“to capture the narrative aspect of the original stories, the best way Sherlock Holmes can be adapted to film is fake-documentary-style with Watson holding the shaky camera”
good yes
but consider the episodic nature of how the original stories were first published, in one of the most universal means of entertainment of that day, often utilizing mild cliffhangers and building mystery over time with lurid themes
so what i mean to say, is,
dr watson would be a youtuber 100%
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STORYTIME: MY BEST FRIEND FAKED HIS OWN DEATH (NOT CLICKBAIT)
“How does one hate a country, or love one? Tibe talks about it; I lack the trick of it. I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks. I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all of that, of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? What is love of one’s country; is it hate of one’s uncountry? Then it’s not a good thing. Is it simply self-love? That’s a good thing, but one mustn’t make a virtue of it, or a profession. … Insofar as I love life, I love the hills of the Domain of Estre, but that sort of love does not have a boundary-line of hate. And beyond that, I am ignorant, I hope.”
— Therem Harth rem ir Estraven, The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin (via mortharris)
[Image description: two-panel comic. First panel has a young man wearing black clothes and with dark circles under his eyes; he says ““Speak, I am bound to hear!” The second panel has a ghostly crowned figure, and he says “Hi bound to hear, I’m Dad”.]
Losers Didn’t Actually Read Frankenstein, Write an Article About It Anyway, More at 11
This article was written by one of the townspeople
[a tweet by @rosiemarx reads “That’s literally what Frankenstein is about.” image attached is of a headline “FLAKENSTEINS: Snowflake students claim Frankenstein’s monster was ‘misunderstood’ – and is in fact a VICTIM”. subtitle: “One professor even claimed that the murdering monster could have been protected by human rights laws today”. By Gary O’Shea and Thea Jacobs, source is the Sun.co.uk]
[image description: a tweet from RoAnna Sylver (@RoAnna Syvler) reading “This June, please rememeber that there are more LGBT books than the ones you see everywhere put out by the Big 5, ad indies are amazing/worthy.” The next reblog is a tweet from Heather Rose Jones (@heatherrosejones) reading: “Making a list of queer SFF for Pride Month? Remember to look outside the mainstream presses. Don’t shut queer publishers out of queer lit.”]
Here’s a bunch of Goodreads lists that might help!
[id: a screenshot of text from, presumably, an interview, reading: Playboy: In some of your books–especially The Sirens of Titan and Slaughterhouse-Five–there’s a serious notion that all moments in time exist simultaneously, which implies that the future can’t be chanced by an act of will in the present. How does a desire to improve things fit with that? Vonnegut: You understand, of course, that everything I say is horseshit. Playboy: Of course. end id]
you: mary sue
me, an intellectual: Gulliver Revived or the Vice of Lying properly exposed; containing singular Travels, Campaigns, Voyages, and Adventures in Russia, the Caspian Sea, Iceland, Turkey, Egypt, Gibraltar, up the Mediterranean, on the Atlantic Ocean and through the Centre of Mount Etna into the South Sea: also an Account of a Voyage into the Moon and Dog-Star with many extraordinary Particulars relative to the Cooking Animal in those Planets, which are there called the Human Species, by Baron Munchausen
[Caption: a post reading “some ideas for ways to honour Ursula K. LeGuin: -punch a fascist -pet a cat -invent a gender -join a collective -have an orgy -run for city council -live in the woods -protest in the streets -dream End description]
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