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skygiantsYesterday my company went to the racetrack for a Company Outing! (Corporate America is weird sometimes.) I did not wear a big hat and I did not drink a mint julep, but I did bet money on the races, which marks my Very First Time Gambling! That is two dollars I will never see again. :( Gambling is clearly the devil's work.
Due possibly to lack of big hat, I have also burned myself an exciting neon pink color that matches well with the purple shirt I am wearing today. SUMMER IS HERE AT LAST.
Anyway, I have books to write up, but for one reason or another I wish to hold off on them for now, so instead I am stealing a meme from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
furikku and shoroko:
Give me a character from any fandom you know that I know and I will tell you:
a. My favorite thing about that character.
b. My least favorite thing about that character.
c. One person I would ship them with in their own verse.
d. One crossover ship for them I think would be neat.
e. One crossover universe for them I think would be even neater.
f. Their ship from hell.
g. Their song.
h. The title of their biography or autobiography.
i. The last bad dream they had.
j. How they're gonna shuffle off the mortal coil, if they haven't already.
This is an awesome meme! It combines all my favorite things: character analysis, cracktastic crossovers, making playlists, and killing off characters in exciting ways. Feel free to ask me lots! :D
Due possibly to lack of big hat, I have also burned myself an exciting neon pink color that matches well with the purple shirt I am wearing today. SUMMER IS HERE AT LAST.
Anyway, I have books to write up, but for one reason or another I wish to hold off on them for now, so instead I am stealing a meme from
furikku and shoroko:Give me a character from any fandom you know that I know and I will tell you:
a. My favorite thing about that character.
b. My least favorite thing about that character.
c. One person I would ship them with in their own verse.
d. One crossover ship for them I think would be neat.
e. One crossover universe for them I think would be even neater.
f. Their ship from hell.
g. Their song.
h. The title of their biography or autobiography.
i. The last bad dream they had.
j. How they're gonna shuffle off the mortal coil, if they haven't already.
This is an awesome meme! It combines all my favorite things: character analysis, cracktastic crossovers, making playlists, and killing off characters in exciting ways. Feel free to ask me lots! :D
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Date: 2009-07-16 03:37 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-07-16 04:05 pm (UTC)a. She refuses to vanish! I love that even though Ahiru is generally helpful and kind and self-sacrificing for the happiness of others, she gets a character arc that leads her to the point of being able to say, "No, I am not going to destroy myself for love, and I shouldn't have to. THAT'S A DUMB PLOT POINT."
b. Sometimes I could wish she were a little smarter . . . but you can't really blame her for that.
c. I am going to surprise nobody when I say Fakir!
d. Actually I think Ahiru/Anthy Himemiya would be totally fascinating. Flip sides of the princess coin!
e. . . . but I just did an Utena crossoververse so I can't do it again! Um. BATTLESTAR GALACTICA. Ahiru would fix everyone's problems with magical hugs and it would be awesome.
f. Ahiru/Lilie. SO ABUSIVE. POOR AHIRU.
g. This is still my ultimate Princess Tutu song of all time: And We'll Dance
h. The Prince and the Raven and the Knight and the Duck. That was easy!
i. From where I play her in
j. You know how ducks are small and easily stomped upon? One of these postcanon days, Ahiru is going to be trying very hard to dance with someone to get them to help them express their feeeelings, and someone is going to put a foot wrong, and then there will be a very flat duck. :(
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Date: 2009-07-16 04:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-16 04:16 pm (UTC)You...wait, you RP??
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Date: 2009-07-16 04:26 pm (UTC)b. I could have done without the token sexism in the beginning to Teach The Kids A Lesson, but fortunately they got him over it quickly.
c. Toph! Not that I don't ship Sokka/Suki as well, but Sokka/Toph is the Someday, In The Future, She Hits Him Over The Head With a Rock and Drags Him Off ship of my heart. (Sokka/Toph/Suki is also acceptable.)
d. Back when West had just been horribly introduced and there were still hopes that Heroes would be salvageable, I spent a lot of time pondering all the ways that Sokka/Claire Bennet would be an amazing, amazing OTP. He likes strong women and people with superpowers! She needs someone with a sense of humor! THEY WOULD FIGHT CRIME TOGETHER SO AWESOMELY.
