cimorene

"this twat should enter the horribly awkward phrasing olympics."

myself, i have a sneaking suspicion it might not seem as funny in the cold light of morning.

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.

Current Mood: thoughtful
Current Music: Imogen Heap - Just For Now

suddenly, i want more poirot slash! or maybe just some poirot dvds, in a pinch, or i could even try reading the actual books (not that we have them, but that wouldn't be hard to arrange i'm sure). the narrative voice in the story linked above is really quite lovely, by the way.

eta:

cimness: Dear Google, I love you. Thank you. Love and kisses, Cim. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&client=opera&rls=en&hs=xKx&q=poirot%2Fhastings+slash&btnG=Search
aes: google is fantastic.
aes: it kicks everything else out of the water, except maybe arashi.
cimness: :O what about wikipedia!
cimness: ... GOOGLE/WIKIPEDIA? :o
aes: ...
aes: OTP. D:
cimness: omg OTP!

eta2:

lilah: i must add this to my interests, *right now*
cim: öalksföaklj YES

Current Mood: apathetic
Current Music: Hamasaki Ayumi - momentum

lilah: maybe ice cream really is the cure for everything!
cim: and arashi can't hurt!
lilah: no, indeed! arashi + ice cream = ULTIMATE CURE
cim: oh no. and when you put it like that i'm like - arashi eating icecream? arashi in an icecream bath? arashi eating icecream underwater? arashi making icecream with a troupe of midgets while dressed in military uniforms? arashi eating icecream out of each others' hands? ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE.
lilah: cim, i'm afraid your brain has been japanified. don't worry, it's not lethal-- you'll just see crack *everywhere*.
cim: well, i don't literally *hallucinate* these things.
lilah: oh, well, that's too bad!
cim: although i have to admit, my life might be a lot more fun if i did.
lilah: yeah, exactly.

Current Mood: happy
Current Music: Madonna - Cherish

i love this cap because jun has filled it with gayness even though the only part of him in the frame is his hand and shoulder. for his next trick he will probably do something like fill an entire picture with the gayness of his pose even though ohmiya are in the same shot and ohno's actually plastered himself to nino's back. oh wait - he's already done that too.

eta:

perhael: but cim, why does today's cap make you mellow? *ducks*
cim: i'll find a way later to make you pay. just wait.
lilah: XD
cim: although jun's gay, gay little hand is kind of relaxing. it's like "i can rest easy knowing that such supremely accomplished gayness is in the world, and that it is prepared to dress in purple silk."

Current Mood: mellow

how gay is matsujun?

this gay.

me: so on his radio show he plays "i will always love you" and "unchained melody" and the peabo bryson version of "a whole new world" and - OMG, "my heart will go on"?

wax_jism: that just ain't right. your boy has some fucked-up music taste.
me: well, not that i like it, but - he is GAY.

wax_jism: oh, so i see, the divas - wait, he's really gay?
me: *stares* yes. he's really gay.

wax_jism: really gay?
me: um - well, if you're asking if he's out - no. but -

perhael: has she like, *seen* pictures of him?!

wax_jism: but dude, he's in a boyband.
me: yes, but he also picks his own clothes sometimes and -

wax_jism: but so did jc.
me: dude, he is gayer than that.

perhael: sho's in a boyband, too!

wax_jism: but is he like -
me: he is GAY. he is REALLY GAY. he's like ELTON JOHN. he is like. he is GAY, okay.

wax_jism: oh, so he's like... emmett?
me: yeah. he could be on queer guy or - he's just TOTALLY GAY.

perhael: *convulses* you need to post that to your lj.

Current Mood: sparkly
Current Music: Kent - FF

an lj-based fandom is kind of like an after-school club. it's not just whether you like art, spanish, or french best - it's which clubs are the most fun.

you're not going to join the spanish club if the girl you hate is the president; you're not going to join the art club if you know there's only five girls in it and you only like one of them. and you might join the home ec club because they have really fun cooking parties even if you don't like the home ec teacher at all, whereas you might avoid the biology club like the plague even though it's your favourite class because all they do is sit around helping each other with their homework.

Current Music: Pink - Nobody Knows

"it's like she's the world's tackiest gay man and every story is some room or photoshoot that she's got to decorate the hell out of, but when you try to use the room or take the picture, there's too goddamn much shit in the way, piles of gauze and cushions and knick-knacks and not a single free bit of wall."

