1. why do you write? 2. what inspires you to write rps? The pairing? A picture? A phrase? 3. what is the most satisfying thing about writing? The story or what your fans get out of it? 4. what appeals to you about slash as opposed to het? 5. what is your favourite colour?
First the since when: I've written stories since I first learned to write at age 5. Why I liked writing then I would need to sit down for a long time to try and reconstruct (I may!) but probably some of the reasons that propelled me originally still hold true today. I kept on writing all through school and university, on and off, mostly in German and some in English. Then I left Germany and the writing dried up. I hadn't written anything for at least 12 years when I stumbled upon slash in January 2002. And one of the best things about Lotrips has been that I discovered that I can write fiction *in English*.
So why do I continue doing it? Hm, you did ask 'write', not 'write fanfic'. So I should say that I also write non-fiction in the real world. I even have a book out (yes! eek!). I write academic stuff because I love research and I love sharing it, and writing and publishing is the way to do it, and to get professional recognition.
Why do I write fanfic? Something compells me. I have words inside me and they want to come out. I love the way the fiction comes from a different part of my brain from the non-fiction I write, it's more heart-and-guts than intellect. I love making something out of nothing, and writing is a miracle that way: no materials needed, no clay, no paint, no metal, no wool, just you and paper/pencil or a keyboard. Worlds jump from your head onto the screen or page - I find that remarkable.
I also find writing quite sexy, especially slash. Picasso and Renoir and some of those old painter geezers used to say how they painted with their pricks and I used to hate that and think what a lot of macho bollocks. But I've come round to it! Obviously, I write only with my phantom cock (to borrow thejennabide's term, heh) but when the writing flows and when it's doing what I love it to do, it is a very libidinal activity.
Oh, yes, and I also love being taken over by "the muses". I like that feeling of surrendering to a story that *seems* to be outside of me, of being a vehicle for some creative impulse outside. That is something that does not come in non-fictional writing. The invention of the Muses quite wonderfully fits that experience.
Hm, and that was only question 1...
2. what inspires you to write rps? The pairing? A picture? A phrase? I am mostly inspired by pictures. I have theme pics, illustrations per fic (for most of my stories). I rearrange them on my desktop and stare at them to divine characterisation and relationships. Once I've used up a pic for one story and one characterisation, I can't recycle that pic for another fic with the same person in it, because it has become so strongly associated with one storyverse.
I have, however, also been inspired by pairings, and then gone away to find pictures to suit that pairing. Especially as I ventured more into rare pairings where you really have to dig around for pics. Kiran, e.g., I wrote simply because I was desperate to write a stuntperson and he was the only one I could find a pic of (but I did need that pic!).
The only time I have had a story without even a pairing was "Past Imperfect" which is all about my nostalgia for my long-lost youth in Sydney.
3. what is the most satisfying thing about writing? The story or what your fans get out of it? Oh god, this is really hard. And I have discussed this on and off with others without having come to a decisive conclusion. I think I will probably have to say the story, finishing it, pulling it off. But if I didn't have the fb and the interaction with readers I wouldn't continue. Which is why, I guess, my origfic writing stagnates. :-)
what a lovely image. writing for me is very different. i sense a story or see a scene in my head, and then i fumble about for the words.
But if I didn't have the fb and the interaction with readers I wouldn't continue. Which is why, I guess, my origfic writing stagnates.
can you not use the positiveness from the fb of your fanfic to support your writing of original fic? it saddens me to know that you have original fiction which is not being written.
can you not use the positiveness from the fb of your fanfic to support your writing of original fic? it saddens me to know that you have original fiction which is not being written. You are very kind. And I keep planning to do this, to post bits in LJ. But then things like boring!Orli attack me from behind, and musings about sjuzhet... But one of these days! Thank you for that vote of confidence. :-)
4. what appeals to you about slash as opposed to het? You do have a knack for asking these let's-walk-down-memory-lane questions!!
The boy-on-boy thing goes way, way back. I can remember being excited by the friendship of book men when I was 8 (have you heard of Winnetou and Old Shatterhand? *the* original slash pair!). Some of the origfic I used to write included gay relationships, and the origfic that still occupies the back of my mind has a subplot of man-on-man sex that is not even "gay" as such, so truly veering into the slashy kind of hetflex thing.
Discovering slash just freed all of my boy-on-boy lust and dragged it out of the subplot into centre stage. I was so delighted and relieved to find thousands of women sharing what I had up till last year considered to be a strange little freakish erotic fantasy, unique only to me. Hahah!