e. I want a Sokka-Buffy!verse crossover, just so Sokka can show them all just how badass a badass normal can be. He and Buffy would go shopping! He and Willow could invent some stuff! He and Xander would KICK ASS and not need any superpowered people to come help them do it!
f. I saw someone talking about Sokka/Azula once. And . . . I can maaaybe see it happening under very specific circumstances, and it would be the most terrifying, emotionally disturbing thing ever and would destroy him.
g. Ooh, this is hard! For some reason I've never mentally made Avatar playlists. I'm going to go with Everybody Got Their Something, by Nikki Costa.
h. "BOOMERANG AND I: A Love Story." The author photo shows Sokka in his Fire Nation Dad beard and mustache, striking a pose.
i. It involved eating too much, falling off a cliff, and being trapped in a hole. There he had to watch helplessly as Yue floated up into the sky and turned into green cheese. Then Aang ate her. Stupid vegetarians!
j. Sokka is going to die well into his sixties, testing out the Avatar!verse's very first jetpack. The jetpack will work fine, but he won't have factored in the giant eagle-bee that smells his packed lunch and zooms in for the attack . . .
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Date: 2009-07-16 04:32 pm (UTC)You were at Belmont? If so, at least you were at one of the great tracks.
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Date: 2009-07-16 04:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-16 04:54 pm (UTC)b. . . . this is a hard question for me because I really like all his flaws! They are what make him fun. He is kind of a little bitch to the horse people at the beginning of his canon, though.
c. Helen Haras-uquara. It's basically canon. That I like!
d. Actually I could kind of see Jamie/Katara. He would drive her crazy at least 50% of the time, and they both like being insufferable know-it-alls and they would fight a lot, but he would happily let her take charge and be the ass-kicking one, and they could steal stuff and disregard conventional morals when it turned out to be convenient together!
e. EVERY UNIVERSE EVER no really, I totally want to fling him everywhere and crossover him into everything, thank you Milliways for giving me the chance! :D Right now I've been having fun poking at how he fits into Kingverse with John, though.
f. Jamie/Boomer. Hopelessness/exile from the place they feel is home TO THE INFINITE POWER! :D?
g. I . . . can I just link to my Jamie Hamilton Playlist?
h. Well, technically, it already exists and it's called The Homeward Bounders. :D But if Jamie had his way, it would probably be called something like, "If You Don't Believe This Book, That's Fine," or "Now That You Mention It I'm Actually The Most Important Person In the Universe."
i. It was a great dream about being Home and playing football with his family. That's what made it so awful.
j. If all goes well, six or seven thousand years from now when he's old and gray and not so nimble he'll be able to tag some other poor sucker into leaving Home and settle down to spend his last few years being as desperately ordinary as possible on some world or other before dying of heart disease.
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Date: 2009-07-16 04:56 pm (UTC)Alas no - we went to Monmouth Park in Jersey. I have no idea if that's a great track or not.
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Date: 2009-07-16 04:57 pm (UTC)And yes! :D I probably would not have an LJ or online presence at all if it wasn't for
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Date: 2009-07-16 05:13 pm (UTC)a. I like that she is a good friend! And that, in a thoroughly ridiculous canon, she gives the closest approximation of sane! We will see whether that holds true in the sequel.
b. She has a tendency to throw her loyalties in on one side or another without . . . actually considering the situation.
c. Meg/Philippe de Chagny! OTP OF SANITY FOR THE WIN.
d. Moving away from the obvious RP shenanigans - Meg/Feuilly from Les Mis would be cool. (Yes, I am enough of a Les Mis dork to know the personality differences between the individual revolutionaries in the book. Feuilly is the sweet, self-educated one who makes fans!)
e. DISCWORLD. Meg would dive into Maskerade and own it.
f. Meg/Phantom oh my god so much wrong. D: D: D:
g. Tiny Dancer! Which, whatever Shati says, is not about someone eating Meg.
h. If you go by canon 1, "Must Have Been Dreaming: A Life in the Opera." If you go by canon 2, apparently, "Ooh La La!"
i. . . . I wrote so many melodramatic bad dreams for Meg back in the day. Oh man. Um. We'll go with the deeply symbolic one where she's trapped in a box and can't get out!
j. THE ALTERNATE VERSION, APPARENTLY: Meg attempts to do water ballet, forgets that she does not in fact know how to swim, AND DROWNS. BEFORE SHE CAN BECOME A BATHING BEAUTY, WTF Andrew Lloyd Webber.
