Ranting about classic lit

[dangermousie]

You know how I am the ultimate canon hor, right? If it's in canon, I'll like it OK, shipwise.

EXCEPT.

WTF.

lesbiassparrow reminded me. WTF. Little Women. Why on earth did Jo and Laurie not end up together? Is there anyone out there who ships Jo/Bauer? Seriously. A friend of mine literally threw her book across the room when she got to that point.

Also, Mansfield Park. When I was younger, I even wrote Henry/Fanny fic. Edmund+Fanny are total priggish incest. Though they can preach at each other all day long. Yikes. Come on, Henry is the only one with a sense of humor in that book. I sort of get how Spike/Buffy shippers felt now.

Comments

[missmarch.livejournal.com]

Ha, I remember ranting about that in my LJ before too. Bauer is okay in the movie because he's played by Gabriel Byrne(yum, but otherwise NO. Jo/Laurie-still original OTP. They belonged together.

It did teach me my first (painful) lesson about fictional couples-I shouldn't expect them to go the way I want them to-they rarely do.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the movie made it more tolerable. GB=YUM definitely.