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FRIENDING MEME
Make some great new friends with the friending meme over at [livejournal.com profile] silkmermaids!


Welcome to my new friends [livejournal.com profile] thekaiserchief, [livejournal.com profile] touchofgr3y, [livejournal.com profile] profiterole, and [livejournal.com profile] jediknightmuse!

I don't know why but I am EXHAUSTED today. On the desk until 7pm and it's relatively busy so far so it's keeping me awake. Murk got the science fair project question, thank goodness! I've had a few RA questions.

A Children's Lit student just asked me what "Modern Fantasy" was and I thought it just meant new fantasy books set in modern times but then she said her teacher used "The Little Mermaid" as an example and I don't really think of Hans Christian Anderson as "modern" anything. Of course, I had to Google it and I found this information on the University of Wisconsin website which pretty much says "modern fantasy" just means fantasy stories that we know the actual author of. So I think the books I ended up giving her were okay...though she did take a King Arthur story, do we know who wrote that? probably not.

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Date: 2014-02-26 11:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] touchofgr3y.livejournal.com
Hi new friend!

Huh. I thought the same thing you did for modern fantasy - who knew!

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Date: 2014-02-26 11:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] orangerful.livejournal.com
Srsly, teachers be makin' up things! Karen and I just got into a big discussion about how we credit Perrault with titles like Cinderella and Puss in Boots but he really just wrote down the European version and there are versions for other cultures and does that mean it's modern or not? GAH! Happy I'm not taking that class!

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Date: 2014-02-26 11:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] plumxxjam.livejournal.com
Fantasy and its subgenres make my head spin so much. I would have thought the same thing you did about modern fantasy. The one that really gets me confused a lot is "high fantasy".

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Date: 2014-02-27 12:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] orangerful.livejournal.com
"High Fantasy" I understand because I tend to not like to read it but I like to watch it. That is how I figure it out hahaha. Plus if the book is a doorstop, it's probably high fantasy.

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Date: 2014-02-27 01:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] plumxxjam.livejournal.com
Plus if the book is a doorstop, it's probably high fantasy.
...that makes so much sense; I can't believe I didn't think of that before, haha. XD

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Date: 2014-02-27 12:41 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Hiya!

Modern fantasy stories are modern just because we know the author? Hmm, interesting.

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Date: 2014-02-27 12:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thekaiserchief.livejournal.com
That's an interesting definition of modern fantasy. Like you, I wouldn't have considered Hans Christian Anderson modern. :p

Oh, and hello, new friend :)
Edited Date: 2014-02-27 12:42 am (UTC)

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Date: 2014-02-27 01:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] orangerful.livejournal.com
I feel like there has to be a better word than "modern"...

and hello back! :D

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Date: 2014-02-27 03:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nagasasu.livejournal.com
BAHAHA, The Little Mermaid as modern, oh literature canon you are so funny.

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Date: 2014-02-27 05:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rhoda-rants.livejournal.com
I likey that friending meme! Although I had to alter the form a bit because seriously, music needs to be an option.

That's a bizarre definition of "modern fantasy." Literature gets confusing when professors and booksellers can't agree on what to call something. I think you (and most people) would use the bookseller definition. I guess if you're thinking of "modern" in the way we use it for, say, "modern English," then that makes sense.

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Date: 2014-03-01 06:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] orangerful.livejournal.com
Music can be so much harder for me to describe that tv/movies, unless it's music with a fandom, like Beatles. There's not a lot of bands in my collection that manage to stay in the forefront of my mind.

Modern = Inconceivable! (you keep using that word...)

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Date: 2014-03-02 01:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rhoda-rants.livejournal.com
Indeed--Bandoms come with their own special brand of drama. I think a lot about how much I love music, but when it comes to my Very Favorite Bands, the ones I can't live without and that shaped me into the person I am now--you're right. I can literally count them on one hand.

ETA: Oh. But now that I've said that, I have an idea for another blog post. Hm.

I think the deal is "modern" =/= "contemporary," which is how we're using it. Maybe... I'm reaching here--it still sounds weird to me.
Edited Date: 2014-03-02 01:26 am (UTC)

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Date: 2014-03-03 03:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] orangerful.livejournal.com
Bandoms blog post! Seems almost natural after a month of Beatles fangirling, now it's time to talk about the other music we listen to. :)

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Date: 2014-03-03 03:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rhoda-rants.livejournal.com
That's, um, not quite what I meant--I'm not done with Beatles fangirling yet. (There are many years of repressed Beatlemaniac coming out of me at once right now...) Before I friended you, I did a "My Life In Music" marathon/theme/series that's similar to what I'm thinking of now. But what I meant was, I'm wondering what my Very Favorite Bands all have in common, besides just the fact that I love them all. I don't want to repeat the My Life In Music post, but it's something to think about. Not sure I know where I'm going with it yet.

But no--definitely need more than a month. (February's too short, what with everything that goes on then--V-Day, Black History Month, Women In Horror Month, and this year the Beatles First US Visit 50th Anniversary.)

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Date: 2014-03-03 04:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] orangerful.livejournal.com
Ah cool! Well, I'll be here to read whatever you post and will probably be inspired to think about all my bands too. :) So BRING IT ON!

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Date: 2014-03-03 04:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rhoda-rants.livejournal.com
Cheers. :) Although now I'm thinking about it, there was a "fandom meme" that I did years ago, and I always meant to go back and answer the questions again for bandoms. Maybe now's a good time to do just that.

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Date: 2014-02-27 01:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/_profiterole_/
Ha ha, that sounds like a university definition that nobody would use in real life. I would have said like you, something set in modern times, like urban fantasy?

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Date: 2014-03-01 06:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] orangerful.livejournal.com
I immediately thought of Urban Fantasy or YA Fantasy stories but when she said Little Mermaid, I was totally confused. I thin she was too, actually. I told the girl I was helping that she needed to come back here after class and explain it to me correctly LOL.

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