More than a Couple - Late-night Call

Although I do have a timeline set for this original story about the less-than-kosher relationships between four people, I've yet to actually write the whole bit. So, for now, I'll post the random scenes. I might even *gasp* change a few details later. I'll put them back in order when there's more scenes.

( Late-night Call )

More than a Couple - Doubt

( Doubt )

More than a Couple - The Long Day is Done

( The Long Day is Done )

Firefly - Insomnia

Title: Insomnia
Fandom: Firefly (no timeline)
Word Count:626
Rating: General

A/N: There is no context. All you need to know is that Jayne and Mal are settling down for a two-point watch through the night, and Simon's volunteered. The boys talk.

( I’d wake up wondering what the plural of 'uterus' was. )

More than a Couple - Bath

A/N: Tharr be .

( Bath )

This I forgot to say

I’ve been falling asleep on my back, pillow beneath my head, upper body lying exposed over the covers, for over four weeks now, ever since a great heat wave left me sweating in crinkled bed sheets. The last time I’d routinely slept with a pillow was in 1997. ( Read more... )

Monday was witness to a sort of emotional breakdown on my part, ( Read more... )

I am happy to report that I have managed to introduce another browncoat*** into our noble ranks. ( Read more... )

* Yet kindly.
** In her closing pep-statements, she said how, even though my parents might not support me, I still had my brother and friends who could help me out. I must have made a very clear, sad little face about that last point.
*** Firefly fan. Which is to say, a flan: deliciously brown-coated.

Books and their memes

( list of favorites )

( Curious books I’ve got jotted down )

( Meme: Grab the nearest book )

Mil Millington

I’ve just finished reading Mil Millington’s Love and Other Near-Death Experiences. The summary says:

Rob Garland is getting married in two months. Oddly, however, this is the least of his problems. More vexing that the seating arrangements and the choice of stationary is the fact that Rob should be dead: and he knows it. He should have been sitting ina pub at the very moment it was wipe from the earth – but he wasn’t, thanks to a series of pointless coincidences.

Now he’s paralysed by the knowledge that every decision he makes, no matter how tiny, potentially has enormous consequences. Faced with an ultimatum from his girlfriend, he pours his heart out to listeners of his late-night jazz show. It’s a decision he may live to regret…”

Regarding MMillington: he’s the creator of “the cult website” Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About (also a novel), co-founder of The Weekley”, and author or A Certain Chemistry. He was named by The Guardian as one of the top five debut* novelists for 2002.

It’s hilarious. The back-cover says “one of those reads that leaves you looking like an annoying mad person on the bus as you chuckle every five seconds…” They’re only wrong on one fact: metro, not bus.

Also, man’s British, which means I get to read words like “bugger” (in the literal sense), “taking a piss” (in the non-literal, you’re-purposely-annoying-me way), “fags” (in the smokable sense), and “fuckwit” (in the perfect-insult sense).

Let me share some of my favourite bits so far (hopefully decently spoiler-free, but no promises):( Warning: some quotes indecently long )

The lesson:

"When you do all that fixating on what microscopic decision could lead to your death, you have it wrong. The fact is, all those minuscule, mundane decisions actually lead to your life. You take hold of life, moment to moment, by making those choices: and every time yuo choose, yo win - because you choose to carry on. You decide to live life, instead of it living you. Not only that, but also the odds are against us every second of every day - there's simply such an unbelievable number of ways for disaster, hurt and deat to happen: and, in the end, death is going to get us anyway, that's certain. The correct way to look at it is to be amazed at each moment you beat the house: arrogantly, bloody-mindedly stick two fingers up at chance and whoop at your continued winning streak. Laugh at the fact that you're being so jammy as to pull it off - because it is incredible that you are: life is a succession of tiny miracles."


* I almost wrote “debutant”, which might have altered your image of Mil a bit. Given him a frilly dress and placed him in a ballroom, for one thing.
** Highly educational:

1) “If someone grabs you from behind, in a neck lock, then you stamp your heel down hard on the mid-section of their foot while simultaneously pulling their arm away – using the awkward twisting of their wrist joint to force them to yield.”
2) “Knife attack? Grab the person by the hand and elbow of the attacking arm, and push both inwards – the way muscles are arranged means that they have no real strength in that direction, so one can compel even an assailant who is physically much stronger than you to drop the weapon.”
3) “A face-on attack, of course, you meet with a sharp, upward blow using the heel of your palm – driving the attacker’s own nasal bone into his brain and killing him instantlt.”

LOL!

I really should not be laughing so hard at this Hitler icon but honestly, it really is all that.

But then, Yoda is always funny.

By the way, premade_ljs is teh awesome. There might be some changes around here... (Apart from upgrading to a sponsered acount and actually getting some *good* icons, that is.)

So...

Um, how's this for a change?

I think I like jadetest or nightturns2dayt, falllayout, desolatelayout, heartsnosb better, though.

Particularly the falllayout and desolatelayout.

Opinions?

The most coolest Firefly vid ever: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nOvWbIhMoo