Positive reviews for Sweeney Todd (reprinted from a comment in someone else's LJ)

[fpb]

I see. They like it because it makes mass murder and cannibalism entertaining. Well, as a historian, I have had enough of that in my subject, and I must say that I do not see the fun in it. Hollywood, however, does, ever since The Silence of the Lambs and Fried Green Tomatoes. But then, an industry that relies on the regular destruction of its own personnel may not have any trouble with cannibalism. I wonder - has anyone ever checked the ingredients in Hollywood restaurants and caterers?

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Take up the pen, and write

[johncwright.livejournal.com]

"The happy ending against all the odds expresses the universal human belief that the moral law really is, in some mysterious way, part of the law of nature and inherent in the universe; that good really wins, and evil really loses, because the world is made for the one and not for the other."

God bless you for saying this, sir! I hope they give you in heaven a trumpet of thunders, so that the voice of that sounding brass will make the forces of darkness scatter and cower and all their bat-wings tremble!

Well said, sir! Well said!

If you can write fanfic, you can write real fic, and, unlike every other author I know, you have something to say. If I can write and sell my work, so can any man who is willing to put in the long hours. It would be a grace to the readership of this darkened world for you to consider it. There are stories in you, deep and beautiful as things from the bottom of the sea: I would wager on it.

Re: Take up the pen, and write

[fpb.livejournal.com]

I do think of my fics with quite a bit of pride, as a matter of fact. And as I already said, I would be delighted to have the honour of a review by you. (From the point of view of what was just said, you might particularly appreciate "And Nobody Will Ever Know".)

[carlanime-bligh.livejournal.com]

If you can write fanfic, you can write real fic, and, unlike every other author I know, you have something to say.

I have to express my agreement with this; I personally hope fpb will do a fantasy series someday.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

I have written a lot of comics in the past, but gave it up because I was professionally going nowhere. At least with fanfics, you know someone is going to read the bloody things.

It ain't what you can do. It's who likes you.

[carlanime-bligh.livejournal.com]

It ain't what you can do. It's who likes you.

Agreed, but still: it seems a waste of talent and of a unique voice.
Well, not a waste; that's presumptious of me, and if your fanfiction brings you satisfaction that's all to the good. But it would be fascinating to see what you'd do with your own fictional world. (Are your comics available anywhere--online or 'zines or anything?)

[fpb.livejournal.com]

I long since ran out of hand-made copies, and I just discovered (perfect timing!) that my scanner is dead, so, for the time being, even if I wanted to put my stuff online, I could not. I will publish or re-publish a few sketches, and some of my comics characters are featured in two fics, "Harry Potter and the Silver Angel" and "Hermione Granger and the Nundu". I am thinking of writing an AU longfic starting from the premise of "Harry Potter and the Silver Angel" (where SA and her queen Athena offered their help against Voldemort) and Snape and Dumbledore call on SA and Athena after Dumbledore comes home nearly killed by the curse of Marvolo's ring, but the problem ist that I am mulling a similar continuity and a similar story for another longfic I have in mind.