In a Malta trance

[lobelia321]

My brain has been eaten by that Mediterranean island south of Sicily.

I seem to have three concurrent Malta-fics boiling away on the stove. Last night I fucking dreamed of Brad and Orli. Wtf 111 @_@. I don't even *like* Brad! What's he doing invading my head?

*sighs*

I started reading the Iliad. This is for educational purposes only, of course, not to feed my demented fantasy life. Hah. And I've read versions, of course, but somehow (shock, horror) never the original thing itself. However, the only translation we seem to have in the house is a German one dating back to 1781. It is proving hard going.

(Must buy more up-to-date translation!)

So I embarked on Rosemary Sutcliff's Black Ships before Troy which I found on the children's bookshelf. It's illustrated by none other than Alan Lee. (Yes, he of Jackson-Tolkien-fame.) But it is so tragic! (Which I realise is a completely ridiculous and tautological insight because wasn't it Homer who *defined* tragedy for all other latecomers but there we are.) It's a strange and resonant epic: all about war but not warmongering.





Posted by thejennabides. Diane, someone whom I'm staring at too hard to remember name of, Garrett, Bean.




All the following ones kindly posted by blythely to feed my orc lust! And does it feed it ever! This, people who still don't realise, is Mister Jed Brophy, as seen in Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures. The woman is Melanie Lynskey.

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[blithesea.livejournal.com]

well, to be brutally honest, my lj username is blithesea. :-D

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Ack, what have I done? *prostrates self* Got a name wrong! How humiliating, how embarrassing. There is a blythely going round, I don't know if you know her but, in a distracted moment of temporary delusion, I typed in her tag by mistake!

Can you ever forgive me?

In retaliation, you may call me lj-user"poohface" for the next two weeks.

[blithesea.livejournal.com]

lol, don't worry about it, poohface dear. Jenn misspelled my username yesterday too. Must be a jinx or something like that.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

What does blithesea mean, anyway?

[blithesea.livejournal.com]

It's an anagram of Elisabeth, born out of hurry when I first signed up for AOL and all of the names I'd have liked were already taken (that was even before my Mayhem times). It stuck somehow. Looked better than Bealeshit, at any rate. :-D

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Bealeshit!!!


Mwuahahhahahha!!!

[bunnysquee.livejournal.com]

did you post something about whether brad pitt smokes and/or has acted on-stage? i yahoo-ed for a bit, but then you took the post down. anyway, brad smokes camels and marlboroughs, has been smoking since sixth grade [i don't know how old that would make him]. as far as my search went, i don't think he has done theatre.

Posted by thejennabides. Diane, someone whom I'm staring at too hard to remember name of, Garrett, Bean.

i love your captions.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

I took the post down because I did the same bit of googling and got the answers! Heh.
And lovely answers they are, too -- it is as if the world is made to serve my fic.

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

Dreams. I had a terrible Mary Sue dream a while back. I was getting married to Dom, and then Billy phone me up to say he couldn't make the wedding because he had to 'save up to buy a video'. Which was a bit of a lame ending, to be honest. I am so ashamed of my subconscious.

I've been meaning to read the Illiad for ages - the kiddie version I read was called 'The Tale of Troy' by Roger Lancelyn Green. Rosemary Sutcliffe wrote one of my favourite books when I was a child - 'The Armourer's House' - about a homesick girl living in 16th Century London.

Speaking of Alan Lee - I keep wondering why no one has yet written Bearded Illustrator Slash. It's all there on that DVD, I swear!