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So I am sick, which is fun, and perhaps an explanation for why I've been sleeping like a narcoleptic zombie for most of the past week. Yay.

Anyway, I've been wandering around my computer aimlessly, and I stumbled across this, and decided to post it for kicks -- it's sort of interesting, in a brain-archaeology kind of way. It started as me keeping a "director's notebook" for a production class (fuck, two years ago now) -- basically, our teacher had us just jot down whatever popped into our heads that was even vaguely related to our exercises, films and/or stories, and/or whatever we felt like -- and then I just kept jotting things down after that (it was easier once I had a place for it; usually I just ended up with a pile of little scraps of paper). Mine mostly tended towards untethered thoughts and intriguing concepts, sometimes little moments I witnessed in RL, sometimes just images that I liked. Anyway, the first half is the notebook; the latter is my current "original stories" file (I also have ones for fic ideas, vid ideas, and other observations [which crosses over with the original file sometimes]). Enjoy?

warning: contains pretentious Ivy League thought processes, zombies, overthinking it, too many references to genre theory and links to Wikipedia, and emoticons )
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Katie and I were talking about "Patient Zero"-type author influences earlier re: Georgette Heyer and every Regency romance written after. Influences in general are something I always enjoy speculating on whenever a connection occurs to me.

You know the game: you read Dorothy L. Sayers and go "This Bunter character...she was totally a fan of P.G. Wodehouse, wasn't she?" Or you read Lois McMaster Bujold; in the early books, you think "Yep, she's a Star Trek fan," and in the later ones (particularly of A Civil Campaign), it's "Wow, she is a fan of Jane Austen, Georgette Heyer, AND Dorothy Sayers, isn't she? And The Man From U.N.C.L.E., for good measure." Or maybe it's Naomi Novik, being a fan of the Master & Commander series. Or Stephanie Meyer and The Book of Mormon. :D Or, going off books and into film, Quentin Tarantino fanboying Sam Fuller, or a million and one people loving Hitchcock.

I don't really have anything insightful to say, I suppose. I just enjoy finding connections between things, especially in reverse – like being massively in love with Casablanca for years before I saw La Grande Illusion and realized hey, Jean Renoir did the whole La Marsellaise scene concept years before Michael Curtiz.

Anyway. Surely I'm not the only person to do this. Y'all have any favorite connections of your own?

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