Dear brain, you are weird

[winter]

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 >:)

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[murasaki99.livejournal.com]

Argh, stories that wimp out make me crazy, especially if I've slogged through many pages to the end. Alas, homophobia is alive and well and the author may have thought he his book would not be published if he had gone for the 'gay' ending?

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

[winter]

Gay lit's going through a high phase here lately, but I think he might have been excommunicated for anti-patriotism if he'd written OMG Napoleonic Polish Independence Cavalry Heroes as outright gay. Still, it's very, very frustrating - Soldier 1 saves Soldier 2's life again, they stare at each other in perfect tired understanding, then one of them says "Now all we have to do is not catch a chill", and the first paragraph of the next chapter goes: "They caught a chill. [Soldier 2] was in bed for four days. [Soldier 1] died after two days."

Saw that one - the image of Vader trying to reason with a unicorn is rather mind-boggling :)

[murasaki99.livejournal.com]

"They caught a chill. [Soldier 2] was in bed for four days. [Soldier 1] died after two days."

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

[winter]

I remembered that one. Still, just the image of the Dark Lord of the Sith and a pointy-horned horse... :D

[winter]

Will read as soon as I get home, which, alas, probably won't be until 9PM :/ College's started up again and I solemnly swore I'd actually go to Japanese class this term...

[murasaki99.livejournal.com]

Missing Japanese class would be 'taihen da!' Enjoy - I studied the language for some years and got up to being able to read about 250 or more kanji. Still not enough to be literate, alas. But I know how to buy a train ticket and ask directions. :)

[murasaki99.livejournal.com]

It *is* fun playing with that image. Posted the new chapter, and the horse with the horn has a bit more to show Lord Vader. :D

edited since I can't spell 'horn' this morning. Sheesh.