Whoever Dances is One with the Universe

So I finally finished the last book in Gerald Morris' Arthurian series. I had been getting steadily more disappointed, as the last three or four books were kind of awful, but the last one was actually really good. I mean, evil!2-D!Mordred, but I've really given up on that front. And yeah. I cried. At my client's house, stealthily, while she was napping and watching The Waltons. >_> I would say Mr. Morris has seen himself off with a pleasing dignity.

BUT now I am all sad b/c all my dumb Arthurian boys are dead, so obvs. this is your cue to ask for porn of them, as I am doing: THIS MEME (which shall be called This Meme):

01 » Submit a pairing (or threesome, or solo person) and a prompt by replying to this post.

02 » Please use the following format: fandom, pairing, prompt.

03 » I'll then reply with five* sentences of smut. [The original meme does say that you can request gen/other non-smutty things, but I'll say straight up that I'd prefer to flex my porn muscles (that was a TERRIBLE thing to say) and so would prefer that request. Having said that, y'all can of course request whatever you'd like, and I may even turn some requests into gen depending on how I feel about my ability to write the smut. Also, I guess "solo person" here refers to masturbation in the context of smut? Which I'm fine with too!] <-- so said blindmadness and julietveiled, so say I.

04 » If I can't do the prompt then I will beg for your forgiveness, and offer it up to others let you select another if you'd like.

This is not really restricted to Arthuriana. I also write Sherlock, Westmark, certain historical novels, Shakespeare, and can probably be conned into others if you remind me of what they are (when I'm done I will tag this post with the appropriate fandoms).

Dear yuletide Santa:

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For mhari, who has lost teefs. <3

Hephaistos/Zara, DF canon.

( He has Set My Feet on the Rock, and Given Me a Firm Place to Stand )

I've just finished rereading all of Westmark, hence the Torrens icon, and. um.

Bwahaha! Theo is such a dork. It was slightly ridiculous (and I am very guilty of saying it to him: "Theo, you're a dork!", whether I was reading by myself or at the gym, which got some looks), and very wonderful. Ahaha. You awful boy.

Something I thought was interesting is that when writing Westmarkfic and playing russet_goddess, I've always been really careful not to make any religious inferences, to the point where she (and queen_oracle) never say anything along the lines of 'for God's sake', 'for heaven's sake', but actually Theo says both those things, I believe, in Westmark (I don't think he says them in Kestrel or Beggar Queen, though); and likewise of course there's a lot of 'go to the devil', which doesn't necessarily mean anything, and go to hell, damn, &c. It's interesting, Westmark is sort of the inverse, issue-wise, from Fly by Night.

Because in Mandelion, religion is the main issue and class relations are almost incidental. Everyone knows where he or she goes and they don't make much of it. Mosca hasn't got any problem with being a penniless urchin; nobody ever expresses any particular dislike of Linden because he's Lady Tamarind's footman. In Westmark, the socio-political issues push almost everything else aside. Religion is incidental, instead.

And yet they're very similar books...! With the same kind of characters, even if Fly by Night is rather better written.

Anyway, Theo = dork. Dork dork dork.

Mickle is still cool, and Florian disturbs me a little more than he did the last few times I've read the trilogy. When I first read it I was totally in love with him, and now I feel slightly disenchanted, although he's still really wonderful. Is interesting. I like Connie more, for all he's awful, but--for the most part I find the incidentals better than the main characters (except Zara, who is my antagonistic passion). Red Cockade is the best. damn. character. Clarion is amazing. I'm still rather in love with Jellinek.

Also, my Luther is so OOC it's not even funny, and I like him better for it. >_> That's a bad thing, I'm pretty sure.

The scene where Keller is trying to get himself arrested is one of the best ones in the entire thing. Ehehe. ^___^ Gleeee.

Also also! They have Latin, or some semblance thereof, in Westmark, because in Westmark Theo mentions reading a book called De Rerum Justitiae or something like that, which translates to Of Just Things, roughly. Also a lot of the names are Latinate, like Justitia and Augusta.

I love Mr. Alexander's brain, even when I disagree with it. Ehee.

...On a side note, I want to write an AU where ( SPOILERS OMG )

Now I am going out for a drive before dinner. Manon, I will be on to-night hopefully by nine? Is my plan. Must still finish that stupid term paper.

So Manon gave me the photofic challenge 'Justin, Luther, frog' and I misread it as 'Percy, Luther, frog' and went EHEEEE they would be the sweetest randomest things ever! and then realised that my brain fails and wrote the correct photofic, but I had this idea in my head and. and. and then it turned into a full-length ficlet--!

And look! Rampant symbolism! A dorky baby Percy!

( Blackbird )

Heyy. ^^ Tom. Thank you so much. You are--just amazing. I am writing a thank-you note that will hopefully be more coherent, but--guh. Thank you. ♥

Also, here is a quick Zara/Stock short for kaliscoo, who is the best. ^__^

( Myrhh )