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icon_uk ([personal profile] icon_uk) wrote in [community profile] scans_daily2013-07-01 02:12 pm
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A bittersweet little love story

Love really doesn't have boundaries



Hold Close

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[personal profile] grazzt 2013-07-01 08:05 pm (UTC)(link)
I prefer the Hogfather version, where Death, moonlighting as Santa Claus (or the Hogfather as he's called in this world), saves her.

"The Hogfather brings presents. There's no better present than a future."
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[personal profile] icon_uk 2013-07-01 08:12 pm (UTC)(link)
"INDEED"

(said in best Christopher Lee voice... I mean no disrespect to Ian Richardson, but to me Death will ALWAYS be Christopher Lee)
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[personal profile] his_spiffynesss 2013-07-01 08:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, have you heard that he's released a Heavy Metal Album?
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[personal profile] icon_uk 2013-07-01 09:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Indeed, and for the curious, here's the official trailer for the album

And this is him as a slip of a thing 43 years ago

And youtube has many more treasures, from Man of La Lancha to Mack the Knife to Name your Poison (which was penned by Richard "Rocky Horror" O'Brien.

Sir Christopher Lee.... must be a serious contender for "Most awesome person currently walking the planet"
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[personal profile] mistervader 2013-07-03 05:33 am (UTC)(link)
Hasn't he released two?
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[personal profile] ozaline 2013-07-02 09:05 am (UTC)(link)
There's also the Fables version where she's an agent of Hope and relives the story every Christmas... yeaaaah
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[personal profile] grazzt 2013-07-02 05:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, the only thing I disliked about that story was that the Little Matchstick Girl should have been the first one encountered. The three agents of hope match up so well to the Three Ghosts of Christmas, that I'm surprised they didn't do them in the right order.
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[personal profile] icon_uk 2013-07-02 09:33 pm (UTC)(link)
I would assume, since "hope" pretty much by definition has to be forward looking, that she'd be the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come?
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[personal profile] grazzt 2013-07-03 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Nah, she's the Ghost of Christmas Past. The Ghost of Christmas Present is Santa Claus, and the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come is one of the defeated bad guys (I think the Evil Queen from Snow White), since even the wicked have hopes (and indeed, their hopes are just come to fruition more often than most). More specifically, she represents the hope for revenge.

The point of the Matchstick Girl in the story is that hopes die or are killed quite easily. Santa Claus represents the hope of justice (toys for the good, coal for the bad).
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[personal profile] wizardru 2013-07-02 12:28 pm (UTC)(link)
The most amazing thing about stuff like the Hogfather is how Pratchett can present such ridiculous material that has such brilliant and moving undertones throughout. Death's speech to Susan at the end, for example. Pratchett is a master of addressing deep concepts within a seemingly silly lark.
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[personal profile] icon_uk 2013-07-02 09:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Indeed, things like Vimes speech about people (and especially coppers) taking the law into their own hands at the end of "Snuff", or the ancestor worship theology in "Nation"
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