I really need to see DON'T PANIC in large friendly letters right now.

[puella_nerdii]

Am back on campus, and am looking over my course schedule and wondering what the everliving hell I was thinking. Especially since the university's new system makes it a lot harder to do the last-minute class-shuffle I'm so accustomed to.

...maybe I'm less screwed than I think I am? We'll see.

oh god I am still not ready to be a senior heeeeelp

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[mithrigil]

HONEY

I WANT TO MOLEST YOU NOW

[puella_nerdii]

I WANT YOU TO MOLEST ME

A LOT

IS IT THE WEEKEND YET?

First of all:

[odie]

DON'T PANIC.

Second, you're going to rock your senior year. Seriously.

Third, your new hair cut makes you look like a movie star.

♥

Re: First of all:

[puella_nerdii]

Large friendly letters yay~

I hope so! I -- I think I can handle all of this! I will just have to goof off less. And this is not a bad thing! I like being busy. Really I do.

aaaaaaaaah now I am blushing.

[vulchu]

FIGHT WIN! YOU CAN DO IT! SENIOR YEAR, RAH RAH, ETC! *\o\* *\o/* */o/*

I should let you know that I've already read about 200 pages through the first Temeraire book and I'm absolutely loving it. This stuff is amazing. ♥ And goodness does it even lend itself so well to Hetalia.

Also I agree, the haircut is tres adorable.

[puella_nerdii]

Yay cheers! *is heartening!*

And double-yay for Temeraire! I just finished rereading it as is, uh, evident, and oh gooooooooood I want to write fiiiiiiiic. And yes, the Hetalia crossover potential is ashdfadfasdf;ljals. England. On dragonback. And wait until you see what they do with dragons in other nations! So cool. *sigh* Social commentary/exploration = always better with dragons!

It's strange to wear my hair this short, and figuring out how to style it is a little tricky, but I'm liking it!

[vulchu]

Italian cheers, even! They will cheer the pretty lady on and make her pasta~!

Haha wriiiite it. Oh man I want to read that. :DD England and France bantering at each other on dragonback. And yes just ughadsklf England on dragons unf unf hot. Also I adore that even within the supposed homogeneous culture of the British military the author's still managing to skillfully make social commentary about cultural praxis and coded behavior. It's amazing. And dragons! THE PRETTY PRETTY DRAGONS, I LOVE THEM ALL.

[puella_nerdii]

Mith and I already have one Temeraire-Hetalia cross that we really want to write, and I don't know, I'm kind of becoming ridiculously enamored with Age of Sail stuff at the moment. And I am showing Mith Master and Commander this weekend, so the love will (hopefully) spread!

AND CHINA. CHINA AND HIS MOTHERFUCKING DRAGONS THAT OWN THE ENTIRE WORLD. SO SO HOT YES. And one of the things I like best about Novik's writing is -- not even how well she builds worlds, but how well she builds culture, if that makes sense. Just -- the way Laurence is so clearly a product of his time and how much of his attitudes he conveys in the little things he doesn't even notice (until much later) and how I am fairly sure that Novik knows what a dysjunct she's causing the audience...yeah. Also, the female captains. Goddamn, she does them perfectly and I just. Plus, you know, DRAGONS.

...god I love this series so much it is almost shameful.

[byzantienne]

Oh my GOD you are hot.

And so is that haircut. *grins*

And you're going to be FINE. You like being busy. This is the good kind of busy.

[puella_nerdii]

True! And -- and I think I can handle it! I just need to faff about less. But faffing about dissatisfies me, anyway. So. Good things. Right. (I would feel better had I not left a ton of stuff at my house because of stupid travel plans gone awry...)

I will concede that the haircut is hot, at least.

[byzantienne]

Faffing about is not good for any of us. Overcommittment as ascetic practice, darling! (and you will get your stuff at a future point. Is okay. moving in is always Ick.)

No arguing. Both you and the haircut are hot.

[puella_nerdii]

(I do not have my posters. The bare walls make me sad! Also I need things like a trash can and shower curtain and, uh, have no money with which to acquire them. *facepalm* Oh god refund check please come soon.)

noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo nooooooooooooooooo I have been writing China and thus must assiduously deny every compliment~

[a_white_rain]

Perhaps it says something about me that one of the few canon het romances that works for me these days is the serial killer and the recovering-from-a-shitty-past single mom
haha for me it's like: DOES A SINGLE MOM GET A FAIR PORTRAYAL? I have never seen Dexter but it's very relevant to my interests that single mothers aren't demonized and their kids not a social problem cos they don't have a dad.

[puella_nerdii]

Rita definitely does, I think! She's been through a lot, and she's definitely been damaged by it, but her arc during the first season is a lot about how she recovers, gains confidence in herself, and builds stronger relationships with her kids and her boyfriend. It's really touching -- admittedly I'm a sucker for recovery arcs in general, but she's a strong female character without being a Strong Female Character, you know?

(Dexter is about a very charming serial killer, so it might well be relevant to your interests.)

[a_white_rain]

That's good. Cos lately I've been thinking my time with a single parent was the happiest and healthiest for me. And I know lots of people with single mothers bristle all the time about people calling single mothers the decay of society and how they don't need dads thankyouverymuch. Also interesting to me is recovery stories as well, mostly because it's not often I find them done well. It's an aspect I'm pickier about than most cos of my living situation.

LOL actually, in truth, being a serial killer in itself doesn't interest me. It interests me when they're obsessed with someone pretty I love. Though I suppose certain character traits a serial killer may have would interest me. I R A VERY COMPLEX PERSON.

[puella_nerdii]

Recovery stories when done well are some of my favorite kinds of stories, because at heart I really do want to believe that people can get better, even if the struggle's a difficult one and even if there are setbacks along the way. But the feeling I get when characters work for and really earn whatever kind of happiness they manage to obtain, despite everything standing in their way -- uh yeah I wibble. A lot.

Dex is...hmm. He doesn't really have that kind of single-minded focus on one person, most of the time, but obsessive, he certainly is that. Really, I think a good chunk of my Dexter-love springs from the absolutely friggin' brilliant things Michael C. Hall does, because holy shit that is such a good portrait of a sociopath and his voiceovers make me crack up on a regular basis.