this is my third-favourite piece of classical music

[fahye]

Update:

Still sick. But thankfully no longer sick in a 'cannot study' way, just sick in a 'sometimes I feel like a giant hand is squeezing my chest and I am not allowed chocolate/alcohol/coffee/ANYTHING NICE' way.

I actually felt like writing*, today! For the first time in weeks. Instead I...typed up lecture notes. And studied. And now I am ONE TOPIC (bacterial pneumonia) away from letting myself watch the second half of North & South, which is delicious costume drama fare, full of angst and brooding looks and class warfare and dinner parties and head wounds. EXCELLENT. Just what I needed.

*Best you don't ask WHAT I felt like writing. You'd lose any respect you ever had for my creative skills.

Comments

[armyofone.livejournal.com]

"Dinner parties and head wounds". Sounds like a outstanding title for an autobiography if I ever heard one.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

I agree! And I'm certainly in the right business to adopt it as my own one day...

[pathstotread.livejournal.com]

*Best you don't ask WHAT I felt like writing. You'd lose any respect you ever had for my creative skills.

Boo, you whore. You can't just tease us like that.

*uses appropriate icon* Isn't it lovely? The book is good, too. There's all this introspection into Thornton's head, and these little moments where he's, like, obsessing over the way Margaret's bracelet looks on her arm and stuff. It's good times.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

I -- I started writing it. It's SO SILLY. I am not going to talk about it unless it actually goes somewhere, because I am kind of ashamed of myself for letting it become words instead of just a ridiculous idea.

ICON IS GORGEOUS. Do you have more? Is there a post of them somewhere?

I opened the book at my friend's house and was kind of overwhelmed by the phonetic Northern dialect.

[pathstotread.livejournal.com]

Well, I GUESS that makes sense. :P

I made a few N&S icons, posted here (http://carrielh.livejournal.com/258461.html), but they're spoilery for the end, so watch out for that. And maddeinin has some awesome ones here (http://maddeinin.livejournal.com/401823.html).

The dialect in the book, specifically the scenes with the Higginses, was really hard to follow at first. I was like "what? No wait, WHAT?" But you kind of get used to it in the end.

Also, Jesus, Richard Armitage, how much do I want to make out with you and your accent? THIIIIS MUCH.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

Yessssss. And Daniela Denby-Ashe has the most lovely eyes.

[pathstotread.livejournal.com]

She's so pretty. I think it especially struck me in the dinner party scene, when she shakes hands with Thornton to show she's learning Milton ways. I think I was crushing on her just about as much as he was in that scene.

Also, she was the female alien who sexed Tosh in that one episode of Torchwood, which officially blows my mind. Margaret Hale, what would Mr. Thornton say?

[fahye.livejournal.com]

....

OH MY GOD WHAT.

head: *explodes*

[pathstotread.livejournal.com]

INORITE. WACKY. (http://torchwood.time-and-space.co.uk/coppermine/displayimage.php?album=7&pos=179)

[fahye.livejournal.com]

Whoooooa. It doesn't even look like her! What a difference the blonde hair and eye makeup makes.

*icons*

[pathstotread.livejournal.com]

I remember thinking that there is no way I would have recognized her at all if I hadn't watched N&S right before I saw that episode. And then there's the fact that although she looks completely different, her voice sounds exactly the same.

[girl-wonder.livejournal.com]

OMG. TWELFTH NIGHT ICON.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

HELL YES.

[svilleficrecs.livejournal.com]

North and South is seriously some of the best comfort costume drama evah.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

YES. It's much more exciting than Austen! There's lots of death and fighting and gritty angst and Mr Thornton's delicious sharp nose and sharper voice.

[svilleficrecs.livejournal.com]

And there's this one line by him to her about playing the stern task master that just .... DOES IT FOR ME every time.

[pathstotread.livejournal.com]

Haha, yes. "Sorry to disappoint you, Miss Hale. I would like to play the overbearing master." EEE.

[svilleficrecs.livejournal.com]

YES THAT. And then just the tiniest moment of amusement at the line, then realization that it just sailed right over her head. Then (in my mind anyway) thoughts of spankings.

WHAT? That's totally what happened.