Headspace hijinks: "We're Watching Steerpike's Canon"
As promised for the carpe_ho_ras crowd and anyone else who's amused with my blitherings about fictitious people who use my brain cells as hitching posts. I'd watched the first two hours of the mini-series version of 'Gormenghast' Sunday night, with some of the headspace dwellers -- specifically Muraki and Tsuzuki, whom I have been RPing, with a guest appearance by our latest new guest, Titus Groan. What follows is a sampling of some of the crazy comments that were exchanged.
WARNING: Contains copious spoilers and random craziness, also slashy cross-fandom UST (canonic per the hijinks at the Mansion). Consider yourself warned
Also, this is by no means complete, as some of the shtick has begun to fade from memory, thus I may rewatch it and refresh said memories. I did the major highlights...
Me: :: To Tsuzuki:: "Is it me, or does Dr. Prunesquallor seem like the only person who could talk circles around Muraki?"
Tsuzuki: "I think he could talk circles around *anyone*, even me."
Muraki: "I resent that remark..."
Any time that Swelter was onscreen:
Muraki: "Rrrrr..." :: Starting to go into vamp-out mode, up to and including Cute Little Fangs becoming noticeable::
Steerpike booting a passed-out Swelter:
Tsuzuki: "Owch!"
Me: "Swelter - 0, SP - 1."
Muraki: "He's copiously padded, I don't think the fat bastard could *FEEL* that." :: Is also trying to hide the fact that he's now ogling Jonathon Rhys-Meyers::
Close-up shot of baby!Titus:
Tsuzuki: "Awwww... You know... violet eyes are kinda pretty. On babies."
Me: :: Noticing the scribbles on Fuschia's wall:: "Hey, she's got a 19th-century Facebook: she writes on a wall! And Flay's sentences sound like Twitter tweets when you're trying to be really careful with the character limit."
As SP is noshing on the pears filched from Fuschia's box:
Tsuzuki: "Is he gonna hork the core of... he is..."
Muraki: :: Getting out his handkerchief, pretending to wipe his nose, is in fact blotting the corners of his mouth::
Tsuzuki: :: Regarding Fuschia:: "Oh, she's *PRETTY*! Bratty, but pretty..."
When the Countess is reading a faery-tale to her cats:
headspace!Titus: :: Sadfais:: "Mother never read to *me*."
Tsuzuki: "Awww... poor kid." :: Reaches out to give him a brotherly one-armed hug::
headspace!Titus: :: Pulls away::
Tsuzuki: :: Puppy-pout::
SP insulting Flay:
Me: :: On the "Flay... can't speak full sentences" line:: "I'll be that was Lampshading..."
Me and Tsuzuki: :: On the "Lick my neck..." line:: :: Both of us look at each other, then look at Muraki::
Muraki: "What now? What's with that look?" :: Very phony innocence...::
Me: "Well, you're always ogling your student's neck when you think he can't see you do it...."
Flay and Swelter's cleaver- and sword-fight:
Me: "It's like a perverse version of the boxing match in Charlie Chaplain's 'City Lights', with Sepulchrave as the guy in the middle..."
Tsuzuki: "Uh..... dead!Swelter looks a bit like a squashed bug from up there..."
Me: :: Reciting a strange sort of nursery-rhyme learned from her mother:: "'Fat and Skinny ran a race/Fat fell down and hurt his face'."
Muraki: :: Calming down from almost vamping out again:: "Good riddance..."
Sepulchrave being chewed by owls:
Me: "Conspicuous CGI is conspicuous... It's not so scary this way..."
SP scaring the crap out of the Twins with the torch inside the skull-thingy and the black cloth draped over himself:
Me: "Yay, they left that in! and I bet they needed several takes for that scene, since I don't doubt people 'corpsed' it from laughing too much."
Tsuzuki: :: Jolts at the Twins' unison scream::
Prunesquallor offering Fuschia "any part of [his] anatomy":
Tsuzuki: "Creeeeepyyyyyy."
Me: "Probably unintentionally so: Prunesquallor is twigging my asexual radar..."
Shirtless! and wet!SP:
Tsuzuki and Muraki: :: Both ogling the screen now::
Tsuzuki: :: Looks away:: "Gyaaah... Come on, Asato, you've got a boyfriend..."
Muraki: :: Nosebleed::
The earling:
Tsuzuki: "They're on a *boat*! ...Ah, why is that baby *by himself* on a *BOAT*?!" :: Wibbles::
Muraki: "It's Gormenghast: they don't try to make sense there, and about the only sane one is my student..."
