Comments | ambientlight: [fic] Ricardian Vice, Ouran High School Host Club

ambientlight

[fic] Ricardian Vice, Ouran High School Host Club

Apr 26, 2007 21:41

now with 50% fewer economics refs! and 25% more punctuation.

this was originally supposed to be followed by something with a semblance of plot, but i gave up. no great loss there, mind.

Title: Ricardian Vice
Fandom: Ouran High School Host Club

( 'But though I hate to say this, you know, I'm not quite sure that his habit of sizing up each host club patron and graphically predicting how much they are likely to spend in the next month is-- well, a very gentlemanly way of behaving, is it?' )

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Comments 6

feliciter April 26 2007, 15:01:04 UTC

Have I mentioned how much I love your subject!themed fic? ^_^

Kyouya was far too familiar with the idea of opportunity cost

ah, the obligatory sting in the tail of fluffy!Ouran crack.

briefly laboured under the same delusion as Tamaki, since the first Ric(h)ard that came to mind was Shakespeare's ambiguous portrait of the relationship between second English king of that name and his cousin Henry Bolingbroke aka the future Henry IV (enemy!slash *and* cousincest, at certain key points)- alas for great expectations! XD

ambientlight April 26 2007, 15:07:49 UTC

you are always too kind. <3

ahaha, while i enjoy econs refs, i must admit that a lot of literary refs go over my head! also, er, i have never read any of the history plays. clearly that must be remedied. *_*

feliciter April 26 2007, 16:28:35 UTC

I find Marlowe far more entertaining and explicit, especially Edward II, wonderfully flamboyant and tragic by turns right up the hot-poker-in-a** prison death scene.

Shakespeare's history plays are better watched than read; I recommend Branagh's Henry V, and Fiona Shaw's (Aunt Petunia in the HP films) filmed interpretation of Richard II with not-Ralph-Fiennes!Voldemort of the first movie as Bolingbroke.

ambientlight April 27 2007, 18:03:12 UTC

i must admit that i have never read any marlowe, beyond the bit from faustus that was in one of the jc unseen exams..!

i shall attempt to procure those from a library or something, then! thanks for the recs. *_*

tarigwaemir April 26 2007, 16:45:39 UTC

Hahaha, I love Tamaki's jump to false conclusions. Also, I really love Tamaki's voice in here (it has that sort of unconscious class, which hasn't quite come through in the other Ouran fics I've read).

ambientlight April 27 2007, 17:58:46 UTC

thank you! i suspect that it's one of the older fanfic cliches, but ah well. ^_^;; am very glad that tamaki's voice worked for you; i was rather uncertain about that bit, eheh.