(Yeah, yeah, I hear all the comments from the peanut gallery about how somewhere on the ship there may be at least one person with an accurate impression of my character.)
I know everything about misplacing things in impossible places. Everything. (There is a reason why all my keys are kept one one, huge, bright red key fob. It doesn't always help.)
my outline for the PotC plot bunny. Complete with bullet points saying things like "And then they have mad passionate nookie."
Oddly enough, I've been on a PotC roll lately. My fascination with Cpt. Sparrow started rather belatedly - well, one year after I saw the film, so? - but now I'm enthralled. I've been contemplating writing some PotC slash, but the only storyline that has presented itself was, 'Jack and Will get very, very drunk and have mad pirate sex. Elisabeth? Who's Elisabeth?'
Oddly enough, while I acknowledge that Jack Sparrow totally made the movie (and Johnny Depp is a thing of beauty and a joy forever), my PotC fannish love object appears to be Norrington. I guess as life goes by I find myself more and more attracted to the Norringtons of this world -- sober, responsible who do their job and who, when faced with angst, suck it up and deal instead of slopping their emotions all over the place.
Plus, he and Sparrow make the world's cutest couple. Will and Elisabeth are welcome to each other, as far as I'm concerned.
I believe there's some thingamagig in the brain/inner ear connection that adjusts the more you sail or something. This was at least how it was explained to me, but I can't vouch for the accuracy of said information, never having sailed.
And I am sure that by the time you are a chief scientist on a research cruise, the baking on said cruise will be MUCH more than rolls. "Okay, everyone, I destressed by baking a Incredible Confection, and if you don't eat it I can't destress by baking MORE..."*grin*
Oh, yes, I've already spent a fair amount of time idly speculating about which of my cake recipes lend themselves well to scaling up, and don't require fancy ingredients. I'm sure I have several that would work just great.
I'm enjoying this very much, though I'm not sure I can comment on the marine biology aspect. could ask a small favour? Is there a good Russian word for an upmarket courtesan of the high 19th century type? You know, Marguerite in La Dame Aux Camellias?
Physical oceanography, not marine biology. I'm hopeless at biology.
"Kurtizanka" is a perfectly good word in Russian, but I'll check with my mom to see if there are others that aren't so obviously stolen from the French.
Mom confirmed that kurtizanka is the right word, and reminded me that upper-class Russians of the 19th century mostly spoke French as their first language anyway. Many of them weren't barely literate in Russian. Pushkin had some pointed comments to make about that in Eugene Onegin
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(Yeah, yeah, I hear all the comments from the peanut gallery about how somewhere
on the ship there may be at least one person with an accurate impression of my
character.)
*innocent blink* Would we? Say that?
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my outline for the PotC plot bunny. Complete with bullet points saying things like "And then they have mad passionate nookie."
Oddly enough, I've been on a PotC roll lately. My fascination with Cpt. Sparrow started rather belatedly - well, one year after I saw the film, so? - but now I'm enthralled. I've been contemplating writing some PotC slash, but the only storyline that has presented itself was, 'Jack and Will get very, very drunk and have mad pirate sex. Elisabeth? Who's Elisabeth?'
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Plus, he and Sparrow make the world's cutest couple. Will and Elisabeth are welcome to each other, as far as I'm concerned.
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And I am sure that by the time you are a chief scientist on a research cruise, the baking on said cruise will be MUCH more than rolls. "Okay, everyone, I destressed by baking a Incredible Confection, and if you don't eat it I can't destress by baking MORE..."*grin*
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"Kurtizanka" is a perfectly good word in Russian, but I'll check with my mom to see if there are others that aren't so obviously stolen from the French.
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