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gems from the past
It's ridiculous how excited I get at finding Discworld books in secondhand bookshops. Wandering around Civic today I discovered five in the one place - five, which has to be some kind of record - including Maskerade and Carpe Jugulum, both of which I lacked. I snapped up Maskerade but didn't let myself buy anything else, having already given in and bought The Drawing of the Three earlier in the afternoon. Also caramel tea. Also socks. It's alarming how fast the money just flies out of my wallet. The lady at the bookshop said "If you want any more, you'd better be quick! Terry Pratchett always goes very fast!"
Me: YES I KNOW GET THEE BEHIND ME WAH *flees, clutching book*
I spent a very enjoyable hour in Starbucks drinking a chai latte with hazelnut syrup (recommendation courtesy of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
darthrami) and reading Ionesco's 'Rhinoceros', which arrived in the mail from schiarire yesterday. I love my Americans, yes I do :) Lessthanthree. Etcetera.
Having three weeks of holidays ahead and the house to myself for much of that, I am doing insane things like finally, FINALLY attempting to put together a cohesive summary of the War For Billy plot, which spanned a month or so of Milliways insanity and made me three very good friends. Newcomers to the bar have been asking about it, and I volunteered like a mad thing. Ha. Sooooo...Nny, Rami, Art? I have some threads in memories, but only those where Lucifer was involved and not even all of those. I *will* go trawling through the bar's archives, but if you could give me any links or mini-summaries you have hiding anywhere that would be most helpful. Any conversations between any of the four involved, pretty much, and perhaps an indication of where in the plotline any OOM posts fell.
I have also been going through the back entires of this journal in an attempt to put together a decent set of Memories, and have unearthed some lovely gems so far. Some are hilarious, some are just milestones in my online development - which has had an alarmingly large effect on my development overall, I think. This is a personal record as well as a small snippet of my past for you to mock at will. The multiple punctuation! It burns!
2002
Fahye’s virgin eyes are opened
veryveryvery scared... wtf is slash, someone?
Fahye’s LJ addiction is born
Gees I have been reduced to the sadness of writing posts in an exercise book whilst in bed.
2003
Fahye learns a valuable life lesson
NEVER NEVER NEVER GET SUNBURNT FEET OH MY GOD IT HURTS LIKE ALL HELL!!!!
(I have adhered to that, by the way, because DAMN. That was an unpleasant week.)
Fahye discovers badfic
oh my GOD i just read a gravitation fanfic it was DREADFUL how can they DO that to poor shuuichi and yuki oh the AWFULNESS of it all... nevernevernever read gravitation fanfics. Ick wrong yuk. This crazy girl who can't write and is studying to be a hairdresser or something put them in an alternate universe and... no I can't go on it was too painful for words.
Fahye gains a nickname that will stick like superglue
Freya, Fahye or FRAR (thanks SO much Eugenie...*loading on sarcasm with a shovel*)
Fahye and one of her favourite phrases are introduced, with the kind of hate at first sight that bodes well for an eventual lifelong passion
Has anyone else EVER heard of "pathetic fallacy"?
Fahye’s corruption continues apace
Went back and found (and read) that smut you guys were talking about. VERY much taken by the idea of Legolas and Gornsy being in lurve. It seems so RIGHT! Bring on the glorious L/A/E/F loveshack, say I.
(Ahaha..ha...WHAT? Oh. I think I might have meant Legolas/Aragorn/Eowyn/Faramir. Woo.)
…which can be reflected in her writing.
Does anyone know the plural of 'dominatrix'??
Fahye reflects on how far she has come
I am PERFECTLY aware that Ember's surname is Smut and I don't plan to do ANYTHING about it. I was young and innocent when I made it up and still like the name. So there.
Fahye’s Bard geekdom SHINES LIKE JUSTICE
Horrifed by the fact that a perfectly innocent piece of English homework - work out what the opening speech of Richard III actually MEANS - turned into an hour-long trawl through encyclopedias, guides to Shakespeare and close reading of almost the entire bloody damn play by me and my mother, who is as obsessive-compulsive as I am, in an attempt to work out WHO THE HELL WAS WHO. (long sentence there...) We thought we had the royal family worked out and then we discovered that someone appeared to have two wives and so we needed an extra Edward and our cast lists seemed to contradict the family trees....*has nervous breakdown* Dammit why do I do it?? It just pissed me off and I couldn't drop it until it was worked out... well I sure as hell know the play back to front by now.
