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[treeofsilver]

By order of mewgoesthecat, I am X-posting this picture here as well. More work to be done on it yet, but as mentioned, the community is in sore need of posts (and I'm a feedback slut, in any case).

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[treeofsilver]

I find that subjects are more willing and eager worshippers if you're nice to them by making them pretty things, inspiring nice pairings, and so on (you know, as opposed to taking their firstborn children to be your servants, slaughtering them right and left, destroying their crops, etc). But if you're going to sacrifice people, please do it outside. Blood is an absolute *disaster* for the carpeting!

And I shall certainly obsess over the next bit of shiny. ^^; Oh yes, there will be shiny! And perhaps I shall eventually post the painting I did of Jack. Not quite so nice as Tom's and certainly in a more arty style, but okay, as far as my work goes. It's very much a bishi-type Jack... Definitely not Movie!Jack, but not Fat!Book!Jack, either. I dunno what to call it, exactly.

Huzzah for a bunch of guys on a boat! Yes, we know Jack does have a tendency to sleep around. I maintain that he is bisexual, as is Stephen. I dunno why people insist on demanding that characters who have been happy with women become 100% gay in slash fics. Dude, there *are* varying levels of middle ground, here! It's not one or the other, it's usually somewhere in between. See, I would rate myself on the Kinsey scale of sexuality as somewhere around a 5.5. Almost exclusively homosexual, but I very much have the ability to appreciate beauty in all forms, male and female. There are indeed a very, very few select men that I would willingly shag, if the opportunity presented itself. But I do not actively seek men out.

I imagine that it would be something like that with Jack. He sleeps with whoever the bloody hell he wants to sleep with. He *is* a man of uncommonly hearty appetites, after all. While he would wholeheartedly seek out a willing wench, I think if the mood took him for male company, he would be equally enthusiastic about finding it.

The cliche 'indepenant woman,' as you so aptly title her, really bothers me. As a long-time reader and enjoyer of fantasy and sci-fi, and an active seeker of slash fiction, I have many times encountered the unsavoury Mary Sue or self insert. Totally pointless characters inserted for the purpose of fulfilling some fantasy of the author's, or some imagined need for that sort of character.

(As an LotR fan, I am wholly SICK of the Legolas!Sue, the princess who wants to be a warrior but cannot under her oppressive father, and so trains in secret with her brothers and runs away, and meets up with Legolas and they fall in love and have poorly written sex faster than rabbits/the human girl transported in from our world who finds herself with the abilities of the most mighty warrior ever or incredible wizard's powers, and her love for Legolas results in her being gifted with immortality, blah blah blah.)

WHAT IS THE BLOODY POINT?! My God, I may be a woman, but I enjoy masculine, testosterone-driven, gratuitiously violent things, too! M&C was glorious in it's depiction of the times. The costumes were lovely. The actors were extremely talented. They used a sexy ship. There was blood, sabres, cannon, oak and sail. And can we say, Tom Pullings crawling around on the deck? *drool* Seriously, the movie preserved everything so well, condensed and combined as it had to be. If only there were a director's cut! (The deleted scenes are lovely - wtfucketh? why did they delete the one of Jack swimming around - but they don't satisfy me. I need MORE! THE GOD DEMANDS SATISFACTION!)

I wish iron-on t-shirt transfers weren't shitty. Then I would totally make myself a t-shirt. Ah, well, I shall have to content myself with my "I <3 Jack" one from the Aubrey/Maturin Emporium.

[semchance]

There is nothing I can say to that beautifully written vendetta against many things crappy except for this:

<3

I must bow to you, once again, on all points. There are shades of grey in sexual orientation, there are certainly shades of grey around Jack's orientation, Mary Sues (especially the overflow of them in LotR and HP fanfiction -- gag me, please) cannot be escaped in this world any more and therefore ought to be shot, violence is just as appealing to chicks as it is to blokes (James Bond; need I say anything further?), t-shirt transfers are technology in vast need of improvement, and blood does have a nasty tendancy to soil carpets.

Mental hugs to you and your awesomeness! You're moving up in my mental pantheon, although you're still hard pressed to pass Alexander and Hannibal. Methinks no one will ever come close to them, though...

[treeofsilver]

Ah, well, I never expected to. ^^ Alexander is simply worthy of worship himself; far be it from me to dethrone him! Just so long as I get to have my hair elaborately done and wear a bunch of billowing sheets, I'm happy!

*feels better, having vented her spleen* There are just some things that simply HAVE to be said. Sometimes my responses become these absolutely massive things because of that.

I had the misfortune(?) of being overseas while M&C was in theatres. *sniffle* I've never gotten to see it on the big screen, though I've been told it's an experience like no other. I hear that a surround sound system is a great way to experience the true depth of it, so methinks I'll be getting on, eventually.

Can you believe me? MONTHS in London, indeed England in general, and I simply didn't have the time amidst my studies to make a pilgrimage to Portsmouth and the HMS Victory. I wanted to cry my eyes out over that.

And '<3' is a perfectly fine response. ^^ *mashs her Celeborn and Elrond plushies into compromising positions, giggling all the while and gnawing on the corner of her Horatio Hornblower box set*

*makes a note to find someone to trade art to in return for glorious, glorious A/P smut*

[psionicknight]

"There is nothing I can say to that beautifully written vendetta against many things crappy except for this:

<3"

I secund that with all my heart...amen my dear amen!