while they did live happily ever after

I don't even remember how we got on the subject of this at work today but we did (I was protesting my manager playing Beethoven's 6th because I have the first movement like memorized and I don't find it particularly stimulating, and then I was playing the Maestoso from Saint-Saen's organ concerto which by the way the first time I heard it on the radio I nearly drove off the road because WHAT, WHAT*), and as I was going through YouTube clips I realized, man, like, half of Fantasia 2000 makes me cry. So, because I like music and stuff, I am sharing my two favorites with you. Man, thank you YouTube.





Those ducks look so sad EVERY TIME. And EVERY TIME I am sad for them. Also soprano solo at the end, ROCK IT.






I confess that I also have ties to this song because the last section of the Firebird Suite was the last thing we played at my last orchestra concert in high school. And the beginning of it is sooooooooooo weird, and you're like "what am I playing all these chromatics for I'm not even sure my instrument can do this" and then the lone horn solo wanders in on its own sweet time and you're like "well, that sounds vaguely melodic, okay" and then suddenly you turn the page and and BAM! BUM BUM BUM BUM BUM BUM BUM BUM BUM BUM BUM BUM BUM and it is glorious that's all.




okay okay time to write my Nietzsche paper. I AM SURE HE WOULD APPROVE OF MUSIC OVER PAPER-WRITING. Though he might not approve of the music well he'd maybe be a Stravinsky fan it's hard to OKAY OKAY I'M GOING NOW.







( footnotes )

1) So, in the song "Bad Romance," which I love a lot and which you should listen to, she repeats the line "I don't wanna be friends" multiple times.

Having listened to the song, do you think this line refers to
a) the fact that she wanted a solely sexual relationship
or
b) the fact that they are friends but she wants to be more?

I am doing an informal poll, and your input is welcome.


2) I wrote my Nietzsche paper in an hour (literally) and then lo and behold my knee started going all crazy on me and my good knee started tickling and so I ended up emailing the paper in and sitting on my futon with an ice pack, WOE.


3) I have grown very attached to this cover of Coldplay's "The Scientist," in a "I listen to this over and over again and want to write."


4) Speaking of writing, this is me NOT starting my post-season-3 Katara fic that I spent three hours plotting the other night with nessismore. (Y'all, I hit all the plot points. I even, like, made decisions, where normally I just keep changing it over and over in my head--I had to pick and go.) I really ought to go ahead and get the prologue down before I forget it.


5) I haven't talked about my life in forever, but I haven't really had any crazy adventures or done anything particularly fun lately. I mean, I've had fun, but I've also had a lot of long conversations that amount to "I am screwed once I leave this institution," and that's just not much fun to talk about.


6) A Room with a View is up on YouTube in its entirety, JUST SAYING, if you want to celebrate mah birfday the way I will be celebrating it. (Singing along to "O Mio Babbino Caro" is optional but encouraged. Bonus points if you can do a crazy operatic soprano not-glissando between those two syllables of "bello.")


7) Sophos's face is up, and it is appropriately pretty.


8) Idk, is there anything y'all want to hear about from me?


9) I took Pictash into the creative writing club and they liked him! (He is the singer in this post.)


10) As for that icon meme everyone's been doing, here's my answers from September. (Not!surprise: my answers are mostly the same.)


♥

So on last night's post (which is still open; it's lovely to stretch the writing muscles, even if I'm just producing mediocre stuff), jakia gave me the following prompt:

KOTOR.

And dragons.

HK-47 FINDS A DRAGON.

Or a unicorn.

MAKE IT HAPPEN.



Well this quickly spun out of control, so here you go, HK-47 finds a unicorn. The dragon story will probably be along tomorrow.

I blame the copious amount of reading I've been doing about sexuality, and the fact that the mentality of the PC of KOTOR is really--just--delicious to play with, for the way the story shifts from nonsensically humorous to suddenly not and then back again. IT'S JUST AN EXERCISE, OKAY.



( uuuuh I'm not sure it deserves a title )

blatantly, obnoxiously stolen from redbrunja, whose sets a high standard of meme-posting that I can only hope to aspire to

one
Give me a fandom and/or character and I'll give a random theory/speculation(maybe more than one) about it, absurd or real.

two
Ask me one question about my real life. (Note: I reserve the right to say 'that's personal' although it's more likely that I'll just vague it up for you.)

three
Name a fandom you wish I'd participate in more and why you'd like to see me do it.





also a treat: the first line of a novel I can't start yet:

"Galahad," Mordred said, poking his friend with a quill, "how would you like to go on a quest with me?"

stick with it. I promise it's worth it.

why can't I make myself do my homework COME ON SELF YOU HAVE TO DO THIS YOU NEED TO SPEND LIKE SIX HOURS IN THE LIBRARY TODAY LET'S DO THIS.

NO WHAT WHY ARE YOU OPENING FANFICTION NO NO NO SELF NO YOU CAN'T DO THAT *BITCHSLAP*

OWIE OWIE THAT HURT AAAAAAAAAAAAAW WHY'D YOU DO THAT D:

YOU HAVE TO PASS YOUR CLASSES KIDDO YOU GOT THAT STUPID FINAL MOVED YOU'D BETTER DO WELL OTHERWISE NEXT SEMESTER IS GOING TO SUCK ON MULTIPLE LEVELS

YEAH BUT IT STILL HURT

AH, YES, WELL THE PAST CAN HURT. BUT THE WAY I SEE IT, YOU CAN EITHER RUN FROM IT, OR, LEARN FROM IT!

*DUCKS*

AH-HA, YOU SEE? NOW WHATCHA GONNA DO?

...FIRST, I'M GONNA TAKE YOUR STICK

HEY NO, NOT THE STICK NOT THE--HEY! WHERE YOU GOIN?

TO DO MY HOMEWORK!

GOOD! GO ON! GET OUT OF HERE! AH-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

*EXITS TO SOUND OF EPIC MUSIC*

for everyone whose parents didn't think the Muppets were too liberal, but also for people whose parents thought they were.






( epic music video is epic )




( and while we're at it )

[Poll #1468428]

my whole life, when I've read about scents and stuff in books--like, people catching a whiff of this or that--I always assumed that was just Something That Happened. Like, you threw in something about so-and-so's hair smelling like their shampoo or something because that was just another detail about the person you could include.

it wasn't until Malone recently admitted to me that she associates different people with their own scents that I realized that some people actually can smell a shampoo's scent without having to have their nose buried in said hair.

long story short: if you catch scent descriptions in my writing, I'm making it up, and if I can smell your cologne, you're wearing too much.




p.s. new layout requires more quotes and new icons, suggestions?