This weeks mash-up? Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Betty Draper...
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Might I Suggest a Mash-up?: Buffy and Betty
Welcome to a new media segment I'm going to call "Might I Suggest a Mash-up?" (as you may have noticed).
This weeks mash-up? Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Betty Draper...
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This weeks mash-up? Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Betty Draper...
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Monday, March 1, 2010
Two New-Old Words
On this beautiful March day, I have two wonderful words to relay to you all that, in my opinion, need to jimmy themselves back into our everyday lexicon. On second thought, maybe they just need to apply to the "Romance Novel Character Division" ASAP, because that's really where they belong.
Our first word. Imagine a grey and barren landscape surrounding a once handsome, but now showing signs of neglect, southern farmhouse. Inside, two women sit by the fire, debating. Jimmy hasn't been in his right mind since he returned home after being injured in the war, but with no end in sight to the horrible battles raging around them, Arabella feel duty bound to her family and her ideals. There's no way Jimmy can re-enlist, even though his wounds have long since mended themselves. Arabella sees only one option; to Transfeminate:
To turn from woman to man, or from one sex to another.
- Thomas Blount's Glossographia, 1656
It may get awkward when Arabella is captured by a group of Yankees, and even more awkward still when Arabella begins to feel an unwanted spark of attraction to the handsome, and overbearing, Yankee Captain. When Arabella catches a horrible case of pneumonia, her secret is in peril. How will this case of transfemination end for the headstrong Arabella and the handsome Yankee Captain?
Our second word. Honestly, I was writing out a plot for this word, but it was taking way too long. So I'll just give you the word. Insert it into any romance plot you see fit. It will make for a very memorable secondary character indeed.
Metromania:
A species of insanity in which the patient evinces a rage for reciting poetry. From Greek metreon, metre, and mainomai, to be insane.
- Rev. John Boag's Imperial Lexicon of the English Language, c. 1850.
Our first word. Imagine a grey and barren landscape surrounding a once handsome, but now showing signs of neglect, southern farmhouse. Inside, two women sit by the fire, debating. Jimmy hasn't been in his right mind since he returned home after being injured in the war, but with no end in sight to the horrible battles raging around them, Arabella feel duty bound to her family and her ideals. There's no way Jimmy can re-enlist, even though his wounds have long since mended themselves. Arabella sees only one option; to Transfeminate:
To turn from woman to man, or from one sex to another.
- Thomas Blount's Glossographia, 1656
It may get awkward when Arabella is captured by a group of Yankees, and even more awkward still when Arabella begins to feel an unwanted spark of attraction to the handsome, and overbearing, Yankee Captain. When Arabella catches a horrible case of pneumonia, her secret is in peril. How will this case of transfemination end for the headstrong Arabella and the handsome Yankee Captain?
Our second word. Honestly, I was writing out a plot for this word, but it was taking way too long. So I'll just give you the word. Insert it into any romance plot you see fit. It will make for a very memorable secondary character indeed.
Metromania:
A species of insanity in which the patient evinces a rage for reciting poetry. From Greek metreon, metre, and mainomai, to be insane.
- Rev. John Boag's Imperial Lexicon of the English Language, c. 1850.
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