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[yvannairie]

Pilfered from corvidology :3c

Send me a Trope, genre, type of fic, fandom, pairing, etc., etc. and I’ll rate it!

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[hellofriendsiminthedark]

idk if you want this in your actual inbox, but:

CBS Elementary, student/teacher AU pairings, Shakespeare's plays

[yvannairie]

oh, no, I just named it that because replies also show up in the inbox. Like... "ask game" but... in the... inbox? ...

A-anyway.

CBS Elementary

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Ohhhh it was so good, and I'm forever angery that at least one of the seasons never made it onto Finnish Netflix. It's not a show that becomes a fandom for me because for me, there wasn't much left unexplored, but I especially related to Sherlock's back and forth flirting with addictions to replace his drug addiction, it felt so true to life and so relatable. Also Lucy Liu fucking killed it, and I don't think people talk enough about what a good Modern Watson she made.

Student/teacher AUs

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Hrrrr. "Hot for teacher" and other formal power imbalances do a ton of fun to the dynamic of a ship, me likey.

Shakespeare's plays

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We weren't made to read a ton of Shakespeare at school and the theaters I went to ran lots of Finnish playwrights or modern theater (fun fact! My mom was a member of the university theater club! I used to spend time as a Vanling in the prop warehouse looking at Cool Stuff) so I am incredibly not familiar with Shakespeare as a whole. But then again, I've seen at least one really good staging of As You Like It, which I liked. Plays are hard to judge on their own, there are a lot of them I like on paper but have never found staged in a satisfying manner.

[hellofriendsiminthedark]

Yessssss, Elementary is my baby and I love it so much--especially how considerate the series is about exploring Sherlock's story (not just history) as an addict and not treating it as a moral failure. And Lucy Liu is just such a great actress and Watson is written in a way that compliments Holmes really well and really realistically.

I'm surprised you didn't read a lot of Shakespeare, though, since it feels like a kind of universal constant/rite of passage.

[yvannairie]

I mean, maybe for Anglophones. I studied literature in Finnish, it wasn't until we got to Enlightenment and literature beyond it that we started looking at translated works from other frames of thought. Translation invariably changes the nature of a text.

I sometimes feel like it might do the world good if they'd also read "Seitsemän veljestä" and "Tuntematon sotilas". Maybe we'd be in little less of a crush to elevate the English canon if texts from minority languages where platformed and analysed more.

[hellofriendsiminthedark]

Hmmm, you're right. The only real times we discussed translation studies/the art of translation in my English (ie literature) classes was when we read classical texts like Beowulf or the Bible.

As somebody who has read a fair amount of Spanish/Latin American literature in both Spanish and translated English, I agree that it would be great for just everybody in general to platform texts from other languages. With Spanish in particular, there's the entire genre of magical realism which is native to it, not to mention all the important political thought that began with latinx writers.