March 1st is Self-Injury Awareness Day

For more information, check out fox1013's post.

And something that she says on there also holds true here - if you read this journal, then you know someone who has self-injured.

On a lighter note, I've completed two more story pages - This Eternal Now (Eve) and Revision - Ordinary Girl (Dawn).
( If you just want a quick look at the images (plus the one I did for Childish Things), you can click here )

Ah, and on a very happy note, a glorious thirty-third to Sean Astin, actor of a most loving hobbit and also that dude in the mesh shirt.
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Books have a soul, a meaning. I'm not as fond of the prose of The Lord of the Rings, but the energy and power of it still strikes me. I can feel that power in the movie and I know that it comes from the book, that it comes from the text and what the text means. The fundamental statement that the movie makes feels as close as it could to the statement that the book makes. And that is, I think, the best that any adaptation can do.

And that's where The Count of Monte Cristo fails. It's not that they give it a happy ending, it's that it gets an ending that completely counters what the book says.
( spoilers for the movie (and the book, though it's been a bit since I've read it) )

What an adaptation needs to do is capture the spirit of the original. The Lord of the Rings is definitely the best example that I can think of. Harry Potter is a bad example - much of the spirit of the books was lost in trying to keep to the letter. In the film adaption of The Count of Monte Cristo, both letter and spirit were lost at times.

On a side note, I saw Beautiful Thing and absolutely adored it. Brit boys in love. It was wonderfully down-to-earth. And it had one of the sweetest kisses ever. Ste and Jamie had some nice chemistry.

On a side, side note, I do wish that people would look up words before throwing them around. I always wince when I see a word misused, especially the commonly misused ones. Words that people think they know what they mean, only they've never actually looked at the definition and... yeah. I always try to double-check any hugely important words, because it can happen to pretty much anyone.

Smallville 3x15 - Resurrection; Angel 5x15 - A Hole in the World

( spoilers for Smallville - Resurrection )

( spoilers for Angel - A Hole in the World )

Some thoughts on Winifred Burkle

( spoilers for Angel 5x15 - A Hole in the World )