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allyndraOnce again, this will be rambly and disjointed. Sorry. I sat down to post something, and instead of a comprehensive thought, all I got were little snippets.
Rec
Up Against the Ropes Again byladycat777 McShep. Amazing PWP dom/sub McShep. I don't have a dom/sub BDSM kink. In fact, I'm annoyingly kink-free (which is fine most of the time, butmakes me feel a little lacking among some fan communities). BUT ... this is incredibly hot. Red hot and in character. If this isn't your kink, read it anyway. If this is your kink, you'll probably want to print it and have the pages bronzed. It's not a new story, so it's possibly everyone else but me had already read it, but I just found it for the first time and DIED.
Drinking Game
I present unto you the America's Next Top Model Drinking Game. This game apparently kept my father, brother, and husband happily entertained while my mom watched the recap episode last week. The rules are simple and straightforward. Take a shot:
Everytime someone cries.
Everytime one of the judges (including Tyra) talks about what it was like back when She was a famous model.
Evertime one of the contestants (who are generally around nineteen years old) talks about how she's been working toward this goal her *whole* life.
That's it. Very basic, but on a good episode, it can get you completely smashed.
Songs that make me want to write songfic, if I wrote songfic (which I don't).
I think about fanfic probably more than is healthy. The upshot of this is that while listening to CDs, I keep envisioning scenarios to go with the songs. From the movie "Shock Treatment" (yes, I know I'm a huge geek) Breaking Out by Oscar Drill and the Bits is the perfect angsty teenage coming out anthem. I've long thought so, and now it makes me see a young Xander throwing off the yoke of homophobia and declaring his undying love for Larry or Oz or Justin Timberlake. The first verse (plus chorus) is:
I know how it feels to be cooling my heels.
I've been down on them long enough.
But if I take to them now, then maybe somehow
You'll see through the bluff. I'm not playing it tough.
I've been a lifetime on deposit,
And that's a long time in the closet
And if you say to me, "Well, how was it?"
It was hard taking that heartbreaking, God-forsaken route.
But I'm breaking out!
Anybody else play that game when listening to music?
Books
I've been reading a lot, for lack of anything else to do, and I've turned to my comfort books. I have three, and I've been rereading them for years and years. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis, and The Ordinary Princess by M.M. Kaye. Is it strange that two out of three of my favorite books were written for children? Do you have books like that, ones that you keep reading even when you can nearly quote them? Share.
Up Against the Ropes Again by
ladycat777 McShep. Amazing PWP dom/sub McShep. I don't have a dom/sub BDSM kink. In fact, I'm annoyingly kink-free (which is fine most of the time, butmakes me feel a little lacking among some fan communities). BUT ... this is incredibly hot. Red hot and in character. If this isn't your kink, read it anyway. If this is your kink, you'll probably want to print it and have the pages bronzed. It's not a new story, so it's possibly everyone else but me had already read it, but I just found it for the first time and DIED. Drinking Game
I present unto you the America's Next Top Model Drinking Game. This game apparently kept my father, brother, and husband happily entertained while my mom watched the recap episode last week. The rules are simple and straightforward. Take a shot:
Everytime someone cries.
Everytime one of the judges (including Tyra) talks about what it was like back when She was a famous model.
Evertime one of the contestants (who are generally around nineteen years old) talks about how she's been working toward this goal her *whole* life.
That's it. Very basic, but on a good episode, it can get you completely smashed.
Songs that make me want to write songfic, if I wrote songfic (which I don't).
I think about fanfic probably more than is healthy. The upshot of this is that while listening to CDs, I keep envisioning scenarios to go with the songs. From the movie "Shock Treatment" (yes, I know I'm a huge geek) Breaking Out by Oscar Drill and the Bits is the perfect angsty teenage coming out anthem. I've long thought so, and now it makes me see a young Xander throwing off the yoke of homophobia and declaring his undying love for Larry or Oz or Justin Timberlake. The first verse (plus chorus) is:
I know how it feels to be cooling my heels.
I've been down on them long enough.
But if I take to them now, then maybe somehow
You'll see through the bluff. I'm not playing it tough.
I've been a lifetime on deposit,
And that's a long time in the closet
And if you say to me, "Well, how was it?"
It was hard taking that heartbreaking, God-forsaken route.
But I'm breaking out!
Anybody else play that game when listening to music?
Books
I've been reading a lot, for lack of anything else to do, and I've turned to my comfort books. I have three, and I've been rereading them for years and years. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis, and The Ordinary Princess by M.M. Kaye. Is it strange that two out of three of my favorite books were written for children? Do you have books like that, ones that you keep reading even when you can nearly quote them? Share.
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Date: 2007-04-29 02:41 pm (UTC)But one that stays consistent comfort reading is Jane Eyre. Since I first read it in 7th grade, I re-read it at least once a year. So many wonderful things in that novel!
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Date: 2007-05-01 03:04 am (UTC)Jane Eyre is wonderful. I didn't read it until I was 22, and determined to catch up on some of the classics I'd never read (my plan was thwarted by Charles Dickens, who refuses to be readable). I love Jane, love that she's not beautiful but inspires such intense love in Rochester, love that she doesn't let her spirit be crippled or her heart denied. Love that she can just up and learn Hindustani when she thinks it necessary.
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis is one that I continue to read, over and over. It's got so much that I love: time travel and mystery novels and Jerome K. Jerome and historical romance. I keep trying to recommend it to my friends, but they tend to refuse scifi books categorically, even when they aren't very scifi-ish.