Cimorene

Re: this post - I really had no hope of finding any files I left on my parents' computer in 2003, when the hecticness and depression of my dad's injury left me completely disorganized and I lost most of my data.

But I should've remembered that, even though my parents are incredibly disorganized, they also never throw anything away! (Although apparently my mom gave away one of the family computers and her parents had taken it out of state before my Dad found out, without any opportunity to recover the data from the hd. LOL win! It's not like she doesn't know how computers work, either; she's just so completely absent-minded that she's capable of giving away a computer on a whim without it occurring to her that there might be informashuns on there even though, you know, the sole purpose of a computer is to store data.) ANYWAY, I'm just lucky that she didn't give away the one I was using that summer. My dad logged into it and performed an Excavation resulting in both of K'Sal's lost WIPs. o_O!!!!!

So there was flailing and rejoicing over here. It was such an unexpected windfall that I didn't really know what to do with it. Even better, one of them was actually mostly finished, which I had totally forgotten. (She posted it at one point, and then changed her mind and added some more and didn't finish the revision.)

Ahahha. So his excavation also uncovered writing by me whose existence I had COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN ABOUT, including

• A horrible rhyming poem written about Wax which, thank Enya, I never showed to her. As Eliza Bennet says, a good poem is the surest way to kill off young love.



• 3 pages of a Pirates of the Caribbean Regency AU set in England where Jack and Elizabeth are married and live on an estate adjoining her parents'. I presume that Will was supposed to be the stableboy or something, because the filename is "POTCOT3AU", but he makes no appearance, and everything cuts off very abruptly with no explanation. It's dated from June of '04.



• A file named "Jeeves & Wooster shipwrecked" that doesn't involve any shipwrecks, just a scene where Jeeves and Wooster seem to be... purchasing liquor by the case from a redneck liquor store in Alabama and an unrelated snip of dialogue. Alabama??? WHY, TEENIE SELF? WHY?



• A really bad Han/Luke story that, hilariously, is both a) missing at least half of each scene and b) so strongly reminiscent of the overwhelmingly popular writing style of Han/Luke that I could almost believe it was written by someone else except that I sort of remember writing it now. I think the fragments were originally embedded in a longer story where my protagonist was reading or writing fanfiction, and the parent story didn't survive because it sucked.

So... there was that.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh, Pirates.

I don't feel up to writing anything that would require a spoiler cut anyway, so just allow me to declare how VERY VERY MUCH I adore Tom Hollander. So much that I had to draw a little air heart every time he came onscreen, pretty much, as wax will attest.

We saw a total of six people in pirate outfits, which I think is pretty great considering this wasn't even the premiere showing. I feel sort of sad that I wasn't dressed up, but I didn't own the components of a good pirate costume, and anyway, it was too cold. But I do kind of want to dress up as one of the Goth Brides of Chow Yun Fat now.

this is a will/jack that's overall well put-together, i think, but i'm not sure if it deserves a rec. it doesn't really say anything new, it doesn't contain anything exciting, it doesn't even have much tension to it, and the overall metaphor, while pretty, is overdone by my lights. the last sentence did make me smile.