jillybob
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The having-your-snake-hair-drink-your-water issue made me grateful that I only have to worry about keeping my cats out of my glass, for sure. I never thought to view it that way before.
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This might strike everyone else as nuts, but I keep thinking David Tennant would be a great Morpheus. He's tall and thin and (dream)Lord knows he's white enough, but more importantly, I think he could move between haunted and severe and sexy and ang…
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I also think that's a great point about rarely getting a story from the point of view of a woman who's not conventionally attractive. I think it's gotten much, much worse over the years, as TV, film, and music videos have become much more a part of …
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... and that's when Jill remembered she has a completely empty Tumblr she's never decided what to do with. Ha!
Both stories here:
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Oh, I still have a copy, it's just not online, and I think it's too long to fit in the comments box here. Plus, it has a lot of cursing. I don't know if that's a dealbreaker!
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Well, rats. Was going to share the link to another short story of mine, and discovered the zine that published THAT is also defunct. That's depressing. Anyway, the first one will be fine for my contribution, though I'm not crazy about the reading. T…
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This is not a true story. It's inspired by a kernel of a true thing that made me wonder what would have happened if things had turned out very, horribly differently. As a writer, one of the themes I return to is character -- what makes us who we are…
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I have no moderating help to offer, but I had a dream the other night that my late mother was trying really hard to convince me to listen to her new favorite CD, which was Blossom Dearie's cover of "Berserker."
What struck me most when I… -
That "big brother" thing is weird. I went back and looked at it again. I wonder if the idea is that she's making a joke because it's basically just her head coming out of her portal/frame thing, so in this case he's big and she's small.
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I wonder if the reason that it's "worse" to be tortured out of love of or rehabilitation because then there's hope -- that there could be an end to it or a change or redemption. Way back in Vol I we were introduced to the concepts that a) the abilit…
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I really enjoyed this one and found it almost a light diversion from the previous volumes, which is hilarious, considering it's all about hell.
I thought the repeated implication that the damned are really damned *by themselves* very in… -
I don't normally listen to music while reading, but I feel like Leonard Cohen might be very good to have on while reading Sandman. Must try this later.
As far as film soundtracks go, I like the soundtrack from The Ninth Gate very much, ev… -
Ha -- I read ahead to Vol IV, too, and had the same reaction!
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My thinking is similar to totz_the_plaid's when it comes to the "truth" of a story or a performance. It means to me, "I recognize that feeling," or "I recognize that person." Emotions and personality types are universal; it's just the packaging that…
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As a storyteller myself, I'm really conflicted about these stories in which writers take their brilliance from someplace else -- Richard Madoc with Calliope, Shakespeare with Dream. Is a creator of stories a creator if the story doesn't come from wi…
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It took me a while to see it, but you could say that there's a theme of dreaming itself being a sort of "doll's house" that recurs through the whole book. A dollhouse is a house-within-a-house, and an ideal, play version of a grown-up house. For man…