cimorene

i wouldn't have expected it, but the class i almost didn't take is looking likely to be by far the most interesting. there was a lecture today on the 19th-century swedish class system, rural communities and their systems of government, and marriage customs that was so engrossing i kept forgetting to take notes. i kept having that wonderful feeling, like a whole world opening up under my feet, the way you do when you start reading in a really exciting new fictional universe. i'd like to read some novels set in it now.

also: there is something deeply hilarious about a cat trying to sleep on a potholder.

today's crack au report:

the one where bodie is a writer who inherits a baronetcy and a neogothic castle and doyle is the ghost who haunts said castle and has cursed bodie's family.

the one set after the napoleonic wars (...i think) where bodie is a gentleman highwayman who tries to hold up doyle, who is an impoverished irish lord, and they go off to wrestle and end up making out in the mud.

the one where bodie is a citizen of a magical scottish town that only appears in our world for one day every hundred years, and doyle stumbles into it on an op, whereupon they fall in love at first sight and have angsty soul-rending sex because bodie can't leave and doyle can't stay, so bodie makes doyle kill him, and then doyle talks murphy (his partner) into leaving with him even though murphy fell in love with a village wench and wanted to marry her -
perhael: huh WHAT. how do people come *up* with this?!

- but then he feels bad and takes him back but it turns out they have only like MOSTLY vanished for 100 years, even though four months have passed, because murphy is able to sneak in, and then some old dude is like, "miracles come in THREES", and suddenly ALL OF HISTORY IS DIFFERENT dundundun and it's four months earlier the night that doyle first discovered the village - except like canon because bodie is doyle's partner but they don't know they're in love! and they cuddle and have sex on the ground, but then they get up and STUMBLE INTO THE VILLAGE AGAIN and meet murphy and ALL THEIR MEMORIES COME RUSHING BACK just so they can feel the SOUL-RENDING PAIN AND JOY again and then the village vanishes and they forget again, but live happily ever after, the end.
perhael: ...
perhael: WHAT.