Uploaded September 2018 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
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I'm re-reading Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters as I do every year and while I was cleaning my macbook I found this old video (it's really old, probably 2014/2015). I never finished it and I can't finish it now cause I lost the project and I'm using a different software from the one I used back then, but I don't wanna delete it because I quite like it so I'm posting it as an unfinished video. And this year is the 20th anniversary of Tipping the Velvet so it seems appropriate to publish it now lol.
I'm gonna quote Sarah Waters to explain Tipping the Velvet (don't read if you wanna read the book without knowing much about it, this spoils the facts): “What’s it about?” people sometimes asked me, when they had heard I’d written a novel – and I always had to brace myself, slightly, to answer. There was the awkwardness of explaining the rather risque title. There was the fact that I outed myself the moment I began to reveal the plot. And then there was the plot itself – because, oh dear, how lurid it sounded, how improbable, above all how niche, the tale of a Victorian oyster girl who loses her heart to a male impersonator, becomes her partner in bed and on the music hall stage, and then, cruelly abandoned, has a spell as a cross-dressed Piccadilly prostitute and the sexual plaything of a rich older woman before finding true love and redemption with an East End socialist."
Now, some words on Tipping the Velvet and Sarah Waters and this tv adaptation. Sarah Waters is for sure, without a doubt, one of my favorite authors. I've read all of her books (multiple times, I re-read Ttv and Fingersmith every single year, and sometimes more than once a year) and TtV was the first book I read by her, it has a special place in my heart. I read it for the first time when I was in high school, I was figuring out my sexuality and I stumbled upon the 2002 tv adaptation and loved it and so naturally I bought the book, and I can say that it changed my life. I personally love coming-of-age novels SO MUCH, it's probably my favorite genre of literature, and I love female protagonists, I love the Victorian era and I'm a romantic and TtV has all of that and more. I love Sarah's writing style, it's so detailed and she makes you smell, see and hear all the things she describes. It's like you're there with her heroine. I love how she can transport you in a totally different era and make you feel at home. Well, I don't know where this is going...anyway, Sarah Waters is a god. This tv adaptation is perfect and Keeley Hawes in the role of Kitty Butler is perfection. So yeah, enjoy this little old unfinished video. I hope you like it, and if you've never read a Sarah Waters book I suggest starting with Fingersmith and then go from there.
And...I am in love with Kitty, I loved her when I was 16 and now, almost 10 years later I still love her so much.
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PLEASE WATCH IN HD // small screen + headphones
#fanvidfeed #tippingthevelvet #sarahwaters
I'm re-reading Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters as I do every year and while I was cleaning my macbook I found this old video (it's really old, probably 2014/2015). I never finished it and I can't finish it now cause I lost the project and I'm using a different software from the one I used back then, but I don't wanna delete it because I quite like it so I'm posting it as an unfinished video. And this year is the 20th anniversary of Tipping the Velvet so it seems appropriate to publish it now lol.
I'm gonna quote Sarah Waters to explain Tipping the Velvet (don't read if you wanna read the book without knowing much about it, this spoils the facts): “What’s it about?” people sometimes asked me, when they had heard I’d written a novel – and I always had to brace myself, slightly, to answer. There was the awkwardness of explaining the rather risque title. There was the fact that I outed myself the moment I began to reveal the plot. And then there was the plot itself – because, oh dear, how lurid it sounded, how improbable, above all how niche, the tale of a Victorian oyster girl who loses her heart to a male impersonator, becomes her partner in bed and on the music hall stage, and then, cruelly abandoned, has a spell as a cross-dressed Piccadilly prostitute and the sexual plaything of a rich older woman before finding true love and redemption with an East End socialist."
Now, some words on Tipping the Velvet and Sarah Waters and this tv adaptation. Sarah Waters is for sure, without a doubt, one of my favorite authors. I've read all of her books (multiple times, I re-read Ttv and Fingersmith every single year, and sometimes more than once a year) and TtV was the first book I read by her, it has a special place in my heart. I read it for the first time when I was in high school, I was figuring out my sexuality and I stumbled upon the 2002 tv adaptation and loved it and so naturally I bought the book, and I can say that it changed my life. I personally love coming-of-age novels SO MUCH, it's probably my favorite genre of literature, and I love female protagonists, I love the Victorian era and I'm a romantic and TtV has all of that and more. I love Sarah's writing style, it's so detailed and she makes you smell, see and hear all the things she describes. It's like you're there with her heroine. I love how she can transport you in a totally different era and make you feel at home. Well, I don't know where this is going...anyway, Sarah Waters is a god. This tv adaptation is perfect and Keeley Hawes in the role of Kitty Butler is perfection. So yeah, enjoy this little old unfinished video. I hope you like it, and if you've never read a Sarah Waters book I suggest starting with Fingersmith and then go from there.
And...I am in love with Kitty, I loved her when I was 16 and now, almost 10 years later I still love her so much.
backup: youtube.com/user/iredreamer
tumblr: iredreamer.tumblr.com
twitter: twitter.com/iretrtr
info:
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DESCLAIMERS: NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT INTENDED.
This video is made for entertainment purposes only.
