stuff!
# last night i slept for 16 hours, from 6pm, while not sick - am i about to pupate?
# *blames sionnain* may be buying ticket to see drive by truckers play in glasgow this november. cannot stop listening to decoration day:
I never knew how it all got started
a problem with Holland before we were born
and I don’t know the name of that boy we tied down
and beat till he just couldn’t walk anymore.
# have had more watchmen thoughts. probably none of them original.
ozymandias and rorschach are terribly parallel-y in their oppositeness, huh? (parents dead/absent; journalling/recording of Important Insights; belief that their actions are Necessary and Right even if not everyone understands for some strange reason; possibly as crazy as a bag of stoats; pretty pretty adrian vs weird, ginger and judged hideous by psychologists walter1; retired and identity revealed vs retirement-shy and mask-happy; plus adrian veidt is the real person behind ozymandias, and rorschach at least likes to think that he's real and walter's a disguise. i... would go on, but i assume that this has all been said a zilliontyten times before - but i worked it out by myself, okay!)
# of course, not all my thoughts are even that deep. kanz's involve "dan dreiberg: kept man!" so i think she wins.
emails with kanzenhanzai, redux (from passwords in the 1980s to romance, rorschach style) -
k: I tell myself that Adrian wanted his computer broken into, because really. *pats him on the head*
me: you can pet him. i think maybe i want to watch dan slapping him around some more... (whaaaaat? it was hot!)
k: *gasp* Is Dan already cheating on R in your brain??
me: well. in all fairness? rorschach is a realllllllllllly crap boyfriend. poor baby!
k: True, and Adrian is clearly a catch. You know, aside from the murdering.
me: hee. i like the way your mind works. and the murdering is such a tiny detail!
k: Minuscule, even! Man, think of all the nifty toys Adrian could fund for Dan. Sassy all-weather owl outfits! Suddenly I am all about Dan Dreiberg: Kept Man.
me: but dan already has money! i think adrian needs to offer MORE. like... an owl sanctuary?
me: plus dan already has that hysterical cold-weather outfit.
k: *points* Is what made me think of Kept Manning. Kept Mannery? Adrian wants to see what it'd look like in purple.
k: Owl sanctuaries are the way to go. *nods sagely*
k: !!! GENETICALLY ENHANCED OWLS.
me: eeeee a whole giant walk-in wardrobe of owlsuits in various shades & materials?
k: Ah! And we have found angst as Dan rolls about in his many new suits, genetically enhanced owls flying above his head and knows that Rorschach would be disappointed in him. hee.
me: heeeeeee YES! he WOULD be happy, but sometimes.... maybe an owl with a certain pattern of blotches on its face would give him a PANG...
k: YESSSSSS. We are such geniuses of characterization. etc.
k: *high-fives of being awesomecakes*
k: Do you think my client would accept a report on this instead of their [redacted]? They really should.
~~
me, having found badfic. or, um. at least fic where i was not entirely sold on the characterisation. ahem:
Rorschach and "crush" didn't really fit. Dan was distracted. Why was he so eager to pass it off as something romantic?
romantic. ROMANTIC. i just - really? is there a world in which this concept is familiar to rorschach? and if so can i read the crack?
ROSES. IN DECEMBER. PROBABLY GROWN UNDER ARTIFICIAL LIGHTS IN SOME SEMI-STERILE PLANT FACTORY STAFFED BY HOPELESS MINIMUM-WAGE COCKROACHES. THOUGHT. THOUGHT YOU MIGHT. LIKE THEM. RED LIKE THE BLOOD OF A FRESHLY EVISCERATED DOG.
k: "Ripped head off thug. For you. Date? Have extra beans."
k: So...... do you think there are fics out there where Dan makes unwanted advances and R ends up in tears? I hope so!
...and now you know what i will be looking for on the internets tonight! wish me luck?
in not-my-new-obsession news: ingrate rats have eaten fancy (and expensive) new rat hammock. that was orange camouflage fleece, you destructive wee beasts. i chose it specially!
