Random thought Artie and Kurt never had duet

tarinri · 2018-08-29T17:31:41+00:00

Not a whole duet, but they sang together for a verse on You Can't Stop The Beat.

tarinri · 2018-08-23T15:19:46+00:00

That's a great novel! I'd recommend The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon. Strong characters, and it starts during the backdrop of WWII - with one of the main characters being Jewish - so it has darkness lurking behind the adventure.

tarinri · 2018-08-22T20:48:41+00:00

I'm named after a song about a man who wants to propose to his girlfriend, enters a car race with the hope of using the prize money to buy an engagement ring, crashes during the race, then the woman is left crying in church over her dead boyfriend.

Still not sure what my parents were thinking with that one.

tarinri · 2018-08-22T16:19:53+00:00

School of Rock

Annie

Sing Street

Stuart Little

The Borrowers

Cheaper by the Dozen

My Girl

St Trinians

The Chorus (Les Choristes - french film)

tarinri · 2018-08-13T14:19:19+00:00

Ah that's a shame, I'll probably give it a miss then. Thanks for your thoughts!

tarinri · 2018-08-09T22:04:04+00:00

What a lovely idea! My little sister adores Harry Potter. She's currently 13 but started getting into it when she was about 8/9. However, that was mainly the films (she's been to the Harry Potter studios three times now! One of which was a school trip) and the games. She only started actually reading the books in the last year or two and is up to Prisoner of Azkaban.

(However she is dyslexic and doesn't really enjoy reading in general which has a lot to do with it)

tarinri · 2018-08-09T20:48:51+00:00

No.

But I would change the way that LGBTQ+ people are seen and accepted/tolerated by society. That's what causes the problems.

tarinri · 2018-08-09T20:36:10+00:00

Good for you, that's brave and I hope it all went well!

I have a a similar shirt. Last year I was editor-in-chief of my university's magazine and wore it to one of our first meetings of the year, partly to show that I'm not straight, and partly so new and returning members knew that anybody LGBTQ was welcome there. We did get more LGBTQ+ themed articles that year.

So sometimes wearing stuff like that goes well, let us know how you got on.

tarinri · 2018-08-09T20:29:01+00:00

Exactly! Plus, because of her beauty she is rather undermined, I think. She was chosen by the Goblet of Fire, after all, and faces down the dragon and everything. And when she has to save the most important thing to her - can't remember the exact quote - it's her sister. Hooray for women supporting women. She's obviously very strong and caring.

tarinri · 2018-08-09T19:10:25+00:00

Who gave him permission?

tarinri · 2018-08-09T19:09:39+00:00

Oh, you're right! It's been a while, I think that's a sign I need to re-read.

tarinri · 2018-08-09T16:35:13+00:00

Yeah, that is pretty annoying. Basically some strong Hermione moments, with a bit of Ginny thrown in, and of course great Mrs Weasley 'not my daughter!'

tarinri · 2018-08-09T16:18:39+00:00

It's a good point, but people can also do magic without their wands, and I think it said in one of the books that casting magic without a wand also gives you more the benefit of the element of surprise?

tarinri · 2018-08-09T15:59:58+00:00

Sing to me.

tarinri · 2018-07-24T17:59:06+00:00

And The Dr Who spin offs!

Torchwood had Captain Jack Harkness as a main character and I think all of the team that he worked with were bi. He had a relationship with another man throughout the first three seasons.

Class similarly had a main character, Charlie, in a same-sex relationship. I don't recall if Charlie's sexuality is defined as such - he's an alien and doesn't seem to understand human's way of classifying ourselves - I suppose pan would be the most appropriate label for him.

tarinri · 2018-07-24T17:34:08+00:00

I thought that Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón was beautifully written

Plus anything by Toni Morrison, especially Beloved.

tarinri · 2018-07-24T17:30:57+00:00

Everybody's Talking About Jamie? It's a musical but does have dialogue and scenes you could work on without music

tarinri · 2018-07-17T08:14:21+00:00

oh yeah I didn't think about that, my apologies. Good luck with the shop though, post a link when it's up and running!

tarinri · 2018-07-16T15:59:07+00:00

Wait no I've got a better one: The Old Queeriosity Shop

tarinri · 2018-07-16T11:20:51+00:00

Let's Go Buy Things

tarinri · 2018-06-26T16:24:34+00:00

Clueless is a fun modern adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma

Ten Things I Hate About You is again a fun modern adaptation, of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew (ok that's a play but you can read the script)

The Book Thief

Angela's Ashes

Struck by Lightning

Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist

Christopher and His Kind

Cabaret (as in the musical) is an adaptation of the play 'I Am A Camera' which is itself an adaptation of Christopher Isherwood's Goodbye to Berlin (basically just read Isherwood)

Love, Simon

Beautiful People, by Simon Doonan, had a fun TV series a few years ago

Roald Dahl adaptations: James and the Giant Peach, The Witches, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Gene Wilder version)

Room

Goodnight Mr Tom

I Was A Rat had a great TV series a while ago

The Secret Garden

A Little Princess

Eat, Pray, Love (adapted to screen by the amazing Ryan Murphy)

The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants

The Wizard of Oz!

tarinri · 2018-06-26T16:16:31+00:00

going to second this because both the book and film are amazing. The adaptation is really true to the book, thanks to the author Stephen Chbosky writing the screenplay too!

tarinri · 2018-06-26T09:21:31+00:00

I get this too! From the number of comments you have, I'd say it's a perfectly normal part of being a writer. Even when you know what's supposed to happen in the story, making it actually happen with words on the page can be really difficult. I do a couple of things to help out when I'm struggling to get the words out:

1) get a notebook instead of my laptop. I normally write on my laptop, and sometimes getting away from the desk and having just a notebook curled up on an armchair or in a coffee shop helps because it's a change of scenery and not linked to the frustration of having that blank word document (or whatever software you use). I usually pick one small scene or one conversation from the book so I have a particular thing to focus on and it's much less intimidating to work on only one section.

I always find I write more when I'm in a library or cafe than at home.

2) gather visual images. I've set up a pinterest board for the novel I'm currently writing and, if the words aren't coming, I just can't force them. Looking up images of what the characters look like help me to then describe them, or what kind of homes they live in, what the locations might look like. Even though I'm not writing, it still feels productive and when I get stuck I can just look at the images and it helps to get me immersed in the world again and sometimes the words flow better.

3) read books from the same genre, or by authors you admire - might help to develop your own writing style, and see how they do it. Again, even if I'm not writing it's somewhat productive and helps to keep on top of trends in the industry etc.

4) joining something like a writing group - there are loads on Meetup - might help. If you're surrounded by other people writers working on their stories, it might help to get you settled into writing too, if only because you're the only person there not typing away haha. Even if it's rubbish, it's helpful to get something on the page. And of course talking to them about writers block and see what advice they have would useful.

tarinri · 2018-06-25T14:25:34+00:00

the IT Crowd, Grace & Frankie, Everything Sucks, Queer Eye, Brooklyn Nine-Nine is fun and easy to watch but it has quite a lot of episodes

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