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Dear brain, you are weird
I stayed up until 3AM today, reading a rather neat book about tragic Napoleonic soldiers, one of whom has a nervous breakdown and attempts suicide via challenging the other to a duel and shooting to the side. For some reason, this doesn't work, but the commander decides that Soldier 1 is a disgrace and should be killed, and then Soldiers 1&2 run away and go home. In the middle of Russian winter. Lots of sublimated homoerotic desire complete with erotic dreams about impaling, but then the author wussed out and had Soldier 1 die of consumption, leaving Soldier 2 to boink Soldier 1's sister. Drat.
And then for some reason I had a nightmare that I was somewhere in the city centre, very hungry, but whenever I came into any establishment that was serving salad, it was just closing down, and all the other places only sold burgers and chips, which my diet doesn't allow me to eat.
The diet may be influencing my brain a little.
EDIT: Female Parental Unit has her nose buried in Coldfire and loudly declared that Gerald is a bastard after reading the prologue, but since she now got to the bit where Gerald and Damien meet, I think her opinion of my favourite immortal vampire sorcerer may be changing soon >:)
And then for some reason I had a nightmare that I was somewhere in the city centre, very hungry, but whenever I came into any establishment that was serving salad, it was just closing down, and all the other places only sold burgers and chips, which my diet doesn't allow me to eat.
The diet may be influencing my brain a little.
EDIT: Female Parental Unit has her nose buried in Coldfire and loudly declared that Gerald is a bastard after reading the prologue, but since she now got to the bit where Gerald and Damien meet, I think her opinion of my favourite immortal vampire sorcerer may be changing soon >:)
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Hee, posted new SW fanfic late last night/early this morning. Anakin's unicorn returns to talk to the Sith Lord. Your white dragon story got my muse awake. :D
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Saw that one - the image of Vader trying to reason with a unicorn is rather mind-boggling :)
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AAAAUGH! That was the ending of their relationship??? Death to hack authors!!! RRRrrrgh.
Saw that one - the image of Vader trying to reason with a unicorn is rather mind-boggling :)
Well, Vader, or rather Anakin, knows this unicorn - it gave him a ride when he was just a young padawan during the clone wars, much to Obi-Wan's horror. There's a whole mythos about the Kerynn that Obi-Wan knows but didn't think (or have time) to tell his student. Even in Vader's messed-up state, Obi-Wan would still be getting grey hair to know about this new meeting. That short story is archived here:
http://users.owt.com/bluefox/Bluefox/dark-black.html
Are you familiar with the Hayao Miyazaki movie "Mononoke Hime" (Princess Mononoke)? There was a mystical beast in that story called the Shinigami. Among other things, it had the power of life and death and could pull the soul out of a dying creature and give it a peaceful death. *That's* the sort of legend that surrounds the Kerynn in Anakin's universe. The truth is much stranger. :D
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edited since I can't spell 'horn' this morning. Sheesh.
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What was the name of the Napoleonic soldiers book? *curious*
Hey, my ex-boyfriend read the Coldfire books and liked them. (Then again, he is a bit weird, just like I am.) So if rocker computer geeks can like Coldfire, so can parental units. And I bet that, by the end of CoS, she'll love Gerald. Or Damien. Or both. *smirk*
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Eustachy Rylski's "Warunek". Alas, probably too firmly set in the Polish Napoleonic mythos to ever be widely translated...
She said something that I guess I agree with - with the amount of punch that the prologue packs, it'd probably be better if it was further along in the story, maybe as an interlude after the earthquake. The way it is now, she was tempted to drop the book after the prologue alone. (Oh, and at the moment Karril is her favourite :>)
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A pity - though I might actually get lucky and find a Romanian copy in an antique book store, you never know. I'll look for it. *writes down author and title*
The prologue is different from the rest of the book, I agree. It's the same in WTNF, and to a certain extent in CoS. It's the kind of flashback writing we get throughout the interlude chapters. Still, I'm not sorry I kept on reading after the prologue. Not sorry at all. *evil smirk*
Karril, eh? Well... *snickers*
BTW, your beta will be ready tomorrow. And I finally remembered what fic I had read from you. It wasn;t SW - it was the HP Sirius/Remus set right after OotP, with the long flashback scenes. Loved that one, though I'm no major HP fan. ^_^
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Wouldn't go looking in antiques, since it only came out in Polish last year. I know his earlier stuff got a few translations (French certainly), but since I haven't read these, I can't recommend them.
Oooh, you've read Shards? Glad to hear you liked it :D I think there's something about my Gerald/Damien dynamic that's a little like Sirius and Remus there, though I should hope the Coldfire men are past their tragedy period now :)
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Okay, so no old translations. *sigh* In taht case, chances diminish by quite a lot. But I'll see if there are any translated copies on IRC, or something. Even in French, which I know moderately well. Sadly I speak no Polish.
Yup, loved shards. ♥ As I said, I'm not big on HP and thus don't read lots of fanfic, but Sirius/Remus are definitely my favourite pairing. As for Gerald/Damien, we'll just have to see how their dinamic evolves, won't we? *snicker*
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In order to get Gerald to shut up long enough to allow me to write some request fics in other fandoms, I might just have to write them a first-time story. That should allow me to explore that dynamic more closely, so to speak ;)
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Get Gerald to shut up? And you expect to actually accomplish that? Gerald is a heady drug, alas. I've refrained myself from writing him so far, and still I feed people plot bunnies constantly.
Which reminds me...
Well, off to watch what they'll air of the Dance competition! I'm cheering for the Italians and Bulgarians tonight!
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I'm counting on my other muses to gang up on him, actually. I've got a full set of Jedi, three versions of Dracula, multiple von Krolocks and an eyeless psychobeauty CIA renegade, and that's just the forefront of my brain.
*eyes bunny* *reaches for a mallet*
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In other news, I have added you to my messengers list. I don't usually stalk people, but it never hurts to have a comprehensive contacts list - just in case. I hope you don't mind.
*lol* Don't get me started on my original boys (and occasional girl)! The list is daunting, even for my dear leather-loving muse. And there's lots of hair involved, besides the occasional wings. *has a hair fetish*
Hey, no killing the bunny! Unless you're planning to have a stew (in which case I can donate some more, to make it tastier).
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Sorry, instinct. I started off in anime fandoms. You see a bunny, you get the mallet. Curiously enough, this rarely helps with vampire bunnies of the kind some people are wont to throw my way ;)
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Heh. I understand the urge, trust me. sadly, vampire bunnies being... well, undead, can be pestering and come back for more just when you thought you'd gotten rid of them.
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I swear, I have more bunnies than Australia...