random thoughts
***April Swap. Thanks to mahmfic for the awesome postcards! and to verdande_mi for the terrific fanmix! I am developing good ideas for your fics in response, and hope that I will get them done soon. I am sorry that April is kicking my butt. But I will get the fic done soon. :)
*** Why is April kicking my butt?
a. My Tax return is about 128 pages long. Criminey!
b. I played at SEVEN services between Palm Sunday and Holy Week. Wow!
c. I have a big grant and a big report due on Wednesday. Argh!
*** thus I have completely failed at writing all month due to hiding my head in the ground from fear of Easter, taxes, and numbercrunching. Zounds!
*** but I have a really good outline and start for my Sammy Messiah story. Yay!
*** LOKI. I want to write my next novel about the mythological Loki and how he functions in the mythos. I there is extremely rich ground to be explored there. Loki is, I think, a pot stirrer. He stirs the pot. The stew is tastier that way. He gives birth to monsters. He speaks the truth actually; in the stories he is tricksy but usually he is telling the truth but slant. Fic writers who admire the character in Marvelverse have cottoned brilliantly to the fact that he is womanish somehow. He is a lovely figure of our willfulness. I think he is a spirit of fire and air, a Prometheus, a bringer of tales and harbinger of turning the gyre. LOKI!!! Notice how lovely the word Loki is when you type it on a standard qwerty keyboard. :) He is a god of stories, like my other faves, Hermes and Thoth and Raven and Coyote and Kokopelli. I loved it in the recent comic (Loki Agent of Asgard) when the artist caught him in silhouette with his horns and the rough fur around his shoulders and he looked just like Kokopelli. :D It is a really excellent creative team. I hope they can keep it going!
*** Bucky! Not enough Bucky stories. Especially not enough stories about Bucky/Steve, Winter Soldier comes in from the cold, and his comics-verse backstory with Natasha is carefully handled. Does anyone see how the Winter Soldier looks like Lars Ulrich from Metallica back when he had a little more hair???
**** Can I just say how much I love these beautiful, sad-eyed Marvel villains? <3333333 Anybody remember Krycek?? His was the ship that pulled me into online fandom -- back in the mid90s when we had email listservs! Oh, back in the day, how the lovely heart-broken Russian triple-agent assassins would kiss their ex-partners on the cheek and call them tovarisch.... :D
*** Husband spent the weekend in Staunton VA carousing with fellow Bard treaders...
*** I had a huge event on Sat. and another on Sun. so I was wiped all weekend. whoosh.
**** Dean just keeps washing his sad sad face in everyone's LJ. I really fear that this coming season finale will truly be a HORROR.
Back to crunching numbers in the morning!