5. what is your favourite colour? If you go to the Your Friends page and look at the little colour chart you get to choose your Friends colours from: I do like the 'olive', the 'yellow, dark' and the 'green, dark', so I would say it's a sort of sage, beige, Mediterranean, dry, spinifex kind of green.
no, i don't know who are Winnetou and Old Shatterhand. growing up, i've read a lot of e.m. forster and d.h. lawrence, and i am quite the faghag. i've never had a fandom until LOTR, i mean, i've been a fan of bands and singers, and actors, and such, but i never belonged to a fanclub or participated in forums or anything until LOTR come along. so slash is a new thing to me, and i would have never discovered it if not for the very secret diaries and slashpuppets. and you're right - it is pretty heartening to know all there are likeminded people in the world.
1. What is your earliest childhood memory? 2. Is there anything you collect more or less obsessively (outside of fandom)? 3. How many books are on your nightstand? Which ones? 4. Are there still any Kaetzchen left? 5. If you were a man for one day, what would you do?
1. What is your earliest childhood memory? My second birthday. The birthday table, for some reason in a dark space, with the cake and the candles very bright, and behind the candles a teddy bear which I got for a present. I still have him. HIs name is Teddy Plüsch.
2. Is there anything you collect more or less obsessively (outside of fandom)? *thinks* No. I collect papers and rubbish and ancient term papers, but I don't *collect* them, they simply accrue around me because I am too lazy and incapable of throwing anything out. But I am not an obsessive collector of things, not even of fan things. I do get obsessive, but not about collecting.
3. How many books are on your nightstand? Which ones? My nightstand is a rickety affair. It is a sort of folding thingy from Ikea which is designed to hold one pot plant, I think, so no books fit on it, just a lamp and my glasses. On the floor, however, there are books! Currently, there is Haruki Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (because I got bored with it and just left it to rot there) and the National Gallery's Pocket Guide to Narrative (which I was actually reading in bed a few nights ago). But the books I'm actively reading tend to get carried around the house and to t'reference library; they don't stay near the bed.
4. Are there still any Kaetzchen left? Oh yes! I am a compulsive hoarder of Kaetzchen! I'm the sort of person who opens one Christmas present every 20 minutes so that at the end of Heilig Abend, when everyone else is getting drunk in a pile of wrapping paper, I've still got a goodly stack of prezzies on my lap and invariably incur the wrath of the rels. ;-)
So yes: plenty of Kaetzchen! I ration them out to myself. When I do start eating them, I glut out on them, though!!
5. If you were a man for one day, what would you do? O, what an interesting question, but what a hard one! (Eek, pun intended, I guess.)
It depends on the kind of man I was, I would say. If I were Johnny Depp, I would attempt to bugger Orlando. Hah!
Assuming that I'd be an ordinary guy and after I'd stopped freaking out, I'd obviously explore my penis, I'd wank, and I would pay for sex. I have always envied men for having sex on tap, so I would visit a female prostitute and have sex with a woman, and then I would get some local gay magazine and call in a male prostitute and try out everything I've written about. Unless I were too shy, of course. It's interesting that I'm not saying I'd fuck my friends, but I'd rather get professionals in -- I suppose to minimise the embarrassment factor.
Don't know what else I'd do. The above would presumably not fill the entire 24 hours. Just hang out, I guess, in men's clothing. See how people react differently. Use a urinal. If it's summer, take my top off.
Heh. Not very exciting. I'm evidently not thejennabides: I have never been desperate to *be* a man.
Thank you for asking these questions! I enjoyed answering them.
1) If I left you alone in my flat, what would you do? 2) If I held you down and forced you to write het, who would it be? 3) There were three in the bed and the little one said...? 4) Look out your window right now. What do you see? 5) One day I'll be rich and famous! What favour will you ask of me?
(See, it's all about me, me, me. I'm so vain. *poses*)
1) If I left you alone in my flat, what would you do? Now this I love. You've been reading my fic too much and discovering how I love having my characters interact with inanimate objects, heh. Because that's what I would do: interact with your inanimate objects and try to build up a sense of your character from them. (A la the Reader in Italo Calvino's When on a Winter's Night a Traveller, when he's in the Woman Reader's flat and tries to figure out who she is from her spice rack.)
I'd look at your bookshelf first, then at your desktop and LJ layout. Then I'd snoop around for unfinished / unposted fic. If I found anything resembling a diary or secret thing, I would not open it, nor any personal letters. I would check out your bathroom and all the toiletries.
