Title: Aaron
Rating: pg-13
Summary: A short scene between Aaron and Gabriel; another Creative Writing assignment.


( Aaron )

 

Title: Below
Rating: G
Summary: Life from the eyes of a gargoyle. Written for a creative writing assignment on defamiliarization.

 

( Below )

I genuinely dislike physics. To the point that I've avoided it for most of my life. However, there is now a formula that I shall never forget. It was given to me by the Greek history teacher, when we were going over phalanx warfare. So here's how it goes.

Force=mass x acceleration.

That's how you'll know who wins. Unless you have:

Force=mass x acceleration x Spartans.

Thus when you have 500 Spartans and 500 Corinthians, the fact that the S factor in the Corinthians = 0 nulls the 500; there is no battle, because there's no force at all with the Corinthians, because chances are they've all taken off.

So I hope that you have all learned something. That formula will stick with me for the rest of my life.

In the meantime, I've learned a decent amount about warfare in the Bronze Age, so I get to take that into account when writing. Like the fact that they all had riot shields. Which means if you get knocked over, good luck on getting back up, because that thing is strapped onto your arm. I think it could make things more interesting with my writing. Which I do intend to get back to >.< .

I refuse to complain about school this time. I'm trying this new thing called optimism, which means sucking it up even though my American Indian history class is basically a big guilt-trip for Europeans. It takes away most of the things for me to talk about.

I do get to make clothes for my friends because I'm a sucker I love them so much. Yeah. Last time I did was for the first time with a new "customer" who is both honest and picky. She loved it. So I'm feeling a little better about my sewing skillz. Anyone else who complains can just shove it, because I'm doing the best I can on a tight schedule. You can see how good my optimism is, right?

So that's about if for a status report.

Oh, and I found a YouTube video of someone playing the First Delphic Hymn to Apollo. I hope even you non-grecophiles out there will appreciate it. I think it's beautiful.

Title: Of Humans
Word count: 100
Notes: So if Coyote is my favourite character, Ivan and the Grey Wolf is my favourite story. There's a very specific version by Gennady Spirin that I absolutely love. But it occurred to me recently just how stupid Ivan was.

The wolf paced anxiously, listening. Then he heard it: the sound of a thousand bells ringing. It was beautiful, but frustrating beyond belief. It was the second time that fool of a prince had failed to listen to him. He didn't know what was so hard about “don't touch the golden reins.”

It was quite typical of humans, he supposed. They just couldn't seem to keep their hands of anything shiny. And there was Ivan-tsarevitch, walking up the hill. At least the stupid boy had the prudence to look ashamed.
 

“Alright. Let's get the girl,” the wolf sighed wearily.

Title: Jealousies
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Patroklos/Achilles, Achilles.Troilus. There are consequences for killing a certain prince. Set in the early years of the war. Contains very, very slight sexual references. If you squint and turn sideways, you can't even see them.

 

( Jealousies )

Notes: Um, yeah. This came out in a big spurt of inspiration. And it's not very long. But.. yay first-person present-tense! right? And I went and switched the spelling of Patroklos' name again.

Anyway, Achilles is what, seventeen here? And he never fully grows up, does he? I tried to flesh them out a little more, mostly Patroklos; as far as I'm concerned, he certainly has a darker side to his personality than his gentleness that not many people see.

So now that I'm back in school, I have even less free time. Ironically, this isn't a bad thing (for you).

Here's how it goes:

I get up at 7 (or 8, if I'm not feeling as spry), go to class. I'm totally psyched about my Greek history class, because I'm a geek, which means I'll actually get up three days a week. I get done by noon, and I'm not exhausted. In fact, because I've started working for the day, I am in more of a mood to continue working. I almost never do homework right after I get out of class, which means that I could very well go start writing. And because the internet in my dorm sucks, I can't be online and have the TV going at the same time. No distractions!

On top of this, one day a week (today, I think. Proof that I have to actually look at my schedule) I have creative writing. Which means I'll probably be forced to do some creative writing. Imagine that. If anyone is actually interested in reading original stuff, I'll probably have more of it up.

On a less happy note, I think I'm going to hate my new major. I went to my Writing on Literature class, and I don't think I'm going to particularly like picking apart books. There's one group of idiots that seem to think that, when teaching a book, you shouldn't teach about the culture or history behind it, because that's not what literature is about. You look at it only as a work of art. It sort of defeats the purpose of art, though, doesn't it? Take Johnathon Swift for example: You can't not look at the social problems of the era, because he wrote satires, very much with the intent of making people look at the problems with the British government and such. I hate critics.

