"But When I Came--Alas!--To Wive, With a Hey, Ho, the Wind and the Rain..."

To-day was a day of very little getting done. I would like to blame this on the fact that yesterday I worked six hours and then got to bed around 2:30.

This morning I woke at 11:00 and stayed in bed reading until 12:00. This is why nothing was done. I waffled my time after that working on my Maria fic and my Passepartout/Fix without making much progress in either, but Mum did read my Nemo/Pellew and say she liked it a lot.

Then it began to rain, so no exercise was got. That was around 17:30. The power went out at 19:00, just as more waffling was being done over the fics, and came on again around 20:00. Dinner was at 20:30, and then Soujin got online.

Et voila. The entire day. Wasted, alas! And to-morrow I work again, so no chance of making up the work then.

Life v. frustrating.

On the other hand, had a nice phone call with sparklychibi somewhere in there. She agrees with my theory against Jekyll/Mina!

"And You See the Corner of Her Eye Twist Like a Crooked Pin..."

Because I feel like digressing, my theory against Jekyll/Mina goes as follows (prepare for abuse of parentheses):

Jekyll is a wimp. I love him with all my wibbly Soujin heart, but the fact remains that he is a wimp. He's pathetic in the movie and pathetic in the graphic novel, and not particularly on top of things in his book, either.

Mina is emphatically not wimpy. She's the one in charge in the graphic novel, and in the movie, she's still strong. Her hips are none of Quatermain's business, and she doesn't need the League to protect her, &c &c.

She honestly does not strike me as someone who would want a wimp. In the graphic novel, she's with Quatermain, but, as has been pointed out before in a rather tasteful essay :), that's largely for the plot and purposes of satire, and anyway by that time, Quatermain has lost a lot of his pathetic-ness, including (apparently) his addiction.

But that's in the graphic novel, and it is my understanding that the Henry/Mina shippers are largely from the movie-based fandom. So.

She was Dorian's lover for some extended period of time. Obviously, she was attracted to Dorian by something. The other person that the movie implies (somewhat subtly, mind, as it implies just about everyone at one time or another; after all, she is the only woman) is Sawyer, because, despite the fact that she turns him down very nicely (*loves that scene, ahem*), later on she seems to be having a dynamic with him. It's cute, too, in a weird way.

Neither of these two people are the least bit wimpy. Dorian is slightly foppish, which is another thing entirely, as anyone who's played in the Scarlet Pimpernel sandbox could tell you. Sawyer is puppy-like occasionally, but he tends more towards "manly". Quatermain is his role model, saah.

Jekyll just does not seem to be enough in control of himself for Mina. I think she would most likely want someone who knew what he was doing and knew where he was coming from. Jekyll--please remember that I love him--has only Hyde prodding at him and a lot of self-concerned angst, so that he a) doesn't want to help the League, but b) doesn't want his "evil to infect the world". He yells rather helplessly at Nemo when he suggests Jekyll isn't in control and yet when Quatermain tells him to help, he says Hyde uses him. Frankly, Jekyll is one pathetic, wibbly mess of a man, and I just think Mina, while she might pity him, would shy very much away from the idea of being his lover or wife.

And here I wish to quote almightyhat, who pointed out that since Hyde is the one with all the impulses et all, Jekyll "has no sex drive". Which pretty much sums it up. I will admit that I happily ignore this fact when it comes to Nemo/Jekyll, so I am something of a hypocrite, but (and again to quote Almighty Hat), "Mina is a passionate creature and would not be satisfied with purely cerebral affection". Ta-daaaa.

And there is my theory. Mina and Jekyll are not to be. All comments welcome.

This does not mean that I will not be writing Mina/Jekyll in the future. I have every intention of doing so, just because I am a crazy mad weirdo and I want to Prove That I Can Too Write It. I'm just sayin' I don't agree with it, and here's why.

I would, however, like to point out that I am trying not to be biased by my love of the Nemo/Jekyll. I <3 that pairing because Nemo is someone I could see not minding Jekyll's wussiness, in a sort of--er--read my fic.

I am led to understand that Nemo/Jekyll is the mad slash fangirl's pairing of choice.

All I can say is that makes me very, very sad. Clearly it's sort of the LXG equivalent of R/E! or Prouvaire/Combeferre.

"No More Riddles... No More Jests..."

Waen has me researching Ethiopian coffee cups now...

This is, apparently, for her graphic novel, of which half of one episode takes place in an Ethiopian restaurant in Boston.

Yesterday she was researching the T station.

If anyone on my flist lives in Boston, for the love of God, help me out. Internet = surprisingly useless. Google still hates me.

"'How I Envy You Your Innocence!'"

OOoooOOh, much pretty Ethiopian stuff.

/entranced