Fahye plans her First Ever Fanfic (cowritten, slashy and about vampires…)
I've gotta write down the plot before I forget half the cool little details like:
"my cigar set fire to my Virgin Mary outfit!"
"it is a vision wreathed in flame! Hang on... it's YOU!"
"would you rather got to hell... or suffer the living hell of having him STALK YOU YOUR WHOLE LIFE???"
"I've been secretly engaged to.... Antonio Banderas!!!"
"Drug?? Oh, the drug wore off AGES ago!"
*collapses on floor laughing hysterically* My God this is gonna be fun.
(And it was. Oh, the crack.)
Fahye and her Bard geekdom have a falling out
Julius bloody Caesar imagery themes veracity of text language protagonist Brutus dramatic irony textual references integrity historical perspective more Julius bloody Caesar... *collapses*
Fahye’s fangirlism spills alarmingly into RL
Oh I MUST say this: we went to Emily's party at APK and then Eujar and I had a little graffiti expedition to the toilets. Guess what we scratched on the wall of the middle cubicle. In large caps lock letters:
ALUCARD *loveheart* ANDERSON
Fahye discovers teenage angsting is more fun when you have an audience
Do you know what would be the best way to die? For someone else. To die saving someone else. How good would that be? It would be like no matter how crap your life is, it would be worthwhile. I wouldn't mind dying like that. Why am I even typing this? This is like a depressive attack only without the depressed. Just attacked.
Fahye’s priorities are aired via a quiz
If you were to look into the mirror of erised what would you see? me 'n' eujar being world-famous fantasy author buddies and attending dodgy fantasy cons and having hordes of fanpeople who wrote slash fanfics and drew fanarts for us and living in a huge big shared apartment thingo with everyone... oh yeah, and having lots of money from doing this, too...
What about your boggart, what would that be? me being old and poor and ugly and probably married with hordes of screaming children and a fat slob of a husband
Fahye teaches herself 1337
|)4|\/| Y0|_| |-|3|GY | |-|4|) 70 |34/2|\| |-|0\/\/ 70 |337 50 7|-|47 | (0|_|||) /23P|_Y 70 y0|_|/2 P057!!!!!
Fahye embarks on the ups and downs of her fanfiction career for good
But my DAMN imagination managed to seize control of my fingers and instead I spent the ENTIRE MORNING writing YnM fanfiction. WHY??? And it isn't even particularly GOOD. If TNIAY is fluffslash, then this is angstsap. I'm hardly even into the damn thing and I already have an idea for another one.
(and)
SO I obviously have PLENTY of time to work on Shields (my random little fic). I like it. It's too sappy for words because I haven't written much of the angst part yet and it's probably so derivative that it's ghastly, but I like it. Writing yaoi sap for two gorgeous gorgeous characters with deliciosuly dark and angst-filled pasts is the most satisfying thing in the world. It's also the first time I've tried writing from the viewpoint of a man - unless you count Dark Garden, but that was hardly obvious - and it's interesting to do. They think differently, it's weird. But I read through the bits I've done and I think it's working. Maybe. Gyeh. Afraid to show its sappyness to anyone so I'll just struggle through on my lonesome.
(and)
I have momentarily fallen out of love with Shields because it is a piece of cliche-ridden filth that is painful to read. I think I need to go through and ruthlessly chop out half the sap... *sniffs* Goodbye sap. I have also given up on selfishly hiding it away until finished, because my current hate of it has convinced me I need a beta.
Fahye joins her first RP, a humorous Matrix one
Starting up my Persephone LJ soon, hopefully. I've been approved! I have a code!
(Fuck, codes, I remember codes…)
Fahye…um…fuck it, this is just amusing
Good luck toschmendrannie, sanguia and izumihydra for their major/minor essay. Remember STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS, MODERNISM and for goodness sakes do NOT start scrawling AND THEN SEPTIMUS WILL HAUNT BIG BEN AND HE WILL *SO* GET WITH EVANS OR WHATEVER HIS NAME IS... Ms Vance's fangirly instincts will COLLIDE with the english teacher mentality drilled into her by the WALLACE-RICHARDS monster and her brain will explode and she won't be able to take Shakespeare next semester and I will have to suffer under a teacher who gives me marks for MERIT and not because she LIKES ME and I am IN THE LOOP
~
Well, that was entertaining.