Once bored with all that, I'd probably end up in the corner of a sofa (if there is one) or chair or bed, with a few of the books I'd have found on your shelf. I would also make myself a coffee.
2) If I held you down and forced you to write het, who would it be? No need to force! I've written het! It was part of the unposted k/d saga. I would write Miranda/Dom (as I did -- and probably quite similarly but without the angst because it was rather sexy writing that het, *g*).
3) There were three in the bed and the little one said...? Oh dear, this is some allusion to something I know nothing about because badgermonkey once wrote a fic "And the little one said" so this is possibly some Anglo thing that I never learned about.
There is, however, a song I know, and the refrain goes "Move over, move over." So that's what the little one said.
4) Look out your window right now. What do you see? Black, plus the reflection of the room I am sitting in: a bare lightbulb in a hideous light fixture, part of the Anglepoise lamp, a cupboard door (unhinged and leaning against the window). Nothing of the outside world, just the black night sky. Oh, and some birdshit stuck to the pane.
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Ooh, more questions. And bondage ones, too!
<b>1) If I left you alone in my flat, what would you do?</b> Now this I love. You've been reading my fic too much and discovering how I love having my characters interact with inanimate objects, heh. Because that's what I would do: interact with your inanimate objects and try to build up a sense of your character from them. (A la the Reader in Italo Calvino's <i>When on a Winter's Night a Traveller</i>, when he's in the Woman Reader's flat and tries to figure out who she is from her spice rack.)
I'd look at your bookshelf first, then at your desktop and LJ layout. Then I'd snoop around for unfinished / unposted fic. If I found anything resembling a diary or secret thing, I would not open it, nor any personal letters. I would check out your bathroom and all the toiletries.
Once bored with all that, I'd probably end up in the corner of a sofa (if there is one) or chair or bed, with a few of the books I'd have found on your shelf. I would also make myself a coffee.
<b>2) If I held you down and forced you to write het, who would it be?</b> No need to force! I've written het! It was part of the unposted k/d saga. I would write Miranda/Dom (as I did -- and probably quite similarly but without the angst because it was rather sexy writing that het, *g*).
<b>3) There were three in the bed and the little one said...?</b> Oh dear, this is some allusion to something I know nothing about because <lj site="livejournal.com" user="badgermonkey"> once wrote a fic "And the little one said" so this is possibly some Anglo thing that I never learned about.
There is, however, a song I know, and the refrain goes "Move over, move over." So that's what the little one said.
<b>4) Look out your window right now. What do you see?</b> Black, plus the reflection of the room I am sitting in: a bare lightbulb in a hideous light fixture, part of the Anglepoise lamp, a cupboard door (unhinged and leaning against the window). Nothing of the outside world, just the black night sky. Oh, and some birdshit stuck to the pane.
<b.5) One day I'll be rich and famous! What favour will you ask of me?</b> How rich? If very rich: could you pay for my children's education? If not very rich but very famous: Could you introduce me to Dom? It also depends on the 'one day': the introduction to Dom, e.g., would ideally occur in about 7 years' time. The education would have to happen before the year 2028.
Thank you for asking these questions. They were fun to answer!
1) Hee. I'm also fascinated by the "things" people have, how they arrange them, the space they live in. I love houses, living areas. (We have three bookshelves - one huge one full of fantasy fiction, one big one full of general fiction, and a smaller one of non-fiction. We have a very comfy couch that doubles as a coat-rack, but just shove them onto the floor. And in any household I'm in, coffee-making is raised to a religious rite. *g* Our spicerack is interesting: chilli and cumin and garam masala and oregano - that's the Male. Cinnamon and thyme and paprika - that's me. Plus the fresh parsley and basil growing on the windowsill.)
2) Then you must write some for public consumption! Or maybe not public, maybe just me... *looks shifty* I have a growing soft-spot for the Miranda/Dom. The age gap bugged me at first, but I'm melting into the dynamic. It works very well, I think.
3) I know not of Anglo things. I was thinking of the song as I wrote the question, but also thinking there were many other amusing things the little one might be saying. *g*
4) Sometimes I really like that feeling, like you're stuck in a box in the night, all self-contained. I don't get it here, in this apartment, because the outside world is too brightly lit, and there are almost always lights on in the building across the way, or the reflection of the casino's flamethrowers.
5) I'll file all that away in my "list of things to do when rich and famous". *g*
*happy smile*. That's the sort of detail I love you for. Though, as should be obvious, the actual birdshit is not included in my love.
