Miscellany

[raven]

I have tried not to post this. In vain have I struggled. It will not do. The couple next door have the LOUDEST SEX EVER, OH MY GOD.



...thank you, I feel a lot better for getting that off my chest. Truthfully, I don't mind; the guy who lives across from me is a nice chap and I'm glad he has a lovely girlfriend, and she's apparently visiting from somewhere far away, so who can blame them, really. I'm just kind of glad she's not here all the time. Nice chap as he is, I don't need that particular conversation in my life.

(Oh, god, I don't think they know I'm here. Maybe I should go and make coffee really loudly. Or hoover my room.)

I blame the snow. I wish I could've stayed in bed all day, too! But, no, alas, for some reason I decided the thing to do was to be productive on, oh, no sleep at all, and as there weren't any buses (and I don't dare cycle - I keep watching people cycle over black ice with no helmets, and wondering just how charmed their lives are), I walked the three miles out to the careers service and then back again. It was a productive meeting, but everything is icy and gritless and cold, and it's amazing how much worse everything is on no sleep. It's fairy-tale pretty at the moment, falling very softly on the landscape, but, argh, I need to get over that landscape and go to classes occasionally.

In news entirely unrelated to this, I am currently agonising over whether or not to sign up for purimgifts. On the one hand, it sounds like fun, and just the sort of thing I need right now: yuletide got me to do a little writing at the end of last year, and in these trying times of excessive work, ficathons and gift exchanges are about the only way to get me to write anything. And it's hardly very onerous, in any case - three ficlets, none of which can be over a thousand words (and can be as short as three hundred) - and three graphics, which would give me the excuse to spend a happy evening on campus playing in Photoshop.

But. The theme is to write about women, or characters who are Jewish, or characters who have been persecuted by evil viziers. I have to admit, I don't think I know any fandoms with evil viziers. I could write about three women, but that doesn't seem to be in the spirit of the thing, somehow, and I'm wary of writing in other people's religious and cultural traditions. I mean, I am not Jewish. (I don't think this is a surprise to anyone.) I could research Judaism very thoroughly, but it's a gift exchange and I might still manage to get fail all over someone's holiday gift. Which would be bad, especially when it was supposed to be a present.

(Ditto eid_fic, even though I probably know more about Islam than Judaism. And there doesn't seem to be a Hindu equivalent. Is there a Hindu equivalent, all-knowing internets?)

Ack, I don't know. I really wish I could go back to bed and watch a lot of Deep Space Nine, but a) I don't actually have my DS9 DVDs and b) WORK, oh god. Theoretically I have an exam tomorrow. Snow makes all sorts of things theoretical.

Comments

[hips-lips-tits.livejournal.com]

this is strange but i totally had a dream that i met you. at disneyworld, of all places.

i don't know where it came from, i don't even try to make sense of the places my brain goes. but, for what it's worth, we had a good time! ..


yeah, i know.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

:P That sounds like much more fun than waking life, right now.

[bekkypk.livejournal.com]

As far as intro lines to LJ posts go, thats gotta be one of the best :D
You could get an ASBO on them? XD
xx

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

*laughs* They seem to be having so much fun! I don't have the heart.

[manynames.livejournal.com]

Aladdin? You're right, there seems to be a distinct lack of fandoms with an evil vizier.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

A profound lack, one feels.

[emily-shore.livejournal.com]

What about ficlets about Samantha Mulder? I reckon you could manage that without too much deep theological research. And that gets you two out of three!

(Disclaimer: I have been considering doing this myself)

[emily-shore.livejournal.com]

(And also: don't you think CSM could count as an evil vizier?)

[abyssinia4077.livejournal.com]

I am also debating purimgifts (have been for several years now each time it rolls around).

I'd say writing a story about kick-ass women would be very much in the spirit of it all.

(and, if you are worried about the Jewish thing and you choose to play, I am willing to, um, Jew-beta it for you (bearing in mind that my experience/knowledge/opinions are of one Jew and not all the Jews in the world))

As to a Hindu equivalent I....feel like I saw some noise about some fandom something around the last Diwali but I couldn't point you to it assuming I'm not imagining it.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Thanks, honey, I appreciate it. I'm wary, you know, because obv it's no one's responsibility but mine to educate me, and you're very kind.

[anotherusedpage.livejournal.com]

I'm almost certainly gonna sign up for purimgifts.