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Date: 2009-07-16 05:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-16 05:29 pm (UTC)a. I loooooove how much of a melodramatic dork he is. I love how hard he tries to throw himself into whatever role he's playing, basically, and how he is always doomed to fail - when he's angsty he is THE ANGSTIEST THERE EVER WAS and it just comes off as ridiculous, and when he is being good he wants to be FULL OF SAGE WISDOM and it also comes off as ridiculous. But he is always trying so hard!
b. The flip-side of that: while he's fixating on his goals, it is very easy for him to pretend it doesn't matter about all the people he's hurting in pursuit of them. See: the Gaang, Iroh, Mai. But figuring this out is part of his character arc!
c. I really like Zuko/Mai. I love ships where both people are flawed in ways that work together, or force each other to compensate, and I think Zuko/Mai is a great example of this - he won't let her retreat into her own isolated world, and she won't let him take everything so damn seriously.
d. Obviously nothing really can come between Sophie/Howl, but . . . oh my god Zuko/Sophie Hatter. IMAGINE THE BITCHFIGHTS. *_* They'd shout at each other for hours and then she'd go weed-kill some stuff viciously and he'd shout at the heavens for lightning to strike him and then they'd shout at each other some more and then there would be makeouts, it would be the most AMAZING TRAINWRECK EVER.
Alternately, Zuko/Ryan. ZUKO DOESN'T DANCE (but Ryan knows he can!)
e. Zuko belongs in the Host Club, as their resident Angry Misfit. WE ALL KNOW THIS IS TRUE.
f. I'm not saying Zuko/Azula doesn't have a certain amount of canon plausibility! (y helo thar bedroom scene.) I'm just saying, for Zuko, it is most certainly the ship from hell. :D
. . . alternately, Zuko/Ryan! Which for Zuko is probably also the ship from hell. (But for me, is the ship of GLORY.)
g.
h. Either "DARK AND ANGSTY" or "WHY WAS I SO BAD AT BEING GOOD?"
i. He stared into the mirror! And saw . . . AZULA'S FACE. OH CRAP.
j. Someday, lightning is actually going to take him at his word and strike him. But this will be when he's like seventy so he won't be prepared!
Alternately, Azula is going to lead a coup to take back the kingdom in ten or fifteen years, and there will be a dramatic Brother vs. Sister confrontation, and she'll kill him, and then Mai will kill her, and it will all be very operatic and tragic and lead to awesome politicalfic with Mai and Iroh trying to hold together a Fire Nation without a Firelord and figure out where to go from there.
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Date: 2009-07-16 05:47 pm (UTC)He's like a little puppy who doesn't know how to stop biting things but is really starving for attention and doesn't understand why people keep kicking him! You know all he really needed was a hug.
he won't let her retreat into her own isolated world, and she won't let him take everything so damn seriously.
*nodnod* With their powers combined, they will be the most terrifying Fire Nation leaders yet. And god knows what their children will be like...
it would be the most AMAZING TRAINWRECK EVER.
I APPROVE OF THIS 100%. ALTHOUGH ZUKO/RYAN WOULD BE TOO GLORIOUS FOR THIS WORLD.
Zuko belongs in the Host Club, as their resident Angry Misfit. WE ALL KNOW THIS IS TRUE.
yesssssssssssssss THIS IS SOMETHING THAT NEEDS TO EXIST. Although probably it never will because I do not think the fandoms have much overlap. BUT STILL.
I'm just saying, for Zuko, it is most certainly the ship from hell. :D
I agree! 100%! Dude would need therapy even more than he already does, which would frankly be impressive.
