Intro

[msrubyroo.livejournal.com]

Name: Rowan

Age: 18

Location: Bromley, UK

How do you identify?: (sexuality/gender) Female, lesbian, polyamorous

Interests/hobbies: Dancing, Writing, Singing in my room where no one can hear me (although I want to start singing in front of people again, maybe at uni) English Literature, Drama/Theatre/Acting,
being a fangirl

Favourite books: Atonement, Life of Pi, Suddenly Last Summer, Butterfly Lion,

Favourite films: Usual Suspects, (embarassingly) The Butterfly Effect's Director's Cut, Memento,

Favourite music: Musicals, I'm more of an odd song person, that following a band religiously.

What would you like to send/receive?: Anything, through email or snailmail :)

Who would you like to send and receive mail from?: Anyone, I'm easy.

What countries would you like to receive mail from and send to?: Any. Other countries other than the UK would be nice, I love learning about other countries and cultures. Although I can only speak English, because I fail.

Anything that you would particularly NOT like to receive?: (eg. "food/candy with nuts") Nope :)

What would be in your dream letter or package?: I don't know... I love photography, so if someone had any pictures of things that they thought were beautiful in their lives or where they live. But having something that can't be sent via the web would be cool :)

Anything else you'd like to add?: Not at the moment.

Picture (optional):

Comments

[nemo-r.livejournal.com]

Yay for twisty thrilers! I've seen Usual Suspects far too many times. Have you seen Shutter Island?

I'm not outside of the UK >_< But I think we have similar film tastes, add anyway?

[msrubyroo.livejournal.com]

Sure :) How do you wanna work it? I'm not sure how this is meant to go, I'm such a N00b XD

PS.I haven't seen Shutter Island... although I've been recommended it a lot lately, so I might go for it.

[nemo-r.livejournal.com]

Friend add me back? I'm happy to do email and snailmail also, but I am very disorganised and slow when it comes to snailmail, just warning you!

[msrubyroo.livejournal.com]

Lol, that's fine...did you have an intro thing on here too?

[nemo-r.livejournal.com]

Yes, here. (http://community.livejournal.com/queermail/86436.html)

Wow it got totally buried under all the new people! LOL that LJ spotlight really made a difference!

As for Shutter Island, I kind of obsessed and went crazy over it, but there is literally zero fandom, this makes me very sad.

It's not really a thriller in terms of a super clever plot twist like Usual Suspects, BUT watch it for the performances, which I thought were stellar. I rave about it on my lj if you find the Shutter Island tag :)

[msrubyroo.livejournal.com]

Atwood: I did "Handmaid's Tale" for English Lit A level coursework, and loved that book! Haven't read anything else of hers though.
Canavan: I've read her Magician's Guild books ages ago, although I now skip anything in the second and third books without Dannyl, I just don't find the other characters as interesting, even though they are in more plot-related danger and tension.
Does "Oranges" refer to the "...not the only fruit" variety? If so, just...no. XD I dislike that book with such a passion XD

[nemo-r.livejournal.com]

Yes, I remember other classes reading it and I decided it was something I wanted to read, I loved it, it was a while ago though. Have you seen BSG? There's this absolutely AWESOME crossover I read with Handmaid's tale. Really well written fic.

Yup it was Magician's Guild. Still not quite over the guy dying (I forget names so quick >_<) The leader magician dude.

Yup it does! Why didn't you like it? I thought it was interesting enough, but I read another of hers, 'Sexing the Cherry' I couldn't stand that one, very weird, disjointed narrative and just generally squicky content, in a vague sort of way.

[msrubyroo.livejournal.com]

I just found it had no soul to it. It just felt too pretentious for me, and with no real subtlety.
It felt like she was trying to be "radical" in writing about lesbianism, but I felt wasn't quite able it push it to a level of emotional depth which is required to write a statement about the natural sexuality of many women. It just ended up forced, and without much by the way of conviction or feeling for Jeanette's relationships.

[nemo-r.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I think I didn't really see it as a book about lesbianism, even though that's what it's marketed as. Really it just felt like one girl/woman's life, sort of a disjointed autobiography. I saw My Summer of Love around the same time, and I got a same sort of feel from that -- the small town thing, the religiousness.

Anyway, I'd definitely recommend Brownrigg, there is a sort of element of pretentiousness to it as well, but it makes sense for the character, she's a young student, and very in love with herself and her intellectual journey and the whole thing of being young and discovering love etc. I can post it to you if you like, (and promise not to... drop it into a puddle or something!)

[msrubyroo.livejournal.com]

Either way, the utter lack of emotion, or at least, convincing emotion for me, in her relationships was a severe downfall.

(Plus my english teacher went to Uni with her and apparently she was a total bitch XD)

[nemo-r.livejournal.com]

LOL really! That's always depressing when you hear stuff like that about the author. I hate it when they make ranty anti-fanfic statements as well. Like Gabaldon recently.