Have many questions to ask you but suspect will not get the same answers that you'd give over a leisurely coffee. (Do let me know if you're at the British Library again! I enjoyed that lunch very much)
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Date: 2003-06-19 10:39 am (UTC)1. why do you write?
2. what inspires you to write rps? The pairing? A picture? A phrase?
3. what is the most satisfying thing about writing? The story or what your fans get out of it?
4. what appeals to you about slash as opposed to het?
5. what is your favourite colour?
5 questions orlisbunny
Date: 2003-06-19 04:19 pm (UTC)1. why do you write?
God. *thinks for 2 minutes*
Right. *takes deep breath*
First the since when: I've written stories since I first learned to write at age 5. Why I liked writing then I would need to sit down for a long time to try and reconstruct (I may!) but probably some of the reasons that propelled me originally still hold true today. I kept on writing all through school and university, on and off, mostly in German and some in English. Then I left Germany and the writing dried up. I hadn't written anything for at least 12 years when I stumbled upon slash in January 2002. And one of the best things about Lotrips has been that I discovered that I can write fiction *in English*.
So why do I continue doing it? Hm, you did ask 'write', not 'write fanfic'. So I should say that I also write non-fiction in the real world. I even have a book out (yes! eek!). I write academic stuff because I love research and I love sharing it, and writing and publishing is the way to do it, and to get professional recognition.
Why do I write fanfic? Something compells me. I have words inside me and they want to come out. I love the way the fiction comes from a different part of my brain from the non-fiction I write, it's more heart-and-guts than intellect. I love making something out of nothing, and writing is a miracle that way: no materials needed, no clay, no paint, no metal, no wool, just you and paper/pencil or a keyboard. Worlds jump from your head onto the screen or page - I find that remarkable.
I also find writing quite sexy, especially slash. Picasso and Renoir and some of those old painter geezers used to say how they painted with their pricks and I used to hate that and think what a lot of macho bollocks. But I've come round to it! Obviously, I write only with my phantom cock (to borrow
Oh, yes, and I also love being taken over by "the muses". I like that feeling of surrendering to a story that *seems* to be outside of me, of being a vehicle for some creative impulse outside. That is something that does not come in non-fictional writing. The invention of the Muses quite wonderfully fits that experience.
Hm, and that was only question 1...
2. what inspires you to write rps? The pairing? A picture? A phrase?
I am mostly inspired by pictures. I have theme pics, illustrations per fic (for most of my stories). I rearrange them on my desktop and stare at them to divine characterisation and relationships. Once I've used up a pic for one story and one characterisation, I can't recycle that pic for another fic with the same person in it, because it has become so strongly associated with one storyverse.
I have, however, also been inspired by pairings, and then gone away to find pictures to suit that pairing. Especially as I ventured more into rare pairings where you really have to dig around for pics. Kiran, e.g., I wrote simply because I was desperate to write a stuntperson and he was the only one I could find a pic of (but I did need that pic!).
The only time I have had a story without even a pairing was "Past Imperfect" which is all about my nostalgia for my long-lost youth in Sydney.
3. what is the most satisfying thing about writing? The story or what your fans get out of it?
Oh god, this is really hard. And I have discussed this on and off with others without having come to a decisive conclusion. I think I will probably have to say the story, finishing it, pulling it off. But if I didn't have the fb and the interaction with readers I wouldn't continue. Which is why, I guess, my origfic writing stagnates. :-)
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Date: 2003-06-19 05:28 pm (UTC)what a lovely image. writing for me is very different. i sense a story or see a scene in my head, and then i fumble about for the words.
But if I didn't have the fb and the interaction with readers I wouldn't continue. Which is why, I guess, my origfic writing stagnates.
can you not use the positiveness from the fb of your fanfic to support your writing of original fic? it saddens me to know that you have original fiction which is not being written.
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Date: 2003-06-20 05:54 pm (UTC)You are very kind. And I keep planning to do this, to post bits in LJ. But then things like boring!Orli attack me from behind, and musings about sjuzhet... But one of these days! Thank you for that vote of confidence. :-)
5 questions orlisbunny
Date: 2003-06-19 04:20 pm (UTC)4. what appeals to you about slash as opposed to het?
You do have a knack for asking these let's-walk-down-memory-lane questions!!