He stared into the mirror! And saw . . . AZULA'S FACE. OH CRAP.
AHAHAHAHAHAHA. YES.
Both your Zuko death scenarios distress me deeply ;_; Although you know Mai would probably become the de facto Fire Lord (we know ladies are allowed, after all), so hopefully there would not be too much political instability.
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Date: 2009-07-16 06:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-16 06:22 pm (UTC)The Mai-Zuko fanfic babies will be the BEST fanfic babies. I mean, they probably won't be healthy in any way, but they will do their best!
OH MAN DO IT DO IT DO IT. *ENABLES* YOU KNOW IT IS NECESSARY.
Also, I have been doing my level best to convince all the writers I know that the Avatar/Ouran crossover NEEDS to exist. Not only so that Zuko can join the host club, but for KYOUYA/AZULA, which is my ultimate crossover OTP of twisty manipulationsex. All the other characters would just be tools in their deadly power games that are basically a completely messed-up courtship and it would be very disturbing and INSANELY HOT.
I also secretly just want all the Avatar characters to live happily ever after for ever and ever and ever, but that is less fun to write about in a meme. >.> AHAHAHA YES. Most awesome Avatar ever.
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Date: 2009-07-16 06:46 pm (UTC)a. I love how bossy and strong-minded she is, once she lets herself be. Basically, her character arc in the book is her figuring out that it's very freeing, not being polite all the time, and being nosy and ordering people around without worrying what they think about you, and I love that.
b. She is really insecure, and sometimes I just want to shake her and go, "No, Sophie, YOU'RE AWESOME. IT'S OKAY."
c. Diana Wynne Jones writes the best canon-ships! Sophie/Howl for the win.
d. - oh man, I have just had a glorious vision of Sophie/Autor. (Uh, when Autor is a couple years older, obviously.) Her talking-to-things power is weirdly similar to the storyteller's gift, so Autor would be totally fascinated by her and jealous of her and trying to impress her all at once, like with Fakir, except instead of being like "FINE, I WILL FOLLOW YOUR RIDICULOUS RULES TO ACCESS MY POWER. IF I MUST," Sophie would just be like ". . . . you're acting like an idiot. Stop that and do something useful" and then she would attack his Drosselmeyer shrine with a broom. And we know that Sophie is secretly attracted to the self-absorbed, conceited type with hidden depths of courage!
e. Stardust. The canons were pretty much made to be crossed over! They are both centered around the same exact poem, for a start.
f. If I am going to continue in the theme of cracked-out Tutu ships, can you imagine Sophie/Ahiru? It would be a constant flurry of red-headed tripping over things and apologizing and flustering and sweeping and having fits of insecurity and nothing would ever get done.
g. Life Is Short, which despite the title is actually a very optimistic and Sophie-ish song!
h. "The Best (and Cleanest) Witch in Ingary"
i. She was working on a dress and chattering to it, as she does, and the dress kept growing and growing and she kept shrinking and shrinking, and eventually the dress walked off and got into a highly improper fistfight with the king while Sophie realized that she'd shrunk so small she had become a little gray mouse.
j. Twenty or thirty years postcanon, some kind of epidemic will hit Ingary. Sophie will wear herself sick going around to talk people well, and then once she catches it she'll spend a lot of time trying to talk herself well, but eventually her voice will give out. :(
. . . gosh, I think I've just written myself angsty songfic without even having a song to base it on!
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Date: 2009-07-16 07:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-16 07:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-16 07:21 pm (UTC)Dave from Fionavar.