Current Music: The Cat Empire - Cities

my updates have been getting less frequent and also less fandomy lately as i've been doing most of my fandoming on aim: squeeing, watching clips, exchanging pictures, in some cases writing in the chat window with

aeslis and

elfiepike, constructing incredibly elaborate alternate universes together with

elfiepike (nino has wings! aiba is a transformed kitten! ohno and aiba own a bakery called Bread from the Heart! jun is a roman patrician! arashi are all slash fandom bnfs!), and more recently achieving success at last in my project of converting

perhael to the sparkly gay japanese crack rps side. when not doing that i have been trying and sometimes succeeding to write, and reading, and doing homework. (last night i spent about three hours on some spanish exercises we didn't even go over - it just damned well better have been good for my brain, is all.)

we watched csi:ny and criminal minds today. the former was pretty cool and the latter was one of my favourite episodes thus far. ( criminal minds 202 )

after all that excitement, by the way, about last week's csi, ( ... )

in other news, i am prematurely sleepy. it's not even eleven, and this is the first night of my weekend. clearly i am suffering from under exposure to arashi. the question is: try to achieve jun/aiba smut some more or watch an episode?

also, it appears

anglepoiselamp is giving a presentation at the queer studies conference at the university of turku at 10 am sunday, so

shiroi_chi and i are going to go at least (i don't know if

wax_jism will want to - god, i remind myself of those women who always go to church without their husbands). turku being itself and finland being itself, it may well be that i won't get to see in person any other work on fandom at all before i've written some of my own, if i do do that for one or more of my theses.

Current Mood: drained

[22:07] lilah: mmmm, müsli. i used to love that, before i started worrying if it might kill me :P
[22:08] lilah: i'm such a headcase. but that's okay, really. i'm genereally a loveable headcase ;)
[22:09] cim: hahahhaha! kill you? XD
[22:10] lilah: hell yeah. there's nuts in müsli!
[22:11] cim: "DEAR CUSTOMER. please pardon our mess! we're arranging this area of the store to bring you more products, according to our feedback from YOU, more suited to your tastes! be on the lookout for exciting new products coming soon - in addition to traditional Fruit Müsli, try our Berry Müsli, Healthy Heart Müsli, and Müsli of Death!"
[22:11] lilah: hahahahahahahahahaha
[22:12] lilah: hey, müsli is totally a murderous food product
[22:12] lilah: i can see the little gleam in its eye!

the opposite of shopping-fu: shiroi_chi and i shopped for four hours today with the intent of buying: shoes and a bag (her); socks, sweatshirt, pajama pants, tshirts, needles & thread, and plastic trash bags (me). of these things, the only things bought by either of us were socks and sewing notions. yes, not even garbage bags. we are so, so sad.

gokusen: i have been delaying a post of pimping for the gokusen manga, which i think really owns (with possibly a detour into some slight pimping for the drama, which owns less but is still fabulous), because i have not had time to go back through my folders of it and make icons yet, and i feel i cannot post about it without them. this manga made my heart go crick over het and made me curse the mysterious but inevitable fact of het fandoms being made of suck more passionately than i have done in years.

maybe it's short for "the storm of cracked-out adorableness": i've also been delaying further evidence that Nino is a Really Big Dork as well as varied evidence that arashi would make a pretty good religion (see: the d no arashi sent me by elfiepike in which jun and aiba heat pachinko balls with a flame-thrower for the purpose of seeing how deep a tunnel they will melt in a block of styrofoam, and ohno eats cotton candy frozen in liquid nitrogen). this delay was because i was too occupied in writing a birthday story for aeslis to upload them.

the grumpy young ladies' club: in other news, contemplating the fact that i am so very easily annoyed was depressing me as i wondered whether i was a bad person, until perhael suggested that she and i are both grumpy old ladies. against all reason and logic this not only elevated my mood enormously but made me get sort of misty-eyed. ♥

Current Mood: drained
Current Music: att det är långt hem och snart finns det inga tårar kvar

a badfic author, discussing in the comments on her story post how likely it is that the OTP would break up in the future:

"[he] comes from a traditional family and reality's not very accepting. it could happen."

perhael: wait a minute. *reality* is not very accepting?

perhael: as in, reality itself took on an identity and decided to vote republican?
cim: i think that whoosh you just heard was the faint echo of the fourth wall collapsing on top of her and failing to make any impression.

Current Mood: amused

i'm still reading badfic at ff.net. the first sentence of a chapter was:

Have ever hear a song that makes you want to walk in circles?

[pause for the audience's horrified silence.]

cim: "oh yes! that one madonna tune! i remember - it was so strange! i was seized by the urge to do slow laps around the table!"
perhael: me, i bought a human-sized hamster wheel when i first heard that one coldplay song, so i could run in circles alllllll day long.
cim: yeah, but that isn't the same, is it? because this is supposed to make you walk in circles.
lilah: oh, drat. well, i suppose i've never had that feeling! now, skipping in circles... i get that feeling all the time.
cim: and just once, when i was in the dallas airport, a country song came on the loudspeakers and i practically had to tie myself down, so strong was the urge to turn cartwheels in a circle.

