That's a bingo!

[linndechir]

Squee, I'm going to see Inglourious Basterds again tonight. For the third time. And probably not the last. I think I fall deeper in love with that movie every time I see it. I love it when art takes all your convictions and your opinions and screws with them. All right, I admit it, I'm just in there for the fun and the uniforms. ;) No, seriously, it's an amazing movie. I considered writing a big review, but I'm afraid it would just be pages and pages of "OMFG SQUEEE THIS IS SO COOL" and I don't want to inflict that on you. Or maybe I will. We'll see.

I'm planning to write a biiiiig Hellstrom/Stiglitz-fic. I mean, pretty much everyone on the internet somehow thought of that pairing, with the whipping scene and Stiglitz' "I wanna rip your head off"-glare at Hellstrom, but I felt that I wanted to write more than just blatant uniform-kink-whipping-nazi-porn (this sounds so wrong -.-). And now I want to write a very beautiful, very tragic love story. Yes, I want one of the biggest assholes in the movie and the guy who obviously hates him to love each other. I want them to be happy for some time, before I will destroy everything and hurt them and twist their relationship so much that we can end up with what happens in the movie. Do I make any sense? I doubt it. I just enjoy a good challenge. And anybody who has read my Forgotten Realms fics knows that I love to take apparently absurd pairings and make them believable. If I got Artemis and Kimmuriel to love each other, I will bloody well get Stiglitz and Hellstrom. This is going to be Out of Control all over again, I can see it coming. ;)

Now, the really weird thing is ... I wanted to start writing yesterday (the fic starts with a flashback), and for some reason I started to write in German.  Now, German fanfic just sounds WEIRD. Sure, I'll be writing about two German characters, and I'm half-tempted to write at least part of the dialogue in German, but definitely not the whole fic. Especially considering that I haven't written any German in years because my German is bloomy and stilted and full of all those things I beat out of my English writing when I edit. Don't get me wrong; I LOVE my native language, I think it's easily the most beautiful language in the world, it's rich and powerful and intense - and incredibly difficult if you want to write it well. Maybe it's because most of my favourite authors, and definitely the two authors whose style I love most (Thomas Mann and Hermann Hesse), are German, and I always feel like I'm raping and torturing THEIR language when I write in German. Like, considering the beauty they have created, my writing is an insult to them. I'm not sure if that makes any sense to anyone but me. I will start the scene anew, in English, and if inspiration hits me I might just write a German version of that flashback scene as well, and if it's not too horrifying, I'll post it for those of you who speak German. ;)

I'm sorry for the rambling, but I've been in an incredibly weird mood since yesterday evening. I don't know what's wrong with me; I keep going between total apathy and bouncing around doing ten things at the same time.

Comments

[septemberoses.livejournal.com]

I found this fascinating. I know some of what you speak with the German -- my father reads speaks a little German. (Interestingly, to me anyway -- he loves German poetry so much he wanted to be able to appreciate it in its original form rather than translation. How romantic is that?!?)

So to take these two characters and make it work, I know you can do it. And I will admit tentatively that the idea of the whipping appeals to me...

[linndechir.livejournal.com]

Very romantic, and absolutely understandable. Poetry translations are just strange. I'm so glad I speak French, if only to read Baudelaire's "Fleurs du Mal". ^^ People often have a weird view on the German language, because all they know is the barked "Schneller schneller!" in war movies. -.- And they forgot that it's really an incredibly poetic, romantic language. But my problem is, and I believe I mentioned this in one of my e-mails, is that I tend to write very long, bloomy, complicated sentences if I don't control myself. And German, with its enormous, rich vocabulary and complicated grammar and syntax, only encourages that.

I have continued to work on the scene, and I have continued it in German. It just fitted. Maybe because the flashback scene I wrote reminded me very much of one of my favourite books by Hermann Hesse. But I still intend to translate it into English, simply because I want people to read my fics. ;) And there aren't that many people in the fandom who read German, let alone my nutcase "look at me I know pretty words"-German. ;)

Haha, the whipping is actually canon (okay, one of the characters is getting whipped and everyone assumes that the other guy did it, although it doesn't have to be). But I want to start many years before the movie, when it was still a happy lovestory without whipping.

But, if the whipping intrigues you ... there's an INSANELY hot fic out there about that whipping scene. It is RPS, though, but I can only suggest you ignore whatever dislike you might have for RPS, because it's worth it. It's hot beyond words. I loved it, and I usually feel very weird about RPS. Here's the link (it's only 500 words or something, but really one of the hottest scenes I've ever read): http://doveheart.dreamwidth.org/558.html