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Date: 2009-07-16 07:51 pm (UTC)Dave! :D Okay:
a. I love many things about Dave, but . . . I have to say, my very favorite thing about him is that he brings study notes to Fionavar. That is a man who owns my heart forever!
b. He's gotten a ton better about the ugly jealousy issues, but I suspect he's going to be dealing with them his whole life - and I also suspect there are going to be a couple times that is going to cause problems with him and Kim, in between the Fionavar books and Ysabel. Because character development is awesome, but even magical lands don't magically get you over all your issues without a couple of relapses.
c. I didn't actually ship Dave/Kim before Ysabel came out (Kim/Aileron! *waves tiny flag*) but, you know, I've come around, as you can see. :D
d. I had an e-mail conversation once with Gen about the beauty of Dave/Biffa from the Dalemark books. . . so now you need to read the Dalemark books to understand why it would be beautiful! :D But basically Biffa is a very large and muscley trainee-lawyer; she's brilliant at the hugely violent law-school-games of that canon and she's also super-sweet, very loyal and extremely sensible, and eventually becomes QUEEN. And basically Biffa/Dave would be the best OTP of GIANT AND CUDDLY BERSERKER LAWYERS ever.
e. I want Dave to pick up his law notes to study in NARNIA!
f. I keep coming up with things and going 'no, actually, that could be plausible . . .' I somehow suspect that Dave/Jaelle would NOT GO WELL, however.
g. Shine, by Carbon Leaf.
h. Oh man, I cannot imagine that Dave is anything other than terrible at titles. I think he would try for a week to think of something clever, and then just throw up his hands and call it "Dave Martyniuk" or "Dalreidan" or something.
i. He was killing svarts. And then all the svarts were gone, and there were people behind them, but he couldn't stop, just kept swinging the axe, and more and more of them fell. Owain of the Hunt was laughing somewhere - at him, for being such an idiot. Or maybe it was Galadan. Hard to tell.
j. Dave, alas, is going to be the kind of sixty-year-old man who does not realize that his joints will not allow him to go leaping berserkishly into frays. He'll probably try and be a hero in some kind of mugging situation, there will be too many of them, and he'll get a knife in the ribs.
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Date: 2009-07-16 09:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-16 09:41 pm (UTC)a. I love her areas of swaggering confidence, and how irrepressible she is, and how she very firmly believes that everyone will screw up if she's not there to do it RIGHT.
b. She has moments in canon of getting emo over her looks, and insecure over Dam Duk, and then I get frustrated, because she is so obviously gorgeous.
c. The canon ship is obviously Sujini/Dam Duk because she's totally in love with him, and I'm cool with that, but actually I would rather ship Sujini/The Littlest Julno Boy. He's such a sweet little dork! But he has surprising areas of competence and they would balance each other well.
d. Hmmmm. Sujini/James T. Kirk! IMAGINE THE DRUNKEN HIJINKS.
e. LORD OF THE RINGS. Much as I love it, it is kind of a boy's club and could totally use an infusion of the pure lady badassery that is Sujini. She and Legolas could have shooting contests! She and Eowyn could have sleepovers and do each other's hair!
f. Sujini/Ho Gae. SHIP OF DEEEEEEEEATH. And probably the only one out of the main four that's never even implied, FOR A GOOD REASON.
g. Volcano Girls, though it's more relevant for bits of canon you haven't seen yet.
h. "I, the Great Sujini!" This is how she announces herself, so I can't imagine she wouldn't run with it.
i. The world was on fire, and maybe she did it.
j. I don't know if I can answer that before I see the last two episodes of canon, because I might prophetize it and I don't want to do that! D: DON'T DIE, SUJINI.
How do I not have a Legend icon? This will have to be remedied.
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Date: 2009-07-16 11:48 pm (UTC)Oh, Dave and his notes. *pats him*
*hugs you* Fabulous answers.
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Date: 2009-07-17 02:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-17 07:25 am (UTC)Someday I'll read Fionavar, promise but I love Dave from the OOMs and Tumnus would adore him.
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Date: 2009-07-17 02:05 pm (UTC)a. . . . well, he's a dragon. What's not to love?
b. Were we personally acquainted, I might have a respectful comment or two to make about his unfortunate habit of consuming members of my species.
c. SMAUG/SHELOB. Think of all the adorable little dragon-spider babies!
d. Obviously Smaug/Daenerys. She's a dragon-mistress-lady-person, so their love is clearly meant to be!
e. I would say SMAUG VS. BATMAN, except . . . I'm pretty sure there has already been a Batman storyline where he fights a dragon. Can you imagine a Smaug written by Enid Blyton, though? The cheery boarding-school dragon!
f. Smaug/Gregor Samsa. Gregor would be such a downer! They would spend all their time arguing and being really depressed, it just would not work.
g. Power of the Dragonflame, of course.
h. "The Draconian Guide to Finance and Investments"
i. I think it actually involved (f.)
j. He would have died peacefully of old age on top of his pile of gold and surrounded by the bones of his enemies, if it wasn't for some STUPID HOBBIT, GEEZ.
