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Of Algebra and Obscure Anti-Heroes
Apr. 29th, 2004 03:27 pmI have lost my mind.
No, really. I mean it this time. It's past 3:30, I should be doing my Algebra homework, which has to be finished by tomorrow. And what am I doing instead, you ask?
Bouncing off the walls, squeeing over this. Coldfire slash! And it's not that it's a major epic or even really graphic- it's PG13. But my gods, it's Coldfire slash. Found when all week I've been thinking to myself, you know, Tarrant/Vryce is a hell of a slash pairing...
And it's good Coldfire slash. I haven't done a ton of digging for this stuff mostly because I don't have time to read it right now, but I can see Coldfire fic, in particular anything with Tarrant in it, as something that can very easily be screwed up. Some characters are easier to get entierly wrong than to do right.
My obsessions run in cycles, and I'm having a C.S. Freidman cycle at present. Coldfire trilogy and This Alien Shore. (Which, by the way, have nothing in common beyond the same author.) Can I move to Guera now? [/obscure TAS reference] I have nothing left to read (unless one counts my Soc book; I don't.) and so I'm re-reading TAS. Will probably re-re-read Coldfire after that. (Finished re-reading the third book, um... day before yesterday?)
On second thought, perhaps I won't. I'm not sure I can deal with the end of the trilogy again so soon. *sigh* It pretty much had to go that way, but even so...
You guys should read this stuff, though. Really. The last book has its weak spots, but overall... Yes. I think this is fiction for those of us who went "Lestat? Yawn." Because the king of anti-heroes is Gerald Tarrant.
(Who is haunting me with a fic idea. Bastard. As if I have time for this... Well, two fic ideas. One sort of general, and the other oddly enough crossover- Bellatrix meets Tarrant. Someone shoot me now, because that scares me.)
*buries head in hands* No. No Tarrant introspection, no Tarrant/Vryce or Tarrant/Bella or Tarrant/anybody... No. Uh-uh. No way. I have logarithims and exponential crap to graph, and... stuff.
Bloody damned muses. Why now?
Don't answer that, alright? Don't tell me that my screwed-up priorities are my own fault, as are the uncontrollable muses. Don't tell me that they're my fault because I draw them- these dark, complex characters, many of them not very nice people, who are quite used to doing whatever the hell they want, whenever they want, and have absolutly no consideration for anyone else or what they might need to get done. Okay? Don't tell me I did this to myself. Even though I did.
Okay. Off to do my damned graphing now. Yes. Graphing is the key. Graphing and possibly some oldies on the radio.
(Because I can fight undead sorcerers with loud music and logarithims. Yes, I can.)
No, really. I mean it this time. It's past 3:30, I should be doing my Algebra homework, which has to be finished by tomorrow. And what am I doing instead, you ask?
Bouncing off the walls, squeeing over this. Coldfire slash! And it's not that it's a major epic or even really graphic- it's PG13. But my gods, it's Coldfire slash. Found when all week I've been thinking to myself, you know, Tarrant/Vryce is a hell of a slash pairing...
And it's good Coldfire slash. I haven't done a ton of digging for this stuff mostly because I don't have time to read it right now, but I can see Coldfire fic, in particular anything with Tarrant in it, as something that can very easily be screwed up. Some characters are easier to get entierly wrong than to do right.
My obsessions run in cycles, and I'm having a C.S. Freidman cycle at present. Coldfire trilogy and This Alien Shore. (Which, by the way, have nothing in common beyond the same author.) Can I move to Guera now? [/obscure TAS reference] I have nothing left to read (unless one counts my Soc book; I don't.) and so I'm re-reading TAS. Will probably re-re-read Coldfire after that. (Finished re-reading the third book, um... day before yesterday?)
On second thought, perhaps I won't. I'm not sure I can deal with the end of the trilogy again so soon. *sigh* It pretty much had to go that way, but even so...
You guys should read this stuff, though. Really. The last book has its weak spots, but overall... Yes. I think this is fiction for those of us who went "Lestat? Yawn." Because the king of anti-heroes is Gerald Tarrant.
(Who is haunting me with a fic idea. Bastard. As if I have time for this... Well, two fic ideas. One sort of general, and the other oddly enough crossover- Bellatrix meets Tarrant. Someone shoot me now, because that scares me.)
*buries head in hands* No. No Tarrant introspection, no Tarrant/Vryce or Tarrant/Bella or Tarrant/anybody... No. Uh-uh. No way. I have logarithims and exponential crap to graph, and... stuff.
Bloody damned muses. Why now?
Don't answer that, alright? Don't tell me that my screwed-up priorities are my own fault, as are the uncontrollable muses. Don't tell me that they're my fault because I draw them- these dark, complex characters, many of them not very nice people, who are quite used to doing whatever the hell they want, whenever they want, and have absolutly no consideration for anyone else or what they might need to get done. Okay? Don't tell me I did this to myself. Even though I did.
Okay. Off to do my damned graphing now. Yes. Graphing is the key. Graphing and possibly some oldies on the radio.
(Because I can fight undead sorcerers with loud music and logarithims. Yes, I can.)