And of course, the idiots that designed my dorm gave me a full sized bed, which takes up about half the room, but I have a severe shortage of storage space and no book shelves. This is a college! WHY DON'T WE HAVE BOOKSHELVES?!

Oh, and I hate you people at allinplaid . You make me like Barty Jr! He's ridiculously awesome. Or awesomely ridiculous. It works in that we only see him like...twice in the books. There's a lot of room for character development. I might feed off the interpretation to some extent. It'll most certainly be toned down, partly because canon isn't that silly, and partly because I can't come up with lines like "you are my own marshmallows" or "My soul is a pretzel. A contagious, fast lane pretzel that pretzelizes all that it touches."

That's about all of what's up right now.

Title: Photographs
Fandom: Harry Potter
Rating: G
Summary: It doesn't happen often, but the beach house had been bought for the purpose of taking the boys there, since it was good for children to get a little salt air in their lungs." Another Black!fic, and quite lighthearted, too. (Yes, another old story that I am still kinda fond of.)
Original Posting Date: Feb 9, 2008

 

( Photographs )

 

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Title: Bosendorfer
Rating: G
Summary: "If I promise not to peak, will you get from behind me and just lead me where?"
Notes: More with Dorian and Emmett. I'm an odd person, with writing everything out of order. Maybe I'll actually get some more substantial written with them again. (Or maybe this is a little of my daydreamy, "I wish that was my life" type thing.) By the way, Bosendorfer is an extremely expensive luxury piano company that's been in Vienna since 1828.

 

( Bosendorfer )

 

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So some time ago it was brought up on remusxsirius that the Chinese know the star Sirius as the "Wolfstar". I've been doing some reading on wolfy mythology, and I found some interesting things myself.

In Chinese legend, the Wolf and the Hound are brought together as guardians of the Celestial Palace, Shang-ti (aka Ursa Major), which is the land of the heroic dead. Kinda like a Chinese equivalent of Elysium, I guess.

Meanwhile, on the other end of the world, the American Indians are also giving it canine qualities. In the Southwest Seri and Tohono O'odham know it as a dog that follows mountain sheep (huh?), and the Blackfoot call it "Dog-face" (which I just find funny). The Cherokees have it as one of the two guardians of the Path of Souls.

There were several Pawnee tribes in Nebraska that gave different attributes. The Skidi tribe called it the "Wolfstar", the same as the Chinese. It was also that it was the reflection of the Wolf going up and down the Milkyway, called "Wolf Road", the stars of which are departed spirits going to the place "beyond", because around is is a place with no stars at all. The Wolfstar, as one might have guessed, travels between the world of the living and the dead.

My favourite, though, is the Inuits, who call it the "Moon Dog". In fact, they saw a dog in the moon, unlike the Europeans' man and the Chinese rabbit.

So yeah. I found that kinda cool. As if people really cared that much >.<

Title: Cats and Kittens
Fandom: Weiss Kreuz
Word count: 100
Notes: Yeah, nothing for nearly a week, and it's a drabble. I'm trying to stop from stagnating. So what do I do when I'm stumped? I write descriptive crap like this.

Schuldig calls Weiss 'the kittens', but Crawford thinks he's like a cat. Kittens follow their mother around, completely trusting, unquestioningly. Yes, Weiss is quite like that, believing whatever Kritiker says.

 

Schwarz doesn't follow Esset like that, but none so much as Schuldig. He does what he wants, goes where he wants, when he wants. The apartment they live in is his, as far as he's concerned, and they're very privileged to be allowed to sleep there.

 

Like all cats, though, he knows that he has to come back to find food. He follows orders, stays, for the sake of survival.

The world is full off odd people. For example, this person, who decided to name their cat Regulus Arcturus and create a blog for it.

And the grain-sized acceptance I had of Gary Oldman as Sirius Black went down the drain upon the finding of this picture of Charles Manson. If one were to compare it to a picture from Prisoner of Azkaban, you'll see the startling resemblance, including the way his hair is parted. I can appreciate the idea of the comparison if Sirius were actually evil, but...no. Just no.

This was brought up due to the fact that one of Manson's followers, Lynette Fromme (a.k.a. Squeaky) was released on parole. For those of you who don't know her, she pulled a gun on Gerald Ford. It's probably for the best that no photos of her were released, as well as not giving any information about where she was going to live. There are a number of people out there who would most likely want her dead, despite the fact that she's 60 years old now.

