#niamh yapps

[niamhthefae]

i get this with things like dracula, it works best in book form. dracula is essentially victorian 'found footage' and it works by looking like it's something that is being pieced together through multiple people's different letters and diaries and newspaper clippings and you can't really translate that into film very well, you don't get that same almost all over the place nature that comes through in the book. you don't get as much as a feel for who the characters are and how they view the world because in a movie you only really see things through one or two lenses.

it's the same with the book theif by markus zusak, it feels like it has to be taken slowly to get the time frame and how things develop correctly. we also dont get the interjections from death, which in the book are very important to the narrative. you also don't get the same symbolism with the colours. in the book you seethe symbols of a red square,the white circle and the black sw@stica which you dont see in the movie and that moment with death at the beginning is so important to setting up the story.

in both cases you also have to cut out a lot of important moments because movies dont tend to be more than an hour and a half to two hours long on average so you can't fit everything in and you lose a lot of things that can be integral to understanding what you're watching.

that's not to say that everything is better as a book. there are plenty of things that work better on a screen or stage than they would as a book, these are just two examples of things that do come across better in writing

I firmly believe that some stories can never be translated into a different medium and that's okay

[boundlesschaos]

Were Niamh anyone else, the series of charades and fanfare that hid the mess of an opening might be received differently. Maybe she'd find him unimpressive - maybe she would have felt bad that such luck had befallen on his shoulders.

But, Niamh was always had a one-track mind. One that followed quite the bizarre series of twists and turns, but through nonetheless. She knows what she is here for. When the opportunity presents herself, she makes room for herself to speak on the matter.

"I disagree..." she informs - no physical weapon is apparent on her person, but her well used sword was not the only kind of weaponry she knew how to deploy. It's almost worst, if you think about it, huh? She could be hiding a dagger, or perhaps a spell or two that could easily stop him in his tracks.

"The variance in people who travel within the school has changed...there is an abnormal number of people who have found themselves younger...."

"But you," she closes the distance, her sharp, crimson eyes searching for any additional oddities surrounding the other. "Your presence brings to question a number of questions to light...perhaps you are the abnormality that created such unusual circumstances to form..." A catalyst, of the sorts. Someone to draw others to a similar predicament, a lantern to tempt others to follow.

"How long have you been like this...? Who have you interacted with these past couple of days...?" There's plenty more she can ask, but she decides to ease herself into this. There's a lot to unpack, after all. She'll need to take through notes.

the source of it all [and who it is not.]

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