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Date: 2009-07-17 02:05 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-07-20 02:03 pm (UTC)I see no reason to cease being immensely predictable just because I was out of your hair for a week. :D (Man, I need to work up some kind of Indaverse icon for these comments.)
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Date: 2009-07-20 02:30 pm (UTC)Aided, undoubtedly, by the fact that I just read one of his books. But even without that, he is totally the primary source for my mental images of How Racetracks Work.
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Date: 2009-07-20 02:55 pm (UTC)a. His COMPLETE INABILITY to communicate affection towards anyone except dogs. YES, PAT YOUR LITTLE BROTHER'S HEAD, TANRID, THAT'LL WORK. <333
b. Don't listen to the Sierandael, Tanrid! Never listen to the Sierandael. :O
c. Tanrid/Shen continues to be my completely non-evidence based OTP of snarky energy/complete stoicism.
d. Tanrid and Trowa, OTPlatonic! :D
e. OURAN VERSE. And then he can hang out with Mori and get lessons on how to be a better big brother! And the use of lovely items!
f. I was going to say Tanrid/Sierlaef and then . . . realized I could actually maybe see that. However: TANRID/EVRED. Evred can complete the set! Oh god how horrible and supremely awkward would that be.
g. The Beauty of Gray. Treat your brothers more nicely, Tanrid! Also, learn about political ambiguities.
h. . . . I'm sorry, I'm stuck on the idea of Tanrid communicating enough to have an autobiography.
i. It was a very strange dream involving The Ghost of Joret 1 leading a charge on the castle, which was defended by Inda, who turned into a hermit crab halfway through and scuttled off. Joret 1 took the castle and haunted it all the time! Tanrid was very embarrassed about it when he woke up, it is so juvenile to be frightened of ghosts.
j. D: D: D: D: D:
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Date: 2009-07-20 03:23 pm (UTC)re: h, it could be a biography instead of an autobiography! Except... um. Some slight logistical problems there yeah. D:
re: f: HAHAHAHAHAHA OH MY GOD. OH MY GOD SO AWKWARD. Not that it wouldn't make a hilarious addition to the dinner party, but OH MY GOD.
(...I could kind of maybe see Tanrid/Sierlaef too. *bemused* In a kind of maybe way, and ignoring the fact that they both seem fairly canonically straight. OTP of complete inability to verbally express affection ever, though, egads.)
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Date: 2009-07-20 03:42 pm (UTC)AND I KNOW OH MY GOD I am cracking myself up just envisioning.
(Well, the Sierlaef has all those jealousy/rivalry issues going on; he wants to be like Tanrid! And is fixated on Tanrid's fiancee beyond all logic! CAN YOU SAY SUBLIMINAL REDIRECTED ATTRACTION I THINK YOU CAN.)
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Date: 2009-07-20 04:10 pm (UTC)Inda: *cheerfully oblivious to all of this!*
Tau: ...Uh. Well okay then.
Inda: *has BFF and brother and sister and girlfriend all in the same room, whee!*
(And Tanrid seems fairly willing to be friends with him without trusting him too far but still giving him the benefit of the doubt when possible, which... is kind of like a basis for a relationship? Um. Haaaaaandwave okay! I'm sure Joret would find it a nice change to have the Sierlaef focus on her fiance instead.)
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Date: 2009-07-20 04:39 pm (UTC)(It totally is! Um. ANYWAY it would be infinitely more healthy than the current setup, and avoid Tanrid's death, Joret's totally reasonable being-stalked freakouts, and quite possibly that whole civil war thing! ALL of which I count a win. :D!)
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Date: 2009-07-20 05:03 pm (UTC)(Infinitely more healthy than the current setup is not actually all that hard, I must say...)