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tenlittlebullets) wrote2005-11-07 10:41 pm
tenlittlebullets) wrote2005-11-07 10:41 pm
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*claps hands* It's time to play "Amusing Fandom Misconceptions!" You know, those ideas that get formed in your head by listening to fan banter before you are actually exposed to the source material in its entirety. Like thinking the Death Star is actually a star before you watch A New Hope, or having some bizarre mental connection between Aslan and Gryffindor, or overhearing all the shit that gets flung at Raoul de Chagny and getting the impression that he's a total asshole. Or things even more illogical than that.
I will start, of course, with Les Mis. Fantine, to be specific. Before I watched the TAC and read the book I honestly had no idea that she was young, beautiful, forced into prostitution (omg spoilerz!!1), a paragon of stained purity, etc. In fact, I knew nothing except her name, and by some unfortunate and insane crossing of neurons, got her mixed up with a character in another excessively verbose 19th century novel about a French revolution. I refuse out of sheer humiliation to name names, but I will admit that I flinched when I heard someone nattering about a fic where Fantine knits baby Cosette a scarf.
Amusing Fandom Misconceptions! Reply with your own today and win a free toaster*!
*But only if you one-up the embarrassment of mine. And give me your first-born child, of course.
I will start, of course, with Les Mis. Fantine, to be specific. Before I watched the TAC and read the book I honestly had no idea that she was young, beautiful, forced into prostitution (omg spoilerz!!1), a paragon of stained purity, etc. In fact, I knew nothing except her name, and by some unfortunate and insane crossing of neurons, got her mixed up with a character in another excessively verbose 19th century novel about a French revolution. I refuse out of sheer humiliation to name names, but I will admit that I flinched when I heard someone nattering about a fic where Fantine knits baby Cosette a scarf.
Amusing Fandom Misconceptions! Reply with your own today and win a free toaster*!
*But only if you one-up the embarrassment of mine. And give me your first-born child, of course.