Cimorene

well, i realise i've been posting not much except about swedish folklore, and that's because i didn't want to post about nothing but prince of tennis. i realise now that a balance is probably better and that i'll post about pot if i want to.

however, first, i will post this. i've had it hanging around on my harddrive for months and i thought i'd polish it up and go ahead and post, get it out of the way. it's about t.e. lawrence, but i treat this more or less as background work for slash (whether it ever gets written or not) based on the ralph fiennes/alexander siddig film a dangerous man: lawrence after arabia. there's no shipper talk below, but i don't have any interest in non-lawrence/feisal pairings based on the original movie. i did a fair amount of reading about the real t.e. lawrence on the internet, however, because i wanted to think more about the character's motivation and history. and i treat a dangerous man as a sort of dramatisation-original bit of rps based on history, not on lawrence of arabia, although that's just my impression of the two.

anyway, this is about back-history about lawrence's motivations during the war (aka the period covered by lawrence of arabia) and his feelings about arab independence (in other words, no mention whatsoever of feisal. this time.)

( just how crazy, and how disloyal, was lawrence? )

because lilah's wish is my command, i share with you a parody of the climax of the Imaginary Story* i am imagining about lawrence and feisal's sad little manpain, or painful epic love--depending on how seriously you take it.  it also happens to be a scene out of a dangerous man, but this is not, needless to say, even within shouting distance of the actual dialogue.  uh, it is possibly vaguely spoilery though.

lawrence/feisal, pg, maybe a coupla hundred words.  ( i've finally got the perfect rhyme for sand! )


*this is a word i have just invented for one of those stories you mull over, design, formulate and polish endlessly in your head without ever intending to write it down

the janitor just came by and changed the nameplate on our mail slot so that instead of ROIVAS KYMALÄINEN it says WAX CIM (except our real last names, and without spaces, because mine has 13 characters).  and hey, we haven't even been here a month yet!  we moved in on the 14th.  great work there, speedy gonzales!

speaking of the door, or not, i've been and continue to be busy with ( boring details of school. ) the upshot of all this is that it's hard to see how i'm going to have any time to write for at least a couple of weeks, maybe until shortly before christmas.  this is frustrating because the pressure, plus all the reading, have combined to make me feel pretty creative.  i've been doodling constantly, which seems to be about all i can manage.  the other upshot of this is that i'm getting incredibly sick of marxism (and am getting there with capitalism, justice, and democracy), but that's another post that i'm probably not going to write.  have been in enforced internet-isolation to facilitate studying and it seems possible that i may actually miss it when my best friend has a baby, for which i want to publicly apologise in advance, just in case, even though i will attempt to forestall the eventuality.

my love for CSI and CSI:NY is still great, but my two most-anticipated shows so far this season are grey's anatomy and the new CBS FBI drama, criminal minds, with mandy patinkin.  i hope CBS's crime drama reputation and high budget will mean this show survives a long time.  it's fun and plotty and i like the whole ensemble cast very, very much--and it's amazing they stand up to the awesomeness of mandy at all, y'know?  i've also seen a bunch of movies lately:  cypher (jeremy northam and lucy liu, 10 min of david hewlett) (fabulous and adorable), flightplan (entertaining and kind of cool), the aviator (great), corpse bride (adorable, fun), the brothers grimm (enragingly terrible), a dangerous man: lawrence after arabia (even more slashy than i had believed possible), and--finally!--charlie and the chocolate factory (not entirely flawless, but incredibly enjoyable).