Love In The Asylum

The Gay Hamlet Ficathon I've seen mentioned a few places this weekend is making me lol, since just a few days ago colourofsaying and I were having this conversation:


masterofmidgets: we may have just reached critical nerd mass btw
colourofsaying: I thought we were doing that earlier when we were talking about the psychological reasons why Horatio would hook up in a self-flagellating relationship with Fortinbras
masterofmidgets: I would also love to see the fic where Fortinbras is super awkward and miserable taking over Denmark because a) EVERYONE BEFORE HIM DIED HORRIBLY and b) everyone still left and especially Horatio is constantly sighing over what a better king Hamlet would have made if he hadn't been bugfuck crazy
colourofsaying: And he's like "I thought this would be fun!"
masterofmidgets: it's a very challenging political state for a young king at the best of times
masterofmidgets: let alone when most of your support people are traumatized from Claudius or used to dealing with Hamlet and his crazy
masterofmidgets: and Horatio should be helping him
colourofsaying: and he sort of is!
colourofsaying: but he's also spending a lot of time crying on battlements.
masterofmidgets: but he has a tendency to sigh pointedly and start talking about how /Hamlet/ would have done it that way
colourofsaying: ...Fortinbras has a completely unrequited crush, doesn't he?
colourofsaying: he writes these long letters to his uncle about how smart and mature and solid and dependable Horatio is, and how he's also an amaaaazing fighter, he moves so gracefully, and his hair flutters...
colourofsaying: and his uncle is all '...riiiiight.'
masterofmidgets: it is a tragic and doomed love
colourofsaying: since Horatio will... never really get over Hamlet.
masterofmidgets: and you know what that means
masterofmidgets: time for tragic porn!
colourofsaying: I would also like Horatio to more or less offer to have hatesex, and Fortinbras to be all '...no. I am sort of in love with you, and that would not be healthy for your brain, and I love you too much to allow you to fuck with yourself.'
masterofmidgets: although I would settle for Horatio going in for masochistic hatesex and Fortinbas being all 'wait, what? *sadface*' but going along with it because it's the only way to get close to Horatio. So both of them would get what they want, in a way that makes them both miserable. I AM A TERRIBLE PERSON.

Completely unrelated to our terminal nerdery, but my mom has a new bunny. Which is awesome! The apartment has been sadly rabbit-less since the Toby bunny died in the spring (of old age, bless his tough little fuzzy butt), and the last month or so, she's put out the word that she was interested in getting another. Well, she turned up to a job this week and her client answered the door with a rabbit in her arms, so problem solved. New bunny is named Lily (or possibly Izzy) and is absolutely precious - and only about 20% the size of the previous bunny. I have pictures!

1. One of the first, best signs that autumn is approaching is when you go to the store and everything smells like roasting green chile.

2. It is possible to approximate a mancala board with an empty egg carton and a couple of sauce bowls. If, you know, you ever need an emergency mancala board.

3. There are pleasant ways to be unexpectedly woken up. Being clawed in the face by a madly scrambling cat is not one of them.

4. No amount of delicious food will ever make spending an afternoon with the boyfriend's horrible, boring, ignorant, racist family worthwhile.

Never let it be said that I missed an opportunity to post pictures of adorable fuzzy animals for you all. (This would have been part of my last post, but alas, I was at the library and didn't have access to a scanner, so you're getting it now.)

( excessive adorableness under the cut )

My afternoon, in two easy pictures:

( yay kitty snuggles )

Bailey is the pounciest kitten I have ever met, and the best at climbing onto high places and then falling off of them (when she forgets she is on the windowsill and tries to attack the cord pull, for example). Oliver is playing the grumpy old man who wants her off his lawn, but when he thinks no one is looking he stops chewing on her head and starts licking her instead, so I think he is more fond than he lets on. Meanwhile, the rabbit is off in the back playing with the horses. No, really.

*hearts*

So, I meant to post these pictures ages ago, when I actually took them, but then I got really busy and my life got really depressing and I never got around to it. But I don't have anything better to do tonight, so here I am.

( pictures of horses under the cut :D )

So now we have a hamster.

Like, I haven't seen my roommate in three days, and then out of nowhere she comes home and is all "HEY WE CAN HAS HAMSTER PLZ?" and while I'm blinking and being boggled she and her boyfriend were already on the floor putting the cage together.

The slightly less baffling version of this story is: her boyfriend lives on campus and has a bunch of pets, including at least one cat I know of and several hamsters. But one of the hamsters started killing the other ones, and he freaked out that all his hamsters were going to die, so he asked her to take one of them so it wouldn't be devoured. Not sure how long we will have it, but whatever, it's pretty cute. I got to play with it while they were setting the cage up, and it is all fuzzy and fat and absurd looking. What can I say, I'm easily won over.

I meant to get a bunch of shit done today, but between being totally wrecked from running around SF in the middle of the night and having to work a shift at the call center, I was totally useless and exhausted all evening. I accomplished nothing! Aside from reading comics and listening to songs about the space program. Hopefully tomorrow will be a little more productive.

So, I guess today was the last time I'll see Roy until Christmas, since she's leaving for Indiana and her scary engineering school on Wednesday. And it's just...really, horribly depressing. All my friends are leaving, or have left - Al's in NC, Roy's leaving, Envy's back in school. It makes me think about how much things are going to change now - we won't see each other, we're going to get different friends, new interests, new lives. We probably won't ever be close the same way we were this year. I know it has to hapen, but still, it's hard to deal with. So I am not even going to think about it for the moment. I shall focus my mind on utter inanities instead.

Al and I had some random conversation yesterday about what kind of animals we would be. I'd kind of like to think I'm something really cool, like a jungle cat or something. If I'm really honest, though, I think I'm more like a labrador puppy - loud, messy, and overenthusiastic, with a tendency to get into everything and get worked up over nothing. Kind of annoying, but still loveable. I hope. Dunno.

While Roy and I were out, I bought a new manga, Black Knight. Totally BL porn, and quite lovely, really. I hate manga that have a wonderful, interesting plot but you can never get into to it because the art is so bad or weird that it keeps distracting you. A lot of the BLU yaoi stuff is done in a veeeeeery shojo, angular, long and slender style that doesn't appeal to me at all - Junjo Romance being a prime example. I guess for all my yaoi tendencies, I really am a shonen girl at heart; I like lots of action with my sex, a real plot, even if it's silly, and a simple, less exaggerated art style. I think that's why I prefer the early Gravitation volumes to the later ones - the mangaka's style changed a lot, and I preferred the earlier stuff with the more "normal" character designs. But Black Knight looks good - pretty, not too girly artwork, and it's about a prince and his bodyguard, so there's plenty of action. We'll see.