Current Mood: giggly
Current Music: Kokia - dandelion

it happens that i recently saw a dangerous man, a bbc movie sequel to lawrence of arabia starring ralph fiennes and alexander siddig, the former in his screen debut as lawrence and the latter as sherif feisal. in this film, they are slashy. so i happened to just slip and fall accidentally, the other day, into a couple of slash recs.

one of them was for moth to the flame by madelyn scott, where ~~the code of the page is extremely fucked and it looks like alphabet soup.~~ all the japanese characters on the page make it look like alphabet soup if you don't have support for those characters installed. i saved the source and spent several hours deleting the mess before i could read it, and today i decided to report to

perhael the results of my labour.

the story is quite long, but i have briefly recapped below the four significant scenes for the romance plot (with an intent towards humour, the success of which other people can judge). i enjoyed the story quite a lot; it's long and interesting and romantic (if perhaps overblown) and the details are authentic-seeming enough, at least, to fool me. i wouldn't put it on my recs page because of the above-mentioned, specifically the Innocent Virgin plot element, but it sure was fun.

recapped scenes based upon moth to the flame by madelyn scott. lawrence/feisal, r (recap)/nc-17 (fic), 768 words. ( will you be touching my soul? )

Current Mood: stressed
Current Music: Maria McKee - If Love Is A Red Dress

:has quiet hysterics: oh, going fandom-wading can be such a rewarding experience! especially if you enjoy badfic. ladies and gentlemen, it's coffee!garak and coffee!bashir! they're not so much like the coffee!story

perhael and i are working on, but they're very very much like the original coffee!gary and tim thing, translated from swedish by yours truly here.

in other news, i haven't been around because i've been fandom-wading, i.e., ~~devouring~~ reading as much of one pairing as i possibly can all day and all night if i can manage it. sometimes when i do this i emerge later with a nice, thick stack of recs. unfortunately, most of the garak/bashir around is older, so i haven't come up with too many yet.

tim's brain: he's so fun! and easy to talk to!
tim's brain: if only i could kiss him.
gary's brain: now i kiss him!
tim: sugar?
gary: yes, please.

the full coffee!tim & gary is here.

oh bad writing, how i sometimes ♥ thy absurdity.

Current Mood: silly

perhael and i have been discussing how incredibly dysfunctional and clueless our gary and tim are, in light of the fact that our wip has reached 37 pages, and neither one of them, despite fifteen years of in loooooooooveness, has even come within a stone's throw of realising he's in looooooooove (i use the extra os with reason. you'll understand when you read this story, hahah). i had her in stitches with this:

[01:01] so many inanimate things: men shouldn't be allowed to reach adulthood, i think
[01:01] Caramel Girl: hahahaha
[01:01] so many inanimate things: if only people could reproduce without them their sheer self-damaging stupidity would be enough to make them more of a danger than an asset to the gene pool
[01:02] Caramel Girl: *is in stitches*
[01:02] so many inanimate things: imagine the genetic child of this tim and this gary
[01:02] Caramel Girl: .... the most fucked up, ballsy child ever?
[01:03] so many inanimate things: *ballsy*?
[01:03] so many inanimate things: DUDE.
[01:04] so many inanimate things: no, i was picturing more like the kid's first day of school
[01:05] so many inanimate things: "wait. i need to think about this. i'll be ready to go as soon as i've figured it out."
[01:05] so many inanimate things: "when will that be?"
[01:05] Caramel Girl: HAHAHHAHA
[01:05] so many inanimate things: "omg u distressed me. now i will never noe! im going to bed."

Current Mood: physician, heal thyself
Current Music: loreena mckennit

ie: he admired his lover's ass.

dear writers who subject their readers to appositives,

appositives are for clarification of an unclear point, usually in formal speech. cool: the professor, also a licensed blah blah blah technician, did something technically that you have to be a technician to do. uncool: 'blah blah' said a character, just introduced to the story. 'hm?' said the protagonist, looking up to meet his lover's eyes. even less cool: blah blah his lover's ass, when they've just had sex. we know it's his lover. they just had sex. next window. there are these great things called 'names.' they were even immortalized in a popular work of literature called the bible with a fantabulous fairy tale about naming everything (unless i've got my mythologies mixed up). they're not as fancy and polysyllabic as appositives (at least, most of the time), but they do carry the added bonus of never coming off as pretentious, overly self-conscious, or unconfident.

love,
cim

Current Mood: bitchy
Current Music: Dar Williams-February

i want to be, like, the fairy of caustic aesthetic commentary, hopping all over lj and simply commenting with letter grades for people's icons. 'a for extraordinarily fascinating lines of composition. a- for failing to remove distracting extraneous material which detracts from the impact of the diagonal motion.' 'c-. striking composition unconscionably spoilt by poor use of color.' 'f. boring and visually repulsive.'

Current Mood: naughty
Current Music: Emiliana Torrini - Easy

things i hate: morons.

of course, they're also practically my sole source of entertainment.

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multi-fannish American queer cat & bunny owner in Finland

Entries tagged with ppl: lilah

quote of the day saved for posterity, by request

losing it so completely

slashing classic detectives one by one + google/wikipedia otp!

ohmiya daily: because strawberries go nicely with icecream

ohmiya daily once again supplanted by jun/aiba

well, he IS gay

i have no justification to offer for the silliness of this metaphor.

el estilo baroque emo

fandom life, tv this week

Müsli of Death

grumpy young ladies' club, gokusen, opposite of shopping-fu, the storm of cracked-out adorableness

what do YOU think?

have ever hear a song that makes you want to walk in circles?

abridged fic recap

more coffee!characters

gip

the collab-oh

appositives

if you've seen one, you've seen them all.

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