…the family curse, the mystery of the holes, the drought that destroyed Green Lake, and also, the legend of Kissing Kate Barlow, an infamous outlaw of the Wild West.
The great wheel of justice has ground slowly for generations, but now it is about to reveal its verdict.
-Louis Sachar, sypnosis of Holes
Okay, this is a challenge antistar_e is doing, and it’s a wonderful idea and I want to do it too. :p
The challenge is to write 30 ficlets for 30 women. (I believe orginally it said fabulous women…but some of these people are downright nasty characters.)
(Doctor Who)
1. Martha Jones
2. Donna Noble
3. Rose Tyler
4. Nancy (from The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances)
5. Francine Jones
6. Sylvia Noble
7. Jackie Tyler
(Star Wars)*
8. Beru Lars
(Spider-Man movieverse)
9. Mary Jane Watson
10. Gwen Stacy
11. Ursula Ditkovich
12. Emily Osborn**
(Holes)
13. Kate Barlow
14. The Warden
(Watchmen)
15. Laurie Juspecyzk
16. Sally Jupiter –kindle a light
17. Gloria Long
18. Rorscarch’s mother
(Atonement)
19. Briony Tallis
20. Grace Turner
21. Cecilia Tallis
22. Fiona
(Batman Begins/The Dark Knight)
23. Rachel Dawes
24. Barbara Gordon
(Harry Potter)
25. Dolores Umbridge
26. Hermione’s mother
(Lord of the Rings)
27. Eowyn
(Blind Faith)***
28. Sandra Dee
(V for Vendetta)
29. Evey
30. Evey’s mother
*Not including Leia or Padme because I’m no good at writing them.
**Okay, she’s not actually in the movies, but she’s mentioned. I wrote her in Faith In Humanity and I like my version of her.
***This is a Ben Elton novel. It’s probably not that good a novel but I like it all the same.
Featuring! 28 Days Later, A Series Of Unfortunate Events, Chicago, Moulin Rouge, The Phantom of the Opera, Holes, Pirates of the Caribbean, Life On Mars, X-Men, James Franco, Miranda Otto, and a bunch of shiny stock.
Enjoy, don’t hotlink. :)
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More stuff at Starlit Blue, by the way.
Image credits: indilime (the 28 Days Later ones), callmefreak (the ASOUE ones), hermintage (the POTC ones), screenmusings.org, james-franco.com, miranda-otto.com
Hey, everyone. I just realised I haven’t updated this journal in a week. Well, nearly. Unfortunately, the only thing I have to offer is a meme. And some brief rambling…I had my eighteenth birthday party and it was fantastic, then the very next day I woke up and had a cold. I still have the cold, and so was prevented from going to see V for Vendetta today. Bugger. I did, however, recieve the graphic novel for my birthday. Along with Firefly: the complete series, an iPod nano, a MP3 player, and many other things. It was the rockin’est birthday ever.
And here’s the meme, done because I hate having a cold and was bored:
List twelve characters from any fandoms you like:
1. Sora Takenouchi (Digimon)
2. Gene Hunt (Life On Mars)
3. Luke Skywalker (Star Wars)
4. Kaylee Frye (Firefly)
5. Mickey Smith (Doctor Who)
6. Sirius Black (Harry Potter)
7. Eowyn (LOTR)
8. The Emperor (Star Wars)
9. Kate Barlow (Holes)
10. Edmund Blackadder (Blackadder)
11. Jackie Tyler (Doctor Who)
12. Harry Osborn (Spider-Man)
Answer the following questions:
1. Who would make a better college professor, 6 or 11 (Sirius or Jackie)? What subjects would they teach?
I could totally see Sirius teaching at Hogwarts up until OOTP. *glum* He wouldn’t be too bad, I think, as long as he didn’t have to deal with Snape.
Jackie…what would she teach? Hairdressing? I quite like that idea, actually.
2. Do you think 4 (Kaylee) is hot? How hot?
Well, I’m not really sure- ask a guy. ;) She is pretty, but I always thought she was the most ordinary-looking out of the Firefly women.
3. 12 (Harry) sends 8 (The Emperor) on a mission. What is it, and does 8 succeed?
Ooh, this one’s easy. Harry’s still out for vengence on Peter, so he hires the most evil man in the galaxy to kill him. The Emperor brings Peter back, is about to kill him, then Harry changes his mind and throws the Emperor out of the window.
Sounds familiar…
4. What is or would be 9’s (Kate’s) favorite book?
Erm, good question. She can read, being a schoolteacher and all…I’m guessing it would be that book of poetry she and Sam read in the movie.
5. Would it make more sense for 2 (Gene) to swear fealty to 6 (Sirius), or the other way around?
I don’t care. I just want to see what would happen if those two got together.
6. For some reason, 5 (Mickey) is looking for a roommate. Should he share a studio apartment with 9 (Kate) or with 10 (Blackadder)?
Hey, I can see Mickey and Kate getting along quite well, assuming one of them them was transported to the other person’s time. Luckily, one of them knows someone with a time machine, so…oh man, I want to write a DW/Holes crossover now.
