reblog and put in the tags a theme song/opening credits that you wouldn’t skip
Pure Jesus Bangers
I have played the fool to the point of madness.
I referenced the poem “A Season in Hell” by Arthur Rimbaud in chapter 9 of To My Bitter Fate, and My Secret Thoughts and now it’s a heartbreaking gifset.
This is essentially I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face in a nutshell.
Eliza is a person who is allowed to walk this Earth as a free woman and with an unburdened conscience for the atrocities she’s committed against a sad rich man. She made Higgins feel things, like some gross human person, and Jesus is crying.
I’ve grown accustomed to her look
Accustomed to her voice
Accustomed to her face
“Surely I could always be that way again” is so fascinating as a line, because when you think about it, Eliza’s change has been mostly external. She’s learned to think of herself as having an inherent value and worth that she now requires others to recognize, but that value is only recognized by others through her outward-facing appearance and attitude. Higgins has been changed internally, where no one can see it unless he goes to the trouble of expressing it, which is unlikely given who he is. Something permanent has happened to him, and he’s horrified and terrified by it, because it happened without his permission or effort.
SIR—
Dutch Pygmalion 1937: Friday, June 25, 2021, 10 p.m. EST
Yes, that’s right. There’s a 1937 Dutch Pygmalion, created a year before the rather more famous version with Wendy Hiller and Leslie Howard version. George Bernard Shaw sold the rights to Pygmalion to a number of studios in the 30s, and this version is the second film ever made of it (an 1935 German version was first.) This version features such delights as Eliza and an accordion, a setting update in 1930s Netherland, great comedic interplay between everyone, and an ending quite different from both the original play and My Fair Lady. I most heartily recommend it, and I honestly prefer it in some ways to the 1938 film.
Link and password will be posted at 9:45 p.m.
Tonight!
Strong Eliza/Higgins factor, comedy, Shaw hated it. Tall Dutch people. What’s not to love here?
Dutch Pygmalion 1937: Friday, June 25, 2021, 10 p.m. EST
Yes, that’s right. There’s a 1937 Dutch Pygmalion, created a year before the rather more famous version with Wendy Hiller and Leslie Howard version. George Bernard Shaw sold the rights to Pygmalion to a number of studios in the 30s, and this version is the second film ever made of it (an 1935 German version was first.) This version features such delights as Eliza and an accordion, a setting update in 1930s Netherland, great comedic interplay between everyone, and an ending quite different from both the original play and My Fair Lady. I most heartily recommend it, and I honestly prefer it in some ways to the 1938 film.
Link and password will be posted at 9:45 p.m.
… you wanna come watch Dutch Pygmalion with us on Friday?
AO3 Search Modes
1. Newbie
Find fandom on AO3. Skim down the most recent fics in the fandom.
Downside: Overwhelming, much chaff.
2. Old School
Go to specific fandom. Sort by kudos. Start at the top.
Downside: Oldest fics tend to have the most kudos, also things that update a lot or crossover with more popular fandoms. Newer stuff gets lost.
3. Rebel
Go to specific fandom. Sort by kudos. Start at the end. (Note: some actual gems can be found this way, but it requires much patience.)
4. Ravenous
Go to specific fandom. Read everything. Not recommended for Very Large Fandoms. Can be done with newer, smaller fandoms.
Downside: lots of mediocre fic in many fandoms.
5. Specialist
Go to specific fandom. Search for a specific pairing. Exclude every pairing you don’t like. Exclude keywords that you dislike. Exclude all crossovers in general or specific crossovers if your fandom has a natural crossover (i.e. Doctor Who/Torchwood, Stargate SG1/Atlantis). Sort by bookmarks.
Downsides: you miss some newer good stuff, but starting from the top the first chunk of fics are likely to be very good and exactly what you want.
6. Goblin
Click on a tag you like in a fic you just read.
Go to the exclude section and start eliminating fandoms you’re not interested in, saying in a squeaky goblin voice, “Not you! Not you! Not you!”. Filter. Repeat until the top fandoms are all things you like and there are no more than a handful of fics in other fandoms represented. Back up when AO3 balks. It takes a while, so if you’re in Very Large Fandoms, this is a great method, and if you like obscure fandoms, not so much.
Exclude pairings and tags you don’t like.
Eliminate all unfinished fic.
Sort by bookmarks.
Start reading.
Downside: Periodically get thrown by a random fandom you’re not in showing up anyway. Get jarred by switching fandoms constantly.
Upside: Variety of really good fics that people liked enough to bookmark.
What’s your method?
In the following order:
Sort by preferred pairing, ignore cross-overs (or it’s nothing but 250-word one-shot collections with 300 chapters in totally random fandoms that vaguely reference the older IP that I’m looking for in passing and doesn’t actually fit the tag at all), filter based on comments along with high kudos. Preferably a word count of >5k. If I open the fic and see typos, close tab and move on. If it’s over-tagged to the point of granularity, skip it. If it spoils too much, skip it. Date rarely factors into satisfaction with a fic—I just don’t roll with fandoms where the lore changes significantly, I guess. It’s more of an art than a science. I’ve never sorted based on the number of bookmarks a fic gets, maybe I should add that to the mix.
link copied
Who burns his viol will not dance to cymbals - valadilenne - Pygmalion - Shaw [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
by archiveofourown.org
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Pygmalion - Shaw, My Fair Lady (1964)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Eliza Doolittle/Henry Higgins, Eliza Doolittle/Freddy Eynsford-Hill, Eliza Doolittle & Henry Higgins, Eliza Doolittle & Mrs. Pearce
Characters: Eliza Doolittle, Henry Higgins (Pygmalion), Henry Higgins (My Fair Lady), Mrs. Pearce (Pygmalion | My Fair Lady), Freddy Eynsford-Hill
Additional Tags: don’t mind me just working through some writing exercises, the duality of man, just a shitload of fighting
Summary:
Eliza returns, and the household shifts in irrevocable ways.
There are tears in Eliza’s eyes. She understands.
The curtain falls slowly.
The Duality of Man (2016)
KEVIN CAN F**K HIMSELF (2021)
I wasn’t expecting the Wham Shot of Kevin and his friends getting pulled out of sitcom world and into Allison’s one-camera drama in the first episode. Maybe a lesser show would have done it in the penultimate or season finale.
Me, hysterical and wearing a hoodie that I’ve tugged shut around my face, screaming in a muffled voice: BELIEVABLE FIGHTS AND CONFLICT IS REALLY HARD TO WRITE ABOUT
true writing is knowing exactly how your wip starts and knowing exactly how how it ends but the middle is the equivalent of you standing stranded on highway 52 while your car burns in the background before a freeze frame zooms in on your face and a voice-over goes “yup that’s me. you might be wondering how i got here.”
I’m in this and I don’t like it
Hey. Not cool.