The boy-on-boy thing goes way, way back. I can remember being excited by the friendship of book men when I was 8 (have you heard of Winnetou and Old Shatterhand? *the* original slash pair!). Some of the origfic I used to write included gay relationships, and the origfic that still occupies the back of my mind has a subplot of man-on-man sex that is not even "gay" as such, so truly veering into the slashy kind of hetflex thing.
Discovering slash just freed all of my boy-on-boy lust and dragged it out of the subplot into centre stage. I was so delighted and relieved to find thousands of women sharing what I had up till last year considered to be a strange little freakish erotic fantasy, unique only to me. Hahah!
5. what is your favourite colour?
If you go to the Your Friends page and look at the little colour chart you get to choose your Friends colours from: I do like the 'olive', the 'yellow, dark' and the 'green, dark', so I would say it's a sort of sage, beige, Mediterranean, dry, spinifex kind of green.
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Date: 2003-06-19 05:43 pm (UTC)5 questions orlisbunny
Date: 2003-06-19 04:21 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-06-19 11:08 am (UTC)2. Is there anything you collect more or less obsessively (outside of fandom)?
3. How many books are on your nightstand? Which ones?
4. Are there still any Kaetzchen left?
5. If you were a man for one day, what would you do?
5 questions ia_ne
Date: 2003-06-19 04:34 pm (UTC)My second birthday. The birthday table, for some reason in a dark space, with the cake and the candles very bright, and behind the candles a teddy bear which I got for a present. I still have him. HIs name is Teddy Plüsch.
2. Is there anything you collect more or less obsessively (outside of fandom)?
*thinks* No. I collect papers and rubbish and ancient term papers, but I don't *collect* them, they simply accrue around me because I am too lazy and incapable of throwing anything out. But I am not an obsessive collector of things, not even of fan things. I do get obsessive, but not about collecting.
3. How many books are on your nightstand? Which ones?
My nightstand is a rickety affair. It is a sort of folding thingy from Ikea which is designed to hold one pot plant, I think, so no books fit on it, just a lamp and my glasses. On the floor, however, there are books! Currently, there is Haruki Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (because I got bored with it and just left it to rot there) and the National Gallery's Pocket Guide to Narrative (which I was actually reading in bed a few nights ago). But the books I'm actively reading tend to get carried around the house and to t'reference library; they don't stay near the bed.
4. Are there still any Kaetzchen left?
Oh yes! I am a compulsive hoarder of Kaetzchen! I'm the sort of person who opens one Christmas present every 20 minutes so that at the end of Heilig Abend, when everyone else is getting drunk in a pile of wrapping paper, I've still got a goodly stack of prezzies on my lap and invariably incur the wrath of the rels. ;-)
So yes: plenty of Kaetzchen! I ration them out to myself. When I do start eating them, I glut out on them, though!!
5. If you were a man for one day, what would you do?
O, what an interesting question, but what a hard one! (Eek, pun intended, I guess.)
It depends on the kind of man I was, I would say. If I were Johnny Depp, I would attempt to bugger Orlando. Hah!
Assuming that I'd be an ordinary guy and after I'd stopped freaking out, I'd obviously explore my penis, I'd wank, and I would pay for sex. I have always envied men for having sex on tap, so I would visit a female prostitute and have sex with a woman, and then I would get some local gay magazine and call in a male prostitute and try out everything I've written about. Unless I were too shy, of course. It's interesting that I'm not saying I'd fuck my friends, but I'd rather get professionals in -- I suppose to minimise the embarrassment factor.
Don't know what else I'd do. The above would presumably not fill the entire 24 hours. Just hang out, I guess, in men's clothing. See how people react differently. Use a urinal. If it's summer, take my top off.
Heh. Not very exciting. I'm evidently not
Thank you for asking these questions! I enjoyed answering them.
Re: 5 questions ia_ne
*dies*
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Date: 2003-06-19 04:34 pm (UTC)1) If I left you alone in my flat, what would you do?
2) If I held you down and forced you to write het, who would it be?
3) There were three in the bed and the little one said...?
4) Look out your window right now. What do you see?
5) One day I'll be rich and famous! What favour will you ask of me?
(See, it's all about me, me, me. I'm so vain. *poses*)
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Date: 2003-06-19 04:51 pm (UTC)1) If I left you alone in my flat, what would you do?
Now this I love. You've been reading my fic too much and discovering how I love having my characters interact with inanimate objects, heh. Because that's what I would do: interact with your inanimate objects and try to build up a sense of your character from them. (A la the Reader in Italo Calvino's When on a Winter's Night a Traveller, when he's in the Woman Reader's flat and tries to figure out who she is from her spice rack.)
