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Meme!
Here, I like this meme, and perhaps you do too?
Pick a paragraph or any passage less than 500 words from any fanfic I've written and comment to this post with that selection. I will then give you a DVD commentary on that snippet of what I was thinking when I made or wrote it, why I wrote it, what's going on in the character's heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment means in the context of the fic, and anything else you'd expect to find on a DVD commentary track.
You can find my fic here, or you can look at my fic tag.
Pick a paragraph or any passage less than 500 words from any fanfic I've written and comment to this post with that selection. I will then give you a DVD commentary on that snippet of what I was thinking when I made or wrote it, why I wrote it, what's going on in the character's heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment means in the context of the fic, and anything else you'd expect to find on a DVD commentary track.
You can find my fic here, or you can look at my fic tag.
dvd meme
Um, I'd say whichever snippet or section you want to talk about, but if you want me to choose, then the second section - with sending his letters by the wind and hte whales.
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That second section: I wanted this story to kind of mix book and movie, and I felt like in the movie, Bert had his own touch of magic, and knew a lot about Mary Poppins. In the second section, I wanted to expand on that idea. So while the first part was about Bert as a young man, falling in love with Mary, and what that resulted in, the second part was about how long they've been together, and how Bert's changed, and gained a sort of magic himself, as a result of it.
I also wanted to convey that while Bert was immortal, thanks to Mary's kiss, he's still an immortal human and he'll never be able to breathe underwater or live in a volcano. Mary Poppins, I think, looks human to humans, but she isn't. I think she looks to other creatures the way they look - so, for example, when she lives under the sea, she looks like a creature of the sea.
This was an idea I got from the books, when all sorts of people (animals, fish, stars, etc) know Mary Poppins. I got the idea of him speaking to the wind, or sending messages with animals from both the books and movies - the wind, of course, is always a big thing with Mary Poppins.
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Bert, of course, has some favorites among the children - the funny Banks family in London, the multi-colored unicorn herd on the glimmering planet, the mischievous Hobbit lads and lasses in their maze of smials under the green hills of the Shire. And there were some he never quite warmed to, like the young shark prince (Bert couldn't help but be unnerved by his smile) and that odd family of seven siblings, each so focused on their own interests (although the youngest one was a delight).
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That bit grew out of the idea that Mary Poppins isn't a magical human, exactly. She appears human to other humans, but she looks like whatever family she's taking care of to them. So it felt right for some sneaky crossover ideas! :D
The multi-colored unicorn herd is from Madeleine L'Engle's A Swiftly Tilting Planet; the Hobbits are obviously Tolkien's (she was Pippin's nanny). The "young shark prince" is just someone I made up (although someone pointed out to me once that the description fit a video game character, so it was a secret crossover even to me :D); and the odd family of seven siblings are Neil Gaiman's Endless, who definitely could have used a good nanny (also, with that, I thought it made the point that Mary Poppins wasn't human).
Of course, the whole story itself is stealth crossover with The Chronicles of Narnia, and I am always delighted when people pick up on that.