Thursday morning links have a busy day ahead

[kate_nepveu]

Oral argument this afternoon, big dumb movie tonight, so just a few things:

• Cool rocks I found while out with the kids this weekend.

• The kids making bunny ears with their bunny cake.

• Max Gladstone gets meta (no spoilers) in the amusing The Conversation Tony Stark and Thanos Should Have Had.

• thefourthvine asks what story you would like to get the Spider-Man treatment—rebooted every five years—with the caveat that you have to watch each version. I'm leaning toward something heist-y like Leverage or Ocean's 8, because I could always use more heists, but I'm still thinking about it. You?

• Edit: also please see these pictures and then give me hair style advice?

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[clevermanka]

1. Oh wow I miss lurking on thefourthvine's LJ back in the day.

2. Except for a brief time when my hair thinned out bc of health stuff, I've always had super long hair that I don't style at all. I'm the worst person to give hair style advice...THAT SAID, =D I feel like anyone who is fortunate enough to look good with jaw-length hair should take advantage of that as much as possible? I love the style in the pic and think it looks great on you.

[kate_nepveu]

Thanks, but this is my semi-serious midlife crisis haircut, I've been wanting a change for quite a while!

(For my quarter-life crisis, sophomore year in college, I chopped it from hip-length to shoulder. When I retire I'll have to shave my head.)

[clevermanka]

Oh my goodness, yes, I can see wanting to get away from a semi-serious midlife crisis haircut, especially if you've had it a while. I'm sure you'll wind up with something fantastic!

I plan on shaving my head when I stop coloring, so *fistbump*

[kate_nepveu]

thanks!

(I probably will not actually shave but during summer, especially, when I'm overdue for a cut, I fantasize very strongly about buzzcuts, because I have very thick dense hair.)

[telophase]

I think you could keep the same shape, but bring it up shorter so the ends of the hair hit right under your cheekbones. The woman in that picture has her hair styled fluffier than yours, but the sharp point under the cheekbone should work the much the same.

Depending on how thick your hair is, you could also keep it a similar length in front and go short and layered in the back.

There's also more of a rounded shape with long bangs but the bangs might prove annoying in the long run. :)

This one is kind of cute--it's a bob similar to yours but much more asymmetric. It's styled in the pic in a way you probably couldn't wear in a courtroom, but when neatened up and not mussed, it would look more conservative.

[kate_nepveu]

Thanks, that's really helpful!

[jeliza]

I would so be here for all the heist movies. Leverage, or Ocean's X, or Italian Job.

I think you could probably repeatedly make a new Avengers (as in Emma Peel and John Steed) without it getting boring.

[kate_nepveu]

That would be fun!

[castiron]

Rebooted every five years -- I'm tempted to say *Mansfield Park* in the hope that some production would actually manage to be a good one, but I would probably be setting myself up for great pain in the meantime.

So instead I'll say Miss Marple. Even though I think no one can ever surpass Joan Hickson, I am willing to be pleasantly surprised.

I also second a Steed & Peel Avengers reboot. (And I am surprised at how little S&P-Marvel crossover fic exists.)

[kate_nepveu]

what's been bad about the Mansfield Parks to date?

[castiron]

The 1983 one with Sylvestra Le Touzel as Fanny Price is pretty good, certainly faithful to the book and the characters.

The 1999 version directed by Patricia Rozema... At some point I want to rewatch it and see whether being in the headspace of "this is a movie set in the same time as Mansfield Park, with characters of the same names and a similar plot, but is completely unrelated to Austen's story" makes it more bearable. Fanny's personality is totally wrong, and the whole tone of the movie is off. I did like Rozema's bringing West Indies slavery to the foreground, but I didn't buy the details.

The 2007 version with Billie Piper -- again, Fanny's personality was wrong. I found it truer to the book than the 1999 version, but overall it left me unimpressed.

Mansfield Park is difficult to put on screen. Fanny Price is not a modern heroine: she's reserved and self-effacing; she has a strong sense of her low place in the Mansfield family and no desire to resist her position or advance herself, so it's hard to make her understandable and sympathetic to a modern audience without changing her personality. Mary Crawford is much easier to portray! Fanny has a rich internal life with strong feelings and opinions, but she rarely explicitly expresses them; another challenge for filming. I've often thought that a Bollywood production would do MP justice, with the musical numbers to convey the interior thoughts and feelings.

[kate_nepveu]

interesting, thanks!

[skygiants]

I would watch an infinite number of attempts to film Diana Wynne Jones' Hexwood. They would all be VERY weird, but probably weird in different ways!

[kate_nepveu]

enjoying the fractal weirdness sounds fun!