history: being distracting and femslashy.

[lyssie]

1. This whole returning to work thing after a three-day weekend suuuuuucks.

2. Today's adventures in Wikipedia involved Virginia Woolf. I have come to the conclusion that Wikipedia is an horrific influence. You guys. Woolf gender-swapped her girlfriend and wrote a novel about her. Complete, iirc, with boyslash. She's like the grandmama of boyslash genderswap kinks.

3. Why is there no Virginia Woolf RPFS? No, really, WHY? Is it because she's a bi-sexual married to an athiest Jew and writes novels and thus does not exist? eta: to be fair, I haven't gone on any sort of extensive search, but I don't recall ever seeing it cross the femslash_today lists. Hrm.

4. So, the problem then becomes: How many times did River Song visit Virginia, and were they lovers? Obviously, yes, but then, why did River keep returning? For the same reason Vita S-W (whom Virginia carried on a 20-year affair with) did? Obviously, Virginia is a woman who attracts people, fascinating them in some measure.

5. Speaking of Vita, the woman is a marvel in her own way, including cross-dressing as a man to hang out with her girlfriend in Italy. Apparently, she used to run off and take her kids along for the affair.

6. I know, Wikipedia isn't the highest measure of factual evidence.

7. I should actually be writing Sparky fic, whoops.

Comments

[lizardbeth-j.livejournal.com]

3. It was requested for Yuletide last year! Previous years the RPF categories are really messed up so I can't tell if any of them are about the Bloomsbury group or not, but you could always request it again. Well, not the x-over part. :)

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

huzzah!

Also, to be fair, I haven't gone looking. I shall do so, but, er, later, when I'm not shirking my sparktober duties.

[lizardbeth-j.livejournal.com]

I went to Yuletide because I was pretty sure if it existed at all, it would be there. And the prompt wasn't filled. So I'm sure you're right. I don't know off hand if there's a biographical film that might inspire fic? That's probably a more fruitful avenue to search than in RPF-proper.

er, not that I'm not totally shirking what I should be doing right now, no... *shifty*

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

*eyes*

[lizardbeth-j.livejournal.com]

*flinches guiltily*

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

*throws some <i> at you*

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

hahahah. That was sort of my reaction as I read the wiki entries. My eyebrows kept raising up higher and higher. =D

[ide-cyan.livejournal.com]

Sally Potter made the book in point #2, into a movie starring Tilda Swinton. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando_(film)

[spiletta42.livejournal.com]

I had a professor in college who loved Virginia Woolf, and so I had all of her novels, at least until a certain someone burned them, along with my philosophy textbook and several other books I needed for school, for being satanic. *eyeroll* Now that I'm not poor any more, I should replace them.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

I'm ashamed to say I've never read anything by her, but she is now on my list. If only because I should really do some classics reading, at some point.

[ide-cyan.livejournal.com]

I know one RPF story about Virginia Woolf, iirc -- the short story "It's Important to Believe", by Joanna Russ (which appears in the collection The Hidden Side of the Moon).

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Oooh. Thank you. =D

[lavidaessueno.livejournal.com]

#3: there is! The Hours, by Michael Cunningham.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

*adds to list* =)

[pinkdormouse.livejournal.com]

I'm sure there's femslashy mentions of Virginia Woolf in I. Vampire and/or Passing For Human (can't remember the author and not at home to check my copies, but both books were from The Women's Press).