everything is better with dragons

[loneraven]

(Real life is deeply, profoundly sucky. Do not wish to talk about it. Except to those people to whom I have talked about it at nauseating length, for which I am truly sorry, but grateful.)

In other news. Things everyone ought to do: read Master and Commander and Temeraire in quick succession. The thing is, this is totally not my genre at all.

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[jacinthsong]

Am about to run off. But! Apparently there is, or soon will be, internet at home - I won't be back til lateish but can snuggle you on gchat/phone after that. Also squee about the total total love of Jack and Stephen.

*noms your face*

[loneraven]

You can has internet *big soppy ex-wife grin* And omg their love, it is SO PURE.

[wildestranger]

Whee dragons! \o/ Isn't it exciting? Wait till you get to books 3,4 and 5 and Laurence's further awkward homosocial adventures! And Tharkay! There is much porn that needs to be written about these characters. :)

[loneraven]

Heeee! I am halfway through book two now, and the study of the law is sadly suffering...

[not_vacillating]

Congratulations on passing both exams, and especially on the contract law result. Perhaps your parents should be sent a Chill Pill will a side order of Reasonable Expectations?

I have never read either Master and Commander or Temeraire, so can't comment beyond the general 'yay dragons!' level.

I am, however, now trying to work out what performance name hathy_col would use were she a circus exhibit.

[hathy_col]

"See Lady Lazy, the amazing girl of procrastination! MARVEL as she avoids all form of work but has a very clean house! GASP IN WONDER as she uses her powers of persuasion for evil to tell tutors that she's done her reading! BE AMAZED that she hasn't yet been thrown out of university!"

Any other suggestions welcome. I love the idea that I'd be a circus exhibit. (Plan A involves being a trapeze artist called Giselle in a sparkly green catsuit. I have a fear of heights and no experience on the trapeze. IT'LL BE FUN.)

[not_vacillating]

She does MIRACULOUS amounts of PROCRASTINATION!

I think you'd be a hit. I'd certainly go to that circus (probably when I ought to be writing an essay). Perhaps I'd even join it-- I'd like to be one of those jugglers who sets fire to the sticks first. (I like fire but can't juggle to save my life. I can only barely throw and catch one thing at a time.)

(Now I'm thinking that loneraven's top hat (she is the ringmaster, of course) should be tall enough to hide a fire extinguisher underneath. I suspect I am overthinking this.)

[loneraven]

Thank you. :) I think you would like both of them very much, actually: especially Temeraire, which is mad inventive and just fabulous.

[msilverstar]

Your description of Master & Commander is great, brings back memories...

The series is uneven, a bit episodic, but most of the next fourteen or so have more novelistic structure. The last ones, he was writing for fans...

[loneraven]

shimgray has all of them, just about, so I imagine life will be rife with sea-stories for a while yet... :)

[hathy_col]

There is a book about dragons and the Napoleonic Wars and them being things that happen at the same time and no one told me?

I love the idea that I'd be a circus exhibit. Mostly, though, I'm trying to work out how we're going to steal the lions now that I don't have a tankmy old car anymore.

First-year exams after six months of learning always through up squiffy results. The fact is you passed, and that's what counts, so congratulations on that!

(edited due to my fail at HTML.)

[loneraven]

This is me telling you! Read them if you can! I will send you a copy, even! It is that great.

(I want a lion. We should steal a lion and, I don't know, put it on the roof of the car tied down with string. Or would that be bad?)

[hathy_col]

Maybe duct tape, instead of string? Duct tape secures nigh on anything to, well, anything, so it should work?

(And if not, we're absolutely gauranteed a Darwin Award.)