1*struggles against initiation of petting urge*
# *blames sionnain* may be buying ticket to see drive by truckers play in glasgow this november. cannot stop listening to decoration day:
I never knew how it all got started
a problem with Holland before we were born
and I don’t know the name of that boy we tied down
and beat till he just couldn’t walk anymore.
# have had more watchmen thoughts. probably none of them original.
ozymandias and rorschach are terribly parallel-y in their oppositeness, huh? (parents dead/absent; journalling/recording of Important Insights; belief that their actions are Necessary and Right even if not everyone understands for some strange reason; possibly as crazy as a bag of stoats; pretty pretty adrian vs weird, ginger and judged hideous by psychologists walter1; retired and identity revealed vs retirement-shy and mask-happy; plus adrian veidt is the real person behind ozymandias, and rorschach at least likes to think that he's real and walter's a disguise. i... would go on, but i assume that this has all been said a zilliontyten times before - but i worked it out by myself, okay!)
# of course, not all my thoughts are even that deep. kanz's involve "dan dreiberg: kept man!" so i think she wins.
emails with kanzenhanzai, redux (from passwords in the 1980s to romance, rorschach style) -
k: I tell myself that Adrian wanted his computer broken into, because really. *pats him on the head*
me: you can pet him. i think maybe i want to watch dan slapping him around some more... (whaaaaat? it was hot!)
k: *gasp* Is Dan already cheating on R in your brain??
me: well. in all fairness? rorschach is a realllllllllllly crap boyfriend. poor baby!
k: True, and Adrian is clearly a catch. You know, aside from the murdering.
me: hee. i like the way your mind works. and the murdering is such a tiny detail!
k: Minuscule, even! Man, think of all the nifty toys Adrian could fund for Dan. Sassy all-weather owl outfits! Suddenly I am all about Dan Dreiberg: Kept Man.
me: but dan already has money! i think adrian needs to offer MORE. like... an owl sanctuary?
me: plus dan already has that hysterical cold-weather outfit.
k: *points* Is what made me think of Kept Manning. Kept Mannery? Adrian wants to see what it'd look like in purple.
k: Owl sanctuaries are the way to go. *nods sagely*
k: !!! GENETICALLY ENHANCED OWLS.
me: eeeee a whole giant walk-in wardrobe of owlsuits in various shades & materials?
k: Ah! And we have found angst as Dan rolls about in his many new suits, genetically enhanced owls flying above his head and knows that Rorschach would be disappointed in him. hee.
me: heeeeeee YES! he WOULD be happy, but sometimes.... maybe an owl with a certain pattern of blotches on its face would give him a PANG...
k: YESSSSSS. We are such geniuses of characterization. etc.
k: *high-fives of being awesomecakes*
k: Do you think my client would accept a report on this instead of their [redacted]? They really should.
~~
me, having found badfic. or, um. at least fic where i was not entirely sold on the characterisation. ahem:
Rorschach and "crush" didn't really fit. Dan was distracted. Why was he so eager to pass it off as something romantic?
romantic. ROMANTIC. i just - really? is there a world in which this concept is familiar to rorschach? and if so can i read the crack?
ROSES. IN DECEMBER. PROBABLY GROWN UNDER ARTIFICIAL LIGHTS IN SOME SEMI-STERILE PLANT FACTORY STAFFED BY HOPELESS MINIMUM-WAGE COCKROACHES. THOUGHT. THOUGHT YOU MIGHT. LIKE THEM. RED LIKE THE BLOOD OF A FRESHLY EVISCERATED DOG.
k: "Ripped head off thug. For you. Date? Have extra beans."
k: So...... do you think there are fics out there where Dan makes unwanted advances and R ends up in tears? I hope so!
...and now you know what i will be looking for on the internets tonight! wish me luck?
in not-my-new-obsession news: ingrate rats have eaten fancy (and expensive) new rat hammock. that was orange camouflage fleece, you destructive wee beasts. i chose it specially!
1*struggles against initiation of petting urge*