Ink and Whisky

[raven]

I went to the Pit last night. There was alcohol and sweeties and all the way up, foreverdirt and absinthe_shadow and I were trying to talk about how to cross over HP and The West Wing - answer: Remus visits on Big Block Of Cheese Day to talk about werewolf rights - but were interrupted by vampire_kitten wanting to talk about some future civilisation shifting through the ruins of our own and finding in the literary wreckage only Harry/Draco mpreg.

I love ou3fs parties. They are very much Of The Good. Um... yes. We started off at the Turf, and I'd been feeling ill all day and figured I'd only stay half an hour or so, but all the best laid plans and that, because I did go Pit-wards and was witness to the debauch of toplessness and the death of osymandias' heterosexuality. With withiel. They were kissing beautifully in the kitchen and lizziwig told me I looked like some sort of mildly disgusted anthropologist. I explained that I wasn't looking because I didn't want to be looking even though I really really wanted to look, and remarkably enough she understood this explanation, and told me that everyone else was just looking.

Which they were, and I'm a sucker for peer pressure.

There is actually video evidence of this, which finishes with Nick leaning against a fridge with his mouth open and with a most delightfully wide-eyed expresssion. The camera pans around a lot and I think it may prove to be a problem if anyone decides to run for political office in later life.

The kitchen, apparently, was the place for the People With Principles, i.e., the ones who refused to shed clothes, and I was one of the few people who was actually wearing more clothes than she started with, having stolen Nick's hat. So far I am refusing to give it back unless he comes to get it in person. In my defence, I couldn't give it back. I'd got a taxi with slasheuse and absinthe_shadow, and it came really early and so I had to depart the party at the point where withiel and I were trying, with difficulty, to chain Nick to a bannister with a bike chain.

Sadly, I don't know what happened after that. I got into town and wandered home to find my flatmates just coming in from a bop, armed with glowsticks and rave costumes. And toast. A good night was had by all, I think. And surprisingly enough, I feel a lot better this morning than I did yesterday. I'm awake, I'm not in pain, my hair has stopped standing on end, I've had breakfast before half one in the afternoon.

Yes. Things I have learnt since yesterday are a) men kiss differently from women, unless it's Nick, b) the Pit is cleaner than it appears, and c) a tie always adds an air of smartness to an outfit, even if it is in itself the outfit.

Okay. I need to go and have an essay crisis. I wasn't quite thinking this before, but it's good to be back down here.

Comments

[anotherusedpage.livejournal.com]

The bicycle-chain plan failed in the end. Last I saw of Nick, he had a queue of people waiting up to have a try at snogging him, and was having difficulty disentangling himself from anariel_di_gaia.

men kiss differently from women

Maybe I'm just an evangelical bisexual, but I'd honestly just say people kiss differently from other people. There are certain tendancies you're more likely to get in men (stubble, for eg), and certain trends towards different kissing styles, but in general, I wouldn't swear on my own ability to guess the gender of someone I'd just snogged while blindfold unless I'd also had a good cop at their boobs or got a mouthful of beard, and even then I wouldn't want to swear on it....

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, definitely agree with you there. I wouldn't swear on that either; I included it as Something Learnt Yesterday because more than one person independently said, of Nick, that he kisses "like a girl." (Which, now I come to think of it, disproves the above straight off.) Anyway, it seemed to suggest that there are gender-related tendencies. If I'd drunk less, I could have established a larger sample size. :)

[eternalwings.livejournal.com]

Ahhh so lj just ate my comment. Anyway, yes, nothing to do with that, think you'd know. Whats that thing, on LJ I think, where you write uhm..an essay of sorts? About a pairing. And the evidence supporting it ish? I cant remember!

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

ship_manifesto?

[eternalwings.livejournal.com]

Thats it! Oh my god thank you it was driving me insane.

[ladyfalcon.livejournal.com]

Man. If I ever magically wind up in England, can I like, hang out with you? I learn nice things like what an aubergine is and apparantly your friends are absolutely scandalous, which is how I like them.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Heeee! Come to England! Hang out with me!

[casirafics.livejournal.com]

I'll join! make it a threesome!

...which possibly sounds a little more scandalous than I'd meant. Although in reply to such a story, who can tell. :)

[absinthe-shadow.livejournal.com]

Fecund men!

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Oh-so-fecund! Imagine the fertility rites!

[musesfool.livejournal.com]

You must write an HP/WW crossover! They're ever so much fun!

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Heee! I'm sorely tempted. At any rate I'm tempted to stand up at my party and intone solemnly, "Andrew Jackson, in the foyer of the White House..."

[osymandias.livejournal.com]

Yes! You should definitely do that. I will make snarky comments and get put on a list.

[amchau.livejournal.com]

Are you implying that my Harry/Neville mpreg isn't good enough for eternity?

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Oh, no, no, perish the thought. It's eternity that isn't good enough for it.