Me: "Okay, I've heard of 'taking candy from a baby', but a rock and some ivy leaves?"
headspace!Titus: "I heard that: it's part of one of the most solemn ceremonies of the law --"
Muraki: "My, you're defensive of something you *say* you despise..."
headspace!Titus: :: wibbles, slinks out of the room::
WARNING: Contains copious spoilers and random craziness, also slashy cross-fandom UST (canonic per the hijinks at the Mansion). Consider yourself warned
Also, this is by no means complete, as some of the shtick has begun to fade from memory, thus I may rewatch it and refresh said memories. I did the major highlights...
Me: :: To Tsuzuki:: "Is it me, or does Dr. Prunesquallor seem like the only person who could talk circles around Muraki?"
Tsuzuki: "I think he could talk circles around *anyone*, even me."
Muraki: "I resent that remark..."
Any time that Swelter was onscreen:
Muraki: "Rrrrr..." :: Starting to go into vamp-out mode, up to and including Cute Little Fangs becoming noticeable::
Steerpike booting a passed-out Swelter:
Tsuzuki: "Owch!"
Me: "Swelter - 0, SP - 1."
Muraki: "He's copiously padded, I don't think the fat bastard could *FEEL* that." :: Is also trying to hide the fact that he's now ogling Jonathon Rhys-Meyers::
Close-up shot of baby!Titus:
Tsuzuki: "Awwww... You know... violet eyes are kinda pretty. On babies."
Me: :: Noticing the scribbles on Fuschia's wall:: "Hey, she's got a 19th-century Facebook: she writes on a wall! And Flay's sentences sound like Twitter tweets when you're trying to be really careful with the character limit."
As SP is noshing on the pears filched from Fuschia's box:
Tsuzuki: "Is he gonna hork the core of... he is..."
Muraki: :: Getting out his handkerchief, pretending to wipe his nose, is in fact blotting the corners of his mouth::
Tsuzuki: :: Regarding Fuschia:: "Oh, she's *PRETTY*! Bratty, but pretty..."
When the Countess is reading a faery-tale to her cats:
headspace!Titus: :: Sadfais:: "Mother never read to *me*."
Tsuzuki: "Awww... poor kid." :: Reaches out to give him a brotherly one-armed hug::
headspace!Titus: :: Pulls away::
Tsuzuki: :: Puppy-pout::
SP insulting Flay:
Me: :: On the "Flay... can't speak full sentences" line:: "I'll be that was Lampshading..."
Me and Tsuzuki: :: On the "Lick my neck..." line:: :: Both of us look at each other, then look at Muraki::
Muraki: "What now? What's with that look?" :: Very phony innocence...::
Me: "Well, you're always ogling your student's neck when you think he can't see you do it...."
Flay and Swelter's cleaver- and sword-fight:
Me: "It's like a perverse version of the boxing match in Charlie Chaplain's 'City Lights', with Sepulchrave as the guy in the middle..."
Tsuzuki: "Uh..... dead!Swelter looks a bit like a squashed bug from up there..."
Me: :: Reciting a strange sort of nursery-rhyme learned from her mother:: "'Fat and Skinny ran a race/Fat fell down and hurt his face'."
Muraki: :: Calming down from almost vamping out again:: "Good riddance..."
Sepulchrave being chewed by owls:
Me: "Conspicuous CGI is conspicuous... It's not so scary this way..."
SP scaring the crap out of the Twins with the torch inside the skull-thingy and the black cloth draped over himself:
Me: "Yay, they left that in! and I bet they needed several takes for that scene, since I don't doubt people 'corpsed' it from laughing too much."
Tsuzuki: :: Jolts at the Twins' unison scream::
Prunesquallor offering Fuschia "any part of [his] anatomy":
Tsuzuki: "Creeeeepyyyyyy."
Me: "Probably unintentionally so: Prunesquallor is twigging my asexual radar..."
Shirtless! and wet!SP:
Tsuzuki and Muraki: :: Both ogling the screen now::
Tsuzuki: :: Looks away:: "Gyaaah... Come on, Asato, you've got a boyfriend..."
Muraki: :: Nosebleed::
The earling:
Tsuzuki: "They're on a *boat*! ...Ah, why is that baby *by himself* on a *BOAT*?!" :: Wibbles::
Muraki: "It's Gormenghast: they don't try to make sense there, and about the only sane one is my student..."
Me: "Okay, I've heard of 'taking candy from a baby', but a rock and some ivy leaves?"
headspace!Titus: "I heard that: it's part of one of the most solemn ceremonies of the law --"
Muraki: "My, you're defensive of something you *say* you despise..."
headspace!Titus: :: wibbles, slinks out of the room::