fanvid | mary/lavinia | recessional
Mar. 29th, 2012 01:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dollsomeThen I may tell you that the very next words I read were these — “Chloe liked Olivia…” Do not start. Do not blush. Let us admit in the privacy of our own society that these things sometimes happen. Sometimes women do like women.
“Chloe liked Olivia,” I read. And then it struck me how immense a change was there. Chloe liked Olivia perhaps for the first time in literature. Cleopatra did not like Octavia. And how completely Antony and Cleopatra would have been altered had she done so! … Cleopatra’s only feeling about Octavia is one of jealousy. Is she taller than I am? How does she do her hair? The play, perhaps, required no more. But how interesting it would have been if the relationship between the two women had been more complicated. All these relationships between women, I thought, rapidly recalling the splendid gallery of fictitious women, are too simple. So much has been left out, unattempted.
(Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own)
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Date: 2012-03-29 11:02 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-03-30 01:23 am (UTC)I DON'T THINK I NEED TO EXPLAIN TO YOU THE AMOUNT OF FLAILING AND DYING I AM CURRENTLY HAVING RIGHT NOW. You, you, YOU EVEN MADE IT AU! And had Richard moments of villainy, towards both of them, and you edited that scene so Lavinia told Mary "I love you." And you know what my friend, right now, I LOVE YOU. Thank you for this, I just learned another too pretty character that was underdeveloped died on another show, and I really did need this.
Also, kind of envious. How you teased out 4 and some minutes is amazing. I have had to edit down Sigh No More and am still stuck at a minute.
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Date: 2012-03-30 02:42 am (UTC)AND YES TO MORE COMPLICATED RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN WOMEN!
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Date: 2012-03-30 02:58 am (UTC)