it's not our house specifically, they are having service problems all over our area. Just one of the hazards of living out here in Nowheresville, I guess. I'm hoping it won't recur again tomorrow in the middle of the football match, but I'm not holding my breath.
At least it's given me plenty of time and motivation to read real books. I'm halfway through a collection of Lovecraft shorts, started a Neil Gaiman collection, finished vol 3 of the Justice League International trades, and finished Unseen Academicals. For the third time. I know it's not everyone's favorite, and I can admit that it has serious structural and pacing problems, but I am just completely incapable of being objective about that book. I read it for the first time last year just as I was getting seriously into football, and I have so many emotions tied up messily into it that I cry big soppy tears all over the ending every time. Also, Glenda/Nutt=OTP forever.
I have also been using all of this unanticipated free time to think about Oscar Wilde. It's interesting - out of all the characters in the Poetsverse AU, I think he has the most character growth built into his story arc. Aside from a little will they-won't they, Mary and Percy Shelley are on a pretty straightforward romantic trajectory. Tennyson and Hallam get together, break up, and get back together again, and hopefully get a little less co-dependent, but their relationship is essentially the same at the end. Wilfred Owen made most of his mistakes before the story starts, and his arc is about following through on the character growth that he's had already. Byron...is always Byron. By we're starting Oscar Wilde out as a dilettante playboy, throwing him into a disastrous affair with Bosie that almost ruins his career and his life, and then, once he gets out of prison, giving him a long and arduous redemption arc in the form of courting Robert Ross. This is the storyline that![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
colourofsaying and I have been talking about nonstop this week, because the idea of Oscar Wilde struggling through a serious romantic relationship for the first time is really fascinating. He really wants it to work! But for Ross to trust him enough to even start a relationship, Wilde has to be a completely different person that he was at the start of the Poetsverse. It's a good thing we love him and want him to be happy, or this could end really really badly.
At least it's given me plenty of time and motivation to read real books. I'm halfway through a collection of Lovecraft shorts, started a Neil Gaiman collection, finished vol 3 of the Justice League International trades, and finished Unseen Academicals. For the third time. I know it's not everyone's favorite, and I can admit that it has serious structural and pacing problems, but I am just completely incapable of being objective about that book. I read it for the first time last year just as I was getting seriously into football, and I have so many emotions tied up messily into it that I cry big soppy tears all over the ending every time. Also, Glenda/Nutt=OTP forever.
I have also been using all of this unanticipated free time to think about Oscar Wilde. It's interesting - out of all the characters in the Poetsverse AU, I think he has the most character growth built into his story arc. Aside from a little will they-won't they, Mary and Percy Shelley are on a pretty straightforward romantic trajectory. Tennyson and Hallam get together, break up, and get back together again, and hopefully get a little less co-dependent, but their relationship is essentially the same at the end. Wilfred Owen made most of his mistakes before the story starts, and his arc is about following through on the character growth that he's had already. Byron...is always Byron. By we're starting Oscar Wilde out as a dilettante playboy, throwing him into a disastrous affair with Bosie that almost ruins his career and his life, and then, once he gets out of prison, giving him a long and arduous redemption arc in the form of courting Robert Ross. This is the storyline that
colourofsaying and I have been talking about nonstop this week, because the idea of Oscar Wilde struggling through a serious romantic relationship for the first time is really fascinating. He really wants it to work! But for Ross to trust him enough to even start a relationship, Wilde has to be a completely different person that he was at the start of the Poetsverse. It's a good thing we love him and want him to be happy, or this could end really really badly.