What is El Internado Laguna Negra?
Feb. 24th, 2015 12:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
parallax23Back in December, I wasn't in the office much because of the way the holidays occurred this year. I was also missing my best friend who was in China for the break, and I had just finished all the classic movies on my Netflix queue when the site recommended the show Gran Hotel (which is infinitely awesome and I highly recommend), a pre-WWI mystery set in Spain. I studied Spanish on and off from 6th grade through college, and while I've never been fully fluent, I know enough to get by and I can gauge some of the regional accents, so the subtitles helped when I couldn't recall. The show was so amazing that I powered through all 3 seasons (considering that 1 episode is about 70 minutes long, that wasn't easy), and I wanted more. But the show ended neatly after Season 3, so I went through the IMDb pages of the lead actors Amaia Salmanca and Yon Gonzalez hoping to find something else.
Under Yon Gonzalez's page was the listing for 'The Boarding School', and it reminded me of 'Strange Days at Blake Holsey High', which gobsmacked me with nostalgia. A quick YouTube search showed that someone was translating the series into English for fun. I needed the subtitles for this one terribly, because it was full of modern slang and a less formal way of speaking, plus Spanish from Spain is quite different than Latin American Spanish that we typically get in NYC. The show was like Lost, if it took place at a boarding school. It ran from 2007 to 2010, while the story only moved from 2007 to 2008 (two big years for me, so I'm completely in tune with the time that it takes place). Right now I'm up to the tail end of Season 6, and while the show has taken a turn for the worse (it seems to have gotten renewed more than expected, so it dragged out a lot of the plot lines), I really enjoyed Seasons 1-4.
The hardest thing about this show is that while it was quite a popular series, it was still quite a few years ago. Also, Spanish fandoms aren't as hardcore as English and Asian fandoms (that means that there aren't as many wikis, fan sites, etc. that Americans are used to), and I haven't been able to locate any decent fanfics because all of the main hosting sites folded and took the stories with them (and it seems that FF.net may not have been hosting the show at the time). I don't really expect any sort of reaction to the fics that will go into this fandom, since 1) I'm writing them in English since writing them in Spanish would take too long, 2) the fandom is mostly outdated and dead, and 3) they're mostly one-shots or two-shots. I'm posting them because I ended up with so many sketches that it would be a waste not to share them.
Not sure how or why, but the show took me back to a place where I could write again. When some tumultuous things happened this year, I threw myself into the story and wrote a couple of short fics for it. I'm going to post them on here and under my FF.net account.
Under Yon Gonzalez's page was the listing for 'The Boarding School', and it reminded me of 'Strange Days at Blake Holsey High', which gobsmacked me with nostalgia. A quick YouTube search showed that someone was translating the series into English for fun. I needed the subtitles for this one terribly, because it was full of modern slang and a less formal way of speaking, plus Spanish from Spain is quite different than Latin American Spanish that we typically get in NYC. The show was like Lost, if it took place at a boarding school. It ran from 2007 to 2010, while the story only moved from 2007 to 2008 (two big years for me, so I'm completely in tune with the time that it takes place). Right now I'm up to the tail end of Season 6, and while the show has taken a turn for the worse (it seems to have gotten renewed more than expected, so it dragged out a lot of the plot lines), I really enjoyed Seasons 1-4.
The hardest thing about this show is that while it was quite a popular series, it was still quite a few years ago. Also, Spanish fandoms aren't as hardcore as English and Asian fandoms (that means that there aren't as many wikis, fan sites, etc. that Americans are used to), and I haven't been able to locate any decent fanfics because all of the main hosting sites folded and took the stories with them (and it seems that FF.net may not have been hosting the show at the time). I don't really expect any sort of reaction to the fics that will go into this fandom, since 1) I'm writing them in English since writing them in Spanish would take too long, 2) the fandom is mostly outdated and dead, and 3) they're mostly one-shots or two-shots. I'm posting them because I ended up with so many sketches that it would be a waste not to share them.
Not sure how or why, but the show took me back to a place where I could write again. When some tumultuous things happened this year, I threw myself into the story and wrote a couple of short fics for it. I'm going to post them on here and under my FF.net account.