Edmund Blackadder would probably take Mickey in as a roomate because then he could throw Baldrick and Percy out. XD
7. 2 (Gene), 7 (Eowyn) and 12 (Harry) have dinner together. Where do they go, and what do they discuss?
Gene wants to go to some random Manchester restaurant, Harry insists he pays for them all to eat at some upstate New York place, Gene agrees with this, and Eowyn…doesn’t care.
They don’t discuss anything of much importance, but Gene does flirt with Eowyn.
8. 3 (Luke) challenges 10 (Blackadder) to a duel. What happens?
Luke is obviously going to win, so Blackadder fakes his death, runs away and leaves Baldrick to fight the duel for him. Baldrick can’t be bothered. Luke gives up and goes home.
9. If 1 (Sora) stole 8 (The Emperor)’s most precious possession, how would he get it back?
Hmmmm. What is the Emperor’s most precious possession? The Death Star? It’d be hard to steal that. Maybe she stole his lightsabre. Anyway, he’d follow her to Earth, go to force-choke her and instantly be set upon by a ton of fluffy monsters.
10. Suggest a title for a story in which 7 (Eowyn) and 12 (Harry) both attain what they most desire.
I can’t think of anything angsty enough…
11. What kind of plot device would you use if you wanted 4 (Kaylee) and 1 (Sora) to work together?
I have no idea, but I want to have them work together, because they’re incredibly similiar…
12. If 7 (Eowyn) visited you for the weekend, how would you get along?
I don’t know, but I’d make her teach me how to sword-fight.
13. If you could command 3 (Luke) to perform any one task or service for you, what would it be?
…I’ll leave that to your imaginations.
14. Does anyone on your friends list write or draw 11 (Jackie)?
She gets written about, but not often. :(
15. If 2 (Gene) had to choose sides between 4 (Kaylee) and 5 (Mickey), which would it be?
Kaylee, of course, ‘cos she’s a girl. Or ‘bird’ as Gene would probably put it.
16. What might 10 (Blackadder) shout while charging into battle?
Aw, don’t. You’re making me think about Goodbyeeeee. :(
17. If you chose a song to represent 8 (The Emperor), which song would you choose?
Something that had the word ‘evil’ in it.
18. 1 (Sora), 6 (Sirius) and 12 (Harry) are having dim sum at a Chinese restaurant. There is only one scallion pancake left, and they all reach for it at the same time. Who gets to eat it?
Harry buys it from whoever reaches it first. ;)
19. What might be a good pick-up line for 2 (Gene) to use on 10 (Blackadder)?
No! Stop with the crack!
20. What would 5 (Mickey) most likely be arrested for?
Ooh, the possibilities are endless. Possibly the Doctor takes him to a completely alien place, and he doesn’t know how to act, and prompty gets arrested.
21. What is 6’s (Sirius’s) secret?
…apart from the fact he can turn into a dog…I dunno. Maybe he writes sensitive poetry. (To Snape)
22. If 11 (Jackie) and 9 (Kate) were racing to a destination, who would get there first?
Kate has a horse! But Jackie could ask for a lift in the TARDIS.
24. “1 (Sora) and 9 (Kate) reluctantly team up to save the world from the threat posed by 4 (Kaylee)’s sinister secret organization. 11 (Jackie) volunteers to help them, but it is later discovered that she/he is actually a spy for 4 (Kaylee). Meanwhile, 4 (Kaylee) has kidnapped 12 (Harry) in an attempt to force their surrender. Following the wise advice of 5 (Mickey), they seek out 3 (Luke), who gives them what they need to complete their quest.” What title would you give this fic? Name three people on your friends list who might read it. Name one person who should write it.
Whoa. I would never inflict that on anyone, so I woul write it myself. In a notebook. And then hide the notebook. And never speak of it again.
25. If you had to walk home through a bad neighborhood late at night, would you feel safer in the company of 7 (Eowyn) or 8 (The Emperor)?
I think I’d go for the chick with a sword.
I love those memes. They inspire crackfic.
Now, off to put up the sw_awards winners…
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Brushes by calixa, all the fantastic Holes screencaps by withpaperwings_
Number 33- He looks SO MUCH like Hayden Christensen in that shot. I really am starting to wonder if they’re related…
Hehe.
Anyway, you know the drill…comment and credit, don’t hotlink…
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Brushes by calixa & quebelly, Screencaps and scans by indilime and worthdyingfor_
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Number 9- third place at sm_chorus
Number 10- Mod’s choice at sm_chorus
Numbers 23-27- dude, those took research, y’know…just not very much, as you can see by the fact I had to edit them again a few days later
Number 34- oh, all right, I haven’t actually seen it yet, but I want to
The screencap of the young Warden in number 22 taken by withpaperwings_
:)
In the past few days, I’ve been attempting to work on two Holes fanfics. I got halfway through one of them, but the other one, which was meant to be novel-length, sort of…stopped. Which is quite annoying.