Me: YES I KNOW GET THEE BEHIND ME WAH *flees, clutching book*
I spent a very enjoyable hour in Starbucks drinking a chai latte with hazelnut syrup (recommendation courtesy of
darthrami) and reading Ionesco's 'Rhinoceros', which arrived in the mail from schiarire yesterday. I love my Americans, yes I do :) Lessthanthree. Etcetera.Having three weeks of holidays ahead and the house to myself for much of that, I am doing insane things like finally, FINALLY attempting to put together a cohesive summary of the War For Billy plot, which spanned a month or so of Milliways insanity and made me three very good friends. Newcomers to the bar have been asking about it, and I volunteered like a mad thing. Ha. Sooooo...Nny, Rami, Art? I have some threads in memories, but only those where Lucifer was involved and not even all of those. I *will* go trawling through the bar's archives, but if you could give me any links or mini-summaries you have hiding anywhere that would be most helpful. Any conversations between any of the four involved, pretty much, and perhaps an indication of where in the plotline any OOM posts fell.
I have also been going through the back entires of this journal in an attempt to put together a decent set of Memories, and have unearthed some lovely gems so far. Some are hilarious, some are just milestones in my online development - which has had an alarmingly large effect on my development overall, I think. This is a personal record as well as a small snippet of my past for you to mock at will. The multiple punctuation! It burns!
2002
Fahye’s virgin eyes are opened
veryveryvery scared... wtf is slash, someone?
Fahye’s LJ addiction is born
Gees I have been reduced to the sadness of writing posts in an exercise book whilst in bed.
2003
Fahye learns a valuable life lesson
NEVER NEVER NEVER GET SUNBURNT FEET OH MY GOD IT HURTS LIKE ALL HELL!!!!
(I have adhered to that, by the way, because DAMN. That was an unpleasant week.)
Fahye discovers badfic
oh my GOD i just read a gravitation fanfic it was DREADFUL how can they DO that to poor shuuichi and yuki oh the AWFULNESS of it all... nevernevernever read gravitation fanfics. Ick wrong yuk. This crazy girl who can't write and is studying to be a hairdresser or something put them in an alternate universe and... no I can't go on it was too painful for words.
Fahye gains a nickname that will stick like superglue
Freya, Fahye or FRAR (thanks SO much Eugenie...*loading on sarcasm with a shovel*)
Fahye and one of her favourite phrases are introduced, with the kind of hate at first sight that bodes well for an eventual lifelong passion
Has anyone else EVER heard of "pathetic fallacy"?
Fahye’s corruption continues apace
Went back and found (and read) that smut you guys were talking about. VERY much taken by the idea of Legolas and Gornsy being in lurve. It seems so RIGHT! Bring on the glorious L/A/E/F loveshack, say I.
(Ahaha..ha...WHAT? Oh. I think I might have meant Legolas/Aragorn/Eowyn/Faramir. Woo.)
…which can be reflected in her writing.
Does anyone know the plural of 'dominatrix'??
Fahye reflects on how far she has come
I am PERFECTLY aware that Ember's surname is Smut and I don't plan to do ANYTHING about it. I was young and innocent when I made it up and still like the name. So there.
Fahye’s Bard geekdom SHINES LIKE JUSTICE
Horrifed by the fact that a perfectly innocent piece of English homework - work out what the opening speech of Richard III actually MEANS - turned into an hour-long trawl through encyclopedias, guides to Shakespeare and close reading of almost the entire bloody damn play by me and my mother, who is as obsessive-compulsive as I am, in an attempt to work out WHO THE HELL WAS WHO. (long sentence there...) We thought we had the royal family worked out and then we discovered that someone appeared to have two wives and so we needed an extra Edward and our cast lists seemed to contradict the family trees....*has nervous breakdown* Dammit why do I do it?? It just pissed me off and I couldn't drop it until it was worked out... well I sure as hell know the play back to front by now.