For anyone wondering, yes, I was just beginning to tilt slightly sideways toward Oldman. Unfortunately, the movie Dragonheart had a more profound impact on my childhood and how I turned out than probably any other movie, so I find it absolutely impossible to like David Thewlis as Remus. Not that I haven't tried--I have, really, too the point of making a note about how he looked better in the fifth movie than the third--but it just never worked.

So, odd as this seems, my confidence has gone down the drain. Why? It might have something to do with the fact that I realized most of my stories have more dialogue than anything.

I had wanted to write my first-ever Post-Azkaban Remus/Sirius. The easy, beginners one, the way I see it, is the "lay low at Lupin's", and I started and hated it. So I tried to write another school!story, since I mostly write that and just wanted to get back into the swing of things, and that ended up looking like crap to me, too.

So I thought about continuing my Trojan War story, or working on the "official" version. But I'm stumped.

In the end, I haven't really done anything at all. That's where I've been all this time, along with work. Thus, silence from me. So I'll shove some fic recs at you people.

Last year, I went on a pair of rants about The Cain Saga, by Kaori Yuki. The first was a full out rant about how to do tragedies, the second was my concieding that the ending was fairly decent. If you have read the series or don't mind hearing the whole thing basically, summarized, feel free to go read them. But there were a number of fics that I destinctly remember liking. So i'll dump those on y'all. All are Riff/Cain. I translated the ratings into "normal" language, according to the authors

From Denial to a Kiss PG-13 Thirteen Riff/Cain Drabbles That's about it.

Pick Up Okay, i lied. Riff/OC There's one point in the series that Riff is shown with a random woman, and this a drabble about it. This is crack.

Afternoon Tea and Tarts  PG  A silly story about Cain getting bored during tea.

Night Under Cover  NC-17, slight PWP. Cain's disguised himself as a woman (in case you're wondering, he did so once in the actual series, too) and he and Riff are forced to stop at an inn for the night. Riff, as the first excuse that came to mind, said that the reason that it was acceptable for him to share a room with a young lady was that they were eloped lovers. They suffer the consequences thereof, and when alone in the room Cain gets bored. It's a first-time fic. (I am terrible at these summaries, btw)

Title:Confession
Fandom: Harry Potter
Rating: PG
Pairing: Remus/Sirius, one-sided Lily/Remus
Summary: Lily gets a disappointment and James takes an oath.

 

( Confession )

Okay, I'll talk about The Songs of the Kings by Barry Unsworth. Because I'm not entire sure how I feel about it yet.

( Um...angry spoilers? )

I'll finish it, probably. But I don't know how much these characterizations with affect my own story. I'm not that much a cynic--in fact, I've decided to do my best not to demonize anyone.

Title: What Brothers Do
Fandom: Harry Potter
Rating: G
Pairing: Remus/Sirius
Summary: Regulus informs Sirius about a nasty rumor involving him and James Potter.

 

( What Brothers Do )

I am on my bi-weekly semi-hiatus. For anyone who doesn't know what the Hell that means, I am out of state, working. I'm leeching off the neighbor behind us for internet. Which means two things:

1) I am tired at the end of every day to the point where I can't think very creatively, so I won't post much.

2) Although I am not actually posting, I still receive the email-forwarded comments, and so I can respond to them.

There is an upside to being in what my mom calls "the country's biggest small town", in that I am going to see HBP for the first time. At a drive-in movie. I hear that there are very few left in the U.S. (On that note, I should probably finally get myself a R/S icon. Or any Harry Potter icon, for that matter...)

Title: Transformations
Fandom: Harry Potter
Rating: PG
Pairing: Remus/Sirius
Summary: In which Remus makes a proposal and gets something in return.

 

( Part Two )

Title: Transformations
Fandom: Harry Potter
Rating: PG
Pairing: Remus/Sirius
Summary: Sirius achieves his first transformation, but it's not the only change happening. I really have no better summary.

 

( Transformations )

Part Two

Okay, it is necessary to post this because it is really COOL.

So, Ptolemy and Homer (Simpson)

Title: In all but Blood
Rating: PG-13, for now (yell when it needs to go higher!)
Summary: When Patroclus accidentally kills a friend in an argument, he and his father are forced to flee to Phthia, where the queen is said to be a goddess and he's asked to look after her tiny son, unknowing that a series of events has been put into play that will change the world forever.

 

( Injustice )

 

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