(and hey, as a resident yid, I think you are absolutely within reason to write three fics about non-Jewish women. People are signing up to recieve what the challenge offers which is Jewish OR female, no guarentee of either or both. Also, I would say it should be 100% fine to write a story about a Jewish character without writing necesarily about their Jewishness - think about the way Willow or Ivanova are treated by canon, for example. Just getting a story where the focus is a jewish character might be as refreshing and interesting for someone as a fic where the focus is religious or cultural.)

[anotherusedpage.livejournal.com]

(and, if you are worried about the Jewish thing and you choose to play, I am willing to, um, Jew-beta it for you (bearing in mind that my experience/knowledge/opinions are of one Jew and not all the Jews in the world))

Also, this.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Thank you, that is sensible and reassuring. And thank you for your offer to beta, also, it is v. much appreciated.

[hathy-col.livejournal.com]

Other people are making dep insightful comments, but instead I have decided to focus on the following line:

the guy who lives across from me

OH MY DEAR GOD you don't even share a wall with this guy and you can still hear him at it?! I'm not sure if I am appalled for you or secretly cheering him on.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

OMG I KNOW. THE WHOLE CORRIDOR RATTLES. SRSLY.

[subservient-son.livejournal.com]

As a man of the Jewsish persuasion, I personally object to fic which injects Jewish characters into settings where it doesn't fit. E.g. I started reading a Star Trek story starring Captain Davod Gold, and he was fasting for Yom Kippur - it just felt wrong, all humans in Star Trek are agnostic humanists and that the way I like it! :P

Seriously, though, you could always write West Wing fic with Josh and Toby, plus CJ/Ainsley/Mandy/Dr. Bartlet/Joey Lucas/other female characters of win.

Also, I will happilly beta as well (though my knowledge is quite embarassingly low).

[jacinthsong.livejournal.com]

But you are an agnostic humanist and you fast for Yom Kippur? :P

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Thank you, dear, that's kind. And you know, I have this weird feeling that there is a character in Star Trek who follows a religion, but I cannot think who or what it is. Aaargh. Possibly I have imagined it?

[jacinthsong.livejournal.com]

Toby doing Purim with his babies-with-hats? :D

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

brb, turning into squishy puddle.

[apestaartje.livejournal.com]

sabrina_il who is on my Friendslist is one of the mods at purimgifts.

Did you ever see Pushing daisies? Half of the characters on that are Jewish. You could write Pushing daisies fic.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

I have it on the to-watch list, actually. I should make an effort, I heard good things about it.

[vampire-kitten.livejournal.com]

Fins with Evil viziers: Aladdins, 1001 Nights has loads, Fables, Discworld (Mort, Pyramids),

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Discworld, yay! Thanks for that.

[tau_sigma]

I think I am incredibly lucky to have got to this age without really hearing people having sex. I don't know how I've managed it, either. I am possibly deaf or oblivious. The one couple I have heard having sex, however, was quite embarrassing: it was Anwar's brother and his girlfriend, minutes before I first met them. Yeah. That was... interesting. In the disturbing kind of way.

I am no use on the fic thing, but I would say that fic by you about women is always good. Do you write all three pieces for the same person? Because if not, I shouldn't think it would matter if you write all three about women, and it wouldn't necessarily matter even so.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

I think it's a combination of many years of shared accommodation and insomnia. But it's never been anyone I knew! Owwwwwww. That is.... ouch.

You do write all fics for the same person, but there's nothing stopping them being part of the same fic, even. So it's certainly a possibility.

[jacinthsong.livejournal.com]

You could write slasheuse/absinthe_shadow

WHERE SOPHIE IS AN EVIL VIZIER

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

and Chloe as the princess in the tower? :P

[nerves-patterns.livejournal.com]

Not that you need more work to do, but have you thought about starting a Hindu equivalent (if no one knows of one that exists)? I don't mean this in a "hey, it's your responsibility!" way - obviously it's not - but in a "you do many cool things, and you could totally make this awesome" way. Because you do do cool things, and I'm pretty much constantly in awe of them.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Thanks, honey! I might, actually, when life calms down a bit. The next Hindu festival of any note is Holi, which is... (oh, hai, Wikipedia) hmm, end of Feb. A little soon. Maybe I will wait until Diwali and do something then!

[kismeteve.livejournal.com]

monimala runs purnima_fic which is a community for characters/actors of South Asian origin, and i know she's trying to get it off the gorund with a Holi themed challenge (http://community.livejournal.com/purnima_fic/1990.html).

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Dude, thanks! That is so great.