how life REALLY is in finland.

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right, that's what i thought. i never expected to be imprisoned there either before. and to be fair, i wasn't actually locked in the library. today i unwisely used the exit closest to my route home. apparently the library itself is open later on fridays than its surrounding courtyards are, because the door locked behind me, leaving me in the courtyard with the gate between me and the street closed and locked, no opening mechanism on the inside. i had to throw my bag and library books over it and climb over, which wasn't too difficult but was kind of a pain in the ass since the gate is chest-high and the bars are only vertical.

new prince of tennis ficlet: "homecoming", tezuryo, fuji, pg

homecoming (≈2000 words)
by cimorene
prince of tennis
tezuka/ryoma, fuji, pg
thanks to bookshop for beta and title. ♥

Of course it was the second time in his life Ryoma came home with a deep cut over his left eye that he unlocked the door and found Fuji in his kitchen. The light was on over the stove and Fuji was making tea. He was taller and there was something different about his hair, but Ryoma still recognised him after five years by the line of his back and his hand on the kettle.

english gay porn arena

last night i was trying to wrestle with a paragraph and its stupid 'he's and 'him's again, as one does when one is writing slash, and complaining about english and its stupid lack of reflexive-possessive and reflexive-objective pronouns again, also as one does. my english gay porn arena shirt came up, as it does.

it was conceived last may or june, when wax_jism and i were walking downtown with the effervescent shiroi_chi and the adorable anglepoiselamp and complaining (as one... right) about the same issue and finally someone exclaimed, "english just fails in the gay porn arena!" then we realised that we couldn't live without the phrase "english gay porn arena" on a tshirt. i wear it frequently, but am sad to report i have not yet garnered any comments on it.

it doesn't seem fair that you can't simply import the necessary pronouns from swedish, however.

wax_jism: swedish was made for gay porn. they just don't know it.

"Tack," sa Kunimitsu men Fuji bara vinkade och var borta. -Äntligen. Ryoma suckade av lättnad, och före han kunde flytta på sig drog Kunimitsu honom närmare med en arm runt midjan. Han började känna sig riktigt avslappnad för första gången på en vecka. "Jag saknade dig med," sa Kunimitsu tyst i hans hår, orden vibrerande i hans bröst och genom hela Ryomas kropp, som om han skulle andas in dem genom huden. Ryoma log och pressade sitt ansikte mot buchous hals.

aslökdjföaskldjöj. god. i just spent like an hour translating this paragraph FOR NO REASON. i am such an ocd freak.