Excellent! Soyons des méchants!
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imwaldeMild girly TMI for some of you coming up, this is your warning.
Dude, I don't know what is up with my PMS this month. Normally, my emotions are a bit out of whack, but as soon as I feel cramps, I know what's causing the emotional turmoil, so mind-over-matter, it's usually not too bad for me to keep my emotions in check. This month? No cramps so far and I KEEP BURSTING INTO TEARS. What the fuck?
Here's a list of things that have made me burst into tears in the past few days:
1. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (even way before the obvious point at the end, like when Mr. Diggory was wishing Cedric luck, because I knew what was coming. Or when Harry saves Fleur's little sister.)
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shoebox_project, which is awesome Harry Potter fanfic about when the Marauders were at Hogwarts you all should read if you like that sort of thing. What made me cry? Thinking about how fucking awful the lives of the characters were about to become in a few years, and they have no clue.
3. Dances With Wolves (At the end when Wind in His Hair is doing his whole "Do you know that I am your friend?" cry of pain.)
4. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (when Moody is showing Harry the picture of the old Order, and like, 2/3rds were killed by Death Eaters; also when Mrs. Weasley is fighing the boggart that keeps showing her family dead. WRACKING SOBS, PEOPLE.)
5. the Serenity DVD extra talking about how the movie came to be and they show when Joss went to ComicCon and got a standing ovation.
6. season 1 X-Files episodes, not even sad ones, because kind of like my reaction to the Marauders, Mulder and Scully have NO idea how had their lives are to come, and I just kept thinking about how none of their family members have been murdered, and no one's ovaries have been harvested, etc. and it's all going to go down hill from here.
I'm sure this list will only grow. (Plus, I'm only 200 pages into rereading HP:OotP.) Here's the thing, though, not only is this not normal for me, even how the crying is manifesting isn't normal for me. Had all of this been becoming teary-eyed, maybe squeezing out a few tears, well, it's a little much for the span of a few days, but potentially plausible. I'm not getting teary-eyed, I'm BURSTING INTO TEARS, LIKE AUDIBLY. No slow build-up, just an out-loud explosion of weeping. Seriously, wtf?
Normally, to cry because of external things, I need to see someone else crying to trigger me. (The rules for when I'm crying about my own shit are different, obviously.) Like, when Veronica is crying at the end of Leave It To Beaver, I almost immediately tear up. Or, if I'm watching something and someone else in the theater/room starts crying, I'll start crying. Like the whole yawn contagion thing, but for tears. And then there are those geniunely sad movie/tv moments that I always cry at, and wouldn't be surprised to see on this list. (Like, in From Here to Eternity, when Montgomery Clift plays Taps.) Not this month. I'm really, really hoping this is PMS. (No new/different medications, no diet changes, no life turmoil, nothing else I can think of should be doing this.)
Ok, onto something else (although given time, it will make me cry, just you wait). I'm watching the French language track of Serenity, and the translation is pissing me off. Now, I understand that Whedon-speak is ill-suited for French and sentences like, "there'll come a time when there won't be room for naughty men like us to slip about" (paraphrase), just aren't going to be easy to capture both the flavor and the substance. I know that. I'm even ok with "Shiny!" not being translated as shiny, because that's not something normal in English either and could be confusing. ("Jayne saying, "Shiny! Let's be bad guys" was rendered as, "Excellent! Soyons des méchants!") But when there is an opportunity to keep the substance AND the flavor, quite often this translation isn't taking it.
Like during the mule chase scene. When the Reavers (in French as the Ravagers) are getting close and Mal says "Faster! Faster would be better!" part of the humor is his panic taking the form of polite understatement. In French it was just, "Faster! They're about to catch us!" There is absolutely no reason they couldn't have said 'faster would be better.' Hmph.
Boo to you, French translator, boo to you.
Dude, I don't know what is up with my PMS this month. Normally, my emotions are a bit out of whack, but as soon as I feel cramps, I know what's causing the emotional turmoil, so mind-over-matter, it's usually not too bad for me to keep my emotions in check. This month? No cramps so far and I KEEP BURSTING INTO TEARS. What the fuck?
Here's a list of things that have made me burst into tears in the past few days:
1. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (even way before the obvious point at the end, like when Mr. Diggory was wishing Cedric luck, because I knew what was coming. Or when Harry saves Fleur's little sister.)
2.
shoebox_project, which is awesome Harry Potter fanfic about when the Marauders were at Hogwarts you all should read if you like that sort of thing. What made me cry? Thinking about how fucking awful the lives of the characters were about to become in a few years, and they have no clue. 3. Dances With Wolves (At the end when Wind in His Hair is doing his whole "Do you know that I am your friend?" cry of pain.)
4. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (when Moody is showing Harry the picture of the old Order, and like, 2/3rds were killed by Death Eaters; also when Mrs. Weasley is fighing the boggart that keeps showing her family dead. WRACKING SOBS, PEOPLE.)
5. the Serenity DVD extra talking about how the movie came to be and they show when Joss went to ComicCon and got a standing ovation.
6. season 1 X-Files episodes, not even sad ones, because kind of like my reaction to the Marauders, Mulder and Scully have NO idea how had their lives are to come, and I just kept thinking about how none of their family members have been murdered, and no one's ovaries have been harvested, etc. and it's all going to go down hill from here.
I'm sure this list will only grow. (Plus, I'm only 200 pages into rereading HP:OotP.) Here's the thing, though, not only is this not normal for me, even how the crying is manifesting isn't normal for me. Had all of this been becoming teary-eyed, maybe squeezing out a few tears, well, it's a little much for the span of a few days, but potentially plausible. I'm not getting teary-eyed, I'm BURSTING INTO TEARS, LIKE AUDIBLY. No slow build-up, just an out-loud explosion of weeping. Seriously, wtf?
Normally, to cry because of external things, I need to see someone else crying to trigger me. (The rules for when I'm crying about my own shit are different, obviously.) Like, when Veronica is crying at the end of Leave It To Beaver, I almost immediately tear up. Or, if I'm watching something and someone else in the theater/room starts crying, I'll start crying. Like the whole yawn contagion thing, but for tears. And then there are those geniunely sad movie/tv moments that I always cry at, and wouldn't be surprised to see on this list. (Like, in From Here to Eternity, when Montgomery Clift plays Taps.) Not this month. I'm really, really hoping this is PMS. (No new/different medications, no diet changes, no life turmoil, nothing else I can think of should be doing this.)
Ok, onto something else (although given time, it will make me cry, just you wait). I'm watching the French language track of Serenity, and the translation is pissing me off. Now, I understand that Whedon-speak is ill-suited for French and sentences like, "there'll come a time when there won't be room for naughty men like us to slip about" (paraphrase), just aren't going to be easy to capture both the flavor and the substance. I know that. I'm even ok with "Shiny!" not being translated as shiny, because that's not something normal in English either and could be confusing. ("Jayne saying, "Shiny! Let's be bad guys" was rendered as, "Excellent! Soyons des méchants!") But when there is an opportunity to keep the substance AND the flavor, quite often this translation isn't taking it.
Like during the mule chase scene. When the Reavers (in French as the Ravagers) are getting close and Mal says "Faster! Faster would be better!" part of the humor is his panic taking the form of polite understatement. In French it was just, "Faster! They're about to catch us!" There is absolutely no reason they couldn't have said 'faster would be better.' Hmph.
Boo to you, French translator, boo to you.
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Date: 2006-01-09 12:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-09 03:43 am (UTC)I know I'm anal about these things, but that's why they should pay me a hefty consulting fee! :)
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Date: 2006-01-09 11:11 pm (UTC)