girlofprey

...I'm on the Internet on my own laptop, for the first time in a year! Teh yay ::blows party-popper:: Which essentially means I can hold of on a paid account for a while, because I can just mix and match the icons saved on my hard drive, without pissing about with floppy disks. Which is probably for the best, since dad convinced me I really did need £40 worth of virus protection stuff ::sighs:: If I get a virus now, I will personally hunt this 'Norton' down and infect him. Oh yes.

Thanks to this, I have been having further Adventures on MSN, and learned that a sort-of friend of mine from college is getting engaged. It is a wonderful thing of course, but slightly scary. He is getting engaged. My sister has a baby. I can't just do learning for that much longer. The world is changing, and I still don't have a boyfriend, 20 years later ::mourns:: Brand new bright tomorrow and all that. Hmm.

In other news, Kingdom of Loathing is perhaps the best thing in the world ever. I so need an icon of someone looking slightly mad and panicky, saying 'Spiders! Spiders threaten the gourd!'. Also, I just had to kill a spider in real life. It was huge, and far too fast for good spider/Rachael relations. I squished it, yes.

In other other news, late night South Park perhaps the best thing ever, even if it does kill me with sleeplessness. Jewbilee! Bear-Jew alliances! Moses! And how did I ever forget my love for Kyle Broflovski? Hurrah for angry, principled eight-year-old boys. Sadly there are no icons of him looking enraged. Hmm.

In yet more other news, Six Feet Under is apparently my show of wonder and strange crossovers. Scrubs, perhaps, for different tone tension? Kingdom Hospital, with a side of Nate/Paul slash? ::loffs Paul:: Buffy - Spike/David? So many choices. And of course there's always the Nate/Billy OTP to keep me entertained. Currently there are bunnies wherein Billy seduces some more of Nate's family, or even just subtly moves onto the man himself in an effort to screw up his relationship with Brenda. And then there can be realising of how great Nate is, and angst, and going off his meds in a whole new way, and everything even more twisted and fucked-up than it is already. Yay :D

I want to write these things. I don't know why I don't. Too much pressure on myself, perhaps, feeling that they need to be, omg, perfect! And then I think 'well, I'll just relax', but then I start worrying I won't put any effort in at all. Hmm. I have been told I think too much. Probably this is true. Of course, maybe now some of the 'when will I be able to get on the Internet?' pressure is off things will flow more freely. Hopefully.

Going now. Late night South Park, eeee....

Mad crossovers are taking over my brain. Lolita/Spiderman 2, anyone? Leon/Boondock Saints? Six Feet Under/Kingdom Hospital? Gah.

The last one partly inspired by my buying of the Six Feet Under Season 1 DVDs today. Yay! They were only £27.99 in WHSmith, and the till gave me an extra pound off, and given that it's normally £50, I thought what the hell? They're sooo good. Everyone's angry and fucked-up and mad. I wish I'd watched it all when it actually started out on TV, so I could all 'ooh', and 'whee!', and 'I wonder what they all do next?'. I know now, damnit. Of course, I also know about mad Billy, and eagerly await his appearance (the proper appearance, not just looking for olives). I'm hoping the Billy/Nate is as beautiful as I remember it. Thought I'm starting to wonder now if I really do see slash in all these mad pairings of mine, or if I just plain old like their interaction. Of course, there's no reason why it can't be both. Ho hum.

Signed up at a local employment agency. Hopefully my complete lack of experience won't hold me back too much. I can type! That's all you need. Yes. The shop job had gone by the time I got back to it. Hopefully this will turn up short-term lucrative cash work experience quite soon. Yes. Hmm.

I really shouldn't be here doing this - Byron awaits, and I keep getting invitations to social events which will thieve more of my time even though I can't really afford to go to them - but I'm trying to be faithful to this Livejournal. I will post, I will, I will, I will.

So here I am. Watched the last episode of Season 4 Six Feet Under last night and am all about the Billy/Nate again, even though they were NEVER EVEN IN A SCENE TOGETHER. That's how much I love this ship. I think when Billy sees Nate again, with all the posturing and bullshit stripped away and just a lot of sadness and strength remaining, he will really, REALLY want his camera. Also, Billy's newfound stability seems like just the thing Nate needs right now. So yes. I foresee much angst in the future they have inside my head (and I would write it down, if not for the ACCURSED ESSAY!!!).

Still obssessing over Guy and Mac though. I wish the DVD was out tomorrow, but apparently if it DOES come out it won't be till the new year :(. Hopefully with many extras, though. Such as commentaries where they all talk about the slash. Have a vague plotbunny for long angsty-ness post episode 9 - they get off the cliff but decide to check into a B'n'B until Guy's ready to face police and home-type people. But Guy is taking his time, oh yes! And getting very drunk! And finally realising he's in love with Mac! But it's just completely the wrong time, and he can't cope, and Mac doesn't quite know what to do. There are many things I have not plotted out (which is good), but I know there will be much angst, and Guy getting angry with the Welsh, and having to spend a fair amount of time in his bathrobe because they have no other clothes, and an odd, fragile Guy/Mac/Martin situation by the end.

But in the meantime, I thought I'd post this rather than letting it languish on my hard drive. I wrote it in about 2 hours one day, having had the plotbunny (hear me utilise the lingo) bouncing around for a few days. I'm not entirely happy with it, and know parts of it to be AU by now, but I wrote it, which I'm proud of, and I finished it, which I'm proud of, and it's the first fic that might actually get read by people who are familiar with the fandom. So...yes. Here it is.

( A super-angsty alternative Green Wing Greek tragedy )

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Note to self: Stop doing epic-length posts.