girlofprey: (Barty Crouch Jr - Azkaban tongue)
(Firstly: Iconlove! Omg!)

I came, I saw, I...ate too many scones.

It's almost time to go home. Dad's driving me (yay!), so I don't have to worry about brain/laptop damage again, or piss about with too huge bags on buses. We're cooking a moussaka. When it's done - and eaten - I must go.

I have spent most of the weekend ignoring my family in favour of the internet. It was one of those whole 'Oh I'll just...'/Five Hours Later sort of deals. Mum brought Jack (nephew) over for a few hours last night - Katie needed time to go shopping - and we played for a while. He can walk clear across the room on a push/wheely thing! He also banged his head on a door and cried. And is slightly in love with our dog. But he is lovely. In smallish doses.

I have reading for seminars that did not get done. And I didn't do any of the essay-related emailing I said I would. Possibly this is why it's a good thing I don't have the internet at uni. Woe. But I tidied my room a bit and been to see my grandmother who was lovely and gave me money. So that's vaguely useful. And I do have tons and tons of shiny new icons - including this one :D Tongue thing! Eee!

And I present the (doubtful) fruit of my labours - [livejournal.com profile] crouchjr, for fans of the crazy/beautiful one. All things fannish raucously welcomed. Not that I can promise any actual activity, but - it's there. I've done my bit.

I feel like I should make a third community now. So I can have a triplet. A trilogy. A trio. Whatever. Hmm.

I was reading my new Empire magazine, and they had a bit about King Kong, wherein Adrien Brody was talking about how his character, Jack, has to not just hate Kong and be his rival, but also respect and admire him, and feel a kinship with him over their love of Anne. It's wrong to want Jack/Kong slash, isn't it?

Goodbye internet at my fingertips :(
girlofprey: (Anton Seer)
I do actually think that the majority of horrendous reading for uni is behind me, for a little while. At least, I don't think there are any more novels for Gothic in the upcoming weeks. Plenty of photocopies and research for Caroline Drama (that's right [livejournal.com profile] nerdcakes, Rachael has 'Caroline' lectures and seminars. In your FACE! :p ), and oh yes, The Metamorphoses by Ovid. But I have reading week for that. And there's the fact that I've only read 160 pages of the Mysteries of Udolpho, out of 600 - but we can all do me a favour and pretend that's not true, and yes. A much less stressful rest-of-term. Aside from essays. But yes.



Rachael has no money. Rachael bought Sun Tzu's The Art of War and Eddie Izzard's 'Circle' and the new Empire magazine anyway. Rachael perhaps not the smartest cookie in the box. Eddie Izzard really awfully funny though. 'Drink this wine, it's a merlot?'. Why are all his shows filmed in New York? ::puzzled::

Also I semi-intend to get inspiration for Anton/Zavulon bunnies from 'The Art of War'. Therefore it's practically a public service. People are writing really good fic for Night Watch. Fic with plot. And dialogue. And things that happen. The bar is raised, people. But ee. I have a fandom. People are writing in the fandom. People that aren't me. Me and My Fandom. It is small but it is good. Yes :)

That said; something I've never done before.

Recs )

And [livejournal.com profile] slippery_fish is apparently getting an at least somewhat Anton/Zavulon-ish fic betad, and I just know it will go up tonight, or tomorrow, and I won't get to it until Sunday or Monday or something, because my parents are coming down tomorrow. And possibly bringing Jack. But mostly bringing themselves and my airer and my CDs and money so that I won't have to pay for things, and god yes. But I don't intend to stop off and check my e-mail.

It would be nice if I had the internet at home (damn you, Wanadoo!). But in another way, it's quite nice not having it. From a writing perspective. When I have the internet on my computer I tend to look for other people's fic more than writing my own, and feel like I should be uploading it at the end of every draft. Without, I get to have quiet time wherein I can just write and it's nothing to do with the internet or fandom, in a way. Hmm. Most fanficcers obviously do not feel like this. Perhaps I have issues. But either way, it is nice.
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