Fahye plans her First Ever Fanfic (cowritten, slashy and about vampires…)
I've gotta write down the plot before I forget half the cool little details like:
"my cigar set fire to my Virgin Mary outfit!"
"it is a vision wreathed in flame! Hang on... it's YOU!"
"would you rather got to hell... or suffer the living hell of having him STALK YOU YOUR WHOLE LIFE???"
"I've been secretly engaged to.... Antonio Banderas!!!"
"Drug?? Oh, the drug wore off AGES ago!"
*collapses on floor laughing hysterically* My God this is gonna be fun.
(And it was. Oh, the crack.)
Fahye and her Bard geekdom have a falling out
Julius bloody Caesar imagery themes veracity of text language protagonist Brutus dramatic irony textual references integrity historical perspective more Julius bloody Caesar... *collapses*
Fahye’s fangirlism spills alarmingly into RL
Oh I MUST say this: we went to Emily's party at APK and then Eujar and I had a little graffiti expedition to the toilets. Guess what we scratched on the wall of the middle cubicle. In large caps lock letters:
ALUCARD *loveheart* ANDERSON
Fahye discovers teenage angsting is more fun when you have an audience
Do you know what would be the best way to die? For someone else. To die saving someone else. How good would that be? It would be like no matter how crap your life is, it would be worthwhile. I wouldn't mind dying like that. Why am I even typing this? This is like a depressive attack only without the depressed. Just attacked.
Fahye’s priorities are aired via a quiz
If you were to look into the mirror of erised what would you see? me 'n' eujar being world-famous fantasy author buddies and attending dodgy fantasy cons and having hordes of fanpeople who wrote slash fanfics and drew fanarts for us and living in a huge big shared apartment thingo with everyone... oh yeah, and having lots of money from doing this, too...
What about your boggart, what would that be? me being old and poor and ugly and probably married with hordes of screaming children and a fat slob of a husband
Fahye teaches herself 1337
|)4|\/| Y0|_| |-|3|GY | |-|4|) 70 |34/2|\| |-|0\/\/ 70 |337 50 7|-|47 | (0|_|||) /23P|_Y 70 y0|_|/2 P057!!!!!
Fahye embarks on the ups and downs of her fanfiction career for good
But my DAMN imagination managed to seize control of my fingers and instead I spent the ENTIRE MORNING writing YnM fanfiction. WHY??? And it isn't even particularly GOOD. If TNIAY is fluffslash, then this is angstsap. I'm hardly even into the damn thing and I already have an idea for another one.
(and)
SO I obviously have PLENTY of time to work on Shields (my random little fic). I like it. It's too sappy for words because I haven't written much of the angst part yet and it's probably so derivative that it's ghastly, but I like it. Writing yaoi sap for two gorgeous gorgeous characters with deliciosuly dark and angst-filled pasts is the most satisfying thing in the world. It's also the first time I've tried writing from the viewpoint of a man - unless you count Dark Garden, but that was hardly obvious - and it's interesting to do. They think differently, it's weird. But I read through the bits I've done and I think it's working. Maybe. Gyeh. Afraid to show its sappyness to anyone so I'll just struggle through on my lonesome.
(and)
I have momentarily fallen out of love with Shields because it is a piece of cliche-ridden filth that is painful to read. I think I need to go through and ruthlessly chop out half the sap... *sniffs* Goodbye sap. I have also given up on selfishly hiding it away until finished, because my current hate of it has convinced me I need a beta.
Fahye joins her first RP, a humorous Matrix one
Starting up my Persephone LJ soon, hopefully. I've been approved! I have a code!
(Fuck, codes, I remember codes…)
Fahye…um…fuck it, this is just amusing
Good luck to
schmendrannie, sanguia and izumihydra for their major/minor essay. Remember STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS, MODERNISM and for goodness sakes do NOT start scrawling AND THEN SEPTIMUS WILL HAUNT BIG BEN AND HE WILL *SO* GET WITH EVANS OR WHATEVER HIS NAME IS... Ms Vance's fangirly instincts will COLLIDE with the english teacher mentality drilled into her by the WALLACE-RICHARDS monster and her brain will explode and she won't be able to take Shakespeare next semester and I will have to suffer under a teacher who gives me marks for MERIT and not because she LIKES ME and I am IN THE LOOP~
Well, that was entertaining.