WHY DON'T YA JUST KISS HER

[whynot]

The past week has been good times, but I am on the verge of becoming THE THING THAT LIVES IN THE GUEST BEDROOM and I kind of have to get out of here while I still have brain cells.

Has anyone else seen that show on Spike called DEADLIEST WARRIOR, and it's like SAMURAI VS. VIKING and MAORI WARRIOR VS. SHAOLIN MONK and just all this cracked out ~*science*~ and in the end, there is a choreographed samurai vs. viking showdown. It is terrible and hilarious, and is essentially just a penis-measuring contest and everyone yelling, "Oh yeah?! OH YEAH?!" I CAN'T STOP WATCHING.

Oren Lavie popped up on aurgasm and the name sounds familiar. Turns out he sang A Dance Around the Memory Tree on the Prince Caspian soundtrack. Anyway, it's a lovely song, check it out then the rest of the blog, especially "Daylight" by Matt & Kim, which is a song that makes me want to dance and have adventures all the time.

Speaking of the music! I've been bulk-downloading bunches of it, sort of stocking up before school starts. I've recovered loads of The Cranberries and Oasis so hooray for that. Quick, which other music should I recover/check out?

I'm reading a Generation Kill fic called Sixteen Days in September. I don't even watch Generation Kill, but the fic's set during Timor Leste's struggle for independence in 1999. Another reviewer said you don't even need to know the characters to get absorbed in the story and, okay, I agree. The story kind of feels like a journalistic docudrama. The internal politics of the United Nations and the fraught camaraderie of people trying to run things within a country in turmoil are brought out vividly, and, gosh, I dunno. It's great. Timor Leste's story is rarely told, and it deserves to be heard. Summary: "When Peace Corps assigns Nate to East Timor, a tiny half-island in eastern Indonesia, he figures he'll have a lot of time to catch up on his reading. But the year is 1999, and the shock fall of military dictator Suharto is still reverberating throughout the country, triggering changes nobody ever thought possible. As East Timor moves inexorably towards freedom – or war – Nate is drawn into events that will define the future of the province forever."

Hey, so,

GUYS.

GUYS, LET'S BE SERIOUS HERE.


OMG.

jdljkf

LET'S SEE THAT AGAIN.



HFKJSHFKDHSLKFHJDS STILL AWESOME. WHY CAN'T HE JUST ADMIT HIS FEELINGS FOR HER.

Okay wait wait. And.

Is it just me or does Lancelot look like Chuck Norris?



I had to doubleback because I was like, who the hell was this fucker. IT SURE LOOKS A LOT LIKE CHUCK NORRIS. WHICH WOULD BE AWESOME IF THAT COULD EVER, EVER BE TRUE. Chuck Norris would set foot on Camelot and Uther would just start crying. Possibly Gaius might explode. And I'm sure Lancelot would make a fine addition to Delta Force.

Augh, why is series 2 not here now, omg I am going to throw a fit.

Let's go back to this:


ETA: Now animated!


ETA: Meme gacked from a bunch of people -- Give me the title of a story I've never written, and feedback telling me what you liked best about it, and I will tell you any of: the first sentence, the last sentence, the thing that made me want to write it, the biggest problem I had while writing it, why it almost never got posted, the scene that hit the cutting room floor but that I wish I'd been able to salvage, or something else that I want readers to know.

Comments

[be-themoon.livejournal.com]

ALSO ALSO I ALMOST FORGOT! D:

if you came at night like a broken king (shamelessly stolen from T. S. Eliot's Little Gidding, naturally). The dynamics between Peter and Edmund and Susan were so fab as he recovered from the plane crash! I love how eager Edmund is to get to war, and how Peter doesn't even try to discourage him and Susan just tightens up her lips and tries to change the subject, AND ALSO OMG the night visits! how Susan wants validation from Peter that she's doing the right thing, how Edmund wants to remember that he was once a king, and how Peter needs them both so desperately and is too broken to give either of them the reassurance they need. I DIED, HONESTLY.

(... I now really want you to actually write this. *facepalm*)

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

Thanks, dawg. I'm glad you liked it 'cos I was wondering whether maybe Morgana should have left later instead, just 'cos I was enjoying seeing where the Morgana&Lancelot interactions were going. I guess I already established early on that it wasn't that kind of story though.

And as for the second fic, I feel like there's another fic kind of lurking underneath the first one, 'cos there were loads of places in the fic that could have segued off nicely into "AND THEN THEY HAD SEX". This is definitely a fic that relies on unspoken missing scenes, and I was wondering maybe if it was too sparse maybe, so I'm totally <3 that you like it. Yay!

[be-themoon.livejournal.com]

I loved the timing - it felt like one last pulling-it-over on Arthur thing for her. He's so happy with Gwen and then it all topples around them. She's robbing them of the first days of rosy-colored love and it's horrible of her, but I feel like it's what she would do in this situation. And OMG the Morgana&Lancelot! In part, it felt like she was priming him to fall in love with Gwen, like even from afar and from the past she can't resist manipulating Arthur's future. And her visions were done so creepily fantastic! I loved how there's all this gorgeous symbolism going on in them and in real life it doesn't happen like that, and also the time when she was talking to Gwen and she segued into a conversation they would have in three days. CREEPY, BUT AWESOME.

I think it is possible that all your fics have "AND THEN THEY HAD SEX" moments hanging around. I know! I mean, you know that there had to be more than one time the two of them came to Peter in the night, but we only see one for each, and I love wondering what the other ones were like. Did you ever write any other night-visits, or did you decide ahead of time to only have two? I loved the clock symbolism, how we kept hearing about watches and clocks and how it's time for his medicine, time for this and time for that, and that one scene with Peter just staring at the clock while Susan is out and Edmund is at class! SO FABULOUS. That whole section had this kind of hallucinatory feel about it.

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

In part, it felt like she was priming him to fall in love with Gwen
I was going for that. I mean, Morgana is reluctant about it sure, but she's still embraced inevitability, so this is what happens. Maybe she's punishing someone by enabling Gwen/Lancelot, though whether she's punishing herself or them, it's not clear.

segued into a conversation they would have in three days
UM THIS IS AWESOME. I MIGHT ACTUALLY HAVE TO USE THIS IN A FIC.

Haha this is true. And I started writing a couple of other night visits, but in the end the scenes said the same thing anyway, so I just kept it to these 2 to be concise, much as I wanted to inject more touching (AND RESISTING TOUCHING).

[be-themoon.livejournal.com]

UM THIS IS AWESOME. I MIGHT ACTUALLY HAVE TO USE THIS IN A FIC.
I would be absolutely thrilled if you did. Fic about Morgana! yaaaaaay!

but we LIKE the touching!