Bloodsucking, friendship, ukuleles, frostbite, a dead poet and a rather unusual hat
Today I left school at the perfect time, which was quarter to four. This has, really fairly improbable for a whole bunch of reasons: my school officially ends at four; I have a lesson until four on a Thursday; I am not predisposed to skive gratuitously; I am even less disposed to skive off English lessons. It becomes somewhat less surprising
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Yes, also, I was wearing two pears of socks. [emphasis mine]
...I would make some kind of crack relating to our comment thread on my entry about socks in the fruit bowl, but alas, my exhausted brainmeats do not want to be poked and it would probably be decidedly unfunny. So I'm just going to be annoying and needle your typos instead. :p
Yay for literary crushes (and yay for litslash, too)! I seem to collect them fairly easily, and Eliot is definitely one of mine; this results in far too many references in my own writing. I could write Tetris fanfiction and it would end up with an Eliot reference in it.
*is really far too tempted by that*
(Also, seen this? I keep meaning to post it and not doing so).
Ooh! Speaking of the Culture (even though we really weren't), I finally got around to finishing Use of Weapons and zomgwowz. I think I may still be in shock at the ending, ( ... )
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...I actually cannot spell. Or type. I mean, I can generally spot typos in other people's stuff, but I honestly can't spell anymore. Firefox's spellchecker app actually saves my life. Trufax.
I wrote a poem once that was extremely fanboyish to some of my favourite poems (and, I will admit it, to Roald Dahl's The BFG and included about 90 words of direct quotation. Um. Yes. I stand by it still actually working as a poem, though, pretentious as it may be. :D How can it not be wonderful if it has Eliot in it?
And you totally should, you know. That would be awesome.
at archduke’s haus, invisible sled!
im in ur moutainz, holding on tight.
no can has cheezburger.
oral sex metaphors in ur poem.
almost actually works as poetry itself, I think. :D
...AHAHAHAHAHA:
world cries ‘jub jub bird ( ... )
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I'm actually writing video game fanfiction with Eliot (and other) references in, so the Tetris thing isn't too far off the mark. Mind you, the game series itself is full of Eliot references. I think the creators might have been as obsessed as Iain [M.] Banks.
If I do write the Tetris fic, you'll be the first to know... or among the first, at least. :D I'm dithering over how much to anthropomorphise the blocks.
Look to Windward was the first Culture novel I ever read. I found it in a library by pure chance when I was younger (while wandering around harvesting shiny-looking science fiction books), was intrigued by it and fell in love just a little bit, but didn't read any Iain [M.] Banks for a while after giving it back. Then I came across Consider Phlebas in a bookshop, and the rest is fairly recent history...
Use of Weapons is indeed brain-breaking, in the ( ... )
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Game series? Quelle joue? (And yes, that is essentially the extent of my functioning French. Um. Er.)
I once met a young man who once wrote a short piece about two electrons and a particle accelerator and was told that it was the most romantic thing he'd ever written. So it just goes to show...
I came to Banks a little later than I should have done, really, and at exactly the right time. cenestpasunewok (then known to me as Thrawn McEwok) a bit of a legend (in the original sense of the word) on the fanfic forums that I used to haunt before I drifted over here, being very eloquent, very talented and very wry. I ended up being a bit of a McEwok groupie (along with elenathehun) and commenting and theorising on his 'fic, which was really rather exceptional by the standards I was used to, and having great fun when the politics came down by arguing the case for Rishathra Rights rather voraciously - but the point that I was actually attempting to get to before getting lost ( ... )
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The Halo series. Extra-canon materials are full of Eliot references, and the games themselves contain some too - most notably, repeated variations on and echoes of the line "This is the way the world ends". The series references a lot of things, from obscure!highlyliterary!poetry to older pulp SF. 'Tis full of much yay.
Then again, the Halo 'verse is also surprisingly reminiscent of the Culture 'verse in some ways - and the Haloes were actually inspired in part by the Culture Orbitals (I knew it! Knew it as soon as I saw them! Though they're more Ringworld-esque in appearance, if not scale ( ... )
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I really should play Halo some time. Find a cheap PC version or something...
Orbitals were pretty much stolen from Ringworld anyway, I believe. I'm pretty sure that was what he said in an interview somewhere, anyway...
The young man was a youth leader on a camp that I went on four summers ago now (is it that long ago? is it that recent?) and sadly I never got to see it. However, there was a different young man the year after who taught me to tell stories... :D
*laughs* The whole Rishathra thing was so ridiculous, but at least I'm now innoculated against fandom for life. :p But oh, Nrin/whatever-her-name-is for ever... :P
You do, yes. You'd also probably appreciate this... :D (I recently picked up State of the Art and The Bridge, and am currently about half way through the former. Yay for short stories, I say ( ... )
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Oh, you should, you should. I love it so very much. I managed to get Halo very cheaply, but the two sequels were slightly more expensive - though I still got them on special offer, so they weren't nearly as highly-priced as they would have been. *worships at Bungie's altar* 'Twas all worth it, despite my limited funds.
I may have read that interview! Was it the one where he mentioned someone having bought the film rights to The Player of Games? Am currently unsure how I feel about that... although film rights being owned doesn't necessarily mean that any such thing will ever get made, of course.
I have acquired a +8 resistance to Fandom Dramatics over the years, along with a +10 saving throw against Bad Fanfiction/Art (with a modifier added if it involves excruciating smut). 'Tis a very useful thing, fandom inoculation. :p
I... I... I appreciate it enough to give a virtual stutter! That's scintillatingly wonderfully awesomely fantastically full of win. And woo ( ... )
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