Try to curb your astonishment

[cupiscent]

I'm writing Charles and Erik discussing limited-overs cricket. This is either some sort of personal zen, or a new pinnacle of self-indulgence.

(The first limited-overs competition in county cricket was held in May 1962. IT'S LIKE FATE.)

In other news, I leave the country for three weeks on Sunday. I did this just as Inception fandom broke as well

Comments

[renne]

A+ YES.

[cupiscent]

I'm having trouble deciding where and how Charles should play. As in, position. There's a part of me that says, "WICKETKEEPER DUH" and honestly I think his conscientious solicitude might be as unnerving as full-on sledging, but at the same time I can't help thinking that he'd make a very sneaky spinner. As a batsman, however, he is boring as batshit, straight-bat defense all the way.

As for Erik, I have two words: Andrew Symonds.

[immlass]

So I guess I have a hard deadline on recs, huh. Also to write up that game idea I'm not going to run yet and have bubbling in my head if I want you to read it.

[cupiscent]

Or, alternatively, you can wait until I get back. *G* Well, the recs might be nice, so I have things to read on the plane, but you could wait on the game concept, if time does not permit. (There's a chance we might be taking the laptop with, so I may even have email access over there, which would be charming and novel.)

[immlass]

I should write up the recs anyway. The problem with the game concept is I tend to want to write them as blurbs and this is not trivially blurbifying itself.

(Take the laptop with if you can. I don't know what I'd do without mine for three weeks and I don't just mean internetwise.)

[cupiscent]

I would not object to the recs, obviously. But I'm not going to cling to your ankle until you do it or anything. *G* As for the game, do the long summary? You can always summarise the summary for blurb purposes later? (This is the voice of experience, that experience being trying to condense 180k words of fantasy novel into a one-page summary. OH GOD.)

Not sure about the laptop-taking. Power-conversion questions aside, we've always travelled sans-computer before, and there's something refreshing about it. (Also, no need to worry about the expensive hardware being pinched, though this is less of a concern when we're in relatively civilised climes.) On the other hand, I cannot deny how useful having it around for email, let alone writing purposes, will be.

[frisbyg]

omgyes. zen, self-indulgence, I wanna read it. :D

[cupiscent]

LOL. It's going to be whittled down, but I'm so charmed by this notion that I may have to perpetrate full-blown cricket-involving fic at some point in the future.

[frisbyg]

Cricket AU mayhaps?

[azewewish]

BRING IT! If I can write self-indulgent fic where they meet the Beatles in Hamburg, then you can do cricket. *g*

[cupiscent]

Can we mix the two, and write mutually self-indulgent fic where they play cricket with the Beatles? LOL

After all this, actually, it's probably only going to be a tiny fragment of conversation. I got excited, but it's really a distraction from the main drive of things. Still. It makes me happy.

[azewewish]

That would be pretty damn awesome. *g* If I knew anything about cricket, I'd be all over that.

[cupiscent]

...there's that great big park outside the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, and this just suddenly reminded me that when I was there, I was thinking, "Good place for a bit of tip and run." (I had a lot of time to contemplate it, because it started raining in buckets and I got stuck under an awning with nothing else to stare at for about twenty minutes.) So now I have this image of the bunch of them smoking weed and playing cricket in the park. Shouting at each other in scrappy German that has Erik in fits. I WILL NEVER UNSEE THIS. Good thing I'm ok with that. *G*

[_typingmonkey_]

AMAZING. I heartily endorse your self-indulgence.

(Also, I have the strong urge to revisit my notes from the bandom cricket AU Belinda and I started. /o\)

[cupiscent]

Bandom cricket AU! HOW IS THIS AMAZINGNESS NOT IN MY LIFE? I just... it's just... OMG. The inherent boozing similarities to the Australian team of the '70s! The sledging! VickyT in pads and helmet hitting Gabe over the fence every ball of one over. I mean... AH.MAZE.ZING.

[_typingmonkey_]

We had most of bandom divided into two teams, worked it all out. There was going to be so much sledging. And William Beckett had a terrible habit of throwing wides, if I recall.

[cupiscent]

STARS IN MY EYES. (And well, y'know, some fast bowlers are like that. And William is such a fast bowler. Tall and a bitchy diva. Born to be first-change.)