Anyway, the last Holes fanfic which I actually completed was Name. It was about the Warden’s childhood, and it rather freaked me out. (What can I say, the lizards scare me ) And I read through it again for no real reason, and I wondered about something…
In the book, the Warden isn’t given a first name, she’s called ‘The Warden’ or ‘Ms Walker’ all the way through. But in the movie (which was written by Louis Sachar also, so it probably counts as canon if it doesn’t contradict anything in the book) Dr Pendanski calls her Lou. And that got me thinking…Sam’s donkey was called Mary Lou, and the Warden’s grandfather hated Sam, and…well, as the fanfic turned out, the Warden’s father named her Lou and her older sister Mary in order to humiliate them. And when I read all that again, I started thinking about something again…hardly anyone at Camp Green Lake goes by their real name. The Warden is called the Warden by the staff and the boys…she’s just the person who’s in power around the camp. If you accept some parts of the movieverse as canon, Mr Sir doesn’t go by his real name either, because he’s on the run from the law. It’s a big thing in the book that all the boys go by nicknames…when Stanley gets accepted into the group, they give him a nickname, Caveman.
And (heh, sorry, just going with my train of thought) Kate begins her story as Miss Katherine, the schoolteacher, and after Sam is killed, stops being called Katherine and goes by Kissin’ Kate Barlow, the name of an outlaw, instead.
I think I’m onto something here. ;)
The camp itself, Camp Green Lake, only has one name, but it’s a deceptive name, since it’s hardly a camp, there’s very little green and there is no lake. Which is really quite clever, because one of the the storylines is the Warden decieving the boys into digging for her.
There’s also Pendanski. At first I couldn’t think of anything for him, but then I remembered he actually did have a nickname…the boys call him Mom. And of course, by the end of the book, it’s obvious he’s anything but the parenting type.
Hmmm…what else? I suppose there’s Trout, who’s real name is Charles, but I’m not sure if that works, since with either name he’s a racist and a killer. (Unless…I suppose you could have it so Charles is just a rich jerk, but Trout is actually the murderer*.)
Yeesh…anyway, what am I getting at here? I’m not sure. (I’m really, really bad at writing essays, as you can undoubtly tell) I think it’s supposed to mean…the fact that a lot of the characters have more than one name…that they all have sort of a dual identity as well. The D-Tent boys…on the one hand they’re a bunch of bullies, on the other hand they’re vunerable kids (flicked through the book again and found something I missed last time…when Stanley hears Squid crying in the night). Kate…she was a schoolteacher, and then became a murderer. And so on.
There’s also Zero. He’s different, because, as Stanley realises, he’s the only one who ‘either didn’t have a real name or else didn’t have a nickname’. However, he doesn’t know which one Zero doesn’t have. But as he gets to know Zero better, he finds out Zero’s real name (Hector) and thus the real Zero, who’s a smart kid who just doesn’t like answering stupid questions.
Now I come to think of it, of all the major characters, I think Sam’s the only one who keeps his name all the way through his part of the story. Katherine becomes Kissin’ Kate, but Sam stays the same. Admittedly that’s because he’s dead, but it’s sort of interesting, because Sam and Stanley are the only characters in the book who don’t really do anything wrong. Stanley has his flaws, but he was innocent of the crime he was acccused of, and he befriends Zero while the others don’t. Sam, on the other hand, was guilty of the ‘crime’, but it oughtn’t to have actually been a crime. Sam is the innocent party all the way through, and he gets killed for it.
How all this gets back to Stanley (because hey, it’s his story) I’m not sure. Stanley’s name, Stanley Yelnats, is the same forwards and backwards, as is pointed out in the book…I read a review of the movie that explained that rather nicely, but I don’t want to go looking through my History files for it. Anyway, I think I’ve got it…Stanley’s name is actually one of the things that saves him in the end (the other is the fact that he teaches Zero to read) because of the suitcase belonging to the first Stanley Yelnats, and by that point the nickname Caveman doesn’t really mean anything for him at all. Stanley Yelnats is his real name. I also think there’s some significance in the fact that the first Yelnats in the Holes timeline, the one who accidently sets the curse in motion, was the only Yelnats male in the story not called Stanley…it means that our Stanley isn’t just like the first Yelnats sent back to remedy the curse, he’s his own person as well. And he does more than simply right the curse, but that’s a whole ‘nother essay.
Also, in the end Squid tells Stanley to tell his mother that Alan…his real name…said he was sorry. (And in the movie, Armpit does, and the other boys are impressed by it). So I suppose that with Stanley finding out who he is as a result of his misadventures (it’s a coming-of-age story, after all) he helps everyone else decide what ‘name’…what side of them…they want to use.
If you managed to follow all/any of that, well done. ;)
*=Oh, all right, it doesn’t exactly say that Trout was the one who shot Sam, but I think it very probably was. He was the one leading the mob, anyway.
One day the internet will drown under the sheer amount of icons we make. Don’t say I didn’t WARN YOU!
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Credits: Some of the SM2 screencaps by oxoniensis, and some of the Holes ones by worthdyingfor_
Brush credits: calixa, quebelly and crumblingwalls
Icon 1-was entered at sw_chorus, didn’t win ;)
Icons 21 and 22-were entered at sm_chorus. 21 won Mod’s choice. :)
26-I have an eyebrow fetish. Probably best you don’t ask.
