carefullyeverywheredescending asked: I love the Stardust movie an embarrassing amount. I like Neil Gaiman, but he really did not flesh out Yvaine AT ALL, whereas the movie makes me really like her.

I have so many thoughts on this! I don’t know how to properly express them, haha. I have a Neil Gaiman situation, where sometimes I want to choke him with his own talent (he can write a freaking shopping list like it’s poetry) and other times I adore him. The book v. movie situation is tough for me, because the novel was so good and then it tapers off and he SUMMARIZES their adventures instead of developing Yvaine and the romance. But on the other hand, the sort of melancholy sadness of the ending makes me FLY and I adore it. So yeah. But I vastly prefer the movie, because it gives me all the feelings, Yvaine is developed and we see her and Tristan not only fall in love, but grow into these different people because of each other (though I like how Victoria was a bit less one-sided in the book than the movie, but she’s Sienna Miller in the movie, so priorities!).

Seriously though, Gaimain, STOP BEING LAZY ON CLIMAXES! It’s like he writes a book and gets bored with it, but when the movie version comes out, he’s required to get his shit together and make something exciting so it works all the better. Having still bitter American Gods feelings (although I’ve since warmed more to other things of his, Coraline, my midway path through Neverwhere, and some other things).