I'd look at your bookshelf first, then at your desktop and LJ layout. Then I'd snoop around for unfinished / unposted fic. If I found anything resembling a diary or secret thing, I would not open it, nor any personal letters. I would check out your bathroom and all the toiletries.
Once bored with all that, I'd probably end up in the corner of a sofa (if there is one) or chair or bed, with a few of the books I'd have found on your shelf. I would also make myself a coffee.
2) If I held you down and forced you to write het, who would it be?
No need to force! I've written het! It was part of the unposted k/d saga. I would write Miranda/Dom (as I did -- and probably quite similarly but without the angst because it was rather sexy writing that het, *g*).
3) There were three in the bed and the little one said...?
Oh dear, this is some allusion to something I know nothing about because
There is, however, a song I know, and the refrain goes "Move over, move over." So that's what the little one said.
4) Look out your window right now. What do you see?
Black, plus the reflection of the room I am sitting in: a bare lightbulb in a hideous light fixture, part of the Anglepoise lamp, a cupboard door (unhinged and leaning against the window). Nothing of the outside world, just the black night sky. Oh, and some birdshit stuck to the pane.
<b>1) If I left you alone in my flat, what would you do?</b>
Now this I love. You've been reading my fic too much and discovering how I love having my characters interact with inanimate objects, heh. Because that's what I would do: interact with your inanimate objects and try to build up a sense of your character from them. (A la the Reader in Italo Calvino's <i>When on a Winter's Night a Traveller</i>, when he's in the Woman Reader's flat and tries to figure out who she is from her spice rack.)
I'd look at your bookshelf first, then at your desktop and LJ layout. Then I'd snoop around for unfinished / unposted fic. If I found anything resembling a diary or secret thing, I would not open it, nor any personal letters. I would check out your bathroom and all the toiletries.
Once bored with all that, I'd probably end up in the corner of a sofa (if there is one) or chair or bed, with a few of the books I'd have found on your shelf. I would also make myself a coffee.
<b>2) If I held you down and forced you to write het, who would it be?</b>
No need to force! I've written het! It was part of the unposted k/d saga. I would write Miranda/Dom (as I did -- and probably quite similarly but without the angst because it was rather sexy writing that het, *g*).
<b>3) There were three in the bed and the little one said...?</b>
Oh dear, this is some allusion to something I know nothing about because <lj site="livejournal.com" user="badgermonkey"> once wrote a fic "And the little one said" so this is possibly some Anglo thing that I never learned about.
There is, however, a song I know, and the refrain goes "Move over, move over." So that's what the little one said.
<b>4) Look out your window right now. What do you see?</b>
Black, plus the reflection of the room I am sitting in: a bare lightbulb in a hideous light fixture, part of the Anglepoise lamp, a cupboard door (unhinged and leaning against the window). Nothing of the outside world, just the black night sky. Oh, and some birdshit stuck to the pane.
<b.5) One day I'll be rich and famous! What favour will you ask of me?</b>
How rich? If very rich: could you pay for my children's education? If not very rich but very famous: Could you introduce me to Dom? It also depends on the 'one day': the introduction to Dom, e.g., would ideally occur in about 7 years' time. The education would have to happen before the year 2028.
Thank you for asking these questions. They were fun to answer!
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Date: 2003-06-19 05:39 pm (UTC)2) Then you must write some for public consumption! Or maybe not public, maybe just me... *looks shifty* I have a growing soft-spot for the Miranda/Dom. The age gap bugged me at first, but I'm melting into the dynamic. It works very well, I think.
3) I know not of Anglo things. I was thinking of the song as I wrote the question, but also thinking there were many other amusing things the little one might be saying. *g*
4) Sometimes I really like that feeling, like you're stuck in a box in the night, all self-contained. I don't get it here, in this apartment, because the outside world is too brightly lit, and there are almost always lights on in the building across the way, or the reflection of the casino's flamethrowers.
5) I'll file all that away in my "list of things to do when rich and famous". *g*
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Date: 2003-06-20 02:19 am (UTC)*happy smile*. That's the sort of detail I love you for. Though, as should be obvious, the actual birdshit is not included in my love.
Have many questions to ask you but suspect will not get the same answers that you'd give over a leisurely coffee. (Do let me know if you're at the British Library again! I enjoyed that lunch very much)
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Date: 2003-06-20 08:42 am (UTC)I'll give better ones!